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November 9th, 2012
Written by Nicholas Riccardi - Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
DENVER (AP) - Omayra Vasquez blinks and does a double take when asked why she voted to re-elect President Barack Obama. The reason for her was as natural as breathing.
"I feel closer to him," said Vasquez, a 43-year-old Federal Express worker from Denver. "He cares about the Spanish people."
Millions of Hispanic voters seconded that emotion Tuesday with resounding 71 percent support for Obama,...
November 7th, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) — A triumphant President Barack Obama pledged to ease the bitter partisan divide on display during his grueling battle for re-election and sure to carry over into his second White House term, while the most pressing of many urgent economic problems looms with a "fiscal cliff" at the end of the year.
Obama captured far more than the 270 electoral votes needed for victory over...
November 5th, 2012
Written by Curt Anderson - AP Legal Affairs Writer in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) — Persistent reports of robocalls incorrectly telling voters they can cast ballots over the phone and fears of aggressive challenges by monitors at polling places threaten to mar Election Day in many key states, voting rights advocates said Monday.
The fake phone calls, some of which involve live callers, continued to crop up in Virginia, North Carolina and Florida, primarily...
November 2nd, 2012
Written by Lori Hinnant - Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
TOULOUSE, France (AP) — Israel's prime minister issued a warning to his country's enemies, and France's president vowed to fight anti-Semitism on online social networks and beyond, as the two paid homage to four people killed at a Jewish school in this country's worst terrorist attack in years.
Tears flowed and both pain and hope were palpable at the ceremony in Toulouse, where a radical Islamist...
November 2nd, 2012
Written by Will Weissert - Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — State senators worried Oct. 30, that Texas has gone too far in imposing a zero-tolerance policy for bad behavior in schools, noting that minority students are bearing the brunt of the punishment and school police officers are writing too many tickets for insignificant infractions.
Tony Fabelo, an Austin-based criminal justice consultant, told a joint committee meeting of the...
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