Good Sunday morning. The staff is working its way in and we're preparing for today's program. Prepare along with us check out what we're reading this morning. On our radar: a deadly earthquake in Italy, protests in Chicago during a NATO summit with world leaders and a recall election in Wisconsin that that political [...

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(CNN) – Newt Gingrich ended his campaign earlier this month with nearly $4.8 million in campaign debt, according to a report filed with the Federal Election Commission that reflected campaign activity through the end of April. Debts of $1 million to a charter airline company, $466,370 for security services, $181,977 for public relations consulting and [...

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(CNN) - Current House Speaker John Boehner and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi engaged in an elections expectations debate Sunday, with both forecasting a party victory in November. Boehner, R-Ohio, acknowledged there will be some tough battles for Republicans, but said most GOP members are doing very well. – Follow the Ticker on Twitter: @PoliticalTicker [...

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(CNN) – David Axelrod on Sunday defended a fund-raising push on behalf of President Barack Obama's re-election that played off the threat of a proposed Republican-backed ad plan that would have linked the president to comments made by his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Obama's campaign adviser said the pitch, which came in [...

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Washington (CNN) While Mitt Romneys major challengers suspended their campaigns and the primary season essentially ended in April, donations to the super PAC supporting Romney's candidacy and its spending slowed down as well, according to a monthly financial report filed Sunday with the Federal Election Commission. Restore Our Future brought in $4,608,000 in [...

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(CNN) – Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, New Jersey, a Democrat, said Sunday that some of the current politicking makes him sick - including criticism of Mitt Romney from his own party. Booker, whose national standing is on the rise, distanced himself from attacks on Romney's record at the private equity firm Bain Capital, which [...

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