A violent storm system unleashed dozens of tornadoes across the Midwest and Plains, leaving five people dead and at least 29 injured in Oklahoma Sunday morning.
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Pressuring Mitt Romney on taxes, President Barack Obama’s campaign re-released more than a decade of tax records Friday, a political maneuver designed to pressure the Republican presidential candidate to divulge tax records beyond two years and to stop “hiding” details of his huge personal wealth.
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On a crisp, mostly sunny Easter morning, the First Family walked across Lafayette Square to 11 a.m. services at St. John’s Episcopal Church. 

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Mitt Romney edged closer to capturing the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday as he beat back a challenge from rival Rick Santorum in Wisconsin and swept the field in Maryland and the District of Columbia. 

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President Barack Obama weighed in Monday on last week’s Supreme Court arguments about health care reform, saying he expected the justices to rule the act is constitutional.
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In a case that generated blaring tabloid headlines in the U.K. press, a Florida teen is facing life in prison without parole for murdering two young British tourists who got lost and wandered into a housing project where their convicted killer lived.

Shawn Tyson enters the courtroom at the Sarasota County Courthouse, Wednesday, March 28, 2012 in Sarasota, Fla. A Florida jury has found Tyson guilty of first-degree murder in the slayings of two British tourists last April. It took the jury two hours to reach a verdict Wednesday against 17-year-old Shawn Tyson. He faces a life sentence. (AP Photo/Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Elaine Litherland, Pool)

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Here’s a thought that can’t comfort President Barack Obama: The fate of his health care overhaul rests with four Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices.

His most sweeping domestic achievement could be struck down if they stand together with Justice Clarence Thomas, another GOP appointee who is the likeliest vote against.
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Gasoline prices rose again Friday and are now averaging more than $4 in six states and Washington, D.C. Oil had its biggest gain in three weeks and natural gas prices also rose.

Retail gasoline prices were up a penny on Friday to a national average of $3.831 per gallon, according to AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service. (more…)

Actor George Clooney will highlight a protest planned for Friday at Sudan’s embassy in Washington.
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President Obama’s re-election prospects are getting a boost from the plunging unemployment rate and the pickup in the economy and financial markets this year, economic and political analysts say.

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