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FACT CHECK: Romney off on Obama's love for unions - pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-romney-off-obamas-love-unions-202530522.html"img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/dECzVm6U0nXP.YMXTpnXKw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/008dd89c99de930e100f6a7067004675.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="In this photo taken May 24, 2012, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a school in Philadelphia. When Romney decried Barack Obama as beholden to the nation’s teachers’ unions and unable to stand up for reform, he glossed over four years of a relationship that has been anything but cozy. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)" align="left" title="In this photo taken May 24, 2012, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a school in Philadelphia. When Romney decried Barack Obama as beholden to the nation’s teachers’ unions and unable to stand up for reform, he glossed over four years of a relationship that has been anything but cozy. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)" border="0" //aWhen Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney decried President Barack Obama as beholden to the nation#039;s teachers#039; unions and unable to stand up for reform, he glossed over four years of a relationship that has been anything but cozy./pbr clear="all"/
Obama strikes at Romney in Iowa, seeks 2008 energy - pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-strikes-romney-iowa-seeks-2008-energy-012146940.html"img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/mgUcSLkvP_BysTAk8ue0Iw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/e089bb27afa2990e100f6a706700c614.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="President Barack Obama, center, greets a young supporter during a campaign rally at the Paul R. Knapp Animal learning center, Thursday, May 24, 2012 in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)" align="left" title="President Barack Obama, center, greets a young supporter during a campaign rally at the Paul R. Knapp Animal learning center, Thursday, May 24, 2012 in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)" border="0" //aPresident Barack Obama delivered his harshest rebuttal yet to rival Mitt Romney on Thursday, dismissing his challenger#039;s claims as quot;a cowpie of distortionsquot; while seeking to rekindle the all-but-faded Iowa magic that launched him in 2008. Escalating his criticism of Romney#039;s background as a venture capitalist, Obama said it wasn#039;t adequate preparation for the presidency./pbr clear="all"/
THE RACE: Romney talks up his private-sector days - pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/race-romney-talks-private-sector-days-174420307.html"img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/YQ94EnTu1I8.slHr8.HBag--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/22e1b13398fb8f0e100f6a706700a9c5.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and Salina Beattie display class work they did together in the 6th grade language arts class during Romney#039;s tour of the Universal Bluford Charter School, Thursday, May 24, 2012, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)" align="left" title="Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and Salina Beattie display class work they did together in the 6th grade language arts class during Romney#039;s tour of the Universal Bluford Charter School, Thursday, May 24, 2012, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)" border="0" //aPresumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney likes to portray himself as a better job creator than President Barack Obama, but he may have a hard time backing up those boasts./pbr clear="all"/
Berlusconi party girl says masqueraded as Obama - ROME (Reuters) - One of the young women who attended Silvio Berlusconi's "bunga bunga" parties told a court on Friday that she dressed up as a burlesque version of U.S. President Barack Obama to entertain the former Italian prime minister. In testimony during a trial against the 75-year-old Berlusconi on charges of paying for sex with an underage prostitute, Marysthell Polanco said she had also dressed as prosecutor Ilda Boccassini. ...
AP NewsAlert - pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/ap-newsalert-064215724.html"img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/P03P8Ej0N2mwdHK7MM8Dgw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/2127402aa8e9ec090b0f6a7067002528.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="In a photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard the unmanned Japanese fishing vessel Ryou-un Maru dirfts northwest in the Gulf of Alaska approximately 164 miles southwest of Baranof Island Wednesday April 4, 2012. The vessel has been adrift since it was launched by the tsunami caused by the magnitude-9.0 earthquake that struck Japan last year. The Coast Guard is monitoring the vessel, which is currently considered a hazard to navigation. (AP Photo/Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis, U.S. Coast Guard)" align="left" title="In a photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard the unmanned Japanese fishing vessel Ryou-un Maru dirfts northwest in the Gulf of Alaska approximately 164 miles southwest of Baranof Island Wednesday April 4, 2012. The vessel has been adrift since it was launched by the tsunami caused by the magnitude-9.0 earthquake that struck Japan last year. The Coast Guard is monitoring the vessel, which is currently considered a hazard to navigation. (AP Photo/Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis, U.S. Coast Guard)" border="0" //aCash-strapped Sandusky charity seeks approval to close, transfer assets to Texas ministry./pbr clear="all"/
Prosecutors to present DNA in Roger Clemens trial - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prosecutors were expected to present evidence on Friday of Roger Clemens' DNA on a needle and other items allegedly used to inject the former baseball great with steroids and human growth hormone in a crucial and final phase of their argument. Alan Keel, a DNA expert for Forensic Science Associates in California, was set to take the stand in U.S. District Court in Washington after testifying on Thursday that he was asked to analyze items related to the Clemens trial. ...
Lebanese hostages in Syria released - pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/lebanese-hostages-syria-released-within-hours-cleric-110048369.html"img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/kAWUB93aC3naV4MVrjXm8A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-05-25T124552Z_1_CBRE84O0ZGI00_RTROPTP_2_SYRIA-LEBANON.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Lebanon Hezbollah parliament members Ammar and Kashakesh talk to families of kidnapped Lebanese Shi#039;ite pilgrims in Beirut#039;s suburbs" align="left" title="Lebanon Hezbollah parliament members Ammar and Kashakesh talk to families of kidnapped Lebanese Shi#039;ite pilgrims in Beirut#039;s suburbs" border="0" //aBEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese hostages kidnapped in northern Syria were set free on Friday and were on their way to Beirut, Lebanon#039;s prime minister and an Islamist cleric who brokered their release said. The Lebanese Shi#039;ite men were among a group of pilgrims returning to Lebanon from Iran on Tuesday when gunmen stopped their bus after it crossed into Syria from Turkey. The kidnapping had triggered protests in Shi#039;ite areas of Beirut and raised fears it could ignite sectarian conflict in Lebanon. .../pbr clear="all"/
Canada ups threshold for foreign-takeover reviews - OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian government will boost the threshold for reviewing foreign takeovers of Canadian companies to ensure it can focus on the biggest bids, Industry Minister Christian Paradis said on Friday. The review threshold will be raised from the current C$330 million ($320 million) in asset value to C$1 billion in enterprise value over a four-year period, he said in a statement. ...
GSA parts ways with host of $823K Vegas conference - The General Services Administration executive who was responsible for a lavish, $823,000 conference in Las Vegas is no longer with the GSA, the agency confirmed Thursday.
Canada says on track to eliminate deficit - OSHAWA, Ontario (Reuters) - The Canadian government is well positioned to balance its budget in the medium term, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Friday shortly before Ottawa was scheduled to release preliminary 2011-12 budget figures. "We are on track to balance the budget in the medium term," Flaherty said in a speech in Oshawa, Ontario. Flaherty also spoke at length about the dangers of the European sovereign debt crisis, calling the situation there "very unstable." (Reporting By Claire Sibonney; Writing by Louise Egan; Editing by Peter Galloway)
Car bomb in central Turkey kills 3, wounds 18 - ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Two militants set off a bomb inside their car by a police headquarters in the central Turkish province of Kayseri on Friday, killing themselves and one policeman and wounding 18 others, Turkey's interior minister said. Kurdish separatists, Islamist militants - including al Qaeda - as well as groups on the far left and right have all carried out bomb attacks in Turkey, but there was no immediate claim of responsibility for Friday's blast. ...
China's WTO suit hits back at U.S. duties - pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/china-counter-challenges-u-over-subsidies-wto-081342700--finance.html"img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/n4CGWbCP173ytlXBhP0.8A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-05-25T081342Z_1_CBRE84O0MV100_RTROPTP_2_TRADE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="WTO Director General Lamy addresses a news conference on annual trade forecast and statistics in Geneva" align="left" title="WTO Director General Lamy addresses a news conference on annual trade forecast and statistics in Geneva" border="0" //aGENEVA (Reuters) - China launched a complaint at the World Trade Organization on Friday against U.S. import duties on 22 Chinese products that the United States says are unfairly priced or subsidized, including solar panels, wind towers and steel products. quot;China firmly opposes the abuse of trade remedy measures and trade protectionism,quot; China#039;s Ministry of Commerce said in a statement. The complaint, which also encompasses such diverse products as citric acid, kitchen shelving and lawn groomers, covers exports to the United States worth $7.3 billion, the Ministry said. .../pbr clear="all"/
Pool access for the disabled sparks controversy - The Obama administration is sidestepping an election-year confrontation with the hotel industry and other pool owners to give them more time to comply with access rules for the disabled.
IAEA finds higher uranium trace in Iran: sources - VIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. nuclear inspectors have found uranium traces in an Iranian underground site refined to a somewhat higher level than the enrichment work normally carried out there, but still well below potential weapons-grade material, diplomatic sources said on Friday. One source said the higher level detected was believed to be within variation of the usual activity at the Fordow facility - where Iran is refining uranium to a fissile concentration of 20 percent - making clear it was not a big difference. "It is not up there ... towards nuclear weapons capability," the diplomat said. ...
Suicide bomber kills 9 in northern Yemen - DUBAI (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed six members of a Shi'ite Muslim rebel group and three civilians in northern Yemen on Friday, a local official said. Several others were wounded in the attack, which targeted the Shi'ite rebels, otherwise known as Houthis, who had gathered to pray at a school in the northern al-Jawf province bordering Saudi Arabia. Western and Gulf Arab states have watched with mounting alarm as al Qaeda-linked militants exploit political instability to gain a foothold in the impoverished state. ...
AdWatch: Romney "day one" vows oversimplify - pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/adwatch-romney-day-one-vows-oversimplify-212655641.html"img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/OIEJi0OXkZ64szB4ix7pMA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/561a1e0a9929900e100f6a7067006e90.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney participates in a round table discussion at the Universal Bluford Charter School, Thursday, May 24, 2012, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)" align="left" title="Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney participates in a round table discussion at the Universal Bluford Charter School, Thursday, May 24, 2012, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)" border="0" //aTITLE: quot;Day One: Part Two.quot;/pbr clear="all"/
GOP's Rubio plans to sell books in swing states - pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/gops-rubio-plans-sell-books-swing-states-204628471.html"img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/8.BnxB6Sc2etCqd.2JpKtA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT04NTt3PTEzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/3c286ac99a0d940e100f6a7067009cb9.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="In this photo taken May 24, 2012, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. has a conversation just off the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rubio is planning a swing-state summer bus tour that will also roll through South Carolina, the early presidential primary battleground. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)" align="left" title="In this photo taken May 24, 2012, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. has a conversation just off the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rubio is planning a swing-state summer bus tour that will also roll through South Carolina, the early presidential primary battleground. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)" border="0" //aRepublican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida is planning a swing-state summer bus tour that will also roll through South Carolina, the early presidential primary battleground./pbr clear="all"/
FACT CHECK: Romney off on Obama's love for unions - pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-romney-off-obamas-love-unions-202530522.html"img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/dECzVm6U0nXP.YMXTpnXKw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/008dd89c99de930e100f6a7067004675.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="In this photo taken May 24, 2012, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a school in Philadelphia. When Romney decried Barack Obama as beholden to the nation’s teachers’ unions and unable to stand up for reform, he glossed over four years of a relationship that has been anything but cozy. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)" align="left" title="In this photo taken May 24, 2012, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a school in Philadelphia. When Romney decried Barack Obama as beholden to the nation’s teachers’ unions and unable to stand up for reform, he glossed over four years of a relationship that has been anything but cozy. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)" border="0" //aWhen Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney decried President Barack Obama as beholden to the nation#039;s teachers#039; unions and unable to stand up for reform, he glossed over four years of a relationship that has been anything but cozy./pbr clear="all"/
Veep Beat: Rubio's Swing-State Book Tour, Newt's VP Appraisal - RUBIO’S SWING-STATE BOOK TOUR: Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., will hit a number of swing states and South Carolina this summer as he tours the country to promote his new book, “An American Son,” which will be released June 19. Rubio will kick off his book...
Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows - Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:
