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Amid Weiner's sex scandal, his wife is pregnant
Saddened by the disclosure of her husband's online sexual antics, Rep. Anthony Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin, is on a weeklong overseas trip with her boss, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, as another disclosure puts her even more in the unwelcome public eye: She is pregnant.
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Obama in Ireland to discover his Irish roots
President Barack Obama opened a six-day European tour today in Ireland, where he planned to celebrate his own Irish roots and give a boost to a nation grappling with the fallout from its financial collapse.
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Rahm Emanuel sworn in as Chicago's new mayor
Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was sworn in Monday as Chicago's first new mayor in two decades, a historic power shift in a city where the retiring Richard M. Daley was the only mayor a whole generation of Chicagoans have ever known.
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Federal court hears two health-care appeals
Panel with 3 judges appointed by Democratic presidents hear appeals from state of Virginia and Liberty University.
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Obama mixing politics and policy on West Coast swing
Stepping away from Washington's contentious fiscal debates, President Barack Obama is making a West Coast trip aimed at building support for his deficit-reduction plans and raising money for his re-election campaign.
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Watergate gets makeover at the Nixon library
History is being restored at the Richard Nixon Library, where the Watergate exhibit once told visitors nearly four decades after the scandal led to his resignation that it was really a “coup” by his rivals.
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McDonnell designates today to honor Dorothy Height's birthday
Virginia is honoring civil rights matriarch Dorothy Irene Height today on what would have been her 99th birthday.
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Memories of 1995 haunt GOP as shutdown talk grows
Few memories haunt Republicans more deeply than the 1995-96 partial shutdown of the federal government, which helped President Bill Clinton reverse his falling fortunes and recast House Republicans as stubborn partisans, not savvy insurgents. Now, as Congress careens toward a budget impasse, government insiders wonder if another shutdown is imminent — and whether Republicans again would suffer the most blame.
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Bob Dole released from hospital
Former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole has been released from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington for the second time in less than a week.
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Big legal setback for Obama's health care overhaul
U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson is the first judge to rule against the law, which has been upheld by two others in Virginia and Michigan
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Election chaos has Haiti in more turmoil
Haitians entered election day hoping for the best. Within hours, ballot boxes were ripped to pieces, protesters were on the streets and nearly every presidential hopeful was united against the government.
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Democrats hope to limit losses in campaign's last hours
Bracing for Monday's final burst of campaigning, President Barack Obama implored voters to remember that GOP policies failed to prevent the recession, while top Republicans said the public will deliver a harsh verdict on his stewardship of an anemic recovery.
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Obama appoints record number of gay officials
WASHINGTON -- Less than halfway through his first term, President Barack Obama has appointed more openly gay officials than any other president in history. Gay activists say the estimate of more than 150 appointments so far -- from agency heads and commission members to policy officials and senior staffers -- surpasses the previous high of about 140 reached during two full terms under President Bill Clinton.
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Senate opens impeachment trial against judge
WASHINGTON -- The Senate today opens its first impeachment trial since the 1999 case against former President Bill Clinton when it takes up a host of corruption allegations against a Louisiana judge. The House voted unanimously in March to impeach U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Porteous, approving four charges involving payoffs, kickbacks and lying under oath. A two-thirds vote is needed in the Senate to convict him.
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Oval Office makeover to debut in Iraq speech
President Barack Obama's Oval Office is sporting a new look — and one that pays homage to Martin Luther King Jr. and four previous presidents.
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UPDATE: American imprisoned in N. Korea returns to Boston
An American held captive for seven months in North Korea stepped off a plane in his hometown Friday, looking thin but joyful as he hugged the former president who had helped win his release and family and friends surrounded him in a group embrace.
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Jimmy Carter arrives in North Korea
SEOUL, South Korea -- Former President Jimmy Carter arrived today in the capital of communist North Korea on a mission to bring home an American sentenced to eight years' hard labor for trespassing. A young North Korean girl handed Carter flowers after he landed at the Pyongyang airport today, according to footage aired by TV news agency APTN.
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Jimmy Carter to N. Korea to free American
WASHINGTON -- Former President Jimmy Carter is preparing to leave for North Korea today to try to gain the freedom of an American imprisoned for illegally entering the communist nation, U.S. officials told The Associated Press last night. North Korea agreed to release Aijalon Mahli Gomes if Carter were to come to bring him home, a senior U.S. official told The AP. Gomes, of Boston, who was arrested on Jan. 25 after entering North Korea, was sentenced in April to eight years in prison and fined $700,000.
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Obama takes family on vacation
VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. -- Finally, President Barack Obama can relax on vacation. The Gulf oil leak is plugged. The last combat troops are out of Iraq. And Congress is on its own summer break. Still, doubts remain about the strength of the U.S. economy, and Obama tried to tamp them down before his 10-day vacation on Martha's Vineyard. He called on lawmakers to pass a small business aid package when they return next month.
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Obama family heads to Martha's Vineyard
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is fleeing the heat and headaches of the capital in search of summer's greatest delight: some time to unwind and kiss the office goodbye. Even if it is the Oval Office. With wife Michelle, daughters Sasha and Malia and pet dog Bo in tow, Obama is hoping for a pleasantly uneventful 10 days as he heads to Martha's Vineyard, Mass., today.
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Governor, defense secretary help greet Boy Scouts
About 40,000 Boy Scouts and their leaders packed the Fort A.P. Hill amphitheater for opening show of National Scout Jamboree.
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Disturbed by last week's Dem letter
I personally find it disturbing that the chairman of any committee would use such language to describe people who do not agree with their politics.
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Making connections between Bush, bin Laden
Are you ready for more of George Humphrey's "9/11, The Great Illusion?" If so, consider the following quotes, regarding the Bush/bin Laden family connection.
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