(2009-08-25) — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder today announced that in addition to appointing a federal prosecutor to investigate allegations of abuse during CIA interrogations of terrorism suspects, the Justice Department would probe the actions of the New York City Fire Department on September 11, 2001.
“While the vast majority of FDNY firefighters performed admirably that [...]

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(2009-08-08) — Just days after the White House asked Americans to report their fellow citizens to flag@WhiteHouse.gov when they see, read or hear ‘fishy’ information about health care reform, there’s an app for that.
The new ‘iCU-R-Fishy’ application for iPhone, created by the makers of the popular ‘Tap Tap Revenge’, employs the revolutionary device’s ability to [...]

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(2009-07-31) — East Stroudsburg (Pa.) police reported today that a man seen forcing his way into a car downtown was actually a local university professor carjacking his family in his own vehicle in hopes of getting an invitation to the White House.
The incident happened just hours after President Barack Obama shared a beer with Cambridge [...]

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(2009-06-12) — Since Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor appears in a newly-released video claiming she got into Princeton and Yale, despite substandard test scores, because of her ethnic and economic heritage, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced today that it would alter the confirmation hearing process to avoid “the risk of anti-diversity”.
“Most Senators are white [...]

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(2009-06-05) — Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor said today that “if President Obama were a wise Latina woman, with the richness of her experiences, he would have picked a less controversial court nominee.”
Judge Sotomayor said she doesn’t blame the president for his unwise choice, “after all, as a black male, he can’t be expected to [...]

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(2009-05-26) — Calling it “the right thing to do” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today announced that the State Department would soon grant the same benefits to spouses and domestic partners as well as to those with whom U.S. diplomats conduct extra-marital affairs.
“Same sex or opposite sex, married or not, faithful or cheating — [...]

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(2009-05-13) — In search of a Supreme Court justice with the rare combination of legal gravitas and heart-felt empathy, President Barack Obama has reportedly included former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards on his short list to replace retiring Associate Justice David Souter.
Mr. Edwards, who sought the 2008 Democrat presidential nomination, became famous in legal [...]

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