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Mitt Romney takes a double-digit lead into the home stretch in Florida

Monday, January 30th, 2012

Mitt Romney enters the final full day of campaigning in the Florida Republican primary with a 14-point lead, according to a new poll from Quinnipiac University.
The poll shows Romney expanding on his lead from midweek last week by five points and suggests he’s a strong favorite to win on Tuesday.
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FDA staffers sue agency over surveillance of personal e-mail

Monday, January 30th, 2012

The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that they believed posed unacceptable risks to patients, government documents show.

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Microsoft’s Kelihos kingpin suspect: It wasn’t me

Monday, January 30th, 2012

Sabelnikov denies botnet herder allegation
The Russian man named by Microsoft as the mastermind behind the Kelihos botnet has stepped forward to plead his innocence.…

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In Florida, Romney and Gingrich spar via surrogates

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Another day, another skirmish between a high-profile Mitt Romney supporter and Newt Gingrich’s spokesman, R.C. Hammond.
For much of the week, the Romney campaign has sent a team of surrogates to follow Gingrich across Florida and provide real-time rebuttal for the press. The surrogates include House members Jason Chaffetz (Utah), Connie Mack (Fla.), Mary Bono Mack (Calif.) and Charlie Bass (N.H.).
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NBC objects to Mitt Romney’s ‘history lesson’ ad

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

A harsh new ad from former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney uses news footage from 1997 to remind voters of then-House speaker Newt Gingrich’s ethics violations.
“History Lesson” is unusual in that neither Romney nor Gingrich appears. The entire 30-second spot consists of an NBC News report from Jan. 21, 1997, the day Gingrich was reprimanded by Congress for using tax-exempt money for political purposes and giving the House Ethics Committee false information.
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