Days after she was sworn in as governor, Sarah Palin began to clean house at the department of natural resources, firing and demoting several top officials and eventually appointing a new director at the agency that oversees the energy companies that provide the state with 85% of its revenue.
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When Joe Biden’s brother and son wanted to buy a hedge fund company two years ago, they turned for financing to a law firm that had lobbied the Delaware senator’s office on an important piece of business in Congress – and in fact had recently benefited from his vote.
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Last year, when a union for government workers in Colorado needed help from Gov.
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Facing a large deficit in the Democratic National Convention budget, officials from Barack Obama’s campaign have begun personally soliciting labor unions and others for contributions of up to $1 million.
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The United States and its allies scrambled Sunday to respond to Russia’s attack on Georgia, including asking Moscow whether it intended to overthrow democratically elected President Mikheil Saakashvili.
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Republican Party officials have developed a well-deserved reputation for planning evermore extravagant national conventions, each built on the party’s ability to secure abundant cash.
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Bruce
E. Ivins, the bioweapons scientist who apparently killed himself as the government was preparing to indict him in the 2001 anthrax attacks, had a long history of mental illness that flared just before mail contaminated with the fatal spores was received in New York, Florida, Connecticut and Washington,
D.C.
Newly released government documents show that in the months before the mailings that led to the deaths of five people and made 17 ill, Ivi
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John McCain has been winning over skeptical conservatives by embracing tax cuts while promising a new era of fiscal discipline if he wins the White House.
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washington – James Byrne, second in command at the embattled Office of Special Counsel, resigned his post effective today after leaving his boss, Scott
J. Bloch, a stinging letter suggesting that Bloch’s “political agendas and personal vendettas” were preventing the agency from fulfilling its mission.
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