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Sun May 6, 2012          2:25pm EDT Socialist candidate Francois Hollande won France’s presidential election runoff on Sunday, beating President Nicolas Sarkozy by a clear margin, according to projections by pollsters. Polling institutes predicted Hollande would win between 51.8 and 52.0 percent of the vote versus Sarkozy’s tally of between 48.0 and [...]

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2:37 PM EST         Thursday December 15, 2011 What if Ron Paul rocked the political establishment, silenced the naysayers and spoiled the party for Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney by winning the Iowa caucuses? “I think I have a good chance,” the Republican presidential candidate told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation [...]

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December 12, 2011 Amid a crescendo of complaints from Russians fed up with the country’s tightly controlled political system, two prominent figures — a billionaire industrialist and the recently ousted finance minister — sought to fill a void in the opposition leadership on Monday. The billionaire, Mikhail D. Prokhorov, who owns shares in a major gold [...]

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Emma Sullivan, the Kansas teenager whose tweet about Gov. Sam Brownback has turned the conservative Republican into a social media target, is standing by her refusal to apologize. In an exchange of emails with the Los Angeles Times, Sullivan on Monday said she won’t comply with her principal’s demand that she write an apology to [...]

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October 31, 2011, 8:48 a.m. Presidential candidate Herman Cain defiantly rejected Monday allegations that he sexually harassed two employees during the 1990s while he was the head of a trade association in Washington, calling the claims “false” and “baseless.” “I have never sexually harassed anyone. Anyone. And absolutely these are false accusations,” Cain said on [...]

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Monday March 28th, 2011 Anna Chapman has taken off her clothes for Maxim pictures, inked her own TV show “Mysteries of the World, with Anna Chapman”, secured her own Apple iPhone app, and has become the Paris Hilton of Russian consumer product endorsements. But now is Chapman making the move from the KGB to the [...]

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06/14/11 10:30 AM ET This early in the season, a presidential primary debate is essentially about winning the battle of the buzz. On a crowded stage, the objective is to separate oneself in a way that captures media attention and drives post-debate conversation. The contender who best accomplished that in Monday’s CNN New Hampshire debate [...]

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August 11, 2011    5:17 p.m. The first Republican debate lacked the party’s biggest names. The second lacked any major fireworks.Now, as the GOP‘s announced presidential hopefuls meet again for a debate in Iowa on Thursday, arguably all but one of the candidates are in search of a dynamic-shifting moment as the nominating race enters a [...]

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August 8th, 2011 After weeks of going door-to-door, volunteers tirelessly making phone calls day after day, and both candidates shaking hands and smiling for interviews, Election Day has arrived. Beginning 7 a.m. Tuesday, voters will hit the polls to choose between incumbent Sen. Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) and her challenger, Rep. Sandy Pasch (D-Whitefish Bay). [...]

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August 9, 2011 Mayor Ed Lee, who in January promised to fill out his predecessor’s term as a caretaker and swore off aspirations to run for the job this fall, on Monday announced plans to enter the race, upending a crowded political field.Surrounded by a media crush, Lee requested filing papers at the city’s election [...]

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Friday, Jul 29, 2011   1:57 PM EDT While N.J. Gov. Chris Christie told the press Friday that he’s feeling “fabulous” after an asthma attack sent him to the hospital Thursday, the staggering amount of bad wishes from the public in response to his health scare could make anyone feel a bit sick. Social networks like [...]

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Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011, at 12:42 PM EDT On Friday night, Ed Conard put an end to a mystery that had been growing in political circles when he sent a statement to Politico identifying himself as the person behind a $1 million contribution to a “super PAC” that backs Mitt Romney’s campaign for the presidency. [...]

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August 8, 2011 Former Sen. Mark Hatfield, an outspoken critic of war whose liberal views often put him at odds with fellow Republicans but endeared him to Oregonians, died Sunday. He was 89. Hatfield, who had become increasingly frail in recent years, died at a Portland residence, said Gerry Frank, a longtime friend and former [...]

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August 2, 2011 at 2:06am If having the most Twitter followers could seal the deal on a person’s presidential candidacy, Newt Gingrich would reign supreme. With a staggering 1,325,842 followers to date, Gingrich has more than double the followers of Sarah Palin and has also left Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann’s — both of whom boast [...]

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                                July 15, 2011 5:56 a.m. EDT    A conservative county supervisor in Southern California wants to form the 51st state by seceding the region from California, saying the state’s problems require “radical” solutions.”Listen, I knew I’d be criticized. I [...]

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July 4, 2011 The United States does not have to default on its debt, and the social security and Medicare checks can go out even if Republicans and President Obama cannot strike a deal to raise the debt ceiling by August 2. Even though the government cannot borrow additional money, it still has tax revenues [...]

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07/1/11 12:50 PM ET In pitching his Senate bid before a St. Louis County audience, Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) glossed over the controversy that has plagued him since he claimed that a “hatred of God” informs liberal beliefs. At an event sponsored by Citizens Alliance for Missouri Patriots on Thursday, Akin focused on debt negotiations [...]

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06/30/11 08:52 AM ET Mark Halperin has been suspended indefinitely by MSNBC for calling President Obama a “dick” live on air. The suspension came just hours after Halperin, a top editor for Time and a regular on “Morning Joe,” profusely apologized for the remark, which came during Thursday’s “Morning Joe” broadcast. MSNBC’s statement read: Mark [...]

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07/3/11 10:25 AM ET The sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra led Thailand’s main opposition party to a landslide victory in elections Sunday, heralding an extraordinary political turnaround five tumultuous years after her fugitive billionaire brother was toppled in an army coup. The vote paves the way for 44-year-old Yingluck Shinawatra, who has [...]

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06/28/11 07:45 PM ET A Louisiana politician admitted to sending a picture of himself in his underwear to a city employee, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. “I had an inappropriate but consensual relation (sic) with an adult female and we exchanged improper electronic communications which ended (in) 2009,” Kenner City, La. City Councilman Joe Stagni [...]

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