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April 12, 2012

Report: States don’t know if tax breaks increase jobs

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Most states are doing a poor job tracking whether their tax breaks for businesses are actually spurring job growth, including some that have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into corporate incentive programs, even while grappling with record deficits, according to a new report. The report released today by the Pew Center […]
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April 12, 2012

Syria adds ‘but’ to cease-fire plan

BEIRUT – Syria promised to comply with a U.N.-brokered cease-fire beginning today but carved out an important condition – that the regime still has a right to defend itself against the terrorists it says are behind the country’s year-old uprising. The statement Wednesday offered a glimmer of hope that a peace initiative by special envoy […]
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April 12, 2012

UC Davis report: Police were wrong to pepper spray campus protesters

SAN FRANCISCO – Campus police should not have pepper-sprayed student demonstrators at the University of California, Davis, in an incident that generated national outrage when video was posted online, investigators said Wednesday in a report that assigned blame to all levels of the school administration. The decision by officers to douse a line of seated […]
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April 12, 2012

Poll: Voters sometimes shaky on issues

– The Associated Press WASHINGTON – As President Obama and Mitt Romney look to the November election, a new poll from the Pew Research Center finds a sizable share of the public is unsure which side the presidential candidates’ political parties take on some of the country’s most divisive issues, including the size of the […]
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April 12, 2012

Manson denied parole, likely for the last time

CORCORAN, Calif. – A prison panel denied parole Wednesday to mass murderer Charles Manson in his 12th and probably final bid for freedom. Manson, now a gray-bearded, 77-year-old, did not attend the hearing where the parole board ruled he had shown no efforts to rehabilitate himself and would not be eligible for parole for another […]

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April 12, 2012

Romney’s agenda faces obstacles

The GOP candidate issues priorities if elected, and much of what he wants relies on others in D.C.
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April 11, 2012

Attorneys say Zimmerman is isolated, stressed out

A decision on whether to charge George Zimmerman with a crime is possible this week.
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April 11, 2012

Misreading clouds Supreme Court review of health law

Some justices seem to think the mandate bars stripped-down coverage, but it really does not.
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April 11, 2012

Syria ignores cease-fire plan brokered by U.N.

BEIRUT — Syrian troops defied a U.N.-brokered cease-fire plan on Tuesday, launching fresh attacks on rebellious areas, but special envoy Kofi Annan said there was still time to salvage a truce that he described as the only chance for peace. More than a year into the Syrian uprising, the international community has nearly run out […]
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April 11, 2012

Nation/World Dispatches

BOCA RATON, Fla. Obama touts tax-the-rich plan in speech to students President Obama on Tuesday renewed his public push for the Buffett Rule, hoping that the proposal to raise taxes on millionaires will deepen distinctions with his political rivals in an election year, even if it has little chance to become law. Appearing before thousands […]