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Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:
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The lawyer for an outspoken opponent of Malawi's president says his client has been moved from jail to a hospital, where he is being treated under police guard for a heart ailment.
22 hours ago - By Eric Tucker, Associated Press
The Moroccan man accused of plotting to carry out what he thought would be a suicide bombing at the U.S. Capitol told acquaintances that America's war on terrorism was a war on Muslims and that they needed to be ready for battle, according to authorities.
20 hours ago - By Mark Sherman, Associated Press
The Supreme Court on Friday blocked a Montana court ruling upholding limits on corporate campaign spending. The state court ruling appears to be at odds with the high court's 2010 decision striking down a federal ban on those campaign expenditures.
21 hours ago - By Nedra Pickler, Associated Press
The Obama administration is extending its decision to stop defending an anti-gay marriage law to provisions affecting same-sex couples in the military.
21 hours ago - By Nedra Pickler, Associated Press
The owner of an electronic wholesale business has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison for selling computers to Iran without obtaining licenses from the U.S. government.
22 hours ago - By Associated Press
The House has voted to provide prosecutors the audio of former pitcher Roger Clemens' deposition before a House committee in February 2008. The audio will be turned over to the defense.
22 hours ago - By Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press
Amid predictions that the economy's recovery will continue at a moderate pace, White House officials are keeping an increasingly wary eye on oil prices, worried that an election-year spike in the cost of gasoline could dampen consumer confidence and quash President Barack Obama's recent economic and political gains.
23 hours ago - By Dina Cappiello, Associated Press
A long-awaited federal study on the health effects of dioxins released Friday says the persistent contaminants at current exposures don't pose significant health risks.
23 hours ago - By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press
Spending on two of the Pentagon's top priorities, cybersecurity and special operations forces, would largely remain flat or dip slightly in 2013 under the Defense Department's budget proposal, as officials beef up personnel and research but find savings elsewhere.
Feb 17 - By Associated Press
The Senate has approved a resolution condemning the Syrian government for violence against its people.
Feb 17 - By Associated Press
Germany's defense minister is raising concerns about a likely reduction of Afghan security forces after NATO ends combat operations in Afghanistan.
Feb 17 - By Nedra Pickler, Associated Press
A 29-year-old Moroccan man was arrested Friday near the U.S. Capitol as he was planning to detonate what he thought was a suicide vest, given to him by FBI undercover operatives, said police and government officials.
Feb 17 - By Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine switched his endorsement from Mitt Romney to Rick Santorum on Friday in a defection he said was driven by his belief the former Pennsylvania senator can win the Republican presidential race.
Feb 17 - By Larry Margasak, Associated Press
All five Republicans on the House ethics committee and the panel's ranking Democrat withdrew from a long-standing investigation of Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California on Friday to avoid further questions about their impartiality.
Feb 17 - By Alan Fram, Associated Press
Congress has passed legislation renewing a payroll tax cut for 160 million workers and jobless benefits for millions more, backing the main items on President Barack Obama's jobs agenda in a rare burst of Washington bipartisanship.
Feb 17 - By Matthew Lee, Associated Press
The United States and European Union on Friday expressed cautious optimism that Iran is serious about returning to talks with world powers over its nuclear program.
Last June, I was so angry about a proposed Georgia bill that would require an investigation into all miscarriages as “prenatal murder,” that I linked the story to Newsvine.
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On Friday night's [2/17/12] Real Time, Bill Maher talked about the difference between Maher slinging insults at George W.
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Maryland appears ready to become one of a handful of states in the U.S.
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WASHINGTON — Rising gasoline prices, trumpeted in foot-tall numbers on street corners across the country, are causing concern among advisers to President Obama that a budding sense of economic optimism could be undermined just as he heads into the general election.
Source: AlterNet.org
Although Mitt Romney used the word "conservative" 19 times in a short speech at the February 10, 2012, Conservative Political Action Conference, the audience he used this word to appeal to was not conservative by any traditional definition. It was right wing.
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(Reuters) - Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's struggles in Michigan are fueling speculation that Republicans might have to resort to a doomsday scenario and launch a frantic search for a 2012 savior at their nominating convention in late August.
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At a time when it’s become a cliché to say that Occupy Wall Street has changed the nation’s political conversation—drawing long overdue attention to the struggles of the 99%—electoral politics and the 2012 presidential election have become almost …
I lived on a busy highway. Just 25 feet from my front door was a four lane highway. It is a main vein between cities in the northern woods of Wisconsin. And I was happy there.
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White House candidate Rick Santorum on Saturday questioned President Barack Obama's Christian values and attacked GOP rival Mitt Romney's Olympics leadership as he courted tea party activists and evangelical voters in Ohio, "ground zero" in the 2012 nomination fight.Santorum, a f …
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When the Obama Administration announced tough new pollution regulations for power plants last year, the industry loudly protested.
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By a revolting combination of con men and fanatics, the current primary race has become a demonstration that the Republican party does not deserve serious consideration for public office. Take the controversy over contraceptives.
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Mitt does have a mean streak, but it hasn’t always been obvious, if only because he packs it behind a frozen smile and an Auto-Tune laugh.
It has not been lost on anyone, that at a time of dire economic crisis, labelled the Great Recession, what are the Republicans focusing on? Jobs for the unemployed? Nope. The economy? Nope Greed and selfishness among rich entrepreneurs? Nope Home foreclosures? Nope Insecurity ab …
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The colleges will argue that the coverage of contraception and sterilization is not "free," as the Obama administration claims, because "a variety of costs contained in the massive scope of the mandate would necessarily be passed on to the employer through premiums." The colle …
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Would the world be more peaceful if women were in charge? A challenging new book by the Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker says that the answer is "yes". In The Better Angels of Our Nature, Pinker presents data showing that human violence, while still very much …
Source: The Huffington Post
One of Arizona's rising Republican stars is facing allegations he threatened to deport a Mexican resident who claims to have been his gay ex-lover. The Phoenix New Times is reporting that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, who has become one of the faces of the anti-illegal immi …
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Source: Phoenix New Times