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will.i.am performs at the American Giving Awards in Los Angeles.
Burt Bacharach and will.I.am of the Black Eyed Peas both make music, though that’s about the only thing they have in common. Until now. Both men are among the donors to the joint fundraising committee supporting President Barack Obama’s re-election...
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Cooling off with a sprinkler on the National Mall in front of the Washington Monument.
On the first full day of summer, temperatures in Washington are forecast to top 100 degrees today, and as President Harry S. Truman used to day, if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. The U.S. Supreme...
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Two men with their marriage license after their wedding ceremony at the Manhattan City Clerk's office in New York.
Money poured into President Barack Obama’s campaign coffers as he announced his support for gay marriage, making May 9 one of the top fundraising days of his re-election effort. New Federal Election Commission reports show his campaign collected $1.8 million, more...
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Rep. Alan Grayson
Former U.S. Representative Alan Grayson of Florida, trying to return to Congress, has taken a page from the old National Lampoon magazine — as well as piggybacked on the saga of Seamus, the Irish setter that is a bane of...
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Sister Simone Campbell, right, executive director of Network, with Sister Lorraine Schmaltz, of Ames, Iowa, during a stop on the first day of a nine-state Nuns on the Bus tour on June 18, 2012.
A group of Roman Catholic nuns is on a bus tour of nine states to highlight their opposition to House Republican Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget plan that cuts programs benefiting the poor including Medicaid and food stamps. The...
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A Mitt Romney supporter during a campaign event at Scamman Farm on June 15, 2012 in Stratham, New Hampshire.
Two contributions for $333,333 and one for $333,334. All dated May 22. From three companies listing the same Dayton, Ohio, post-office box. That’ll catch the eye. Together, the checks amounted to the largest contribution last month to Restore Our Future,...
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A TD Ameritrade office in New York.
Ending Spending Action Fund, a super-PAC active in elections in Nebraska and Wisconsin, could well be called the Joe Ricketts Action Fund. That’s because Ricketts, the billionaire founder of what is now TD Ameritrade, was the sole named donor to...
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House Republicans dropped plans to block a government regulation forcing television stations to publish online the details of political-advertising purchases. The House Appropriations Committee today agreed to delete provisions targeting the rule from a spending bill that would provide $323...
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Beer Drinkers Reach for Cans
Beer Drinkers Reach for Cans
For a nice cold brew to go with their nice cold economy, more Americans are switching to cans. Bloomberg’s Ilan Kolet’s chart of the day shows a correlation between a choppy economy and an increase in sales of beer in...
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A McDonald's restaurant in New York.
Barack Obama has lost another supporter from private equity. Paul Levy, a managing director at JLL Partners, voted for Obama in 2008 but now says that if the president were a company, he would not invest in it. Levy told...
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