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GOP Senate candidate’s in-laws take out ad ripping his anti-gay positions
With days to go before the 2012 elections, Ohio Senate hopeful Josh Mandel is taking heat from an unexpected source: his in-laws. On Monday, Mandel’s wife’s cousins took out an ad in the Cleveland...
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Activists condemn Rep. McKeon with ‘NRAcist’ song
Gun control advocates on Sunday voiced there disappointment with Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA) by showing up at a Republican campaign office in Santa Clarita, California to sing a song. The song condemned...
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Grayson: Cutting early voting ‘an insult to working America’
Democratic candidate Alan Grayson on Monday night slammed Florida Republicans for cutting back on early voting in the state. “We have to expand the Voting Rights Act to make sure that the right to...
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Judge releases Rep. Scott DesJarlais’ divorce records in extramarital affair...
On the eve of the 2012 elections, a state judge has ordered the release of Tennessee Rep. Scott DesJarlais’ (R) divorce records so that they can be combed for any evidence related to DesJarlais’...
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Gandalf actor Ian McKellan chides New Zealand PM over gay ‘joke’
WELLINGTON — British actor Ian McKellan has criticised New Zealand Prime Minister John Key for using the word “gay” to mock a radio host’s attire, saying the term should not be casually used as an...
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Supreme Court considers limits on class-action cases
WASHINGTON — The US Supreme Court heard two cases that could limit the scope of class action lawsuits, after the court rejected a discrimination claim by 1.5 million female workers against retail...
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Alleged 9/11 plotter Mustapha al-Hawsawi wants case thrown out
WASHINGTON — One of the five men accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks filed an appeal asking that the charges against him be dropped, after a court threw out the conviction of Osama bin Laden’s...
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Instagram gets Facebook feel with online profiles
SAN FRANCISCO — Picture sharing website Instagram on Monday began rolling out online profiles that let people showcase themselves and photos they’ve taken with the Facebook-owned smartphone...
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Bernie Sanders: GOP wants ‘austerity for the middle class’
Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said Monday night that Republicans in Congress were likely to continue pushing for tax cuts after Election Day, despite the upcoming fiscal cliff. “It is...
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Minnesota couple accused of starving, abusing adopted son
A Minnesota couple has been arrested and the two now face felony charges for allegedly starving their eight-year-old adopted son to the point where his bones were visible through his skin. According...
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Judge jails anti-Muslim filmmaker for a year
LOS ANGELES — The man behind the anti-Islam video blamed for sparking deadly protests in the Muslim world was jailed in the US for a year for breaching the terms of his probation for a previous...
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Republicans lay down battle lines over fiscal cliff
WASHINGTON — Republicans offered newly re-elected President Barack Obama a short-term fix to the fiscal cliff Wednesday, but insisted they would not cave in to tax increases to boost revenues. Laying...
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Asian Americans vote overwhelmingly for Obama
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama enjoyed soaring support from Asian Americans to win another term, a survey said Wednesday, as voters elected new faces to Congress including its first Hindu...
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International observers cite ‘concerns’ in U.S. elections
WASHINGTON — The 2012 US elections were conducted in a “professional manner,” but “real concerns” remain, international observers said Wednesday. “The electoral process enjoys broad public...
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China’s Communist Party opens pivotal congress
BEIJING — China’s all-powerful and secretive Communist Party on Thursday officially opened its 18th congress to unveil a new slate of leaders who will oversee the world’s number two economy for the...
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Canada confident Obama will approve Keystone XL pipeline
OTTAWA — Canada is confident US President Barack Obama will approve the construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline that he previously rejected, a government minister said Wednesday. Obama,...
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North American Internet traffic doubles: report
SAN FRANCISCO — The amount of data sent online in North America has more than doubled over the past year, with Netflix shows accounting for a big chunk of Internet traffic, a report found Wednesday....
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Rep.-elect Grayson: Democrats should concede nothing in budget deal
Florida Rep.-elect Alan Grayson (D) on Wednesday night said that Democrats should not concede anything in a grand bargain with Republicans. “Why talk about caving at all? The Democrats won the...
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Maddow asks Republicans to return to the world of facts
Reviewing the results of the 2012 elections, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow predicted Republicans would need to “pop the factual bubble” that they were living in. Despite polls showing that Obama was likely...
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Jon Stewart pinpoints moment ‘bullsh*t mountain’ Fox News collapsed
On his show Wednesday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart vivaciously mocked Fox News’ election coverage. In particular, Stewart noted “there was an avalanche on bullshit mountain” after President...
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