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CIA Director David Petraeus resigns, cites extramarital affair — CIA Director David Petraeus resigned Friday, citing an extramarital affair and “extremely poor judgement.” — In a letter released to the CIA work force on Friday afternoon, Petraeus disclosed the affair, and wrote …
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Gen. David Petraeus resigns as CIA director, citing affair — David Petraeus resigned his post as director of the Central Intelligence Agency on Friday, citing an extramarital affair. — Petraeus visited the White House on Thursday to ask President Barack Obama to accept his resignation …
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Mike Morell to testify instead of David Petraeus on Benghazi — The resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus came less than a week before he was scheduled to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on the Sept. 11 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. — A spokesman for the committee …
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Ben Shapiro / BREITBART.COM:
CIA DIRECTOR PETRAEUS RESIGNS OVER ‘AFFAIR’ — Just two days after President Obama's re-election, General David Petraeus, the CIA Director, has resigned from the administration over an extramarital affair. Petraeus was slated to testify before Congress next week on the murder of four Americans …
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
Petraeus Resigns Over Affair With Biographer — David Petraeus testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Jan. 31 — The woman with whom Gen. David Petraeus was having an affair is Paula Broadwell, the author of a recent hagiographic book about him, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus.
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David H. Petraeus / nbcnewyork.com:
CIA Director Petraeus Resigns, Cites Extramarital Affair — Central Intelligence Agency Director David Petraeus has resigned, citing “extremely poor judgment” for having an extramarital affair, NBC News reported. — “Yesterday afternoon, I went to the White House and asked the President to be allowed …
David Petraeus / CNN:
Senate Intelligence Chairwoman calls Petraeus' resignation ‘tragic’
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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Petraeus' statement to CIA staff on his resignation
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Daily Mail:
David Petraeus resigns as head of CIA and apologises for ‘unacceptable behaviour’ …
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Olivier Knox / Yahoo! News:
CIA's Petraeus, DNI Clapper to testify on Benghazi next week
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USA Today:
David Petraeus resigns from CIA
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CNN:
BREAKING: CIA'S PETRAEUS RESIGNING
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Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE - INSIDE ORCA: HOW THE ROMNEY CAMPAIGN SUPPRESSED ITS OWN VOTE — As Republicans try to explain their Election Day losses in terms of policy, tactics, and strategy, one factor is emerging as the essential difference between the Obama and Romney campaigns on November 6 …
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Mitt Romney's ORCA program couldn't stay afloat — Mitt Romney's campaign boasted for the last two weeks that they would outgun President Barack Obama's team in the Democrats' area of strength - voter-targeting. They would use a state-of-the-art system called ORCA, named for the killer whale …
Bethany Mandel / Commentary Magazine:
Romney's Get Out the Vote Fiasco
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Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
After Obama reelection coal company CEO reads prayer to staff, announces layoffs — Paul Fraughton/AP - In this 2007 file photo, Murray Energy CEO Robert Murray waits to be interviewed by a television news program in Utah. On Nov. 7,2012, the day after the presidential election, Murray laid off 156 employees.
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Murray Prays for America
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Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online:
Where America's Racist Tweets Come From — Warning: The tweets are really, really racist. — A map of the location quotients for racist tweets: the darker-green the state, the higher the location quotient (Floating Sheep) — The day after Barack Obama won a second term as president …
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Matthew Zook / floatingsheep:
Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama's Re-election
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Voting Rights Act Challenge Gets U.S. High Court Hearing — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider overturning a core part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, taking up a racially and politically charged challenge to one of the signal achievements of the civil rights movement.
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court to rule on voting rights law, DNA case (FINAL UPDATE)
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Sam Baker / The Hill:
Supreme Court to consider rolling back minority protections in Voting Rights Act
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Bud Kennedy / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Hardin GOP official: ‘Maggots’ elected Obama — Texas Republicans are already using the s-word. — One party official from Southeast Texas calls for — not secession — separation. — “Why should Vermont and Texas live under the same government?” writes Hardin County Republican treasurer Peter Morrison …
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Jim Thompsonupdated / Athens Daily News:
Charles Darwin gets 4,000 write-in votes in Athens against Paul Broun — Charles Darwin, the 19th-century naturalist who laid the foundations for evolutionary theory, received nearly 4,000 write-in votes in Athens-Clarke County in balloting for the 10th Congressional District seat retained Tuesday …
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Dead pig left at Republican HQ in Manhattan Beach — animal news, mitt romney, south bay, los angeles news, jovana lara — Jovana Lara — MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (KABC) — A dead pig clad in a Mitt Romney T-shirt was left at a Republican campaign office in Manhattan Beach.
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Obama Ends Tradition Of Post-Reelection Press Conferences — No questions, please. — (Getty) — President Obama delivered a statement today, his first to the White House press corps since winning reelection, calling for a balanced approach to fix the deficit that included cuts and revenue increases.
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Chris Cassidy / Boston Herald:
Awkward first press conference for senator-elect Warren — A jittery U.S. senator-elect Elizabeth Warren gave one-sentence answers, ducked questions and even passed one on to Gov. Deval Patrick in an awkward first press conference since the election. — Warren spoke for a total of less …
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Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge:
Guest Post: The Next Four Years Won't Be As Good As The Last — Submitted by Lance Roberts of Street Talk Live, — The people have spoken and President Obama will serve another four years presiding over the United States. Furthermore, there is very little change to the makeup of the House …
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