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Supreme Court blocks Wisconsin's voter ID law — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday night blocked Wisconsin from implementing its new voter identification law on the eve of next month's elections. — In a related action, a district court judge in Texas ruled that state's voter ID law …
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Courts Strike Down Voter ID Laws in Wisconsin and Texas — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday evening stopped officials in Wisconsin from requiring voters there to provide photo identification before casting their ballots in the coming election. — Three of the court's …
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U.S. Supreme Court blocks Wisconsin voter ID law — By Patrick Marley, Daniel Bice and Bill Glauber of the Journal Sentinel — Madison — A divided U.S. Supreme Court blocked Wisconsin's voter ID law late Thursday, issuing a terse yet dramatic one-page ruling less than four weeks before the Nov. 4 election.
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Federal Court Blocks Texas Voter ID Law, Calling It A ‘Poll Tax’
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WATCH: This Is What Happens When You Joke About Having Ebola On An Airplane — Officials weren't laughing Wednesday when a man on a U.S. Airways flight bound for the Dominican Republic allegedly joked that he had Ebola. — The airline said in a statement that the flight from Philadelphia …
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Forget bombs: Joke about Ebola on flight to the Dominican Republic causes havoc
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Oregon First Lady: My sham marriage — Oregon Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber's fiancée, Cylvia Hayes, admitted on Thursday to entering into an illegal marriage in 1997, calling it a “serious mistake.” — “It was wrong then and it is wrong now and I am here today to accept the consequences, some of which will be life changing.
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Oregon First Lady Cylvia Hayes' Undisclosed Third Marriage Was to 18-Year-Old Immigrant
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Phyllis Schlafly: Obama Intentionally Bringing In Ebola To Make America More Like Africa — In an interview with WorldNetDaily published today, Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly weighed in on the unfounded theory gaining traction in the right-wing media that Central American young people …
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MYSTERY VIRUS FOUND WHERE ILLEGAL-ALIEN KIDS SENT
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Failure Upon Failure — The disintegration of the Obama presidency — A year before his first inauguration, Barack Obama laid out the objective of his presidency: to renew faith and trust in -activist government and transform the country. In an hourlong interview with the editorial board …
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Democrats' plight in Senate races revealed — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL 2014 ELECTIONS APPROVAL RATINGS — At the Washington Post's The Fix blog, Chris Cillizza has a good post with three charts showing how Democrats are in trouble in the 2014 Senate contests.
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READ: Anchorage Police Release Report For Palin Family Brawl — Police in Anchorage, Alaska announced on Thursday there are no plans to press charges over the brawl that reportedly involved several members of former GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's family.
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The ominous math of the Ebola epidemic — When the experts describe the Ebola disaster, they do so with numbers. The statistics include not just the obvious ones, such as caseloads, deaths and the rate of infection, but also the ones that describe the speed of the global response.
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CDC Director: We Have To Work Now So Ebola 'Is Not The World's Next AIDS'
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HHS secretary: There may be other cases of Ebola in the U.S.
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Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi Are Awarded Nobel Peace Prize — Ravi Raveendran/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images — Reaching across gulfs of age, gender, faith, nationality and even international celebrity, the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday awarded the 2014 peace prize …
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Obama Weighs Options to Close Guantanamo — Any Move to Override Congressional Ban on Bringing Detainees to U.S. Would Spark Fight — The White House is drafting options that would allow President Barack Obama to close the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by overriding …
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to Women: Don't Ask For A Raise, Trust Karma — Proffering career advice more analogous to The Secret than Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In: Women Work, and the Will to Lead, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told women in the tech industry that asking for what you're worth isn't the best way to get ahead.
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NYPD Breaks Reporter's Camera for Interviewing Students — NY1 recently filmed a segment about police officers hustling black and Latino students out of the predominantly-white neighborhoods where they attend school. In a thing that should no longer surprise you, they ran into trouble …
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