Updated at 1:25 pm EST What’s in a title? For Jill Kelley, the Tampa socialite who embraced the world of the top brass at U.S. Central Command, it’s not only a license plate. It’s also “inviolability.” Kelley, whose e-mails complaining...
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A U.S. military transportation vehicle sits tied to a rail car at the Port of Beaumont upon return from deployment overseas.
Washington Daybook: Clown Questions
The Army plans to slash costs 88 percent to $1.3 million for 400 people to attend this year’s annual professional development conference and exhibition in Washington, which starts today. That figure is more than the $823,000 the General Services Administration spent...
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Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama arrive to participate in a presidential debate at the University of Denver in Colorado on Oct. 3, 2012.
Commission Announces Oct. 22 Presidential Debate Topics
The day after the only vice presidential debate this year, the Commission on Presidential Debates has announced the topics for the third session between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney on Oct. 22 in Boca Raton, Florida. CBS...
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`Bump in the Road:’ Republicans Repeating Obama’s Words for Him
The Republican National Committee’s new ad opens with chaos in the streets of Libya, gunfire and headlines about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador, Chris Stevens. ”I said even at the time, this...
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Joe Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski host the 'Morning Joe' show.
Scarborough to Romney: Comfort? — `Go Back to Boston’
Joe Scarborough: former Republican congressman from Florida, co-host of the most popular morning cable news show, “Morning Joe.” And for months now: one of the most vocal critics of his party’s candidates for president. Today, on MSNBC, Scarborough was on...
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An armed man waves his rifle as buildings and cars are engulfed in flames after being set on fire inside the U.S. consulate compound in Benghazi late on September 11, 2012.
Obama-Romney: World Closing In
Ominous thunderclouds hung over Jacksonville, Florida, this morning as Republican Mitt Romney’s campaign motorcade rolled southward along Interstate-95. Not a full-length presidential motorcade, but close enough, with all the trappings — motorcycle escorts leading the way and an ambulance trailing the...
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Mitt Romney and his wife Ann with former Polish President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa during a meeting at Artus Court, in Gdansk.
Romney ‘Fumbled Foreign Policy,’ Obama Campaign says of Rival’s Trip
Updated at 5:45 pm EDT Republican Mitt Romney pledged not to criticize President Barack Obama while traveling abroad — but the Obama White House made no such pledge back home. (Then again, Romney managed to work some criticism in along...
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Police patrol Terminal 4 as Olympic athletes arrive at Heathrow Airport on July 16, 2012 in London.
London vs. Salt Lake City Games – Romney’s Were `Middle of Nowhere’
Mitt Romney ran Olympic games. So when the Republican candidate for president of the U.S. on tour of London for the opening of the summer games there suggests that local security preparations are “disconcerting,” well, let the games begin: David...
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