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    Paul Ryan Is High-Risk, High-Reward for Mitt Romney

    Reports: Romney picks Paul Ryan as VP running mate

    NORFOLK, Va.--Mitt Romney will name his vice presidential running mate on Saturday. According to a statement the campaign released late Friday, the presumptive Republican nominee will announce his running mate at an 8:45am rally here on the USS Wisconsin--the first stop … More »Reports: Romney picks Paul Ryan as VP running mate

    FILE - In this April 2, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney listens at left as House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks in Milwaukee. There are plenty of reasons for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to choose Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as a running mate. The whip-smart congressman is from a battleground state. He’s the GOP’s leading voice on the nation’s budget and is the rare member of the Republican establishment who’s loved by the tea party. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

    Who is Rep. Paul Ryan?

    Gov. Mitt Romney is expected to announce Saturday morning that he's chosen 42-year-old … More »Who is Rep. Paul Ryan?

    This combination of Associated Press file photos shows from left, President Obama speaking at the TPI Composites Factory, a manufacturer of wind turbine blades on May 24, 2012, in Newton, Iowa, and Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaking at the Solyndra manufacturing facility on May 31, 2012, in Fremont, Calif. The weak May unemployment report released Friday, June 1, 2012, presents President Barack Obama with a sobering reminder that his stewardship of a gradual recovery from the deepest recession since the Great Depression presents a tenuous argument for his re-election. However anemic job growth and an uptick in joblessness to 8.2 percent give new resonance to Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney's campaign. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, Mary Altaffer. File)

    'Dreading November': Undecideds share unease

    Lyn Vaccaro admits it: "I'm officially an undecided voter." More »'Dreading November': Undecideds share unease

    • AP source: Romney picks Ryan for running mate
      How Paul Ryan will help Mitt Romney change the conversation The Ticket - 2 hrs 28 mins ago

      From the moment Mitt Romney endorsed and embraced the House Republican budget, authored by his presumed running mate Paul Ryan, Democrats pounced, ensuring it would be known forevermore as the "Romney-Ryan" budget. The presumptive … More »How Paul Ryan will help Mitt Romney change the conversation

      AP source: Romney picks Ryan for running mate

      From the moment Mitt Romney endorsed and embraced the House Republican budget, authored by his presumed running mate Paul Ryan, Democrats pounced, ensuring it would be known forevermore as the "Romney-Ryan" budget. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee clearly doesn't seem to mind. As with all of the big moments …

    • This photo from July 31, 2012 shows dried corn plants in Yutan, Neb. U.S. corn growers could have their worst crop in a generation as the harshest drought in decades takes its toll, the government reported Friday, Aug. 1, 2012, as it forecast the lowest average yield in 17 years. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)
      Farmers expect poorest corn crop in a decade AP - 10 hrs ago

      A deepening drought in the nation's farm states has cut further into this fall's harvest, with farmers now expected to pull from their fields the lowest corn yield in more than a decade. More »Farmers expect poorest corn crop in a decade

      This photo from July 31, 2012 shows dried corn plants in Yutan, Neb. U.S. corn growers could have their worst crop in a generation as the harshest drought in decades takes its toll, the government reported Friday, Aug. 1, 2012, as it forecast the lowest average yield in 17 years. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

      A deepening drought in the nation's farm states has cut further into this fall's harvest, with farmers now expected to pull from their fields the lowest corn yield in more than a decade.

    • A woman takes a picture of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro after midday prayers on Friday, Aug. 10, 2012, in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Opponents of the mosque waged a two-year court battle trying to keep it from opening. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
      After long fight, opening day for Tenn. mosque AP - 5 hrs ago

      Muslims in the Tennessee city of Murfreesboro said Friday they hope the opening of their new mosque after more than two years of controversy will be a new beginning for relations with the community, particularly their o … More »After long fight, opening day for Tenn. mosque

      A woman takes a picture of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro after midday prayers on Friday, Aug. 10, 2012, in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Opponents of the mosque waged a two-year court battle trying to keep it from opening. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

      Muslims in the Tennessee city of Murfreesboro said Friday they hope the opening of their new mosque after more than two years of controversy will be a new beginning for relations with the community, particularly their opponents.

    • White House Press Secretary Jay Carney speaks during his daily news conference, Monday, Aug. 6, 2012, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
      Obama spokesman declines to repudiate cancer ad The Ticket - 12 hrs ago

      White House spokesman Jay Carney declined Friday to repudiate an independent ad that ties Mitt Romney to the cancer death of a laid-off steelworker's wife, as the controversy over that misleading commercial dragged into another … More »Obama spokesman declines to repudiate cancer ad

      White House Press Secretary Jay Carney speaks during his daily news conference, Monday, Aug. 6, 2012, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

      White House spokesman Jay Carney declined Friday to repudiate an independent ad that ties Mitt Romney to the cancer death of a laid-off steelworker's wife, as the controversy over that misleading commercial dragged into another day. "We do not control third-party ads," Carney told reporters at his daily briefing. He had …

    • Fareed Zakaria suspended AP - 13 hrs ago
      FILE - This May 21, 2012 file photo shows columnist and TV host Fareed Zakaria attending the 71st Annual Peabody Awards in New York. Zakaria is apologizing for lifting paragraphs by another writer for use in his column in Time magazine. Zakaria said in a statement Friday, Aug. 10, he made a "terrible mistake" and termed it "entirely my fault." Time magazine said it has suspended his column for one month pending further review. Media reporters had cited similarities between passages in Zakaria's column about gun control that appeared in Time's Aug. 20 issue, and paragraphs from an article by Harvard University history professor Jill Lepore published in April in The New Yorker magazine. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file)

      Time editor-at-large and CNN host Fareed Zakaria has been suspended by both the magazine and the network for lifting several paragraphs by another writer for his use in a recent Time column.

    • Colo. suspect said to have 'intellectual and emotional maturity' AP - 4 hrs ago
      El presunto autor de la matanza del 20 de julio de 2012 en un cine en Colorado comparece en un tribunal en la localidad de Centennial. En la imagen del lunes 23 de julio, James Holmes es acompañado de la abogada defensora Tamara Brady. Una psiquiatra que atendió a Holmes dijo que había solicitado a la policía de la Universidad de Colorado que verificara los antecedentes del mismo, según el canal televisivo KMGH-TV de Denver. (Foto AP/Denver Post, RJ Sangosti)

      DENVER - The Colorado theatre shooting suspect left a good impression on people he met in his pursuit of a neuroscience career, with a reference describing him as having a "great amount of intellectual and emotional maturity."

    • Feds: Miss. authorities violated rights of black children ABC OTUS News - 13 hrs ago

      The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has released investigative findings determining that children in predominantly black Meridian, Miss.  have had their constitutional rights violated by the Lauderdale County Youth Court, the Meridian Police Department, and the Mississippi Division of Youth Services in what civil …

    • Dallas suffering from nation's deadliest outbreak of West Nile AP - 5 hrs ago

      DALLAS - Suffering from the nation's deadliest outbreak of West Nile virus this year, Dallas County authorized aerial spraying of insecticide on Friday for the first time in nearly five decades to help fight the mosquito-born illness.

    • Watching the Perseid meteor shower this weekend? Share your photos The Lookout - 8 hrs ago

      Photographer Jeff Berkes caught this Perseid meteor over Dead Horse Point State Park, Utah, on July 30, 2011. (Jeff Berkes/Space.com) Will you be watching the skies for meteors this weekend? If so, you're in luck. NASA says the Perseid meteor shower, which peaks Saturday and Sunday nights, will be the best show of the year. …

    • David Cameron tells schools to revive competitive sport Reuters - 1 hr 46 mins ago
      Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron takes lunch with Team GB athletes during his visit to the Olympic Village at the London 2012 Olympic Games

      LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron said on Saturday he would make competitive sport the core of a new national curriculum, seeking to counter fears that faltering schools sports provision will wreck the legacy of Britain's record Olympics medals haul. The British team have surpassed expectations at the 2012 …

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