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DOVER, Del. - She has used campaign contributions to help pay the rent, taken more than 20 years to get her bachelor's degree and equated masturbation with adultery.

WASHINGTON - Tilted toward the GOP from the start of the year, the political environment has grown even more favorable for Republicans and rockier for President Barack Obama and his Democrats over the long primary season that just ended with a bang.

BRUSSELS - The European Union's executive on Wednesday proposed tougher curbs on financial market practices seen to have contributed to the global market crisis that drove the world's largest economies into recession.