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Michael R. Blood / Associated Press:
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens loses re-election bid — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican in Senate history, narrowly lost his re-election bid Tuesday, marking the downfall of a Washington political power …
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Sean Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
Begich defeats Stevens in Senate race — Mark Begich has defeated Sen. Ted Stevens in the election for U.S. Senate. — The Democratic Anchorage mayor widened his lead to 3,724 votes in today's counting of absentee and questioned ballots. The only votes left to count …
William Yardley / New York Times:
Stevens Loses in Senate Re-Election Bid — Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska was defeated in his bid for re-election on Tuesday. — Mr. Stevens, a Republican and a 40-year incumbent, was trailing his Democratic challenger, Mayor Mark Begich of Anchorage, by 3,724 votes out of more than 315,000 cast …
Michael Isikoff / Powering Up:
Obama's Attorney General — President-elect Obama has decided to tap Eric Holder as his attorney general, putting the veteran Washington lawyer in place to become the first African-American to head the Justice Department, according to two legal sources close to the presidential transition.
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Mark Halperin / TIME.com:
Release From the American Constitution Society — FORMER DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDER BLASTS ADMINISTRATION'S “WAR ON TERROR” — In Speech To American Constitution Society Holder Outlines Steps To Make Nation More Secure — Washington, D.C. — Eric H. Holder Jr. …
Associated Press:
Vice president, former AG, state senator indicted — McALLEN, Texas — A South Texas grand jury has indicted Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners in Willacy County's federal detention centers.
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CNN:
Texas grand jury indicts Cheney, Gonzales — (CNN) — Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted on separate charges related to alleged prisoner abuse in federal detention centers, Willacy County, Texas, District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra told CNN Tuesday.
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Emma Perez-Trevino / Brownsville Herald:
Vice President Cheney indicted by Willacy County grand jury
Vice President Cheney indicted by Willacy County grand jury
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Lieberman: Suck On That, Liberals! … I hope this puts to rest the notion that this is all some master stroke of kumbayah, of keeping your friends close and your enemies closer. — This is about telling you that you mean nothing. That democracy is a nice word, but it should never threaten …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats Gain as Stevens Loses His Senate Race
Democrats Gain as Stevens Loses His Senate Race
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Howard Dean Is Fine With Senate's Lieberman Decision, Suggests …
Howard Dean Is Fine With Senate's Lieberman Decision, Suggests …
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CNN:
Hagel takes aim at Limbaugh, Senate colleagues — (CNN) — As his Senate career nears its end, Republican Chuck Hagel isn't holding back when it comes to criticizing members of his own party — including conservative talk radio hosts. — “We are educated by the great entertainers like Rush Limbaugh …
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The Huffington Post:
Hagel, Unrestrained, Lashes Into Bush, Rush And The GOP — Two months before he leaves office, Sen. Chuck Hagel is increasingly unrestrained by political niceties. — Appearing at a forum at the Johns Hopkins School of Advances International Studies, the outgoing Nebraska Republican leveled harsh criticism …
Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Hillary could reject State offer — Hillary Rodham Clinton isn't certain she would accept the Secretary of State post even if Barack Obama offers it to her, several people close to the former first lady say. — Press reports that portray Clinton as willing to accept the job …
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Alexis Simendinger / Lost in Transition:
Obama To Name Peter Orszag As Budget Director — President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to tap Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag, once a veteran economic adviser in the Clinton White House, to become his budget director, according to several National Journal sources.
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John / Power Line:
HOW OBAMA GOT ELECTED — Last night I embedded a video by John Ziegler that showed some Obama voters being interviewed about their knowledge of the issues in the campaign. The video is funny, but also instructive. It was prepared in connection with a Zogby poll and the web site How Obama Got Elected.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Zogby Engages in Apparent Push Polling for Right-Wing Website
Zogby Engages in Apparent Push Polling for Right-Wing Website
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Maura Dolan / Los Angeles Times:
Recall specter hangs over high court as it considers Prop. 8 challenges — Backers of the measure banning gay marriage have said they will target justices who vote to overturn it. Legal scholars say the court has no clear path to tossing out Prop. 8. — Reporting from San Francisco …
Erin Aubry Kaplan / Salon:
First lady got back — I'm a black woman who never thought I'd see a powerful, beautiful female with a body like mine in the White House. Then I saw Michelle Obama — and her booty! — Michelle Obama waves to the crowd at the Democratic convention in Denver on Aug. 25, 2008. — Free at last.
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Jefferson / Blue Grass, Red State:
Democrats Attempt Full Precinct Disenfranchisement, ACLU Silent — When an entire precinct of voters are about to have their votes thrown out by state legislators, you would think that some of those bold first amendment types would step up and sue and embarrass everyone in the process …
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Catherine Philp / Times of London:
Iranian grain ship seized as Somali pirates hold world to ransom — Alarm grows as governments and navies are rendered legally powerless to conduct security operations on the high seas — Somali pirates struck again yesterday, seizing an Iranian cargo ship holding 30,000 tonnes of grain …
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Satyam Khanna / Think Progress:
Perino: Obama ‘Should Want’ Bush's Political Appointees In His Administration — The Washington Post reported this morning that between March and November, the Bush administration has “burrowed” at least 20 political appointees into career civil service posts, initially depriving President-elect …
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