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Newser Daily Digest - Miller Won't Block Murkowski Certification, But ...
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Miller Won't Block Murkowski Certification, But ...
(Newser) - Joe Miller won't block Lisa Murkowski's Senate certification, he announced last night … but that doesn't mean he's giving up. Miller also said that he will continue to pursue his legal challenge of Murkowski's write-in victory, the Anchorage Daily News reports. The US district court judge hearing Miller's federal challenge—... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, December 27, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Brits Pelt Royals Over Fur Hats
(Newser) - Fur flew yesterday as the legendary British animal lovers slammed the queen and Camilla Parker Bowles for their "ostentatious cruelty" of wearing fox fur hats to a Christmas Day church service. "To parade fur in 2010 says something unpleasant about the person wearing it," said the director... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, December 27, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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'Rent-a-General' Business Is Booming for Contractors
(Newser) - For America's military generals, retirement is when the real money starts pouring in. It's no secret that former officers often show up on the payrolls of defense contractors, but a Boston Globe investigation into what it terms the "rent-a-general" business puts some eyebrow-raising numbers to the trend: 80% of... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, December 27, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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America's 'Disneyland Dream' Is Dead
(Newser) - The death of Robbins Barstow, an American dad whose home movie of his family's vacation to Disneyland in 1956 is in the Library of Congress, has Frank Rich lamenting the loss of the American dream. Or more precisely the Disneyland Dream, as Barstow labeled his film. Watching it now brings... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, December 27, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Kagan, Sotomayor Breathe New Wind Into Liberals' Sails
(Newser) - It's a bit like Mean Girls: Supreme Court Edition: After decades of the conservative tongue-lashings of Antonin Scalia dominating oral arguments as liberal justices sat on their hands, new kids Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan are unabashedly adding their voices to the melee. "Slow down from the rhetoric,"... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, December 27, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Not Just Drugs Anymore: DEA Now a Vast, Global Spy
(Newser) - It's not your daddy's Drug Enforcement Agency: The DEA reach is now so vast and global that it extends far beyond illegal drugs into global intelligence gathering, reports the New York Times . The DEA, with 87 offices in 63 countries, has developed strong ties with foreign governments, including those that... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, December 27, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Gibbs: No Cabinet Shakeup Coming
(Newser) - That big shakeup that's going to change the face of President Obama's Cabinet? Not happening, Robert Gibbs tells State of the Union today. "I don't expect, quite honestly, big changes," he said. The exception to that rule is Larry Summers' replacement, whom Gibbs expects to see named in... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, December 27, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Want to Rein in Deficit? Cut Military Funding
(Newser) - US military spending has been sacrosanct by both political parties, but with budget pressures mounting, "it's time to bust that taboo," writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times . Kristof notes that the US military budget is nearly as large as the rest of the world combined, and... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, December 27, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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'Death Panels' Return: Obama Enacts End-of-Life Planning
(Newser) - Sarah Palin's "death panels" are back. The brouhaha surrounding end-of-life counseling forced Democrats to cut it from health care reform, but now President Obama is quietly adding the same policy to Medicare by rewriting regulations, reports the New York Times . Under the new policy, beginning Jan. 1 the government... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, December 27, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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