Politics

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"We gave the keys to the largest economy in the world to a person that did not have any previous executive experience." - Eric Fehrnstrom, a Mitt Romney campaign adviser

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Alan B. Krueger, then-chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in this file photo, died recently. ** FILE **

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Religious leaders who backed President Obama in 2008 say the Democrats have squandered the substantial gains they made with religious moderates and worry it will hurt Mr. Obama in a tight race. (Associated Press)

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"Art's grass-roots campaign challenges the Washington, D.C., cabal of insider politics and is gaining momentum for a very good reason." - Allen Alley, chairman of the Oregon Republican Party. (Associated Press)

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Gov. Scott Walker greets prospective voters at the Rock County Dairy Breakfast in Evansville, Wis., on Saturday, in advance of Tuesday's recall vote. Some political analysts say the outcome of that vote could be a harbinger of how the state will go in November's presidential election. (Associated Press)

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Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, followed by Rep. Jeb Hensarling, Texas Republican, right, leaves a GOP strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 31, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Elin Suleymanov, Azerbaijan's ambassador to the U.S., said he is familiar with Russian propaganda. "What you have here is a very strong virtual effort to produce a narrative designed to provide Armenia with an excuse to invite Russian forces into the conflict to carry out an anti-terrorism operation against Azerbaijan," he said. (The Washington Times)

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Baba Ramdev (left), an Indian yoga guru, and Anna Hazare, an Indian anti-corruption crusader, greet supporters during a fast in New Delhi on Sunday. The Indian anti-corruption campaigners held a daylong protest to press the government to act against widespread graft and bring back hundreds of billions of dollars stashed overseas. (Associated Press)

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Syrian President Bashar Assad delivers a speech in Damascus on Sunday. He denied responsibility for the massacre in Houla last month. (Associated Press)

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This combination of Associated Press photos shows President Obama speaking May 24, 2012, at the TPI Composites Factory, a manufacturer of wind turbine blades, in Newton, Iowa, and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaking May 31, 2012, at the Solyndra manufacturing facility in Fremont, Calif. (Associated Press)

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, speaks during a ceremony marking the 23rd anniversary of the death of Iran's revolutionary founder, Ayatollah Khomeini (shown in the poster at right), at his mausoleum outside Tehran on Sunday, June 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hassanzadeh, Fars News Agency)

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talks to media at a press conference at Sweden's Rosenbad governmental offices in Stockholm on Sunday, June 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Erik Martensson)