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Jon Stewart: Learning Armstrong was doping like finding out tooth-fairy isn’t...
On his show Tuesday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart lampooned the news of Lance Armstrong admitting to doping, saying it appeared painful obvious in retrospect. He compared learning that...
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Judge: Bradley Manning’s motive not a defense in WikiLeaks case
A US military judge on Wednesday ruled that Bradley Manning’s motive for allegedly leaking a cache of secret government files to WikiLeaks is no defense against the charges he faces. Manning, an army...
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Assault weapons ban likely to die in GOP-dominated House
The assault weapons ban proposed by US President Barack Obama on Wednesday faces quicksand in Congress, where Republicans are in a position to defeat any such a measure. Instead, lawmakers in the House...
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Notre Dame on imaginary girlfriend fiasco: Manti Te’o was ‘victim of hoax’
It was one of the most celebrated stories of heroism in US sport: the college football star who fought through the grief over the death of his girlfriend as he helped his team get to the championship...
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Rick Perry: ‘Pray for help’ rather than passing gun laws
Republican Gov. Rick Perry of Texas said Wednesday that Americans should become more devout rather than attempt to reduce gun violence through laws and regulations. After President Barack Obama...
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American to be executed by electric chair for first time since 2010
An American who murdered two fellow inmates to speed up his execution faces death on the electric chair Wednesday, the first execution of its kind since 2010, authorities said. Robert Gleason, 42, is...
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Gene study hopes to settle debate over origin of European Jews
Jews of European origin are a mix of ancestries, with many hailing from tribes in the Caucasus who converted to Judaism and created an empire that lasted half a millennium, according to a gene study....
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Casino exec. Gary Loveman calls for Social Security cuts
Gary Loveman, CEO of Caesars Entertainment Corporation, said Wednesday that Congress should cut programs like Social Security rather than raise taxes. He said on Fox News that he couldn’t understand...
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Tucson shooting survivor heartened by Obama’s gun plan: ‘Now is the time’
Two years ago Patricia Maisch gained first-hand experience of America’s epidemic of gun violence. She was attending a street rally called by Tucson politician Gabby Giffords when shooting erupted, and...
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Maddow on new NRA ads: Trolling a key aspect of conservative media
On her show Wednesday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said the National Rifle Association was simply “trolling” with its latest ads, a tactic employed throughout the conservative sphere. “Trolling is a...
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Jon Stewart: NRA is a Michael Moore-run conspiracy to discredit gun owners
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart ruthlessly mocked the National Rifle Association on Wednesday night over their latest controversial advertisement. The NRA’s new commercial called Obama an “elitist...
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Republicans gather at former plantation to discuss minority outreach
After its general election battering, the Republican party has retreated to lick its wounds and ponder what went wrong – on the leafy grounds of a luxury golf resort in Virginia. And what better place...
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Christie: NRA is ‘reprehensible’ for targeting Obama’s daughters
At a press conference on Thursday, Republican Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey blasted the National Rifle Association for airing a commercial about President Barack Obama’s daughters. “To talk about...
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Geithner sees too much economic pessimism: report
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner warned against too much pessimism about the US economy, in an interview published Thursday by the Wall Street Journal. “I think people are too dark about the...
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Boy brings handgun to school in New York
A seven-year-old boy brought a gun to school in his book bag Thursday, New York police said. The find — a .22 caliber handgun — caused police to place the Wave Preparatory Elementary School in the Far...
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Black conservatives launch effort to scrap part of Voting Rights Act
A group of prominent black conservatives is trying to help scrap a key part of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil rights-era legislation that enshrined the right of black Americans to have equal...
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Rep. Nadler: ‘Gangster’ Republicans threatening U.S. with another depression
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) blasted Republicans in Congress on Thursday for using the federal debt ceiling as political leverage to demand spending cuts from Democrats. “[Obama] is betting that the...
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Lance Armstrong admits taking performance enhancing drugs
Shamed former Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong admitted taking several banned performance enhancing substances, in a television interview broadcast Thursday. Armstrong told US talk show host...
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Peace talks with Taliban haven’t begun, says U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan
There are no significant peace talks under way with the Taliban, the US ambassador to Afghanistan has said, despite years of western and Afghan government efforts to broker a political end to the...
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Bloomberg: Gun control ‘probably’ wouldn’t have stopped Newtown shooting
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday night fought back against the claim that gun laws were pointless because criminals would simply ignore them. He admitted on CNN that it was “probably...
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