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Sen. Mark Kirk discusses his stroke rehabilitation

Sen. Mark Kirk, a moderate Republican representing Illinois, released video on Tuesday that outlines the walking rehabilitation program he is currently undergoing. Kirk was elected in 2010 to the Senate seat previously held by President Barack Obama. In January, the 52-year-old Senator suffered an ischemic stroke and had to receive…

NC’s latest Republican birther candidate says Arpaio is a ‘great American’

A Republican running for U.S. House in North Carolina’s 8th Congressional District is continuing to insist that President Barack Obama is not an American citizen because he has examined the birth certificate of one of his staffers who was born in Hawaii. Speaking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Monday, Dr.…

Hugh Hefner: ‘If we’re not free in our own bedrooms then we’re not free at all’

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner continued his recent castigation of Republicans Monday evening and defended himself from critics who say he has exploited women throughout the years. “I’m on the right side of the sexual revolution too,” Hefner told The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur in an interview. “I know what the world…

Chuck Todd: ‘Gay money has replaced Wall Street money’ for Obama

NBC Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd on Monday predicted that President Barack Obama would announce his support for marriage equality before the November election because LGBT donors had become more important to his campaign than Wall Street donors. The MSNBC host said he believes that it’s no coincidence that…

Colombian prostitute: Secret Service agents were ‘stupid brutes’

In her first television interview with U.S. media, the Colombian prostitute at the center of a scandal with U.S. Secret Service agents says that President Barack Obama’s advance team was more concerned with partying than security. “These seem like completely stupid, idiotic people,” Dania Londono Suarez told NBC’s Michelle Kosinski.…

Virginia man accused of threatening to kill President Obama

A Virginia man was arrested and charged this weekend from planning to assassinate President Barack Obama, according to the Associated Press. Christopher Hecker sent out an email to media outlets on April 19 planning to bomb the White House, Philadelphia City Hall, the former site of the World Trade Center,…

Biden: ‘Men marrying men’ should have equal rights

Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday endorsed equal rights for married gay men and lesbians — and President Barack Obama’s top aide said that the president had “precisely” the same position. “The good news is that as more and more Americans come to understand what this is all about is…

Obama knocks Romney: Corporations are not people

President Barack Obama launched his reelection campaign in Columbus, Ohio on Saturday by rebuking his presumptive Republican opponent’s approach to taxes and the economy. “We’ve come too far to abandon the change we have fought for these past few years” Obama told a crowd of 14,000 supporters. “We have to…

Obama tells Americans not to take chance on Romney

President Barack Obama said Saturday the United States had suffered too much pain to turn the economy over to Republican Mitt Romney, as he fired up his first official reelection rally. “We are not turning back the clock, we are moving forward,” Obama said, seeking to revive the political magic that swept…

TransCanada proposes new oil pipeline through Nebraska

A Canadian firm has reapplied for a US permit to build a multi-billion dollar Canada-US oil pipeline, after its first proposal was rejected over environmental concerns, both sides said Friday. The US State Department said it is “committed to conducting a rigorous, transparent and thorough review” of the northern leg…