| Jeb Bush’s 2016 run wavers amid breakout stars Posted:  Top donors have reportedly told Bush that he will start hemorrhaging fundraisers if he does not rev up momentum.
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| Ann Romney opens up about MS struggle Posted:  In her new memoir, "In This Together," Romney details her struggles with multiple sclerosis, which she was diagnosed with in 1998.
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| GOP and Planned Parenthood square off in Congress Posted: 29 Sep 2015 02:33 PM PDT  By Megan Cassella WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. congressional Republicans on Tuesday challenged Planned Parenthood's eligibility for federal funds, while the health organization's president said defunding it would restrict women's access to care and disproportionately hurt low-income patients. A series of videos that purport to show that Planned Parenthood improperly sells fetal tissue to researchers for profit has reignited anti-abortion voters' fervor during a turbulent Republican presidential primary campaign. At a five-hour House committee hearing, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards appeared alone to respond to hostile questioning from Republicans, some of whom have vowed to shut down the U.S. government if federal support for the organization is not cut off.
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| Snowden joins Twitter, follows NSA Posted: 29 Sep 2015 10:53 AM PDT  The former National Security Agency contractor, who has been living in asylum in Russia after blowing the lid on the U.S. spy agency's controversial domestic surveillance program, has joined Twitter.
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| Obama and Putin: Awkward moments, few breakthroughs Posted: 29 Sep 2015 02:14 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin's first formal meeting in more than two years started with an awkward handshake and ended without a breakthrough on Syria, a crisis that has strained their already tense relationship.
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| VW details brands affected by scandal; fix due in Oct Posted: 29 Sep 2015 02:12 PM PDT  BERLIN (AP) — Volkswagen's commercial vehicles and cars from its Spanish unit SEAT are among the 11 million fitted with a diesel engine that can cheat on emissions tests, the company said Tuesday.
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| Afghan forces battle to retake Kunduz city from Taliban Posted: 29 Sep 2015 12:42 PM PDT  Afghan troops backed by US air support launched a counter-offensive Tuesday to retake Kunduz, a day after Taliban insurgents overran the strategic northern city in their biggest victory since being ousted from power in 2001. Insurgents advanced late evening on the outlying airport, where government forces retreated after the fall, with heavy fighting erupting near the premises as army reinforcements trickled into the city. The Taliban had captured government buildings and freed hundreds of prisoners on Monday, raising their trademark white flag throughout the city.
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| Georgia board rejects female death row inmate's clemency bid Posted: 29 Sep 2015 02:34 PM PDT  By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) - Georgia's parole board denied a request for clemency by the lone woman on the state's death row, just hours before her scheduled execution on Tuesday for her role in her husband's murder. Barring a last-minute court stay, Kelly Gissendaner, 47, is to be put to death by injection at 7 p.m. EDT at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. The state's Board of Pardons and Paroles met Tuesday to decide whether its refusal earlier this year to commute Gissendaner's sentence to life in prison should stand.
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| Baltimore judge schedules police trials in black man's death Posted: 29 Sep 2015 01:30 PM PDT  A Baltimore judge on Tuesday set trial dates, the first beginning in November, for six police officers charged in the death of a black man from an injury suffered in police custody, an event that triggered protests, arson and rioting. Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams scheduled individual trials with start dates ranging from Nov. 30 to March 9 for the officers accused in the death of Freddie Gray in April. Gray, 25, died from a spinal injury suffered in the back of a police van following an arrest, leading to protests and a day of rioting in the largely black city.
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