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Actress Ashley Judd and race car driver Dario Franchitti split
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - American actress Ashley Judd and her Scottish race car driver husband Dario Franchitti are ending their marriage after 11 years. The movie star, 44, and the Indianapolis 500 race car driver, 39, married in 2001 and have no...
Tags: Ashley Judd, NASCAR, Auto Racing, Celebrities, Naomi Judd
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Ashley Judd to Run for Senate in 2014?
• Ashley Judd may run for senate in 2014• Politicians in Kentucky see the actress and activist as a solid choice to challenge Senator Mitch McConnell next election cycle • Judd said, "I do receive a lot of encouragement to run...And my...
Tags: Ashley Judd, Scott P. Brown, Elections, Mitch McConnell, Democratic Party
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Transportation nominee gets warm reception from senators, steers clear of controversy
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's nominee for transportation secretary — Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx — received a friendly reception from senators of both parties Wednesday laced with warnings that the nation needs to make a...Tags: Republican Party, Roy Blunt, Tea Party Movement, Anthony Foxx, U.S. Senate
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Los Angeles mayor-elect vows to put recession in rear-view mirror
ReutersLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles Councilman Eric Garcetti declared victory Wednesday in his bid to become the next mayor and vowed to put the city's economic slump "in the rear-view mirror," capping a race shaped by dire fiscal forecasts and...Tags: Government Debt, Lawyers, Justice System, Judaism, Labor Legislation
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Figaro Project gives admirable premiere of 'Camelot Requiem'
Since "Nixon in China," the 1987 masterwork by John Adams that launched what some wag described as a new genre labeled "CNN Opera," contemporary events have been fairer game than ever for composers and librettists. The list of newsy operas, which...
Tags: Music, Human Interest, Harvey Milk, John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), Entertainment
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Greuel cites high-profile role as an executive at DreamWorks SKG
Wendy Greuel's resume is dotted with the political accomplishments of a politician on the rise. But there was an unconventional detour: her stint as an executive at DreamWorks SKG, working alongside Hollywood titans Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg...
Tags: DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, U.S. Supreme Court, Steven Spielberg, The Amistad, Entertainment
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Editorial: Obama and overreach
•Multiple White House claims about Washington's handling of the murderous raid in Benghazi stand exposed as false. •Internal Revenue Service officials admit a worse-by-the-day scandal that appalls fair-minded Americans. •The U.S....
Tags: Benghazi, Lawyers, Justice System, Taxation, Government
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Editorial: Make uncovering Benghazi truth a bipartisan mission
"A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al-Qaida is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead." —President Barack Obama to the Democratic National Convention, Sept. 6, 2012. Five nights after that speech, scores of attackers...
Tags: Republican Party, Benghazi, Univision (tv network), U.S. Senate, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Isaiah 'Ike' Dixon, state delegate from Baltimore
Isaiah Dixon Jr., a jazz fan, world traveler and four-term state delegate from Baltimore City whose accomplishments included introducing a bill that made cross burnings a felony in Maryland, died of heart failure April 26 at Stella Maris Hospice in...
Tags: Local Elections, Howard University, Martin Luther King Jr., Music, U.S. Army
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L.A. mayor's race: The world isn't watching either
This Los Angeles mayoral election isn’t exactly setting the city's electorate on fire. Nor the world, for that matter. It’s so low key that I was surprised to see a very focused piece in the Guardian, Britain’s liberal national...
Tags: Local Elections, Chicago Elections, Mexico City, Occupy Los Angeles, Politics
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Reelected Democratic Party leader was asked to leave '12 convention
A Democrat elected Sunday to a leadership post in the California Democratic Party was asked last summer to leave the Democratic National Convention, where he was a delegate, after falsely claiming that he was a member of Congress and being threatened with...Tags: Elections, Government, U.S. Congress, Charlotte, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Fluke greets California Democratic activists
SACRAMENTO — Sandra Fluke, the law school graduate who became famous after Rush Limbaugh called her a "slut" for demanding that health insurers be required to pay for contraception, made the rounds at the California Democratic Party on Saturday....
Tags: Career and Workplace, Rush Limbaugh, Barack Obama, Labor Legislation
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