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Obama assails GOP, promotes new jobs program (AP)

AP – A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans’ hard economic times.

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Obama calling for more infrastructure spending (AP)

AP – President Barack Obama is asking Congress to approve at least $50 billion in long-term investments in the nation’s roads, railways and runways in a pre-election effort to show he’s trying to stimulate the sputtering economy.

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As election season heats up, Democrats battle grim prospects (Exclusive to Yahoo! News)

Exclusive to Yahoo! News – Just how bad could things get for the Democrats when voters head to the polls in November?

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Obama: US combat in Iraq over, ‘time to turn page’ (AP)

AP – Claiming no victory, President Barack Obama formally ended the U.S. combat role in Iraq after seven long years of bloodshed, declaring firmly Tuesday night: “It is time to turn the page.” Now, he said, the nation’s most urgent priority must be fixing its own sickly economy.

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Obama to honor troops as Iraq combat mission ends (AP)

AP – As President Barack Obama prepares to officially end the lengthy and divisive U.S. combat operation in Iraq, he’ll personally thank some of the soldiers who fought there for their service to a mission he forcefully opposed from the start.

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