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A consultant for Todd Akin likened the Senate candidate to David Koresh on Friday, saying Akin s ability to withstand GOP pressure to withdraw from the race was like the cult leader s resistance during the deadly 1993 standoff with federal authorities.
Consultant operative Kellyanne Conway said she has expressed her opinion to Akin for a while now, adding Akin was successfully able to sustain the aftermath of his controversial rape comments last month.
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Koresh led a 51-day stalemate between his armed religious group, The Branch Davidians, and agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, cheap airline and hotel deals Tobacco and Firearms and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Waco, Texas. It ended in a massive fire and the deaths of at least 76 people.
Last month, Akin faced several calls from top Republican leaders and groups to drop out of the Senate race against Democratic incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill after he caused an uproar by saying women were biologically cheap airline and hotel deals capable of blocking pregnancy in cases of legitimate rape.
A number of people have asked me if I m dropping out, Akin said a press conference in St. Louis, adding that this is not my decision, but rather the decision cheap airline and hotel deals of Republican voters who chose him this summer as their Republican candidate.
Akin got the support of some conservative leaders this week, including South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint and former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. Former Missouri Sen. Kit Bond announced he was backing Akin Friday, despite calling for Akin to drop out weeks earlier.
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Obama s move follows a complaint lodged last week with the World Trade Organization alleging that China has illegally subsidized automotive exports and undercut American suppliers. The White House has attempted to project an image of being tough on China in economic matters, filing more trade cases against Beijing than the Bush administration did. At least 6 dead in Minneapolis shooting
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Minneapolis police and city officials described Friday what happened over the span of 10 or 15 minutes the previous afternoon, when the man walked through the loading dock of Accent Signage Systems and started shooting.
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He s an example of somebody who climbed the ladder of success and didn t pull (the ladder) up but tried every way possible to get other people up on that rung, too, Rybak said. We owe a tremendous debt to Reuven.
According to the mayor, civic leaders volunteered Rahamim s name when the White House asked for examples of good, small, local businesses doing exporting. The Minnesota resident went to the White House in March, and the White House called Friday to offer its condolences over Rahamim s death, Rybak said.
A 29-year UPS employee, Keith Basinski, was shot dead on the loading dock, according to Jill Schubert, cheap airline and hotel deals the president of the delivery company s Northern Plains district. Dolan said Basinski, 50, was simply in the wrong place, wrong time.
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Dolan said the 36-year-old was fired Thursday morning and then came to Accent in the city s Bryn Mawr neighborhood about 4:25 p.m. and immediately started shooting but spared some, especially as he moved through the office building.
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Since being founded in Rahamim s basement in 1984, Accent has steadily grown including developing cheap airline and hotel deals a patent for technology that imprints Braille on things like hotel room numbers and restroom signs and now employs 30 people and earns $5 million to $10 million each year, CNN affiliate KARE reported.
(Accent employees) had a horrible day that is beyond what anybody should have to have, but we owe it to them to make sure that they have many more productive days at work, Rybak said. And we will be focused on that as we move forward. US intelligence revises Libya attack analysis
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This week, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said he believed the attack was clearly conducted by terrorists who planned it, and said that it took a while for there to be information to reach such a conclusion.
But on the same day, a senior U.S. official told CNN that within a day or so of the attack, the U.S. intelligence community began to gather information suggesting it was the work of extremists either affiliated with al Qaeda groups or inspired by them.
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The government said it would cover legal costs if contractors are forced to slash their payrolls because of the looming $109 billion in automatic cuts next year and are alleged to have violated the WARN Act.
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