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  • **FILE** A sign marks Wall Street in New York. (Associated Press)

    Stock markets rise as Wall Street eyes election

    Major stock-market indexes climbed Tuesday as investors waited for the finish of a closely fought U.S. presidential election.

  • A Wall Street sign hangs near the New York Stock Exchange in New York. (AP Photo/Jin Lee)

    Stocks rise as investors wait for election winner

    Major stock-market indexes climbed Tuesday as investors waited for the finish of a closely fought U.S. presidential election.

  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Contraception costs nothing compared to debt

    As a college-educated, stay-at-home mom of two young children, I am amazed at how many women have been duped into thinking a so-called "war on women" is being waged.

  • Rep. Paul Ryan, the Republican vice presidential nominee, argued Wednesday that the social safety net is beleaguered by government rules and misplaced priorities. (Associated Press)

    Ryan: Government rules crippling social safety net

    Seeking to lay groundwork for a rewrite of the social safety net, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan said Wednesday the federal government must stop measuring its programs by dollars spent and instead grade them by how many people are lifted out of poverty.

  • Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Vice President Joe Biden pass each other after the vice presidential debate at Centre College, in this Oct. 11, 2012 photo taken in Danville, Ky. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

    More questions on abortion, religious liberty likely after Biden-Ryan clash

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  • Forceful Raddatz draws praise as moderator

    ABC's Martha Raddatz took a forceful approach to moderating Thursday's vice presidential debate, winning many positive reviews from instant pundits on social media but some complaints from Republicans.

  • Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney makes a point Wednesday at a campaign rally in Mount Vernon, Ohio, as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie looks on. (Associated Press)

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  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Akin is not Romney

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  • **FILE** President George W. Bush is introduced Aug. 30, 2004, by Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at a campaign rally in Nashua, N.H. (Associated Press)

    KUHNER: Romney's not Bush 2.0

    Mitt Romney is the second coming of former President George W. Bush. This is the false argument being peddled by Democrats and their liberal media allies. President Obama ceaselessly stresses that the Republican candidate will return America "to the failed policies of the past."

  • Gabriella Wyatt, of Aurora, Ill., shows off her elephant logo at the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Fla. on Wednesday, August 29, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/ The Washington Times)

    Delegates differ, but unify behind Romney

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  • Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, right, and vice presidential candidate Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., wave at the crowd during a campaign event, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012, in Norfolk, Va. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

    RYAN: Undoing Obama's record of failure

    The following remarks were delivered by Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget committee in Norfolk, Va.

  • Prepared text of Ryan's speech in Norfolk

    The prepared text of Saturday's speech by Rep. Paul, the Wisconsin congressman named by Mitt Romney as his vice presidential running mate:

  • President Obama talks abut taxes, Friday, August 3, 2012, in Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    Obama, Romney spar over Pentagon spending

    In a time of deep deficits and tight budgets, President Obama says the Defense Department cannot be entirely spared the scalpel. But Mitt Romney, his likely opponent in November's election, says the U.S. must spend more on the Pentagon now because it will pay off with a stronger economy in the long run.

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