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How the Penn State Scandal Haunted the Pennsylvania Governor’s Race

Tom Corbett, the Republican governor of Pennsylvania, was defeated in his bid for a second term Tuesday, falling to Democratic businessman Tom Wolf, who is not the dapper southern guy who wrote...

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The Supreme Court Might Gut Obamacare. Your State Could Save It.

On Friday, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear King v. Burwell, a case that could gut Obamacare and leave millions of Americans without health insurance. The case hinges on what is...

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“Rectal Feeding,” Threats to Children, and More: 16 Awful Abuses From the CIA...

On Tuesday morning, the Senate intelligence committee released an executive summary of its years-long investigation into the CIA’s detention and interrogation program. President George W. Bush...

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The FBI Just Arrested an Alleged Russian Spy Who Wanted to Know How to...

On Friday, federal prosecutors in New York filed a complaint accusing three men, Evgeny Buryakov, Igor Sporyshev, and Victor Podobnyy, of spying for Russia. Buryakov, who was arrested in the Bronx on...

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Inside Republicans’ Plan to Kill America’s Most Effective Anti-Teen-Pregnancy...

Late in 2007, an employee at the Colorado health department received an unusual request. A private foundation wanted the state to provide long-acting, reversible birth control—intrauterine devices and...

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Republicans Claim Net Neutrality Will Mean Billions in New Taxes. That’s...

“Stop the federal internet takeover!” That’s the warning that Sen. Mike Lee blasted out to readers of conservative email lists last month. “This is essentially a massive tax increase on the middle...

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The Washington Free Beacon Is Unapologetically Conservative. It’s Also Kind...

On July 21, 2013, Sen. Rand Paul reluctantly accepted the resignation of Jack Hunter, a.k.a. the “Southern Avenger.” Hunter had been one of the senator’s closest aides and had coauthored the Kentucky...

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Republicans Blew Their Chance to End Hillary Clinton’s Career 15 Years Ago....

On the evening of September 13, 2000, after his first debate with Hillary Clinton, Rick Lazio was feeling confident. Several polls had shown the Republican congressman ahead of the first lady in the...

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The American Teen Whose Death-by-Drone Obama Won’t Explain

  On Thursday, President Barack Obama appeared in the White House press room to reveal that a US strike in January on an Al Qaeda compound had killed two hostages held by the terrorist group, Giovanni...

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The Feds Say One Schmuck Trading From His Parents’ House Caused a Market...

On Tuesday, the Justice Department and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a key Wall Street regulator, blasted out press releases declaring a great victory in their war on illegal manipulation...

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