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Winning Our Future, the pro-Newt Gingrich super PAC, has more cash on hand left over from the primary than any other zombie super PAC, but it still hasn't decided what it will spend it on, according to a spokesman.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Standing before members of the Latino Coalition in a ballroom at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Mitt Romney prepared to deliver what his campaign had billed as a major education address. But before he got to that, he had to run through a few of the other pressing issues of the day.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - At a Latino Coalition luncheon Wednesday, Mitt Romney attacked President Obama for failing to address the nation's "education crisis" - and said his failure is impacting minorities the most. "Here we are in the most prosperous nation, but millions of kids are getting a third-world education," he said.
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Romney Launches New Ad Buy In Four Swing States: Ad buy slightly larger than $1.3 million one announced last week to air in North Caro...
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Frances Jackson is running for City Council in Huntington, WV. But her Photoshopped election profile photo is running for Supreme Chancellor of Making Me Never Sleep Again.
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The year: 2006. You, a college student, lose your mobile phone or otherwise render it unusable in some sort of Natty Light-related incident. Gone are all the contacts you've acquired in school since your first days as a freshman. (This was obviously in the days before iCloud or Google Contacts would save you.)
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Lolo Jones, a 29-year-old U.S. Olympic hurdler, recently tweeted that she's a virgin, and is waiting to find the right guy for marriage. On Twitter she's funny, smart, loves junk food, watches bad reality shows, and is totally self-effacing about her single status.
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After "Uncommitted" takes 40 percent of the vote in the Kentucky Democratic primary against President Barack Obama last night, the RNC produces buttons for the protest votes.
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When news broke of Priscilla Chan's marriage to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, you could hear a collective sigh from every Chinese-American girl in America, myself included. Not necessarily because we were envious of the bride, but in anticipation of the inevitable phone call from our mothers, asking if we heard of "this Priscilla Chan girl" and if so, why couldn't we be more like her?
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In A Key State, Obama Is Losing: The only good news for Obama out of Florida today is that more people want him out of the White House...
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The basic promise of the smartphone is this: It's a phone, so it can call people; it's a cell phone, so it can send them texts; it's got a data connection, so it can send and receive pretty much anything you can transfer over the internet; it's got a camera, so you can chat via video, too.
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"Stories from the Obama economy." After Obama says the election will be about Bain Capital's record, Romney's campaign points to the people still struggling to get by and say it's about them.
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Winning Our Future, the pro-Newt Gingrich super PAC, has more cash on hand left over from the primary than any other zombie super PAC, but it still hasn't decided what it will spend it on, according to a spokesman.
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See if this sounds familiar: You see an interesting link on your friend's Facebook wall, but when you click through, a pop-up window asks you to install something before you can go any further.
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"I am that strong advocate," Obama says. "We've seen a profound cultural shift just in the past decade, partly because folks are family now," he says, explaining his shift to supporting same sex marriage.
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"Because we don't want to be predictable." That's the official reason the new iPad was simply called "the new iPad" by Apple yesterday, and not the iPad 3 or (gag) the iPad HD. Thing is, Apple's actually very predictable. Not because Apple products are boring or bad or bland--they're fantastic--but because Apple is a company with deeply ingrained patterns.
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I know what you're probably thinking: There's a Hip Hop Squares?!?!?! The answer is yes, it premiered last night, and it featured Childish Gambino (aka Donald Glover) in the bottom left squ...
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Rep. Brad Sherman sent Jewish voters a picture of his family including his mother, while other voters got the same picture, minus mom. Today, he claimed it was a clever scheme aimed at forcing the press to print pictures of his family. He doesn't seem to be joking.
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New French president Francois Hollande and his partner Valerie Trierweiler show that French political families have more privacy than American ones - and more crepes.
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The Ultimate Collection Of Hot Shirtless Navy Guys Climbing A Monument Covered In Lard: This is my gift to straight women, gay men, an...
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Being a beauty editor has its benefits: the complimentary spa treatments, the free press trips, the designer handbags as "thank you for your support" gifts around Christmas. But our perk-filled existence is also filled with ghastly mishaps. When your entire life revolves around testing out the latest anti-cellulite cream, zit zapper and hair removal treatments, the results are not always what's promised.
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Day in and day out, Hillary Clinton is winning the Internet.The former First Lady and Senator and current Secretary of State has undergone a dramatic public transformation over the past year, one driven in part by her strong handling of a generally popular job, and in part by an unpredictable factor: The Internet has finally fallen in love with her.Howard Dean was the hero of the rowdy, anti-war blogs in 2004.
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Artur Davis, the former Democratic congressman from Alabama, is considering running for a House seat in Virginia as a Republican, according to sources who know Davis. Davis is toying with the idea of running for Democrat Gerry Connolly's seat in Virginia's 11th district in 2014 or for a seat in the Virginia legislature in 2013 or 2015, sources say.
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It's a promise that has fallen well short of the President's goal as a candidate for the White House in 2008. The budget of the National Cancer Institute was $4.8 billion the year before Obama took the office. Now the budget sits at $5.8 billion, an increase, but not of the scale Obama promised in 2008.
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Jay Leno showed us that whether you are a Democrat or Republican, "Call Me Maybe" makes you put all your differences aside and just dance.
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Democratic Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick appeared on CNN and defended the Boston-based company Mitt Romney led, saying it wasn't "a bad company." Patrick added "I respect what Bain does and its role in the free market system," he said.
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The campaign of Scott Walker's challenger Tom Barrett spent $580,910 last week in television ad buys, compared with $219,764 from the week before, according to ad buy numbers from a Democratic source in Wisconsin. Cable spending expereinced the biggest bump, from $13,829 to $116,340.
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In a press conference Monday, President Obama made it clear that he had not intention of ordering a ceasefire on his campaign's attacks on Mitt Romney's business record. "This is not a distraction," he insisted. "This is what this campaign is going to be about." It's easy to see why he'd want it that way.
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But he says he's still "Middle Class Joe." "I'm the kid from Scranton who just climbed out of a coal mine with a lunch bucket in his hand," he adds.
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Hirotoshi Itoh uses rocks obtained in a river bank close to his house to make sculptures with an incredible sense of humor and structure.
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Rep. Adam Smith from Washington championed the defense bill amendment that will "strike the current ban on domestic dissemination" of propaganda in an interview with Salon's Glenn Greenwald earlier today. Repealing the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 is "not about trying to influence domestic audiences," Smith emphaized.
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Romney has come under fire this week from Democrats for his role leading the private equity firm Bain Capital. Romney, though, is proud of his work, as he said while running for governor: "I wish I could bat 1000, I can't, but I'm basically in the investors hall of fame."
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As Senator Barack Obama rose toward power in 2007 and 2008, he was sometimes taken as the avatar of a new generation of African-American leaders. They were, PBS's Gwen Ifill wrote, a "Joshua Generation" led by figures from Alabama Rep. Artur Davis to Newark Mayor Cory Booker.
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As Republicans gloat about Cory Booker's support for Bain, Priorities USA responds in kind. New ad shows Republicans attacking Romney's "vulture capitalism."
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President Barack Obama took over the country in 2008, but he never took full control of the Democratic Party - a state of affairs that became painfully clear this week as the White House struggled to distinguish friends from enemies.
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One of Mitt Romney's top surrogates said on a press conference call Tuesday morning that the candidate's much-maligned business record at Bain Capital is "fair game" in the campaign - but accused Obama of misrepresenting it. "I think the Bain record as a whole is fair game," said former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu.
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Sometimes Ernest Hemingway stops by the BuzzFeed offices and demands that we let him weigh in on something, and we acquiesce because we don't want to get punched. This is one of those times.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And dammit LeBron you've brought this on yourself.
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Democratic Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick appeared on CNN and defended the Boston-based company Mitt Romney led, saying it wasn't "a bad company." Patrick added "I respect what Bain does and its role in the free market system," he said.
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Selina Kyle (aka Catwoman) and Bane get their own one-sheets as The Dark Knight Rises ramps up promotion ahead of its July 20th release.
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Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney campaigned heavily against earmarks in the Republican primary. But in this clip from a 2002 gubernatorial debate Romney argues that as Governor he'll "get more money from the federal government" like the "record amount for security and transportation" he got for the 2002 Olympics.
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Sometimes Ernest Hemingway stops by the BuzzFeed offices and demands that we let him weigh in on something, and we acquiesce because we don't want to get punched. This is one of those times.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And dammit LeBron you've brought this on yourself.
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When the baby-making urge kicks in, lots of people turn to online dating in an effort to date and eventually mate. And that's great. I say, go for what you want! Make that baby! But selecting someone to make a baby with is slightly more complicated than perusing a few profiles, slipping it in and squeezing it out (at least ones hopes).
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S.C. AFL-CIO president Donna Dewitt swings at a piñata with Gov. Nikki Haley's face taped on it. "Wait till her face comes around and whack her," a supporter yells.
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"Stop Obama's nauseating attacks," say the signs outside of Vice President Joe Biden's event in Keene, NH. Small protest organized by the Romney campaign and the local Republican ...
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In 2008 candidate Obama promised to annually raise the minimum wage. But the federal minimum wage, controlled by Congress, today remains at $7.25 an hour, the same rate it has been since January of 2009 when the last round of wage increases signed into law by George Bush went into effect.
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The NBA's most recognizable sideline reporter loves nothing more than to burn your eyes with his suits. Here are some of his worst offenders.
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"Down To The Track" At my age and at my weight, you don't leave the house unless you have a goddamn good reason for it, but the Belmont Stakes is as good a goddamn reason as any I can think of, especially when Stage Door Johnny's being jockeyed by a once-in-a-generation grass-course rider like Heliodoro Gustines.
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Ashley Steele says she was the designated driver on April 29, 2010, when San Diego Police Officer Anthony Arevalos pulled her over. She says she passed both a Breathalyzer and field sobriety test, but that Arevalos decided to search her for "contraband," touching her breasts and buttocks and placing his hand "on top of her vagina."
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A new ad from the pro-Obama superPAC Priorities USA features the testimonial of a former Ampad employee who lost her job as a result of the acquisition of Ampad by Bain.
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Before you see them in movies and video games, the most interesting new 3D, physics, and video effects get shown to pros at SIGGRAPH. Here's the amazing stuff they'll see this year.
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Kirsten Wiig's emotional goodbye ranks among the best send offs of Saturday Night Live 's most popular cast members including Amy Poehler and Will Ferrell.
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French street style photographer Garance Doré is in Cannes covering the film festival. When Doré goes to fashion shows, she typically gets some of the best access of anyone there. But apparently Cannes is a bit of an equalizer. She writes on her blog in an impactful post titled "Cannes...
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Now that flannel and crop tops have officially hit their saturation point, it feels like maybe '90s nostalgia has run its course. Here are a few trends that got left behind and are actually loo...
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Sure, Garfield comics aren't everyone's idea of funny, but there's a weird world of extreme Garfield haters on Twitter. This isn't just a little negative feedback, this is pure vitriol at a fictitious cat.
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Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney campaigned heavily against earmarks in the Republican primary. But in this clip from a 2002 gubernatorial debate Romney argues that as Governor he'll "get more money from the federal government" like the "record amount for security and transportation" he got for the 2002 Olympics.
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On Saturday night, a white Chicago police van tried to drive through a crowd of protesters, marching west on Jackson Boulevard. The protesters swarmed the van, banging on its side. The van accelerated. The protestors slashed its tires. The van didn't stop.
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Obama: Bain "Is Not A Distraction, This Is What This Campaign Is Gonna Be About": At the NATO Summit in Chicago, Obama is pressed on C...
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Mitt Romney wants his top donors to Tweet and use Facebook on his behalf - not-to-mention convince their kids to vote for him. According to pool reporter, Yahoo News' Holly Bailey, Romney said he "needs young people to come on board" and suggested those in the audience talk to their kids on his behalf.
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The Senate Armed Services Committee is expected to mark up the defense authorization bill tomorrow morning, making crucial decisions on an amendment that seeks to "strike the current ban on domestic dissemination" of propaganda.
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Weddings as high profile as Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's don't happen very often; recent nuptials that belong in a similar stratosphere include Kate Middleton's and Chelsea Clinton's. All three of those involved public figures who aren't in the entertainment business and closely guard their privacy when it comes to their romantic relationships.
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Noted Mormon-mocker and Obama donor Bill Maher Tweeted this Monday afternoon: It's not the first time Maher - the liberal comedian who donated one million dollars to President Obama's re-election effort - has attacked Mitt Romney for his religion.
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Sure, Garfield comics aren't everyone's idea of funny, but there's a weird world of extreme Garfield haters on Twitter. This isn't just a little negative feedback, this is pure vitriol at a fictitious cat.