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Bill Maher blasts media for pushing Clinton scandal stories: 'It's kind of a bullsh*t meme'

Real Time host Bill Maher was skeptical on Friday of recent reports arguing that Bill and Hillary Clinton's charitable foundation was being wrongfully influenced by foreign donations.

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‘Sit your ass down’: Tea Partier hammers Republican who said anti-fed bill was unconstitutional

Nevada state Assemblywoman Michele Fiore was forced to apologize after her outburst toward a fellow Republican on Tuesday when he raised concerns about a bill she introduced, Wonkette reported.

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Dashcam video reveals Florida cop gunned down unarmed black man and lied about it: lawyer

Recently released dashcam footage from a 2013 shooting appears to back up the claim that a Palm Beach County deputy lied about the shooting of an unarmed black man, a lawyer for the victim said this week.

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NC GOPer compares women's bodies to real estate as House passes longest abortion wait in country

North Carolina Republican state Rep. Jacqueline Schaffer successfully urged her colleagues to pass the nation's longest waiting period for abortion on Thursday, arguing that woman should have a cooling off period just like real estate transactions.

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Minnesota House passes minimum wage cut for tipped workers -- including 8,000 women over 30

The Minnesota state House this week passed a bill that would cut the minimum wage for thousands of restaurant workers who receive tips.

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Gay student has screwdriver jabbed in face during '5-round' brawl as principal watches without helping

Atlanta police have charged four students for allegedly participating in a 20-person melee directed at two gay teens.

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Pat Robertson prays for Jesus to cure 'lesbianism' -- even for women who do 'filthy things'

Pat Robertson on Wednesday invited viewers to pray with him so that Jesus could save them from "lesbianism" and the "filthy things" that they had done.

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Fox pundit belittles transgender kids: It's like thinking you are a 'cocker spaniel'

Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce argued this week that a school lesson about tolerance had been wrong because being transgender made as much sense to children as thinking they were a "cocker spaniel."

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Jon Stewart: Santorum may not go to a gay wedding, but 'he'll be there on the wedding night'

Daily Show host Jon Stewart roasted Rick Santorum on Tuesday after the former senator said he would not attend a loved one's same-sex wedding while still claiming he would "love and support" them.

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Dan Savage: Why would Santorum and Huckabee's 'imaginary gay friends' invite them to their wedding?

The real question is not whether Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin or other GOP presidential hopefuls would attend a same-sex wedding, columnist Dan Savage said on Tuesday -- it's how anybody believes they would be invited to one at all.

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Tennessee lawmaker tables abortion bill exceptions because rape and incest are 'not verifiable'

Tennessee state Rep. Sheila Butt (R) on Tuesday moved to table an amendment that would have exempted victims of rape and incest from new restrictions on access to abortion because she said that their claims were "not verifiable."

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Fox host: Solution to terror recruitment is a more 'manly, not feminized version of Christianity'

Fox News guest host Rachel Campos-Duffy, a former cast member of MTV reality show The Real World, argued on Tuesday that terrorism recruitment could be stopped if the Christian religion was more "manly" and less "feminized."

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WATCH: US Marshal goes berserk smashing woman's phone for recording him on public sidewalk

A U.S. Marshal reportedly snapped and violently destroyed a woman's cellphone while she was recording a group of law enforcement officers who were standing on a public sidewalk near Los Angeles.

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