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McD's: We'll Dump Worker Plans Over Health Reform
(Newser) - McDonald's is threatening to drop employee health insurance because of new federal health care regulations requiring it to spend at least $4 out of every $5 its plan receives on health benefits. Mickey D's says that the requirement, meant to force companies to spend money on actual worker benefits rather... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 30, 2010 7:05 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Illegal Maid: Whitman Treated Me Like Dirt
(Newser) - Meg Whitman not only employed her despite knowing she was an illegal alien , the candidate used that knowledge to exploit her, Whitman's former housekeeper says. Nicky Diaz says her duties expanded to include looking after Whitman's children and running errands, and she was never paid for the many extra hours... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 30, 2010 7:05 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Levi Johnston: Policy Questions 'Over My Head'
(Newser) - Would-be Wasilla mayor Levi Johnston appeared on Lawrence O'Donnell's new show and was asked the same questions that seemed to stump Sarah Palin when Katie Couric asked them in 2008. Johnston didn't fare any better, telling O'Donnell a question about the teaching of evolution was "over his head" and... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 30, 2010 7:05 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Feds Secretly X-Raying Cars, Drivers
(Newser) - Federal investigators are randomly X-raying vehicles and their drivers in a hunt for terrorists and crooks, triggering howls of outrage from privacy advocates. "This really trips up the creep factor because it's one of those things that you sort of intrinsically think the government shouldn't be doing," says... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 30, 2010 7:05 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Paladino Accuses Cuomo of Having Affair
(Newser) - Candidate Carl Paladino yesterday predicted that the New York's governor's race will get nastier, and then proceeded to fulfill that prediction. The Republican alleged that his rival, Democrat Andrew Cuomo, had been unfaithful to his ex-wife, Robert Kennedy's daughter Kerry Kennedy. "Has anybody asked Andrew Cuomo about his paramours... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 30, 2010 7:05 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Palin Obtains Order Against Threatening Teen
(Newser) - Sarah Palin has been granted a restraining order against a Pennsylvania man who sent her a gun receipt and told her he was buying a one-way ticket to Alaska. Shawn Christy, 18, has been banned from contacting Palin and her family and has been ordered to stay at least a... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 30, 2010 7:05 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Sorry Tea Partiers, This Is No Revolution
(Newser) - Matt Taibbi takes a lengthy look at the Tea Party movement in the latest Rolling Stone and sums it up as only he can: "They're full of shit," he writes. "All of them." Tea partiers talk a good game about the evils of government spending—"... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 30, 2010 7:05 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Meg Whitman Knowingly Employed Illegal as Maid: Lawyer
(Newser) - A housekeeper who used to work for Meg Whitman claimed that the candidate for governor knew she was an illegal alien but kept her employed. Nicky Diaz, who worked for Whitman from 2000 to 2009, made the accusations during a press conference today with lawyer Gloria Allred , the LA Times... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 30, 2010 7:05 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Big Business Will Regret Empowering Jim DeMint
(Newser) - Steven Pearlstein warns the business community not to get too excited about the prospect of Jim DeMint and company dealing a humbling defeat to Democrats in the midterms: "You're about to create a political monster that you can't control, one bent not on reforming but on destroying the institutional... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 30, 2010 7:05 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Glenn Beck: I'm Always on Verge of Collapse
(Newser) - Glenn Beck gets the cover treatment in this Sunday's New York Times magazine in a lengthy profile by Mark Leibovich. Some quick highlights: In the flesh: "Beck is sheepish and approachable, betraying none of the grandiosity or bluster you might expect," Leibovich writes. Later: "Beck fashions himself... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 30, 2010 7:05 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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If Only We Had a Real Tea Party
(Newser) - The Tea Party movement you hear so much about on the news “is what I’d actually call the ‘Tea Kettle movement,’” writes Thomas Friedman of the New York Times , “because all it’s doing is letting off steam.” It has real energy, and... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 30, 2010 7:05 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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The Tragedy of Obama's Choice in Afghanistan
(Newser) - Underneath all the Beltway intrigue in Bob Woodward’s new book “lurks a saga of tragedy,” writes Fred Kaplan of Slate . The tragic hero: Barack Obama, who, after painstaking analysis, escalated a potentially unwinnable war. Fed up with a Pentagon that refused to offer him any options other... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 30, 2010 7:05 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Immigration Fight Threatens 9/11 Health Bill
(Newser) - Illegal immigration might scuttle a bill to provide health care for people who worked at Ground Zero in the aftermath of 9/11. House leaders are considering canceling today’s planned vote if Republicans introduce an amendment barring illegal immigrants from benefiting from the bill, the Wall Street Journal reports. Democrats... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 30, 2010 7:05 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Sarah Palin: Put Me on DWTS Next!
(Newser) - Sarah Palin had so much fun not getting booed at Dancing With the Stars, she wants to go on the show herself. “She mentioned to producers who greeted her that she would be open to competing herself next season,” a source tells PopEater . Another adds that, contrary to... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 30, 2010 7:05 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Months Later, Lone Senator Holding Up Aid to Haiti
(AP) - Nearly nine months after the earthquake, more than a million Haitians still live on the streets between piles of rubble. One reason: Not a cent of the $1.15 billion the US pledged in March for rebuilding has arrived. The US has already spent more than $1.1 billion on... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 30, 2010 7:05 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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O'Donnell Fudged Calif. University Credential, Too
(Newser) - Oxford isn't the only school Delaware senate candidate Christine O'Donnell didn't attend, no matter how many times she might say that she did. "Claremont Graduate University has no student or education record for an individual named Christine O'Donnell," says a unequivocal statement from the school in answer to... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 30, 2010 7:05 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Maid to Reveal 'Explosive' Allegations Against Whitman
(Newser) - TMZ, the gossip site that first broke the news of Michael Jackson’s death, is reporting that “explosive” allegations are about to be leveled against California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman . Whitman’s former housekeeper and her lawyer ( Gloria Allred —who else?) will hold a news conference today... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 30, 2010 7:05 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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