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• Earlier this week, a Ryan adviser said the congressman, his wife and their three children were preparing for a weeklong Colorado vacation.
• Most of Romney's staff learned of the planned announcement during a 10 p.m. EDT conference call Friday about an hour before the campaign issued a statement. The identity of Romney's pick was not disclosed during the call. The campaign had promised that first news of the selection would be delivered via a phone app.
• Earlier in the day, Romney's campaign briefed reporters on the bus tour without mention of the impending vice presidential announcement.
• The tour will take Romney through Virginia, North Carolina, Florida and Ohio. All are battlegrounds where Obama won in 2008. They hold a combined 75 electoral votes, of the 270 needed to win election.
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AP News in Brief
Military official: Afghan kills 3 NATO troops on same day that Afghan police kills 3 Marines
• KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- An Afghan working on an installation shared by Afghan and foreign forces shot and killed three NATO soldiers on Friday -- raising to six the number of international troops killed by their Afghan partners in 24 hours, officials said.
• The attack announced Saturday comes as the number of these so-called "green-on-blue" incidents -- carried out by Afghan police or soldiers or those disguised in their uniforms -- is on the rise. But the U.S.-led coalition has said that they are not impeding ongoing work to hand over security to Afghan forces by the end of 2014.
• The Taliban claimed responsibility for both attacks Friday in Helmand province of southern Afghanistan -- an area where Taliban insurgents have wielded their greatest influence.
• The assaults have heightened mistrust between international troops and the Afghan soldiers and police they are training and mentoring. The attacks also raise doubts about the quality of the Afghan forces who have already started taking over for foreign forces in areas of the nation that are home to 75 percent of the population.
• In the first attack, an Afghan police officer shot and killed the three Marines after sharing a meal with them before dawn in the volatile Sangin district. A U.S. Defense Department official confirmed that the dead Americans were Marine Special Operations Forces.
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