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U.S. grants visa to Raul Castro’s daughter but denies visit by Cuban academics

Friday, May 18th, 2012

The Obama administration granted a visa this week to the daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro but rejected visas for nearly a dozen other Cubans to attend an academic conference in California, angering both conservative Cuban American leaders and American scholars seeking to improve U.S.-Cuban academic ties.
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D.C. delegate to Congress silenced at hearing

Friday, May 18th, 2012

Rep. Trent Franks’s district in suburban Phoenix is two time zones away from Washington, a fact not lost on D.C. leaders as the Arizona Republican presided Thursday over the latest in a long series of attempts to control social issues in the nation’s capital.
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Obama hopes summit meetings can quiet overseas questions

Friday, May 18th, 2012

Eager to avoid any setbacks that would distract the president’s attention from the U.S. economy in an election year, the Obama administration hopes to use a pair of summits with foreign leaders this weekend to develop some consensus around an international response to both the European debt crisis and the war in Afghanistan.
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Mitt Romney’s April fundraising comes up just shy of Obama campaign

Friday, May 18th, 2012

Mitt Romney is catching up in the race for campaign cash.
Romney and the Republican National Committee, which is spending money on behalf of the Republican candidate, brought in $40.1 million during April, according to a campaign statement. That’s just shy of the $43.6 million raised by the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee during the same period.
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Mitt Romney distances himself from racially fueled proposal to attack Obama

Friday, May 18th, 2012

Mitt Romney wants to talk about the economy. But his ostensible allies keep interrupting him, and his own party is threatening to drown him out.
A reality of modern campaigning is that any candidate — even one as buttoned-down and disciplined as Romney — has to contend with stronger political crosswinds than in the past.
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