Presidential Campaign

`Will she or won't she' question following Clinton

By KEN THOMAS - Updated: Saturday, April 6 2013 - 9:21 am

Young supporters hold signs outside Hillary Rodham Clinton's speeches urging her to run for president. Audiences listen with rapt attention as she discusses the plight of women and girls in developing countries.

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In this photo released by CBS News Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., appear on Sunday, April 7, 2013, on's CBS's "Face the Nation". McCain and Schumer spoke about gun legislation, the latest developments with North Korea and immigration.
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In this photo provided by CBS News, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., appears, Sunday, April 7, 2013, on CBS' "Face the Nation" in Washington. McCain, a leader of the immigration talks, suggested there could be a tough road ahead for the contentious legislation. "There will be a great deal of unhappiness about this proposal because everybody didn't get what they wanted," McCain said. "There are entrenched positions on both sides of this issue as far as business and labor."
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In this photo provided by CBS News, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., appears, Sunday, April 7, 2013, on CBS' "Face the Nation" in Washington. Schumer spoke about gun legislation saying he's hoping for a bipartisan deal by the end of this week on a sweeping immigration bill to secure the border and allow eventual citizenship to the estimated 11 million people living here illegally.
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Reyna Avila, who recently received a work permit and Social Security card under new Obama administration policy for young immigrants, is shown here at her place of work Tuesday, April 2, 2013, in Phoenix. President Barack Obama's decision last year to allow young people living in the U.S. illegally to stay and work marked the biggest shift in immigration policy in decades, hailed as a landmark step toward the American dream for a generation of immigrants.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, meets with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in the West Bank city of Ramallah Sunday, April 7, 2013.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, meets with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in the West Bank city of Ramallah Sunday, April 7, 2013.
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US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shake hands with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu after a news conference in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, April 7, 2013. Kerry is in the Middle East, his third trip to the region in two weeks, in a fresh bid to unlock long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. And in Istanbul, the first leg of a six-nation trip that goes on to Europe and East Asia, Kerry will coordinate with Turkey's Prime Minister and other Turkish officials on efforts to halt the violence in neighboring Syria's civil war.
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In this photo released by the Turkish Prime Minister's Press Office, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and US Secretary of State John Kerry shake hands as they pose for cameras before a meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, April 7, 2013. Kerry is in the Middle East, his third trip to the region in two weeks, in a fresh bid to unlock long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. And in Istanbul, the first leg of a six-nation trip that goes on to Europe and East Asia, Kerry will coordinate with Turkey's Prime Minister and other Turkish officials on efforts to halt the violence in neighboring Syria's civil war.

GOP ponders long list of names, policies, for 2016

By CHARLES BABINGTON - Updated: Wednesday, March 27 2013 - 11:06 am

Republicans' search for a way back to presidential success is drawing a striking array of personalities and policy options, creating a wide-open self-reassessment of the party. GOP activists may need three full years to decide which candidate and which philosophy will serve them best in 2016.

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Female voters eagerly courted

By Katharine Q. Seelye - Updated: Thursday, October 25 2012 - 8:04 am

Emmakate Paris was a one-woman tornado the other day, whipping through the racks at the thrift shop here, hunting for clothes for her children and one special item for herself: a green suit. For Halloween, she wants to dress up as Tippi Hedren from the Alfred Hitchcock movie "The Birds."

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