Over Falk for Democratic primary.

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Police Union Endorses Tom Barrett

KANSAS CITY, MO. — As one of the U.S. Senate’s most endangered Democratic incumbents, Claire McCaskill knows she’s a top target of the new conservative super PACs that have radically reordered the political landscape in 2012. Read full article > >

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Gave $2,500 to the Democratic senator.

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Wendi Murdoch Is a Gillibrand Supporter

The Obama campaign did not disclose nearly $2 million in donations ahead of the 2008 elections, according to an audit by the Federal Election Commission released Thursday. The campaign was required to file public disclosures of contributions over $1,000 within two days after they were received in the weeks leading up to the election. The campaign failed to disclose 1,312 contributions totaling $1,972,266 that were transferred from a fund used to raise money with the Democratic National Committee. Read full article > >

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The Senate rejected consideration Monday of the “ Buffett rule ,” a key election-year Democratic initiative that would impose a minimum tax rate on those making more than $1 million per year, as a philosophical debate over taxes that will define this year’s elections occurred on Capitol Hill. Read full article > >

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The so-called war on women escalated Thursday onto a new front, after a Democratic strategist and cable-television pundit declared that Ann Romney, the stay-at-home, mother-of-five wife of the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, had “never worked a day in her life.” Read full article > >

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Jury selection begins in a Greensboro, North Carolina, federal courtroom Thursday in the trial of 2008 Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards.

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The rhetorical war over women between President Obama and Mitt Romney escalated Wednesday night as Romney’s wife Ann launched a Twitter account to personally respond to a Democratic pundit who had dismissed her knowledge about the economy by saying she “never worked a day in her life.” Read full article > >

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Former Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, 89, was admitted to a Florida hospital on Tuesday, CNN has confirmed.

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Recognition of democratic transition.

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U.S. To Relax Burma Sanctions

Updated at 11:29 a.m. with Bivens’s statement. Former Arizona Democratic Party chairman Don Bivens is dropping out of the state’s open Senate race, leaving former U.S. surgeon general Richard Carmona a clear Democratic primary. Read full article > >

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Despite continuing setbacks, such as the recent coup in Mali, democratic rule is gaining a firmer foothold across Africa.

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Memo From Africa: Africa’s Steady Steps Toward Democracy

White House allies are in an uproar over pro-business legislation embraced by President Obama, exposing a new rift in his relations with Democratic lawmakers and supporters amid his efforts since the fall to mend those ties. Read full article > >

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Congressional Republicans recognize that the $3.5 trillion budget proposal the GOP-led House is expected to adopt this week remains fraught with political peril, but they also believe they now know how to blunt Democratic attacks on its Medicare overhaul components and should be able to avoid the political pummeling they suffered as a result last year. Read full article > >

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The leader of a military coup in the West African country of Mali received military training in the United States on “several” occasions, a U.S. defense official said Friday. Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo, who led a renegade military faction that on Thursday deposed Mali’s democratically elected president, visited the United States several times to receive professional military education, including basic officer training, said Patrick Barnes, a U.S. Africa Command official based in Washington. Read full article > >

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