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Exclusive: 2 women accused Herman Cain of inappropriate behavior — During Herman Cain's tenure as the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, at least two female employees complained to colleagues and senior association officials about inappropriate behavior by Cain …
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Cain Edges Perry in New UT/TT Poll … Keywords: - Texas Republican Party, - Herman Cain, - Michele Bachmann, - Mitt Romney, - Ron Paul, - Texas Governor Rick Perry, - 2012 Presidential Race, - Perry for President, - Rick Perry Politics, - UT/Texas Tribune Poll

State firm's cash to Herman Cain may breach federal campaign, tax laws — Herman Cain's two top campaign aides ran a private Wisconsin-based corporation that helped the GOP presidential candidate get his fledgling campaign off the ground by originally footing the bill for tens of thousands …

Cain Admits Being Accused of Harassment — 11:31 a.m. | Updated Herman Cain acknowledged on Monday that he was accused of sexual harassment while running the National Restaurant Association, but said he was innocent. — Speaking on Fox News before an afternoon speech at the National Press Club …
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Cain Says ‘Herman Is Going to Stay Herman’ as Allegations Swirl — The former restaurant association executive said he'd been “falsely accused” but remained unflappable at an appearance in D.C. — Facing the most serious challenge yet to his improbably successful presidential campaign …
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Herman Cain acknowledges harassment accusations — POLITICO's Reid Epstein:
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Herman Cain: I “never sexually harassed anyone”
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Cain: “I was falsely accused” of sexual harassment at trade group
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Former Campaign Aide Says Cain's Behavior ‘Never Even Bordered on Inappropriate in the Slightest’


Politico's Martin Dodges Question On Cain Details
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Coulter: Politico's Smear Of Cain Shows Liberal Media “Terrified Of Strong, Conservative, Black Men”
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The Oppo Dump on Herman Cain Begins in Earnest
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Cain responds to sex harassment allegation
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At Occupy Wall Street central, a rift is growing between east and west sides of the plaza — The Wall Street protesters determined to “Occupy Everything” now find themselves, in a sense, occupied — The Wall Street protesters determined to “Occupy Everything” now find themselves, in a sense, occupied.
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Occupy Veterans Movement Growing Across U.S. — Since Occupy Wall Street protests have broken out in cities across the U.S. and abroad, support has come from what might seem like an unlikely corner: war veterans. — But two of the highest-profile protesters — each from opposite ends of the country — had served in wars.
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Boehner: I get OWS ‘frustrations’
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Cantor Rakes In Wall Street Donations While Calling Occupy Protesters A ‘Mob’
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How tea party could drive GOP to disaster — Editor's note: David Frum, a CNN contributor, was a special assistant to President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2002. He is the author of six books, including “Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again,” and is the editor of FrumForum.
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MF Global files for bankruptcy after deal unravels — (Reuters) - MF Global Holdings Ltd, the futures broker run by former Goldman Sachs chief Jon Corzine, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after a tentative deal with a buyer fell apart. — The firm's meltdown in less than a week following big bets …
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MF Global Files for Bankruptcy Protection
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Mass exodus? University of Michigan tries to fight domestic partner benefits ban as employees think of looking elsewhere — Andries Coetzee, left, and his partner Gary Woodall stand outside of their home in Ann Arbor on Friday. Woodall may lose his health care coverage if the bill proposing …
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Beacon Power bankrupt; had U.S. backing like Solyndra — (Reuters) - Beacon Power Corp filed for bankruptcy on Sunday, just a year after the energy storage company received a $43 million loan guarantee from a controversial Department of Energy program. — The bankruptcy comes about two months …
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Second Energy Dept.-backed company goes bankrupt
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Bombs, Bridges and Jobs — A few years back Representative Barney Frank coined an apt phrase for many of his colleagues: weaponized Keynesians, defined as those who believe “that the government does not create jobs when it funds the building of bridges or important research or retrains workers …
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OWS camp gets really commie-cal — Some 50 Occupy Wall Street protesters saw red yesterday — giving an enthusiastic welcome to a genuine communist. — Alex Callinicos, a professor of European Studies at Kings College in London, announced to his rapt audience, “I am a Marxist.”
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Nope, just debt — The next big credit bubble? — NEW YORK | from the print edition — IN LATE 1965, President Lyndon Johnson stood in the modest gymnasium of what had once been the tiny teaching college he attended in Texas and announced a programme to promote education.
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A Law Misused for Political Ends — THE federal agency I lead, the United States Office of Special Counsel, enforces a law that is broken and needs to be fixed. — The law, the Hatch Act of 1939, was intended to keep improper politics out of the federal workplace.
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Concerns Are Raised About Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes — These mosquitoes are genetically engineered to kill — their own children. — Researchers on Sunday reported initial signs of success from the first release into the environment of mosquitoes engineered to pass a lethal gene …
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David Axelrod goes there: GOP may be trying to destroy economy on purpose — Here's David Axelrod, on CNN today, pushing back on Candy Crowley's suggestion that Obama bears some of the blame for Congress's failure to act on the economy: … This is an argument that many Congressional Dems and surrogates …
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