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Where's The Outrage From Young Americans About Obama's Health Reforms?

2012-08-01T06:32:50Z

President Obama’s 2010 health reform law has been heralded by its supporters as strongly beneficial for young Americans. After all, the ACA decrees that all health insurance plans that offer any dependent coverage must offer coverage to ...

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Is Antonio Villaraigosa poised to be America’s first Latino president?

2012-07-31T19:12:48Z

Democratic Party leaders, including Obama, never fully embraced the commission's 2010 plan, for fear of alienating key constituents over entitlement reforms. Were Villaraigosa in Congress with a chance to vote on Simpson-Bowles, he would support it.

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Chargers RB Ryan Mathews suffers minor injuries in two-vehicle collision

2012-07-31T17:39:44Z

Mathews, the team's 2010 first-round pick, lost control of his 2010 BMW and hit another vehicle, California Highway Patrol Officer Mary Bailey told the U-T. Bailey, who said that it didn't appear that drugs or alcohol were involved, suggested that Mathews

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Sen. Whitehouse vows to continue effort to alter Citizens United

2012-07-31T15:38:03Z

Efforts to alter the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling, which helped usher in multimillion-dollar super PACs, have died in Congress, as recently as two weeks ago. And the Supreme Court itself upheld the ruling in its most recent term.

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Weak Economy Slaps 401(k)s

2012-07-31T13:50:40Z

The release of the Federal Reserve’s 2010 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) is a great opportunity to reassess how families are doing with their 401(k) plans. The SCF is a triennial survey of a nationally representative sample of U.S ...

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Jerry Brown aide pushing separate tax measure for November

2012-07-30T19:06:49Z

One of those voting for the proposal was Orinda’s mayor, Steve Glazer, who managed Brown’s 2010 election campaign and moonlights as the governor’s top fundraiser. Glazer dismissed any notion that the local half-cent measure would compete ...

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German-Americans make up small population in Jacksonville

2012-07-30T11:35:51Z

More than 160,000 Jacksonville residents can trace their ancestries back to Germany, according to an On Numbers analysis of The U.S. Census Bureau’s 2010 American Community Survey. Of the 1.4 million in Jacksonville who reported ancestry ...

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Justice Scalia steps up criticism of healthcare ruling

2012-07-29T16:09:03Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Sunday renewed his criticism of Chief Justice John Roberts' reasoning in upholding President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare law and also said the Constitution undoubtedly permits ...

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Florida Ethics Commission Tosses Out Case Against Rubio

2012-07-28T02:41:21Z

These issues arose during Rubio's 2010 campaign for the Florida senate seat. He eventually won, but they're still considered among the controversies that could hurt Rubio's political stock down the line. After the case sat unreviewed for nearly two years .

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Ethics complaint against Fla. Sen. Rubio dismissed

2012-07-27T14:52:41Z

The complaint was filed by a Democratic political donor during Rubio's 2010 Senate campaign. The complaint alleged Rubio misspent political contributions and used his influence as a then House speaker to obtain jobs at a hospital and a university.

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Scott Brown boasts Democratic support along with Mayor Bloomberg

2012-07-27T11:32:15Z

Throughout his campaign, Brown has positioned himself as an independent voice-- a key tactic in a traditionally Democratic state where Brown's 2010 special election win was a rare recent Republican power-grab. Warren continues to draw support ...

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How Will You Measure Your Company's Life?

2012-07-27T09:37:43Z

The book traces back to Christensen's 2010 Harvard Business Review article, which was based on a speech he gave to that year's graduating Harvard Business School class. "Over the years I've watched the fates of my HBS classmates from 1979 unfold ...

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Why Super PACs Make the Best Attack Ads

2012-07-26T19:33:02Z

For Carly Fiorina’s 2010 Senate race, he created a cartoon in which the head of her Democratic rival, California Senator Barbara Boxer, soared cross-country as a giant hot-air blimp. After an old clip of Delaware Senate candidate Christine O ...

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Where D.C.’s economic development spending is

2012-07-26T18:57:15Z

That’s quite a shift from the first report, done on the city’s 2010 budget, that found most investment heading into wards 2 and 6 — investment-rich areas that stretch from downtown east to the Anacostia River. The bulk of Ward 8’s bump ...

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First openly gay politician seeks seat in Kenya's new senate

2012-07-26T17:17:02Z

Politician David Kuria Mbote once took an elevator in a Nairobi building alone after a group of people he had been waiting with recognized him as a gay rights activist. “I entered the lift without thinking then realized no one wanted to join ...

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'Building Hope' in Haiti: New radio soap opera connects displaced to services

2012-07-26T13:27:58Z

After the ground stopped shaking and the dust settled, the most illustrative reminder of the January 2010 earthquake’s devastation – and its slow recovery – was the thousands of camps that housed survivors. The earthquake sent some 1.5 million ...

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Upcoming documentary argues Obama’s running up the national debt to reduce U.S. superpower status

2012-07-26T13:13:39Z

The film is based on conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza‘s 2010 book The Roots of Obama’s Rage, which was, ahem, pretty controversial at the time, even on the Right. Like the book, the film argues that President Obama’s politics and policy are ...

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'Building Hope' in Haiti: New radio soap opera connects displaced to services

2012-07-26T11:47:45Z

The earthquake sent some 1.5 million Haitians to live in tents or tarp-covered shacks crammed together in public parks, on private land, and even highway medians. The miserable conditions were made even worse by storms, a cholera epidemic ...

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Osborne Economy Plan Attacked as Critics Question Competence

2012-07-26T07:15:44Z

Osborne’s 2010 austerity program -- which was extended for two years in November -- envisaged that the economy would be growing by 2.8 percent this year. Instead, it is 0.9 percent smaller than in the third quarter of 2010, just after Prime Mi ...

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Super-PACs Can't Give $1 Million to a Congressman. But This One Did.

2012-07-26T05:57:00Z

The super-PAC reported receiving four contributions totaling $1.3 million from the RGA since January. Right Direction's 2010 boilerplate registration letter filed with the FEC said it "intends to make independent expenditures"—ad buys and ...

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Is the Olympics worth more than Google?

2012-07-25T13:00:31Z

In fact, another report -- by Sportcal-- states that this four-year cycle will be worth $8 billion overall, covering London 2012 and Vancouver's 2010 Winter Games. As the IOC retains only 10% of its income to cover operating costs, this ...

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Health ruling could save US$84bn

2012-07-25T11:48:56Z

Last month’s US Supreme Court ruling that upheld US President Barack Obama’s 2010 healthcare law could save the US government about US$84 billion over 11 years, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said on Tuesday. The savings ...

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Citizens United Constitutional Amendment Floated By Senate Democrats

2012-07-24T21:44:16Z

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats, battered by a tsunami of independent campaign spending and without legislative recourse, promoted a constitutional amendment Tuesday to reverse the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling that freed ...

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Is the Olympics worth more than Google?

2012-07-24T19:56:53Z

CBO says healthcare ruling could save $84 billion

2012-07-24T17:33:43Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Last month's Supreme Court ruling that upheld President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare law could save the U.S. government some $84 billion over 11 years, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday.

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overstockArt.com Named in Internet Retailer’s Second 500 Guide for Second Consecutive Year

2012-07-24T16:29:18Z

This distinction adds to a growing list of accolades for the home décor retailer, including Inc.’s 2010 and 2011 Inc. 5000 lists, Internet Retailer’s 2012 Hot 100 list and Internet Retailer’s 2011 Second 500 Guide. Internet Retailer’s Second 500 .

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Campaign finance initiative challenged in court

2012-07-24T15:17:43Z

If passed, I-166 would direct Montana's congressional delegation to support a constitutional amendment undoing the effect of aspects of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision. That high court ruling, in part, declared as unconstitutional ..

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Vincent Gray’s 2010 campaign had database of public-housing residents

2012-07-23T06:00:33Z

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray's 2010 campaign kept a database with the identities of nearly 6,000 public-housing residents that the campaign used to target its get-out-the-vote efforts, The Washington Post reported. Experts say the effort appears to ...

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Pool report: Mitt Romney tells SF fundraiser “somebody’s got to do something for California”

2012-07-23T01:35:42Z

Romney singled out Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman, California’s 2010 GOP gubernatorial nominee – who got a brief standing ovation – to report from the back of the room that California ranks toward the bottom of the nation in academic performance.

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Mayor Gray’s 2010 campaign had database of public-housing residents

2012-07-22T21:03:41Z

Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s 2010 campaign kept a database with the identities of nearly 6,000 public housing residents it targeted in get-out-the-vote efforts, which appears to be an unauthorized use of private government information. The database ...

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More Details on Vince & Linda McMahon’s 2010 Earnings

2012-07-21T16:47:10Z

- Here are more details on Vince & Linda McMahon's 2010 earnings. According to their tax filing, McMahon earned $827,550 in 2010. The earnings are consistent with WWE paying McMahon a pre-tax base salary of $850,000 in 2010. WWE upped McMahon's annual ...

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Challenge to Herbert's 2010 election tossed

2012-07-21T15:28:26Z

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Supreme Court has upheld a decision to dismiss a man's petition challenging the 2010 election of Gov. Gary Herbert. The court's unanimous ruling Friday went against Steve Maxfield, who unsuccessfully ran as an independent .

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Fragile economic recovery shows growing cracks

2012-07-21T07:43:08Z

President George W. Bush's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, and President Obama's 2010 payroll tax cut, also expire Dec. 31. Indeed, a newly hot debate is whether the fiscal cliff is already slowing the economy. One who thinks it is is Ethan Harris ...

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Ford's 2010 restoration of merit pay OK, arbitrator rules

2012-07-20T01:24:56Z

An arbitrator ruled Thursday that Ford didn't violate an agreement with the UAW when it restored merit pay and other benefits for salaried workers in 2010. At the time, the UAW filed a grievance against Ford claiming that the restoration of ...

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Ford's 2010 restoration of merit pay OK, arbitrator rules

2012-07-20T00:56:18Z

BSkyB Minister Hunt Says He’s a ‘Hero,’ Possible U.K. Premier

2012-07-19T17:53:58Z

U.K. Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who faced calls for his resignation over his handling of News Corp. (NWSA)’s 2010 bid for British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc (BSY), said he was now a “hero” once again and refused to rule himself out as ...

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Brooklyn federal grand jury probes campaign fundraising in Staten Island Rep. Micahel Grimm’s 2010 campaign

2012-07-19T17:32:29Z

A federal Brooklyn grand jury is probing alleged fundraising shenanigans in freshman Congressman Michael Grimm’s 2010 campaign, the Daily News has learned. The FBI's public corruption unit has interviewed at least four campaign workers investigating ...

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Did Mitt Romney pay any taxes in 2009?

2012-07-19T07:09:43Z

One theory is that he didn't pay a penny in taxes in 2009 Romney almost certainly paid some taxes: Based on Romney's 2010 returns, "we know he had no taxable capital gains in 2009," says Josh Barro at Bloomberg View. "But big capital losses ...

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FBI raids home of New Jersey capital's mayor

2012-07-18T17:40:50Z

FBI agents also searched the homes of Mack’s brother and head football coach at Trenton Central High School, Ralphiel Mack, and Joseph “JoJo” Giorgianni, a convicted sex offender who gave thousands of dollars in to Mack’s 2010 mayoral ...

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Capital One to pay $210M over marketing tactics

2012-07-18T16:57:53Z

The consumer bureau, created under the Obama administration's 2010 financial overhaul law, is the first federal regulator focused on protecting consumers rather than on ensuring that banks are stable and profitable. Among the other card ...

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The SEC's impact transfers in 2012

2012-07-17T13:45:48Z

It’s safe to say that Cam Newton made a difference on Auburn’s 2010 national championship team. And for that matter, so did Nick Fairley. Both were junior college transfers. A year ago, cornerback DeQuan Menzie was a stabilizing force in ...

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Barras: Thwarting Democracy in D.C.

2012-07-17T07:47:53Z

The "shadow" operation of Vincent C. Gray's 2010 mayoral bid isn't simply a campaign finance story. For me and others, it's a tale about the stunning degradation of the democratic process. The narrative may lack reports of barbaric acts that sometimes mark

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Reds’ Joey Votto to Undergo Left Knee Surgery, Miss 3-4 Weeks

2012-07-17T00:52:42Z

Votto, the National League’s 2010 Most Valuable Player, is hitting .342 with 14 home runs and 49 runs batted in. He leads Major League Baseball with 36 doubles and his 66 walks are the most in the NL. Todd Frazier replaced Votto at first base ...

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Update: Paramus High School's 2010 valedictorian killed while jogging in Pennsylvania

2012-07-16T08:17:42Z

Gabrielle Reuveni, the 2010 Paramus High School valedictorian fatally struck by a pickup truck while she was running in the Poconos over the weekend, was, in the words of her mother, “a bright star — the flame that lit everyone’s candle.”

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Paramus High School's 2010 valedictorian struck and killed while jogging in Pennsylvania

2012-07-15T20:57:40Z

Gabrielle Reuveni, the 2010 Paramus High School valedictorian fatally struck by a pickup truck while running in the Poconos over the weekend, was, in the words of her mother, “a bright star — the flame that lit everyone’s candle.” “She lived life

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Spain's Lorenzo wins Italian Moto Grand Prix

2012-07-15T09:01:50Z

Spain's 2010 world champion Jorge Lorenzo won the Italian MotoGP here on Sunday to extend his lead in the overall standings. The 25-year-old Yamaha rider - who ended a two race winless run having last won the British MotoGP on June 17 - came home clear of

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Nation's capital beset by scandal involving mayor's 2010 campaign

2012-07-15T02:56:46Z

WASHINGTON — Residents of the nation's capital might have thought they had outgrown the scourge of a crack-using mayor and high murder rates, of exploding manhole covers and crumbling schools. But an embarrassing corruption scandal further ...

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Big strides in environment and health care mean two promises kept: PolitiFact Oregon

2012-07-14T18:57:10Z

PolitiFact Oregon thought that made it time to update the Kitz-O-Meter, our tool for tracking the governor's 2010 campaign promises. Two years ago, the governor made lofty promises that hit just about every part of state government, from health ...

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States Close in On Citizens United: California, Montana, and Beyond

2012-07-14T18:42:51Z

Last week, the State of California became the sixth state in the country to call for a constitutional amendment overturning the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. FEC, and restoring democracy to the people. With the passage of a ...

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Cuba says cholera outbreak not spreading

2012-07-14T14:03:40Z

where hundreds of Cuban doctors and nurses have worked for over a decade and a cholera outbreak has killed more than 7,000 people since that country's 2010 earthquake.

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Enbridge brand can be repaired after pipeline spill response: analysts

2012-07-13T17:10:58Z

National Transportation Safety Board chairman Debbie Hersman's scathing assessment of Enbridge's 2010 spill response has also raised questions over whether Prime Minister Stephen Harper needs to distance his government from Enbridge's proposed $5.5 billion

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Mayor Gray’s campaign mislabeled $100,000 in expenses, treasurer Betty Brown says

2012-07-12T21:01:14Z

Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s 2010 campaign inaccurately documented at least $100,000 in expenses in records filed with the D.C. Office of Campaign Finance, according to campaign treasurer Betty R. Brown. In her first public comments since federal ...

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Enbridge brand can be repaired after pipeline spill response: analysts

2012-07-12T19:56:48Z

U.S. National Transportation Safety Board chairman Debbie Hersman’s scathing assessment of Enbridge’s 2010 oil spill in Michigan has also raised questions over whether Prime Minister Stephen Harper needs to distance his government from Enbridge’s ...

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Barras: Resignation or impeachment: Choose one

2012-07-12T19:42:29Z

Interim Chairman Phil Mendelson said it's "premature." Seriously?! U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. told the public earlier this week that Gray's 2010 campaign was "corrupted" and "compromised by backroom deals, secret payments and a flood of unreported

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SC upholds Lucy's 2010 poll win

2012-07-12T11:35:43Z

MANILA, Philippines - The Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the election of television personality Lucy Torres-Gomez as the representative of the fourth congressional district of Leyte in 2010. In a two-page notice of resolution released yesterday, the SC ...

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Romney Keeps it Simple: Obama is a Tax and Spend Liberal

2012-07-12T10:38:27Z

Portion of voters in a new Quinnipiac University poll that said they believed that President Obama’s 2010 health law was “in effect a tax hike.” Only 36 percent disagreed. Support for repealing the law, 49 percent to 43 percent opposed ...

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Report: Gray Knew of Shadow Campaign in January

2012-07-12T09:34:02Z

Now that a fuller picture of Mayor Vince Gray's 2010 shadow campaign has become available, the most pressing question is whether or not Gray knew that the $653,000 off-the-books effort was taking place on his behalf. Today's news doesn't go any further ...

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Drew Brees, New Orleans Saints should be able to overcome gap in guaranteed money as well as total value of long-term contract

2012-07-11T22:56:57Z

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's 2010 contract reportedly included $48 million in guarantees, and St. Louis Rams quarterback Sam Bradford's 2010 rookie deal reportedly included $50 million in guarantees, though it's not clear how they were stru

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Obama’s Caymans Ad Ignites Heated Debate

2012-07-11T22:49:47Z

The Grassley spokeswoman termed the Obama campaign video “blatantly misleading.” But a spokesman for the Obama campaign said that the senator’s 2010 comments were related to a question that’s been raised by some tax experts concerning Mr ...

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Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. being treated for 'mood disorder'

2012-07-11T22:35:28Z

At Blagojevich's 2010 corruption trial, prosecutors said another Blagojevich fundraiser was ready to testify that Jackson instructed Nayak to raise money for Blagojevich's campaign to help him secure the Senate seat. The same witness later ...

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Aide to DC mayor's 2010 bid admits shadow campaign

2012-07-11T09:56:41Z

WASHINGTON — District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray was elected in 2010 with the aid of $650,000 in illicit funds from a city businessman, a Gray campaign consultant acknowledged in federal court Tuesday. Eugenia "Jeanne" Clarke Harris's ...

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Aide to DC mayor's 2010 bid admits shadow campaign

2012-07-11T09:42:22Z

Aide to DC mayor's 2010 bid admits shadow campaign

2012-07-11T01:21:18Z

WASHINGTON (AP) - District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray was elected in 2010 with the aid of $650,000 in illicit funds from a city businessman, a Gray campaign consultant acknowledged in federal court Tuesday. Eugenia "Jeanne" Clarke Harris's guilty plea

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Aide to DC mayor’s 2010 campaign admits $650k in illicit campaign funds came from businessman

2012-07-10T21:53:42Z

WASHINGTON — A consultant to District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray’s 2010 campaign has admitted in federal court that Gray was elected in 2010 with the aid of more than $650,000 in illicit campaign funds from a city businessman. Eugenia “Jeanne ...

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Feds: Shadow campaign helped Gray’s election effort

2012-07-10T21:17:55Z

Mayor Vincent Gray speaks at a press conference on June 2. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner) Mayor Vincent Gray's 2010 campaign benefited from a shadow campaign that cost an unnamed donor more than $653,000, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Assistant U.S ...

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Shadow’ campaign for D.C. Mayor Gray detailed

2012-07-10T21:17:55Z

D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s 2010 campaign took part in a secret and illegal effort that funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to the candidate — a scheme the city’s top prosecutor on Tuesday said “compromised” the election.

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Emails illuminate SUNY’s 2010 bid to keep authorizing charters

2012-07-10T19:59:10Z

When a researcher with a penchant for crunching charter school data sat down to compare New York State’s charter authorizers in 2010, her impetus wasn’t merely academic. For Jonas Chartock, then the director of one of three authorizers, who ...

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How to Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular

2012-07-10T18:04:38Z

There's a similar magic in How to Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular, a stage version of DreamWorks Animation's 2010 cartoon hit that just began a six-month North American tour in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The arena-size production features actors riding 3,200 ...

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Gray mum on most recent charges in probe of his 2010 campaign

2012-07-10T15:27:09Z

Asked for comment on the recent developments of a federal probe into the Democrat’s 2010 campaign, mayoral spokesman Pedro Ribeiro said Gray (D) would not have any comment on the scheduled guilty plea of Jeanne Clarke Harris, a campaign contributor.

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AG aide used state email for campaign

2012-07-10T13:39:47Z

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - A spokesman for New Mexico Attorney General Gary King used state email accounts to send political updates about the prosecutor's 2010 re-election opponent. The Albuquerque Journal reports ( http://bit.ly/NGi2zt) that at least two emails

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King's aide used state email for political updates

2012-07-10T11:38:06Z

A spokesman for New Mexico Attorney General Gary King used state email accounts to send political updates about the prosecutor's 2010 re-election opponent. The Albuquerque Journal reports (http://bit.ly/NGi2zt) that at least two emails released ...

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Dusty Saunders: Former Rockie Ubaldo Jimenez a bright star just two years ago

2012-07-09T23:13:38Z

Anyone recall Major League Baseball's 2010 All-Star Game? If you're a Rockies fan, you probably have bittersweet memories of that Midsummer Classic. Ubaldo Jimenez, with his sparkling 15-1 record (including a no-hitter against the Braves), was ...

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Gray probe widens as big donor’s associate charged

2012-07-09T21:19:06Z

Federal prosecutors on Monday accelerated their ongoing probe into Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s 2010 campaign by charging an associate of one of the District of Columbia’s most prolific political contributors. The development suggests that ...

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Third Gray aide charged in probe of campaign

2012-07-09T19:53:12Z

A third aide to D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray's 2010 campaign is expected to plead guilty Tuesday to felony charges amid an expanding probe that appears to be drawing closer to the mayor. Jeanne Clarke Harris, whose communications firm consulted for the Gray ...

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Another Mayor Gray associate faces criminal charges

2012-07-09T17:30:02Z

WASHINGTON - Another person associated with D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray's 2010 campaign is expected to plead guilty to campaign finance fraud. Eugenia Harris, a Washington public-relations executive, was charged Monday with skirting limits on campaign ...

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U.S. offers $1 million reward in 2010 death of border agent

2012-07-09T17:08:34Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal investigators offered up to $1 million on Monday for information about a U.S. border agent's 2010 death, the same case that is fueling an election-year firestorm between the Obama administration and congressional Republicans.

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U.S. offers $1 million reward in 2010 death of border agent

2012-07-09T17:01:24Z

Democrats to Ask for Curbs on Donor-Shielding Groups

2012-07-09T15:42:40Z

Americans for Prosperity and the 60 Plus Association begins a new phase in the Democrats’ struggle to keep pace with Republicans since the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling. That decision cleared the way for unlimited campaign ...

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Arsenic-Based Bacteria Nixed In New Research Sparked By NASA Scientist's 2010 Report

2012-07-09T11:03:29Z

NEW YORK -- It was a provocative finding: strange bacteria in a California lake that thrived on something completely unexpected – arsenic. What it suggested is that life, a very different kind of life, could possibly exist on some other planet.

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Arsenic-Based Bacteria Nixed In New Research Sparked By NASA Scientist's 2010 Report

2012-07-09T11:03:29Z

Scientists say NASA’s 2010 ‘new form of life’ claim was untrue

2012-07-09T00:26:24Z

Two scientific papers appear to have disproved a controversial claim made by NASA-funded scientists in 2010 that a new form of bacterial life had been discovered that could thrive on arsenic. “Contrary to an original report, the new research ...

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Time to throw out Alaska's 2010 U.S. Senate race trash

2012-07-08T22:31:52Z

Over the last two years, nobody has been more responsible for the tragic Joe Miller narrative more then Joe Miller himself. His improbable victory, his sensational collapse and his frivolous post-election lawsuits. Alaskans really dodged a bullet with this

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Report: Wisconsin's 2010 smoking ban hasn't affected restaurant sales

2012-07-06T23:02:52Z

When Wisconsin enacted a workplace smoking ban in 2010, the state's hospitality industry worried the move would drive away customers. But two years on, the industry says its sales were largely unaffected. State tax-collection data show that ...

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State court upholds Scott Doll murder conviction

2012-07-06T19:56:45Z

The state Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has upheld a Corfu man’s 2010 conviction for murder. The Fourth Appellate Division, in a 3-2 ruling rendered Monday, denied an appeal from the attorneys representing Scott F. Doll, 50. Doll was convicted

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Report: Wisconsin's 2010 smoking ban hasn't affected restaurant sales

2012-07-06T16:43:29Z

Interior official to be investigated

2012-07-06T16:00:32Z

who is accused of a conflict of interest involving the Obama administration's 2010 deepwater drilling moratorium. USA TODAY first reported in May that Kendall had attended meetings where top Interior officials discussed drafts of a peer-reviewed ...

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Lamb of God says 'justice will prevail' for imprisoned singer

2012-07-06T14:13:10Z

Members of Virginia-based metal band Lamb of God are speaking out a week after lead singer Randy Blythe was detained for questioning in connection with the death of a fan at the band's 2010 performance in the Czech Republic. Lamb of God was ...

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Lamb of God says 'justice will prevail' for imprisoned singer

2012-07-06T14:06:00Z

Citizens United: California Becomes Sixth State To Call For Amendment Against Ruling

2012-07-06T03:43:14Z

One of the largest states in the nation took an official stand Thursday against the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which ruled that government restriction of corporation or union spending on ...

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Romney campaign raises over $100 million in June

2012-07-05T18:32:03Z

and then Romney and a key adviser gave mixed messages on whether they thought a key element of Obama's 2010 healthcare law would create a tax or not. On Thursday, Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt pegged the news of Romney's cash success in ...

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Colorado Rapids trade Kosuke Kimura to Portland Timbers

2012-07-05T14:50:08Z

The Colorado Rapids have traded defender Kosuke Kimura -- who played a significant role in the club’s 2010 MLS championship -- to the Portland Timbers in exchange for allocation money and an additional international roster spot. The Japanese ...

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Federico Garza-Bueron Highlights Investment Opportunities in Healthcare Field

2012-07-05T06:07:35Z

Obama’s 2010 health-care system overhaul and other economic factors have had health officials rethinking ways to improve care and cut costs. Mobile apps have done just that and have attracted the attention of hospitals, Oprah and investment expert ...

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Romney's offshore assets hint at greater wealth

2012-07-04T16:38:42Z

The Bermuda company had almost no assets, according to Romney's 2010 tax returns. But such partnership stakes could still provide significant income for years to come, said tax experts, who added that the lack of disclosure makes it impossible ...

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Obama climbs back on the campaign bus in Ohio, Pa.

2012-07-04T11:09:25Z

The race is close despite a topsy-turvy June that included the Supreme Court's decision to uphold Obama's health care law and its split decision on Arizona's 2010 immigration law. The president's trip kicks off a new phase of his re-election ...

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Assets offshore raise Romney wealth questions

2012-07-04T10:47:57Z

Why Obamacare's Tax Increase Isn't the Biggest Ever

2012-07-03T16:47:03Z

It started with Rush Limbaugh. Shortly after the ruling, Limbaugh declared Obama’s 2010 Affordable Care Act to be “the largest tax increase in the history of the world.” Other GOP politicians such as Louisiana Pennsylvania Republican Jeff ...

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Pundits shocked as Scott Brown praises Coakley’s 2010 bid

2012-07-03T07:57:20Z

Attorney General Martha Coakley, roundly mocked by left and right alike for bungling the 2010 special election to replace the late U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, yesterday gained an unlikely fan and defender of her ill-fated campaign — the underdog who

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Pundits shocked as Scott Brown praises Coakley’s 2010 bid

2012-07-03T05:48:29Z

Businessman asks court to throw out Rama’s 2010 libel case

2012-07-03T03:46:47Z

Businessman James Philip Tionko asked the court to dismiss a 2010 election-releated libel case filed against him by Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama. He said it was “legally defective” and “a mere showcase for media mileage”. Tionko said the ...

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Scott said what?

2012-07-02T23:57:44Z

Pundits shocked as Scott Brown praises Coakley’s 2010 bid

2012-07-02T19:54:21Z

Of the Giants, Will Hill and fresh starts

2012-07-02T12:09:03Z

Mike Garafolo has a good story on Will Hill, the former University of Florida star who went undrafted after a series of off-field problems but is getting a shot to make the New York Giants' roster as a backup safety: Hill's 2010 suspension for ...

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Leading retailers take a big bite out of the Canadian retail pie

2012-07-02T11:26:06Z

According to the centre’s 2010 report, 122 retail conglomerates, which accounts for 16 per cent of Canadian retail locations, controlled nearly 75 per cent of non-automotive retail sales in Canada, generating $220 billion in revenue.

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Tricky Pivot Ahead for Romney

2012-07-02T10:50:19Z

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., commenting on the Supreme Court’s decision upholding President Obama’s 2010 health law, passed after more than a year of wrangling amid the worst recession since the 1930s. The eight weeks between now and the ...

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Iranians Replace Meat With Pasta as Oil Sanctions Hit Nation

2012-07-02T03:26:30Z

Oil and its derivatives account for nearly 80 percent of Iranian exports and about half of government revenue, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, which estimates the country’s 2010 net oil export revenues at $73 billion.

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Knight gets taste of long playoff run

2012-07-01T22:33:01Z

WILMINGTON, Mass. -- Jared Knight will wrap up his second Bruins development camp on Monday, and the team’s 2010 second-round draft pick (32nd overall) found this year's camp to be a valuable experience. But Knight also believes the experience ...

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Michael Boskin: Obama and 'The Wealth of Nations'

2012-07-01T22:25:51Z

Instead of doubling down, Mr. Obama could have seen his party's 2010 midterm defeat as a message from voters to move to the center, announcing that his vast expansion of government was temporary and necessitated by the financial crisis and deep recession.

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Spain win a personal milestone for Casillas

2012-07-01T20:24:10Z

Instead of embracing his fiance journalist as he did after Spain's 2010 World Cup victory in South Africa, Casillas celebrated by giving her a peck on each cheek before running back onto the Olympic Stadium's field to celebrate the unprecedented ...

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NATION: What they are saying about the SCOTUS ruling

2012-07-01T15:52:09Z

Reaction to Thursday's Supreme Court ruling that upheld President Barack Obama's 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. "Today, the Supreme Court came to the right decision, the fair decision, the decision that is best for our citizens.

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NATION: What they are saying about the SCOTUS ruling

2012-07-01T15:52:09Z

Control of costs a test for health overhaul

2012-07-01T01:26:00Z

Bringing almost everyone under the umbrella of health insurance is considered by advocates of the 2006 Massachusetts law, and of President Obama’s 2010 plan, as the essential precondition for reining in medical expenses. All consumers ...

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Ohio's 'dual eligible' reform must focus on patient care: William Burga

2012-06-30T19:56:43Z

This population is largely low-income and either old or disabled. President Barack Obama's 2010 health law enabled states to create a new coverage system specifically for dual eligibles that better integrates and coordinates Medicare and ...

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Lamb of God's Randy Blythe facing possible manslaughter charge in Prague

2012-06-29T21:59:36Z

Virginia-based metal band Lamb of God was forced to cancel a concert in Prague Thursday as lead singer Randy Blythe was detained for questioning in connection with the death of a fan at the band's 2010 performance in the Czech Republic.

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Obama to Head to Camp David for Weekend Break

2012-06-29T20:05:04Z

It follows a momentous week that included the Supreme Court's decision to uphold Obama's health care law, a split decision by the nation's high court on Arizona's 2010 immigration law and a House vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in ...

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Republicans May Try Reconciliation for Health Repeal in 2013

2012-06-29T12:19:46Z

Should they win control of the U.S. Senate and the White House in November, Republicans say they would consider using a fast-track budget process to repeal parts of President Barack Obama’s 2010 health-care overhaul. “In the House we are ...

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NH lawmakers disagree on health care ruling

2012-06-29T08:37:52Z

With the U.S. Supreme Court ruling to uphold President Barack Obama's 2010 health care overhaul, New Hampshire's congressional delegation is reacting largely along party lines, with Republicans vowing to amend the law and Democrats praising the decision.

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Health care law political battles just starting

2012-06-29T01:49:51Z

Kapolczynski, who managed Sen. Barbara Boxer's 2010 campaign, urged Democrats to remind millions of independent voters about the law's most popular provisions, including those that bar insurers from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions and allow ..

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Supreme Court says yes to mandate, no on Medicaid

2012-06-29T01:14:03Z

Protesters against President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare overhaul hold signs outside the Supreme Court in Washington. A sharply divided Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the centerpiece of Obama's signature healthcare overhaul law that ...

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Lamb of God's Randy Blythe facing possible manslaughter charge in Prague

2012-06-28T19:59:05Z

Court upholds ban on corporate political contributions

2012-06-28T19:01:49Z

In a decision on Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit found that a district court judge erred when he relied on the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision to dismiss one count of federal election law violations against ...

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Factbox: Tax provisions in Obama's 2010 health care law

2012-06-28T18:26:02Z

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul law, upheld by the Supreme Court on Thursday, contains a slew of new tax provisions. Some have been put into effect in the two years since Obama signed the law, including a tanning salon ...

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Factbox: Tax provisions in Obama's 2010 health care law

2012-06-28T18:26:02Z

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul law, upheld by the Supreme Court on Thursday, contains a slew of new tax provisions. Major Market Indices Some have been put into effect in the two years since Obama signed the law ...

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Factbox: Tax provisions in Obama's 2010 health care law

2012-06-28T18:26:02Z

TIMELINE-Chronology of Obama healthcare law legal battle

2012-06-28T12:06:38Z

(Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare overhaul, handing him a huge election-year victory by preserving his signature domestic policy achievement. Here is a chronology of the key events in the ...

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Snap Analysis: The long arm of the U.S. healthcare ruling

2012-06-28T12:06:38Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court ruling to uphold the core of President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare law on Thursday has wide-ranging political and economic implications. Here is a snap analysis of what it means for Americans, healthcare ...

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Factbox: The basics - U.S. healthcare, reform and the high court

2012-06-28T10:55:03Z

(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on Thursday arose from President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare law, the most sweeping healthcare legislation since the government Medicare and Medicaid programs of the 1960s. The law, which ...

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Health-Care Ruling Today

2012-06-28T10:12:07Z

Set your clocks to 10 a.m. The Supreme Court is set to rule Thursday on whether President Obama’s 2010 health-care overhaul is constitutional—which could alter not only the law itself, but also the course of the election. The law ...

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Supreme Court to deliver Obama healthcare law ruling

2012-06-28T01:15:14Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court is set to deliver on Thursday its ruling on President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare overhaul, his signature domestic policy achievement, in a historic case that could hand him a huge triumph or a stinging rebuke ..

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Health Ruling Won't Cure States' Ills

2012-06-27T19:10:10Z

In its most highly anticipated decision in years, the court is expected to determine the fate of President Barack Obama's 2010 law by Thursday morning. The historic ruling could reshape the health-care industry, shift legal precedent and amplify ...

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Info sought about Virginia woman's 2010 slaying

2012-06-27T16:47:00Z

Fairfax County Crime Solvers is seeking information about the slaying of a woman two years ago. On June 27, 2010, police found 19-year-old Vanessa Pham, of Falls Church, dead inside a white 2008 Toyota Scion near Arlington Boulevard and Williams Drive.

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No, I supported Dodd-Frank more!

2012-06-27T15:35:25Z

Scott Brown’s 2010 victory was seen as a coup for the Tea Party — and he encouraged that interpretation. After winning the election, he would sign autographs by scrawling the number “41″; a reference to the fact that he could provide the ...

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Play of Ensler's 'Emotional Creature' comes to NYC

2012-06-27T12:00:40Z

NEW YORK (AP) — A play based on Eve Ensler's 2010 best-seller "Emotional Creature" is heading off-Broadway. Producers announced Wednesday that the Signature Theatre Company will produce the stage adaptation, also written by "The Vagina ...

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Should the Supreme Court Have Overturned Citizens United?

2012-06-26T17:38:18Z

On Monday the Supreme Court announced that it declined to review its decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The 2010 decision ruled that under the First Amendment, corporations and unions have the right to unlimited ...

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THE RACE: Ruling lifts immigration profile in race

2012-06-26T15:07:58Z

Obama seized a fresh chance to energize Latino voters by the Supreme Court's split decision on Arizona's 2010 immigration law and his own recent announcement that his administration wouldn't deport most illegal immigrants brought here as children.

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Arizona Can't Do It; Washington Won't

2012-06-26T14:17:52Z

President Barack Obama hailed the Supreme Court's 5-3 decision Monday that struck down most of Arizona's 2010 immigration law. In a statement released by the White House, however, the president said that he remains "concerned about the practical ...

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Christian outrage as Basic Instinct director plans film of Jesus being the child of Roman soldier who raped Virgin Mary

2012-06-26T10:07:19Z

The film will be based on Verhoeven's 2010 book, Jesus of Nazareth, which discounts the events commonly attributed to the life of Christ. Academy Award-winning Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary is reported to be adapting the book into a screenplay.

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Health-law money in limbo

2012-06-26T09:53:00Z

Now that the Supreme Court has announced it will rule Thursday on President Barack Obama's 2010 health-care overhaul, one of the biggest questions that hangs over the decision is what happens to the billions of dollars already spent or pledged ...

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Other states are weighing impact on similar statutes

2012-06-26T02:22:02Z

How aggressively they will remains to be seen. Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah passed immigration-enforcement laws of their own after Arizona's 2010 law, and officials there are now assessing how the U.S. Supreme Court ruling ...

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Supreme Court strengthens Citizens United decision with Montana ruling

2012-06-25T20:52:45Z

The justices ruled in an unsigned opinion that Montana's law was in conflict with the court's 2010 Citizens United decision, which shifted the campaign finance landscape, opening the door to the massive political expenditures that have been ...

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Free speech and political reality

2012-06-25T20:09:48Z

That was the question that arose after it upheld a state ban on corporate campaign spending — in defiance of theU.S. Supreme Court's 2010 ruling that corporations are entitled to participate in debate about elections. On Monday, the court ...

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Why Media's Health Care Reform Coverage Was Even Worse Than You Thought

2012-06-25T17:03:41Z

With the United States Supreme Court set to rule on the constitutionality of the Obama administration's 2010 health care reform law, it's worth noting the media coverage at the time of the debate dramatically favored Republican opponents of the bill.

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Howard Brooks sentencing in Gray mayoral campaign case set for September

2012-06-25T13:00:18Z

A federal judge set a tentative sentencing date of Sept. 24 for Howard Brooks, a high-level aide to Mayor Vincent Gray’s 2010 mayoral campaign who has admitted to secretly using campaign funds to keep a fringe candidate in the race to boost ...

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Supreme Court has split verdict on Arizona immigration law

2012-06-25T12:45:59Z

But in a split verdict, the justices also ruled that the three other provisions of the Western state's 2010 law that were challenged in court by the Obama administration went too far. The votes on those provisions were either 5-3 or 6-2, with the more ...

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Health care proposal gives Louisiana more Medicaid spending flexibility

2012-06-24T07:25:03Z

WASHINGTON -- With the Supreme Court days away from ruling on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's 2010 health care overhaul legislation, members of Congress are preparing to respond. One of the first out of the gate is Rep.

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NC House weighs taxing sweepstakes outlets

2012-06-22T08:31:51Z

Democrats and Republicans who sponsored the measure said establishing state privilege taxes on sweepstakes establishments would mean regulation for an industry that's been growing since the state Court of Appeals struck down the Legislature's 2010 ban on t

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Brave,’ Pixar’s New Animated Film

2012-06-21T19:53:04Z

Merida has been created as somewhat of an anti-Rapunzel (at least before Rapunzel received a girl-power makeover for Disney’s 2010 movie “Tangled”). Merida is active instead of passive, a doer rather than a gal who hangs around the castle ...

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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

2012-06-21T17:15:35Z

Delivering fewer consistent frights and more laughs than some might wish from a flick about bloodsucking ghouls, this adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s 2010 bestseller is nevertheless reasonably gripping summertime entertainment. That’s ...

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Arizona immigration law expected to prompt suits from both sides

2012-06-21T12:50:44Z

PHOENIX (AP) -- Police agencies that would enforce the most controversial part of Arizona's 2010 immigration law are expected to get squeezed by legal challenges from opposite sides if the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the law in the coming days.

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French World Cup Demons Return as Players Row in Sweden Loss

2012-06-21T07:21:27Z

In-fighting that marred France’s 2010 World Cup campaign showed signs of returning as players argued after a 2-0 loss to Sweden in the final group game of soccer’s European Championship. Tempers rose in the locker room inside Kiev’s ...

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Pacioretty takes home Masterton Trophy

2012-06-20T20:58:41Z

Pacioretty's 2010-11 season ended early due to a fractured vertebrae and a concussion suffered at the hands of a brutal hit from Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara. He reported to training camp healthy, and went on to record career-highs of 33 goals ...

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Chevron, Statoil Among 48 Bidders for Gulf of Mexico Leases

2012-06-20T11:11:42Z

Chevron Corp. (CVX) and Statoil ASA (STL) are among 48 companies vying for the first oil-drilling rights in the central Gulf of Mexico since BP Plc (BP/)’s 2010 spill, tapping a region the U.S. says may yield more than 1 billion barrels.

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Poll: Vast support for new health care effort

2012-06-20T09:45:48Z

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans overwhelmingly want the president and Congress to get to work on a new bill to change the health care system if the Supreme Court strikes down President Barack Obama's 2010 overhaul as ...

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Poll: Political leaders should work on new bill if Supreme Court throws out Obama health law

2012-06-20T02:43:28Z

WASHINGTON — Americans overwhelmingly want the president and Congress to get to work on a new bill to change the health care system if the Supreme Court strikes down President Barack Obama’s 2010 overhaul as unconstitutional, a new poll finds.

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Met Opera Boosts Pay for Conductor Levine to $2.1 Million

2012-06-19T03:56:14Z

James Levine, the Metropolitan Opera’s music director, earned $2.1 million in 2010, up 39 percent from a year earlier and more than the compensation of the general manager, Peter Gelb, according to the Met’s 2010- 2011 tax return.

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Disgraced ex-NBA referee Tim Donaghy wins Florida lawsuit

2012-06-18T22:26:57Z

The now-defunct company published Donaghy's 2010 book about referees and the NBA. On Friday, a jury found Vercher's company liable for breach of contract. Vercher and her company were also cited by the jury for conspiracy to commit civil theft ...

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Met Opera Boosts Pay for Conductor Levine to $2.1 Million

2012-06-18T22:19:48Z

Broadcast stations to run program about SB 1070

2012-06-18T22:12:38Z

PHOENIX (AP) - Twenty-three Spanish language TV and radio stations in Arizona will air a half-hour program Wednesday about the state's 2010 immigration law. The program comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule before the end of the ...

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Ex-NBA ref Donaghy wins lawsuit

2012-06-18T16:57:40Z

Late Report Holds Up Divorce Law Changes

2012-06-17T22:20:59Z

There will likely be no changes this year to the most contentious aspect of New York's 2010 divorce-reform package because a report analyzing its impact has been delayed again, officials and lawmakers said. State legislators said they were ...

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Ariz. law expected to prompt suits from both sides

2012-06-17T22:13:49Z

PHOENIX Police agencies that would enforce the most controversial part of Arizona's 2010 immigration law are expected to get squeezed by legal challenges from opposite sides if the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the law in the coming days.

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McCain sees new effort to reform campaign finance

2012-06-17T17:13:11Z

The Supreme Court's 2010 decision in the Citizens United case, which struck down many of the restrictions on political spending and spurred the advent of so-called "super PACs," was one of the worst in modern history, McCain said. "I think there ...

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Greek elections: live report

2012-06-17T14:28:32Z

New Demcracy's leader Antonis Samaras is an ex-foreign minister who approved Greece's 2010 bailout -- though only after holding out for some time. So both are very much establishment parties, in stark contrast with Syriza. 1836 GMT: Separately, the ...

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Graduates Looking Past Wall Street to Start-Ups

2012-06-15T18:34:17Z

Kearney is the rebel. She's going to McKinsey & Co. That's no surprise. After all, 39 percent of Harvard's 2010 graduating class went to work in finance or management consulting. At Columbia, it was 34 percent. Nothing against finance or management ...

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Cairn Energy PLC CNE Director/PDMR Shareholding

2012-06-15T09:44:35Z

Award of Free Shares under the Company's 2010 Share Incentive Plan Cairn announces that, on 15 June 2012, awards of up to £3,000 worth of ordinary shares of ^231/[169] pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") were made to eligible ...

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Citizens United Targeted By Local Activists In 'Resolutions Week' Push

2012-06-14T19:32:44Z

WASHINGTON -- Activists across the country are working this week to mobilize local communities in support of a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and kick ...

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Citizens United Targeted By Local Activists In 'Resolutions Week' Push

2012-06-14T18:28:19Z

Dozens hurt, arrested in 3 days of Togo protests

2012-06-14T16:33:47Z

President Faure Gnassingbe seized power in 2005 after the death of his father, a longtime dictator. The country's 2010 election handed victory once more to the same family that has ruled Togo for nearly half a century.

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Grads: Skip the Bank Job, Join a Startup

2012-06-14T05:13:45Z

She’s going to McKinsey & Co. That’s no surprise. After all, 39 percent of Harvard’s 2010 graduating class went to work in finance or management consulting. At Columbia, it was 34 percent. Nothing against finance or management consulting ...

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Romney hopes to ride Ohio's 2010 GOP wave to Nov.

2012-06-13T15:59:11Z

LORAIN, Ohio (AP) — Democrats are trying to overcome their 2010 disaster in Ohio and deliver the crucial swing state again for President Barack Obama. Obama's 5-percentage point win four years ago in Ohio was followed two years later by a GOP sweep of ..

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Senators Fawn Over JPMorgan CEO After Massive Trading Debacle

2012-06-13T15:52:01Z

Most of the fawning came from GOP senators who in addition to relying on Wall Street largesse remain engaged in a political campaign against President Obama’s 2010 financial reform law. But some Democrats also treated Dimon if not quite like royalty then

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Romney hopes to ride Ohio’s 2010 GOP wave to Nov.

2012-06-13T15:37:42Z

Democrats are trying to overcome their 2010 disaster in Ohio and deliver the crucial swing state again for President Barack Obama. Obama's 5-percentage point win four years ago in Ohio was followed two years later by a GOP sweep of major state ...

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Mitt Romney Hopes To Ride 2010 Momentum In Ohio

2012-06-13T15:37:42Z

LORAIN, Ohio -- The office of Chase Ritenauer, the Democratic mayor of this north-central Ohio city, overlooks peacefully moored sailboats on Lake Erie – and a sewage treatment plant. So it goes for Ohio Democrats this election year: Some ...

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Mitt Romney hopes to ride Ohio’s 2010 GOP wave to Nov.

2012-06-13T15:23:23Z

LORAIN: Democrats are trying to overcome their 2010 disaster in Ohio and deliver the crucial swing state again for President Barack Obama. Obama’s 5-percentage point win four years ago in Ohio was followed two years later by a GOP sweep of major state ..

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Jupiter's Smallest Known Moon Unveiled

2012-06-13T07:45:15Z

Astronomers have pinned down details of Jupiter's smallest known moon, a tiny space rock barely a mile across. The moon, known as S/2010 J 2, was discovered in September 2010 along with a fellow shrimpy satellite called S/2010 J 1. S/2010 J 2 has a ...

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Jupiter''s smallest moon barely 2km wide: Scientists

2012-06-13T00:14:17Z

The moon, known as S/2010 J 2, was discovered along with a fellow shrimpy satellite called S/2010 J 1 in 2010. After almost two years of observation, scientists have found that S/2010 J 2 has a diameter of about 1.2 miles (2km), while S/2010 J 1 is about 1

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Police fire tear gas at protesters in Togo capital

2012-06-12T18:52:10Z

President Faure Gnassingbe seized power in 2005 after the death of his father, a former dictator. The country's 2010 election handed victory once more to the same family that has ruled Togo for nearly half a century.

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Romney Reveals His Health Care Plan Would Be 'Consumer Market' Oriented

2012-06-12T15:24:34Z

Taking up the Republican party's "repeal and replace" mantra, Mitt Romney on Tuesday fleshed out the health care reforms he would substitute for President Obama's 2010 overhaul. After denouncing the Affordable Care Act as costly and ...

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Why Brees doesn't have a new deal

2012-06-12T11:14:02Z

I expected Brees to sign soon after Tom Brady's 2010 contract, then soon after Peyton Manning's 2011 contract and then soon after Peyton Manning's 2012 contract. Yet the sides are still trying to find common ground. Negotiations are about ...

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After Giffords Shooting, Violent Rhetoric Trickles Back Into Campaigns

2012-06-12T07:39:17Z

In the immediate aftermath of the shooting that nearly killed former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Giffords’s 2010 opponent Jesse Kelly, and Sarah Palin — both of whom used gun imagery in the campaign to defeat Giffords — drew the wrath of a grieving nati

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Judicial appointment may signal probe involving Deal is over

2012-06-12T05:59:04Z

In the final, frenetic days of Georgia's 2010 GOP runoff, a bombshell dropped: Word that a federal grand jury in Atlanta demanded information seemingly related to Nathan Deal's actions as a member of Congress. The campaign of Deal's opponent in ...

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ESPN fan vote names Cam Newton's 2010 season No. 1

2012-06-11T15:25:46Z

Cam Newton's remarkable one-year run at Auburn has earned him a permanent spot in the hearts of Auburn fans, not to mention a bronze statue on campus. Now Newton's season on the Plains is earning recognition nationally as one of the greatest ...

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UPDATED: Three US Health Insurers Will Uphold Popular 'ObamaCare' Provisions

2012-06-11T11:00:54Z

United Healthcare, the largest health insurance provider in the U.S., is expected to announce it will keep in place several of the key provisions of the Obama administration's 2010 health care overhaul law regardless of whether the U.S. Supreme ...

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Fans pick Newton's 2010 season No. 1

2012-06-11T09:42:10Z

With nearly 10,000 votes cast, the fans have spoken: Auburn's Cam Newton engineered the greatest individual season in the SEC over the last 50 years. [+] Enlarge Mark J. Rebilas/US PRESSWIREAuburn QB Cam Newton takes the title as the leader of ...

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UBC Researchers Help Unveil Jupiter's Smallest Known Moon

2012-06-11T08:59:13Z

These discoveries were then re-observed several times during the fall, in order to determine that they were indeed satellites of Jupiter, leading to them obtaining MPC designations S/2010 J 1 and S/2010 J 2 on the 1st of June 2011. With Jupiter now having

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UBC Researchers Help Unveil Jupiter's Smallest Known Moon

2012-06-11T07:19:00Z

Jupiter Reveals Two New Moons

2012-06-11T03:44:15Z

They received the MPC designations S/2010 J 1 and S/2010 J 2, on June 1, 2011. Since September 2010, when the moons were first identified, astronomers have conducted a series of other studies on the objects, seeking to confirm their existence several times

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Could Dennard be surprise contributor?

2012-06-09T07:42:51Z

Rang says that Dennard’s 2010 season at Nebraska was superior to teammate Prince Amukamara's, whom the Giants drafted with the 19th overall pick in the 2011 draft. Last season, an injury slowed Dennard at the beginning of the season ...

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Ex-DC Council chairman pleads guilty to 2 charges

2012-06-08T22:53:08Z

Their departures this year - coupled with a federal probe of Mayor Vincent Gray's 2010 campaign that has already produced guilty pleas from two campaign aides - have sent the district government into a tailspin. And the scandals likely aren't ...

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Man found civilly liable in designer's drowning death

2012-06-08T17:31:00Z

Damages are to be determined. Brooks has pleaded not guilty to murder in Sylvie Cachay's 2010 death. The civil lawsuit judgment doesn't affect that ongoing criminal case. But Cachay family lawyer Susan Karten said it "will follow him for the ...

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6.6 million adults join parents' insurance last year

2012-06-08T16:05:07Z

President Barack Obama's 2010 health care reform law allowed young adults — who previously had the nation's highest uninsured rate — to stay on their parents' private insurance plans through age 26. This provision is perhaps the single most ...

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More young Americans have health insurance

2012-06-08T14:53:32Z

Mom goes after stroller thief, busts million-dollar crime ring Chris Brown’s ‘Forever’ turns plaza into party Olympic wrestler Jordan Burroughs: ‘All I see is gold’ 'AGT' judge doesn't think Poe will be kicked off President Barack Obama's 2010 ..

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6.6 million adults join parents' insurance last year

2012-06-08T14:10:35Z

Corruption scandals dog local DC government; 2 councilmembers have resigned in last 6 months

2012-06-08T04:45:04Z

The two resigned five months apart, and their departures this year — coupled with a federal probe of Mayor Vincent Gray’s 2010 campaign that has already produced guilty pleas from two aides — have sent the city government into a tailspin. And the ...

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UBC Researchers Help Unveil Jupiter's Smallest Known Moon

2012-06-07T20:59:47Z

S/2010 J 1 appears to belong to the Carme group, while S/2010 J 2 appears to belong to the Ananke group. At a measly 2 kilometres in diameter, the smallest of two moons recently discovered orbiting Jupiter may be the giant planet's smallest known satellite

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Giving Health Insurance Subsidies to People Who Shouldn’t Qualify For Them, Or: Why ObamaCare Won’t Work, Part Infinity

2012-06-07T13:35:58Z

President Obama’s 2010 health care law relies on two primary mechanisms for expanding health insurance coverage. First, the law requires all participating states to expand Medicaid eligibility up to 138 percent of the poverty line. Second ...

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See Jupiter’s Newly-discovered Tiny Moon in Motion

2012-06-06T20:03:42Z

The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center designated the two new moons as S/2010 J 1 and S/2010 J 2. The second moon, S/2010 J 2, about 26,541,445 kilometers from the giant planet, was discovered the same month on images taken ...

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Former DC Council chair pleads guilty to 2 charges

2012-06-06T19:56:33Z

New Gulf Oil Spill Claims Process to Begin

2012-06-06T08:36:31Z

Thousands of victims of BP’s 2010 Gulf oil spill will participate in a new process for economic-loss and medical claims associated with the accident. The Deepwater Horizon Claims Center, run by court-appointed administrator Patrick Juneau ...

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Jupiter’s smallest known moon unveiled

2012-06-06T07:32:05Z

Gay-Marriage Foes Lose Bid for Review of Order on Ban

2012-06-06T02:09:58Z

In February, a three-judge panel of the court voted 2-1 to uphold a federal judge’s 2010 ruling that Proposition 8 violates equal protection rights of gay and lesbian couples. Three judges dissented from the majority’s decision today.

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US Could Be the Next Greece—in 2037: CBO Report

2012-06-06T01:55:39Z

For all of the hemming and hawing about spending cuts in Washington, the Congressional Budget Office's latest long-term budget forecast reflects two painful facts for Washington: How large the nation's problems remain, and how the GOP's 2010 surge into ...

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Jupiter's smallest known moon unveiled

2012-06-05T19:57:44Z

Fear And Voting In Wisconsin (The Note)

2012-06-05T14:49:56Z

Or, he just might hold on to his job. Polls show a conservative electorate in keeping with the state’s 2010 trend, and Democrats and labor activists have privately lowered expectations. Democrats could seize control of the state senate ...

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There was no stopping Cam Newton in 2010

2012-06-05T14:14:08Z

Cam Newton's 2010 season came in at No. 4. Tune in to “College Football Live” at 3:30 p.m. ET on ESPN. Cam Newton came and went in the SEC like a thunderous bolt of lightning. In just one season as Auburn’s quarterback, he turned the ...

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Poll: SEC's greatest individual season

2012-06-05T11:43:49Z

Now it's your turn. On Monday, I ranked the top five individual performances in the SEC over the past 50 years, and Cam Newton's 2010 season edged out Tim Tebow's 2007 season. They both won the Heisman Trophy. They both put up record-setting ...

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Marion Sandler, Home Lender Who Made Billions, Dies at 81

2012-06-04T18:11:33Z

according to Douglas Branson’s 2010 book, “The Last Male Bastion: Gender and the CEO Suite in America’s Public Companies.” As a summer renter in the Hamptons, on Long Island, she met Herbert Sandler through a mutual friend, according to ...

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Fight Brewing over New Medical Equipment Tax

2012-06-04T17:14:17Z

An election-year battle is brewing over a tax created under President Obama's 2010 health care overhaul. Republicans are trying to repeal a 2.3 percent tax on medical equipment makers. They plan to push the measure through the House this week. Rep.

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Kevin Costner, Stephen Baldwin in court as trial opens over BP deal for Gulf spill clean-up device

2012-06-04T16:45:39Z

(CBS/AP) NEW ORLEANS - Jury selection began Monday in a legal fight between two Hollywood stars over investments in a device used to try to clean up BP's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In his lawsuit, actor Stephen Baldwin claims Kevin ...

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Gabrielle Giffords plans public appearance to campaign for former aide

2012-06-04T16:38:29Z

Barber faces Republican nominee Jesse Kelly, a businessman who ran as the district's 2010 Republican nominee, in next week's election. Due to redistricting changes, much of Giffords' former district will become the redrawn and renumbered 2nd District in ..

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Show and prove: Devin McCourty

2012-06-04T14:22:29Z

What he must prove: McCourty must prove his stellar rookie year wasn’t a fluke. New England’s 2010 first-round pick took the NFL by storm as a rookie with 82 tackles, seven interceptions and two forced fumbles. McCourty looked like a genius ...

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AP's Beaumont Gives Away His Viewpoint in Writing About Feingold's 2010 Election Loss

2012-06-03T23:13:23Z

The headline at Thomas Beaumont's Sunday item about the possible significance of the Scott Walker recall election in Wisconsin is "Few November clues to be found in Wisconsin recall." Maybe, but I have a definite clue as to Beaumont's political ...

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Know strategies to minimize impact if Bush tax cuts expire

2012-06-03T10:13:07Z

It's 2010 all over again when it comes to Congressional wrangling over tax policy. The Bush-era tax cuts were originally set to expire Jan. 1, 2011, but were given a two-year reprieve to avoid dampening the fledgling economic recovery with higher taxes.

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Gulf oil spill claims process is now governed by negotiated settlement

2012-06-03T06:52:42Z

It's a new era for thousands of victims of BP's 2010 Gulf oil spill, as facilities supervised by a federal judge will start taking economic-loss and medical claims and begin paying them based on the strict terms of a negotiated settlement.

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Jeff Carter on Game 2 OT winner: “It’s a pretty special moment”

2012-06-03T00:11:50Z

When Jeff Carter‘s 2010-11 campaign came to a close, it looked like he was going to spend the rest of his career with the Philadelphia Flyers. They still weren’t far removed from their surprising Stanley Cup run and though Carter struggled ...

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Kyron Horman’s mother sues Terri Horman for $10 million over boy's 2010 disappearance

2012-06-02T17:09:29Z

The mother of a missing Oregon boy has filed a $10 million civil lawsuit against his stepmother, alleging she is responsible for his disappearance two years ago this Monday and should reveal his whereabouts. Kyron Horman was 7 when he vanished from a ...

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Top prospect Tarasenko agrees to join the Blues

2012-06-02T13:41:54Z

ST. LOUIS --Vladimir Tarasenko, the team's 2010 first-round Draft pick (No. 16), is coming to the National Hockey League next season and has agreed in principle to a three-year, entry-level contract. He is expected to sign his contract July 1. Tarasenko's

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Broncos not limiting Peyton Manning

2012-06-02T11:33:03Z

After all, McCoy is plucking plenty of plays out of the Colts' playbook. He and quarterbacks coach Adam Gase watched Indy's 2010 game films during the Broncos' pursuit of Manning, who signed a five-year, $96 million deal with Denver in mid-March ...

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Ariz. immigration law challenge on hold

2012-06-02T10:57:16Z

A judge has put the brakes on one of the three remaining legal challenges to Arizona's 2010 immigration law because lawyers who brought that case missed several filing deadlines. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton ruled that action in the lawsuit ...

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Union says email shows Walker hid bargaining intentions

2012-06-02T02:36:11Z

Or follow the money in the recall battle with our interactive graphic and searchable database. Madison - A union leader says a newly released email shows Gov. Scott Walker's 2010 campaign misrepresented his cuts for public employees' benefits.

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Mitt Romney discloses his net worth remains near $250 million

2012-06-01T23:58:42Z

Those assets include at least two investments that had not been previously disclosed in Romney's 2010 financial report. Both were described as "Bain Capital Inc." funds. One was valued at nearly $2 million; the other slightly more than $3,500.

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U.S. Given Six Months to Justify Nuclear-Waste Fees

2012-06-01T23:44:23Z

A three judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington today said the department’s 2010 fee determination was “legally defective” and ruled it has six months to evaluate whether collection of the fee will provide too much or too ...

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Mitt Romney Financial Disclosure Form Lists Bain Capital, Goldman Sachs Gains

2012-06-01T21:06:54Z

Romney's 2010 tax return had pegged the presumptive Republican nominee's net worth at somewhere between $190 million and $250 million, but the newly released disclosures shine more light on where and how Romney makes his fortune. According to ...

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Broncos aren't restricting Manning's offseason work

2012-06-01T19:12:22Z

Ross Fisher leads by 2 shots

2012-06-01T18:00:47Z

The 31-year-old Fisher said he was inspired by his return to the Twenty Ten course, where he played in Europe's 2010 Ryder Cup victory against the United States. "I played really good golf that week and thoroughly enjoyed it," Fisher said.

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Ex-Consol Executives Sued by SEC Over Insider Trading

2012-06-01T16:20:34Z

Three former Consol Energy Inc. (CNX) executives were sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly trading on inside information about the company’s 2010 acquisition of a Dominion Resources Inc. business. Charles Mazur ...

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US House panel backs medical device tax repeal

2012-05-31T15:31:39Z

WASHINGTON May 31 (Reuters) - A Republican-controlled congressional panel voted o n T hursday to repeal a tax on medical devices, a key revenue provision in President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare reform law, but the measure was not expected to ...

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Kat Von D House Fire Lawsuit: Reality Star Sued By Insurance Company

2012-05-31T05:51:50Z

Following Kat Von D's 2010 house fire, the former "LA Ink" star has been served with a lawsuit from her insurance company, which claims that she was responsible for starting the fire. State Farms has filed a nearly $1 million lawsuit against ...

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Case closed: Montana can’t limit free speech

2012-05-30T23:53:55Z

At issue is the court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, which held, unremarkably, that Americans do not forfeit their First Amendment rights when they come together in corporate entities or labor unions to speak collectively. What do liberals consider the

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Marc Collins Colinares Speaks Hdi's 2010 Forecast For Philippines

2012-05-30T23:18:07Z

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Leveson: Cable talks of 'veiled threats' against Lib Dems

2012-05-30T08:23:20Z

Business Secretary Vince Cable has said "veiled threats" were made against the Liberal Democrats when he was assessing News Corporation's 2010 bid for BSkyB. He told the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics his party was warned it would be "done ...

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Mark Kirk’s 2010 Campaign Payments to Girlfriend Draw Scrutiny

2012-05-30T02:39:44Z

Sen. Mark Kirk’s ex-wife filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission last year. The Senator’s office says it is a “baseless complaint” and a “personal attack.” As the jurors deciding whether former Sen. John Edwards broke campaign ..

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EU greenhouse gas emissions rise despite climate change policies

2012-05-30T02:32:35Z

Greenhouse gas emissions for the European Union increased in 2010, despite the economic recession and policies intended to tackle climate change. The increase of 2.4% takes Europe further away from its international commitments to cut carbon dioxide by ...

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Mark Kirk’s 2010 Campaign Payments to Girlfriend Draw Scrutiny

2012-05-29T23:47:56Z

JPMorgan Employee Said to Leak Insider Information in Japan Case

2012-05-29T23:12:09Z

A JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) (JPM) employee in Japan was found to have leaked insider information connected to Nippon Sheet Glass Co.’s 2010 share sale, according to two people with knowledge of the situation. The people, who declined to ...

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Romney clinches 2012 Republican nomination with Texas victory

2012-05-29T22:36:21Z

Romney in weeks ahead will turn to Obama's 2010 healthcare overhaul. The U.S. Supreme Court is to decide in late June on the constitutionality of the law's requirement that all Americans purchase health insurance. Romney has vowed to repeal the law if ...

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Olympic medallist Mike Robertson retires from snowboard cross

2012-05-29T21:17:37Z

VANCOUVER — He was probably the least heralded of Canada’s 2010 Olympic medallists, a quiet, low-key kid from Canmore, Alta., who took the silver medal in men’s snowboard cross. Even now, the name of Mike Robertson is likely to leave many ...

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Justice Department probes whether BP execs lied to Congress: WSJ

2012-05-28T21:47:26Z

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether BP executives lied to Congress about how much oil leaked in the company's 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the i

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In Gray government, questions won’t stop

2012-05-28T21:18:48Z

Federal prosecutors provided answers last week to one of the most-pressing questions about D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s 2010 primary campaign - whether or not staffers paid a minor opponent to stay in the race with the hope he would continue ...

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Tunisia: Injured of the Uprising Urgently Need Care

2012-05-28T09:58:46Z

Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director (Tunis) – Many victims of police violence during Tunisia’s 2010-2011 uprising have received neither proper care nor effective government compensation for their injuries, Human Rights ...

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Fact Check: Obama's thrifty spending claim uses some creative accounting

2012-05-27T07:58:16Z

The bailout ballooned the 2009 budget just before Obama took office, making Obama's 2010 results look smaller in comparison. And as almost $150 billion of the bailout was paid back during Obama's watch, the analysis counted them as government ...

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Jason Dufner chases DFW history

2012-05-27T00:48:46Z

13 and 14, Dufner seemed to be in total control of Hogan's Alley. He's targeting not only his third win in four starts but also Johnson's 2010 Colonial course record of 21 under. But a couple bogeys on the final five holes combined with two ...

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Health Care, Tax Cuts At Top Of House Republican Summer Wish List

2012-05-26T13:57:22Z

At the top of the list - extending Bush era tax cuts and repealing President Barack Obama's 2010 health care law. "Before we leave for August, I expect to schedule a vote on legislation preventing the largest tax increase in history," Cantor wrote in the .

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Rivals Battle Measured Allen

2012-05-26T08:13:46Z

the Internal Revenue Service and particularly President Barack Obama's 2010 health care reforms. But it was on the issue of U.S. military intervention abroad and the Virginia General Assembly's late-night vote to reject judicial nominee Tracy Thorne ...

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Howard Brooks pleads guilty in probe of Mayor Gray’s 2010 campaign

2012-05-24T16:44:22Z

A campaign aide to Mayor Vincent C. Gray admitted to a federal judge Thursday that he was “instructed” to secretly pay a fringe candidate, known for his verbal attacks, to stay in the 2010 mayoral race. Appearing in U.S. District Court in the District

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2nd campaign aide to D.C. mayor pleads guilty

2012-05-24T16:30:03Z

WASHINGTON - A second former campaign staffer for District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray has pleaded guilty to a federal offense arising from Gray's 2010 campaign. Howard Brooks pleaded guilty Thursday to lying to the FBI about payments he made to another

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Idaho's Luna named education policy adviser to Romney, along with four who gave to Luna's 2010 campaign

2012-05-24T15:39:57Z

Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna is among 18 policy advisers announced by the Mitt Romney presidential campaign. The Idaho Republican Party issued a news release Thursday about Luna's appointment. “I am excited to work with ...

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Sergio Kindle struggling to overcome hearing loss

2012-05-24T11:43:43Z

Paul Kruger and Courtney Upshaw are the early favorites to start at outside linebacker for the Ravens this year. The team's 2010 second round pick Sergio Kindle is just trying to make the roster and prove he can still have an NFL career after fracturing ..

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Wisconsin Recall: GOP Mailer Claims Dem Candidate Allowed 'Killers' Out Of Prison

2012-05-24T09:20:34Z

Scott Walker Putting off worries about the future and the massive amount of work ahead, thousands of recall volunteers prepared to party tonight at Frank Lloyd Wright's Monona Terrace, the site of Scott Walker's 2010 inaugural. Mitchell Bard ...

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Opinion: Mayor Gray May Be Insulated From Scheme

2012-05-24T08:51:56Z

There is teflon, and then there is insulated. This week, federal charges were filed against two senior aides from D.C. Mayor Vince Gray’s 2010 mayoral campaign. Thomas Gore pleaded guilty to four counts, including destroying evidence. Howard Brooks is ..

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Replacing Patrick Fitzgerald: What are Durbin, Kirk next moves?

2012-05-24T08:01:49Z

Daley as his inspector general. Hoffman's 2010 Illinois Senate Democratic primary bid may taint him as too partisan. † Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Tarun. † Assistant U.S. Attorney Reid Schar, who convicted former Gov. Rod Blagojevich † City

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Edwards verdict could become part of Citizens United backlash

2012-05-24T06:14:27Z

If 12 North Carolina jurors decide that former vice presidential nominee John Edwards is guilty of campaign fraud, it could be widely seen as part of a growing rumble of populist discontent with the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling ...

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Special-interest spending floods Cailfornia races in new political landscape

2012-05-24T03:01:10Z

Jerry Brown adviser Steve Glazer and Republican strategist Rob Stutzman, who worked on Meg Whitman's 2010 gubernatorial campaign, to help run its committee. "I think there's this interest in electing people in both parties that are more ...

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Anti-Haley video a fundraising tool for SC governor (+ VIDEO)

2012-05-23T23:55:03Z

Sarah Palin whose endorsement boosted Haley’s 2010 gubernatorial bid. “It’s a perfect example of union boss thuggery,” Palin wrote of the video on her Facebook page. Haley has jousted with the threat of unions since becoming governor ...

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George Zimmerman's 'Cozy' Relationship With Sanford Police Questioned (WATCH)

2012-05-23T22:57:47Z

Robert O'Connor said in a statement. Interim Police Chief Richard Myers said it would be “inappropriate” to draw conclusions from Zimmerman’s 2010 speech before the city council. “As a police chief, I embrace the notion that transparency ...

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2nd former aide charged in federal investigation of DC Mayor Gray’s 2010 election campaign

2012-05-23T13:03:39Z

WASHINGTON — A second former aide to District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray was charged Wednesday with a federal offense arising from Gray’s 2010 campaign and intends to plead guilty, a day after another aide’s guilty plea revealed the ...

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Howard Brooks becomes second Vincent Gray campaign worker charged in federal probe

2012-05-23T12:35:01Z

A second member of Vincent Gray’s 2010 mayoral campaign was charged Wednesday in the wide-ranging federal investigation into the campaign’s alleged improprieties. Howard Brooks, 64, a consultant to the mayor’s campaign, was accused of making a false

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Will Kenya's 2010 Constitution work for women and children?

2012-05-23T07:55:51Z

The vision of social equity enshrined in Kenya's 2010 Constitution marks a break with the past. It aims to resolve practices and patterns of social exclusion and establishes the basis for a different narrative of state-society relations. Drawing on recent

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Vincent Gray's 2010 Campaign Troubles Continue With Thomas Gore Plea Deal (UPDATE)

2012-05-23T02:48:02Z

WASHINGTON -- Thomas Gore, the assistant campaign treasurer on District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray's 2010 campaign, is expected to be in federal court on Tuesday in a plea agreement hearing related to charges that he destroyed campaign ...

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Football Gameplan's 2010 Sun Belt Conference Preview

2012-05-22T15:35:10Z

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Ex-campaign aide to DC mayor pleads guilty to funneling campaign funds to another candidate

2012-05-22T15:35:10Z

Thomas Gore admitted in U.S. District Court that he converted excessive or unattributed cash contributions to Gray's 2010 campaign into money orders that were given to Sulaimon Brown, a minor candidate. The payments were intended to keep Brown ...

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Lansing has highest per-capita fire department costs, Bridge Magazine analysis finds

2012-05-22T15:28:00Z

The magazine also found that Lansing's 2010 fire department budget of almost $30 million was higher than the budget for the Grand Rapids Fire Department, which spent around $25 million. At 188,000, Grand Rapids has over 70,000 more residents to ...

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Vincent Gray campaign aide Thomas Gore pleads guilty to election violations

2012-05-22T13:40:38Z

A key finance official in Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s 2010 campaign admitted to conspiring with a fellow campaign aide to send $660 in illicit money orders to a minor mayoral candidate. Thomas W. Gore, 56, the campaign’s assistant treasurer, made the ...

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SEC Tells BBVA to Detail Loan Data to Higher Risk Spain Clients

2012-05-22T13:33:28Z

The SEC and Spain’s second-biggest bank commented in correspondence published today about BBVA’s 2010 annual report filed in the U.S. BBVA, which has a Spanish loan book of more than 200 billion euros ($254 billion), said residential ...

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Jeremy Lin, Kyrie Irving to play U.S.

2012-05-22T01:23:20Z

Former Toronto coach Jay Triano, an assistant with the U.S. 2010 world championship team, and Syracuse assistant Mike Hopkins will serve as co-coaches of the select team. "The USA select team was a vital part of the USA men's national team's ...

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Campaign aide for Gray cuts plea deal

2012-05-22T00:04:35Z

A senior member of D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s 2010 campaign team has cut a deal with prosecutors and will plead guilty Tuesday to a felony count of obstruction of justice and three misdemeanor campaign-finance violations - the first criminal ...

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Morrison and international RICO: Kaplan’s take in Chevron case

2012-05-21T21:48:35Z

It’s been relatively easy for district courts to figure out how to apply the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Morrison v. National Australia Bank in securities cases – unless the defendant is a U.S.-listed company, shareholders are pretty much ..

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Surigao Norte gov's 2010 poll victory upheld

2012-05-21T11:32:58Z

SURIGAO CITY, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) second division has upheld the victory of Surigao del Norte Gov. Sol Folcadilla Matugas over former governor and congressman Robert Ace Barbers in the 2010 gubernatorial race. The Comelec

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APNewsBreak: 22 states join campaign finance fight

2012-05-21T09:16:58Z

HELENA, Mont. — Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending.

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Scott Walker Forces Outspend Dems By 2-To-1 In Crucial Week Of Wisconsin Recall

2012-05-19T13:15:33Z

Marco Rubio's Past Includes Political Vulnerabilities

2012-05-19T10:02:17Z

Both Rubio's ties with U.S. Rep. David Rivera, a fellow GOP freshman who now is facing a federal probe into tax evasion, and the state party credit card matter surfaced during Rubio's 2010 Senate campaign. While they didn't have much effect ...

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Nearly 90 Percent of IT Managers Struggle to Back Up Data in Virtualized Environments

2012-05-19T08:50:42Z

Compared to Quantum's 2010 survey, the latest survey results suggest that while fewer IT managers experience higher energy demands (21 percent versus 31 percent in 2010) and data bottlenecks (22 percent versus 30 percent in 2010) as a result of ...

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Pinellas school officials reject FAST's direct instruction reading proposal

2012-05-19T04:25:50Z

Bill Lawrence, associate superintendent for curriculum and instruction, said much of the research presented by FAST members as proof of the program's effectiveness, was done prior to Florida's 2010 adoption of standards that emphasize reading ...

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Immigrant advocates criticize fundraising effort

2012-05-18T17:27:17Z

Charles Schumer of New York has promised to pursue if Arizona's 2010 immigration law is upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. Critics of Pearce and Arpaio say the group is within its rights to seek the contributions but added that they believe the ...

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GOP’s best boring white guy: Rob Portman

2012-05-18T17:12:58Z

BWGs don’t spend money they don’t have. As befits a BWG, Portman’s 2010 campaign for Senate was as uneventful as it was successful. He won overwhelmingly, 57 percent to 39 percent, and has served responsibly ever since. I’m not picking ...

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Rep. Hermanson’s campaign treasurer fined for failing to document expenses

2012-05-18T16:08:32Z

Lisa Wisdom, the second of two treasurers who ran Hermanson’s 2010 campaign for state office, was fined $3,764.66, the amount of undocumented expenses, with all but $500 waived when the money is repaid. Hermanson said Friday the lack of ...

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Brad Paisley to perform at Ford Center Oct. 4

2012-05-17T18:32:53Z

EVANSVILLE — Singer/songwriter Brad Paisley, the Country Music Association's 2010 Entertainer of the Year, will perform at the Ford Center on Oct. 4, according to the singer's website, www.bradpaisley.com. Paisley, a popular artists in ...

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HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to address Georgetown grads, despite church criticism

2012-05-16T13:11:57Z

Sebelius helped shape President Barack Obama’s 2010 health care law, which includes a mandate that requires employers to provide health insurance that covers birth control for workers. Catholic bishops have led opposition to the mandate.

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How to get out of Afghanistan

2012-05-16T12:14:41Z

Nonetheless, the departure of the bulk of its forces that came in with Mr Obama’s 2010 surge will be gone and the US will consequently face a vastly diminished capacity to shape events on the ground. It seems obvious that we need to start ...

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Bush policies he reviled are part of Obama’s arsenal

2012-05-16T10:55:57Z

“Please use ‘overseas contingency operation,’ ” the memo said. Mr. Obama’s first extensive military strategy, the Pentagon’s 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, states in the opening paragraph: “We are a nation at war.” “The most ...

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GM Rises After Buffett's Berkshire Investment

2012-05-16T10:34:28Z

Jonas titled the report “Buffett Motors.” The automaker’s shares dropped 35 percent before today since GM’s 2010 initial public offering. The Detroit-based company regained its spot as the world’s top-selling automaker last year when ...

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Chesapeake's Rapidly Declining Stock Is Putting Employees' Retirement Savings At Risk

2012-05-16T08:25:37Z

According to a Chesapeake's 2010 filing on its 401(k) plan, which is the latest available, the plan had $490 million in assets as of Dec. 31, 2010. The firm's 149 union employees are offered a different 401(k) plan that matches employees ...

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Obama's 2011 assets valued between $2.6M and $8.3M

2012-05-15T21:34:13Z

The returns showed a series of offshore holdings that weren't in the former Massachusetts governor's 2010 financial disclosure, including a Swiss bank account that has received criticism from the Obama campaign. Obama's disclosure forms show he ...

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Rob Portman: The Best of the Boring White Guys

2012-05-15T20:01:10Z

Arizona man sentenced in brother's 2010 death

2012-05-15T19:11:03Z

A San Carlos man has been sentenced to more than 21 years in federal prison for the stabbing death of his younger brother. Prosecutors say 26-year-old Derrick Paul McIntosh was given a 253-month prison term Tuesday in U.S. District Court in ...

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USA TODAY REPORT: Alabama athletic department's 2010-11 revenue 3rd-highest in nation

2012-05-14T19:19:24Z

TUSCALOOSA, Ala.-- In its annual chronicling of university athletic department financial reports, USA Today revealed that Alabama's revenues were tops in the SEC and No. 3 in the nation during the 2010-11 fiscal year. The Alabama athletic ...

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Behind The UPP Fracas, Division Over NK

2012-05-14T06:47:47Z

(The contradiction plays out in lesser form with the more mainstream, center-left Democratic United Party, when its members shy away from criticizing North Korea except during extreme moments such as after the North’s 2010 attack on Yeonpyeong Island.)

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UK lawmakers: Rupert Murdoch unfit to lead company

2012-05-13T22:26:42Z

It was supported by one Liberal Democrat and five members of the opposition Labour Party, which Murdoch ditched before Britain's 2010 national election. The chairman, a Conservative, did not vote in line with parliamentary convention.

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Silicon Valley Bank Now Offering Multi Card by MasterCard®

2012-05-13T15:31:31Z

RPMG Research Corporation's 2010 Purchasing Card Benchmarking Survey. About Silicon Valley Bank Silicon Valley Bank is the premier bank for technology, life science, cleantech, venture capital, private equity and premium wine businesses.

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Govt's 2010 tax cuts 'costing $2 billion and counting'

2012-05-13T04:25:48Z

The Green Party has today revealed that the National Government has so far had to borrow an additional $2 billion dollars to fund their 2010 tax cut package for upper income earners. New information prepared for the Green Party by the Parliamentary Library

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Iowa's 2010 NCAA mat champ Jay Borschel joins Northwestern coaching staff

2012-05-11T22:29:04Z

A Hawkeye mat champ is becoming a Wildcat coach. Jay Borschel, 2010 NCAA titlewinner for the University of Iowa, will be joining the coaching staff at Northwestern University as a volunteer assistant coach, the Evanston, Ill.-based school announced Friday.

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Gujarat riots: Differences in SIT's 2010 and 2012 reports

2012-05-11T17:06:57Z

Ahmedabad: There are many differences between the preliminary inquiry reports of the SIT and its final investigation report, which gave clean chit to Gujarat Chief minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots case. The preliminary inquiry report ...

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Dewey Violate Rule 10b-5? A Detailed Look at the Firm’s 2010 Offering Memorandum

2012-05-11T14:22:18Z

Law firm financials can be shrouded in mystery. Sure, the American Lawyer releases its closely watched and highly influential Am Law 100 rankings each year, which shed some light on the subject. But these numbers are not Gospel truth, and sometimes they ..

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Guj riots: Differences in SIT's 2010 and 2012 reports

2012-05-11T12:06:18Z

There are many differences between the preliminary inquiry reports of the SIT and its final investigation report, which gave clean chit to Gujarat Chief minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots case. The preliminary inquiry report filed by SIT, headed by R

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Your morning jolt: Chip Rogers snags support from Brandon Beach’s 2010 campaign manager

2012-05-11T09:28:49Z

Oh, this fight for Senate District 21 up in Cherokee County and north Fulton is going to be lively. In response to local chamber president Brandon Beach’s announcement that he would challenge Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers in the July 31 ...

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Reward for the Oppressor -- Injustice for the Oppressed?

2012-05-10T12:21:48Z

The United States State Department's 2010 Human Rights Report for Venezuela mentions one particularly notorious case in which I am involved as legal counsel. Largely at the behest of Aponte, Nelson Mezerhane, a reputable businessman, banker and ...

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REFILE-INSIGHT-Super PACS: Follow the money - if you can

2012-05-10T12:07:29Z

He needed his own Super PAC that could receive unlimited contributions. Ever since the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in the Citizens United case paved the way for Super PACS, they have been a legitimate new tactic for political campaigns.

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Insight: Super PACS: Follow the money - if you can

2012-05-10T06:09:34Z

GOP blocks Senate debate on Dem student loan bill

2012-05-10T06:09:34Z

Democrats reject the GOP version, which drums up money for the extension of low rates by abolishing a preventive health program created by Obama's 2010 health care overhaul. Republicans are demanding a Senate vote on their measure but it cannot ...

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Winners of Mhada’s 2010 lottery yet to get flats

2012-05-09T22:31:27Z

Ramesh Shinde, 38, won a Mhada (Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority) house at Mankhurd in 2010. Since then he has been waiting to take possession of the 1BHK flat. “I am staying in a rented house even though I own a house. It is Mhada’s

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George Clooney's Obama fundraiser uses star power with a twist

2012-05-09T19:25:20Z

As much as the Clooney event is expected to draw, its haul could be dwarfed by the unlimited donations flowing to so-called super PACs, the product of several federal court rulings, including the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in the Citizens United case.

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Lugar loss could make Indiana Senate race more competitive

2012-05-09T15:43:25Z

Gov. Jane Norton in Colorado's 2010 GOP Senate primary then went on to lose his general election challenge to Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet. National Democrats hope that Donnelly will fare better against Mourdock than he would have against ...

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Murder trial begins for elderly Saginaw woman's 2010 death

2012-05-09T08:26:46Z

SAGINAW, MI — A 20-year-old is on trial in connection with the 2010 death of an elderly woman. Attorneys this morning were to continue selecting a jury that will decide whether Donte R. Houston is guilty of first-degree murder in the death of ...

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Fenty's 2010 Loss Doomed Giro d'Italia Start in D.C.

2012-05-08T14:40:11Z

The Giro d'Italia—one of the three grand tours of professional cycling—kicked off over the weekend in Denmark. As it has for years, the race started outside of Italy for its first three stages. Last April, the idea was pulled off the table altogether .

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Student Loans Interest Rate Extension Fight Heads To Senate

2012-05-08T09:03:45Z

Republicans are demanding a vote on their own alternative. It would block the rate increase but pay for it by killing a preventive health fund created by President Barack Obama's 2010 health care overhaul. That idea is a non-starter with ...

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Sen. Dick Lugar to learn his fate in Indiana; N.C. votes on marriage amendment

2012-05-08T05:57:38Z

Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett, the party's 2010 gubernatorial nominee, faces a strong challenge from former county executive Kathleen Falk. Additional Democrats are running for the nomination. The winner will challenge Walker in a pivotal June 5 election ..

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Report: Press freedom holds steady worldwide

2012-05-08T00:21:11Z

Mexico fell to the "not free" status in Freedom House's 2010 report. "And following a sharp numerical slide in 2010, Hungary was downgraded to 'partly free' due to concerted efforts by the conservative government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban ...

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Ehrlich consultant: Counterintuitive ‘relax’ robocall aimed to motivate voters

2012-05-07T14:55:41Z

BALTIMORE — A consultant for Republican former Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s 2010 gubernatorial campaign testified Monday that he wrote an Election Day robocall message telling voters to “relax,” but said it was actually a counterintuitive effort to ...

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Cedaredge Man Arrested For Wife's 2010 Death

2012-05-07T14:41:22Z

Story Created: May 7, 2012 at 12:47 PM MDT Story Updated: May 7, 2012 at 8:47 PM MDT CEDAREDGE, Colo. - It's been nearly a year and half since the death of Cedaredge resident Raelynn Kissner. She was found at her home in Cedaredge on November 22, 2010.

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Woman on trial for boyfriend’s 2010 fatal stabbing

2012-05-06T21:30:35Z

A 33-year-old woman is set to stand trial this week for the 2010 stabbing death of her boyfriend. Christine Hana Jackson faces charges of second-degree murder, felony manufacturing marijuana and three counts of misdemeanor assault on a government official

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Obama Can Win Re-Election Running on Record, Patrick Says

2012-05-04T07:49:45Z

The strategist has said he sees the governor’s 2010 re- election effort as a prototype for the president. Axelrod cited the Patrick campaign’s focus on the incumbent’s efforts to build a better future for Massachusetts. The state economy ...

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Joe the Plumber May Join Boy Mayor as Kaptur’s Election Victim

2012-05-04T06:09:32Z

Kaptur said she feels besieged -- first by Kucinich, and now by Wurzelbacher in the era ushered in by the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling, which removed limits on independent election spending. Kaptur, 65, said her bid for a 16th ...

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Schedule, capsule bios of acts for 2012 Schaeffer Eye Center Crawfish Boil in Birmingham (video)

2012-05-04T05:33:44Z

Originals include “Dirt Road Anthem” and “My Kinda Party,” both recorded by Jason Aldean. Gilbert’s 2010 album, “Halfway to Heaven,” was released in deluxe edition by Valory Records last year, resulted in No. 1 single ...

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Ukraine’s EU Goal Wilts in Soccer Boycott Over Tymoshenko

2012-05-04T03:53:31Z

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s 2010 election pledge of closer European Union integration now hinges on Tymoshenko being freed. Rather than winning her release, the boycotts risk bolstering Russian interests after two decades of ...

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SPIN METER: Lawmakers' talk of cuts is just talk

2012-05-04T03:46:22Z

The tea party's role in the GOP's 2010 takeover of the House has given some anti-deficit activists hope that the White House and congressional leaders will finally swallow major spending cuts. Tea party activists nearly triggered a debt-ceiling crisis last

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Ukraine’s EU Goal Wilts in Soccer Boycott Over Tymoshenko

2012-05-04T02:13:18Z

Billions of dollars for research at stake in health-reform case

2012-05-03T19:53:55Z

In April, shortly after the US Supreme Court had wrapped up three days of hearing arguments regarding the constitutionality of the country's 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), President Barack Obama noted that without the ...

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Bryce Harper Shines, D.C. Fans Yawn

2012-05-03T19:10:58Z

The national media spotlight has glared on the 19-year-old, 6-foot-3, 225 pound prodigy since the Washington Nationals handed him $9.9 million after selecting him first overall in baseball’s 2010 amateur draft, when he was just 17. After fast ...

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Getzlaf named Team Canada captain for Worlds

2012-05-03T17:30:45Z

A member of Canada's 2010 gold-medal Olympic team, Getzlaf starred for Canada in his last appearance at the World Championship in 2008. That year, Getzlaf led the Canadians to a silver medal while finishing second in tournament scoring with 14 points in ni

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'The Expendables 2' trailer; Rihanna making a men's cologne; new Soundgarden video: Daily Buzz

2012-05-03T14:38:57Z

Some of the biggest names in action hero movie history are teaming up again for "The Expendables 2," a sequel to Sylvester Stallone's 2010 macho-fest about a team of mercenaries who (what else?) shoot guns and blow stuff up. "Con-Air" director ...

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Family sues in Sevier deputy's 2010 icy bridge death

2012-05-03T13:41:41Z

SALT LAKE CITY -- The family of a Sevier County sheriff's sergeant who was killed in a 2010 crash on an icy bridge is suing Utah's Department of Transportation and the other drivers involved. Sgt. Franco Aguilar was investigating a single-car ...

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GM Profit Falls Less Than Estimates on Increased Sales

2012-05-03T09:38:18Z

GM, while rising 13 percent this year before today, remains below the $33 level of the company’s 2010 initial public offering. The U.S. Treasury Department sold 28 percent of GM in the IPO, and it still holds 32 percent of the common stock ...

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Gingrich's failed run shows super PACs' power

2012-05-03T09:16:50Z

Gingrich's mercurial Republican primary ride showed how the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision permits one wealthy donor to prop up a presidential campaign almost single-handedly. The ruling allowed unlimited contributions from ...

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Adviser recounts Edwards' wife reacting to affair

2012-05-03T06:32:11Z

Weeks later, Hunter informed the candidate she was pregnant. According to the account in Young's 2010 tell-all book about the affair, Edwards was unable to access his own money to support Hunter without his wife, Elizabeth, finding out.

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Players vowing to fight bounty suspensions

2012-05-03T04:16:11Z

Smith, according to the NFL, "pledged significant sums to the program pool." The league said Hargrove "actively obstructed the league's 2010 investigation into the program by being untruthful to investigators." He also "actively participated in ...

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Adviser recounts John Edwards' wife reacting to affair

2012-05-03T02:50:17Z

High School Top Performer - Week 4: John Voetsch (boys golf), Delbarton School

2012-05-03T01:02:55Z

He is a four-year letter winner for coach Sean Flanagan and was a member of Delbarton's 2010 NJSIAA Non-Public A state championship team. His best competitive round (on several occasions) is 67. He has a handicap index of +1.6 and he plays out ...

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Major growth for Utah commercial real estate construction

2012-05-02T19:12:09Z

That's a leap from Utah's 2010 placing — No. 26. Only West Virginia saw a bigger jump, from No. 48 to No. 3. According to the study, $3.6 billion was spent in the development and construction of office, industrial and retail buildings ...

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Group sues USDA over predator killing program

2012-05-02T08:06:26Z

About 38 percent of the agency's 2010 budget was spent to protect agricultural resources, she said in an email, and the service also chased away more than 20 million animals from areas where they were "causing damage or conflicts." "That included making ..

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Chris Christie: Wisconsin is the center of the political universe

2012-05-02T07:52:07Z

The two Democratic frontrunners, Kathleen Falk, a former county official, and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, Walker's 2010 opponent, have told news outlets they've each raised less than $1 million.

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Report: Press freedom holds steady worldwide

2012-05-02T06:19:04Z

Mexico fell to the “not free’’ status in Freedom House’s 2010 report. “And following a sharp numerical slide in 2010, Hungary was downgraded to ‘partly free’ due to concerted efforts by the conservative government of Prime Minister ...

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Wife of ex-Edwards aide denies story is fueled by lies

2012-05-02T02:58:38Z

The Youngs also made hundreds of thousands of dollars from Andrew Young's 2010 tell-all about the affair and by selling film rights. Cheri Young agreed they had made money through the cover-up she said was initiated by her husband's boss.

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Risky business: The perils of attack politics

2012-05-01T23:52:31Z

But the unique circumstances surrounding the June 12 special election, which pits Barber and Republican Jesse Kelly — Giffords’s 2010 foe — at first gave the GOP pause. The Jan. 8, 2011 shooting that killed six and injured more than a ...

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US Senate Race Between Scott Brown, Elizabeth Warren Costliest In Nation So Far

2012-05-01T21:29:21Z

It's a contrast from other political contests in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 ruling in the Citizens United case, which has made it easier for corporations and wealthy donors to pour millions into campaigns. Both campaigns have ...

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UK lawmakers: Rupert Murdoch unfit to lead company

2012-05-01T18:44:42Z

Jury selection begins in Michigan stabbing spree trial over man’s 2010 death

2012-05-01T13:01:07Z

FLINT, Mich. — Defense lawyers acknowledge that DNA will be hard evidence to overcome in the first trial linked to a series of stabbings that killed five people in Michigan and injured many more in summer 2010. Victims who survived the late ...

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Oil Industry Fought EPA Texas Chief Who Quit in ‘Crucify’ Furor

2012-05-01T03:28:27Z

Wilson, a recipient of Armendariz’s 2010 e-mail, added: “He was doing the best job anybody possibly could in Texas, given the political jujitsu he had to operate under.” Oklahoma Republican Senator James Inhofe quoted from the video in a ...

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Report: Press freedom holds steady worldwide

2012-05-01T01:48:14Z

Oh, well: EPA official quits before we can demand it

2012-04-30T17:34:19Z

It certainly casts new light on the EPA's 2010 efforts to sanction Fort Worth-based Range Resources for water contamination allegedly caused by its hydraulic fracturing in Parker County. Range and the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates oil and gas

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Dominic Chagolla Found Guilty of Murder in His Mother's 2010 Stabbing Death

2012-04-30T16:51:22Z

Dominic Chagolla was described as a bit of a mama's boy in court documents obtained by New Times detailing the death of his mother, Maria Chagolla, in December 2010. Turns out, he wasn't that much of a mama's boy, as a jury found Dominic Chagolla guilty ..

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Joe DioGuardi, Gillibrand's 2010 GOP challenger, endorses Wendy Long

2012-04-30T16:01:15Z

Joe DioGuardi tried and failed to defeat U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., in 2010. Now, he's throwing his support behind Wendy Long's campaign to defeat New York's junior U.S. senator. Long's campaign announced DioGuardi's endorsement in a press .

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Beyond SB 1070's Legality, an Apparent Question of Equality

2012-04-30T08:37:26Z

But not now. Last, the Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments on the appeal of Arizona's 2010 immigration law, SB 1070. Unlike the recent Affordable Care Act case, the federal government is challenging state legislation, arguing that the ...

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Consumer 12.0: Online payday loan firms open flout Pa. laws

2012-04-30T07:18:42Z

But since the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling, Internet lenders who do business with Pennsylvanians are openly defying state law. There’s unquestionably market demand for short-term loans. Consumers with decent credit have other options ...

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Corporate Personhood Is Not the Problem with Citizens United

2012-04-30T03:08:10Z

For many people, especially progressives, the culprit is easy to name: the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which swept away any limits on election-advocacy ads by corporations, unions and ...

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Colorado CEO's hand-washers are tied in FDA's red tape

2012-04-30T02:53:51Z

"There's no reason for them not to be able to continue to develop their business." Glenn contributed to Bennet's 2010 race for the Senate, giving him $750, according to campaign-finance records. Glenn says he continues to push the FDA for some resolution.

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Prosecution set to continue case vs. Clemens

2012-04-29T23:54:53Z

Other redactions were in relation to McNamee's 2010 divorce case. In the court papers, the government said "the overwhelming majority of these allegations may not be pursued during any cross-examination of Mr. McNamee, because they do not have ...

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Case against Marco Rubio for VP grows by $8,000

2012-04-29T16:23:55Z

Marco Rubio just gave Republican Mitt Romney 8,000 reasons to not pick him as a vice presidential running mate. Rubio’s 2010 Senate campaign was fined $8,000 by the Federal Elections Commission, according to a just-released report that said it ...

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Consumer 12.0

2012-04-29T03:02:11Z

NHL Playoffs 2012: 3 Stars from the Capitals vs. Rangers Game 1

2012-04-28T22:23:01Z

Kreider, a member of Boston College’s 2010-11 NCAA championship team and the Rangers first pick (19th overall) in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft, spent 15:53 on the ice and showed why he’s one to watch with his clutch production in Game 1. The 6-foot-3 ...

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West Coast or North Coast, Cleveland Browns will run with Trent Richardson: Terry Pluto's post-draft scribbles

2012-04-28T21:18:35Z

BEREA, Ohio -- Final post-draft scribbles ... 1. You could have won some money from me on this: Pat Shurmur's 2011 Browns ran the ball more times (415) than Eric Mangini's 2010 Browns (413). For all the talk of the West Coast offense ...

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FEC fines Marco Rubio’s 2010 Senate campaign

2012-04-28T17:29:31Z

Marco Rubio’s 2010 Senate campaign committee agreed to pay an $8,000 fine as part of a settlement with the Federal Election Commission for violating campaign finance laws in connection with more than $210,000 in contributions. The settlement ...

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FEC fines Marco Rubio’s 2010 Senate campaign

2012-04-28T17:08:03Z

Marco Antonio Rubio (born May 28, 1971) is the junior United States Senator from Florida (2011–present). A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives (2007–2009). Born to a family ...

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Lorenzo takes pole in Spanish MotoGP

2012-04-28T10:12:52Z

Spain's 2010 world champion Jorge Lorenzo recorded his 46th career pole position here on Saturday when he posted the fastest time in qualifying for the Spanish MotoGP. Lorenzo's tally of 46 pole positions includes 20 in MotoGP. Lorenzo and Pedrosa swapped

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House acts to curb loan rates

2012-04-28T05:33:42Z

Democrats trained their fire on the Republican plan to pay for the bill by abolishing a preventive health fund created by Obama's 2010 revamping of the health-care system. Democrats said that the program especially helped women by allocating ...

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House approves bill holding student-loan interest rate at 3.4%

2012-04-28T02:56:13Z

Democrats trained their fire on the Republican plan to pay for the bill by abolishing a preventive health fund created by Obama's 2010 revamping of the health care system. Democrats said that program especially helped women by allocating money ...

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Sens. Bogdanoff, Sachs in South Florida showdown

2012-04-28T00:18:44Z

The judges found the Legislature this time around had adequately balanced the rights of minorities and political parties under the state's 2010 anti-gerrymandering reforms. Smith and Bogdanoff have always been cordial, and Smith said his ...

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Apple, EPIX Talks May Secure Content For iTV, Sources Say

2012-04-27T20:08:12Z

The talks could be complicated by EPIX's 2010 agreement with Netflix, which pays $200 million a year for the rights to stream movies to its 23.4 million U.S. clients. That deal gives Netflix exclusive streaming rights to EPIX movies through ...

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Lawyers argue over Edwards sex tape testimony at criminal trial; ex-aide testifies for 5th day

2012-04-27T19:18:05Z

Young's wife, Cheri, took the stand late Friday and will return on Monday. Lowell on Friday quoted a passage from Young's 2010 tell-all book about the Edwards' scandal, in which Young acknowledged being paid "hundreds of thousands of dollars ...

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Supremes uphold Florida Senate map, but two justices blast dividing black community

2012-04-27T12:01:26Z

TALLAHASSEE -- The Florida Supreme Court on Friday upheld the second-effort by lawmakers to fashion new Senate districts, ruling the Legislature had adequately balanced the rights of minorities and political parties under the state's 2010 anti-gerrymanderi

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Judicial Watch: Michelle Obama’s Trip to Spain Cost Taxpayers $467K

2012-04-27T09:09:38Z

Among the various travel costs, the group estimated — using the Defense Department’s 2010 published hourly rates — that it cost the government $199,323 to fly to Spain and back to the United States. The New York Times reported that those ...

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House GOP set to curb college student loan costs

2012-04-27T09:02:28Z

The GOP-written package would cover its $5.9 billion cost by plucking money from a preventive health fund established in President Barack Obama's 2010 health care overhaul law — a cut many Democrats are reluctant to make. Friday's vote comes with ...

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Report: Michelle Obama’s 2010 Spain Trip Cost $467,000

2012-04-27T08:55:19Z

Judicial Watch, a right-leaning watchdog group, has estimated that First Lady Michelle Obama’s 2010 trip to Spain cost taxpayers $467,585. The report is based on documents obtained from the Air Force and the Secret Service, according to The ...

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Single-Minded Super-PACs Oppose One Candidate at a Time

2012-04-27T03:04:33Z

The super-PAC and others are helping individual Senate candidates two years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling removed limits on corporate and union independent election spending. The groups, formed to influence races ...

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Sandpearl Resort in Florida Heats up the Month of May with Savings

2012-04-27T02:57:24Z

Both the Sandpearl Resort and its signature restaurant, Caretta on the Gulf, are AAA Four Diamond Award recipients. The resort was also recently included in Travel + Leisure’s 2010 Top 50 “Best Resorts in the US and Canada.”

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Hit-run scene described in grisly detail

2012-04-26T18:00:32Z

Teenage skateboarder Alexandria "Alix" Rice was struck with such force by Dr. James G. Corasanti's 2010 BMW that she was thrown 167 feet from the point of impact -- more than half the length of a football field, a prosecutor said Thursday.

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Fox News Now Denying Deforestation

2012-04-26T14:32:56Z

In Fact, The Globe Is Losing Forests The Size Of Costa Rica Every Year. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization's 2010 Global Forest Resources Assessment found that while the global rate of deforestation has declined, the net change in global forest area

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Achronix chairman: Intel foundry gambit poised for payoff

2012-04-26T11:55:27Z

Achronix’s 2010 decision to shift its foundry business from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to Intel’s fledgling foundry operation was a bold move that surprised many in the semiconductor industry, for two reasons. First, when ...

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JCPS mom to meet with Obama on Thursday

2012-04-26T07:44:55Z

She is a Kentucky PTA Legislative Committee member, the Kentucky delegate for Parenting Magazine's 2010 Mom Congress, she is part of the Mayor's Healthy Hometown Movement as a schools committee member and serves the district’s Clothing ...

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Susan Campbell: 'Vagina Monologues' author Eve Ensler Still Fighting And Writing To Empower Women

2012-04-26T01:32:41Z

Ensler's 2010 short story collection, "I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Lives of Girls Around the World," is Hartford Public Library's selected book this year for it's annual One Book One Hartford reading campaign. The piece is a series of ...

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Oregon Ducks get competitive juices flowing for annual spring game

2012-04-25T23:23:50Z

Oregon coach Chip Kelly said that last year's game raised about 67,000 pounds of food for the county food bank. UO's 2010 game raised 20,000 pounds of food. "That's another way for us to give back in a positive manner," Kelly said. "That's what ...

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U.S. high court appears to back Arizona on immigration

2012-04-25T16:42:58Z

It is expected around the same time justices are likely to rule on President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare overhaul law. The case, heard on the last day of oral arguments for the annual term, drew more than 100 reporters to the courtroom press ...

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The anti-immigrant game

2012-04-25T08:00:25Z

The Supreme Court hears oral arguments Wednesday on the constitutionality of Arizona's 2010 immigration enforcement law. If upheld, SB 1070 would require local police in most circumstances to determine the immigration status of anyone they stop ...

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The anti-immigrant game

2012-04-25T06:48:50Z

Lowered bond set in horrific South Miami-Dade DUI crash

2012-04-25T06:20:12Z

Miami-Dade police say Guillen, 38, was driving his girlfriend’s 2010 Range Rover southbound on the U.S. 1 busway at over 100 miles an hour when he plowed into the Camacho family’s minivan, tearing the vehicle in half as it turned on ...

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State Of The Air 2012: American Lung Association Reports Improvements, Challenges

2012-04-25T05:08:37Z

Nolen also cited the EPA's 2010 findings that reduced air pollution resulting from Clean Air Act amendments in 1990 prevented more than 160,000 premature deaths. Despite the benefits of reduced air pollution, Nolen said that generally ...

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Critz defeats Altmire in 12th District

2012-04-25T00:22:17Z

Mr. Critz now faces Mr. Altmire's 2010 Republican foe Keith Rothfus in the 12th District race. He will have to refill a war chest siphoned off by his face-off with Mr. Altmire, in a clash that Republican mapmakers forced by putting the incumbents in the ..

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Will Cleveland Browns take a pass at Oklahoma State's Justin Blackmon?

2012-04-24T19:57:26Z

I would've loved to have gone to Vegas rather than come back on the charter. That's completely unfair." Monken said Blackmon's 2010 DUI was an isolated incident. "A group of guys went down to the [Dallas] Cowboys game, and it was a mistake," said Monken.

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Avon Announces Long-Term Inducement Award to Sheri McCoy

2012-04-24T08:37:24Z

These RSUs were granted outside the terms of the company's 2010 Stock Incentive Plan in reliance on the exemption under NYSE Listed Company Manual Rule 303A.08, which requires this public announcement. As previously disclosed, the RSUs were granted to Ms .

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Super PAC Transparency: Mysterious Gifts To Romney Campaign Draw Scrutiny

2012-04-24T08:37:24Z

Those court cases, including the Supreme Court's 2010 ruling in Citizens United, gave a green light to corporations and labor unions to spend unlimited amounts of cash to support or defeat candidates. The federal rulings upheld longstanding ...

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Port Authority pays $498,000 salary and perk package to former financial officer

2012-04-24T08:37:24Z

Chris Christie ($175,000) and New York Gov. David Paterson ($179,000). According to the Port Authority’s website, Blanco’s 2010 compensation included a base salary of $232,392, plus several additional payments: $20,915 for "longevity pay;" $ ...

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The anti-immigrant game

2012-04-24T08:23:05Z

Abdelazim launches county executive bid

2012-04-24T07:25:49Z

He described the groundswell of public opinion surrounding the Broome County Legislature's 2010 decision not to lease county-owned land as "a reminder that empowered citizens can work in partnership with our elected leaders to achieve lasting ...

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Social Security's Forecast Gets a Bit Darker; Medicare Remains Unchanged (Washn)

2012-04-24T00:02:00Z

(c) 2012, The Washington Post. WASHINGTON — Surging energy prices and a slower-than-expected economic recovery have worsened the financial outlook for Social Security compared with last year, while the picture for Medicare remains grim but essentially ..

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Critics ding Mitt Romney for lack of transparency on tax returns

2012-04-23T18:18:24Z

Sloan wrote that he was "shocked by how politically clueless" Romney's 2010 return seemed. "Here were all sorts of games — obscure tax credits, a Swiss bank account — that were legitimate and above board, but didn’t save much money if any ...

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Republican Groups Help Romney Fill Cash Gap With Obama

2012-04-23T09:14:22Z

The ability of the Republicans to remain competitive with a president who faced no primary and holds a record for raising about $745 million for his 2008 campaign illustrates the impact of the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision removing limits on ...

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Health insurer CEOs' big paychecks are latest target of outraged shareholders

2012-04-23T09:07:13Z

CtW and Figueroa are also still outraged that Cigna and other insurers gave AHIP $86 million that AHIP in turn funneled to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to finance the Chamber's 2010 advertising and PR campaign against health care reform. The specific ...

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Jemima Kirke, 'Girls' Star, On Periods, Collaborations And Sex Scenes

2012-04-23T08:24:16Z

Besides lending her voice to the 2005 short film "Smile for the Camera," Kirke's only other onscreen appearance was in "Tiny Furniture," Lena Dunham's 2010 breakout indie movie. Dunham and Kirke have been friends since high school, and Kirke ...

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Mark Cuban Is Sick Of The Shadowy Bureaucrats In Switzerland Who Control The Olympics

2012-04-23T07:19:51Z

In fact, the IOC’s 2010 tax return shows a $1.4 billion net balance — as in cash in the bank. And if Wade, and other Olympians don’t ask for and get a share, then who does? Answer: A handful of unaccountable, Switzerland-based bureaucrats hiding ...

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Hatch Heading for a Fall?

2012-04-23T07:05:32Z

Hatch knew he would face opposition this year after Tea-party delegates, who dominated the Republican party’s 2010 state convention, unceremoniously dumped his Senate colleague Robert Bennett in favor of Mike Lee, the constitutional scholar ...

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Panetta Targets Drug and Arms Deals in South America Tour

2012-04-23T06:15:25Z

The assistance effort after Haiti’s 2010 earthquake faltered in the early days in part because many different military forces arrived to help, one of the U.S. defense officials said. To contact the reporter on this story: Viola Gienger in ...

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Bo Xilai Clan Links Included Citigroup Hiring of Elder Son

2012-04-22T12:00:12Z

The company’s 2010 annual report shows it owns properties across China, from Tianjin in the north to Chongqing, which Bo Xilai led until last month, in the southwest. At HKC, Li Xueming received a HK$100,000 annual stipend, according to the ...

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Don't rename Beaver Stadium

2012-04-22T08:03:59Z

according to the NCAA's 2010 graduation report. Paterno, who reportedly earned a $1,022,794 salary in 2011, was also a giving philanthropist, especially to Penn State. Along with his wife, Sue, he contributed more than $4 million to the university.

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Factbox: Arizona immigration law before U.S. Supreme Court

2012-04-22T06:59:33Z

The Supreme Court will consider the following four provisions of Arizona's 2010 law, entitled "Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act" and known nationally as S.B. 1070: Section 2(B) requires that state and local police officers attempt to

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Cantwell opponent repeats myths, overstates case on health law

2012-04-21T23:28:35Z

That oft-repeated line earned the news group PolitiFact's 2010 Lie of the Year. The law adds new regulations but largely relies on the current free-market health system to increase the number of Americans covered under private insurance. In fact ...

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Edwards lawyers to follow trail of 'Bunny money'

2012-04-21T21:05:25Z

The following month, Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter, informed the candidate she was pregnant. According to the account in Young's 2010 tell-all book about the affair, Edwards was unable to access his own money to support Hunter without his ...

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Hatch will face primary election for Senate seat

2012-04-21T17:59:18Z

Among other influences in the race, the conservative and tea party-aligned group FreedomWorks is seeking to unseat Hatch, as it and allies did in Bennett’s 2010 bid. The national political director of FreedomWorks said in a statement after ...

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Arizona's immigration law gets its day in U.S. Supreme Court

2012-04-21T11:11:17Z

He needs them to believe that to get them to overturn lower court decisions which have so far concluded that key provisions of SB 1070, the state’s 2010 comprehensive measure aimed at illegal immigrants, are preempted by federal law. But three law ...

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Edwards lawyers to follow trail of 'Bunny money'

2012-04-21T10:49:48Z

Business leaders say they may not fight union initiative to repeal corporate kicker tax rebates

2012-04-20T22:11:02Z

Equally important was what the unions decided not to do: They did not move forward with two controversial tax hikes on large corporations and wealthy individuals that would have reprised the state's 2010 bitter ballot fight over taxing higher ...

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Edwards lawyers to follow trail of 'Bunny money'

2012-04-20T19:55:01Z

ALEC's Other 'Deadly Force' Campaign to Kill Climate Initiatives

2012-04-20T17:46:10Z

Regardless, an ExxonMobil representative sits on ALEC's corporate board, the company cosponsored ALEC's 2010 annual conference, and between 1998 and 2010, it contributed nearly $1.5 million to ALEC. And when a Bloomberg reporter contacted the company ...

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Mitt Romney Super PAC Raises $8.6 Million From Wealthy, Corporations

2012-04-20T17:31:51Z

Corporations, which have been enabled to donate to independent groups like Restore Our Future by the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling, accounted for $1.825 million of the super PAC's March haul. Aside from Huron Carbon LLC ...

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Consumer Group to FDA: Take Victoza off the Market

2012-04-20T16:41:45Z

In the 17 months following the drug's 2010 approval, 200 patients reported having acute pancreatitis. Public Citizen believes that the real number of cases may be much higher. "Because only an estimated 10% of cases are reported, potentially as ...

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Hollywood Studios Lose Australia Lawsuit Over Downloads

2012-04-20T07:23:24Z

An appeal court last year upheld Justice Dennis Cowdroy’s 2010 verdict that iiNet wasn’t liable. The High Court judgment supported the company’s position and proved the studios’ claims were unfounded, iiNet Chief Executive Officer Michae ...

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Does a majority of millionaires really support the Buffett Rule?

2012-04-20T05:57:30Z

That's a big weakness as far as polling is concerned. We don't report these surveys per our methodology standards at the Post, and the American Association for Public Opinion Research's 2010 task force cautions researchers to avoid such panels ...

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Hollywood Studios Lose Australia Lawsuit Over Downloads

2012-04-20T03:55:49Z

Longtime GOP senator faces major test

2012-04-20T02:51:23Z

He previously led the Senate GOP push for a balanced budget amendment and was a co-sponsor of a Republican amendment to repeal the new health care law. He also landed a perfect score in the American Conservative Union's 2010 ratings.

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Republican Debate: Senate Candidates Shays, McMahon Draw Sharp Contrasts

2012-04-19T22:40:51Z

The DCCC spearheaded efforts to unseat Republicans such as Shays in Congress. And he brought up McMahon's 2010 campaign for Senate, a race she lost to Democrat Richard Blumenthal despite spending $50 million of her own money. "I know Mrs ...

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Oromin Explorations Ltd.: Progress Update for the OJVG Gold Project

2012-04-19T20:53:28Z

OJVG's 2010 Feasibility Study delivered robust economics for a carbon-in-leach ("CIL") mining operation with initial annual production of 187,000 ounces of gold over the first three years from the Golouma, Masato, Kerekounda and Kourouloulou deposits.

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Analysis - A Romney pick for top U.S. court? Frontrunners emerge

2012-04-19T18:51:47Z

Bush and is now a lawyer in private practice, is the favourite of many conservatives. Clement argued last month for the Supreme Court to strike down Obama's 2010 healthcare law, and he is defending laws that ban same-sex marriage and that target illegal im

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Analysis: A Romney pick for top U.S. court? Frontrunners emerge

2012-04-19T14:19:46Z

Clement argued last month for the Supreme Court to strike down Obama's 2010 healthcare law, and he is defending laws that ban same-sex marriage and that target illegal immigrants. Clement, 45, would be "at the top of any short list right now ...

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Comptroller blames Lewisboro's 2010 tax hike on poor oversight, not recession

2012-04-19T13:36:49Z

LEWISBORO — The culprit for the town’s blown savings and a subsequent 25 percent tax rate increase two years ago is town leaders who didn’t watch finances carefully enough, and not the recession, according to a state audit of this semi ...

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Texas Heart Institute teams up with top Houston eateries, chefs

2012-04-19T08:57:39Z

Click here to preview the menus from each restaurant. Texas Heart Institute ranked as the fourth best heart center in the nation on U.S. News & World Report’s 2010 “America’s Best Hospitals” list. THI ranked No. 4 for the second year in ...

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Shelron Group Subsidiary Signs Binding Memorandum of Understanding to Acquire Six Gold Exploration Licenses

2012-04-19T06:05:51Z

According to Infomine.com, Carmen de Andacollo' s 2010 production included 34.8kt of copper and 27,700 oz. of gold, with a value in excess of $40M. Serena Gold's soon to be acquired prospect is easily accessible by road with the highest ...

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American Sentinel University Launches New Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) in Educational Leadership for Nurse Educators

2012-04-19T03:14:03Z

The Carnegie Foundation’s 2010 publication, ‘Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation,’ and the Institute of Medicine’s 2010 report, ‘The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health,’ provided much of the DNP Educational ...

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Editorial: Mitt Romney should release tax returns

2012-04-19T02:59:44Z

Guess what — they're doing that already simply by speculating on what might be in other years' returns based on the candidate's 2010 filing. So the question facing the Romney campaign seems to be simple: Do they tolerate months of speculation ...

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Swaps-Dealer Defined, Commodity Options, Fund Ads: Compliance

2012-04-19T00:50:53Z

The judge refused requests by Ford’s lawyers to have the FSA’s 2010 warning notice thrown out, and for any investigator who had seen the protected e-mails to be removed from the agency’s probe. The FSA had to suspend its four-year ...

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White House sharply critical of GOP bid to cut food stamps, federal pensions

2012-04-18T18:24:20Z

Across the Capitol, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee convened a debate on a plan by Obama's 2010 deficit commission. But Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., didn't permit a vote on the measure, which lacks enough support to make it through the ...

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Food stamps, federal pensions face GOP cuts

2012-04-18T17:19:55Z

Gulf Seafood Deformities Raise Questions Among Scientists And Fisherman (VIDEO)

2012-04-18T13:02:13Z

While the true extent of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill was not known for about 4 years, as Al Jazeera notes in the video above, the repercussions of BP's 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico may become apparent more quickly.

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Congressional Summit: Lawmakers and Activist Organizations Demand End to Corporate Dominance of Political Campaigns

2012-04-18T11:36:19Z

Federal Election Commissiondecision. Eight members of Congress are slated to come together at the Capitol Visitors Center to explain their support for an amendment to undo the court’s 2010 ruling. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and U.S. Rep.

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Plaintiffs' Steering Committee And BP Finalize Settlement

2012-04-18T10:39:03Z

The applicable RTP is generally applied to an eligible proposed Class member's 2010 losses and serves as a multiplier on those losses. RTPs will be uniquely calculated for each category of claim. Unlike a simple multiplier, the RTP enhancement ...

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Rep. John Mica claims GSA problems not limited to Las Vegas

2012-04-18T09:13:09Z

Tuesday’s hearing was the second of several to focus on the GSA Public Buildings Service’s 2010 Western Regions Conference, a four-day event held near Las Vegas that featured more than $100 million in pre-event trips to Sin City. A Senate ...

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SXC to Buy Catalyst in $4.4 Billion Pharmacy Service Deal

2012-04-18T06:57:08Z

SXC also makes software that processed one out of every five drug claims in the U.S, according to the company's 2010 annual report. JPMorgan Chase & Co. served as lead financial adviser to SXC, while Barclays Plc assisted and Sidley Austin LLP ...

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More than 1,100 Cubans reported detained during papal visit

2012-04-18T06:35:40Z

He was sentenced to 25 years in prison during a 2003 crackdown on 75 dissidents known as Cuba's Black Spring, and was freed last spring as part of the Cuban government's 2010 agreement with the Catholic Church to free political prisoners.

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Mitt’s evolving strategy: Romney’s notion of shutting down Education Department is foolish

2012-04-18T03:51:01Z

Those days of Tea Partying like it’s 2010 are well past us. Better give that Etch A Sketch another shake or two. The U.S. Department of Education was created in 1980 when the Health, Education and Welfare department was split into the Education ...

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Haley accused of 'making stuff up' in book

2012-04-17T09:50:07Z

Democrats, including Haley's 2010 opponent in the governor's race, describe the book as "fiction." [...] [A]dded a Democratic state representative, "This lady just makes stuff up." Some of the problems have less to do with dishonesty and more to ...

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Michigan women don't fare well in wage gap study

2012-04-17T06:58:19Z

The median yearly salary for women in Michigan was $36,413 in 2010, while men made $48,953, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2010 American Community Survey. The median wages are for full-time, year-round workers. African American women ...

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Romney Tax Tips: 10 Ways to Stiff the IRS

2012-04-17T05:53:54Z

Citizens for Tax Justice recently waded through Romney's 2010 return—in which his $22 million in income was miraculously taxed at just 13.9 percent—to come up with a handy primer for how you, too, can beat the IRS at its own game.

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HP: Oracle executives believed Sun acquisition was a mistake

2012-04-17T02:54:57Z

IDG News Service - Oracle decided on an aggressive strategy against Hewlett-Packard's Itanium servers after sales of competing Sun's Sparc servers had been in a free fall, and Oracle's executives stated internally that the company's 2010 ...

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Labor Notes | Fair Share Rally set for today in KC

2012-04-17T01:07:34Z

That’s one of the byproducts of the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, which paved the way for individuals, corporations and unions to give unlimited contributions to independent political committees. In filings due to the ...

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Metropolitan Museum Paid Director Campbell $1 Million, Up 12%

2012-04-17T00:17:28Z

Total compensation increased 12 percent, according to the Met’s 2010-2011 tax return. Campbell, 49, earned $653,402 in salary, up 2 percent. Housing, retirement, travel and other benefits and expenses were valued by the museum at $389,051.

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Gallardo to testify before Senate panel

2012-04-16T23:05:53Z

PHOENIX - State Sen. Steve Gallardo is scheduled to testify before a U.S. Senate committee about immigration enforcement on the day before the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments over Arizona's 2010 immigration law. The U.S. Senate's subcommittee on ...

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Foster drops work on behalf of Idaho's 'Students Come First,' asks not to be called a Democrat

2012-04-16T22:44:24Z

John Foster, a former executive director of the Idaho Democratic party and former Democratic Congressman Walt Minnick's 2010 campaign manager, said Monday that he has ended his volunteer affiliation with the campaign by GOP Gov. Butch Otter and ...

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Birmingham woman sentenced to 21 years in roommate's 2010 stabbing death

2012-04-16T21:32:49Z

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- A 42-year-old Birmingham woman accused of killing her roommate in 2010 by stabbing the woman more than 100 times today pleaded guilty to murder. Nancy Kinuthia was sentenced to 21 years in prison, minus the the time she ...

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Michaux: Bubba Watson's world gets a whole lot bigger

2012-04-16T19:59:46Z

It wasn’t so long ago that Bubba Watson had to beg and plead via Twitter videos to get on a talk show. Watson’s 2010 self-promotional campaign to woo the attention of daytime talk comedienne Ellen DeGeneres included singing Happy Birthday to ...

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Atna Reports Progress on Development of the Pinson Mine

2012-04-16T08:11:06Z

with Canadian securities regulators and its filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's 2010 Form 20-F dated March 26, 2012

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No longer an arc nemesis

2012-04-16T07:56:47Z

Scott Cunningham/Getty ImagesAll of a sudden, Avery Bradley can't miss from downtown. Go back and read ESPN's 2010 NBA Draft Profile of Avery Bradley. Nearly two years after the Celtics snagged him with the 19th overall pick, and amidst his ...

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Letter: Jail is not rehab, Muskegon needs better drug treatment facilities

2012-04-16T07:49:37Z

The Medical Examiner’s 2010 Annual Report indicates that there were six accidental deaths attributed to heroin that year. This is up from 2008, when one death was reported and up from 2009, when five deaths were reported. Overall deaths from ...

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Will Scott Walker's Recall Give Tom Barrett His Revenge?

2012-04-16T05:55:05Z

Tom Barrett wants a second shot at Scott Walker. The 58-year-old mayor of Milwaukee lost to Walker by nearly 125,000 votes in Wisconsin's 2010 gubernatorial election, a bitterly fought race in a tea party-fueled GOP landslide year. Now ...

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Gallardo invited to testify before US Senate panel examining states enforcing immigration laws

2012-04-16T05:47:56Z

PHOENIX — State Sen. Steve Gallardo has been invited to testify before a U.S. Senate committee about immigration enforcement on the day before the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments over Arizona's 2010 immigration law. The U.S. Senate's ...

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Utility plans field work on possible hydro project

2012-04-16T04:00:33Z

The project as anticipated would generate about 20,500 megawatt hours annually, about 4.2 percent of the utility’s 2010 annual demand. HEA spokesman Joe Gallagher told the Peninsula Clarion (http://bit.ly/IpTvw8) that a subsidiary evaluated ...

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Haley’s memoir ‘just makes stuff up,’ its critics charge

2012-04-15T23:57:10Z

Democrats, including Haley’s 2010 opponent in the governor’s race, describe the book as “fiction.” Haley’s office said Friday the governor sticks by all the accounts in her memoir. “The governor stands by everything in the book ...

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On the Spot: ADA rules on hotel room accessibility for disabled

2012-04-15T09:02:23Z

What does the Americans With Disabilities Act mandate? And who trains hotel personnel? Answer: If you read the Justice Department's "2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design," dated Sept. 15, and you're not a detail person, you may be tempted to ...

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Haley’s memoir ‘makes stuff up,’ critics charge

2012-04-15T07:50:48Z

Vermont lawmakers work to unravel Citizens United ruling

2012-04-15T06:53:32Z

The lawmakers' goal is to weaken the effects of the Supreme Court's 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission, which allowed corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts on ads criticizing or supporting individual candidates.

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L.A. County assessor's donor got tax break from unusual delay

2012-04-15T03:11:38Z

Kaplan, his immediate family, co-workers and employees contributed $30,000 to Noguez's 2010 election campaign. When The Times asked in late March why Kaplan's house still had not been reassessed, Noguez's chief of staff, George Renkei ...

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Redistricting forces nasty battle in new 12th District

2012-04-15T00:12:40Z

Even the biggest issue in their race -- Mr. Obama's 2010 health care reform bill -- is something they both opposed. Mr. Altmire, 44, of McCandless, alienated organized labor with his health care vote, and its leaders are going all out to win the April 24 .

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VERMONT TAKES ON THE CONCEPT OF CORPORATE PERSONHOOD

2012-04-14T23:58:21Z

An expert on the subject of corporate personhood, he recently debated noted First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams on corporations, free speech and the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision on the pages of The ...

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Monarch Bank Promotes Small Business Growth and Job Creation With $50,000 'Top Flight' Award

2012-04-14T22:32:28Z

One semifinalist was chosen from three unique business categories based upon a formula that took into account: growth in both revenue and full-time staff employed over the company's 2010, 2009, and 2008 fiscal years. An independent panel of five ...

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Northampton City Council to vote on resolution in opposition to Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling

2012-04-14T15:51:36Z

NORTHAMPTON – Venturing into the national political theater, the City Council will take up a resolution at its next meeting that calls on Congress to pass a Constitutional amendment reversing the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling.

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Apple denies alleged price fixing on e-books

2012-04-14T03:55:46Z

Further adding that Apple’s 2010 launch of the iBookstore had “fostered innovation and competition” by breaking Amazon's monopolistic hold on the digital books industry, Neumayr said that iBookstore customers have benefited from e-books which are ...

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Obamas show $790,000 in earnings

2012-04-14T00:56:49Z

Romney's 2010 tax return, released earlier this year, showed he and his wife paid an effective rate of 14 percent on earnings of about $21 million, largely from investments. In January, Romney estimated he would pay a rate of 15 percent in 2011.

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Your Republican Friends Are Going to Love Lockout

2012-04-13T22:19:20Z

But if its tough-guy-rescuing-Maggie-Grace premise is lifted from Besson's 2010 hit, that's merely one of the many other films echoing throughout the futuristic space prison at its center; there's just as much Escape from New York, Die Hard, and Demolition

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Bright Spots for Plaintiffs in SEC Report on Morrison v. NAB

2012-04-13T20:10:29Z

It's a good read for securities litigation junkies, but we weren't exactly bowled over by the congressionally-mandated report that the Securities & Exchange Commission released late Wednesday in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 ruling ...

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Report links Bobby Petrino to bikini model Alison Melder

2012-04-12T16:58:23Z

The University of Arkansas-Little Rock graduate worked with the Young Republicans of Arkansas and on Jim Keet’s 2010 campaign team. Her online profile no longer exists. Phone records released to the media on Wednesday show thousands of phone ...

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Shell Shares Fall on Fears of Gulf of Mexico Spill

2012-04-12T10:03:13Z

Shares in Royal Dutch Shell fell on Thursday as the company stepped up efforts to monitor an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, in a market still jittery after BP's 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. Shell shares fell 5 percent in London, while the U.S.-listed

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UPDATE 2-Shell shares fall on Gulf of Mexico spill fears

2012-04-12T09:13:06Z

HOUSTON/LONDON, April 12 (Reuters) - Shares in Royal Dutch Shell fell on Thursday as the company stepped up efforts to monitor an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, in a market still jittery after BP's 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. Shell has ...

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Unions, super-PACs at issue in campaigns for Pa.'s 18th District

2012-04-12T00:44:52Z

The PACs cannot work directly with campaigns, but they are free of spending limits and can have anonymous donors, under the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision. Mr. Murphy said the groups didn't understand issues unique to his district and called

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Attorneys: Dismiss DPS death lawsuit

2012-04-12T00:09:04Z

The Department of Public Safety filing called the family’s arguments “frivolous.” Israel Leija’s 2010 death was a product of his “own negligence and/or intentional acts or omission,” the DPS said. The lawsuit, filed last month by ...

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Durst's opponent in Boise Democratic primary says he's the only reliable proponent of abortion rights

2012-04-11T18:32:38Z

Matthew Duncan says former Rep. Branden Durst's 2010 vote for a "freedom of conscience" law is a key distinction in the Democratic Senate primary in Southeast Boise's District 18. "Branden is pretty good on education, but there's a clear ...

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Kelley Drye, SNR Denton, Shearman, Kirkland: Business of Law

2012-04-11T08:02:42Z

The law firm entered into a consent decree on April 3 with the EEOC to resolve the agency’s 2010 lawsuit, according to a judgment filed yesterday in federal court in Manhattan. The EEOC enforces U.S. anti-bias laws. The agency claimed that the ...

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On the Web and at the White House, Obama to Hammer Romney Wednesday

2012-04-11T07:55:33Z

As the White House does this, the Obama campaign will put on its website a calculator that allows people to see what they'd pay in taxes if they paid Mitt Romney's 2010 tax rate of 13.9 percent - a perfectly legal tax rate, since most of Romney's income ..

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Commemorative bricks available outside Berea's two schools being demolished

2012-04-11T06:29:39Z

Utility costs for the 2011 school year, during which it was closed, have been $71,888. Built in 1960, Riveredge’s 2010 utility costs were $73,863. The 2011 school year utility costs have been $58,854. That includes payments for electricity ...

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Scathing Galway audit finds that town's practices are unfair to taxpayers

2012-04-11T05:03:45Z

which created uneven taxpayer burdens in the town’s 2010, 2011 and 2012 spending plans. The audit noted the town collected $250,000 in property taxes to balance its part-town highway fund in 2010 and 2011. The town was supposed to first use ...

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U.S. report: Christie overstated tunnel costs

2012-04-11T02:54:54Z

Following Christie's 2010 decision, the $2 billion that the state had designated for the 8.8-mile tunnel was shifted to New Jersey's depleted Transportation Trust Fund, the primary source of money for highway and transit projects. The governor ...

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Kelley Drye Settles EEOC Suit Over Attorney Age Bias Claim

2012-04-10T18:48:08Z

The law firm entered into a consent decree on April 3 with the EEOC to resolve the agency’s 2010 lawsuit, according to a judgment filed today in federal court in Manhattan. The EEOC enforces U.S. anti-bias laws. The agency claimed that the ...

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Membership decline doesn’t lessen Blue Dogs’ financial bite

2012-04-10T18:19:30Z

To put that in perspective, Thompson’s 2010 Republican opponent Loren Hanks raised just $114,869 to campaign against the seven-term Democrat in the last election. But in modern politics, the contributions of Political Action Committees (PAC) can swing an

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End Of Blur: Damon Albarn Talks Blur Disbanding, Calls New Gorillaz Materiel 'Unlikely'

2012-04-10T06:16:31Z

So until a time comes when that knot has been untied..." During the band's 2010 world tour, the two had a falling out when Hewlett thought that his visuals were no longer as central to their performance. "It was one of those things," Albarn said.

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Branstad sides with Grassley's 'stupid' comment

2012-04-10T03:39:02Z

Obama last week said that he was confident that the Supreme Court would not strike down Congress’s 2010 health care law because it “would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a ...

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Suspects in deadly Tulsa shootings to make first court appearance

2012-04-10T02:48:56Z

As part of the investigation, authorities were examining England's use of a racial slur on his Facebook page to mark the anniversary of his father's 2010 killing. A day before the shootings, England wrote on his Facebook page that it was the second ...

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Growing the Numbers (2 Letters)

2012-04-09T23:57:08Z

Re "Giving Women the Access Code" (April 3): The American Association of University Women's 2010 research report "Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics" details strategies to help attract and retain more women in these disc

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Experts: Obamacare could hit paycheck

2012-04-09T23:57:08Z

President Obama’s 2010 national health care law took many of its cues from the Bay State legislation. Kowalski, a Danvers native, told the Herald Romneycare’s estimated $6,058 added cost to workers comes from firms passing most insurance expenses onto

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Records Show Link Between Gray Campaign Driver And Thompson Associate

2012-04-09T16:04:41Z

Here's another link between Mayor Vince Gray's 2010 campaign and Jeff Thompson, the Medicaid contractor at the center of a federal investigation into campaign finance issues. The link: Gray's campaign driver worked for a longtime associate of ...

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Supporters of convicted killer Charles Wilhite expected in court to support push for new trial

2012-04-09T08:19:24Z

Rodriguez. A motion to overturn Wilhite's 2010 conviction, for which he is currently serving life imprisonment without parole, has been filed, and last month Judge Peter A. Velis said he would consider new evidence in weighing whether to order a ...

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Tulsa suspects to appear in court Monday

2012-04-09T06:24:52Z

Key Democrat vows hearings on 'outrageous' GSA

2012-04-08T23:51:09Z

WASHINGTON — In the days after the Inspector General released a scathing report regarding the General Services Administration's 2010 Western Regions Conference boondoggle, the fallout continues with one unbelievable story about the $822,751 spending ...

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Bill Press: Mexicans pull the triggers; we supply the guns

2012-04-08T23:08:12Z

Calderon’s comments came in response to a reporter’s question about the ongoing drug wars in Mexico, in which, according to STRATFOR’s 2010 annual report on Mexico’s drug cartels, more than 11,000 people were killed in 2010 alone. Could American ..

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Issa panel to probe GSA spending

2012-04-08T19:54:56Z

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) announced Monday his committee will investigate the General Services Administration’s 2010 Las Vegas conference — and may expand the probe to other GSA conferences from ..

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The end of late budgets in New York? It's possible

2012-04-08T19:54:56Z

ALBANY -- From 1985 through 2004, it was a state Capitol tradition: April 1 would pass, and the state budget was not approved. In 2004, the budget went unresolved until Aug. 11, the latest in state history. In 2010, the record was almost ...

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Meet Mindanao’s richest and poorest governors

2012-04-08T00:56:46Z

But del Rosario’s 2010 net worth of P255.51M is his lowest compared with P302.28M in 2009, P408.94M in 2007 and P302.4M in 2003. Del Rosario topped among 18 out of 27 Mindanao governors who filed their SALN in 2010, records from the Deputy ...

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VERMONT TAKES ON THE CONCEPT OF CORPORATE PERSONHOOD

2012-04-08T00:49:37Z

Ann McFeatters: It's time: Obama vs. Romney on the issues

2012-04-08T00:42:27Z

If the Supreme Court does not rule Obama's 2010 health care overhaul act unconstitutional, Romney says his first priority would be repealing it.While Romney championed similar reforms in Massachusetts, he argues health insurance is a states' rights issue.

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Obama Seeks To Define Mitt Romney As Insensitive, Out Of Touch

2012-04-08T00:35:18Z

On healthcare, Obama advisers gleefully describe the president's 2010 reform law as modeled on Romney's own effort in Massachusetts, reminding conservative Republicans of the candidate's moderate past Obama will also bring renewed attention on ...

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Press: Mexicans pull the trigger; we supply the guns

2012-04-07T22:33:36Z

CORRECTED-Isn't it 'marvelous?' Obama seeks to define Romney for voters

2012-04-07T09:19:02Z

Did 2010 email contribute to Republican dominance in the general election?

2012-04-07T08:07:27Z

In the weeks prior to Michigan’s 2010 general elections a chain email was being to Michigan Republicans as a motivational tool. The email could have motivated the GOP members as the election provided victory to every Republican candidate running for ...

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If California taxpayers paid up, state's deficit would disappear

2012-04-07T02:59:39Z

The state's $10 billion income tax gap and $2.3 billion sales and use tax gap total 13 percent of the state's 2010-11 general fund budget, the year for which they were estimated. The Franchise Tax Board, which oversees income tax collection ...

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$12 billion in taxes go unpaid in California

2012-04-06T23:10:35Z

The state's $10 billion income tax gap and $2.3 billion sales and use tax gap total 13% of the state's 2010-11 general fund budget, the year for which they were estimated. The Franchise Tax Board, which oversees income tax collection ...

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Windsor urges Congress to limit political spending by corporations

2012-04-06T23:10:35Z

Councilman Steve Allen declined to vote. The resolution approved by the council aims to counter the rollback of legal limits to corporate spending that resulted from the high court's 2010 ruling in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission.

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Opinions on the port project: A sampler

2012-04-06T20:18:47Z

From Australia’s 2010 National Ports Strategy Report: “Australia needs a nationally coordinated approach to the future development and planning of Australia’s port and freight infrastructure. From last week’s  AJC ‘Port Wars ...

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Naturi Naughton Talks New Role In 'The Client List' & Life After 'The Playboy Club'

2012-04-06T17:26:59Z

Based on the network's 2010 original film of the same name, the new series follows Jennifer Love Hewitt's character, Riley Parks, as she pursues a job at day spa in Texas. During a recent interview with The Huffington Post, the former 3LW singer ...

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Major backer of Calif. pot legalization calls it quits

2012-04-06T15:53:55Z

The man who funded a large swath of the marijuana legalization campaign activities during California’s 2010 election season has called it quits following a federal raid earlier this week on his business in Oakland. Richard Lee, who ran ...

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Rwandan court reduces sentences on jailed journalists

2012-04-06T13:23:36Z

The two female journalists — both widows with children — were arrested in a string of media crackdowns before Rwanda’s 2010 presidential elections, when two popular media outlets were closed by the government and several reporters fled into exile.

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Citizens United, Supreme Court Targeted In Campaign By 'Outraged' Progressive Group

2012-04-06T06:14:06Z

WASHINGTON -- The progressive grassroots organization Democracy for America launched a new campaign to push back against the Supreme Court's 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (FEC). The group wants to create ...

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Health reform's decisive moment

2012-04-06T05:16:50Z

disproportionate attention is focused on how each Supreme Court justice is likely to vote in the landmark case that will decide the constitutionality of some or all of the nation’s 2010 health reform law. That’s an important concern ...

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Campaign questions expand on Attorney General Horne

2012-04-06T02:46:31Z

We don't have any direct information into this. We're just responding to Dybus' allegations." Dybus, who worked on Horne's 2010 campaign, would not say Thursday whether he contacted the FBI before he wrote his February letter to the Secretary of ...

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Mexicans pull the trigger; we supply the guns

2012-04-06T00:23:21Z

Calderon's comments came in response to a reporter's question about the ongoing drug wars in Mexico, in which, according to STRATFOR's 2010 annual report on Mexico's drug cartels, more than 11,000 people were killed in 2010 alone. Could American ...

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Flyers Eliminate Sabres From NHL Playoffs In 2-1 Win

2012-04-05T23:47:33Z

Buffalo grabbed a 1-0 lead in the second when Ville Leino played spoiler against his former team. Leino, part of Philadelphia's 2010 Eastern Conference championship team, scored his eighth goal with 2:34 left in the second period. He was in the ...

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ICSD adds capital purchases to May 15 ballot

2012-04-05T22:50:17Z

The proposition would authorize the board to appropriate funds from the district's 2010 capital reserve fund in the maximum amount of $1,360,200 and to spend those funds on capital projects, bus purchases and maintenance vehicle purchases.

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Bay State not buying 'war on women'

2012-04-05T07:12:33Z

Political analysts shocked by Republican Scott Brown’s 2010 victory to replace Ted Kennedy as Massachusetts senator should brace themselves. This year’s contest between Sen. Brown and Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren remains a key battleground ...

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Worth waiting for ... An evening with Author Henry Louse Gates Jr., moderated by UNH's Reginald Wilburn at The Loft April 16

2012-04-05T02:47:42Z

The unfortunate circumstance led him to be a star participant in President Obama's 2010 Rose Garden "Beer Summit," where he appeared with the Cambridge policeman who handcuffed him that dark night. Gates, laden with luggage, was returning from ...

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NH-02: State attorney general sues Republican Rep. Charlie Bass over misidentified polling

2012-04-04T22:22:51Z

Charlie Bass's 2010 campaign committee of using a push poll against Democrat Ann Kuster that did not mention the call was on his behalf. [...] The state's lawsuit, filed in Merrimack County Superior Court, seeks $400,000 in fines—up to $1,000 ...

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N.H. Rep. Charlie Bass' campaign in ‘push polling’ lawsuit

2012-04-04T22:22:51Z

CONCORD, N.H. — The New Hampshire attorney general’s office has filed a civil lawsuit against Rep. Charlie Bass’s 2010 campaign committee, charging it “deliberately avoided” identifying itself as a sponsor of a negative push poll against Democrat

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Far-right Hungarian lawmaker urged to resign

2012-04-04T21:25:35Z

The Jobbik party won nearly 17 percent of the vote in Hungary's 2010 election and is the largest opposition party behind the Socialists. Its popularity has been based on an extreme nationalist message with strong anti-Roma and anti-Semitic overtones.

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Committee Raises $910,000 for Scott in First Quarter

2012-04-04T19:52:31Z

TALLAHASSEE | . A political committee that played an important role in Gov. Rick Scott's 2010 election raised $910,000 in contributions during the first three months of this year, according to state records. The Let's Get to Work Committee also ...

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Republican Voters in West Allis, Wisconsin Move to Amend

2012-04-04T15:41:59Z

WEST ALLIS - April 4 - Last night West Allis, Wisconsin, a conservative Milwaukee suburb, voted overwhelmingly to reject the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United v. FEC ruling. Republican Party primary voters approved a resolution calling for ...

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New ASNE figures show percentage of minorities in newspaper newsrooms continues to decline

2012-04-04T13:33:08Z

The share has dropped about a percentage point since ASNE’s 2010 census. Minority newsroom employment has no doubt increased since ASNE started its survey in 1978, when the percentage of minorities in newsroom was just below 4 percent.

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Tim Cahill in Boston courtroom today to face criminal charges for allegedly misusing $1.6M in Massachusetts Lottery ad money

2012-04-04T08:53:57Z

Cahill is due in a Boston courtroom today to begin the criminal process against him and two aides, all of whom are charged with using $1.6 million in Massachusetts Lottery ad money to bolster Cahill’s 2010 campaign for governor. Cahill ...

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Tim Cahill indictments shine light on pols’ election advertising

2012-04-04T08:18:10Z

Cahill, his former campaign manager, Scott Campbell, and former Lottery chief of staff Alfred Grazioso Jr. will be arraigned today on charges they orchestrated a TV ad campaign for the Lottery that was carefully coordinated to promote Cahill’s 2010 ...

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Wonkbook: Where Ryan’s and Obama's budgets (mostly) agree

2012-04-04T08:11:00Z

That exercise can reveal surprising truths. That's a change from past years. Ryan's 2010 Roadmap included major reforms to Social Security, including private accounts. His previous budget featured much more dramatic reforms to Medicare ...

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Recession accelerated decline of employer health coverage

2012-04-04T01:58:47Z

according to findings from HSC's 2010 Health Tracking Household Survey, a national survey with information on 13,595 nonelderly people. However, well before the start of the Great Recession in December 2007, a steady decline of employer health coverage was

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Corporate Personhood Was Key, Ironically, To New Court Ruling Requiring Donor Disclosure

2012-04-04T00:04:15Z

WASHINGTON -- Progressive activists angered by the Supreme Court's 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission allowing corporations to spend freely in elections often point the finger of blame at the legal doctrine that ...

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Media Access Project to fold in May

2012-04-03T23:42:46Z

The news came as a surprise to a number of public-interest vets inside the Beltway. But, according to MAP’s 2010 tax filing, its revenue was down more than $100,000 from the year earlier. Andrew Jay Schwartzman, the longtime leader of the ...

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Bass campaign accused of NH push polling violation

2012-04-03T17:44:51Z

The New Hampshire attorney general sued U.S. Rep. Charlie Bass's 2010 campaign committee Tuesday, accusing it of violating the state's push polling law. Push polling _ the practice of asking voters questions intended to influence their decisions ...

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Murder victim's 2010 complaint alleged thefts, drug use

2012-04-03T02:57:14Z

— The Limestone County grandmother killed by her live-in grandson last week had called authorities to her home in 2010 over her grandson’s conduct. Paul “Jamie” Pigg, 33, was charged with domestic violence for cursing at his 68-year-old grandmother

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Rock Hill Democrat faces tough race in new 5th Congressional District

2012-04-02T07:44:45Z

Following Spratt’s 2010 loss, Knott served on the Democratic Party committee tasked with finding a new candidate. The committee approached several candidates, but in the end, she decided to run. She said her decision may have taken many by ...

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A Crucial Question: Are We Shooting Enough Endangered Species?

2012-04-02T07:16:07Z

The fact that the three antelope species went from a few dozen when they first arrived in Texas in the late 1970s to more than 17,000 in the organization’s 2010 census makes the conservation argument a “no-brainer,” said Seale, standing in ...

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Medicare budget debate about who makes the cuts

2012-04-02T02:15:28Z

Democrats say a panel of experts, created in the Obama administration's 2010 health-care overhaul, should decide how to wring savings from the program. "There is no dispute over endpoints; it's all about how you get there," said former ...

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Nursing home advocates: Bill kills reform

2012-04-01T23:45:09Z

One advocate said House Bill 5849, sponsored by Rep. David Leitch, R-Peoria, would roll back much of the state's 2010 landmark nursing home reform law and put more residents at risk. "This is how nursing home reform dies," said Wendy Meltzer, director of .

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Nursing home bill irks reform advocates

2012-04-01T23:16:31Z

One advocate said House Bill 5849, sponsored by Rep. David Leitch, R-Peoria, would roll back much of the state’s 2010 landmark nursing home reform law and put more residents at risk. “This is how nursing home reform dies,” said Wendy Meltzer ...

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Firewood tops solar for heating in Arizona

2012-04-01T22:47:53Z

The solar vs. wood numbers come from the Census Bureau's 2010 American Community Survey, which surveyed about 3 million homes over the year. The survey has 21 questions pertaining to people's homes. Arizonans have been adding solar at a rapid ...

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Stocks end day mixed after falling early

2012-04-01T22:33:34Z

Aetna, Cigna and UnitedHealth Group all rose 4 percent or more a day after the Supreme Court ended three days of arguments over whether Obama's 2010 health care law meets constitutional muster. The court is expected to rule in June.

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Lawmakers ready to race

2012-04-01T04:54:08Z

Top lawmakers said limiting gifts doesn’t work in other states and that Georgia’s 2010 ethics law, which increased reporting and created new fines, is effective. Tea party leaders were incensed by a late attempt on the session’s final ...

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Big gain for stocks after Bernanke remarks

2012-04-01T02:38:08Z

Health care stocks led the market on a day when the Supreme Court began hearing arguments on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's 2010 health care law, which will require Americans to carry insurance or pay a penalty. If the court ...

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Koch Brothers, Chamber of Commerce Face Possible Campaign Donation Disclosure After Ruling

2012-04-01T01:55:11Z

Friday's court ruling could reverse a trend started by the FEC rules, and aggravated by the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision, that led to an explosion in undisclosed contributions to electoral efforts. The percentage of independent ...

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Matter of focusing resources

2012-04-01T00:07:48Z

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service’s 2010 survey found that only 5.4 percent of Americans had food insecurity in the “more severe range.” This statistic was actually down slightly from 2009. Severe food ...

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Shell gets approval for Arctic spill response plan

2012-03-31T23:39:10Z

Environmental groups contend petroleum companies cannot adequately clean up a spill in temperate waters, as demonstrated by BP's 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, much less remote, frigid Arctic Ocean waters that may see ice ...

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First lady commissions Cutter Stratton

2012-03-31T22:13:16Z

The first lady also participated in the Stratton's 2010 christening in Pascagoula, Miss., where the vessel was built. After that event, the ship underwent extensive tests and sea trials before being brought to Alameda for the formal introduction into the .

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Caregiver pleads guilty in death of elderly man

2012-03-31T08:22:55Z

The plea came in connection with the man’s 2010 death and took place in Staunton Circuit Court. Jeannette V. Hymes, 50, of Staunton, will be sentenced in a few months after a presentence report is compiled. She could face up to 10 years in prison.

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Make a weekend of Opry Mills reopening

2012-03-31T03:07:57Z

id=1259&oid=88978. Nashville’s 2010 flood also swallowed the Grand Ole Opry House, which took on 46 inches of water, but the music returned with the venue’s reopening on Oct. 1, 2010. Within walking distance of the mall, this historic show ...

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CHL: Rush have all the right answers

2012-03-31T01:34:53Z

The Rush did strike 3:12 into the first period with a goal reminiscent of Rapid City’s 2010 championship game-winner. Boucher stopped Riley Weselowski’s initial blast, but the rebound echoed in off the body of Scott Wray as he crashed the net.

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President Obama vigorously defends health care law in Vermont

2012-03-31T00:01:50Z

The future of Obama’s 2010 health reform bill hangs in jeopardy following three days of Supreme Court arguments this week. The court is expected to issue a decision in late June on whether elements of the bill - including the mandate that ...

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Afghanistan war critic wins UK parliament seat

2012-03-30T23:47:31Z

Galloway, who was voted out of Parliament in Britain's 2010 national election, dubbed his victory the 'Bradford spring' — likening it to pro-democracy uprisings in the Middle East — and claimed it was "the most sensational result in British by-election

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No verdict yet in Jefferson County capital trial over child's 2010 death; jury to return Monday

2012-03-30T20:19:55Z

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama --- A Jefferson County jury went home for the evening tonight without reaching a verdict in the capital murder trial of Marcus Earl Smith in the death of his girlfriend's young son. The panel is set to return Monday to try to ...

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Sink Surfaces; talks politics and race

2012-03-30T17:56:46Z

Democrat Alex Sink, who lost to Governor Rick Scott in Florida’s 2010 gubernatorial contest, resurfaced this month at Suncoast Tiger Bay Club in St. Petersburg and attacked state legislators for cutting education funding and Governor Scott for taking ..

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The Bowles-Simpson Medicine Show Is Back in Town

2012-03-30T14:50:39Z

Take a look: Associated Press, March 28: "The bipartisan measure, patterned on a plan by President Barack Obama's 2010 deficit commission... " Alan Fram, Businessweek, March 29: "The measure was modeled roughly on a package produced by Obama's deficit ...

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Jefferson County jury to decide if child's 2010 death was homicide or accident

2012-03-30T12:56:07Z

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- A Jefferson County jury is deliberating whether Marcus Earl Smith has any criminal responsibility in the death of his girlfriend's young son, who accompanied Smith to work, then died after his young heart burst. Smith, 38 ...

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Forest City reports jump in EBDT, but losses widen on accounting for planned land sales

2012-03-30T09:07:03Z

That compared with a loss of $5.7 million, or 4 cents per share, in the final quarter of the company's 2010 fiscal year. In early February, Forest City announced its plans to get out of the land business. At the time, the company said it ...

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Pot growers store opens in Washington, D.C.

2012-03-30T08:59:53Z

D.C. officials on Friday are set to announce those eligible to apply for permits to grow and sell medical marijuana to dispensaries under the district's 2010 law. Applicants must sign a statement saying they understand a license doesn't authorize them to .

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Yukon-Nevada Gold Corp. Announces Year End Results for 2011

2012-03-30T06:36:43Z

The Company's 2010 comparatives in the MD&A have restated and presented in accordance with IFRS. As the date of transition to IFRS was January 1, 2010, the 2009 comparative information included in the MD&A have not been restated to be in ...

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Vulcan Outlines Strong Value Proposition in New Shareholder Presentation

2012-03-30T06:00:56Z

(i) Sources: Companies’ 2011 10-Ks, Moody’s 2010 – 2020 population projections, Woods & Poole Economics CEDDS 2011. Top 25 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) are based on projected population growth from 2010 to 2020. “Served” is defined as ..

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The Bowles-Simpson Medicine Show Is Back in Town

2012-03-30T05:25:08Z

Take a look: Associated Press, March 28: "The bipartisan measure, patterned on a plan by President Barack Obama's 2010 deficit commission... " Erik Wasson, The Hill, March 29: " a bipartisan budget plan based on the approach of President Obama's fiscal com

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GOP, Dems argue over how to cut Medicare

2012-03-29T23:48:42Z

Aides Puzzled by $100,000 Payout to Gray’s Part-Time Campaign Treasurer

2012-03-29T17:50:47Z

Considering how much attention the finances of Mayor Vince Gray's 2010 campaign have been getting (both from the media and, apparently, federal investigators), it's remarkable how little we've heard about the bid's presumed head bean counter ...

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Prosecutors: Defendant admitted killing of Vallejo musician earned him gang tattoo

2012-03-29T17:22:09Z

And it was tattooed on one of the defendant’s shoulders. Photographs of Raul Vega, 20, the suspected shooter in Tucker’s 2010 freeway slaying, show him sporting an ink etching of a masked gunman holding a smoking pistol. When it was ...

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Finger Lakes winery wins grand championship in New World competition

2012-03-29T12:35:49Z

In the Jerry Mead contest, Chateau LaFayette Reneau's 2010 Dry Riesling ($14.99) was named Best New World Riesling, then Best New World White Wine and finally New World Grand Champion. Wine entries are judged by price category, and the winners ...

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3rd District Democrats chide GOP on campaign spending

2012-03-29T07:49:29Z

Taylor described Tennessee's 3rd Congressional District as "very winnable" despite the past two decades of reality -- nine straight Republican triumphs, including Fleischmann's 2010 win. The last Democratic victory came in 1992 when former U.S. Rep.

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Shell wins federal OK for Beaufort Sea oil spill plan

2012-03-29T02:56:00Z

Framed 8x10 Team Canada Women's 2010 Olympics Celebration Photo - 2010 Olympics

2012-03-29T00:40:00Z

This 8" x 10" unsigned photo features Team Canada Women's 2010 team. This photo is framed in black wood with acid free matting and a decorative v-groove. Also included in the frame is a descriptive player plate and a decorative team collector pin.

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Stage preview: City Theatre's Morrow mines comedy in 'Tigers Be Still'

2012-03-29T00:04:12Z

He's directing "Tigers Be Still," a Kim Rosenstock play that had interested him since the Roundabout Theater Company's 2010 production. The New York Times' Charles Isherwood wrote that Ms. Rosenstock's "subtly funny dialogue and the vivid, truthful ...

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House set to defeat bipartisan budget plan

2012-03-28T21:41:02Z

The bipartisan measure, patterned on a plan by President Barack Obama's 2010 deficit commission, was sure to fall victim to GOP opposition to its $1.2 trillion tax increase over a decade - and Democratic resistance to further cuts to domestic programs.

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Scott Walker Recall Election: Wisconsin Governor Leads Democratic Challengers, Poll Shows

2012-03-28T19:53:40Z

According to a poll by Marquette University, Walker leads Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett 47 to 45 percent. Barrett, who was Walker’s 2010 opponent, has not officially entered the race, but is expected to make a decision by Tuesday. The governor ...

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Will the Supreme Court strike down the most popular part of the health care law?

2012-03-28T19:39:21Z

(CBS News) After Tuesday's Supreme Court hearings, it looks like the high court could very well strike down one of the least popular and most controversial aspects of President Obama's 2010 health care overhaul -- the requirement for nearly all ...

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Patton Boggs’ head lobbyist leaving K Street

2012-03-28T18:34:55Z

During his time at Patton Boggs, Allard led the opening of the firms’ Newark and New York offices. His tenure also included the firm’s 2010 acquisition of Breaux Lott Leadership Group, a smaller public policy shop founded by former Sens.

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SC Gov. Haley critical of dirty politics, media in book

2012-03-28T06:31:56Z

At 245 pages, the nonfiction account is about the same in length as former first lady Jenny Sanford’s 2010 memoir “Staying True.” Haley’s book is billed as an unfiltered, first-person account of her upbringing in Bamberg, her family’s ...

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Shout from the Suburbs

2012-03-28T05:56:09Z

On April 22, 2012 France holds its presidential election. This film follows Ali Soumaré during France’s 2010 regional elections. A rising political star from the suburbs of Paris, Soumaré found himself at the centre of a heated debate on the ...

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Two-thirds of Americans want at least part of health law overturned, according to poll

2012-03-28T04:51:43Z

National Journal: Poll Says One In Four Americans Want Supreme Court To Uphold Health Care Law-;Report Only one in four Americans would like the Supreme Court to keep intact President Obama's 2010 Affordable Care Act, according to a new CBS ...

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Martina McBride and Train's Pat Monahan to Duet During ACM's First-Ever Wedding

2012-03-28T00:41:11Z

Their shared struggle and friendship created a bond that led to love for the New Jersey pair. McBride adapted Train's 2010 single, "Marry Me," from their fifth studio Album, Save Me, San Francisco. The song has become a favorite for couples to play while .

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3rd District Democrats chide GOP on campaign spending

2012-03-27T23:58:14Z

GOP-run House easily rejects bipartisan budget

2012-03-27T19:54:51Z

The bipartisan measure rejected late Wednesday was patterned on a plan by President Barack Obama's 2010 deficit commission and was written by moderate Reps. Steve LaTourette, R-Ohio, and Jim Cooper, D-Tenn. They said it offered the only bipartisan approach

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Dave Camp sits in on arguments against President Obama's 2010 healthcare law before the Supreme Court

2012-03-27T14:39:53Z

MIDLAND, MI — U.S. Rep. Dave Camp, R-Midland, today heard arguments from both sides of the aisle on President Obama's 2010 health care law in front of the Supreme Court. Camp said he was surprised by how often the Justices interrupted those ...

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State Legislatures May Be Next Battleground For Post-Citizens United Shareholder Protection Proposals

2012-03-27T12:31:02Z

After the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in the Citizens United v. FEC that corporations could spend unlimited funds from their corporate treasuries on independent political expenditures, some in Congress sought to give shareholders a say in ...

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Justices move to the heart of Obama's '10 health care law

2012-03-27T07:08:55Z

WASHINGTON — As demonstrations swirled outside, Supreme Court justices signaled on Monday they are ready to confront without delay the keep-or-kill questions at the heart of challenges to President Barack Obama’s 2010 historic health care overhaul.

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A telling interview on STAR

2012-03-27T05:28:42Z

In Mrs. Ritchie's 2010 campaign, she assailed then-opponent Darrel Aubertine with the fact that the Senate Democrats had gotten rid of the rebate check program, which provides property tax relief for upstate homeowners (its costs were ...

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Stocks gain after Fed boss remarks

2012-03-27T04:45:45Z

Health care stocks led the market on a day when the Supreme Court began hearing arguments on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s 2010 health care law, which will require Americans to carry insurance or pay a penalty. If the court ...

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Regional Digest: UCSB's Wisdom, ex-Elk Grove softball standout, shuts out Sac State

2012-03-27T02:51:13Z

Shelby Wisdom, The Bee's 2010 high school Player of the Year, pitched a 4-0, four-hit shutout Monday as visiting UC Santa Barbara ended Sacramento State's nine-game winning streak in a nonconference softball game, Sac State reported. The Hornets ...

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Bangor City Council debates Constitutional Amendment resolution

2012-03-26T22:12:03Z

The majority of time at Monday’s regular council meeting was taken up by councilor debate and public comment over Councilor Geoffrey Gratwick’s proposed resolution against the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in the Citizens United vs.

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Poll Says One in Four Americans Want Supreme Court to Uphold Health Care Law -- Report

2012-03-26T21:50:34Z

Only one in four Americans would like the Supreme Court to keep intact President Obama's 2010 Affordable Care Act, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll. The court began Monday hearing arguments in the case. Just over half of respondents -- 51

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Incumbent Senegalese president concedes defeat after run-off election

2012-03-26T21:29:06Z

Ivory Coast's 2010 presidential election led to civil warfare before incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo was hauled out of an underground bunker, arrested and sent to the International Criminal Court where he faces trial for crimes against humanity.

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Hughes: Thompson should make run for Jacobs

2012-03-26T21:07:37Z

The architect of Green Bay’s 2010-11 Super Bowl-winning team, Thompson is basically the supreme football being in the Dairy State. He is The Creator. And what is especially special about this Wisconsin football god is he remains humble and ...

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Cuomo Said to Reach $13.1 Billion Deal to Fund MTA Capital Plan

2012-03-26T10:23:22Z

The agreement, reached last night, provides $13.1 billion for the final three years of the MTA’s 2010-2014 construction program, which will help the agency complete some of the largest projects in the history of New York, said the person ...

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Female crash dummy upends safety ratings for some top-selling cars

2012-03-26T09:04:38Z

The front passenger seat on Milito’s Sienna received two out of five stars on the frontal crash test, a fall from the top five-star rating for that seat on the Sienna’s 2010 and older models. The key difference: Starting with 2011 models ...

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What will the Supreme Court do about health care law? Six potential outcomes

2012-03-26T03:49:40Z

The Supreme Court has several options in ruling on President Barack Obama’s 2010 health care overhaul, from upholding the law to striking it down in its entirety. The court also could avoid deciding the law’s constitutionality at all ...

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Top Spots for Medical Tourism, No Matter What Supreme Court Rules On Obamacare

2012-03-25T16:58:16Z

When U.S. Supreme Court justices question lawyers on the constitutionality of President Obama’s 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, there is at least one industry that won’t be feeling particularly nervous about the outcome ...

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Opinion: Will conservative justices save the measure?

2012-03-25T06:49:49Z

Alito Jr. would still have been in his New Jersey judicial chambers rather than in the second row of the House mouthing “not true” during Obama’s 2010 address to the nation. As a senator, Obama voted against the Supreme Court confirmations of both me

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What are rules on ‘outside spending’ and how did Citizens United change it?

2012-03-25T01:56:19Z

You’ve heard plenty about the effect of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision on campaign spending, and how it opened the floodgates for corporate money and spending by outside groups. But what exactly did the decision do? Who can ...

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What are the rules on 'outside spending,' and how did Citizens United change it?

2012-03-25T01:34:51Z

HELENA — You've heard plenty about the effect of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 "Citizens United" decision on campaign spending and how it opened the floodgates for corporate money and spending by outside groups. But what exactly did the decision do?

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As summer approaches, tanning bed use heats up, but so do side effects

2012-03-25T00:37:35Z

Every day in the U.S., more than 1 million people use tanning beds, and the tanning industry’s 2010 revenue is estimated at $2.6 billion, according to the American Academy of Dermatology. With prom and bikini seasons right around the corner ...

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Inslee argued for health law, Medicare quality incentives

2012-03-24T22:57:22Z

called for five years of protection, the same as for chemical drugs. The pharmaceutical and health-products industry was the top donor by industry to Inslee's 2010 congressional campaign, giving nearly $120,000, according to the Center for ...

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ONLINE ONLY: Q/A on campaign spending rules, influence since Citizens United decision

2012-03-24T22:35:53Z

HELENA – You’ve heard plenty about the effect of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision on campaign spending, and how it opened the floodgates for corporate money and spending by outside groups. But what exactly did the decision do?

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Campaign disclosure loophole worries Iowans

2012-03-24T21:31:28Z

By creating a disclaimer on its website and solicitation materials, the American Family Association, which sought the opinion, was able to raise $171,000 in Iowa’s 2010 judicial retention election from donors whose names were not disclosed under the ...

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Marco Rubio's legal team gets FEC fine cut

2012-03-24T16:59:27Z

After Sen. Marco Rubio's 2010 campaign, the Republican senator was fined $9,904 for failing to disclose information about 36 donors who gave more than $1,000 to his campaign within 48 hours of the general election, according to a Federal Election ...

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Tracking the Issues: The Battle Over Health Care Reform

2012-03-24T03:30:34Z

The U.S. Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments Monday on President Obama’s 2010 health care law, which many Republicans — including the full slate of GOP presidential candidates — say is unconstitutional because it of its mandate that ...

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Jamie Bacon's gun charge conviction should be overturned, lawyer tells court

2012-03-24T02:40:27Z

Accused killer Jamie Bacon's 2010 conviction on 10 gun charges should be overturned because his constitutional rights were violated by police, his lawyer told the B.C. Court of Appeal Friday. David Layton said Surrey Provincial Court Judge Jean ...

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Wood Brothers donate Daytona 500 winning car to the Henry Ford Museum

2012-03-23T22:08:27Z

Trevor Bayne's 2010 Daytona 500 winning Wood Brothers Racing Ford was donated to the Henry Ford Museum in an emotional ceremony. Eddie and Len Wood presented the historic machine Thursday night at the museum in Dearborn, Michigan. “If I can get through .

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Pitts eyes repeal of health care law

2012-03-23T20:06:45Z

U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts said he and other congressional opponents of President Barack Obama's 2010 health care overhaul would press for the law's repeal even if the Supreme Court rules it constitutional this summer. Pitts, who has repeatedly ...

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Kalamazoo man's 2010 murder conviction affirmed by court of appeals

2012-03-23T12:28:37Z

KALAMAZOO – A Kalamazoo man’s murder conviction in the 2010 slaying of his girlfriend was upheld Thursday by the Michigan Court of Appeals. Richard Douglas Riddle, 57, is serving a sentence of 50 to 75 years for the June 2010 stabbing death ...

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Brazil oil claims reaction to 2010 spill

2012-03-23T07:27:58Z

BRASILIA, Brazil, March 23 (UPI) -- Charges against Chevron for oil leaks reported off the coast of Brazil are indicative of the sea change following BP's 2010 oil spill, an analyst said. More than 2,500 barrels of oil spilled at the Frade field ...

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Bill would shed more sunlight on campaign giving

2012-03-23T01:58:42Z

It’s an apt analogy for the profound damage to U.S. democracy that has resulted from the court’s 2010 decision to allow political campaigns to be flooded with unlimited and largely hidden corporate, union and other special interest contributions.

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Feds Investigate Possible Vincent Gray Shadow Campaign

2012-03-22T22:09:38Z

Federal officials are investigating a possible "shadow campaign" in D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray’s 2010 run for mayor. The alleged "shadow campaign" is part of the focus of the U.S. Attorney's Office, which is probing the 2010 Gray campaign and its possible .

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D.C.’s campaign-finance law rife with gray areas

2012-03-22T22:02:28Z

A serious turn in the federal probe of D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s 2010 campaign and a recent trickle of subpoenas to D.C. Council members is delving into the tricky - and supposedly arms-length - role that candidates play at the roulette ...

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Jamie Bacon's gun charge conviction should be overturned, lawyer tells court

2012-03-22T19:53:37Z

Ross cries foul on health care vote

2012-03-22T19:17:50Z

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Mike Ross, D-Prescott, today blamed Republican leaders for politicizing an otherwise bipartisan effort to fix part of President Barack Obama’s 2010 health law. The House voted, 223-181, on largely party lines to pass ...

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Program aims to increase number of RNs with BSNs

2012-03-22T18:13:24Z

Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the initiative will draw on a recommendation in the Institute of Medicine's 2010 report, "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health," for 80% of the nursing workforce to have degrees at ...

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Force India slapped with heavy fine

2012-03-22T16:26:02Z

Certain small Force India-designed components were subsequently used in Team Lotus’s 2010 car. “The outcome is plainly a very satisfactory one for all of the defendants but particularly for Mr. Gascoyne who was sued in his personal capacity,” said ..

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Franken, Dems push for new Super PAC law

2012-03-22T07:29:10Z

WASHINGTON — DFL Sen. Al Franken is one of a group of Democratic senators pushing for new campaign finance laws as a result of the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision. That ruling cleared the way for unlimited donations to "Super ...

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Grossman urges Polito to auction Sox plate

2012-03-22T04:30:12Z

The 30-second clip parodies one of Ms. Polito’s campaign ads that shows her with a fierce watchdog. Mr. Grossman’s 2010 ad claims that the special Red Sox plates were intended to be auctioned for charity, but that Ms. Polito grabbed the low ...

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Lawyers in Mohamed Mohamud's Portland terrorism case debate mysterious 'Bill Smith' emails

2012-03-21T23:51:02Z

A year before he was charged with trying to ignite a bomb at Portland's 2010 holiday tree lighting ceremony, Mohamed Mohamud exchanged 44 emails with an undercover FBI operative who called himself Bill Smith. Their email exchange, recounted in ...

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Nonprofits Dive Into PAC World

2012-03-21T23:36:43Z

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling to deregulate corporate and union spending, controversial nonprofit groups on both sides of the aisle have spent millions on election-style ad campaigns. On the other hand, the diverse charities, social ...

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Madonna Vows to Oppose Gay Law in Putin’s Hometown

2012-03-21T20:59:14Z

Madonna, ranked the 8th highest-earning celebrity in Forbes magazine’s 2010 list with estimated earnings of $58 million, plans to return to Russia for the third time with a concert in Moscow on Aug. 7, followed two days later by St. Petersburg.

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Feds probe ‘shadow campaign’ for Gray

2012-03-21T18:50:23Z

The federal investigation into Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s 2010 election now includes a focus on an alleged get-out-the-vote effort that was not publicly reported and that several campaign workers have called a “shadow campaign,” according to people with

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Are Corporations Taking Tax Breaks on Their Dark Money Contributions?

2012-03-21T05:57:17Z

This story first appeared on the ProPublica website. The Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision opened the way for unlimited corporate spending on politics and has led to the proliferation of nonprofit political groups that do not have to ...

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Ashworth College and Local Girl Scout Troop Support Hugs for Soldiers Cookie Drive

2012-03-21T01:53:54Z

The online school sponsors the Army Wife Network Field Exercise series, supports a campus chapter of the Student Veteran’s Association, and was a sponsor of Military Spouse magazine’s 2010 and 2011 Military Spouse of the Year Award programs.

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GOP Conservatives Gripe About New Ryan Budget

2012-03-20T19:56:00Z

“It’s not good enough.” He argued that the budget resolution does not adequately address tax reform, balance the budget quickly enough or cut spending down to the levels promised under the GOP’s 2010 “Pledge To America” manifesto. The other ...

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Federal Reserve Bank made profit of $77 billion in 2011

2012-03-20T13:15:08Z

And yes, they were audited (by Deloitte and Touche). While that's a slight tick down from the Fed's 2010 earnings, it's still a massive figure. To put it in perspective, consider this: Last year, the Fed earned more than America's top five largest banks ..

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Nightlife Agenda: ‘Mad Men,’ Tiesto and the Wedding Present

2012-03-20T08:00:10Z

Reformed in 2010 with DJ and composer Nicholas Taylor, Gray revisited their art-noise sound and will be performing selections from the group’s 2010 album, “Shades Of . . . ,” at the Corcoran, along with tracks never publicly unveiled.

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Excerpts From Gov. Haley's Book Released

2012-03-20T07:45:51Z

In the days leading up to South Carolina's 2010 GOP primary, then-Rep. Nikki Haley found herself at the center of a growing scandal generated by political blogger and former Sanford spokesman Will Folks and his claim that he'd had a physical relationship .

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Town asked to take over Pecan Festival

2012-03-20T04:39:44Z

In other business: * Council unanimously approved the new town employee handbook. * Summers reported Cameron’s 2010-2011 audit is now available for review at town hall. * Police Chief Chris Hales reported most of the old cables from Almega Cable Company

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Our view: Brown caves to unions on tax hikes

2012-03-20T01:33:37Z

This was not a compromise. Brown caved in to union pressure. Public employee unions were major financial backers of the governor's 2010 election campaign. In seeking huge tax increases to pay for government spending, he is doing unions' bidding.

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Excerpts From Gov. Haley's Book Released

2012-03-19T19:57:11Z

Excerpts from gov's book describe SC politics as "blood sport"

2012-03-19T19:21:23Z

Parker poised to enter CD9 race

2012-03-19T18:45:36Z

But the announcement was released by Brian Murray of Summit Consulting Group, who worked on Parker’s 2010 campaign. Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman, who flirted with the CD9 race as well, is listed as a campaign co-chair. Parker, who lost the GOP ...

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Is the CBO Engaged in Partisan Manipulation of Data?

2012-03-19T18:16:58Z

Pham, Ph.D. The Journal reports that the CBO's 2010 termination letter to Ms. Pham cites her lack of qualifications, "poorly organized" research, and resistance to taking orders from her superiors as the reasons for her firing.

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Federal contractors' parent companies donate to 'super PACs'

2012-03-19T16:51:04Z

But the rules regulating election spending have been thrown into disarray in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in the Citizens United case. The FEC, whose commissioners often deadlock along party lines, has been unable to finalize new rules.

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Your morning jolt: Ga. Supreme Court overturns school board ousters

2012-03-19T08:51:27Z

The Georgia Supreme Court has unanimously overturned Gov. Sonny Perdue’s 2010 decision to remove three members of the Warren County school board in east Georgia, while it was in the midst of an accreditation crisis. The governor can remove ...

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Language preservation helps American Indian students stick with college

2012-03-19T07:54:12Z

In California, 14.3 percent of American Indians 25 and older have a bachelor's degree or higher, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2010 American Community Survey. Among all Californians of those ages, 30.1 percent hold at least a bachelor's degree.

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Federal contractors donate to 'super PAC' backing Romney

2012-03-19T07:25:34Z

and a Boston-based construction company that is helping build a Navy base — are taking advantage of a legal gray area created by the Supreme Court's 2010 ruling in the Citizens United case, which said that independent political expenditures ...

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Police: No report in Talib's 2010 accident followed procedure

2012-03-19T05:59:40Z

The decision not to write a police report when Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback Aqib Talib was involved in a car crash with another motorist – now a central factor in the motorist's lawsuit against the athlete – has its roots in a police ...

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Graylock Credit Union sees growth despite sagging economy, remains leading financial services leader for Berkshires

2012-03-19T02:39:14Z

Based on Greylock’s 2010 annual report (the 2011 report has yet to be released), Cole said Greylock makes 22 percent of all mortgages in the region and received 26 percent of all deposits. “They’re very stable and strong by any objective ...

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Brazil bars 17 oil workers from leaving after spill

2012-03-19T00:23:13Z

But achieving those goals requires companies to drill in immensely challenging offshore conditions. Pointing to the example of BP's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, environmental officials in Brazil say stiff penalties are needed against Chevron in ..

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Look to the Supremes for Final Ruling on Marriage Equality

2012-03-19T00:16:04Z

On Feb. 7, the three-judge panel from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sitting in San Francisco upheld now-retired Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker’s 2010 ruling. The judges dismissed Proposition 8 proponents’ arguments that Vaughn should .

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U.S. oil workers barred from leaving Brazil

2012-03-18T23:25:57Z

Offshore drilling conditions are challenging. Pointing to the example of BP PLC’s 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, environmental officials in Brazil say that stiff penalties are needed against Chevron to pressure it and other firms to ...

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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Will the Fed Turn Bank of America Into Banks of America?

2012-03-18T16:30:46Z

The Dodd-Frank Act empowered the Fed to break up banks that are too big to regulate. Bank of America fits the bill In Bank of America's 2010 annual report, CEO Brian T. Moynihan proudly states, "We serve one in two households in the U.S."[1] For Public ...

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Op-ed: Will conservatives on the court save Obamacare?

2012-03-18T01:57:28Z

Alito Jr. would still have been in his New Jersey judicial chambers rather than in the second row of the House mouthing "not true" during Obama's 2010 address to the nation. As a senator, Obama voted against the Supreme Court confirmations of both men.

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Obamacare's survival dependent on conservative justices

2012-03-17T03:24:33Z

GOP Sen. Connie Lawson named new Indiana secretary of state

2012-03-16T16:04:31Z

Mitch Daniels announced Sen. Connie Lawson's appointment Friday. The decision came a day after the Indiana Supreme Court ruled that Secretary of State Charlie White's 2010 candidacy had been valid despite his Feb. 4 conviction on voter fraud and ...

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GOP Sen. Lawson named new Indiana secretary of state

2012-03-16T14:24:18Z

Gov. Mitch Daniels announced Lawson's appointment Friday. The decision came a day after the Indiana Supreme Court ruled that White's 2010 candidacy was valid despite his Feb. 4 conviction on voter fraud and other felony charges. The court ruling ...

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Rehberg revises record on taxes, reader contends

2012-03-16T13:27:02Z

Rehberg voted against the current tax holiday on December 17, 2010. Baucus’ and Tester’s 2010 tax cut measure, overwhelmingly supported by Republicans and Democrats, cut taxes for all taxpayers, provided tax credits to small businesses ...

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State senator named new Indiana secretary of state

2012-03-16T12:08:17Z

The decision came a day after the Indiana Supreme Court ruled that Secretary of State Charlie White's 2010 candidacy had been valid despite his Feb. 4 conviction on voter fraud and other felony charges. The court ruling dashed Democrats' hopes ...

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Mick Jagger, Keith Richards bury the hatchet

2012-03-16T02:07:00Z

The rift began after the guitarist’s 2010 tell-all book in which he claimed that Jagger had a “tiny todger.” The reunion has been in the works since last December when Richards organized a secret jam sessions, including original bassist ...

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Report: Vincent Gray Personally Handled Donations Connected To Jeffrey Thompson

2012-03-15T18:07:23Z

Two sources involved with fundraising for Gray's 2010 mayoral campaign told WRC-TV/NBC4's Tom Sherwood that Gray showed up to his mayoral campaign headquarters in the days before a critical campaign-finance reporting deadline in June 2010 with a ...

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Mike Gundy contract puts Oklahoma State coach in Stoops' territory

2012-03-15T11:19:22Z

The previous record for wins in a season was 11, set by Gundy’s 2010 team. Oklahoma State has won 41 games over the last four seasons. Oklahoma, meanwhile, has won 42. Stoops is the second highest-paid coach in the Big 12 and makes $4,075,000 annually.

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Gray's Campaign Records Show Links To Suspicious Money Orders

2012-03-15T10:22:06Z

Now, a review of Mayor Gray's records finds a similar trail of donors and money orders. Records from Gray's 2010 campaign show 10 money orders from 3 companies linked to Jeffrey Thompson and his associates : KMJ Development, Euclid Street Partners LLC ...

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P5M missing in Corona SALN, says prosecution

2012-03-15T07:30:18Z

In Corona’s 2010 SALN alone, Senator Panfilo Lacson noted that no acquisition costs were listed for the five properties he declared, including the two condominium units in Taguig City. A total amount of P18,438,980, however, was listed under the column .

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Obama campaign aims pitch at Colorado women

2012-03-15T01:03:45Z

Michael Bennet’s 2010 victory over Ken Buck, one of the party’s few bright spots in a heavy GOP year. Now, they’re just starting their outreach to women voters a bit early, revving up operations in 12 swing states, Colorado included ...

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Maloney says 2011 election results ‘skewed’

2012-03-15T00:20:48Z

Tennant, a Democrat, and the U.S. Attorney's Office are investigating a ballot box stuffing scheme in Lincoln County's 2010 Democratic primary. The federal prosecutors have forced the Lincoln County sheriff and county clerk to plead guilty to felonies.

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New Novel Puts a Wholesome Spin on Classic Western Themes

2012-03-14T23:59:20Z

The Western theme is one of the most enduring themes in American art. Paintings, novels, radio and television programs, movies, and even video games, as evidenced by Rockstar’s 2010 award-winning game Red Dead Redemption, have consistently presented ...

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Land board limits die in Idaho Senate panel

2012-03-14T21:43:19Z

The measure was a response to the endowment's 2010 purchase of Affordable Self Storage, criticized by some as an inappropriate state-government foray into private-sector competition. It would have required the state Land Board to sell or lease ...

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Wahine Winning Like It’s 2010

2012-03-14T05:51:16Z

Bob Coolen was taking a brisk walk around Manoa, and although dark clouds hung over the valley, there was nothing but sunshine in what his University of Hawaii Wahine softball team had accomplished to start this 2012 season. “I’ve always dreamed about

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Empire District wants to raise bills

2012-03-14T03:56:44Z

Cost recovery would not begin until July 1, 2013. According to data in Empire District Electric Company’s 2010 report to investors, the average residential customer uses 14,541 kilowatt hours (kW-h) annually. At an estimated cost of $1.39 per ...

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Estrada has energized Sounders

2012-03-14T02:52:19Z

SEATTLE -- If you had told Mexican-born David Estrada a year ago that he would open the Seattle Sounders' 2012 season by scoring a goal on Mexican soccer legend Oswaldo Sanchez, he almost certainly would have looked at you like you were a little ...

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Judge blocks day labor rules in AZ immigration law

2012-03-14T01:33:34Z

PHOENIX (AP) -- A federal judge blocked police in Arizona from enforcing a section of the state's 2010 immigration enforcement law that prohibited people from blocking traffic when they seek or offer day labor services on streets. U.S. District ...

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Georgia’s home day cares improve, national group says

2012-03-13T23:46:12Z

Georgia was ranked No. 38 during the agency’s 2010 report, but due to an overhaul of many day care standards, the state is now ranked 11th among states and the U.S. Department of Defense. (Among states alone, Georgia ranked 10th.) Georgia’s ...

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BP, plaintiffs reach $7.8B Gulf spill settlement

2012-03-13T23:10:25Z

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- BP agreed late Friday to settle lawsuits brought by more than 100,000 fishermen who lost work, cleanup workers who got sick and others who claimed harm from the oil giant's 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster, the worst offshore oil ...

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Charting the fallout of OMB's financial systems freeze

2012-03-13T16:51:01Z

The Office of Management and Budget’s 2010 decision to halt 30 financial management projects had little impact on the cost and completion time of many programs, but agencies saw other shortcomings from the freeze, according to the Government ...

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CBO: Government to pay $50 billion more for coverage under health care law

2012-03-13T16:29:33Z

The coverage provisions in President Obama's 2010 health care reforms will cost about $50 billion more than estimated last year, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday. But while the CBO expects the government to pay more for Medicaid and ...

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2011-12 a step in the right direction for Tech men

2012-03-13T01:56:14Z

Tech's 2010-11 squad (12-20, 2-14) missed even making the conference tournament by three games as that squad's top two scorers completed their eligibility. White took the nation's eighth youngest roster into 2011-12, and the WAC coaches ...

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Council rejects recommendation to limit corporate political spending

2012-03-13T01:34:46Z

Most Spokane City Council members said Monday that they don’t like the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 decision that prevents lawmakers from limiting some forms of political spending by corporations. But there wasn’t a majority who supported ...

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Salazar trial opens

2012-03-13T00:23:11Z

JOPLIN, Mo. — A Jasper County jury will be asked to decide whether the Carthage father of an 8-month-old boy should be convicted of second-degree murder or acquitted of an accident in the baby’s 2010 death. Trial opened Monday in Jasper County ...

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State Supreme Court sides with jury in defamation case

2012-03-12T23:04:26Z

The Virginia Supreme Court affirmed a jury's 2010 verdict that a former Newport News Circuit judge defamed a former court official. The Supreme Court's ruling means that Verbena Askew must pay the former official $350,000 in compensatory damages ...

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Disgruntled conservative voters watching Sen. Hatch

2012-03-12T21:52:51Z

Orrin Hatch's bid for a seventh term. At Utah's 2010 GOP convention, delegates voted to oust 18-year GOP Sen. Robert Bennett. Political analysts say disgruntled conservative voters had greater momentum back in 2010. However, this election cycle ...

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12 Things Celebs Can Teach You About Meditation

2012-03-11T23:27:06Z

You can start meditating today. You know what Gwyneth Paltrow's 2010 resolution was? To learn how to meditate. So if Gwyneth just started, so can you. Here are some great meditation techniques from Deepak Chopra to get you started.

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Sunshine Week: Test your knowledge

2012-03-11T07:13:34Z

Since 1830, how many times has the House met in secret? 2. The oldest outstanding FOIA request at the end of the government's 2010 fiscal year had been pending far longer than the 20 business days the law allows for a response. In which of the ...

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Test your Sunshine Week knowlege

2012-03-11T06:16:18Z

2. The oldest outstanding FOIA request at the end of the government's 2010 fiscal year had been pending far longer than the 20 business days the law allows for a response. In which of the following years was it filed? 1. A is correct.

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High School boys basketball: Central defeats Phoenix for state championship

2012-03-11T00:22:49Z

Central finishes the season with its 17th consecutive win and with a 26-1 record. Central senior Tanner Omlid, the only player remaining from Central’s 2010 state championship team, scored a game-high 27 points and had 11 rebounds. Central ...

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Ethics clouds don't scare donors away from Buchanan

2012-03-10T23:54:11Z

The role of large donors in elections has had increasing importance in presidential and congressional elections since the Supreme Court's 2010 decision that paved the way for unlimited donations to so-called Super PACs. And while there's no more ...

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Nation overlooks its German heritage

2012-03-10T20:12:17Z

More than half of the nation’s 3,143 counties contain a plurality of people who describe themselves as German-American, according to a Bloomberg compilation of data from the Census Bureau’s 2010 American Community Survey. The number of ...

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Mitt Romney is foolish to ignore Latino vote

2012-03-10T03:01:29Z

Romney should remember Sharron Angle, Nevada’s 2010 GOP Senate candidate, who ran TV ads denounced for their use of anti-Hispanic stereotypes. Her rhetoric mobilized Latinos, and she was defeated. It’s puzzling that Romney seems to be ...

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Lt. Gov. Ard gets probation for ethics violations

2012-03-10T01:21:16Z

During Ard's 2010 campaign, he developed a scheme "to create the false appearance of a groundswell of political support through fictitious or bogus campaign contributions," Wilson said. Ard doled out $75,000 of his own money to people who then ...

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Three former Tory association members seek probe into Fantino's election finances

2012-03-09T22:58:06Z

According to sworn affidavits, Tracey Kent, Carrie Liddy and Richard Lorello allege there may have been irregular accounting practices in Fantino's 2010 byelection and 2011 election campaigns. Kent and Lorello both served as board members of the ...

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Former Tories ask for investigation in Fantino's riding

2012-03-09T19:01:53Z

In sworn affidavits, Richard Lorello, Tracey Kent and Carrie Liddy allege possible irregularities in Julian Fantino's 2010 byelection and 2011 election campaigns. Fantino won both with massive support from Prime Minister Stephen Harper and that of several

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Wichita Man Found Guilty Of Murder

2012-03-09T18:11:46Z

Michael Williams is charged with first-degree murder in Sean Putnam’s 2010 shooting death. His body was later found buried in an Oaklawn home in February of 2011. During closing arguments Friday, prosecutors said the death occurred because ...

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Gray Admin: No Quid Pro Quo on Medicaid Contract

2012-03-09T15:27:08Z

The Gray administration pushed back today against any whiff of a notion that Jeff Thompson's Medicaid managed-care organization, D.C. Chartered Health Plan Inc., improperly benefited from Thompson's financial contributions to the mayor's 2010 ...

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WSU professor launches petition to require corporations to disclose political spending

2012-03-09T01:43:56Z

Benson and her allies cited the court's 2010 decision in a case called Citizens United, which struck down portions of a federal ban on electioneering by corporations, unions and non-profit organizations. Benson said the state constitutional ...

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NightWatch: Syria is no Libya, Yet

2012-03-08T23:56:33Z

South Korea-North Korea: South Korean National Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin on 7 March that any new attacks from North Korea will be used as a chance for South Korea to avenge the North's 2010 bombing of Yeonpyeong Island. National Defense ...

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SAMUELSON: China poised to overtake U.S. economy

2012-03-08T23:42:14Z

Indeed, says Subramanian, a new study suggests the underestimate could be more than 70 percent. This implies China’s 2010 GDP exceeded $17 trillion. What are we to make of this? For starters, keep matters in perspective. Living standards in ...

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Gov. Scott's apparent choice for state attorney: Peter Antonacci

2012-03-08T22:16:20Z

Antonacci contributed $500 to Democrat Dave Aronberg's 2010 campaign for attorney general. Aronberg, who lost in the Democratic primary that year, is now the only candidate who has opened a 2012 campaign for state attorney in Palm Beach County.

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Lafarge SA agrees to pay R149m cartel fine

2012-03-08T21:54:52Z

The fine represents 6 percent of Lafarge SA’s 2010 turnover. The deal means that NPC-Cimpor is the only of the country’s four major cement producers not to reach an agreement with the commission. AfriSam agreed in November last year to pay a R124.9m ..

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Town council keeps mum on coal-fueled plant vote

2012-03-08T21:19:04Z

Pierce on Wednesday. "You can't make me say anything." Roughly 200 people — about six dozen less than the town's 2010 population of 272 — packed Monday's five-hour public hearing. The town was required to reconduct the public hearing and ...

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Man, 21, pleads guilty in teacher's 2010 death

2012-03-08T18:55:54Z

A 21-year-old man pleaded guilty Friday to 11 charges, including second-degree murder, stemming from the robbery and assault that led to the 2010 death of an Eldorado High School teacher. As part of a plea deal with Marcos Castrejon, prosecutors dropped 13

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Pacquiao faces possible tax filing conviction

2012-03-08T18:55:54Z

The report stated that in Pacquiao’s 2010 tax returns there were questions regarding possible discrepancies in Pacquiao’s various businesses and endorsement deals. As a result, if there is enough evidence to convict Pacquiao, the pound for pound ...

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UPDATE: Murder Suspect Takes Stand In Own Defense

2012-03-08T16:11:16Z

Michael Williams is charged with first-degree murder in Sean Putnam’s 2010 shooting death. Investigators said Williams and another man later buried the body behind a home in Oaklawn. Putnam's body was discovered two months later. In the third ...

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Steppenwolf announces season of ‘Reckoning'

2012-03-08T04:01:07Z

whose “The Brother/Sister Plays” was among Steppenwolf's 2010 standouts. Kicking off the season is David Lindsay-Abaire's “Good People” (Sept. 13-Nov. 11), seen on Broadway last year. Ensemble member K. Todd Freeman directs the play ...

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Maine Rep. Pingree decides against Senate bid

2012-03-07T23:57:44Z

"Angus King was willing to create a three-way race that handed this Senate seat to a far-right Republican — a precise repeat of what happened in Maine's 2010 three-way gubernatorial race," Green said. One possible Democratic candidate for ...

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New Hampshire House passes birth control exemption

2012-03-07T23:50:35Z

The move was the latest in a national effort by Republicans opposed to provisions of President Obama's 2010 national health care reform law that would require all insurance plans -- even those sponsored by religious institutions -- to provide coverage for

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Much of Vt. heads to polls on Town Meeting Day

2012-03-06T22:54:30Z

Supporters of it want Congress to begin the process of amending the Constitution to overrule the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, which critics say has unleashed huge amounts of unregulated money into the presidential election ...

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Vermont US amendment push gets Town Meeting boost

2012-03-06T21:35:46Z

Additional results will be available Wednesday. Supporters of the personhood amendment want Congress to begin the process of amending the Constitution to overrule the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision, which critics say has unleashed ...

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Vote delayed on RN staffing levels for nursing homes

2012-03-06T16:20:48Z

Changes made in recent days to proposed rules that would help carry out the state’s 2010 nursing-home reform law prompted the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules to delay a final vote today. The last-minute changes were made by the administration of

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Ethiopian rebels free two German tourists

2012-03-06T06:55:18Z

Erta Ale -- or "Smoking Mountain" -- sits in the Afar depression, also known as the Danakil depression, which lies below sea level and features as the dramatic backdrop to scenes in Hollywood's 2010 epic fantasy Clash of the Titans. Access to the region is

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U.S. Ethnic Mix Boasts German Accent Amid Surge of Hispanics

2012-03-06T06:26:40Z

President Obama's Medical Board: A Backdoor Path to Health Rationing

2012-03-06T06:12:21Z

Last week, a House of Representatives subpanel overwhelmingly approved a measure to repeal a key component of President Obama’s 2010 health reform bill. By a bipartisan 17-5 margin, the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee ...

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VIDEO: Feds raid DC businessman

2012-03-05T22:27:03Z

Several local media outlets have reported that many believe the raids show that the government has expanded it's federal probe into Mayor Vince Gray's 2010 campaign for mayor. Alligations first came to light when Sulaimon Brown made allegations last year

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Super PACs are ruining Republicans

2012-03-05T21:29:47Z

And they’re destroying the Republican Party. Conservatives are inclined to support the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in the Citizens United case, which allows donors to give unlimited amounts of money to super PACs. As a result, super PACs are funding

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Kansas Dems To Urge Change On Corporate Influence

2012-03-05T08:43:51Z

Tom Holland, of Baldwin City. It would urge Congress to endorse a constitutional amendment overturning the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 decision in the case that's come to be known as "Citizens United." The court said corporations have the same free-speech ..

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Which comes first...the vegans or the prohibition?

2012-03-05T01:27:12Z

An interesting point of contention is explored in Francione & Garner’s 2010 The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation? Should we be working to recruit more vegans in order to create the political base needed to create laws favorable to nonhuman .

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FBI considers investigating Rabbi's’s supporters

2012-03-04T19:14:58Z

Michael Grimm (R-New York), AP reported on Saturday. According to the report, a number of Pinto’s supporters raised money for Grimm’s 2010 campaign, but several donors have subsequently said that they donated funds in excess of that permissible by law.

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Snowe's Senate departure reflects partisan paradox: Centrists become rare in Congress

2012-03-04T17:20:26Z

She joined all other Senate Republicans in opposing the final version of Obama’s 2010 health-care overhaul. And she grew weary of the constant pressure to bash Democrats on everything and to expect the same in return.

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Seminars focus on home improvement

2012-03-04T06:07:33Z

The housing series was one of the recommendations to come out of the town’s 2010 plan to trigger more investment in the Lake Erie Beach community. “One of the most difficult challenges facing the Lake Erie Beach community is the condition of ...

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Snowe's Senate departure reflects partisan paradox: Centrists become rare in Congress

2012-03-04T04:55:58Z

US shock jock apologizes to student he called a 'slut'

2012-03-04T02:39:58Z

Fluke appeared last month before US lawmakers to argue that health insurance plans should cover the cost of contraception -- a key, but controversial requirement in Obama's 2010 health care law. Fluke described how female students at Georgetown University

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Illinois nursing homes at odds over RN requirements

2012-03-03T23:48:10Z

Advocates for residents and operators of nursing homes both say they support increases in direct-care staffing required by the state’s 2010 landmark nursing-home reform law. To those unfamiliar with the details of nursing-home care, it would seem to be a

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BP settles Gulf spill suits, expects $7.8B payout

2012-03-03T23:48:10Z

NEW ORLEANS — BP agreed late Friday to settle lawsuits brought by more than 100,000 fishermen who lost work, cleanup workers who got sick and others who claimed harm from the oil giant’s 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster, the worst offshore oil s ...

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ZTE 2007-2011 Managed Services CAGR Hits 81%

2012-03-03T19:59:06Z

ZTE’s 2010 revenue led the industry with a 21% increase to USD10.609 billion. ZTE commit 10 percent of its revenue to R&D and takes a leading role in a wide range of international bodies developing emerging telecoms standards. As a company ...

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AP: FBI may probe NY congressman's fundraising

2012-03-03T16:10:02Z

Michael Grimm. Followers of Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Grimm's 2010 campaign. Some donors have since said they broke rules to donate. Pinto hasn't commented publicly, but former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner now says

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New bike, pedestrian trail proposed from Petaluma to Sebastopol

2012-03-03T01:43:53Z

The trail is an important component of the county's 2010 Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan and would run from one city limit to the other. “I think it's fantastic,” said Joe Morgan, a founding member of the Petaluma Wheelmen cycling club and ...

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Generals play Dreher for AAA title

2012-03-03T00:32:18Z

“We're lucky and blessed to have this opportunity.” Young, a member of Southside’s 2010 Class AA state championship team, was an opponent last season when Wade Hampton improved from four wins to 15. “I think last year really benefited ...

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Va. Supreme Court backs U.Va.

2012-03-02T23:56:31Z

Because of that, "all other issues are rendered moot," the court said in upholding the Albemarle Circuit Court's 2010 ruling. The decision was praised by ACLU of Virginia, which had filed an amicus brief arguing that academic freedom should ...

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Koch Brothers Sue Widow of Cato Chairman Emeritus Over Stock

2012-03-01T20:51:35Z

The Washington-based organization has been a supporter of litigation challenging President Barack Obama’s 2010 health-care reform legislation. The Koch brothers, principals of the closely held refining and chemical company Koch Industries Inc ...

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New Utah play reconsiders Thomas Jefferson and racial politics

2012-03-01T20:51:35Z

The script won the New York City-based Castillo Theatre’s 2010 Fratti-Newman Political Play Contest and will receive its world premiere in a production by Plan-B Theatre Company, opening this week at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center.

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Maryland Becomes Eighth State to Legalize Gay Marriage

2012-03-01T17:31:09Z

For the referendum to make the ballot, these groups will need to collect 56,000 voter signatures, or about three percent of the number of voters in Maryland's 2010 gubernatorial election. "Every time this issue has been brought to a statewide vote ...

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The Orange County Register

2012-03-01T05:56:48Z

Judge blocks state day labor rules PHOENIX A federal judge blocked police in Arizona from enforcing a section of the state's 2010 immigration enforcement law that prohibited people from blocking traffic when they seek or offer day labor services on streets

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Speed read

2012-03-01T02:22:03Z

A federal judge blocked police in Arizona from enforcing a section of the state’s 2010 immigration enforcement law that prohibited people from blocking traffic when they seek or offer day labor services on streets. U.S. District Judge Susan ...

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Analysis: Sen. Snowe's departure will widen partisan gulf

2012-03-01T01:03:19Z

She joined all other Senate Republicans in opposing the final version of Obama's 2010 health-care overhaul. And she grew weary of the constant pressure to bash Democrats on everything and to expect the same in return. "She just quit in disgust ...

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Lincoln man charged after allegedly threatening election investigators

2012-02-29T21:14:15Z

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Lincoln County man was arrested Tuesday after allegedly threatening an FBI agent and state elections official who were investigating problems with the county's 2010 Democratic primary election. On Tuesday, a special agent and State .

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Impact Of Ruling Loosening Election Spending Begins To Emerge

2012-02-29T17:32:20Z

The fallout from the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling allowing corporations and other organizations to spend freely on elections is beginning to emerge. By granting institutions First Amendment rights, the ruling broke with long ...

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Federal judge blocks enforcement of day labor restrictions in Arizona’s 2010 immigration law

2012-02-29T16:27:55Z

PHOENIX — A federal judge blocked police in Arizona from enforcing a section of the state’s 2010 immigration enforcement law that prohibited people from blocking traffic when they seek or offer day labor services on streets. U.S. District Judge Susan .

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Opponents of immigration law oppose merging suits

2012-02-29T06:33:47Z

PHOENIX (WTW) — A coalition of opponents of Arizona's 2010 immigration enforcement law have asked a judge to deny Gov. Jan Brewer's request to consolidate two of the three remaining lawsuits seeking to overturn the law. Lawyers representing Friendly ...

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State Senator Bill Brady Endorses Chris Hage for 42nd District State Rep

2012-02-29T05:43:40Z

Brady served in the state senate when Hage worked as legal counsel there. Hage also worked on Brady's 2010 governor campaign. Hage, a former prosecutor, is running for state representative in the 42nd House District. "In the complex world of Illinois ...

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Key witness may testify in Rutgers cyberbullying trial

2012-02-29T04:03:27Z

Ravi, 20, now faces a 15-count indictment in Clementi's 2010 death that includes hate crime charges, charges of invasion of privacy, bias intimidation, tampering with physical evidence, witness tampering and hindering apprehension or prosecution.

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Dunne on Wine: Milliaire Winery's 2010 Clarksburg Gewurtztraminer

2012-02-29T02:59:02Z

The winery in the old Calaveras County gold camp of Murphys is named Milliaire. The people who own it are named Steve and Liz Millier. What's up with that? The Milliers established Milliaire in 1983. In French, "milliaire" means "milestone.

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William Mosley enjoys banner career at NSU

2012-02-29T02:37:33Z

The banners that honor Mosley's 2010-11 national shot-blocking championship and NSU's team title in the same category are part of the legacy Mosley will leave behind him as he plays his final NSU home game tonight against Nicholls State.

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CEO David Klein to retire from Excellus BlueCross BlueShield

2012-02-29T00:35:52Z

Excellus did not immediately release the details of Klein’s retirement package. In financial filings made last year with the state, Klein’s 2010 total compensation was $1.9 million. Duda’s compensation was $1.35 million in 2010.

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250MW power deal signed with India

2012-02-28T23:45:45Z

Dhaka, Feb 28 (bdnews24.com) — A deal for buying 250MW of power from India was signed on Tuesday at New Delhi. "Every unit of power would cost Tk 4 according to the agreement," Bangladesh's power secretary Abul Kalam Azad told bdnews24.com over phone ...

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Australian PM knocks out rival, but not discontent

2012-02-28T05:01:54Z

Mark Arbib, said he would quit as sports minister and as a senator. Arbib, a party power broker who helped orchestrate Gillard's 2010 coup, said he was resigning in the interest of restoring government unity. An increasing number of lawmakers say the coup

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Schumer Wall Street Backers Targeted in Tax Fairness Debate

2012-02-28T04:18:57Z

Democrats are renewing their bid to end the carried interest tax break for private-equity managers after Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s 2010 return, released last month, showed he used it to help limit his effective tax rate ...

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City officials want to spread word about homeowners' tax credit

2012-02-28T00:22:44Z

But about 55,000 owner-occupied households in Baltimore have income of $60,000 or less, according to the Census Bureau's 2010 American Community Survey. Assuming their tax bills are high enough, those homeowners would likely qualify for the break.

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Chardon and Columbine

2012-02-27T19:22:05Z

According to the U.S. Census, Chardon's 2010 population was only 5,148, and overwhelmingly white - 96.9 percent. As I point out in my book, "Columbine: A True Crime Story," Columbine does not even exist. It is not an official city, but a "Census designated

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BNSF acquisition premiuim to be considered by regulator

2012-02-27T14:35:45Z

Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s 2010 acquisition of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. will be the subject of a March 22 hearing on complaints by railroad shippers, including the Lincoln Electric System, that they're being asked to cover the deal's costs.

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Santorum's Anti-JFK Speech

2012-02-27T12:12:35Z

The establishment media half-wits are now having a predictably crazy, breathless collective seizure about Rick Santorum's 2010 speech blasting JFK'sfamous "absolute separation" of church and state speech. Well, I actually wrote about Santorum's ...

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Anoka-Hennepin changes course

2012-02-27T04:05:49Z

Carlson’s 2010 message to families stated that bullying and harassment had nothing to do with the suicides. The ignorance and denial of this statement left grieving families even more upset. Now, Carlson has addressed the painful issue once ...

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Schumer’s Wall Street Backers Targeted as His Party Preaches Tax Fairness

2012-02-26T23:40:58Z

China’s massive property supply threatens market

2012-02-26T22:58:01Z

Much of the two years’ worth of supply now on developers’ books came as a result of pushing ahead with new projects after misreading the government’s 2010 clampdown on the sector as merely a short-term measure. Instead, Beijing showed a ...

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Artur Davis on Life in a Fiercely Partisan House, and Why It Might Not Get Better Any Time Soon

2012-02-26T18:54:38Z

Beginning in 2003, Democrat Artur Davis represented Alabama's 7th District for four terms in Congress. Following a defeat in Alabama's 2010 gubernatorial primary, he retired from politics. Late last year, Davis left the Democratic Party and became an indep

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How Gingrich's S corporation lowered his taxes

2012-02-26T16:52:57Z

If you take a look at Newt Gingrich's 2010 Form 1040, you will see that he received some compensation from an S corporation and also reported S corporation profits. What does that mean? And why did he arrange his affairs in that way? Gingrich ...

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Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association leader has plenty of clout with GOP hierarchy

2012-02-26T00:10:47Z

Tom Corbett. He persuaded the Republican National Governors Association to donate $25,000 to Mr. Corbett's 2010 gubernatorial campaign. Frederick W. Anton III, 77, is a lifelong Philadelphian who's also close to Republican House and Senate leaders ...

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86-year-old carjacked in Detroit -- and no one stopped to help, he says

2012-02-25T04:08:12Z

The thief drove off in Brantley's 2010 Chrysler 200 -- bought to replace another car recently stolen. "I noticed when I was crawling to the gas station, people were walking past by me like I wasn't there," he said. "I said, 'Lord, have mercy.'

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Our View: Can state GOP regain relevancy?

2012-02-25T02:42:18Z

one wonders if party leaders will address a question on the minds of many voters and political onlookers since the abysmal results for Republicans in the Golden State's 2010 elections: How will the California Republican Party become relevant again?

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Super PAC Leaders Give Themselves Huge Paydays

2012-02-24T17:09:38Z

Political operatives started forming super PACs after the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision removed limits on political spending by corporations and wealthy individuals. But super PACs have also come under scrutiny for a lack of ...

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States file suit over Obama's birth control plan

2012-02-24T14:17:50Z

Seven US states have filed a lawsuit challenging a requirement in President Barack Obama's 2010 health care law that religious organizations provide insurance covering birth control. The lawsuit filed Thursday, which also lists three Catholic organizations

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Aide to L.A. County assessor quit in protest

2012-02-23T23:37:22Z

LOS ANGELES_A top assistant to Los Angeles County Assessor John Noguez resigned in protest three months ago after being pulled off two cases in which he opposed massive tax breaks sought by a businessman who financially supported Noguez's 2010 ...

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Joe The Plumber Touts Endorsement Of Rich The Nazi Reenactor

2012-02-23T23:15:54Z

Marcy Kaptur and Dennis Kucinich. This week, Wurzelbacher put out a press release touting the endorsements of past Republican opponents of each of the Democrats: Kucinich’s 2010 opponent Peter Corrigan and 2008 GOP nominee Jim Trakas — and Kaptur’s 2

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It's official: Ex-Mayor Greg Nickels enters race for secretary of state

2012-02-23T22:40:06Z

Democrats have been particularly alarmed by the unfettering of corporate money and unlimited donations to super PACs after the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling. Nickels had been in an exploratory phase since last month ...

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GUEST VIEWPOINT: Composer’s borrowing probably isn’t infringement

2012-02-23T18:58:12Z

The top story on the front page of the Feb. 18 Register-Guard, “Composer’s originality questioned by critics,” described concerns by two classical music professionals that Golijov’s 2010 work “Sidereus” is too similar to Michael Ward-Bergeman

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Women's 2010 Specialized Dolce Elite Bicycle

2012-02-23T11:34:23Z

I bought this bike brand new in 2010 and unfortunately for me, it has not been ridden much. It has less than 250 miles on it. She's a beauty (silver and white) and I believe she is a size 54. I am 5'8+ amd ot os a good size for me. •Adjustable 4-position

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Romney’s 2010 IRS return flags complex tax strategies

2012-02-23T10:08:29Z

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s release of his 2010 tax return offers a rare glimpse at two sophisticated tax transactions which the U.S. Internal Revenue Service requires that taxpayers disclose for investments driven by tax consideratio

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Citizens United’s sugar daddies: Loosened campaign-finance rules allowing wealthy to affect campaigns

2012-02-23T03:49:06Z

The Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling allowing more money with fewer strings into the U.S. political system was generally viewed as a win for Republicans. The reasoning was simple enough. Republicans are masters at collecting dollars from ...

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United Way of Forsyth County exceeds its 2011 campaign goal

2012-02-22T21:58:20Z

United Way of Forsyth County's 2010 campaign goal was also $17.3 million. The agency surpassed its goal that year by raising $17,325,153.

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Corasanti's attorneys argue for dismissal

2012-02-22T21:22:33Z

He faces up to 23 years in prison if convicted of all of the charges. Rice was on a longboard -- more like a snowboard than a normal skateboard -- when Corasanti's 2010 BMW struck her about 11:20 p.m. on Heim Road. Police interviewed a motorist ...

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2 charged in baby's 2010 death

2012-02-22T13:08:37Z

Hendersonville Police have charged a mother and her ex-boyfriend in the October 2010 death of the woman’s 9-month-old daughter. A Sumner County grand jury indicted Amber Peveler in early February on aggravated child abuse and reckless ...

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Lawyers continue to argue evidence before Duval mom's trial begins in her children's deaths

2012-02-22T13:01:28Z

Attorneys continued to argue over a discrepancy in key evidence in the cases of a Jacksonville couple charged in their children's 2010 drownings right up until just before the mother's trial began this morning. Defense attorney Thomas Fallis ...

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Justices to reconsider race in college admissions

2012-02-22T06:56:24Z

The court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, allowing unlimited corporate and union election spending, has roiled the world of political fundraising. Next month, the justices will hear six hours of oral ...

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Stop the brain drain? Campaign finance and conflicting career messages

2012-02-22T05:51:58Z

Obama, an outspoken critic of the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United that opened the floodgates for special interest influence, was criticized by some for his reversal of position, accused of both betraying his ideals and ...

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Buffett’s Burlington Northern Deal Is Focus of U.S. Hearing

2012-02-22T04:33:14Z

(Updates with former board chairman’s comments starting in third paragraph.) Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s 2010 acquisition of Burlington Northern Santa Fe, the second-largest U.S. railroad by revenue, will be the subject ...

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Microsoft Office for iPad heading for the App Store

2012-02-21T21:23:44Z

Apple's productivity suite – Pages, Keynote and Numbers – have been available since the iPad's 2010 launch, but now their comfortable positions near the top of the app productivity chart are in jeopardy because Microsoft Office is said to be wrestling

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For Romney, Much Has Changed Since '08 -- Including the Electorate

2012-02-21T15:11:30Z

DENVER -- At his party's 2010 nominating convention, Richard Wadhams, chairman of the Colorado GOP, asked the 5,000 delegates and alternates to stand up if they were attending their first such assembly. Approximately 40 percent of those in the ...

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Santorum calls Obama health program bad for marriage

2012-02-20T21:10:36Z

The former Pennsylvania senator, trying to rally conservative voters and put pressure on Republican rival Mitt Romney, said Obama's 2010 healthcare overhaul gave couples financial incentives to remain unmarried. "Do you realize that if you are married ...

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Unions return to Democratic fold for 2012 election

2012-02-20T19:08:55Z

The political power of unions was amplified by the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United case freeing corporations and unions to do independent political spending. That means that organized labor no longer has to limit its outreach to union ...

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Utah health data shows high suicide rate

2012-02-20T18:04:29Z

An analysis of Utah's 2010 deaths found nearly 40 percent of those who committed suicide had conflicts with an intimate partner. Slightly more than half had been diagnosed with mental illness. Another 15 percent had reported suffering financial problems.

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Lindsay Lohan starts comeback trail with 'Saturday Night Live'

2012-02-20T16:45:45Z

Her most recent film appearance was in director Robert Rodriguez's 2010 action flick "Machete." In recent years, she's made more court appearances than movies, with a series of hearings stemming from a 2007 DUI conviction and a 2011 theft conviction.

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Paul Babeu says he's gay; resigns from Mitt Romney campaign

2012-02-20T07:34:33Z

The man, a Mexican national identified only as Jose, claimed that Babeu, a vocal opponent of illegal immigration who was featured in Senator John McCain's 2010 campaign ad advocating for greater border security, had threatened him with deportation when he

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Unions return to Democratic fold for 2012 election

2012-02-20T02:33:55Z

Gordon Gee: Bowl ban was coming ‘no matter what’

2012-02-19T23:42:07Z

During a Feb. 6 meeting with The Lantern, Gee said he believed the NCAA-administered one-year bowl ban and reduction of nine scholarships for infractions dating back to OSU's 2010 season were dealt to the Buckeyes because "this was Ohio State."

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Nets will get second crack at Jeremy Lin, this time with a scouting report

2012-02-19T22:52:00Z

He wasn’t yet Linsanity, he was just a roster fill-in. Anthony Morrow had heard of Lin’s 2010 NBA Summer League battle against John Wall, but that was about it. As for an actual scouting report on the then-third-string point guard?

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For Santorum voters, he's a candidate like them

2012-02-19T18:41:28Z

He purchased a luxury Audi sedan and earned hundreds of thousands of dollars as a consultant in recent years. Santorum's 2010 salary - $923,000 - placed him squarely within the top 1 percent of income earners in America. Yet he can still draw a ...

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Intl. version of Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter trailer adds voiceover [VIDEO]

2012-02-19T17:01:15Z

The film is based on Seth Grahame-Smith’s 2010 novel of the same name (Grahame-Smith also wrote the adapted screenplay). Benjamin Walker stars as Lincoln, and Dominic Cooper plays Henry Sturges, his mentor (more on Sturges later). Although we know things

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Mayor Emanuel Challenges Chicago's 2010 U.S. Census Results

2012-02-19T16:32:37Z

This story comes from the Yahoo! Contributor Network, where individuals publish their unique perspectives on some of the world’s most popular websites. Here are some facts about the 2010 Census in Chicago and the resulting impacts of those numbers: * The

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High court blocks Montana campaign money ruling

2012-02-19T03:18:03Z

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. The justices put the Montana ruling on hold while they consider an appeal from corporations seeking to ...

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Tyson not surprised Dallas dominates on D

2012-02-18T22:46:02Z

But that's the case with the Mavericks. During the team's 2010-11 championship run with All-Defensive Second Team member Tyson Chandler, they allowed 96.0 points per game (10th-best) and 45.0 percent shooting (eighth-best). Now they're only ...

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Martin County Sheriff Robert Crowder says political run not about Allen West

2012-02-18T20:30:01Z

The final straw for many Republicans was Crowder's 2010 endorsement of Democrat Alex Sink for governor. He appeared in Florida Democratic Party TV ads criticizing Republican nominee and eventual winner Rick Scott for his stewardship of the Columbia/HCA ...

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Martin County Sheriff Robert Crowder says political run not about Allen West

2012-02-18T19:47:04Z

Eliot Spitzer bucks liberal orthodoxy: ‘Citizens United was correct’

2012-02-18T15:58:01Z

Eliot Spitzer broke with his allies on the left and explained why he thought the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision was the right call. The opinion is one which Spitzer has expressed in the before ...

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Paul Babeu Faces Charges He Threatened His Gay Mexican Ex-Lover With Deportation

2012-02-18T13:42:00Z

Babeu, a vocal opponent of illegal immigration who was featured in Senator John McCain's 2010 campaign ad advocating for greater border security, allegedly threatened Jose with deportation when he refused to sign an agreement stating that he ...

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Google faces privacy flap over iPhones

2012-02-18T03:04:55Z

Graduate student Jonathan Mayer’s report could deal a serious blow to Google, which in October reached a settlement with federal regulators who had alleged that in the company’s 2010 attempt at social networking it used “deceptive tactics ...

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House speaker says payroll tax bill won't add jobs

2012-02-18T02:29:07Z

And it would head off a steep cut in reimbursements for physicians who treat Medicare patients, at a cost of $18 billion, financed in part by cuts to a fund created under Obama's 2010 health care law that awards grants for preventive care and by ...

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Huge turnover doesn't prevent Tide's 3-peat

2012-02-17T23:08:41Z

It's only fitting, since Heffner is the only link to the Crimson Tide's 2010 league championship team. He got to celebrate a three-peat Friday after Pottsville beat Pine Grove 38-31 in a hard-fought contest at Martz Hall to earn its third ...

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Decision time: there's no turning back from here

2012-02-17T20:38:22Z

IF THE fallout from Monday night's Four Corners report revisiting Julia Gillard's 2010 seizure of the prime ministership proves anything, it's this: where conflicting political ambitions are involved, there's rarely, if ever, going to be a single ...

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Supreme Court blocks Montana campaign money ruling

2012-02-17T19:19:38Z

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. The justices put the Montana ruling on hold while they consider an appeal from corporations seeking to be free of

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Live Chat: Bay City Western vs. Saginaw High boys basketball

2012-02-17T19:12:28Z

After beating Western, 60-28, during the regular season last year, the Trojans dropped a 55-47 decision to Western in the tournament, ending Saginaw High's 2010-11 season. This year, the Trojans have just one loss and are ranked third in the ...

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Montana ruling on corporate campaign spending blocked by U.S. Supreme Court

2012-02-17T18:58:09Z

Jonathan Duhamel's 2010 World Series of Poker Bracelet Recovered

2012-02-17T14:33:18Z

Two months after his home invasion in December, Jonathan Duhamel’s 2010 World Series of Poker Bracelet has finally been found, or most of it at least. According to French poker site Princepoker.com, the bracelet was found by a street sweeper in Montreal.

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"The Social Network" Tops indieWIRE's 2010 Critics Poll

2012-02-17T12:53:05Z

David Fincher's "The Social Network" continued to make itself the clear critic's choice for 2010 by easily topping indieWIRE's annual poll of 125 film critics and bloggers. Fincher's take on the dramatic origins of Facebook was named the best film of 2010

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Daily Kos Elections Live Digest: 2/17

2012-02-17T11:05:42Z

Sign up here. So what happened here? Well, to start with, Suffolk was one of the weaker firms in Nate Silver's 2010 pollster ratings, ranking 48th out of 62 in terms of accuracy. It's also true that some academic polling operations just have ...

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Michael Grimm's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad month

2012-02-17T10:08:26Z

Michael Grimm, R-N.Y. finds himself in. [...] Last month, the New York Times detailed alleged fundraising violations committed by Grimm's 2010 campaign, accusing the former FBI agent of, among other things, skirting fundraising limits and ...

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Former Eagle hoping to land near Omaha

2012-02-17T03:06:06Z

It seems that everything people do there, Biggs said, he was doing in high school, when he was The World-Herald's 2010 Male High School Athlete of the Year and helped carry the Eagles to state titles in basketball and track. "It's a lot ...

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Capitol Hill negotiators forge payroll-tax-cut compromise even as GOP continues to slam measure

2012-02-17T02:58:57Z

Buffett’s Burlington Northern Deal Is Focus of U.S. Hearing

2012-02-17T02:16:00Z

Joe Miller deposition takes a heated turn as Fairbanks borough attorney testifies

2012-02-17T00:57:15Z

FAIRBANKS — Borough Attorney Rene Broker this week angrily denied she worked to undermine U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller’s 2010 campaign, calling the accusation “patently ridiculous and offensive” from someone she once considered a friend.

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As weather warms it’s time to adjust boating safety laws

2012-02-16T22:55:34Z

“Alcohol use is the leading contributing factor in fatal boating accidents,” according to the U.S. Coast Guard’s 2010 recreational boating accident statistics, and while that fact is sobering enough, we should realize that Georgia remains ...

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Lincoln County clerk's last day to be Feb. 29

2012-02-16T21:43:59Z

Bowman, 58, and Whitten, 62, agreed to plead guilty for their part in a scheme to rig the results of Lincoln County's 2010 Democratic primary by stuffing the ballot box with illegally obtained absentee ballots. More than 600 people cast absentee ballots in

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Payroll Tax Cut Bill Facing Senate Opposition

2012-02-16T20:25:14Z

Superior Plus Corp. Announces Improved 2011 Annual Results and 2011 Fourth Quarter Results

2012-02-16T17:26:17Z

(1) Superior's 2010 financial results have been restated in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). See Superior's Fourth Quarter Financial Discussion and Analysis for additional details. (2) EBITDA from operations and adjusted

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Shepard Fairey Is 'The Simpsons' Newest Guest Star

2012-02-16T12:32:47Z

LA street artists are taking over "The Simpsons." Season 23, Episode 15 is titled, "Exit Through The Kiwk-E-Mart," a play on fellow street artist Banksy's 2010 documentary, "Exit Through the Gift Shop." In "Exit Through The Kiwk-E-Mart," Bart ...

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Police resume search for missing North Barrington woman

2012-02-16T10:59:44Z

Lake County sheriff's officers and forest preserve police will return to a wooded area near Route 12 and Old Rand Road in unincorporated Wauconda where Maria Carlsen's 2010 BMW was found abandoned, officials said. Authorities were asked to make ...

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Rick Santorum paid double Mitt Romney's tax rate in 2010, records show

2012-02-16T03:28:46Z

Romney's 2010 tax returns show the former Massachusetts governor and wife Ann earned $27 million and paid a tax rate of 13.9 percent. "I felt very successful in making money. Also, I was very successful in paying taxes," Santorum told CNN on Wednesday.

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EDITORIAL: Obama takes super PAC money

2012-02-16T03:00:08Z

In President Barack Obama's 2010 State of the Union address, he chastised Supreme Court justices for their 5-4 decision in Citizens United authorizing corporations and unions to donate to independent political action committees. But for all his ...

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Cape Wind’s Nstar Deal May Spur Financing of U.S. Offshore Farm

2012-02-16T00:22:39Z

State regulators must approve the Nstar contract, as they did with National Grid Plc’s 2010 agreement to buy 234 megawatts of capacity from the project off the coast of Nantucket. “We believe these two contracts will be enough for us to get ...

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PrivacyGuard Survey Finds U.S. Tax Payers Have Low Awareness of Identity Theft Risks During Tax Season

2012-02-15T19:22:00Z

The Federal Trade Commission's 2010 Consumer Complaint Report, listed tax or wage related fraud as the cause of 15% of identity theft claims, higher than credit card fraud, employment fraud, bank fraud, or loan fraud. Worried About Data Breaches ...

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Why didn't Bill O'Brien keep Tom Bradley as Penn State defensive coordinator?

2012-02-15T18:39:03Z

Roof, who coached with O'Brien at Duke and Georgia Tech, is a well-traveled assistant, with his biggest accomplishment coming as the defensive coordinator of Auburn's 2010 BCS Championship team. However, it all hasn't been pretty for Roof.

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Wrestlers reach plea deal

2012-02-15T05:10:10Z

WISCONSIN RAPIDS -- Four Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln High School wrestlers will avoid trial on disorderly conduct charges for allegations of misconduct during the team's 2010-11 state championship season. The prosecutor in the case, Wood County ...

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British Government Delegation Visits Vatican

2012-02-15T01:13:56Z

The visit is also intended as a follow up to Benedict XVI's 2010 visit to the United Kingdom. The delegation is led by Baroness Sayeeda Hussain Warsi, who represents the prime minister, and also includes Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster.

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Yet another poor start for Dallas

2012-02-15T00:45:18Z

And Burish, who was a member of Chicago's 2010 Stanley Cup-winning team before joining the Stars prior to last season, knows that digging yourselves an early hole against a team like the Red Wings is a recipe for disaster. "It (starting better) was a point

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Long Beach bans marijuana collectives

2012-02-15T00:09:31Z

Long Beach that the city's 2010 permit process for the collectives violated federal law prohibiting the sale and distribution of marijuana. The ban motion, proposed by Councilman Robert Garcia, protects collectives who participated in the city's ...

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Arm wrestler charged as wife jumps out window to her death to escape fight with husband, DA says

2012-02-14T22:29:18Z

According to the American Armsport Association website, Stilkey took first place in his weight class at the group's 2010 national championships held in San Antonio, Texas. He has also won regional events.

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How Does Kate Upton Compare to Past 'Sports Illustrated' Swimsuit Covergirls? (PHOTOS)

2012-02-14T22:22:08Z

Whereas Upton's swimsuit is kind of dull, don'tcha think? Then there's Brooklyn Decker's 2010 cover... See, I like how bright and sunny this one is, too. And there's the classic itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny-yellow-polka-dot-bikini thing. Though the peace sign ..

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Obama: 'Not going to just unilaterally disarm' on super PACs

2012-02-14T22:14:59Z

Just before his super PAC decision was announced, Obama said he had “worries” about the influence of the groups and opposed the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. On Tuesday, Obama reiterated that he’s ..

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Ryder Cup a top priority for re-energised Garcia

2012-02-14T19:51:49Z

Garcia failed to qualify as a player for Europe's 2010 Cup victory over the United States at Celtic Manor in Wales and he had to make do with a vice-captaincy role there under skipper Colin Montgomerie. "You all know how much I love the Ryder Cup and how .

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Bad boy bowlers bounce back

2012-02-14T19:44:40Z

Dietrich - the son of former SANFL larrikin full-forward Grenville Dietrich - was suspended by Grange over his involvement in an alcohol-fuelled incident at the club’s 2010/11 premiership celebrations. Mills had his membership at Modbury terminated in ..

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Kate Upton: 7 Things You Don’t Know About The Sports Illustrated Cover Girl

2012-02-14T17:28:39Z

3. She was a Guess girl! Following in the footsteps of iconic blondes Claudia Schiffer and Anna Nicole Smith, Upton was featured in the brand’s 2010-2011 campaigns. She has also modeled for Beach Bunny swimwear and Victoria’s Secret.

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Manchester City chasing Athletic Bilbao midfield star Javi Martinez

2012-02-14T09:14:44Z

Martinez was part of Spain's 2010 World Cup winning side and his most recent crowning achievement was to captain his Under-21 national side to the 2011 UEFA Youth European Championship. Not only has he been outstanding for his country but he has blossomed

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Washington’s mid-century modern neighborhoods

2012-02-14T05:54:18Z

His interest in modernism extends into his personal life: the home he owns with his wife came in second place in The Post’s 2010 “Mad Men” Look contest. Shapiro said that Washington has more mid-century modern architecture than casual obse ...

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PrivacyGuard Survey Finds U.S. Tax Payers Have Low Awareness of Identity Theft Risks During Tax Season

2012-02-14T03:31:08Z

Obama changes stance on super PACs

2012-02-13T21:26:04Z

Though the president has consistently opposed the existence of super PACs like Priorities, the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission poses an interesting dilemma for his 2012 campaign, one that has already led him

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Combating financial sector is foolish

2012-02-13T21:11:45Z

A quarter of Yale's 2010 graduates headed to Wall Street, Cornell sent a third, and Harvard and UPenn each had around half of their graduates start their careers in finance. Here in Madison, the business school sent 41% of 2009-'10 graduates into ...

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Editorial: Ignore the hate

2012-02-13T13:47:56Z

An unsurprising result of the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision has been a veritable unleashing of major donors who are now free to contribute to political action committees in a way that they could not directly support candidates.

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Terps' Danny O'Brien transferring

2012-02-13T12:29:11Z

Maryland quarterback Danny O'Brien, the ACC's 2010 Rookie of the Year, has decided to transfer, the school announced on Monday. O'Brien, as well as starting left tackle Max Garcia and linebacker Mario Rowson, were granted their releases.

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Dina Titus’ strong stand against Harry Reid pays off

2012-02-13T04:43:54Z

In the 1st Congressional District, it would be Kihuen, a young, popular Latino who could help boost Hispanic turnout — key to Reid’s 2010 reelection — for President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign. Members of Reid’s 2010 ...

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Council tax freeze to hit Devon and Cornwall police

2012-02-13T04:36:45Z

The force had already planned to lose one-in-five officers – 700 from a compliment of 3,500 – to meet cuts of almost £50 million imposed by the Government's 2010 comprehensive spending review. However, any freeze in council tax would see another 56 ..

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Is a star turn ahead for retail wars?

2012-02-12T21:12:56Z

The Martha Stewart Collection is one of Macy's biggest home goods brands. Household merchandise accounted for 15 percent of the chain's 2010 sales of $25 billion. "From Macy's point of view, they obviously are upset," Johnson said. "They threw ...

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FDA lays guidelines for “biosimilar” biotech drugs

2012-02-12T17:31:01Z

That finally changed with the Obama administration's 2010 health overhaul, which ordered the FDA to create a system for approving so-called “biosimilar drugs.” The industry term arose because biotech scientists insisted it would be ...

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60 years for District man in teen’s 2010 killing

2012-02-10T11:06:51Z

A 20-year-old District man was sentenced to 60 years in prison Friday for killing a 17-year-old honor roll student and injuring another teenager in November 2010, authorities said. A D.C. Superior Court jury found Kwan Kearney guilty of first ...

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China forges Arab ties, hedging bets in the Gulf

2012-02-08T02:19:30Z

Gulf nations are also betting big on China. The Qatar Investment Authority pumped US$2.8 billion into Agricultural Bank of China's 2010 initial public offering, while the Kuwait Investment Authority bought in for US$800 million. The Kuwait ...

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2011 census results to reveal big shifts in Canada's makeup

2012-02-08T01:29:24Z

This glimpse of Canada's people won't be without controversy, how-ever. Some experts have questioned the federal government's 2010 decision to replace its mandatory long-form questionnaire, previously sent to a representative sample of the population ...

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American Psychological Association Applauds Prop 8 Ruling

2012-02-07T20:21:36Z

WASHINGTON—The American Psychological Association praised today’s U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upholding a U.S. District Court’s 2010 decision overturning Proposition 8. APA had filed a brief in the case (Perry vs. Brown) providing the ..

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Private-Equity Lobbying Helped Protect Romney’s Tax Benefits

2012-02-07T20:00:07Z

multimillion-dollar lobbying campaign to protect the carried interest tax break that helped drive presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s 2010 effective tax rate below 14 percent. With the issue gaining attention in this year’s U.S ...

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Prop. 8 Appeals Court Ruling: Inside the Dissenting Opinion

2012-02-07T18:34:13Z

Same-sex marriage advocates rejoiced today as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker's 2010 decision that Proposition 8, the 2008 California ballot initiative banning gay marriage, is unconstitutional

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Slimmed down Tim Lincecum ready to lead Giants rotation

2012-02-07T17:22:38Z

But after bulking up following the team’s 2010 World Series title run, ‘The Freak,’ showed up at the Giants fanfest last weekend feeling fitter than ever. Lincecum, a two-time National League Cy Young award winner who recently signed a two ...

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BP Made $3 Million An Hour In 2011, While Spill Victims Continued To Suffer

2012-02-07T17:01:10Z

BP’s 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill is still affecting the lives of many Americans, particularly the tens of thousands that have not settled lawsuits with the company. Yet the company has bounced back from the billions it lost in the wake of the spill.

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The Koch Brothers Are Advertising Their Anti-Journalism Site on Pro-Journalism Sites

2012-02-07T14:45:09Z

The Kochs waged an extensive campaign to discredit Jane Mayer's 2010 New Yorker story about them. Like many despised corporations, Koch Industries set up its own PR website, KochFacts.com, to try to counter the "dishonest reporting" of various news outlets

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Saints QB Drew Brees wins 2011 AP Offensive Player of Year

2012-02-04T19:49:22Z

Brees shattered Dan Marino’s 27-year-old mark by passing for 5,476 yards, and his 468 completions broke Peyton Manning’s 2010 record of 450. Brees finished the season completing 71.6 percent of his passes, breaking his own 2009 NFL record (70.6).

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Census to reveal big changes in makeup of Canada

2012-02-04T01:41:18Z

This glimpse at Canada's people won't be without controversy, however. Some experts have questioned the federal government's 2010 decision to replace its mandatory long-form questionnaire, previously sent to a representative sample of the ...

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Newt and the NEWT Act

2012-02-03T22:06:33Z

Newt Gingrich’s 2010 income tax return inspired a quick response from U.S. congressman Pete Stark. Twelve days after Gingrich, a Republican presidential hopeful, made his return public, Stark proposed the Narrowing Exceptions for Withholding ...

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Obama's 2010 campaign: 'Stakes higher'

2012-02-02T15:19:43Z

President Barack Obama, who won election to the White House with the help of a wave of younger voters, including some who had never voted before, is issuing a rallying call for those forces as his party prepares for bruising midterm elections this year.

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This State Has The Greenest Buildings In America

2012-01-31T12:51:46Z

Measuring your carbon footprint is one way to find out your level of greenness. But it isn't the only way. Using U.S. 2010-Census information, the U.S. Green Building Council has compiled a list of the top green states in the country, factoring in LEED ...

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Broadway's 2010 Tony Award-Winning Best Musical Memphis, Rocks on THIRTEEN's Great Performances Friday, February 24 at 9 p.m. on PBS

2012-01-31T09:45:39Z

Filled with high-octane dancing, songs that perfectly capture the era, and an absorbing tale of fame and forbidden love, the show offers soaring emotion and roof-raising rock 'n' roll. For Great Performances, Bill O'Donnell is series producer; David Horn .

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Complaint Filed With FEC Over Congressman Grimm's 2010 Fundraising

2012-01-30T18:58:01Z

NY1 VIDEO: Staten Island Democrats are turning up the heat on Republican Congressman Michael Grimm, after the representative's opponents filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday to call for an investigation into allegations of ...

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West Virginia Sheriff Stole Election: Lincoln County Sheriff Jerry Bowman Pleads Guilty To Voter Fraud

2012-01-30T16:56:20Z

CHARLESTON, W.V., Jan 30 (Reuters) - A West Virginia sheriff pleaded guilty to voter fraud in the state's 2010 primary election including illegally filling in some absentee ballots out of fear he might lose a close election, authorities said on Monday.

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Tax clips from the Web: Best states for business tax, slow IRS returns and a very wealthy candidate

2012-01-30T13:35:54Z

Anyone who was expecting Romney’s 2010 tax filing to expose the candidate for unscrupulous manipulations of the tax law was delivered a goose egg. The returns did show a tax rate of 13.9 percent for the multimillionaire, but due to the laws on taxation

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Californians, please take action now to pass the CA DISCLOSE Act!

2012-01-29T14:55:50Z

While the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision unleashed unlimited, billionaire-funded SuperPACs nationwide, in California they've been around since 2002, growing by leaps and bounds every election year. We can't outspend them ...

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US Role in Jamaica's 2010 Tivoli Massacre

2012-01-29T13:15:37Z

To what extent, if any, did the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) participate in the slaughter of scores of Kingston, Jamaica’s, Tivoli Gardens residents on May 24th, 2010? The community was run by drug lord Christopher (Dudus) Coke, a self ...

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John McCain Blasts Super PACs And Citizens United Ruling -- Again

2012-01-29T13:01:18Z

Doubling down on comments he made earlier in the week, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Sunday's "Meet the Press" once again denounced the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision for unleashing the flood of money now "washing over politics."

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US Role in Jamaica's 2010 Tivoli Massacre

2012-01-28T18:53:14Z

AP Exclusive: Vatican rewrites anti-money laundering, terror finance law to comply

2012-01-27T21:03:16Z

Mamberti said the ratification of the treaties as well as the Vatican's 2010 law, which he parenthetically revealed had been "modified" on Wednesday, showed the Vatican's determination to adhere to the most rigorous international standards.

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Romney’s Tax Return Set to Inflame Debate Over Investment Rate

2012-01-27T14:08:06Z

Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) -- The release of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s 2010 tax return today may only inflame the controversy over the tax code’s treatment of some of the nation’s richest individuals. Romney, who made a fortune ...

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Romney Tax Break Rejected as Welfare for Rich in Investor Poll

2012-01-27T00:39:12Z

As the release of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s 2010 tax return heats up debate over a 15 percent top rate on so-called carried interest, two-thirds of those surveyed in the Bloomberg Global Poll say the tax break is unjustified.

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Record on Romney's 2010 tax return differs from financial disclosure: report

2012-01-26T19:45:43Z

The parsing of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's tax returns turned up at least 23 "funds and partnerships" that were listed on his 2010 form but not on his most recent financial disclosure form, news organizations reported on ...

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Breaking: Two More Scott Walker Staffers Arrested

2012-01-26T17:51:11Z

The John Doe also turned up more than 1,000 emails between Rindfleisch and top staffers on Walker's 2010 campaign during work hours over the same period. Also charged Thursday was Darlene Wink, Walker's one-time constituent services coordinator ...

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Romney tax returns detail funds not identified in ethics forms

2012-01-26T17:36:52Z

Some investments listed in Mitt and Ann Romney’s 2010 tax returns – including a now-closed Swiss bank account and other funds located overseas – were not explicitly disclosed in the personal financial statement the GOP presidential hopeful ...

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RomneyCare Is a Mess. But It Might Still Represent the Best Case Scenario for ObamaCare.

2012-01-26T16:39:36Z

Here’s what we know about RomneyCare, the 2006 Massachusetts health policy overhaul signed by Mitt Romney that served as the model for President Obama’s 2010 reform law: Insurance coverage in the Bay State were already high relative to the ...

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Newt's Secret Florida Weapon: Marco Rubio's 2010 Campaign Manager

2012-01-26T12:36:13Z

The Florida primary has become a battle between money and momentum. Polls now show a virtual tie as Mitt Romney has plummeted 25 points in the state in the last week following Newt Gingrich's decisive win in South Carolina. Romney has an edge in ...

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Tax Lawyers Question Newt’s 2010 Returns

2012-01-26T09:30:06Z

After reviewing the 2010 federal tax return Gingrich released last week, the tax experts said he may have left himself open to an IRS challenge. “That could be the type of return that would be flagged for an audit,” said one of the experts, Robert ...

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Unflappable Malkin leads surging Penguins into all-star break on a high

2012-01-26T08:47:09Z

So forgive Bylsma if he can't say for certain whether star centre Evgeni Malkin is fully recovered from the torn ACL in his right knee that prematurely ended the Russian's 2010-11 season. Malkin's entertainingly broken English doesn't lend itself to ...

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Romney’s Tax Return Inflames Debate Over 15% Investment Rate

2012-01-26T06:23:59Z

For more campaign news, see {ELECT}.) Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) -- The release of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s 2010 tax return today may only inflame the controversy over the tax code’s treatment of some of the nation’s richest individuals.

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Romney’s Tax Return Set to Inflame Debate Over Investment Rate

2012-01-26T03:46:30Z

Romney Tax Break Rejected as Welfare for Rich in Investor Poll

2012-01-26T01:09:02Z

Romney Endorsed Rubio Late in 2010

2012-01-25T18:42:29Z

But a source close to Rubio’s 2010 campaign tells Newsmax that his memory of Romney’s involvement is a “bit faulty.” Romney was not “one of the first” Republican leaders to back Rubio’s senate bid. In fact, Romney’s endorsement ...

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Fifth Megaupload Arrest; No Bail for Kim Dotcom

2012-01-25T16:47:57Z

He flew helicopters and paid for the city of Aukland's 2010 New Year's fireworks celebration, according to the Wall Street Journal. Authorities reportedly seized more than a dozen luxury cars when they arrested him last week. What do you think? Is Kim ...

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Spain government 'plans abortion reform'

2012-01-25T15:14:53Z

Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon said he was drawing up a bill to change the former Socialist government's 2010 law which fully legalised abortion up to 14 weeks of pregnancy. "Some of the principles announced by our party such as the requirement of ...

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Evansville company fined $2K in worker's 2010 death

2012-01-25T10:14:14Z

State officials have fined an Evansville company $2,000 for the death of a worker killed when a forklift tipped over onto him. The Evansville Courier & Press reports Bootz Industries paid the fine following an investigation by the state ...

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SW Ind. company fined $2K in worker's 2010 death

2012-01-25T09:02:39Z

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WTW) — State officials have fined an Evansville company $2,000 for the death of a worker killed when a forklift tipped over onto him. The Evansville Courier & Press reports (http://bit.ly/zjKJR3) Bootz Industries paid the fine following

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Romney's 2010 income topped $20 million

2012-01-25T03:11:54Z

WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney’s tax returns tell the tale: Yes, he’s rich — really rich. His returns, spanning more than 500 pages and released under political pressure Tuesday, represent an extraordinary financial accounting of one of the wealthiest U

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Mitt Romney's 2009 Tax Burden Likely Even Lower Than 2010, Experts Say

2012-01-24T22:25:34Z

Mitt Romney's 2010 tax return is likely to serve as a flashpoint throughout the presidential campaign for critics who say the 13.9 percent effective tax rate he paid that year is unfairly low. It appears likely his tax burden was even lower the ...

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Capitol Alert: Audit accuses high-speed rail of risky financing, contract splitting

2012-01-24T21:56:56Z

In a follow-up report to her agency's 2010 critique of the project, state Auditor Elaine Howle said the California High-Speed Rail Authority's most recent business plan relies on uncertain funding sources and that "the program's overall financial situation

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Gingrich Tries to Lure Tea Party Support in Florida

2012-01-24T21:21:09Z

At event after event on Tuesday on Florida’s southwest coast, Mr. Gingrich boasted that his state campaign manager had run Mr. Rubio’s 2010 Senate race, whereas Mitt Romney had hired “the people who ran Charlie Crist’s campaign.”

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Sinclair scores and you can donate to CAN Fund plan

2012-01-24T20:59:40Z

CAN Fund helps athletes in their attempt to reach the Olympics and Paralympics. It provided funding support to 80 per cent of Canada’s 2010 Olympians and since its inception in 1999 has raised over $13 million. It got charitable status in 2003.

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Here's What Gingrich's 2010 Tax Return Does And Doesn't Tell Us

2012-01-24T18:57:59Z

Megaupload, meet Morrison

2012-01-24T17:46:24Z

I like to think of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Morrison v. National Australia Bank as Godzilla, rampaging across the landscape of civil litigation as plaintiffs’ lawyers scramble away in horror. Morrison, as you know, was a securities case

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Will tax returns help Mitt Romney?

2012-01-24T15:08:55Z

Jamie Chandler Political scientist at Hunter College : The release of Romney’s 2010 tax returns has made his problems worse. As Garry South pointed out, Romney had a high bar to clear; his father published 12-years worth of 1040s during his 1967 campaign

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Candidate Romney more generous than Obama, Biden

2012-01-24T14:40:17Z

Mitt Romney's 2010 tax return was released today, revealing made $2.98 million in charitable donations, out of his adjusted gross income of $21.6 million. That comes to about 14 percent of his adjusted gross income for the year.

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The Problem With Mitt Romney's Tax Rate | The Nation

2012-01-24T13:21:33Z

Mitt Romney's 2010 tax return (Image courtesy of mittromney.com) After weeks of hemming and hawing, Mitt Romney has finally released some of his tax returns. In 2008 Joe Biden released ten years’ worth of tax returns. When running for president in 1968 .

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Mitt Romney’s 2010 tax return, Romney’s estimated 2011 filing (Full text)

2012-01-24T09:46:48Z

Amid increasing pressure to release his tax returns, presidential candidate Mitt Romney disclosed the documents late Monday night. The former Massachusetts governor had an effective tax rate of 13.9 percent in 2010, a rate that is lower than the 26 percent

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Romney's Taxes: $3 Million

2012-01-24T03:05:56Z

His 2010 return also showed that he had a financial account in Switzerland that was closed in 2010 and that he generated income from overseas investments. He also reported financial accounts in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. Mr. Romney's ...

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Romney's 2010 income: $21.7 million

2012-01-24T02:58:46Z

WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney paid about $3 million in federal income taxes in 2010. Romney's tax returns show most of his $21.7 million income came from his investments. He also gave nearly $3 million combined to charitable causes and the Mormon ...

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Romney's 2010 income tax rate 14 percent

2012-01-24T00:35:36Z

TAMPA, Fla. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney paid about $3 million in federal income taxes in 2010, having earned more than seven times that from his investments. Those earnings, $21.7 million, put him among the wealthiest of American ...

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Tax lawyers question Gingrich's 2010 return

2012-01-23T19:13:29Z

After reviewing the 2010 federal tax return Gingrich released last week, the tax experts said he may have left himself open to an IRS challenge. "That could be the type of return that would be flagged for an audit," said one of the experts ...

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Where the money is: A campaign spending primer

2012-01-23T19:13:29Z

Washington (CNN)-- The following is a primer on campaign finance terms relevant to the Supreme Court's 2010 "Citizens United" ruling that loosened spending restrictions in federal elections, which will have an impact this election year.

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Tax lawyers question Gingrich's 2010 return

2012-01-23T19:13:29Z

GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich used a popular tax strategy that enabled him to avoid paying Medicare tax on most of his 2010 income, three tax lawyers told USA TODAY. After reviewing the 2010 federal tax return Gingrich released last week, the ..

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Mitt Romney Assigns Five Aides To Help Unveil Tax Returns

2012-01-23T18:16:13Z

TAMPA, Fla -- Mitt Romney's campaign announced on Monday afternoon that it would hold a conference call the following morning to discuss the release of the former Massachusetts governor's 2010 tax returns and 2011 tax return estimates.

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Military Sex-Assault Victims to Get More Help, Panetta Pledges

2012-01-23T17:18:57Z

The estimate of 19,000 assaults is based on a survey of active-duty personnel cited in the Pentagon’s 2010 annual report. A similar survey four years earlier generated an estimate of 34,000, indicating the rate of incidents may be dropping ...

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Americans Agree: Corporations Aren’t People

2012-01-23T15:38:44Z

following the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision. In particular, voters widely reject the notion that corporations have the same constitutional rights as people, including 3-to-1 opposition to unlimited corporate spending in campaigns.

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U.S. Air Force to Get Five More C-17s

2012-01-23T15:31:35Z

The original compact was an indefinitely-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that was awarded on May 13 to buy the first five planes in the Air Force’s 2010 requirement. The contract was issued by the Aeronautical Systems Center at Wright ...

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Cave-in by PM puts us all at risk

2012-01-22T20:54:53Z

According to the Productivity Commission's 2010 public inquiry on gambling, 60 per cent of pokie revenue comes from people who have a gambling problem or are at risk, and about a third of regular players have a problem or are at risk. If we were talking ..

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RIVERSIDE: Protestors mark second anniversary of Citizens United

2012-01-21T01:07:48Z

Demonstrators gathered outside the federal Bankruptcy Court in Riverside on Friday afternoon to protest the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 decision that said the government cannot limit corporate and union political donations in candidate elections.

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Here Is Newt Gingrich's 2010 Tax Return

2012-01-20T17:58:18Z

Newt Gingrich released his tax 2010 tax return last night, revealing that he paid nearly $1 million in taxes on more than $3 million in earned income. Below we've taken a snapshot of the first page of his report. Here's the full thing.

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Stephen Colbert, Herman Cain team up for S.C. campaign rally

2012-01-20T17:36:50Z

Colbert used the event to satirize, yet again, the influence of money in politics, particularly the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizen's United vs. FEC ruling, which determined that corporations are people and thus endowed with free speech rights ...

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Small-Business Owners Wary of Citizens United's Impact

2012-01-20T00:40:21Z

A large swath of the country’s small- and medium-sized business owners have joined the growing chorus of activists and lawmakers that oppose the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling on corporate ...

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Kucinich proposes public financing to overturn Citizens United ruling

2012-01-19T20:29:49Z

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) introduced a constitutional amendment to the U.S. House on Thursday that would overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. the Federal Elections Commission. The court held that corporations ...

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David Beckham May Extend His American Stay by Becoming MLS Franchise Owner

2012-01-19T19:39:42Z

Forbes estimated Beckham’s 2010 income at $40 million, while his net worth is about $291 million, the U.K.’s Sunday Times said in May. Beckham’s original five-year accord included the option to buy a franchise after he retires from playing.

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Republicans rehash Kaine’s 2010 attempt to transfer Soering to Germany

2012-01-19T12:23:03Z

Former Gov. Tim Kaine may be forced during the upcoming U.S. Senate campaign again to defend his 2010 request to the U.S. Justice Department to approve the transfer back to Germany of the inmate convicted in a 1985 brutal double-murder in Bedford County.

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Cisco expands smart grid portfolio

2012-01-18T22:39:51Z

Cisco this week expanded its smart grid portfolio for utilities with a reference architecture, products and services intended to modernize the electric grid. Cisco unveiled the GridBlocks Architecture, a blueprint for integrating digital communications and

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Gross crew errors behind 2010 Ethiopian Airlines crash: report

2012-01-18T03:27:22Z

BEIRUT: Flight crew mismanagement and inexperience were likely to be behind the 2010 crash of an Ethiopian airliner off Beirut, which claimed the lives of 90 passengers and crew members, according to the final investigation report announced Tuesday. But ..

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Global Causes Attract Growing Share of US Giving

2012-01-17T22:55:21Z

Well Fargo’s 2010 annual report emphasizes community lending and assisting corporate customers with expansion in global markets, and its giving still focuses on U.S.-based organizations. Goldman Sachs did not respond on its percentage of international ..

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Indiana lawmakers look for ethics exemptions

2012-01-17T22:55:21Z

One of the cornerstones of the Indiana General Assembly’s 2010 ethics reform bill was a ban on lobbyist-funded, out-of-state travel for legislators. As it turns out, the ban isn’t quite an iron-clad rule. And two years after the bill’s passage ...

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Mayor Gray plans a resurrection

2012-01-17T19:56:23Z

After all, U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen Jr. is investigating allegations by ever-mercurial Sulaimon Brown that he was promised a job and given cash by Gray's 2010 campaign to trash the incumbent during the Democratic primary. A group of residents has ...

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Nestle Said to Vie With Danone to Buy Pfizer Baby-Food Unit

2012-01-17T19:20:36Z

Together, the two accounted for 8 percent of the drugmaker’s 2010 revenue. “Investors will view this positively,” said Les Funtleyder, a health-care strategist and portfolio manager with Miller Tabak & Co. in New York, whose fund owns Pfizer shares.

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The wonderful world of judicial confirmations

2012-01-17T18:09:01Z

The reason, according to Menendez, a practicing lawyer before his election to Congress in 1992, was that he questioned her in private about constitutional issues, including the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling opening the door to corporate politica ...

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D.C. files brief in support of health-care law

2012-01-17T15:17:13Z

The District has joined Maryland and 10 other states in petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold President Obama’s 2010 health-care reform law, arguing that federal authority includes the power to regulate individual behavior if it helps ...

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Fastest-Aging Society Greets Ma Second Term in Taiwan Asset-Deflation Risk

2012-01-17T03:50:01Z

The later the government faces the consequences, the more difficult they will be to deal with.” Taiwan’s 2010 total fertility rate was 0.9 babies per woman, according to baseline estimates compiled by Taiwan’s Council for Economic Planning ...

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Colbert Super PAC urges South Carolina to vote for Herman Cain

2012-01-17T00:15:16Z

Colbert has been using his satirical candidacy to bash the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The court held that political spending was free speech. It allowed corporations and other groups to spend ...

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Don’t Lump Cuba With Iran on U.S. Terror List: Jeffrey Goldberg

2012-01-16T21:23:29Z

But Cuba is on the list. So what, exactly, has it done to merit inclusion? According to the State Department’s 2010 report on state sponsors of terrorism, “Cuba continued to denounce U.S. counterterrorism efforts throughout the world ...

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Philippine Senate Rules Corona Impeachment Trial Can Proceed

2012-01-16T07:54:35Z

Corona, an ally of jailed former president Gloria Arroyo who was appointed by her two days after Aquino’s 2010 election win, faces eight charges that include favoring Arroyo in court decisions. The 23-member Senate rejected Corona’s petition ...

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Aquino Targets Philippines’ Top Judge as Slowing Economy Threatens Support

2012-01-15T23:54:59Z

An ally of jailed former president Gloria Arroyo who was appointed by her two days after Aquino’s 2010 election win, Corona faces eight charges that include favoring Arroyo in court decisions. Aquino’s push against his predecessor builds on ...

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49ers Top Saints: Alex Smith Leads San Francisco To Shocking Win Over New Orleans (VIDEO)

2012-01-15T01:14:55Z

He had 468 completions this season, breaking Peyton Manning's 2010 mark of 450. He finished the season completing 71.6 percent of his passes, breaking his own 2009 NFL record of a 70.6 completion percentage. He followed that up with 466 yards ...

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In South Carolina, Romney, Gingrich brace for Super PAC attacks

2012-01-14T15:13:37Z

So far, Super PACs – independent campaign groups with unlimited fundraising rights – have proven effective in the Republican presidential primary race, to date mostly helping former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney tar his rivals and cement ...

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Hometown Calendar

2012-01-14T04:22:13Z

"Back Home Again: A Photographic Journey of Green Bay's 2010 Season": 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 9 am.-5 p.m. Friday-Saturday; noon-4 pm. Sunday through Feb. 12, Brown County Central Library, 515 Pine St., Green Bay. An exhibition of 25 ...

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Citizens United Lawyer Tapped to Handle Montana Appeal

2012-01-13T19:25:21Z

National Law Journal’s Marcia Coyle has a spot of good news for the swath of LB nation that thinks Montana’s high court garbled the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC. The justices voted 5-4 in Citizens United ...

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Solyndra 2010 layoffs 'no es bueno,' according to White House aide

2012-01-13T18:42:24Z

Senior White House officials fretted just days before the November 2010 election about the bad press coverage they'd face if news leaked of Solyndra layoffs, according to new internal emails released Friday. "Here's the deal — Solyndra is going to ...

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Motion calls for Mayor Rob Ford to testify under oath at appeal of audit

2012-01-13T16:19:14Z

The two Toronto residents pressing for a review of Rob Ford’s 2010 election expenses upped the political stakes Friday when they said in a statement that the mayor may be asked to testify under oath during a court date set for mid-April that will ...

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Nestle Vies With Danone to Buy Pfizer Unit

2012-01-13T04:01:56Z

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Gives Up Fight Against Medical Marijuana

2012-01-12T18:57:54Z

Nearly 14 months after Arizona voters approved Proposition 203, the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act (AMMA), Republican Gov. Jan Brewer is finally directing the Arizona Department of Health Services to move forward to fully implementation the law. A brief ...

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Nestle Said to Vie With Danone for Pfizer’s Baby-Food Unit

2012-01-12T17:39:09Z

Together, the two units accounted for 8 percent of the drugmaker’s 2010 revenue. “Investors will view this positively,” said Les Funtleyder, a health-care strategist and portfolio manager with Miller Tabak & Co. in New York, whose fund ...

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Immigrant group sues for documents on Haiti deportations

2012-01-11T20:53:37Z

ICE denied the group's Freedom of Information Act request seeking information about the decision to resume in 2011 the deportations suspended after Haiti's 2010 earthquake. A fee waiver request also was denied. The group formerly known as the ...

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Democrats plan to seek repeal of immigration law

2012-01-11T18:59:05Z

PHOENIX -- Democratic lawmakers in Arizona plan to propose a repeal of the state's 2010 immigration enforcement law but concede that the bill won't go far at the Legislature. The Arizona Republic reports that Democratic state Sen. Steve Gallardo ...

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Tennessee Gov. Haslam endorses Romney for president

2012-01-11T15:24:20Z

Bill Haslam. Romney supported Haslam in the state's 2010 governor's race, and Haslam's father and brother had already assumed leadership positions in the presidential candidate's Tennessee operations. Haslam in a statement cited Romney's ...

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Vols WR transferring to Louisville

2012-01-11T05:44:31Z

He was a four-star member of UT’s 2010 recruiting class, and was rated by Rivals.com as the No. 18 receiver in the country and the No. 3 player at any position in the state of Illinois.

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David Allen: Upland council kicks off 2012 like it's 2010

2012-01-11T02:24:05Z

As I ate an early dinner Monday in Upland, the restaurant's two other parties recognized me and came over to say hello. There was also a presentation to a State Teacher of the Year for 2011, Beverly Gonzalez of Upland. Gonzalez was one of five ...

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Valpo School Board: ‘We screwed up’

2012-01-10T22:20:42Z

Board member James Jorgensen said the board’s 2010 gradual expenditure reduction plan “was not aggressive enough to match the rapid loss of state revenues,” he said in reviewing the end-of-year revelation made last month. In 2010, he said ...

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David Allen: Upland council kicks off 2012 like it's 2010

2012-01-10T17:20:03Z

Apple’s Tim Cook gets $376 million stock award

2012-01-10T15:11:12Z

That’s actually down quite a lot from Cook’s 2010 compensation from Apple, while included an $800,000 salary, nearly $6 million in cash bonuses, almost $60,000 in perks and other compensation…and over $52 million in stock awards. Apple co-founder and

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Billionaire Writes $5 Million Check to Gingrich Super PAC

2012-01-10T12:55:12Z

It seems we can’t get away from the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling, which struck down limits on corporate and union political spending. Just last week, we told you about New York City’s resolution against it and the Montana ...

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More policy support seen as China import growth flags

2012-01-10T00:37:54Z

But the pace of slackening trade is disconcerting for Beijing as exporters are mainstay employers in China, even though their output accounted for only around 7 percent of China's 2010 GDP. The softening domestic demand revealed by the data also ...

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'Iron Chef' will be cooking at Revel

2012-01-09T23:26:19Z

Superstar stove jockey Marck Forgione, the winner of Food Channel's 2010 "Iron Chef" competition, is the latest restaurateur to join the ever-expanding culinary empire at Revel Atlantic City. Forgione, whose eponymous New York eatery is a favorite of ...

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McCain: Super PACs will result in scandal, corruption

2012-01-09T20:20:12Z

(CNN) - Republican Sen. John McCain on Monday blasted the Supreme Court's 2010 ruling that eventually paved the way for the rise of super PACs, blaming it for the election cycle's increasing ad wars. "Now it's the system under which we operate ...

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David Allen: Upland council kicks off 2012 like it's 2010

2012-01-09T18:54:18Z

Daley and any pretense of moderation are out at the White House

2012-01-09T16:38:17Z

Daley was hired, supposedly to soothed to get along with the business community in the wake of the president’s party’s 2010 “shellacking.” But as I and many expected, the policies that the president has insisted upon and the increasingly ...

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Audit: Muskegon Heights schools 2010-11 budget deficit doubled to $8.5 million

2012-01-09T14:07:58Z

The district's 2010-11 audit will be reviewed for the school board, which meets at 6 p.m. today at the board of education office, 2603 Leahy. The audit, prepared by Brickley Delong Certified Public Accountants, shows the district ended the 2010 ...

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Gessler critics say plan to limit campaign fines helps big-money groups

2012-01-09T03:09:24Z

David Smith's 2010 campaign for Routt County sheriff was as modest as it was short-lived. A self-described "small real-estate investor" and insurance adjuster, Smith used his own money for the few expenses he incurred in the weeks leading up to ...

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Leucadia National: Speculating On A Jefferies Turnaround

2012-01-08T23:20:20Z

Reading Leucadia National’s 2010 Annual Report, I immediately became enthused. Not only was the report written in a highly entertaining manner palpable to the layman, it was also full of amazing facts about this company which compel me to ...

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Come On America, Show Some Pride and End the Recession

2012-01-08T16:46:38Z

In Citizens of London, Lynne Olson’s 2010 book about American mobilization for war in World War II-era England, the author retold a story about the actions of American fighter pilots at a party early on in the war. Though anecdotal ...

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Rosenblatt swims eloquently through heartbreak in his book 'Kayak Morning'

2012-01-08T08:39:52Z

In Roger Rosenblatt's 2010 memoir, "Making Toast," he told what happened immediately after the death of his 38-year-old daughter, Amy, from an undiagnosed heart defect, in December 2007. On the day Amy died, Rosenblatt and his wife left their house in ...

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Golden Eagles bested by top-ranked Syracuse

2012-01-08T01:59:00Z

A season ago, the Marquette Golden Eagles got the better of Syracuse on two occasions, including a triumph in the third round of the NCAA Tournament which ended the Orange’s 2010-11 campaign. The two conference foes got reacquainted on Saturday for the .

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Mexico’s 2010 bicentennial independence monument inaugurated almost 1½ years late, over budget

2012-01-07T21:48:28Z

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president has inaugurated a soaring monument that was supposed to be ready for the country’s 2010 independence bicentennial, but came in way over budget and nearly 1½ years late. Some Mexicans have suggested the quartz-clad ..

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First Lady Faulted Aides For Fixating on Politics, Not Promised New Policies

2012-01-07T19:18:09Z

Michelle Obama's 2010 push for an overhaul of a White House advisory team she viewed as more concerned with electioneering than backing expansive health-care reforms and other major initiatives that President Obama espoused before his historic ...

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Sharing photos of the Monadnock Region on Google+

2012-01-07T17:59:24Z

Mark Zuckerberg CEO of Facebook was chosen as Time Magazine's 2010 "Person of the Year". In late 2011, Facebook revamped their interface, introducing Timeline. Google, which had operated a social networking site Orkut, which was popular in India and Brazil

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EPA Says Mass. Has Reduced Pollutants

2012-01-07T13:34:33Z

The Environmental Protection Agency’s 2010 Toxic Release Inventory shows that at 441 Massachusetts facilities, the overall release of pollutants was 4.3 million pounds, a decrease of 1.12 million pounds from 2009. The inventory includes toxic ...

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NBA: Utah Jazz's offense stands still and wings pay the price

2012-01-06T23:51:21Z

Some of Utah's 2010-11 beat still exists. Jefferson was the Jazz's average leading scorer last season, and he's the focal point again this year. The eight-year veteran center with a soft touch tops the team in points (14.7), minutes (30), field ...

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Ron Paul’s new attack ad uses same soundtrack as Barbara Boxer’s 2010 anti-Fiorina piece (VIDEO)

2012-01-06T21:06:42Z

Texas Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul and California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer have two things in common: They both have a very strong anti-war stance…and they both use the SAME CREEPY SOUNDTRACK in their campaign ...

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How Labour plans to shut down Nigeria

2012-01-06T19:19:20Z

Speaking to Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Special Adviser to the United Nations’ Secretary General, at State House, Abuja, Jonathan said the country’s 2010 capital budget was funded with borrowed money, the equivalent of which was used to fund the subsidy last

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Fred Upton's 2010 challenger promises answer on rematch by Jan. 17

2012-01-06T15:08:47Z

Rep. Fred Upton's 2010 primary opponent says he's about 10 days away from announcing whether he’ll mount a rematch. "You can say that I'm certainly interested, and there's a lot of people who have been encouraging me," former Michigan state Rep. Jack ...

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Notebook: Democrats propose legislative agenda

2012-01-06T13:21:25Z

After losses in South Dakota's 2010 elections that were even worse than usual, there are signs of new life in the Democratic Party as the 2012 session of the Legislature opens Tuesday. The strongest indication came New Year's Eve. Democratic ...

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Citizens United Backlash Picks Up Official Support From Occupy Wall Street, New York Chapter

2012-01-06T12:45:37Z

On Wednesday, a similar resolution passed the New York City Council. Such an amendment would reverse not only the Supreme Court's 2010 opinion in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which held that corporations have the ...

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Family of detained Nuba general urges Sudan to secure his release

2012-01-06T02:58:39Z

According to International human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, during April’s 2010 elections, South Sudanese security forces “harassed, arrested, and detained people thought to be opposed to the ruling ..

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Voting process isn’t just for the adults, Bedford’s town moderator says

2012-01-05T23:16:44Z

BEDFORD – Most college students spend their winter breaks catching up on sleep or reuniting with high school friends. Not C.J. Klardie. Klardie, 19, a Bedford High School graduate and freshman at New Hampshire Technical Institute, Concord’s community .

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Music Review: Neil Cowley Trio - Radio Silence

2012-01-05T21:29:22Z

With the imminent release of a new album in the U.K. later this month, it is perhaps a little late to take a look at the Neil Cowley Trio's 2010 effort, Radio Silence, released in the U.S. last November. Still, when it comes to accessible contemporary jazz

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Corporations are people too? Not in Montana! At least for now.

2012-01-05T18:23:15Z

The fallout from the Supreme Court’s 2010 seminal opinion – Citizens United v. FEC – voiding restrictions on election-related speech by corporations (along with labor unions and non-profits) continues to reverberate as we inch along the ...

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Convio Predicts Key Trends For The Nonprofit Sector In 2012

2012-01-05T16:07:14Z

Based on Convio’s 2010 holiday giving survey, online fundraising was up 40 percent from 2009. Online will continue as the fastest growing giving channel. Online’s influence outside of transactions is growing as older donors engage in web ...

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Senate committee moves forward with human trafficking bill

2012-01-05T13:15:27Z

According to the U.S. State Department’s 2010 Trafficking in Persons Report, approximately 12.3 million adults and children are trafficked across international borders into forced labor and sexual exploitation worldwide. “This bill creates ...

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Halloran Says He Will Vote Against Resolution for Supreme Court Ruling

2012-01-05T02:16:53Z

Federal Election Commission. The court’s 2010 ruling held that the First Amendment prohibits government from limiting independent spending for political purposes by unions and corporations. Halloran said he would not support the City Council resolution.

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Report: Councilmember Harry Thomas, Jr. Expected to Resign; Special Election Would Be Set

2012-01-04T21:16:14Z

Potential candidates would would run for a special election include Thomas’s 2010 general election opponent, openly gay Republican Tim Day, who told Metro Weekly that he would consider running in a special election were Thomas either recalled or forced t

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NY's Cuomo: 2010 Teacher-Evaluation Law Not Working

2012-01-04T16:01:16Z

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told state lawmakers that the state's 2010 law that ties teacher evaluation to student test scores—a major piece of the state's winning, $700 million Race to the Top award—is not working, and he suggested it needs ...

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Stevens: I'll learn from Warnock

2012-01-04T04:12:36Z

But he has now launched his three and a half year deal with Villa and knows he can only benefit from training and playing alongside Warnock who was part of England's 2010 World Cup squad. The Republic of Ireland Under-21 international said: "I'm looking ..

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Chris Matthews: Anti-Gingrich ad blitz ‘equally intensive’ as Dresden bombings

2012-01-03T19:22:53Z

A month ago, he was at 33 percent, this weekend he was down to 12 percent.” Matthews observed an irony in that Gingrich, a proponent of the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision, has now become a ...

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Large, talented group populates Edmonton Oilers' minor-league system

2012-01-03T13:32:08Z

Hartikainen's 2010-11 season started much like Hamilton's 2011-12 campaign before he went on a tear around Christmas time and finished strong (including an impressive stint at the NHL level late in the year). Among the last cuts from the Oilers roster this

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Montana Supreme Court Defies Citizens United Decision

2012-01-03T11:51:55Z

On Friday, the Montana Supreme Court restored a 100-year-old state ban on direct spending by corporations on political candidates or committees, saying that the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC dealt with federal ...

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United States: Cross-Border Shareholder Class Actions Before And After "Morrison"

2012-01-03T08:52:57Z

We conduct an empirical inquiry into the effect of the Supreme Court's 2010 Morrison decision, which limited the reach of US securities laws to trades occurring on US markets, on the competitiveness of US markets as a venue for listings by foreign issuers

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United Kingdom: Investigatory Powers: Obtaining Evidence Under The Norwich Pharmacal Jurisdiction

2012-01-03T08:02:51Z

The depressing case of the criminal convictions of Mohammad Amir, Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif for spot-fixing during Pakistan's 2010 test series against England was a sobering reminder that corruption is a live problem in sport. In between hacking the ..

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Red Sox still have loose ends to address

2012-01-03T02:26:25Z

That nearly doubled Pence's 2010 salary of $3.5 million. Ellsbury was paid a comparatively low $2.4 million last year after missing almost all of the 2010 season with fractured ribs, but his MVP-worthy performance last season, which dwarfed ...

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Burkina customs chief fired over mystery cash

2012-01-02T23:41:46Z

Guiro, whose department was ranked the west African country's most corrupt in the local anti-graft watchdog's 2010 report, is reported to have narrowly evaded prosecution in 2008 over tax evasion.

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EMILY's List takes to the air against Cornilles

2012-01-02T21:18:36Z

The 30-second TV spot takes footage from Cornilles's 2010 campaign against then-Democratic Rep. David Wu, when the Republican highlighted his support from an anti-abortion group. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has already reserved $1 ...

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Recall effort against Gray getting underway

2012-01-02T19:59:52Z

The investigation into Gray's 2010 mayoral campaign has been a distraction for nearly the entire first year of his administration. Six weeks after he moved into the mayor's office, it was revealed that Gray's team hired allies and family members of ...

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The Super PAC Boomerang

2012-01-02T19:24:04Z

What we really have here is another progressive reform boomerang. In the common media wisdom, super PACs are a result of the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling. This is said to have created a "loophole" that the super PACs have ...

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Chen Reappears as Taiwan Election Nears

2012-01-02T16:53:45Z

Lengthy corruption cases involving Mr. Chen, who had led the DPP, stole headlines through last year’s 2010 mayoral elections. Mr. Chen’s impact was ultimately minimal in the 2010 election. This time, his influence has been even more limited ...

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Oregon State University places more than 100 years of Extension Service farming and homemaking tips on-line

2012-01-02T13:04:41Z

It was a good call. Oregon's 2010 hazelnut crop -- some orchardists still call them filberts -- was worth $59.6 million. That's one of the historical nuts falling from a project in which Oregon State University Libraries digitized more than 100 ...

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Exxon Gets ‘Disappointing’ $750 Million After Venezuelan Assets Seizure

2012-01-02T04:14:58Z

“It’s not an inconsequential amount of money.” The $750 million award is equivalent to 32 percent of PDSVA’s 2010 net income, according to data (PDVSA) compiled by Bloomberg. Exxon Mobil was the first international oil company to abandon ...

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Giants slam door on Cowboys

2012-01-02T03:53:30Z

Brees, who was 28 of 35, finished with a record 468 completions this season, breaking Peyton Manning's 2010 mark of 450. He finished the season completing 71.6 percent of his passes, breaking his own 2009 NFL record 70.6 completion percentage.

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Raiders join NFL record-setters on Sunday with more penalties

2012-01-01T20:29:41Z

Brees had a record 468 completions to break Peyton Manning's 2010 mark of 450. He finished the season completing 71.6% of his passes, breaking his own 2009 NFL record of 70.6%. And Jimmy Graham had 97 yards receiving, finishing with an NFL ...

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Rashard Mendenhall Injury: Steelers RB To Have MRI On Right Knee

2012-01-01T20:15:22Z

More importantly, perhaps, Mendenhall was a critical figure in Pittsburgh's 2010 run to the Super Bowl, scoring touchdowns in each of the Steelers' three postseason games last season. But his critical second half fumble in that game helped start ...

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Singer Cee Lo Green Changes ‘Imagine’ Lyrics to ‘All Religions True’ During NYE Performance, Draws Fury

2012-01-01T18:20:50Z

Other users took inspiration from the title Green’s 2010 song “F–k You” to compose their tweets. “F–k you, Cee Lo. It‘s ’And no religion too.’ F–k you for spitting in the face of John Lennon & what he conveyed with his lyrics.

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2011 was a very (insert adjective) year [Cumberland Times-News, Md.]

2011-12-31T20:30:52Z

The deer harvest was down dramatically and hunters didn't like it. For example, the kill during West Virginia's 2010 firearms season decreased 31 percent from the previous year. On the Almost Maryland side of the big river, officers and members of the ...

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Montana Supreme Court upholds corporate political spending ban

2011-12-31T15:30:13Z

joined by Champion Painting Inc., and the Montana Shooting Sports Association Inc., had challenged the Montana ban after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The U.S. Supreme Court decision granted political ...

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North Korea Says South’s President Lee Blocks Better Ties

2011-12-31T08:35:02Z

North Korea’s 2010 gross domestic product was 30 trillion won ($26.5 billion), one-fortieth the size of South Korea’s, according to estimates by the South’s central bank. North Korea’s economy probably shrank in four of the past five ...

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Sidney Crosby's absence from NHL is tough for hockey, Devils say

2011-12-31T04:24:30Z

“You have to be selfish with an injury like that,” said Brodeur, who played with Crosby on Canada’s 2010 Olympic gold medal team. “You can’t come back when you’re not ready. He has to be at peace with himself with what he’s going to d

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Alamo Bowl headed for historically strong rating

2011-12-31T00:49:45Z

Baylor’s pulsating 67-56 victory over Washington earned a 4.5 overnight rating, which ESPN officials said was up 50 percent over the bowl’s 2010 ratings for Oklahoma State’s victory over Arizona. Those numbers traditional rise when they are finally .

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Enrollment in W.Va. high risk insurance pool grows, number of private insurers also increases

2011-12-30T22:26:35Z

Enrollment in AccessWV grew 16 percent in 2010, from 874 policyholders in 2009 to 1,010, according to the Offices of the Insurance Commissioner's 2010 annual report released last month. More than half of AccessWV's policyholders, 56 percent ...

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Supreme Court upholds state ban on direct corporate campaign spending

2011-12-30T22:19:26Z

Western Tradition Partnership, a conservative political group now known as American Tradition Partnership, joined by Champion Painting Inc. and the Montana Shooting Sports Association Inc. had challenged the Montana ban after the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010

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North Korea Vows ‘Roar of Revenge’ Against South’s President

2011-12-30T17:40:15Z

Supreme Court upholds state ban on corporation candidate spending

2011-12-30T15:02:46Z

Western Tradition Partnership, a conservative political group based in Washington, D.C., and others had successfully argued in Helena District Court that the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission rendered the

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Eaton Corp. goes extra step to disclose CEO's compensation

2011-12-30T13:36:52Z

The two ways of calculating compensation can result in sharply different totals. Eaton CEO Alexander Cutler's 2010 salary, stock, option awards, pension changes and perks totaled $12.8 million. However, once you add in gains from the exercise of ...

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Possible Alzheimer’s benefit for some vitamins, omega-3s

2011-12-29T16:29:52Z

A small but provocative study suggests that a diet high in vitamins C, D and E, the B vitamins and omega-3 fatty acids and low in trans fats might offer protection against Alzheimer’s disease. Reporting Wednesday afternoon in the journal ...

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Flyers win EA SPORTS NHL 12 Classic simulation

2011-12-29T15:54:04Z

In the past EA SPORTS' simulation engine has predicted Chicago's 2010 Stanley Cup championship, Vancouver's 2011 Presidents' Trophy and last season's Stanley Cup Final matchup of the Bruins and Canucks. The 2012 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic will be ...

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Sen. GOP Won't Adjourn; Hope to Block Obama Recess Appointments to NLRB

2011-12-29T15:39:45Z

As President Obama’s 2010 controversial recess appointee Craig Becker's (left) term is about to expire, the NLRB will be without the three board members necessary to operate. Fox News explains, “Senate Republicans and the president can’t agree on new

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2011 & Beyond: New York’s Education System Strained Under SAT Cheating, Funding Cuts

2011-12-29T13:59:32Z

Ballot errors, general confusion, and mysterious run-off elections were found in the education council’s 2010 elections— 98 percent of respondents to a survey conducted for the report said they thought the election process could be improved.

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Texas looking promising in 2012 after Holiday Bowl win

2011-12-29T00:09:10Z

But, Brown was willing to make changes after last year’s 2010 disaster, and perhaps those changes are beginning to reap dividends. It’s tough to be patient when the coach is raking in a $5 million salary and the program is built on success.

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Super-PAC shifts to Romney

2011-12-28T20:48:45Z

All of its previous spending had targeted Mr. Gingrich. The echo chamber of near-daily million-dollar ad buys in tiny Iowa before its Jan. 3 caucuses stem from the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United v. FEC ruling, which allows non-candidate ...

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Victoire Ingabire: the Rwandan Aung San Suu Kyi

2011-12-28T14:57:59Z

(SAN FRANCISCO AfrobeatRadio) - Victoire Ingabire left Rwanda almost two years ago in January 2010 to return to her native Rwanda in hopes of challenging Rwandan President Paul Kagame in the country’s 2010 presidential election. Her party was not allowed

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Racial prejudice primary factor in hate crimes

2011-12-27T20:57:05Z

Florida's attorney general reports that 149 hate crimes were committed in the state in 2010. Attorney General Pam Bondi released the 2010 figures Tuesday. The information includes details on the types of hate crimes committed throughout Florida. The first

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Shutting Up Business

2011-12-27T19:31:11Z

Since the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision restored the First Amendment rights of businesses and unions, "disclosure" has become the watchword for Democrats hoping to muzzle political speech by corporations. The latest gambit is to ...

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Islamofascism And The War on Nigeria's Christians

2011-12-27T19:02:33Z

Pew's 2010 poll found 49% of Nigerian Muslim respondents viewed al-Qaida favorably. Nigerian Islamic scholar Sheikh Muhammad Isa told the News Agency of Nigeria that the attackers were not adherents of any faith, while Alhaji Quasim Badrudeen of the Muslim

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Breast implant maker used non-approved gels: lawyer

2011-12-27T15:27:48Z

According to PIP's 2010 bankruptcy filing, it had exported 84 percent of its annual production of 100,000 implants. France's health ministry has advised 30,000 women in France with PIP implants to have them removed, saying that while there is no proven ...

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Chevron, Conoco Entrapped in Post-BP Crackdown on Oil Slicks

2011-12-27T15:20:39Z

Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s threatened indictment of Chevron Corp. and Transocean Ltd. executives after offshore oil leaks shows that regulators from the North Sea to the Indian Ocean are stepping up scrutiny after BP Plc’s 2010 disaster.

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10 Social Media 2011 Highlights (Data Included)

2011-12-27T08:25:28Z

2011 was a pivotal year for social media marketing (For those of you who are interested, here's 2010's social media marketing highlights. Driven in part by consumers who spend roughly one quarter of their time online with social media and blogging sites ..

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Navy says no misconduct in SEAL's 2010 BASE jumping death in southeastern Virginia

2011-12-27T07:21:03Z

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — The Navy says there was no misconduct by a SEAL who was killed in a daredevil jump from 1,000-foot cell phone tower in southeastern Virginia. A report by the commander of Petty Officer 1st Class Tyler Stimson's unit ...

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Chevron, Conoco Entrapped in Post-BP Crackdown on Oil Slicks

2011-12-26T05:34:51Z

Google and Mozilla search deal worth $300m, according to report

2011-12-25T07:23:25Z

A report by All Things D claims that Google provided around 84% of Mozilla's 2010 revenue ($123 million / £78 million). As the firm is non-profit, the deal with Google keeps it floating for the period of the agreement. Google will now be Mozilla Firefox's

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Chevron, Conoco Entrapped in Post-BP Crackdown on Oil Slicks

2011-12-24T02:59:45Z

Top Ten Celebrity New Year's Resolutions

2011-12-23T21:37:37Z

Bassist Ian Keaggy would like to add more chicken to his diet. 7. Paula Deen's 2010 Resolution to eat less vitamins - It seems that people usually need to add vitamins to their diet because they are deprived of the nutrients. In Paula's case ...

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Chevron, Conoco Ensnared in Post-BP Government Crackdown on Oil Slicks

2011-12-23T16:51:17Z

Brazil’s threatened indictment of Chevron Corp. (CVX) and Transocean Ltd. (RIG) executives after offshore oil leaks shows that regulators from the North Sea to the Indian Ocean are stepping up scrutiny after BP Plc’s 2010 disaster.

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Tourism numbers in 2011 show strong finish

2011-12-23T04:12:31Z

New advertising campaigns, new flights to the soon-to-be-opened airport terminal in Liberia, development of sustainable tourism programs and plans for a new national convention center are all key aspects of ICT’s 2010-2016 National Sustainable ...

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Charles White, Indiana Secretary Of State, Removed From Office

2011-12-22T18:47:01Z

In Indiana, the secretary of state also serves as the chief elections official. The court order requires the state's Recount Commission to void White's 2010 election certification and award the secretary of state's post to runner-up Vop Osili (D).

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Chevron Executives Face Indictments Over Offshore Oil Leaks in Brazil

2011-12-22T17:49:45Z

Chevron and other offshore oil explorers are facing increased scrutiny of their drilling practices in the wake of BP Plc’s 2010 blowout of a well in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 workers and led to the worst U.S. offshore crude spill.

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Iowa ethanol production hits record

2011-12-22T16:16:41Z

Shaw said about 1.34 billion bushels of corn, about 62 percent of Iowa’s 2010 corn harvest, were used to make the 3.7 billion gallons of ethanol produced in the state. He noted that Iowa’s ethanol plants produced 11.5 million tons ...

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2011 Year in Review: Notable Supreme Court Decisions

2011-12-22T13:53:31Z

Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T The Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision legitimized the idea of corporate personhood by removing campaign finance restrictions on businesses. But the court March 1 sided with the Federal ...

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Study: Number of NYC Construction Industry Workers Falls in 2011

2011-12-21T17:00:49Z

The number of New York City white- and blue-collar men and women in the construction industry fell 3.8% last year to 224,500, according to recently published New York Building Congress analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2010 American Community Survey.

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NCAA over reaches, puts the slam down on Ohio State

2011-12-21T09:22:42Z

He vacated Ohio State's 2010 season that included a beatdown of Michigan and a Sugar Bowl win. He forced out legendary coach Jim Tressel, and suspended all of the "guilty" parties involved. He did all of the things he was supposed to do, except self impose

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Portland State listed as top ESL college in the country

2011-12-20T20:08:07Z

The list, published Dec. 20, shows that 10 percent of PSU’s 2010 graduates participated in ESL programs. PSU tied with the State University of New York’s Buffalo campus for top participation. More than 1,800 international students from 98 ...

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U.S. deficit perils healthcare problems

2011-12-20T16:40:32Z

Many health experts say innovations in delivering medical care and the creation of state health insurance exchanges for extending coverage to the uninsured are likely to continue in some form even if Obama's 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

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A Pootie's Guide to Rolling Stone's Best Songs of All Time

2011-12-20T14:10:13Z

Here are a few of the top 100 songs out of Rolling Stone's 2010 list of the 500 Best Songs of All Time. I chose largely on the basis of my own favorites, and they are in order by rank, except where I messed up. Owr Grownd Roolz The PWB diaries ...

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Iowa's Bob Vander Plaats Endorses Rick Santorum; The Family Leader Remains Neutral

2011-12-20T13:41:35Z

Yet a source told Reuters that Vander Platt considered an endorsement for Newt Gingrich. The former speaker financed Van Plaat’s 2010 effort to overturn the appointments of three Iowa Supreme Court judges, according to the Hill. However, Gingrich’s ...

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New graduation rate criteria puts Utah's rate lower

2011-12-20T13:34:25Z

Under the new calculation, Utah's 2010 graduation rate was 75 percent, yet the old formula the state used showed a 90 percent rate. Utah's 2011 graduation rate under the federal calculation was 76 percent. "It's a change in the calculation ...

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Otis Report: L.A.'s 'creative economy' loses thousands of jobs

2011-12-19T21:35:12Z

The Los Angeles area's arts and entertainment industries lost thousands of jobs from 2007 to 2010, according to a study of the "creative economy." The findings for 2010 commissioned by Otis College of Art and Design and compiled from state and ...

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Arrest made in Greenback mayor's 2010 assault, robbery

2011-12-19T21:06:35Z

LENOIR CITY — Loudon County authorities today announced an arrest in the August 2010 assault and robbery of Greenback Mayor Tom Peeler. Micah Kimsey, 21, of Maryville was indicted by a grand jury on a charge of felony especially aggravated ...

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Super-PACs are the elephant in the room

2011-12-19T18:57:44Z

And that’s even before viewers hear from the campaigns. The Supreme Court’s 2010 campaign-finance ruling Citizens United effectively created “super-PACs” - independent, explicitly political groups that can raise and spend unlimited ...

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Arrest made in Greenback mayor's 2010 assault, robbery

2011-12-19T16:27:24Z

Judge refuses to dismiss charges against Indiana secretary of state

2011-12-19T16:27:24Z

Nation's ruling said an Indiana Recount Commission decision upholding White's 2010 election had no bearing on the court case and there was no legal authority limiting a prosecution of White, who is Indiana's top election official. "The court ...

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The New York Times Company Sells Off 16 Regional Papers

2011-12-19T16:05:56Z

“From 2008 to 2009 advertising revenue at the Regional Media Group fell 30.2 percent, to $193 million,” reported the Times. “Ad revenue fell another 8.2 percent in 2010 to $177 million, according to the company’s 2010 annual report.”

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KUED to air Archuleta's 2010 performance with Mormon Tabernacle Choir

2011-12-19T14:32:52Z

Do you want to hear David Archuleta sing “Angels, from the Realms of Glory” with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir again and again? See dancers fill the stage in full regalia with bells chiming? Hear Michael York relate the Christmas story from Luke? Tune in

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Idaho Dem's 2010 standard-bearer Allred demurs on 2014 plans

2011-12-19T13:28:27Z

Idaho Democratic Chairman Larry Grant told Boise State Radio last week that the party's 2010 gubernatorial nominee, Keith Allred, is considering running in 2014. GOP Gov. Butch Otter, who defeated Allred by a 26-percentage-point margin, twice ...

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A White Wine For Asian Food

2011-12-16T15:40:51Z

I am often asked what wine one should drink with Asian food and the answer, strictly speaking, is none. Wine and European food have been evolving together in the cradle of the Mediterranean for thousands years. In the process, like a long ...

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