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Obama urges corporate tax cut, closing loopholes
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama made an opening offer in what could be a long negotiation with corporate America on Wednesday, putting forward his first detailed plan to cut the corporate tax rate. | Video
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Analysis: Obama goes on offense over high gasoline prices
WASHINGTON - As Republican presidential candidates toss barbs at Barack Obama over expensive gasoline, the U.S. president and his team are going on the offensive with a strategy to divert blame and prepare voters for higher costs.
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Romney proposes 28 percent top income tax rate
CHANDLER, Ariz./WASHINGTON - Republican Mitt Romney revised his proposal for overhauling the U.S. tax code on Wednesday, calling for all individual tax rates to be cut by 20 percent while declining to offer specifics on how to make up the lost revenue from lower rates. | Video
Palin book author pays fine for using confidential emails
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A former aide to Sarah Palin who wrote an unflattering memoir of his time in her inner circle has paid a $11,900 fine for using confidential state emails without permission, according to the Alaska Department of Law.
Democrat with famous name bids to oust Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis - Wisconsin Democrats on Wednesday got a candidate with a famous name to challenge controversial Republican Governor Scott Walker in a recall election when Doug La Follette, a relative of well-known Wisconsin progressive "Fighting Bob" La Follette, said he would run for governor.
Special report: Jerry Brown's California budget nightmare
SACRAMENTO, California - Last summer, just days before California was required by law to pass a state budget, Republican State Senator Tom Harman got word that he'd been summoned to meet Governor Jerry Brown "right now." Harman, a veteran legislator from conservative Orange County, hurried downstairs to the Horseshoe, the governor's suite of offices in the state capitol building. | Video
Special report: Romney's steel skeleton in the Bain closet
The young men in business suits, gingerly picking their way among the millwrights, machinists and pipefitters at Kansas City's Worldwide Grinding Systems steel mill. Gaping up at the cranes that swung 10-foot cast iron buckets through the air. Jumping at the thunder from the melt shop's electric-arc furnace as it turned scrap metal into lava.
Special report: Callista Gingrich - The ultimate running mate
CHARLESTON, South Carolina - Last summer, Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, hosted a band reunion for alumni. Callista Gingrich attended and took a place among 25 French horns. As the band practiced for its concert on a bright July weekend, her husband, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, sat patiently in the hallway outside.
Republican candidates back arming Syria rebels
MESA, Arizona - U.S. Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich on Wednesday lent their support to the idea of arming the Syrian opposition in its fight to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
Abortion question booed at Republican debate
A question about abortion led to a flareup in the culture war of the 2012 presidential campaign at the last Republican presidential debate before Tuesday's Arizona and Michigan primaries and "Super Tuesday" voting on March 6.
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