The pregame warm-up is over.

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Primary stumbles warnings for Romney versus Obama
The pregame warm-up is over.

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Primary stumbles warnings for Romney versus Obama
A couple of months before Election Day in 2010, the Massachusetts lottery began running a TV commercial in which it pronounced itself “the most successful state lottery in America” and boasted of providing a bounty of money for roads, schools, police and firefighters.

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Ethics case in Mass. worries defense attorneys
Reuters – Mitt Romney took a crucial step toward the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday as he scored a solid victory in New Hampshire despite blistering attacks on his record as a businessman.

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Romney wins New Hampshire presidential contest
(Reuters)
AP – Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich landed the endorsement of New Hampshire’s largest newspaper on Sunday while rival Mitt Romney earned a dismissive wave, potentially resetting the race in the state with the first-in-the-nation primary.

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Gingrich wins NH backing as Romney plugs along
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Reuters – Group of Seven finance chiefs pledged on Friday to make a coordinated response to a slowdown in the global economy but offered few specifics and differed in emphasis on Europe’s debt crisis.

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G7 offers little to calm markets on growth, debt
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AP – Blunt-talking Gov. Chris Christie, who some Republicans have been trying to persuade to run for president, was taken to a hospital Thursday after he had difficulty breathing.

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NJ gov. in hospital, but ‘fine and in charge’ (AP)
AP – The defense lawyer for the man who confessed to the mass killings of government workers and Labor Party youth in Norway told The Associated Press on Tuesday that there’s no way his client will walk free, saying Anders Behring Breivik’s rampage was absurd and horrible and he’s likely insane.

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Lawyer: Norway terror suspect will never walk free (AP)
AP – If the U.S. economic slowdown weren’t enough to deal with, the Federal Reserve this week must consider a new threat: a resurgent European debt crisis that could imperil the global economy.

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Europe debt crisis shadows Fed meeting on economy (AP)
AP – Congress sent President Barack Obama hard-fought legislation cutting a record $38 billion from federal spending on Thursday, bestowing bipartisan support on the first major compromise between the White House and newly empowered Republicans in Congress.

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Congress OKs big budget cuts bigger fights await (AP)