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I come to give you this, the rest of the story. "The Pima County Sheriff's Department, which arrested Loughner, released a timeline of his final hours Friday, detailing how he checked into a Motel 6, bought ammo, and a diaper style-backpack at a local Walmart store, after dropping off a roll of...

It's fun watching a real life HAL 9000. YouTube - IBM's Watson supercomputer destroys all humans in Jeopardy

Yes. Sure it's way totally early, but it's still interesting that a pollster shows Barack Obama leading all Republican challengers in key states. And the challengers are people that Americans should know, so perhaps the fact that it's early wont be as much a factor as it would be in other...

They would be Reps. Pete Sessions (R-TX) and Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA). The story is this: Sessions and Fitzpatrick did not take the oath of office on the House floor with the rest of the members (instead they took it in the underground Capitol Visitors Center in front of a television that was...

That is a paraphrase of an actual AP article. PROMISES, PROMISES: GOP drops some out of the gate - Yahoo! News Specifically, AP mentions the promise to cut $100 billion out the federal budget in the first year, and the promise to let any lawmaker - Republican or Democrat - offer amendments to...

Specifically, it's Andy Sullivan, the founder of the 9/11 Hard Hat Pledge (a pledge that construction workers take to not work on the Park51 Islamic center near ground zero) and some supporters of Sullivan. Here's what Sullivan says about Bieber: Justin Bieber, who Sullivan claims gave the...

The National Film Registry is the list of films preserved by the U.S. government at the Library of Congress. Around the end of each year, the Library selects 25 inductees that are culturally or artistically significant to the U.S. The following is this year's list, bringing the total to about...

The exact population of the United States on April 1, 2010, was 308,745,538. Eight states will gain US House seats: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Washington. Ten states will lose US House seats: Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan...

It would be the International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act of 2010. A proposed law that would designate marrying a child a human rights violation and develop strategies to prevent such marriage around the world. Mary Robinson and Desmond Tutu have praised the US because they...

Incoming Majority Leader Cantor is responsible for setting the schedule for the House. The Republicans' transition office examined the time table over the past few months and said they reformed it to enhance efficiency and add certainty. That schedule would rotate a week of recess after every...

Specifically, it's supposedly a series of terrorist attacks that are supposed to occur over the holidays in Europe and North America. Source: Stockholm bombing first in a wave over Christmas: insurgents That's right. Quake with fear from the "Home Alone" burglars whose attacks always...

There debating right now. And a vote on repeal is expected later today. You can view the debate here, if you'd like. C-SPAN Live Stream - C-SPAN

In addition to being envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Obama administration, he was the US diplomat who is primarily responsible for the 1995 Dayton peace accords, which ended the war in Bosnia. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/world/14holbrooke.html

It's call the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. Source: BBC News - Barack Obama signs child nutrition and anti-hunger law

Congress has a busy schedule ahead of them next in week. In addition to a probable repeal of the ban on gays serving openly in the military, the US Senate likely has the votes for the ratification of the New START treaty between the US and Russia. 67 votes are needed, and in addition to the 58...

Congress is going to be voting on a repeal of the ban. Again. It'll probably happen sometime over the next week. The only thing different about it this time is that it is going to pass. In the Senate, the filibuster will be overcome because 57 of the 58 members of the Democratic caucus will...

Believe it or not, liberals/left-wingers in the US such as myself are hoping mad at Barack Obama and looking for someone to challenge him in 2012 from the left. The "compromise" that Obama recently reached with Republican Senators over extending George W. Bush-era tax policy has been a kind of...

PolitiFact is a website that fact checks politicians and pundits. Every year they issue a dishonor called the "Lie of the Year", something said in U.S. politics that is blatantly, and ignorantly, untrue. They are taking votes for this year's Lie, and the finalists are: U.S. Representative...

That is, the person who almost became Second Lady of the United States (wife of the Vice President) in 2004. That is, missing it by 19 Electoral College votes and 1.7% of the popular vote. Elizabeth Edwards dies at 61 - Yahoo! News CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Elizabeth Edwards, who closely advised...

....we don't know yet. Cause the voting is taking longer than expected. But just to refresh people's memories, the contenders are: For 2018: England, Russia, Spain/Portugal, Netherlands/Belgium For 2022: Australia, Qatar, Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. We'll see in a few. Update: Based...