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Saxby Chambliss Fires Staffer for Anti-Gay Post
(Newser) - Sen. Saxby Chambliss issued a formal apology yesterday for the anti-gay comments posted to a website by a member of his staff ... who savvily did so while at work in the senator's office. "I am sorry for the hurt this incident has caused," Chamliss said in a written... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 1, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Jon Stewart: Obama a Big Backyard Bore
(Newser) - The leader of the free world held a 'backyard summit' in a leafy Des Moines suburb on Wednesday. How'd that go? Um, not so well, apparently. The New York Times says the president received a "polite" welcome but faced "pointed" and "barbed" questions from the audience of... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 1, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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News Corp. Made Second $1M Donation to GOP Group
(Newser) - It turns out that Fox News parent company News Corp . didn't make one $1 million donation to a GOP-linked group over the summer: It made two. The beneficiary of Rupert Murdoch 's largesse is none other than the US Chamber of Commerce, a Republican-aligned business lobby that is running a... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 1, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Celebrity Chef Stirs Up SC Senate Race
(Newser) - South Carolina's lopsided Senate race is getting spicier. Celebrity Charleston chef and cookbook author Nathalie Dupree is getting out of the kitchen to run as a write-in candidate. Dupree says she doesn't believe anybody else will challenge incumbent Republican Jim DeMint, whom she accuses of spending more time aiding Tea... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 1, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Paladino Drops Cuomo Affair Claim
(Newser) - So, remember when Carl Paladino accused his rival, Andrew Cuomo, of having an affair ? Yeah, he didn't really mean that. Yesterday, he retracted the claim, saying it was all just a big misunderstanding, reports the Buffalo News . Paladino says he was just so "sick and tired" of the... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 1, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Dutch Close to Burka Ban in Right-Wing Party Deal
(Newser) - The usually über-tolerant Dutch will likely soon make the Netherlands the latest European nation to ban the burka. The ban—as well as a deal to cut immigration in half—is part of a pact to form a new minority coalition government that will include the right-wing Party for... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 1, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Congress Turning Down Volume of TV Commercials
(Newser) - Bipartisan agreement on the this one: The Senate unanimously passed a bill that outlaws blaring TV commercials, the AP reports. Because the House already cleared a similar measure, this one's destined to become law soon after minor differences are ironed out. Under the CALM act, TV stations have to make... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 1, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Big Donors Bank on Boehner Over Pelosi
(Newser) - John Boehner stands a decent chance of being the next House speaker, and he's got some deep-pocketed friends trying to improve the odds. Boehner has pulled in $7.1 million for his campaign and leadership committees, way ahead of Nancy Pelosi's $2.9 million. And that's not counting another $2... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 1, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Meet Pete Rouse, Obama's New Chief of Staff
(Newser) - So who is this Pete Rouse, the man expected to step into Rahm Emanuel's shoes tomorrow? The president's senior aide is a longtime one and not unfamiliar with serving as his chief of staff—Rouse was hired in that job when then-Sen. Obama first arrived in Washington, reports the New ... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 1, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Stephen Colbert Losing Fans in Congress
(Newser) - Congress seems to be getting tired of Stephen Colbert, and not just because of his in-character testimony on Capitol Hill, reports Politico . More and more lawmakers are turning down requests to be on his show—especially for the "Better Know a District" segment, which initially attracted lawmakers as an... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 1, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Rahm Emanuel to Quit Tomorrow; Pete Rouse In
(Newser) - Washington's worst-kept secret is that much closer to being official: The AP quotes two anonymous sources saying that Rahm Emanuel will resign tomorrow to run for mayor of Chicago. President Obama will give him a White House sendoff and announce that senior adviser Pete Rouse will permanently replace him as... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 1, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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AIG Reaches Deal to Repay Government
(AP) - AIG said today it's reached a deal to repay billions of dollars it received during the credit crisis. The plan could return a profit to taxpayers who footed the bill for AIG's near collapse in September 2008 and will eventually remove the government as majority owner. AIG became a lightning... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 1, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Democrats' Big Money Men Sitting Out 2010
(Newser) - The Democrats' normal stable of megadonors has largely failed to show up for the 2010 race, while their Republican counterparts are going wild, the New York Times reports. Even reliable donors like George Soros are sitting on their wallets—Soros “believes that he can be most effective by funding... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 1, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Christine O’Donnell Is MIA in Delaware
(Newser) - You know that old saw, “all politics is local”? Well these days it seems that all politics is national, Matt Bai of the New York Times observes. Just look at Christine O’Donnell. She’s appeared on every national conservative media outlet that will have her, but has... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 1, 2010 7:02 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 Friday, October 1, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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