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Anatomy of China's money and murder scandal
Wed,25 Apr 2012 04:53 PM PDT
Around the World -  Allegations of bribery, corruption, even charges of murder has one of China's most powerful families sitting on the outside of power looking in. Bo Xilai was once a superstar in the Chinese Communist Party, but no longer. He's been under the microscope for his own abuse of power and lost his job because of it. [...]
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Rick Perry endorses Mitt Romney
Wed,31 Dec 1969 04:00 PM PST
The Ticket -  Rick Perry, the current Texas governor and former Republican presidential candidate, is endorsing Mitt Romney for president, Fox News and ABC News are reporting. "Mitt Romney has earned the Republican Presidential nomination through hard-work, a strong organization, and disciplined message of restoring America after nearly four years [...]
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CISPA cybersecurity bill gets veto threat from Obama
Wed,31 Dec 1969 04:00 PM PST
The Ticket -  The White House came out strongly against a bipartisan but controversial House bill designed to protect the country's infrastructure from cyberattack, warning that President Barack Obama would veto if it passes in its current form over civil liberties concerns and other worries.
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Senate votes to slow closing of post offices
Wed,25 Apr 2012 05:56 PM PDT
Associated Press -  The Senate offered a lifeline to the nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday, voting to give the struggling agency an $11 billion cash infusion while delaying controversial decisions on closing post offices and ending Saturday delivery.
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Judge refuses to dismiss WikiLeaks case
Wed,25 Apr 2012 07:10 PM PDT
Associated Press -  A military judge refused on Wednesday to throw out the case against an Army private accused of providing reams of sensitive documents to Wikileaks in the biggest leak of government secrets in U.S. history.
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Edwards trial: Ex-aide offers more details about hiding mistress
Wed,31 Dec 1969 04:00 PM PST
The Ticket -  The third day of the John Edwards conspiracy trial was a lot like the second, with former aide Andrew Young offering more details about how the candidate instructed him to hide his mistress, Rielle Hunter—even after Edwards dropped out of the 2008 presidential race. Young, who was [...]
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Colbert Super PAC out-fundraises Ron Paul
Wed,25 Apr 2012 10:36 AM PDT
ABC OTUS News -  Stephen Colbert's political action committee has enough cash to play jokes and pull pranks through the presidential campaign, but for now the comedian is mum on how he plans to spend that money.
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Obama to Rolling Stone on Al Green moment: 'I can sing'
Wed,25 Apr 2012 10:22 AM PDT
The Ticket -  Combative, confident, even cocky: President Barack Obama told Rolling Stone magazine in a wide-ranging interview published Wednesday that he hopes American voters will "break the fever" gripping today's Republicans and that he felt no stage fright whatsoever when he sang Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" at the Apollo Theater in January. "I can sing. I [...]
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Obama picture with student at Colorado bar goes viral
Wed,25 Apr 2012 12:03 PM PDT
The Upshot -  When University of Colorado student Madalyn Starkey posed for a picture with President Barack Obama, she had no idea the hilarious image would go viral. While traveling through Colorado on Tuesday, Obama stopped in at a local pub known as the Sink. In the photograph, Obama is grinning with his arm around Starkey while the [...]
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Study: Antarctic ice melting from warm water below
Wed,25 Apr 2012 12:03 PM PDT
Associated Press - Antarctica's massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being eaten away from below by warm water, a new study finds. That suggests that future sea levels could rise faster than many scientists have been predicting. Full Story | Top |
Gingrich to officially suspend bid for nomination next week
Wed,25 Apr 2012 07:41 AM PDT
The Ticket -  Newt Gingrich will officially suspend his bid for the presidency Tuesday in Washington, D.C., Yahoo News has confirmed through sources close to the campaign. Gingrich, who was considered Romney's chief rival at the start of the official Republican primary season in January, won two states, South Carolina and Georgia.
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Election outlook: 100 electoral votes will decide presidency
Wed,25 Apr 2012 06:41 AM PDT
The Ticket -  Economic growth may be stagnating, high-dollar donors may be harder to woo than they were four years ago, and Mitt Romney may be narrowing the gap in public-opinion polls, but President Barack Obama has one key thing going for him at the outset of this general election season: a significant advantage in the battle for 270 electoral votes.
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Can world's 'most threatened' tribe be saved?
Wed,25 Apr 2012 08:00 AM PDT
LiveScience.com -  A new international campaign hopes to save a group of people who have been dubbed "the most threatened tribe in the world" — the Awá tribe of Brazil — from encroaching outsiders who are gobbling up their land.
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Obama's slow jam on 'Jimmy Fallon' mocked in pro-Romney ad
Wed,25 Apr 2012 02:10 PM PDT
The Ticket - The Republican National Committee is out with its first explicitly pro-Mitt Romney Web ad, which mocks President Obama for "slow jamming" Tuesday on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon." The video, entitled "A Tale of Two Leaders," intermingles clips of Obama's appearance on the show, in which Fallon calls Obama the "Preezy of the United Steezy" [...] Full Story | Top |
Is the once-thriving Salton Sea drying up?
Wed,25 Apr 2012 02:55 PM PDT
The Upshot - The once thriving sea that was a resort mecca is in danger of becoming an environmental disaster. Interest in the water body, along with a BBC report, caused searches on "Salton Sea" to surge on the Web. The inland sea, close to Coachella, which may have caught the eye of festival attendees, stretches a massive [...] Full Story | Top |
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