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Visitors test their pit stop skills at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Democrats are holding their political convention in the urban landscape of Charlotte, North Carolina, which is studded with more than $800 million worth of public projects that wouldn’t exist without local Republicans. The Time Warner Cable Arena, the Lynx light-rail...
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Rainbow flags at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.
Michelle Obama, fresh from a convention stage speech about family, life and politics last night that brought some delegates on the floor to tears, spent the morning working to energize key Democratic constituencies, whose support will be critical in the...
Read more »Almost one in four Americans think negatively about Vice President Joe Biden when asked to describe him in one word, a Pew Research Center-Washington Post poll out today shows. The survey found 38 percent offering negative words such as “incompetent,”...
Read more »Venerable television journalist Tom Brokaw admitted to a first today: He told musician will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas that he’s never been on stage with an artist “who’s been heard on Mars.” Brokaw, the retired NBC News anchorman, shared...
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Justin Tuck #91 of the New York Giants reacts after he recorded a sack against the New England Patriots during Super Bowl XLVI at Lucas Oil Stadium on February 5, 2012 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Giants won 21-17.
The Super Bowl champion New York Giants begin their title defense tonight against the Dallas Cowboys in the nationally televised NFL opening game, and members of the New York delegation at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte were reminded of...
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Delegates at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Charlotte.
Rahm Emanuel has always been a fundraising machine, but as a co-chairman of the President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign, he was prevented from raising the kind of big checks that Republican Karl Rove is collecting. So he resigned. Now, the...
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Supporters in Charlotte at the DNC.
President Barack Obama is right to run for re-election with rhetoric against the Congress, according to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. “He should be running against Congress,” Pelosi, a California Democrat, said at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast in Charlotte...
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'March On Wall Street South' demonstrators protest in Charlotte.
American banks have been reluctant to make political waves in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. That may be about to change. In a private conference call with members yesterday, senior officials from the American Bankers Association laid out...
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A supporter holds a magazine as President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event at Canyon Springs High School in North Las Vegas.
Name recognition is everything in politics. Who but President Barack Obama could possibly have greater name recognition in American politics. Bill Clinton? Hillary Clinton? The late Ronald Reagan? Yet the folks at Buzzfeed have picked up on a line of...
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House Minority Leader Sen. Nancy Pelosi on stage with other female members of Congress on day one of the Democratic National Convention on Sept. 4, 2012 in Charlotte
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said today that her party’s move of the president’s renomination acceptance speech indoors tomorrow because of bad-weather predictions won’t take away from the president’s message reaching supporters. “It’s a higher power,” Pelosi told reporters today...
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