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Bain employees donate $ to Obama camp

CNN's Dana Bash reveals that some political donations to President Obama come from Bain Capital employees.

RELATED POST: Bain employees may have paid for TV ads bashing the company


Filed under: 2012 election • Bain • Barack Obama • Dana Bash • Mitt Romney • Politics

33 years of mystery in Etan Patz case

The missing Etan Patz investigation that started 33-years ago has lead down many paths but revealed no answers.

RELATED STORY: Suspect in Etan Patz case arraigned on murder charge

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Filed under: Crime • Mary Snow

Zardari: Musharraf "murdered my mother"

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, tells CNN's Wolf Blitzer he blames former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf for his mother's death.


Filed under: Interviews • Pakistan

Powell favors same-sex marriage

(CNN) - Gen. Colin Powell said Wednesday on CNN's "The Situation Room" that he supports legal same-sex marriage, either at the state or federal level.

"I have no problem with it," he said in the interview, which will air at 5 p.m. ET. "In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country. And so I support the president's decision."

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Filed under: Colin Powell • Interviews • Same-sex marriage

Wolf Blitzer's interview with Hamid Karzai

Wolf Blitzer sat down with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the NATO summit in Chicago to discuss a wide range of issues including the U.S. withdrawal plan, Pakistan, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, President Obama and more. See below for the full interview in three parts.

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Blitzer's interview with Karzai: Part 1

CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Afghan President Hamid Karzai discuss Pakistan, the Taliban, and the U.S. withdrawal plan.

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Blitzer's interview with Karzai: Part 2

CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Afghan President Hamid Karzai discuss Afghanistan - U.S. relations and Rep. Rohrabacher.

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Blitzer's interview with Karzai: Part 3

CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Afghan President Hamid Karzai discuss Obama, Romney and Ben Kingsley


Filed under: Afghanistan • Hamid Karzai • Interviews • NATO

Booker backs off criticisms of team Obama

Mayor Cory Booker's comments against attack ads sends ripples through Obama campaign. CNN's Jim Acosta reports.

RELATED STORY: Obama campaign: We didn't ask for Booker video


Filed under: 2012 election • Barack Obama • Cory Booker • Jim Acosta

Karzai: Still no agreement with NATO

Afghan Pres. Hamid Karzai tells CNN's Wolf Blitzer there is still no resolution on allowing supplies into Afghanistan.

RELATED STORY: Karzai: I will not let congressman into Afghanistan


Filed under: Afghanistan • Hamid Karzai • Interviews • Pakistan

Karzai: I will not let congressman into Afghanistan

If Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-California, an influential member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is looking for a country to visit as a member of a congressional delegation, he can cross Afghanistan off his list.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Rohrabacher have been at loggerheads over the congressman's push for a more decentralized Afghan government. Asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer about the disagreement, Karzai said he is against letting Rohrabacher into the country.

FULL STORY ON CNN"S SECURITY CLEARANCE BLOG

RELATED STORY: Karzai: Still no agreement with NATO


Filed under: Afghanistan • Dana Rohrabacher • Hamid Karzai • Wolf Blitzer
Blitzer to interview Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Blitzer to interview Afghan President Hamid Karzai

CNN's Wolf Blitzer sits down with Afghan President Hamid Karzai for an exclusive interview at the NATO summit in Chicago. This will air Monday during the 5pm ET hour on CNN.

On Monday, NATO countries are expected to sign off on President Obama's exit strategy from Afghanistan that calls for an end to combat operations next year and the withdrawal of troops by the end of 2014.

Karzai met with President Obama on Sunday and both agreed that the end of the war is close. Karzai reiterated his commitment to the withdrawal timetable, "so that Afghanistan is no longer a burden on the shoulder of our friends in the international community, on the shoulders of the United States and our other allies."

Blitzer is anchoring "The Situation Room" live from Chicago today from 4-6pm ET on CNN.

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Filed under: Afghanistan • Chicago • Hamid Karzai • NATO

Pakistani ambassador on tensions with U.S.

Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. Sherry Rehman tells Wolf Blitzer that Pakistan is still demanding an Obama apology over Pakistani deaths in U.S. airstrikes, but they are looking at a "positive" conversation about reopening supply routes to Afghanistan.


Filed under: Interviews • Pakistan
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