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Obama takes on China as Romney shifts strategy

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By JULIE PACE and NEDRA PICKLERAssociated Press CINCINNATI (AP) - Appealing to Rust Belt voters, President Barack Obama announced a new trade enforcement action against China on Monday, while Republican challenger Mitt Romney planned a greater emphasis on policy details that distinguish him

Romney: Nearly half 'believe they are victims'

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By KASIE HUNT and STEVE PEOPLESAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Already scrambling to steady a struggling campaign, Republican Mitt Romney confronted a new headache Monday after a video surfaced showing him telling wealthy donors that almost half of all Americans "believe they are victims"

Quotations of the day

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By The Associated Press "My expectation is that if you want to be president, you have to work for everyone, not just for some." - President Barack Obama in response to a secretly taped and newly released video showing Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney describing "47 percent of the

Iran nuke chief harshly criticizes atomic agency

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By GEORGE JAHNAssociated Press VIENNA (AP) - Iran's nuclear chief said Monday that "terrorists and saboteurs" might have infiltrated the International Atomic Energy Agency in an effort to derail his nation's atomic program. It was Tehran's harshest attack on the integrity of the U.N

1 year after encampment began, Occupy in disarray

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By MEGHAN BARRAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Occupy Wall Street began to disintegrate in rapid fashion last winter, when the weekly meetings in New York City devolved into a spectacle of fistfights and vicious arguments. Punches were thrown and objects were hurled at moderators' heads.

Insider attacks on US troops concern Panetta

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By LOLITA C. BALDORAssociated Press TOKYO (AP) - U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday that while he is very concerned about rogue Afghan troops and police turning their guns on U.S. and allied forces, he sees the insider attacks as the "last gasp" of a Taliban insurgency that has not

Hezbollah leads massive anti-US protest in Lebanon

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By ZEINA KARAMAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) - In a rare public appearance, the leader of the militant Hezbollah group exhorted hundreds of thousands of supporters Monday to keep up the campaign against an anti-Islam video that has unleashed deadly violence and anger at the United States across

Panetta: US-Japan agree on new defense system

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By LOLITA C. BALDORAssociated Press TOKYO (AP) - U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday that U.S. and Japanese officials have agreed to put a second defense system in Japan aimed at protecting the country from the threat of a missile attack from North Korea. The exact location of the

US, Russian space trio lands in Kazakhstan

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By PETER LEONARDAssociated Press ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) - An international three-man crew onboard a Russian-made Soyuz capsule touched down successfully on the cloudless central Kazakhstan steppe Monday morning after 123 days at the International Space Station. A fleet of Russian Mi-8

Contract issues in the Chicago teachers strike

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By The Associated Press Chicago teachers will resume walking picket lines on Monday after their union's delegates delayed a decision on whether to suspend their week-old strike. A proposed contract includes revised job security measures and revamped teacher evaluations. A breakdown of the