Prosecutors said on Monday that Pfc. Bradley Manning put US military secrets into the hands of Osama Bin Laden himself, as the Army intelligence analyst went on trial over leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents.
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HPV baby! “Yeah, it’s a sexually transmitted disease that causes cancer.” Michael Douglas says. “And if you have it, cunnilingus is also the best cure for it.”
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When the Barack H. Obama Foundation sought tax-exempt status to raise money for good works in Kenya, the Internal Revenue Service provided quick help. The IRS approved charitable status for the foundation, which was run by President Obama’s brother and named after his father, in about a month’s time. The IRS also agreed to give the group this important financial status retroactively, back to 2009, when it had begun its fundraising.
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The progressive-leaning investigative journalism group ProPublica says the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office that targeted and harassed conservative tax-exempt groups during the 2012 election cycle gave the progressive group nine confidential applications of conservative groups whose tax-exempt status was pending.
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What do you buy a multi-millionaire who also happens to be the leader of the free world? Angela Merkel gave him a set of golf putters – and presented his wife with six bottles of wine.
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The Obama administration named Holly Petraeus–wife of retired Gen. David Patraeus, who resigned last week as CIA director after revealing he had had an extramarital affair–to a 7,605-per-yer job in the newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
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The Dutch bureau for genealogy has handed personal and privacy-sensitive information relating to millions of Dutch citizens to the Mormon church in Salt Lake City, Trouw reports on Wednesday.
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Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said Wednesday during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice and White House press secretary Jay Carney “gave demonstrably false statements” about what prompted the Benghazi attack.
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Bob Diamond was rounded on by his former right-hand-man and three top City regulators today as he was accused of giving the direct instruction to lower the Libor rates at the heart of the rigging scandal.
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A report just released by the US Government Accountability Office explains how the Federal Reserve divvied up more than trillion in low-interest loans after the fiscal crisis of 2008, and the news shouldn’t be all that surprising.
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