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Some say a gender divide is erected at an early age through playtime

(CNN) -- Like many parents, Carrie Goldman was thrilled to learn that Britain's biggest department store recently reopened its toy department with a fresh look: dolls and trucks side by side.


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Officers look at public info and sometimes create fake online IDs to view suspects' private info

(CNN) -- We leave small clues about our lives all over the Internet like fingerprints.


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Romney's father, George, set the precedent for candidates releasing extensive tax returns

Last week, the website Gawker published more than 900 pages of documents from Bain Capital, the private equity firm Mitt Romney founded, and headed from 1984 until 1999.


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Many worry Mitt Romney will revoke the program if elected

NEW YORK, N.Y.--Thousands of young undocumented immigrants formed long lines at help-centers and churches across the United States last Wednesday to start their process of gaining temporary legal status, under President Obama's new program to defer deportations for many brought to this country as children.


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This is the first year Log Cabin Republicans were invited to the Republican National Convention

TAMPA (CNN) -- A man hurrying to catch the light at a corner in muggy downtown Tampa carries a book with a rainbow of color on its cover.


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Phrase was the cornerstone of this year's Republican National Convention

(CNN) -- That July comment by President Barack Obama was the cornerstone of this year's Republican National Convention. Republicans have seized on the phrase -- a seemingly stray clause in a line Obama delivered at a campaign stop in Virginia -- as a kind of Freudian slip that reveals the president's hostility to free enterprise.


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Actor addresses 'invisible' President Obama in decidedly political and bitingly satirical speech

TAMPA, Florida (CNN) -- Actor and director Clint Eastwood made the day of the GOP faithful at the Republican National Convention when he gave a surprise speech Thursday night in which he laid out what he sees as the good, the bad and the ugly state of American political affairs.


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On-the-spot reporter is plugged into all of the major events at the Democratic Convention, seeking out the few Black and Hispanic delegates to ask about issues affecting communities of color in particular


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Speech has been attacked by various news sources, including Fox News, for being misleading

(CNN) -- Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior adviser for Mitt Romney's campaign, defended Paul Ryan against criticism of his speech, saying the vice presidential hopeful was not inaccurate when he blamed President Barack Obama for the failure of a General Motors plant in Wisconsin.

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Officials call attack "deplorable" despite climate of acceptance of controversial rhetoric from GOP

CNN has confirmed that a Black camerawoman who works for the network was the victim of a racial attack at the Republican National Convention on Monday.

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