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• Saturday's announcement comes shortly after a Cairo court convicted Mubarak for his role in the killing of the protesters during last year's revolution that forced him from power.
• Over the past months, Mubarak has been held in a presidential suite in a hospital on the outskirts of Cairo. Doctors treating him have said he is weak and has lost weight from refusing to eat. They have also said he suffers from severe depression.
• He will be taken to Torah prison in southern Cairo, where his sons and members of his toppled regime have been held.
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nothing upsets a president's re-election groove like ugly economic numbers.
• A spring slowdown in hiring and an uptick in the unemployment rate are weighing on Barack Obama, while enhancing Republican challenger Mitt Romney's argument that the president is in over his head.
• Some questions and answers about how Friday's economic news may play in a close presidential race:
• Q: How bad is this for Obama?
• A: Pretty awful. Polls show Obama's handling of the economy is his biggest weak spot. Americans overwhelmingly rate the economy as their biggest worry. And jobs are what they say matters most.
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- With a few strokes of his pen on a sleepy holiday six months after he became governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney quietly scuttled the state government's long-standing affirmative action policies.
• There were no news conferences, no press releases trumpeting Romney's executive order on Bunker Hill Day, June 17, 2003, in the deserted Statehouse. But when civil rights leaders, black lawmakers and other minority groups finally learned of Romney's move two months later, it sparked a public furor.
• Romney drew criticism for cutting the enforcement teeth out of the law and rolling back more than two decades of affirmative action advances.

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