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Settlement For Charles Rangel Fails, Will See Trial

"Draining the swamp" was the phrase House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used to try and describe the improvement of ethics enforcement in Congress, and it appears that...

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8 Discovered Infanticides Rock France, Again

It's not a trend because few women are convicted of it, but it's reliable enough to set a calendar to that a French woman will be arrested and charged with...

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Obama Talks iPhone, Mojo On Daytime Show

It was history of a sort, when President Barack Obama appeared on daytime television to chat with the hosts of "The View," the first time a sitting president...

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Arizona Immigration Law Begins; Protests Emerge

Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets in Arizona to protest an Immigration law that had several key sections struck down by a federal judge....

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Sherrod Could Pursue Suit Against Breitbart

If she decides to make a case out of it, former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod could help set the rules by which the bloggers affect the political world as she...

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McMahon Campaign Hits Grimm For Taking "Jewish Money"

The New York Observer - 8hrs 1min ago

Mike Grimm, a G.O.P challenger for Mike McMahon's Congressional seat, took in over $200,000 in his last filing. But in an effort to show that Grimm lacks support among voters in the dis...

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It's Like Mathematically Unpossible for Republicans to Win the House, or Something

FiveThirtyEight - 1day 2hrs ago

We're introducing a new scale tonight to "reward" polling and strategy memos which are vapid, disingenuous, jargony, or just plain fucking wrong. The scale is dubbed the Pennometer after former Clinton Strategist ..

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More About: Elections - Democrats - Washington Post - National Republican Congressional Committee - Greg Sargent - House of Representatives - Senate - Congress


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Fired USDA employee Sherrod to sue conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart

USA Today - 13hrs 17mins ago

The political fallout from the posting eventually prompted the Agricultural Department to force Sherrod to resign. A full version of the Speech, released later, shows that she was referring to an incident that occurred more ...

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What's Hard to Look At

Time - 22hrs 30mins ago

Our cover image this week is powerful, shocking and disturbing. It is a portrait of Aisha, a shy 18-year-old Afghan woman who was sentenced by a Taliban commander to have her nose and ears cut...

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More About: Taliban - Kabul - Hospital - Foreign Policy - Debates - Wikileaks - Afghanistan - South Africa


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Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in 'Future' of Web Monitoring

Danger Room - 11hrs 41mins ago

“ The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called ...

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NOAA: Past Decade Warmest on Record

Econbrowser - 16hrs 28mins ago

The 2009 State of the Climate report released today draws on data for 10 key climate indicators that all point to the same finding: the scientific evidence that our world is warming is unmistakable. More than 300 scientists from 160 research groups i...

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Local Woman Convicted of Drug Fraud Joins Obama at the Podium

The Charlottesville Newsplex - 17hrs 41mins ago

July 28, 2010 Charlottesville resident Leslie Macko was once employed at ACAC in the Albemarle Square Shopping Center. In April 2009, she lost her Job as an aesthetician in the spa at A...

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