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Major GOP ‘super PAC’ raised $51 million in 2011 (AP)

FILE - In this June 7, 2011 file photo shows Las Vegas Sands Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson waves in Hong Kong. Get ready to find out who the millionaires are behind this year's presidential election. Now, for the first time since they started shaping the campaign in earnest, many of those 'super' political action committees are set to disclose just who is financing their pseudo-campaign operations. Many took advantage of a change in federal rules that essentially let them shield their donors' identities until after key primary elections in January. But they still must submit their financial reports to the Federal Election Commission by Tuesday.  (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)AP – American Crossroads, the Republican “super” political committee that plans to play a major role in this year’s presidential campaign, raised more than $51 million along with its nonprofit arm last year, The Associated Press has learned.


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Missing raised to 29 in Italian cruise disaster (AP)

An oil removal ship near the cruise ship Costa Concordia, leaning on its side, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012, after running aground near the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, last Friday night. The rescue operation was called off mid-afternoon Monday after the Costa Concordia shifted a few inches (centimeters) in rough seas. The fear is that if the ship shifts significantly, some 500,000 gallons of fuel may begin to leak. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP – Italy’s cruise liner tragedy turned into an environmental crisis Monday, as rough seas battering the stricken mega-ship raised fears that fuel might leak into pristine waters off Tuscany that are part of a protected sanctuary for dolphins, porpoises and whales.


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Reno air race has raised alarm in past over danger (AP)

A P-51 Mustang airplane is shown right before crashing at the Reno Air show on Friday, Sept. 16, 2011 in Reno Nevada. The plane plunged into the stands at the event in what an official described as a 'mass casualty situation.' (AP photo/Grass Valley Union, Tim O'Brien) MANDATORY CREDITAP – It’s like an Indianapolis 500 in the sky.


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Palace: Never raised concerns over Andy Coulson (AP)

Committee members react after a protestor, left checked shirt , named on Twitter as Jonnie Marbles, tries to throw  a paper plate covered in shaving foam over Rupert Murdoch as he gave evidence to a House of Commons Committee in London, Tuesday July 19, 2011, on the News of the World phone hacking scandal.(AP Photo/pa)  UNITED KINGDOM OUT: NO SALES: NO ARCHIVE:AP – Buckingham Palace says it never raised concerns with Prime Minister David Cameron’s office over his decision to hire Andy Coulson as his communications chief.


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A new flag raised: South Sudan celebrates birth (AP)

Southern Sudanese celebrate independence at midnight in Juba, Saturday, July 9, 2011. South Sudan became the world's newest nation early Saturday, officially breaking away from Sudan after two civil wars over five decades that cost the lives of millions. (AP Photo/Pete Muller)AP – South Sudan raised the flag of its new nation for the first time Saturday, as thousands of South Sudanese citizens and dozens of international dignitaries swarmed the new country capital of Juba to celebrate the country’s birth.


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Judge’s gay partner raised in Proposition 8 case (AP)

In this photo taken Nov. 19, 2010, Chief District Judge Vaughn R. Walker, of the Northern District of California, speaks at a legal conference in Seattle. The sponsors of California's same-sex marriage ban say the recent disclosure by Walker that he is in a long-term relationship with another man has given them new grounds to appeal the ruling that struck down Proposition 8 last summer. Walker retired from the bench at the end of February. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP – Proponents of California’s same-sex marriage ban filed a motion Monday seeking to vacate the historic ruling that overturned Proposition 8 because the federal judge who wrote it is in a long-term relationship with another man.


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NC woman who raised NY baby faces kidnap charges (AP)

This poster released by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children shows Carlina White as an infant, left, and what she might have looked like as an adult, right.  White, who was kidnapped 23 years ago as an infant from a Harlem hospital bed and raised under a different name, was reunited with her birth mother on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children)AP – A North Carolina woman who raised a child snatched from a New York hospital more than two decades ago was scheduled to appear Monday in federal court to face kidnapping charges.


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