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Manning Attorney Asks For Case to Be Dismissed An attorney for Pfc. Bradley Manning, the Army private accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of pages of classified information to WikiLeaks, asked a military judge Thursday during a hearing to dismiss the charges, arguing the government bungled the handover of documents to the defense. (AP)
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Despite Mitt Romney’s financial stress, it’s unclear whether he will tap his own personal wealth to refill war chests that have sunk to their lowest levels since last year.
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The amount Mitt Romney loaned his presidential campaign in 2008. The 2012 hopeful, whose personal wealth is estimated between $190 and $250 million, has no plans to loan any new funds this time around, top aide Eric Fehrnstrom said Thursday. (AP)
hasn’t been in four months. On Wednesday, Romney had five finance events in New York, all packed, raising about $3 million, with more set for Thursday. So the news is hardly all bad. But it’s less encouraging for the campaign that the money is badly needed to refill coffers that had sunk close to their lowest levels since Romney launched his pres-
Raising money to get through a protracted primary fight is clearly not how Mitt Romney wanted to be spending his spring. He had hoped to have wrapped up the nomination by now, giving him the freedom to raise money for the general election against President Obama. As Romney reloads for his GOP fight, his chief Republican rival, Rick Santorum, is showcasing new fundraising success. (AP)
idential effort last year. It’s also unclear whether he will tap his own personal wealth. Publicly, Romney and his senior team have offered no hint of financial stress. Top aide Eric Fehrnstrom said that “we started March with more cash on hand than any of our opponents. Our fundraising continues to be healthy. We have all the resources we need to remain competitive in this race.” STE VE PEOPLES (AP)
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<WY[Xeea" 7\j[h :[Wj^0 Lawmakers in Nebraska and Oregon are considering proposals that would require
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social networks to give family members access to the account of a dead loved one. Facebook already has a system to report deaths. When the site learns that a member has died, it puts that person’s account in a memorialized state. But this legislation would go beyond that practice by making the site contents part of a person’s digital estate. (AP)
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