U.S. intelligence agencies believe that Iran is prepared to launch terrorist attacks inside the United States in response to perceived threats from America and its allies, the U.S. spy chief said Tuesday.
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Our reporters spent the early part of the primary season compiling photos from the campaign trail using the iPhone app Instagram and the hashtag #2012Unfiltered, including the photos in this gallery from the days leading up to the Florida primary.
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) spent more than $1,000 per vote during his failed presidential campaign.
Perry, who ended his campaign after the New Hampshire primary earlier this month, released his fourth quarter fundraising numbers on Monday, showing that he raised less than $3 million in the fourth quarter and burned through more than $14 million.
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A brokered convention is very unlikely. But if it did happen, here’s how it would work.
At each caucus or primary, voters are actually choosing delegates to the national convention who have pledged themselves to a candidate. At the Republican convention in Tampa, the 2,286 delegates will vote.
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The federal budget deficit will top $1 trillion for a fourth straight year, congressional budget analysts said Tuesday, the smallest since the Great Recession hit in 2009.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projected that the gap between government spending and tax collections would continue to fall, dropping sharply in 2013 and through the decade if policymakers follow through with major changes in both tax policy and government spending now on the books.
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