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Senate Confirms Brennan as CIA Director

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Senate Confirms Brennan as CIA Director Senator Rand Paul’s nearly thirteen hour filibuster may have started a conversation about U.S. drone policy, but it didn’t stop John Brennan from becoming CIA Director. Senators voted to 63 – 34 to elevate President Obama’s top counter-terrorism adviser at the White House to lead...


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Plane Held For Man Visiting Dying Mom

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Plane Held For Man Visiting Dying Mom A flight delay nearly cost a man the chance to see his dying mother one last time.  But On Jan. 24, employees at United Airlines didn’t let that happen. Kerry Drake’s mother was dying. As first reported on Elliott.org, his brother called him to say...


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Prisoner in Solitary 2 Years Gets $15.5M

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Prisoner in Solitary 2 Years Gets $15.5M A man who was driving across country in 2005 and found himself thrown in A New Mexico jail for a DWI, only to emerge years later after spending nearly two years in solitary confinement, has been awarded $15.5 million in one of the largest prisoner civil rights payouts in U.S. history.


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Woman Thrown off Train for Singing

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Woman Thrown off Train for Singing The family of an elderly Florida woman is furious that she was hauled off a commuter train because she was singing spirituals and are considering  legal action. The family of Emma Anderson, 82, claim she was injured by a Metro-Dade Transit security guard who they...


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FBI Monitoring Gay Candidate Probe

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FBI Monitoring Gay Candidate Probe The FBI is "monitoring" the investigation into the death of an openly gay mayoral candidate in Mississippi, opening the door to a possible prosecution as a federal hate crime.


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Chavez Death Highlights Heart Risk

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Chavez Death Highlights Heart Risk A heart attack ended up killing former Venezuela president and cancer sufferer Hugo Chavez, according to the head of Venezuela's presidential guard.


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Photos: Lil Kim Through The Years

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Photos: Lil Kim Through The Years A look back at the rapper's changing appearance.


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Reversal: College to Pay for Transgender Surgery

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Reversal: College to Pay for Transgender Surgery Donnie Collins, who went from an all-girls prep school dorm to a male fraternity at Emerson College in Boston, needed to raise $8,100 to pay for "top surgery" as he morphs from female to male.


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Photos: Throwback: Telephones Then and Now

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Photos: Throwback: Telephones Then and Now The patent for the telephone was issued on March 7, 1876


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Top 5 Senate Filibusters

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Top 5 Senate Filibusters Filibusters are nothing new for the Senate


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Florida Homeless Man Seeks Jail to Escape Cold

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Florida Homeless Man Seeks Jail to Escape Cold A homeless Florida man with a penchant for getting arrested when it's cold outside found an unlikely and humorous ally in a judge who called him "a regular."


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Rand Paul Wins Applause for Filibuster

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Rand Paul Wins Applause for Filibuster Rand Paul’s nearly 13 hour live filibuster of John Brennan’s nomination to head the CIA got support for the Kentucky Republican from some unlikely places. “He’s using the filibuster the way it’s meant to be used,” said Jon Stewart, whose satire carries some political weight...


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Shia LaBeouf Calls Out Baldwin

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Shia LaBeouf Calls Out Baldwin LaBeouf tweeted private emails with the '30 Rock' star.


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Co-Stars React to Harper's Cancer

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Former 'Mary Tyler Moore' stars shared their feelings about Harper.


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Pitt, Jolie's Miraval Rose Sells Out

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Pitt, Jolie's Miraval Rose Sells Out Some 6,000 bottles of  “Miraval Rosé 2012″  from the French vineyard owned by Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie sold out today. The bottles were on sale only in France on the Château Miraval web site.  The wine went for 105 euros with all...


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