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Romney aides feared Obama conspiracy to block Solyndra visit
Mitt Romney’s campaign aides said on Thursday that they kept the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s visit to a bankrupt company secret because they worried the White House would conspire with local officials to block the event. CNN’s Jim Acosta explained that the trip was “steeped in secrecy and mystery” until…
Maryland man denied bail after admitting to eating roommate’s brain and heart
Twenty-one-year-old Alexander Kinyua is being held without bail after confessing that he killed his roommate and ate his brain and heart, according to Baltimore’s CBS affiliate, WJZ. Authorities are waiting on the coroner’s report to make positive identification of the body, but believe that the victim is Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie,…
Axelrod to pro-Romney hecklers: ‘You can’t handle the truth!’
Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod took the president’s re-election pitch to his opponent’s home turf in Boston on Thursday, but presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s supporters did their best to drown out his message. During a news conference outside the Massachusetts Statehouse, Axelrod faced relentless booing, heckling and chanting…
WATCH LIVE: President Obama welcomes former President George W. Bush
Thursday afternoon former President George W. Bush will make a rare appearance at the White House again as President Barack Obama unveils presidential portraits of the 43rd president and his wife, Laura Bush. The portrait is meant to honor Bush’s presidency. His daughter, Jenna Bush Hager, told Fox & Friends…
Tony Perkins: Gay tourism ad shows Obama’s ‘radical values and backwards priorities’
Christian think tank leader Tony Perkins is blasting President Barack Obama over an effort to market the U.S. that includes images of LGBT people. During a Thursday radio address, the Family Research Council president pointed to a recently created tourism advertisement that shows two gay men vacationing together. “A new…
Police ‘violently’ arrest 14 protesters at Minnesota foreclosed home
Members of Occupy Minnesota are accusing police of abusing their power by using physical violence to arrest demonstrators peacefully protesting at a foreclosed home in Minneapolis. “In the latest incident in an ongoing showdown, officers violently arrested occupiers peacefully defending the Cruz family home from foreclosure Wednesday night,” according to…
WATCH LIVE: SpaceX returns to the Earth
SpaceX’s Dragon cargo ship has now completed its mission of successfully traveling to the International Space Station, and is scheduled to land Thursday back on the Earth. NASA told the AFP that SpaceX’s return will look “like a burning comet” as it enters the Earth’s atmosphere. The ship’s mission is…
Gay Arizona dads targeted with domestic ‘terrorism’
A gay Hispanic man and his partner in Gilbert, Arizona say that their family, which includes a disabled daughter, has been targeted with a series of hate crimes that amount to “terrorism” — and they worry that the police are not taking their case seriously. “I truthfully believe it’s because…
Maddow: Romney campaign ‘playing along’ with birthers
Wednesday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow examined the role of Donald Trump in the campaign of former Massachusetts governor and Republican nominee for president Mitt Romney. On a day that saw the release of Romney’s embarrassing iPhone app and a badly-written gun policy memo which assured…
Sesame Street composer: U.S. ‘perverted’ my music to torture prisoners
Christopher Cerf, creator of the children’s program The Electric Company and an award-winning composer who produced the theme song to Sesame Street, told a reporter recently that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) “perverted” his music “to serve evil” by using his most famous composition to torture prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.…
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