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White House, Dems zero in on Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney caught a one-two punch from President Obama and top Democrats Wednesday, his first pummeling since emerging as the GOP’s White House front-runner.

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Lawmakers, White House regroup on jobs (AP)

President Barack Obama gestures while speaking at the White House Forum on American Latino Heritage, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011, at the Interior Department in Washington.  (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP – A day after Senate Republicans killed his $447 billion jobs bill, President Barack Obama said he isn’t taking no for an answer. In his first, combative appearance since a united Senate GOP caucus filibustered the jobs plan to death, Obama promised to keep the pressure on Congress for his job initiatives.


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Oregon teen’s death linked to white supremacists

One worked summers on a construction crew. The other two were career criminals. Their wildly divergent paths crossed somewhere in Oregon, leaving 19-year-old Cody Myers dead in the woods while David Joseph Pederson and girlfriend Holly Grigsby went on the lam in the dead youth’s car.

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Christie: ‘Now is not my time’ for White House bid (AP)

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2011 file photo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. Christie is expected to announce any day whether he will reverse plans and join the 2012 Republican race for president, even as he has ignored the political preparation often done in early-voting states.  Christie has been silent in Iowa, New Hampshire and other states expected to cast the first votes in the 2012 GOP presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)AP – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday announced he would not run for president, refusing to bow to pressure from GOP donors, fans and luminaries clamoring for another option in the search for a strong Republican to challenge President Barack Obama next fall.


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VP Biden’s little brother hospitalized after ‘white powder’ scare

White powder from a suspicious package put the younger brother of Vice President Joe Biden in a Florida hospital on Saturday.

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White supremacist executed for Texas dragging (AP)

Louvon Harris, left, covers her face as Clara Taylor, right, both sisters of James Byrd Jr., looks back while answering a question after witnessing the execution of Lawrence Russell Brewer Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, in Huntsville, Texas. Brewer, 44, one of two purported white supremacists condemned for the dragging death of James Byrd Jr., was executed Wednesday. Brewer was convicted for his participation in chaining Byrd to the back of a pickup truck, dragging the black man along a rural East Texas road and dumping what was left of his shredded body outside a black church cemetery in 1998. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)AP – White supremacist gang member Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed Wednesday evening for the infamous dragging death slaying of James Byrd Jr., a black man from East Texas.


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White House worried about Solyndra default (AP)

FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2011, file photo, Solyndra workers leave Solyndra in Fremont, Calif. Leaders of a House panel say they plan to make Obama administration officials answer for putting taxpayers on the hook for a half-billion dollar loan that went to a now-bankrupt solar panel manufacturer.  The panel is conducting a hearing Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011, that will examine what went wrong with the company which had received a federal loan of nearly $528 million and recently filed for bankruptcy.  (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)AP – White House officials discussed the political ramifications of a possible default by a troubled solar energy company that received more than $500 million in federal loans, newly released emails show.


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