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Money from Gingrich charity went to his for-profit businesses
A May 2011 audit commissioned by the West Virginia Secretary of State found that a tax-exempt charity founded by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) paid money to several of his for-profit businesses. Experts told ABC News that Gingrich’s Renewing American Leadership charity may have crossed the line by participating…
Debt crisis could trigger economic meltdown: Obama
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Delay in raising the US debt ceiling could reverse the fledgling recovery and trigger a new economic meltdown, US President Barack Obama said in a interview broadcast on Tuesday. “We could actually have a reprise of a financial crisis, if we play this too close to the…
Mitch McConnell calls for Iraqi suspects to be sent to Guantanamo
WASHINGTON — The US Senate’s top Republican, Mitch McConnell, called Tuesday for two Iraqi nationals facing terrorism charges in his home state to be shipped to the controversial Guantanamo Bay detention facility. “Get these men out of Kentucky. Send them to Guantanamo where they belong. Get these terrorists out of…
Obama: ‘There are days where I say one term is enough’
President Barack Obama granted Ann Curry an interview, which aired Tuesday morning on “Today.” In addition to talking about the economy and Rep. Anthony Weiner (“If I were him, I’d resign,” Obama said), the president nodded at the 2012 election machine powering up. Obama’s Chicago-based re-election team has been hard…
Progressive Dems launch anti-unemployment tour: ‘Jobs equal deficit reduction’
WASHINGTON – With the debate on Capitol Hill having shifted from job creation to deficit reduction, the Congressional Progressive Caucus on Tuesday launched a 12-city summer listening tour aimed at refocusing the economic discussion on the unemployment rate. “The Republican majority has not offered one bill, one proposal, one concrete…
Jay Smooth explains the fallacy of professional sports
Sunday night was a big night for television: The Tony Awards were on, as well as the NBA Final, the Miami Heat v. Dallas Mavericks. Those who weren’t watching Neil Patrick Harris jazz hand it up saw the Mavs take their first-ever championship over the heavily favored Heat. The always-controversial…
Bible cited as reason for kicking gay men out of public pool
Activists in Kentucky are planning a peaceful response after two gay men with developmental and intellectual disabilities were kicked out of a public pool. A maintenance technician reportedly cited the Bible while telling the two men they couldn’t swim at The Pavilion, a government-funded recreational facility in Hazard, Kentucky. “We…
Maddow questions whether Mitt Romney has committed ‘voter fraud’
Did former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney commit voter fraud by registering his address as his son’s home in Massachusetts and then casting a ballot? Well, at least one expert thinks he did — but that’s not the only Massachusetts-related problem for Romney. And as it turns out, all his fellow…
Police: Sex offender dies while raping elderly woman
A 53-year-old man died of a suspected heart attack while in the act of raping a 77-year-old woman, police investigators in Tivoli, Texas said this week. Isabel Chavelo Gutierrez, 53 (pictured), smelled of alcohol when he climbed into bed with her and held a pocket knife to the woman’s throat,…
Exclusive: Mishandled VA rape cases deemed ‘shocking’ by lawyers in Pentagon suit
WASHINGTON – The firm investigating a case of 17 raped military veterans suing the Pentagon responded Monday after a report that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs mishandled sexual assault cases. “This shocking report is consistent with the findings of our investigation,” Keith Rohman, president of Public Interest Investigations, the…
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