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Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Early Reaction to Supreme Court Decision on the ACA — This poll fielded following the Supreme Court's decision upholding the heart of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) finds a majority of Americans (56 percent) now say they would like to see the law's detractors stop …
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Obama Now Leads Romney, 48% to 43% — Represents largest lead for Obama among registered voters since April — PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama has maintained at least a slight margin over Mitt Romney in each of the last six Gallup Daily tracking averages, including a 48% …
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Division, Uncertainty over Court's Health Care Ruling — Top One-Word Reactions — ‘Disappointed,’ ‘Surprised’ — OVERVIEW — The public has long been divided in its opinions about the 2010 health care law. There is now a similar division of opinion over last week's Supreme Court decision …
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CNN Poll: Health care ruling has not impacted race for White House, so far
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Dem memo to GOP women highlights benefits preserved in court ruling
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Eric Holder says Republicans have made him a ‘proxy’ to attack President Obama — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. sharply criticized lawmakers Monday for voting to hold him in contempt of Congress last week, saying Republicans have made him a “proxy” to attack President Obama in an election year.
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GOP Rep Suggests Arresting Attorney General Eric Holder
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Secret Service shuts down ‘Fire Holder’ protest outside White House
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I don't regret outing Anderson Cooper | Brian Moylan — Given the struggles that gay men and women deal with in this country every day, Cooper's silence on the issue was a problem — • Emma Keller: Anderson Cooper was bullied into coming out — Congratulations, Anderson Cooper, on finally coming out of the closet.
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Anderson Cooper: “The Fact Is, I'm Gay.”
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Anderson Cooper was bullied into coming out. We should know better
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Where the Money Lives — For all Mitt Romney's touting of his business record, when it comes to his own money the Republican nominee is remarkably shy about disclosing numbers and investments. Nicholas Shaxson delves into the murky world of offshore finance, revealing loopholes that allow …
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Twitter complied with 75 percent of US requests for user info — Twitter received 679 requests for user information from the U.S. government in the last year, according to a report released by the company Monday. — The requests from the United States exceeded that of any other country …
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Twitter Transparency Report — Wednesday marks Independence Day here in the United States. Beyond the fireworks and barbecue, July 4th serves as an important reminder of the need to hold governments accountable, especially on behalf of those who may not have a chance to do so themselves.
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Obama braces for June jobs data — Weak June manufacturing numbers released Monday intensified concern about the fragility of the economic recovery and turned election-watchers' attention toward unemployment numbers due out at the end of this week. — The reports, just four months …
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Obama campaign touts economic record ahead of first 2012 bus tour — President Obama's campaign is tagging his two-day bus trip in the Midwest later this week the “Betting on America” tour, an opportunity for the campaign to push their economic message against Mitt Romney in two key swing states.
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Washington Post Fact Checker: I Don't Fact Check Our Own Writers
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House to prohibit IRS from implementing healthcare law — The House as early as next week will pass legislation prohibiting the IRS from receiving any money from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement the 2010 healthcare reform law. — Passage of the financial …
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Rep. West: Obama Wants Americans To ‘Be His Slave’ — PORT ST. LUCIE — Republican Rep. Allen West kicked off his Treasure Coast campaign for congressional District 18 on Sunday with a rally, during which he criticized President Obama on a variety of issues, using phrases and language guaranteed to get attention.
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Romney, an Eye on Campaign, Plans a Trip to Israel — JERUSALEM — Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will visit Israel this summer to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other leaders, a senior aide to the prime minister confirmed on Monday evening.
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New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte To Join Romney In New Hampshire On July 4 — Chris Fitzgerald/Candidate Photos/Newscom — ABC News' Michael Falcone reports: — New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte plans to march with Mitt Romney in Wednesday's Fourth of July parade in Wolfeboro, N.H., GOP sources tell ABC News.

Columnist Clarence Page Spoke at Rally for Iranian Militant Group — Late last month, syndicated columnist Clarence Page appeared at a rally in Paris in support of the Mujahadin-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian group that has been lobbying Washington to be removed from the U.S. government's list of designated foreign terrorist organizations.
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Here's the Video of Newt Gingrich Bowing to the Leader of an Iranian Terrorist Group
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Judge: Twitter Must Turn Over Occupy Wall Street Protester's Tweets — Prosecutors say the messages could show whether Malcom Harris was aware of police orders he's charged with disregarding — Twitter has been ordered to give a New York City judge almost three months' worth …
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Midlevel Finance Jobs Leave Wall Street as Firms Cut Costs
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