Mitt Romney did not rise on the power of his rhetoric. At the Detroit Economic Club in February, his speech was swallowed by its stadium venue, overshadowed by a gaffe (his wife’s “ couple of Cadillacs ”) and weighed down by leaden language. Early in the primaries, Romney’s attempts to wax poetic on the virtues of America — often by quoting patriotic hymns — were waxen. Read full article > >

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Romney at Liberty: The case for conservatism

President Obama’s health care law is expected to expand health insurance to 32 million Americans over the next decade. Health policy experts anticipate that the wave of new insurance subscribers will lead to a spike in demand for medical services. Read full article > >

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Health insurance expansion looming, primary care turf battle heats up

Fox will plant four comedies on Tuesday — including one originally developed by NBC for NBC star Mindy Kaling , which will immediately follow this season’s most promising Fox fall launch, “New Girl.” The network will protect its investment in flailing “Glee” by moving it to the safe zone, aka the post-singing show timeslot on Thursdays, where it will follow “The X Factor” in the fall and “American Idol” in the spring. Read full article > >

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Upfront Week 2012: Mindy Kaling, Demi Lovato, Britney Spears join Fox; ‘Glee’ moves to Thursday

First there was Bill Clinton, America’s “ first black president .” And now, there’s Barack Obama, dubbed “the first gay president” by Newsweek over the weekend The newsmagazine’s May 21 cover features an image of Obama looking off into the distance, a rainbow halo above his head. Read full article > >

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Barack Obama: ‘The First Gay President’?

The State Department could jettison a multibillion-dollar training effort by the end of 2012 that has emerged as the latest high-profile example of America’s waning influence in the country.

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U.S. May Scrap Costly Effort to Train Iraqi Police

President Obama’s health-care law is expected to expand health insurance to 32 million Americans over the next decade. Health policy experts anticipate that the wave of new insurance subscribers will lead to a spike in demand for medical services. Read full article > >

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Nurse practitioners look to fill gap with expected spike in demand for health services

“The Life of Julia,” the Obama campaign’s new interactive Web ad , follows a cartoon everywoman, Julia, through the milestones of a middle-class American life: education, work, motherhood, retirement. One milestone is pointedly missing: marriage. Read full article > >

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Obama’s ‘Julia’ ad and the new Hubby State

Trivia question: Name this forgotten man, the subject of Ross Melnick’s eye-poppingly informative new book, “ American Showman ”: He was the most creative and most popular independent exhibitor of silent films at a series of movie palaces (seating up to 6,000 people) in New York during the 1920s. Read full article > >

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Book World: ‘American Showman’ by Ross Melnick

Ask your average American whether the defense budget should go up or down in 2013, and by how much, and they’ll tell you to cut spending by a whopping 18 percent. Ask your average member of Congress the same question, and no matter which party they’re from, you’ll likely hear that defense spending should barely budge from where it is right now. Read full article > >

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Americans want to slash defense spending, but Washington isn’t listening

KABUL —Afghan commanders have refused more than a dozen times within the past two months to act on U.S. intelligence regarding high-level insurgents, arguing that night-time operations to target the men would result in civilian casualties, Afghan officials say. Read full article > >

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Afghan commanders show new defiance in dealings with Americans

SEATTLE — President Obama will announce new figures Friday showing a dramatic spike in the number of Americans taking advantage of federal programs designed to help struggling homeowners and stabilize the lagging housing industry, administration officials said Thursday. Read full article > >

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Obama to tout success of mortgage refinancing

The United States launched airstrikes in Yemen on Thursday that killed as many as seven militants, the second American missile attack in the country since the CIA and other spy agencies disrupted an al-Qaeda airline bomb plot , U.S. officials said. Read full article > >

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U.S. launches airstrike in Yemen as new details surface about bomb plot

Americans consume 80% of opiate pain-killers produced in the world, according to congressional testimony by the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians.

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VIDEO: US painkiller addiction ‘epidemic’

It’s been a classic Old West showdown: the self-acclaimed “America’s toughest sheriff” vs. the Feds. For years, the Justice Department has investigated Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona . In December, the department accused Arpaio of violating the civil rights of Hispanics since at least 2006 by unlawfully stopping, detaining and arresting them. Then, for months, Justice officials tried to negotiate a settlement aimed at correcting the violations. When negotiations fell through, the department threatened to sue. Read full article > >

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Justice sues Ariz. sheriff Joe Arpaio, saying he violated Hispanics’ rights

Like a lot of Americans, Brandon L. Millett and his wife, Army Reserve Maj. Laura Law-Millett, are movie fans. But some years ago, they decided that something wasn’t quite right with Hollywood’s accounts of the military. Read full article > >

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D.C. film festival portrays soldiers in a better light