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    <title><![CDATA[Chicago Teachers Suspend Strike]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Chicago&#039;s teachers voted late Tuesday afternoon to return to the classroom after more than a week on the picket lines.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:42:58 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Obama Camp Attacks Romney’s Secret Video In New Ad [VIDEO]]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Obama&#039;s camp attacked Romney for his now-infamous "47 percent" comments, by releasing a new ad asking ordinary Americans about their thoughts on the GOP nominee&#039;s statement.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:24:04 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Deal Or No Deal? Chicago Teachers&#039; Union To Meet On Contract, Ending Strike]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Chicago teachers and students could be back in the classroom soon, as union delegates meet Tuesday to review a deal, possibly ending the strike.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 02:03:19 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[LSU Bomb Threat: No Explosives Found, Classes Resume]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[All is back to normal at Louisiana State University after a bomb threat received Monday morning forced a campus-wide evacuation. No explosives were found.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:53:10 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[LSU Bomb Threat: Residence Halls Given The Clear, Access Still Restricted, Building Search Continues]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Residence and dining halls resume normal function after a bomb threat at Louisiana State University Monday morning. Authority are still conducting a building sweep.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:52:53 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[LSU Bomb Threat Update: University Urges Students, Staff To Stay Away From Campus]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[LSU officials sent out another round of text messages Monday afternoon urging students and staff to stay away from the campus, until further notice.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:16:50 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[LSU Bomb Threat: 911 Call Leads To Campus Evacuation]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[LSU campus was evacuated Monday after after a bombed threat was phone in to local 911.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:11:08 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Chicago Mayor Emanuel Looks To Court To End Teachers Strike, Says Children Are ‘Pawns’]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will head to court this week to end the Teachers Union strike, which, he says, is using the city&#039;s children as pawns.]]></description>
    <guid>http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/385185/20120918/chicago-teachers-union-strike-rahm-emanuel-court.htm</guid>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:58:06 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[With QE3 In Place, Republicans React Negatively - But Keep Distance From Ron Paul]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Ron Paul&#039;s campaign against the Federal Reserve had made some headway last summer, but even Republicans who dislike the Fed&#039;s decision to start a new round of easing aren&#039;t as drastic as him in attacking the central bank.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2012 06:09:11 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[How’s Reelection Looking For &#039;America’s Toughest Sheriff&#039; Joe Arpaio?]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[If polls are to be believed, pro-immigration activists may need to work harder to prevent the reelection of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.]]></description>
    <guid>http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/384019/20120914/joe-arpaio-election-reelection-immigration-poll.htm</guid>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 01:23:29 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Who Are The 20 Allegedly Most Corrupt Members Of Congress?]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has released its annual list of corrupt congress members. Find out if your rep made the list.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:05:13 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[‘Double Billing’ Ron Paul Among 20 Most Corrupt Members Of Congress: Report]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, who made fiscal responsibility a top focus in his presidential campaign, has been named one of the most corrupt members of Congress, because of several alleged double billing incidents.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:01:12 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Big Shots Tone Down Politics For 9/11 Anniversary]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[No political dirt will be thrown about Tuesday as Obama and Romney have agreed to take negative campaign ads off the air to honor the 9/11 anniversary.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:10:10 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Would There Have Been A 9/11 Attack Had The Bush Administration Acted Sooner On CIA Warnings?]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[As the nation remembers the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, a report in the New York Times states that there were some activities the summer before the attacks that would have looked suspicious had the administration taken the warnings more seriously.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:52:40 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Democrats Blast Republican National Convention As &#039;Open Mic For 2016 Candidates&#039;]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Critics say the event was all bark with no indication of how Republicans will execute the bite -- or, in fact, a dress rehearsal for the next presidential election]]></description>
    <guid>http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/379578/20120901/david-axelrod-republican-national-convention-mitt-romney.htm</guid>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 03:04:54 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Jeb Bush To Mitt Romney: Be More Human, &#039;Connect Emotionally&#039; In Convention Speech]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Jeb Bush says though it is going to be hard for Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee should  "show his heart" to connect with people -- something he hasn&#039;t been able to do yet.]]></description>
    <guid>http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/379121/20120831/jeb-bush-mitt-romney-convention-speech-emotionally.htm</guid>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 03:48:40 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[3 Untrue Things From Paul Ryan&#039;s National Convention Speech]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan delivered his much-anticipated speech Wednesday in Tampa, but slipped in some inaccuracies when blaming the Obama administration.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 01:34:18 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[SEAL&#039;s &#039;No Easy Day&#039; Book One More Of Many Bin Laden Death Truths]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[A former SEAL Team 6 member has written a book about al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden&#039;s death, contradicting the administration&#039;s account of what happened at the Pakistani compound last year.]]></description>
    <guid>http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/378688/20120830/matt-bissonnette-osama-bin-laden-death-seal.htm</guid>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 05:30:07 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ann Romney Goes For The Heart, Suggests They Used To Be Poor]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Often portrayed by Democrats as a wealthy out-of-touch businessman, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney appeared as a man who achieved the American dream, when his wife, Ann, made her national debut with a speech Wednesday night in Tampa.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 02:04:41 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Obama Cartoon Controversy Surrounds Louisiana Teacher, Spanish Magazine]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Louisiana and Spain are worlds apart, but political cartoons about the Obamas from people in both places have struck a nerve.]]></description>
    <guid>http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/378250/20120829/robert-duncan-michelle-obama-political-cartoon-spanish.htm</guid>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 05:02:03 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Chris Christie: If Mitt Romney Chooses To Open Up To Americans, All Else Is In His Favor]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who will be delivering the keynote address at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, said he believes Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney can win the election and that people will get to know the candidate more in coming days.]]></description>
    <guid>http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/378208/20120829/chris-christie-rnc-keynote-mitt-romney-likeability.htm</guid>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:48:33 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Chris Christie Nixed Romney&#039;s VP Spot For Fear Of Loss: NY Post]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie didn&#039;t want to give up his position to run with Mitt Romney because he feared they would lose, the New York Post reported, citing tax returns and foreign gaffes among other factors.]]></description>
    <guid>http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/377804/20120828/chris-christie-mitt-romney-vp-fear-lose.htm</guid>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:54:02 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why Won&#039;t Mitt Romney Fully Disclose His Tax Returns?]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney isn&#039;t too thrilled about releasing his tax returns, because he and his family don&#039;t want their contributions to the Mormon church made public.]]></description>
    <guid>http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/377726/20120827/mitt-romney-tax-returns-tithes-mormon-parade.htm</guid>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:39:56 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Romney A Birther Too? ‘No One’s Ever Asked To See My Birth Certificate’]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Generally one to stay away from the birther movement, presumptive GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday reminded his hometown crowd just where he was from. Appearing to take a poke at President Barack Obama, Romney told the crowd, "No one&#039;s ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised.]]></description>
    <guid>http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/377258/20120825/mitt-romney-birther-joke-michigan-obama-certificate.htm</guid>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2012 06:41:27 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Civil War If Obama Wins, And Other Outrageous Statements By Texas Officials]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Lubbock County Judge Tom Head became the talk of the Internet on Thursday, warning of a civil war if President Barack Obama is re-elected. But he isn&#039;t the only Texas official to have made an outrageous statement. President George W. Bush and Rick Perry are loaded with some of their own.]]></description>
    <guid>http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/376858/20120824/tom-head-civil-war-texas-judge-obama.htm</guid>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:40:00 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Republicans Plan For Tropical Storm Isaac In Tampa But Won&#039;t Say What The Plans Are]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Organizers of the Republican Nation Convention set to kick off Monday in Tampa are hopeful Tropical Storm Isaac won&#039;t hit, but they say contingency plans are in place should the worst happen.]]></description>
    <guid>http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/376813/20120824/hurricane-isaac-path-republican-national-convention.htm</guid>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 02:50:03 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Puerto Rico Statehood: Bad Business For The U.S. Or The Next Swing State?]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Puerto Ricans decide the island&#039;s future in November, weighing options that include remaining a U.S. territory or becoming a state. While some say Puerto Rican statehood is bad business for the U.S., others say the nation might be looking at the next swing state.]]></description>
    <guid>http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/376654/20120823/puerto-rico-statehood-51st-state-election-independence.htm</guid>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:59:55 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[GOP Pounces On Obama&#039;s Problems To Find Themes For Republican National Convention]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The themes of the Republican National Convention next week will be focusing on some of the economic and social problems Americans are facing under a Democratic White House.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 05:20:05 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Dems Tell Minnesota Rep. Kerry Gauthier To Forget Re-election Bid After Admitting To Oral Sex With 17-Year-Old Boy At Rest Stop]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Democratic leaders say Minnesota Rep. Kerry Gauthier should not seek re-election after the lawmaker admitted to having sex with a 17-year-old boy at a rest stop.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 02:54:19 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Republicans Flee From Todd Akin As &#039;Legitimate Rape&#039; Comments Cause GOP To Withhold Election Cash]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[After several Republicans mounted pressure on Missouri Rep. Todd Akin to bow out of the Senate race, the GOP on Monday said it will no longer put any funding behind the six-term congressman after his "legitimate rape" gaffe.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:08:05 +1000</pubDate>
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