It’s one thing when the Associated Press gets hacked. But The Onion? The online purveyor of parody, like the esteemed global news service and other serious outlets, had its Twitter account hijacked by the Syrian Electronic...
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The Onion
Onion Twitter Password Changed To OnionMan77 — ‘That Ought To Do It'
Onion-Hacking: ‘Just the Beginning’
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Farmworker Deal: Harvest of Pride?
Anyone remember “Harvest of Shame?” Edward R. Murrow? This was no Anderson Cooper 360. This was an awakening for Americans who knew little of their own nation’s practices. This was about how “the humans who feed the best-fed people in...
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Stickers in English and Spanish are available for voters at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library on November 6, 2012 in Washington, DC.
Obama: ‘Sí, se Puede’ Communicate
President Barack Obama has taken at least one good page from George W. Bush’s book. He knows how to go around the Washington media. Obama, however, has taken it a step further. He knows how to go around the English-speaking...
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An Israeli Arab school girl walks by an ice statue of President Barack Obama at the 'Ice Festival' showroom on March 19, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel.
Obama’s 38th Nation to Bush’s 43 — Plus Iran in Mind
Following the last of the Washington receptions for the Irish prime minister at the White House this evening, the post-St. Patrick’s Day tour of the Taoiseach, President Barack Obama will leave for his own tour of the Middle East. Mark...
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President Barack Obama sat with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for an interview for CBS’s "60 Minutes” program.
Obama-Clinton: No Tea, Only Water
Considering how hard Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama fought for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 2008, their avowed close friendship today, after four years of Clinton’s service to the Obama administration, is remarkable enough that it raises the question:...
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks during an event at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in Philadelphia.
Sotomayor on Affirmative Action: `How the Door Got Opened’
Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, acknowledges the role that affirmative action played in her education — an admittance to Princeton that paved the way for a child of Puerto Rican immigrants in the Bronx....
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Jeffrey "Jeff" Immelt, chairman and chief executive officer of General Electric Co. (GE), speaks during a keynote address at the Minds + Machines 2012: Unleashing the Industrial Internet conference in San Francisco, California, on Nov. 29, 2012.
Immelt to Boehner: Tax Me
Stipulate that Jeff Immelt, CEO of General Electric, chairs the White House’s council on jobs and competitiveness. Then hear what the chief executive had to say this morning about the budget talks in Washington. “Everybody knows we need revenue,” Immelt...
Read more »Geithner: Republicans Will Tax the Wealthiest — Politics are `Difficult’
Updated at 10:30 am EST Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, making the full rounds of the Sunday morning news talk shows, says Republicans will have to support higher tax rates for the wealthiest Americans in an agreement averting the so-called “fiscal...
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President Barack Obama takes the stage at a campaign event where he and Vice President Joe Biden spoke, at Triangle Park in Dayton, Ohio, on Oct. 23, 2012.
Obama’s Ohio Advantage Holds, Florida, Virginia Virtual Ties w/ Romney
President Barack Obama holds a narrow advantage over Republican Mitt Romney in Ohio, the hardest-fought state of the 2012 presidential election, according to a poll commissioned by CBS News and the New York Times. The president and Romney are statistically...
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President Barack Obama during the second presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, on Oct. 16, 2012.
Obama Won Debate: Poll and Points
The president won one. Following the second televised debate of President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, 46 percent of the voters viewing it told CNN’s pollsters tonight that Obama won the debate, and 39 percent said Romney won it....
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