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LOOK: Michelle Obama Dances With D.C. School Kids!

24 May 2013, 4:15 pm by: AP
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WASHINGTON -- Failure is OK, but continuing to work hard is more important, Michelle Obama said Friday. That was the message the first lady delivered...
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Dad Vows To Yank Sons Out Of Boy Scouts After Organization Drops Gay Ban

24 May 2013, 4:07 pm by: Curtis M. Wong
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An outspoken supporter of the Boy Scouts of America's (BSA) ban on gay participants has vowed to withdraw his own sons out of the scouting...
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Walker's 'Pants On Fire' Claims Debunked

24 May 2013, 4:05 pm by: West Des Moines Patch
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Amid growing speculation that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is testing GOP presidential waters in Iowa and elsewhere, progressive activists warned Thursday at a rally in...
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WATCH: Rare Footage Of Jackie Kennedy At Home

24 May 2013, 4:01 pm by: The Huffington Post
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"I listen to one, and I get sick of it."
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Toronto Mayor: I Don't Smoke Crack

24 May 2013, 4:00 pm by: AP
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TORONTO -- Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denies that he smokes crack cocaine and says he is not an addict after a video purported to show...
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Mohamed A. El-Erian: Revolution 2.0 -- How One Google Exec + Facebook Sparked An Uprising in Egypt

24 May 2013, 3:58 pm by: Mohamed A. El-Erian
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Allow me please to take you back for a moment to the beginning of 2011. Remember how surprised the world was that, in just 18 days, a leaderless grass-root uprising managed to topple the Mubarak regime that had ruled Egypt with an iron fist for 30 years?
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Robert Reich: Why Democrats Can't Be Trusted to Control Wall Street

24 May 2013, 3:58 pm by: Robert Reich
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All these men are honorable. None has broken any law. But they and their ilk in congress -- the Democrats who are now rolling back Dodd-Frank -- don't seem to appreciate the extent to which Wall Street has harmed, and continues to harm, America.
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Ben Veghte: Rep. David Cicilline Is Right About Social Security, PolitiFact Was Wrong (Again)

24 May 2013, 3:51 pm by: Ben Veghte
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PolitiFact's judgment of Rep. Cicilline's statement as "Mostly False" demonstrates a lack of understanding of Social Security that would preclude most journalists from presuming to judge the truth of others' statements on the issue.
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Press Freedom Groups Demand Explanation For DOJ's Actions

24 May 2013, 3:41 pm by: Katherine Fung
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More than sixty organizations signed a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday, demanding a "full, transparent" explanation for the Justice Department's secret probe...
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Ex-Guatemalan President Extradited To U.S. On Money Laundering Charges

24 May 2013, 3:37 pm by: AP
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GUATEMALA CITY — Ex-Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was extradited on Friday to the United States to face charges of laundering $70 million in Guatemalan funds...
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Michael B. Keegan: We Have the Most Conservative Supreme Court in Decades. Why Do Americans Think…

24 May 2013, 3:36 pm by: Michael B. Keegan
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While the Supreme Court and lower federal courts continue to drive to the right, many Americans, strangely, have come to believe that the courts tilt to the left. This misperception of the federal judiciary, and especially the Supreme Court, is no fluke.
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Ohio School District Considers Teaching Creationism

24 May 2013, 3:34 pm by: The Huffington Post
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The Springboro, Ohio, school board is currently considering a proposal that would allow the district to teach creationism, despite objections from the American Civil Liberties...
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Report: DoJ Fought To Keep Fox News Warrant Secret

24 May 2013, 3:28 pm by: www.newyorker.com
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The Obama Administration fought to keep a search warrant for James Rosen's private e-mail account secret, arguing to a federal judge that the government might...
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Government Really, Really Thought James Rosen Was A Criminal

24 May 2013, 3:25 pm by: The Huffington Post
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If people needed any more evidence that the Justice Department explicitly considered James Rosen's everyday reporting to be tantamount to criminal activity, they were given...
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McConnell, Paul Gang Up On GOP

24 May 2013, 3:23 pm by: Howard Fineman
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WASHINGTON -- They began as sworn enemies and later made peace as allies of convenience. Now Kentucky's two Republican senators, Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul,...
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