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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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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
BREAKING: Woman says she and Cain had 13-year affair; Cain denies accusation — ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) - An Atlanta businesswoman accused GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain of having had an affair with her that lasted 13 years, an Atlanta television station reported Monday.
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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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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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Boston Globe:
Barney Frank not to seek reelection in 2012 — On April 20, 2010, US Representative Barney Frank, then chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, struck the gavel during a hearing on the Lehman Brothers collapse — US Representative Barney Frank, the state's highest profile congressman …
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Barney Frank Will Not Run Again—So Which Dem Will Run Financial Services?
Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
Race to Replace Frank Could Be Competitive
Race to Replace Frank Could Be Competitive
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Maxine Waters in line to take over from Frank on Financial Services
Maxine Waters in line to take over from Frank on Financial Services
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The Politico, Boston Globe, The Enterprise Blog, The PJ Tatler and Weasel Zippers
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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Charles Franklin / Polls And Votes:
Recognition and Favorability of GOP2012 Candidates
Recognition and Favorability of GOP2012 Candidates
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Peter Fenn / Pundits Blog:
Mitt Romney: A weathervane in a hurricane
Mitt Romney: A weathervane in a hurricane
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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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Bloomberg:
Secret Fed Loans Gave U.S. Banks Undisclosed $13B — The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missing. — The Fed didn't tell anyone which banks …
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Paul Krugman:
Mission Not Accomplished — Matt Yglesias and Kevin Drum say the right thing about revelations that big banks got very easy terms during the financial crisis: the real scandal isn't so much that those banks got rescued as that the rest of the population didn't.
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Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Democrat calls for hearing on ‘secret’ bank loans from Federal Reserve
Democrat calls for hearing on ‘secret’ bank loans from Federal Reserve
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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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Political Mojo, Washington Monthly, New Deal 2.0, Big Government and EconomicPolicyJournal.com
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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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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Saeed Kamali Dehghan / Guardian:
Iran: explosion in Isfahan reported
Iran: explosion in Isfahan reported
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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.
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Outrage!... After Demanding Refund From City, Richmond Tea Party Gets Letter - “You're Being Audited” — The City of Richmond charged the local tea party $10,000 to hold three rallies at the Kanawha Plaza ... But, the #Occupy squatters were allowed to set up a tent city on the plaza for free.
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Colleen Owens / Big Government:
Richmond City Audits Local Tea Party After Standoff with Mayor
Richmond City Audits Local Tea Party After Standoff with Mayor
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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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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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Gay Blog, Gawker and The Raw Story
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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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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Matt Egan / Fox Business:
Fitch Keeps U.S. Credit Rating at ‘AAA’, Cuts Outlook to Negative — Fitch Ratings kept its pristine AAA rating on the U.S. on Monday, but the credit-ratings company downgraded its outlook to “negative” in the wake of the Supercommittee's failure to find $1.2 trillion in spending cuts.
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