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Dale Russell / MyFox Atlanta:
Georgia Woman Claims 13-Year Affair with Herman Cain — Ginger White's exclusive interview with the I-Team — ATLANTA, Ga. - An Atlanta businesswoman is breaking her silence, claiming she has been involved in a 13-year-long affair with Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain.
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Herman Cain Breaks News Of His Own New Accusation Live On CNN — Viewers of CNN's The Situation Room this afternoon may have noticed that something sort of strange happened at the end of the first of two segments in which Wolf Blitzer interviewed former GOP frontrunner Herman Cain.
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Ginger White accuses Herman Cain of a 13-year affair — A Georgia woman says that she and Herman Cain engaged in a 13-year affair, but the GOP presidential candidate issued a preemptive denial on Monday. — In an interview with the local Fox affiliate in Atlanta, Ginger White said she met Cain …
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CBS News:
Woman claims 13-year affair with Herman Cain — Herman Cain revealed Monday that an Atlanta-area woman is coming forward alleging an “extended” 13-year extramarital affair with the Republican presidential candidate. — Cain told CNN the woman's claims are untrue.
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Woman says she and Cain had 13-year affair; Cain denies accusation
Woman says she and Cain had 13-year affair; Cain denies accusation
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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Gingrich Says He's ‘Conservative Alternative’ to Romney — Newt Gingrich, who not long ago was urging his fellow Republican candidates to avoid tearing one another apart in pursuit of the party's presidential nomination, took a new approach on Monday by explicitly declaring …
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Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
Union Leader Declined To Endorse Romney Because He ‘Represents The One Percent’
Union Leader Declined To Endorse Romney Because He ‘Represents The One Percent’
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Frank: Gingrich against Obama ‘best thing’ for Dems since Goldwater
Frank: Gingrich against Obama ‘best thing’ for Dems since Goldwater
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Mark Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
Newt Gingrich Campaign Struggles With Organization, Power Outsiders Poll Shows
Newt Gingrich Campaign Struggles With Organization, Power Outsiders Poll Shows
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Yossi Melman / Reuters:
Report: Explosion rocks Iran city of Isfahan, home to key nuclear facility — Semi-official Fars news agency says blast heard distinctly in several parts of the western Iran city; a uranium conversion plant near Isfahan went online in 2004. — An explosion rocked the western Iranian city …
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Saeed Kamali Dehghan / Guardian:
Iran: explosion in Isfahan reported
Iran: explosion in Isfahan reported
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Jeff Dunetz / YID With LID:
BREAKING: Huge Explosion In IRAN's Nuke City
BREAKING: Huge Explosion In IRAN's Nuke City
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Kevin Drum / Political Mojo:
How 2008 Should Have Radicalized Us All — Now that Bloomberg has peeled another layer off the Federal Reserve onion, we know a bit more about just how much money they spent rescuing the banking system in 2008. Matt Yglesias sums up his reaction, and I think he gets it exactly right:
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
How The Fed's Generosity Made $13 Billion For America's Biggest Banks
How The Fed's Generosity Made $13 Billion For America's Biggest Banks
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BBC:
Arrest over video of ‘racist rant’ on Croydon to Wimbledon tram — The clip shows a woman swearing at passengers on the tram — A woman has been arrested after an online video apparently showed a woman abusing ethnic minority passengers on a packed south London tram.
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Colleen Owens / Big Government:
Richmond City Audits Local Tea Party After Standoff with Mayor — Two weeks after the Richmond Tea Party delivered an invoice to Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones for costs incurred for previous rallies, we received a letter from the City of Richmond formally stating that the city is auditing our Tea Party.
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Thomas B. Edsall / Campaign Stops:
The Future of the Obama Coalition — For decades, Democrats have suffered continuous and increasingly severe losses among white voters. But preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class.
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Maxine Waters in line to take over from Frank on Financial Services — Wall Street executives are bracing for the possibility that Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) will take over as the senior Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee after Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) retires.
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Barney Frank Will Not Run Again—So Which Dem Will Run Financial Services?
Barney Frank Will Not Run Again—So Which Dem Will Run Financial Services?
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Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
Race to Replace Frank Could Be Competitive
Race to Replace Frank Could Be Competitive
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Kos / Daily Kos:
Congress is close to destroying the internet (no hyperbole) — Big Pharma and the recording and movie industries are on the verge of passing a bill that could very well destroy the social web, including Daily Kos. — This is no hyperbole. Watch the video above.
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
The Race-IQ ‘Blackout’ — Andrew asserts that “pc egalitarianism” is strangling research into IQ. To buttress this observation he points to a piece in Alternet that basically asserts the same. The piece contains no numbers to back up the claim, and quotes only one scientist to evidence this scourge of manners.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Telemarketer Abuse Statute Confounds Supreme Court — WASHINGTON — “This is the strangest statute I have ever seen,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said near the end of a Supreme Court argument on Monday. — The justices had spent most of the previous hour trying to puzzle out the meaning …
Joe Romm / ThinkProgress:
Radiation Covers 8% of Japan, Fukushima Crisis “Stunting Children's Growth” … Fukushima, like most international stories, has a very short half life in the U.S. media — a lot shorter than that of radioactive cesium. As the NY Times noted back in March, “Over the long term …
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Washington Post Blogger Asks for Dirt About Newt Gingrich on Twitter — Still in the camp that doesn't believe the media are liberally biased? — Check out what the Washington Post's Aaron Blake tweeted moments ago on Twitter: — For those unfamiliar, Blake writes for the Post's The Fix political blog …
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Bshaw / Orlando Sentinel:
Senate congressional map has big - and not-so-big- changes — The Florida Senate's Reapportionment Committee released its long-awaited maps drawing new districts for the state Senate and adding two congressional seats to Florida's existing 25. Eyeballing the congressional maps (available here) …
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Jim Lacey / National Review:
Scientists Behaving Badly — Global-warming skeptics spend much of their time knocking down the fatuous warmist claim that the science is settled. According to the warmists, this singular piece of settled science is attested to by hundreds or thousands of highly credentialed scientists.
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Douglas Martin / New York Times:
Lana Peters, Stalin's Daughter, Dies at 85 — Her three successive names were signposts on a twisted, bewildering road that took her from Stalin's Kremlin, where she was the “little princess,” to the West in a celebrated defection, then back to the Soviet Union in a puzzling homecoming …
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Kevinliptak / CNN:
Barney Frank not seeking re-election in 2012 — Washington (CNN) - Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank, a prominent 16-term liberal Democrat and arch-enemy of political conservatives nationwide, will announce Monday he does not intend to seek re-election in 2012, according to a statement from Frank's office.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
DNC to Romney: There you go again - Steve Schwarzman backs Mitt - POLITICO behind-the-scenes eBook on 2012 debuts Wed.: The old Newsweek project, IN REAL TIME — NYT debunks dumb law — Good Monday morning. BRUTAL VIDEO: The DNC, working to define Mitt Romney even before Republicans have a nominee …
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Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
Why We Occupy: Visualizing The 2012 Federal Discretionary Budget — One reason so many people have taken to the streets as part of the 99 Percent Movement is because of the country's lopsided priorities. The following graphic shows the makeup of federal discretionary spending in the Fiscal Year 2012 budget.
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