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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance.

WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. - With time running out on John Kerry, former Clinton administration operatives recently added to his campaign are touting a refreshed and reinvigorated candidate. By using sharper rhetoric and by de-emphasizing once-feature topics such as his Vietnam War service that aides now deem less effective, Kerry is "really hitting stride and making some real strong arguments now," said Mike McCurry, a former press secretary for President Clinton, now serving Kerry's campaign. But many of the latest polls show Kerry trailing or tied with President Bush, even in some of the key states where Kerry was ahead...

<p>BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Prospects for a European Union constitution are clouded going into talks Friday in Italy, with members deeply divided over the text and over the flaunting of EU fiscal rules by France and Germany.</p> <p>Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, whose country now holds the rotating EU presidency, tried to put an optimistic face on the two-day session in Naples, Italy.</p>