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‘I am Chelsea’: Read Manning's full statement — Video: “I am Chelsea Manning. I am female,” explains the Army private via a statement read on TODAY Thursday. Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday for leaking classified government documents.
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Bradley Manning: I want to live as a woman — Facebook - Twitter - Reddit - Pinterest - Email — Bradley Manning, the Army private sentenced to military prison for leaking classified documents, revealed he intends to live out the remainder of his life as a woman. — “I am Chelsea Manning.
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He Is Not Bradley Manning. She Is Chelsea Manning. Deal With It. — Bradley Manning, the Army private sentenced Wednesday to 35 years in prison for leaking government files to WikiLeaks, announced Thursday in a statement to NBC's “Today” that he is, as of now, a she:
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After Sentencing, Manning Says, ‘I Am Female’
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Bradley Manning wants to live as a woman, be known as Chelsea
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Bradley Manning's Excessive Sentence
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Chelsea Manning Reveals Herself to the World: ‘I Am a Female’
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Bradley Manning: I want to live as a woman named Chelsea
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‘I am Chelsea Manning,’ says jailed soldier formerly known as Bradley
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Conservatives Finally Announce Alternative To Obamacare: Just Go To The Emergency Room — Heritage president and former South Carolina senator Jim DeMint continued his campaign to convince Republicans to shut down the government in a ploy to defund the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday …
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The Movement to Defund Obamacare, Explained
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Republican Governors: Shhh, Don't Call Our Obamacare Money Obamacare!
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Meetings, rallies over health care law in Tampa
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UPS Won't Insure Spouses Of Some Employees
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University of Virginia cuts some health benefits, citing ObamaCare costs
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San Diego Mayor Bob Filner to Resign — San Diego Mayor Bob Filner has agreed to resign as part of a deal reached this week with city officials, NBC 7 News has learned. — Filner, spotted leaving City Hall with packing boxes Wednesday night, will formally vacate the office following …
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Meet the privileged Obama-supporting white kids who perpetrated cruel Oberlin race hoax — One of the two students removed from Oberlin College earlier this year for allegedly circulating virulently racist, anti-Jewish and anti-gay messages around campus is an ardent leftist and committed supporter …
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The Great Oberlin College Racism Hoax of 2013 — A massive racism hoax took place at Oberlin College in February 2013 in which two students made seemingly racist, anti-Semitic and other such posters, graffiti and emails for the purpose of getting a reaction on campus, not because they believed the hostile messages.
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Speaking in Raleigh, Colin Powell blasts North Carolina voting law — UPDATED: With Gov. Pat McCrory in the audience, former Secretary of State Colin Powell took aim at North Carolina's new voting law Thursday, saying it hurts the Republican Party, punishes minority voters and makes it more difficult for everyone to vote.
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Obama's Plan Aims to Lower Cost of College — President Obama plans to announce a set of ambitious proposals on Thursday aimed at making colleges more accountable and affordable by rating them and ultimately linking those ratings to financial aid. — A draft of the proposal …
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Obama proposes college-rating system that could increase affordability
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Obama Goes Back to School
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GOP poll finds strong opposition to government shutdown — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL CONGRESS OBAMACARE GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE — A new poll done for Republican members of Congress has found huge public opposition, and solid opposition among Republicans, to the idea of shutting down the government over the issue of funding Obamacare.

Nasdaq Market Halts Trading — Large Chunk of U.S. Stock Market Paralyzed by Technical Problem — A trading halt on the Nasdaq Stock Market neared an hour after an unexplained technical issue, paralyzing the market for thousands of securities and raising new questions about the robustness …
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Nasdaq Market Resumes Trading
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Justice Department to File New Lawsuit Against State of Texas Over Voter I.D. Law — The Department of Justice announced today that it will file a new lawsuit against the State of Texas, the Texas Secretary of State, and the Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety …


Sparks fly after Sen. Marble's ‘chicken’ comment in poverty hearing — DENVER — Democratic lawmakers couldn't believe their ears as they listened to Sen. Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins, deliver a long soliloquy explaining that more blacks and Hispanics live in poverty, in part, because of fried chicken.
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Tom Coburn: Obama “Getting Perilously Close” To The Standard For Impeachment — “If it continues, I think we're going to have another constitutional crisis in our country in terms of the presidency.” — View Video › — Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn said Wednesday …
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For ‘the Fun of It’ — The debate we aren't having about a murder in Oklahoma. — Three teenagers were charged Tuesday in the killing of a white college student in Duncan, Oklahoma, and part of the story is what didn't happen. There was no saturation cable TV coverage …
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No, Chris Lane is not Trayvon Martin!
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White House to hold roundtable on bisexual issues — Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon — Send via Email — Send this page to Print Friendly — The White House is set to hold a roundtable on bisexual issues (Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key).
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White House Picks Panel to Review NSA Programs
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Fukushima leak is ‘much worse than we were led to believe’ — Faulty seals on the storage tanks at Fukushima are said to be the source of the most recent leak — A nuclear expert has told the BBC that he believes the current water leaks at Fukushima are much worse than the authorities have stated.
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Republicans weigh using debt limit as leverage on Obamacare — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers, who staunchly oppose President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, are considering using a fall showdown over the country's borrowing limit as leverage to try to delay the law's implementation.
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The great Democrat hope: Government shutdown
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Rasmussen Reports Announces a Change in Management — For Immediate Release — Asbury Park, NJ, August 22, 2013 — The Rasmussen Reports, LLC Board of Directors today confirmed that founder Scott Rasmussen left the company last month. In part, the move reflects disagreements over company business strategies.
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