Feb 03
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Paint the town pink — we’re going out on a limb and saying the flap over the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s decision to yank funding to Planned Parenthood isn’t going anywhere.
Our colleagues Lena H. Sun, Sarah Kliff and N.C. Aizenman report that the group’s new reason for halting the donations — meant to provide breast cancer screenings — prompted outrage not just on Facebook and Twitter, but on Capitol Hill as well.
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Feb 03
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
January’s jobs report is welcome news for the president.
The unemployment rate dropped 0.2 percentage points to 8.3 percent; 243,000 new nonfarm jobs were created in the past month.
More important than the numbers is the trend: It’s the seventh-straight month of job growth over 100,000, as well as a marked increase from December when the economy added 200,000 jobs. It’s also the fifth straight month in which the unemployment rate dropped, and the lowest rate in three years.
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Feb 03
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
“It’s good to remember that the fact that there were some folks who were willing to let this industry die, because of folks coming together, we are now back in a place where we can compete with any car company in the world.”
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Feb 03
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Mitt Romney’s opponents really never had much of a chance in Nevada.
And it’s largely because of Romney’s Mormon religion.
While Romney’s faith has rightly been described as a liability in previous states — most notably Iowa and South Carolina, where evangelical Christians have balked at supporting Romney — it’s hard to call it anything but a trump card in Nevada (so to speak).
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Feb 03
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
The Justice Department’s investigation into the deaths of two detainees in CIA custody, including one who died at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison, is winding down, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. signaled Thursday.
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