His lead in this state’s polls having evaporated, Newt Gingrich risks leaving Florida with little momentum and few immediate opportunities to regain an edge against his top rival, Mitt Romney.
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Romney Regains Edge
While Romney’s campaign and supporters have begun launching sharply negative attacks, he maintained his more muted approach to criticizing Newt Gingrich, his top rival for the GOP nomination.
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Romney Keeps His Attacks Muted
AP – Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will leave the Obama administration at the end of the president’s current term, his top spokeswoman said Thursday.
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LaHood says he’ll leave at end of Obama’s term
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AFP – Under protest, President Barack Obama Friday signed a huge defense bill that effectively blocks his bid to close Guantanamo Bay, but vowed to repeal the curbs on one of his top national security goals.
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Obama vows repeal of Guantanamo curbs
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President Obama closed out the 111th Congress by projecting himself as a force for cooperation, winning late-session victories on some of his top foreign and domestic priorities.
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Obama: Operation Cooperation
AFP – President Barack Obama was to meet with his top security advisors Wednesday, as he prepares to travel to Lisbon for a NATO meeting expected to formally endorse a plan to hand security duties to Afghan forces by 2014.
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Obama consults security team ahead of NATO Afghanistan meet
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AFP – Speculation swirled Wednesday that US President Barack Obama may shake up his White House staff if his top political enforcer Rahm Emanuel decides to run for Chicago mayor.
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Windy City mayor race may trigger Obama shake-up
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