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Top immigration aide steps down amid sexual harassment allegations
The chief of staff for the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) department has resigned amid accusations of intimidating and sexually harassing male employees. According to the Associated Press, Suzanne Barr, a longtime aide to Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano, is leaving her post “with great regret,” saying in a letter…
India lower house passes sexual harassment bill
India’s parliament, which has been deadlocked for days due toopposition protests, on Monday used a brief break in the uproar to pass legislation protecting women from sexual harassment at work. The lower house passed the bill before business was again abandoned for the day as lawmakers from the main oppositionBharatiya Janata Party (BJP)…
Tea Party Nation founder blasts Cain after Libya gaffe
Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips said Herman Cain should drop out of the presidential race after the candidate appeared to have an extremely difficult time answering a simple question about Libya. “I was wrong about Herman Cain,” he wrote on Monday. “I said originally that Cain could stay on…
Republican candidates vow to stop Iran nuclear bomb
SPARTANBURG, South Carolina (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidates said on Saturday they would stop Iran from developing an atomic bomb but differed over how to do it in a debate that tested their knowledge of world hotspots. The U.S. economy has been the No. 1 issue for the 2012 election…
Gaining Gingrich is Romney’s new challenge
GREENVILLE, South Carolina (Reuters) – Republican front-runner Mitt Romney has a new challenge to contend with as presidential candidates brace for another debate on Saturday — the rise of Newt Gingrich. The former speaker of the House of Representatives is gaining in the polls and may represent conservatives’ last best…
Maddow uses improv to explain Herman Cain’s sexual harassment defense
In a segment Thursday night, MSNBC’s liberal host Rachel Maddow used a bit of improv to analogize the defense being employed by Republican presidential candidate Hermcan Cain, whose history of grappling with sexual harassment allegations has become a national story in recent weeks. Explaining that he’s basically a driver who…
Poll finds Cain leading GOP; Romney, Gingrich tied for second
A survey published Friday by CBS News found that among Republican presidential candidates, former businessman Herman Cain has become the clear frontrunner, with former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich tied, nipping at Cain’s heels. Despite Cain’s emergence as the party’s top choice at the moment,…
Herman Cain caught joking about Anita Hill
Herman Cain has said that he takes sexual harassment allegations “seriously” — but he wasn’t so serious when he was caught on tape Thursday yucking it up over alleged harassment victim Anita Hill. Fox News was the first to air video of Cain getting a big belly laugh as a…
At GOP debate, Herman Cain says Nancy Pelosi is ‘Princess Nancy’
There is at least one woman that Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain doesn’t have much respect for. At Wednesday night’s CNBC debate, Cain referred to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as “Princess Nancy.” The candidate complained that the legislation to replace President Barack Obama’s health care reform law had…
Herman Cain blames ‘Democrat machine’ for sexual harassment allegations
During a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain denied all allegations of sexual harassment leveled against him. “I have never acted inappropriately with anyone, period,” he insisted. “The charges and the accusations I absolutely reject. They simply didn’t happen. They simply did not happen.” Cain also…
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