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VA Secretary Robert McDonald Falsely Claimed He Served In Special Forces — WASHINGTON — Robert McDonald, the secretary of veterans affairs, wrongly claimed in a videotaped comment earlier this year that he served in special operations forces, the most elite units in the armed forces …
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VA chief falsely claimed special forces service — Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert McDonald falsely claimed that he served in a military special forces unit, he admitted to the Huffington Post. — When a homeless veteran told McDonald in a conversation captured by CBS that he had served …


VA Secretary Robert McDonald Apologizes for Misstating He Served in Special Forces … Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald apologized today for mistakenly saying in a videotaped exchange with a homeless man that he had served in the special forces, though his service was entirely with the 82nd Airborne Division.
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McConnell moves to prevent Homeland Security shutdown — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took steps Monday to prevent a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security by splitting off legislation attacking President Obama's immigration actions from the funding fight.
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Moving forward to fix our broken immigration system — Our immigration system has been broken for decades. Our country deeply values fairness, but our immigration system has become unfair to businesses, workers and families alike. — That's something I've been trying to change as president.


GOP gets bad news on ObamaCare repeal plan — The Senate's chief referee has dealt a significant setback to conservatives who want to send an ObamaCare repeal bill to the president's desk this year. — GOP sources say Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has raised red flags …
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Congress inches closer to cliff — For the fourth time, Democrats block a bill that seeks to reverse Obama's immigration order. — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to discuss the length of a short-term resolution to fund the Department of Homeland Security with GOP senators in a closed-door lunch Tuesday.
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Idaho lawmaker asks if woman can swallow camera for gynecological exam before medical abortion — BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho lawmaker received a brief lesson on female anatomy after asking if a woman can swallow a small camera for doctors to conduct a remote gynecological exam.
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Male Politician Thinks that Your Vagina and Stomach are Connected — Republican State Representative Vito Barbieri from the state of Idaho thinks that a woman's vagina has some sort of direct passageway to her stomach because, I mean, how else does the pee come out?
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Bill O'Reilly and Fox News Redouble Defense of His Falklands Reporting — The Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on Monday stepped up his defense against reports that he embellished stories about his war reporting earlier in his career, while some former colleagues continued to say he had exaggerated his experiences.
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Patricia Arquette's Feminism: Only for White Women — It's easy to laugh at the timid way that celebrities frequently wade into feminism, offering pat statements scripted by a team of public relations experts to be as nonoffensive as possible. But Patricia Arquette's performance …
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Fox News Bashes Patricia Arquette For Advocating Wage Equality: ‘I Was Appalled’
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The Problem With Patricia Arquette's Oscar Speech
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We Don't Have A Wage Gap Problem, But Hollywood And The White House Do
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Leaked cables show Netanyahu's Iran bomb claim contradicted by Mossad — Gulf between Israeli secret service and PM revealed in documents shared with the Guardian along with other secrets including CIA bids to contact Hamas — Binyamin Netanyahu's dramatic declaration to world leaders …
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CIA attempted to contact Hamas despite official US ban, spy cables reveal
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Historic US-Iran nuclear deal could be taking shape
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Mossad contradicted Netanyahu on Iran nuclear programme
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The Media's Embarrassing Scott Walker Spectacle — The farcical game of the one-sided “gotcha” question — On Saturday afternoon, two of the Washington Post's crack political correspondents accosted Governor Scott Walker in the lobby of a JW Marriott hotel and asked him whether he believed that President Obama is “a Christian.”
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Scott Walker Is a Threat to the Existing Social Order
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James O'Keefe: ‘I Am Afraid For My Life On This One’ — Conservative journalist filmmaker James O'Keefe on Saturday tweeted an ominous message to those who follow him and his influential work. — “We have a story we're going to release this coming week and I've never thought …
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Sex assault charges tied to ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ movie — A University of Illinois at Chicago student leader was charged with sexually assaulting a 19-year-old female student in what Cook County prosecutors said Monday was part of a re-enactment of scenes from the film “Fifty Shades of Grey.”
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Glenn Greenwald Thought NPH's Snowden Oscars Joke Was “Stupid And Irresponsible” — The journalist had some strong words for the 87th Academy Awards' host, who said, “Edward Snowden couldn't be [there] for some treason.” — Dirk Wilutzky, Laura Poitras, and Glenn Greenwald …
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Comcast, Al Sharpton Hit With $20 Billion Racial Discrimination Lawsuit — The National Association of African-American Owned Media alleges that Sharpton and other advocates have been bought off. — Al Sharpton — Even though the FCC hasn't yet ruled on the proposed merger between Comcast …