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Parking meter 'Robin Hoods' sued by New Hampshire city
LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - In December James Cleaveland made an unusual New Year's resolution: to do all he cou...
Delaware becomes 11th U.S. state to allow gay marriage
DOVER, Delaware (Reuters) - Delaware legalized gay marriage on Tuesday, making it the 11th U.S. state to extend marriage righ...
Senate passes internet tax bill; fight expected in House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Monday to give states the power to enforce their sales tax laws on ...
Man loses life savings on carnival game
A New Hampshire man says he lost his entire life savings - about $2,600 - playing a carnival game.Henry Gribbohm said he ...
Boston bombs were detonated by remote used for toy cars
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The two bombs that went off at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding 264, were detona...
Man who set fire in nuclear sub gets 17-year sentence
PORTLAND, Maine (Reuters) - A civilian painter who twice set fires on a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine last year so that he coul...
Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop dies at 96
(Reuters) - Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, whose anti-smoking campaign and outspoken, controversial positions o...
Eagles hire Chip Kelly as head coach
(Reuters) - The Philadelphia Eagles have hired former University of Oregon head coach Chip Kelly as their new boss, the Natio...
Hundreds of flights canceled as storm pounds eastern U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A powerful winter storm forced the cancellation of about 200 U.S. flights on Thursday, snarling holida...
Twitter makes history on election night
By Sam YoungmanWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called it - in less than 140 characters.Around 11:15 pm EST, jus...
Americans hand Obama a second term, challenges await
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama won a second term in the White House on Tuesday, overcoming deep doubts among v...
Obama, Romney to make their final case on last day of race
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney make a frenetic dash to a series of cruci...
Hurricane Sandy blows U.S. election off course
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy blew the U.S. presidential race off course on Sunday even before it came ashore, forci...
After Libya misfire, pressure on Romney in foreign policy debate
BOCA RATON, Florida (Reuters) - When President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney face off on Monday in their third and final debat...
Republicans blast opponent for 'World of Warcraft' play
LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - A Maine Senate race has turned into a fight over trolls, dwarves and goblin-like creatur...
Bonnie, Clyde guns stay together after high bidder pays $500,000
LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Two pistols found on the bodies of famed Depression-era outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde ...
Obama lead grows, Romney still in striking distance
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has a growing lead in polls and an easier path to the White House than challeng...
Republicans showcase Romney as storm clouds convention
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Mitt Romney flies to Tampa on Tuesday to join fellow Republicans seeking to...
Mormon, Bible-Belt states are top givers to charities
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Americans in Utah, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina and Idaho gave the highest percentage...
Smoking in movies may turn teens to cigarettes: study
(Reuters) - Youth who watch a lot of movies with cigarette-smoking characters, no matter what the film's rating is, are m...
Scorching heat, dry conditions stifle July 4 celebrations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Millions of Americans headed for parades and fireworks shows on Wednesday to mark a sweltering Fourth ...
Obama takes lead in swing states, economy still weighs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is carving out a clear lead in swing states that are key to the November 6 pres...
State jobless rates drop, raise election stakes
By Lisa Lambert(Reuters) - Jobless rates in 49 out of the 50 U.S. states dropped in May from a year earlier, the Labor Depart...
Wisconsin recall tests conservative's ground game
OCONOMOWOC, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Robin Milaeger whoops for joy and punches her fist in the air when the man at her door asks...
Wounded U.S. war veterans find brotherhood in softball
COOPERSTOWN, New York (Reuters) - When Saul Bosquez, a 27-year-old U.S. Army veteran who lost part of his left leg in Iraq, s...
State income up in April, but may not be enough
(Reuters) - Personal income tax collections in states in April might have grown an average of more than 7 percent, but for so...
North Carolina voters approve same-sex marriage ban
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - North Carolina voters on Tuesday approved a state constitutional amendment that bans same...
Obama seeks political advantage of bin Laden death
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday reminded Americans that his likely Republican opponent in the Novembe...
Romney targets Obama after sweeping five more primaries
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney launched his general election campaign against President Barack ...
Obama puts taxes at center of campaign fight
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With his Republican opponent now almost certain to be Mitt Romney, a multi-millionaire, President Bara...
Current TV fires star commentator Keith Olbermann
(Reuters) - Current TV said on Friday it fired star news anchor Keith Olbermann after one year with the progressive public af...
David Lee Roth breaks up fight at Van Halen concert
David Lee Roth stopped Van Halen's show in New Hampshire on Tuesday night to break up a fight in the audience.The newly-r...
Maryland Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage
By Alice PopoviciANNAPOLIS, Maryland (Reuters) - Maryland became the eighth state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage...
Washington Governor Signs Gay Marriage Law
By Nicole NerouliasOLYMPIA, Wash (Reuters) - Washington state became the seventh in the nation to put a law on its books reco...
In upcoming contests, pressure is on Romney
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many U.S. Republicans may have growing concerns about their presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, but...
Court strikes down California gay marriage ban
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday found California's gay marriage ban unconstitutional in a case ...
Santorum aims for a victory in Republican contests
DENVER (Reuters) - Republican candidate Rick Santorum is gunning for a victory in at least one of the three states holding pr...
Now, Trump's endorsing Romney in Republican race
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Businessman and reality TV personality Donald Trump is endorsing Mitt Romney in the race for the 2012 ...
Indiana becomes 23rd 'right-to-work' state
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Indiana became the 23rd state to pass anti-union "right-to-work" legislation on Wednesday ...
With Florida victory, Romney is the man to beat
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Mitt Romney's victory in Florida's Republican presidential primary has made him the man to...
Romney leads by 15 points in Florida
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House hopeful Mitt Romney's lead over rival Newt Gingrich has stretched to 15 percentage poi...
Romney surging ahead of Gingrich in Florida
HIALEAH, Florida (Reuters) - Republican Newt Gingrich struggled to halt surging rival Mitt Romney's momentum on Sunday, a...
Newt Gingrich wins South Carolina Republican primary
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Newt Gingrich jolted the Republican presidential race on Saturday with a convincing come...
Sharp clashes at Republican debate ahead of vote
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidates tore into each other on Thursday and Newt Gingrich ...
Romney says he is taxed at around 15 percent rate
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney acknowledged Tuesday that his income tax rate is "probab...
Romney unscathed from debate attacks
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopefuls attacked Mitt Romney's record in business and gover...
Huntsman suspends campaign, backs Romney
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) - Jon Huntsman suspended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination on Monday,...
Huntsman to quit presidential race
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman will drop out of the White House race o...
Romney opens 21-point lead in South Carolina
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has opened a wide lead over his rivals in the South Caro...
U.S. winter weather arrives after mild patch
CAMBRIDGE, Mass (Reuters) - Wind, rain and snow blanketed much of the Midwest and Northeast on Thursday, ushering in a more t...
Republicans head to South Carolina, guns blazing
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential contenders brought buckets of cash and sharp rhetoric to South C...
For once, Romney fiery in victory speech (VIDEO)
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney offered the starkest choice yet between himself and President Ba...
Christie handles protesters Jersey-style
EXETER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Mitt Romney might want to take a lesson from Chris Christie on how to handle protesters at ...
Romney takes winning streak to South Carolina
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - One day after a solid victory in New Hampshire, Republican presidential candidate Mitt ...
Romney wrestles with GOP attacks on corporate past
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Mitt Romney is poised to take a big step toward the Republican U.S. presidential nomina...
Republicans get another chance to pounce on Romney
CONCORD, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidates stepped up their attacks on rival Mitt Romney in a tele...
Oddly mild winter leaves much of U.S. on thin ice
CONWAY, Mass (Reuters) - Unusually mild winter weather is spoiling the fun for hockey players, skaters and ice fisherman acro...
Tight race in Iowa kicks off 2012 campaign
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Iowa Republicans cast the first votes of the 2012 White House campaign on Tuesday, with Mitt Rom...
Romney squeaks out victory in Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney squeaked out a victory in Iowa's first-in-the-nati...
Analysis: Obama among the winners in Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - After a dramatic, confusing night of suspense in the Republican Party's Iowa caucuses, the big w...
Michele Bachmann says she's calling it quits
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Representative Michele Bachmann ended her campaign to become the 2012 Republican presidential no...
Bachmann off, Perry on GOP rollercoaster
DES MOINES, Iowa/MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Michele Bachmann was out, Rick Perry was back and Rick Santorum was up...
Pearl Jam Donates Guitar to Burglary Victims
Eddie Vedder and his Pearl Jam bandmates made one family's Christmas wish come true by donating a signed guitar to replace a ...
George H.W. Bush Backs Romney for President
By Patricia ZengerleWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush backs Mitt Romney for president, the Housto...
Jury finds man guilty of aiding al Qaeda
BOSTON (Reuters) - A jury on Tuesday found a Massachusetts man guilty of supporting al Qaeda by translating Arabic messages a...
Gingrich at center stage in Iowa debate
DES MOINES (Reuters) - Republican front-runner Newt Gingrich, buffeted by attacks, gets his chance to fight back on Thursday ...
Travel Picks: Top 10 tips for holiday travel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Silver bells, sleigh rides, menorahs and mistletoe are on the not-so-distant horizon.But before the fest...
Does Romney need to go after Gingrich?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Is it time for Mitt Romney to come up with a new plan?For months, the initial frontrunner in the race ...
Gingrich targets 'sanctuaries' for illegal immigrants
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich told a South Carolina town hall on Monda...
Mitt Romney opens fire on rival Newt Gingrich
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney opened fire on surging rival Newt Gingrich on Tuesday,...
Embattled Cain says campaign plans rest with wife
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain, battling allegations of infidelity, said o...
Cain campaign crumbling after affair allegation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential contender Herman Cain told aides on Tuesday he would reassess the viability of...
Romney picks up important New Hampshire endorsement
LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney, looking to close the deal in the early primary state of New Hamp...
Text-message bullying becoming more common
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A growing number of U.S. kids say they have been picked on via text messaging, while there has be...
Bachmann comes back to life in Republican debate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Michele Bachmann won a new lease on life for her fizzling presidential campaign by aggressively target...
Rare, deadly October storm hangs on in Northeast
NEW YORK (Reuters) - One of the darkest Halloweens ever loomed for roughly 2.8 million households left without power on Sunda...
Nerves fray as power still out for 1.6 million in NE
MERIDEN, Connecticut (Reuters) - Cold, tired and frustrated, residents of more than 1.6 million homes in the Northeast remain...
One million people still without power in NE
CONWAY, Mass (Reuters) - About 1 million people remained without power in the Northeast on Wednesday after an uncommonly robu...
Cain's troubles could open door in Iowa for Perry
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain's struggles could open the door in Iowa for rival Ri...
Perry may not take part in all GOP debates
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, who admits he is not the "slickest" debater, m...
Romney leads in first four nominating states: poll
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney leads his campaign rivals in the four states that kick off t...
Poverty rates up in most U.S. states, cities: Census
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The ranks of the poor rose in almost all U.S. states and cities in 2010, despite the end of the longes...
Republican debates: this time, TV jousts matter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Another week, another Republican presidential debate.The candidates competing for the Republican nomin...
Not subtly, Obama campaign prepares for Romney
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Eight candidates took part in Tuesday's Republican presidential debate, but President Barack O...
At economic debate, Romney says he can lead
HANOVER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican front-runner Mitt Romney largely ignored his presidential rivals at a debate on...
New Jersey's Christie to endorse Romney
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will back Mitt Romney in the U.S. presidential race on Tuesday, a R...
Perry under pressure at Republican debate
HANOVER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican Rick Perry hopes to end a string of poor performances and campaign rival Mitt R...
Romney: Wall Street protestors seek scapegoats
MILFORD, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Mitt Romney, a former venture capitalist who is the Republican presidential front-runner, ...
Bachmann, dropping in polls, vows to fight on
MOULTONBOROUGH, N.H (Reuters) - Republican White House hopeful Michele Bachmann, beset by falling poll numbers, staff departu...
Christie decides not to run for president
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has decided he will not run for president in 2012, a Republican sourc...
Perry suggests U.S. military role in Mexico drug war
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry said on Saturday he would get the U.S. mil...
Perry slams Washington's spending 'addiction'
BOSTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry said on Tuesday Washington lawmakers need the equivalent of a 1...
Obama adviser warns of uphill re-election battle
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - President Barack Obama faces a "titanic" struggle to win re-election in 2012 ...
Mitt Romney faces Tea Party doubters
CONCORD, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Presidential contender Mitt Romney tried to win over doubters from the conservative Tea Pa...
Mitt Romney comes out of 2012 shell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, under rising pressure from rival Rick Perry, has been for...
Vermont, New Jersey flooded as Irene spares NYC
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Vermont and New Jersey struggled with their worst flooding in decades on Monday, a day after Hurricane I...
Irene costs restart Washington budget battle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington's never-ending budget battle threatened to snarl the recovery from Hurricane Irene as a top...
Tea Party Express launches bus tour
NAPA, California (Reuters) - With the Republican campaign for the White House taking shape, hundreds of Tea Party activists k...
Palin denies presidential decision is imminent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on Tuesday shot down speculation that she is close to deciding whet...
Romney says he is 'in sync' with Tea Party
BERLIN, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, seen by many as the choice of moderate Republicans in 201...
Romney talks business smarts with eye on Perry
PLYMOUTH, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney touted his record as a businessman on Mon...
Republicans Perry, Bachmann share stage in Iowa
WATERLOO, Iowa (Reuters) - Two of the leading Republican candidates for president avoided confrontation on Sunday as they att...
Some Pawlenty donors start to doubt campaign
MINNEAPOLIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As his campaign for U.S. president fails to take flight, some donors to Republican hopeful...
Romney, on rare visit to Iowa, rips Obama
PELLA, Iowa (Reuters) - Mitt Romney, on a rare visit to Iowa on Wednesday, said Americans were "fearful, but not panicke...
Tea Party wonders if Rick Perry walks the walk
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rick Perry has been widely touted as a Republican presidential candidate who could appeal Tea Party vote...
Governor Rick Perry to drop strong 2012 hint
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rick Perry will signal plans to seek the 2012 Republican presidential nomination at an event in South ...
Jon Huntsman defends strategist, campaign
DERRY, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican presidential contender Jon Huntsman defended his chief strategist on Thursday aft...