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Hundreds of students from around the state converged on the University of California-Los Angeles this week to protest a vote there by state regents Thursday to raise tuition 32 percent to combat major cuts in state funding.
Rallying outside UCLA's Covel Commons, where the regents held a ...
World
The wife of Sen. Richard Lugar was arrested in Virginia and charged with drunk driving and hit-and-run.
Charlene Lugar, 77, was pulled over in McLean Wednesday night after an officer noticed her car was trailing smoke and had front-end damage. Police believe that Mrs. Lugar had hit a parked ...
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The Treasury Department will auction off its remaining investments in three banks, freeing them from the federal bailout program, it was reported Friday. As part of last year's Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Treasury received warrants from JP Morgan Chase, Capital One Financial, and TCF ...
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The wife of Sen. Richard Lugar was arrested in Virginia and charged with drunk driving and hit-and-run. Charlene Lugar, 77, was pulled over in the Washington suburb of McLean Wednesday night after an officer noticed her car was trailing smoke and had front-end damage. After a short ...
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Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) was slapped by the Senate Select Committee on Ethics on Friday for his changing and misleading stories about how former Gov. Rod Blagojevich came to appoint him to fill President Obama's Senate seat. In a letter, the panel concluded Burris' actions "reflected ...
Congress
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Rod Blagojevich
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Back in June, when President Obama visited Egypt, the event with the biggest buzz was his speech to Muslim youth in a Cairo University auditorium. On Monday, visiting China, he met with some 400 students in Shanghai, albeit for a less-hyped town hall style-event, but nonetheless, one with a ...
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Barack Obama
China
Egypt
Jon Stewart
Maybe it was Washington's cold and rainy weather. Maybe it was the Saturday work sessions (one down, one to go tomorrow). But leaders in Washington have been in one foul mood all week, with the result being an unusually ugly round of bipartisan barbs flying across Capitol Hill. But rather than ...
Congress
Barack Obama
Baron Hill
Washington, D.C
Eric Holder
We all know someone who's had a $35 cup of coffee. No, this isn't a kids-these-days rant about the coin required for a fancy-schmancy latte (extra foam, extra hot, non-fat, please). This is about cold, hard, overdraft fees. You don't even have to be a caffeine drinker to fall victim to them. ...
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Bank of America
In a new public service announcement for the NFL's partnership with his volunteer initiative, President Obama sprints across the White House lawn in before catching a slow-motion pass. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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Barack Obama
The percentage of Americans who still primarily blame the Republicans for the current state of the economy has dropped from 53 percent in May to 38 percent, according to a CNN/Opinion Research survey conducted Nov. 13-15. Twenty-seven percent blame the Democrats, up 6 points from may and 27 ...
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Three-term California Sen. Barbara Boxer leads two of her potential GOP challengers, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Nov. 17. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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His job approval numbers may be facing a rocky stretch, but President Obama still leads all the possible Republican challengers for 2012 that Public Policy Polling tested in a survey conducted Nov. 13-15. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | ...
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Barack Obama
A fascinating article in Working Mother magazine spans the quickly shifting landscape of primary custody battles in divorce cases.
Working women, the piece points out, are in the midst of a watershed tradeoff -- as they advance in numbers as family breadwinners, they are losing primary ...
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A day after conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh accused Gallup of oversampling blacks in order to keep President Obama's job approval rating about 50 percent, the pollster's latest tracking data for Nov. 17-19 shows that Obama has fallen below that benchmark. Permalink | ...
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Rush Limbaugh
While news broke this week that former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani would not run for governor, the focus is now on reports he will run for senator , a job he probably has a better chance of winning, according to a set of Marist polls this week. Giuliani would handily beat Gov. David ...
Congress
Rudy Giuliani
Andrew Cuomo
Rick Santorum
Kirsten Gillibrand
Sixty-one percent of voters say that Sarah Palin has been treated unfairly by the press while 31 percent believe she has been treated fairly and 8 percent say they don't know, according to a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll conducted Nov. 17-18.
As for her book, "Going Rogue," 35 percent say ...
White House
Sarah Palin
This montage of footage from the programs of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, Neal Boortz and others reveals that conservative pundits have a new favorite word to describe Obama policies: "rape." Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs ...
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Oprah Winfrey tearfully told her audience Friday morning that she is shutting down her popular talk show on Sept. 9, 2011. "Twenty-five years feels right in my bones and feels right in my spirit," she announced live at 9 a.m. in Chicago. She did not clarify speculation over whether she would ...
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AUSTIN - Here's what I did not hear
at the annual confab of Republican governors held here
this week: The words socialist , extremist , or government takeover . With the focus on jobs, jobs and jobs, the only red meat was the Texas barbecue. And by ...
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Optimistic GOP Governors Want a Kinder, Gentler Approach ...
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