Six months after Sandy, the shores of New Jersey and New York are still climbing out of the rubble of a super-storm’s wrath. Billions of dollars in federal aid which took three months to secure from a resistant House are...
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie talks during a town hall meeting at Raritan Valley Community College, on April 11, 2013, in Branchburg, N.J.
Christie and Ginjer: 67% and Smiling
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Former President George W. Bush and Alan Lowe, director of the George W. Bush Presidential Center arrive for a signing ceremony for the joint use agreement between the National Archive and the George W. Bush Presidential Center on the campus of Southern Methodist University on April 24, 2013 in Dallas, Texas.
George W. Bush Unplugged
George W. Bush hasn’t done much talking since leaving the White House. Tomorrow, with the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Texas, the former governor of the Lone Star state and two-term president is uncapping. Charlie Rose...
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Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford speaks with reporters at Hay Tire & Automotive in Mount Pleasant, S.C., on April 22, 2013.
Mark Sanford Down 9 Points in S.C.
Colbert and politics. It started as a joke — the popular host of Comedy Central’s Colbert report running for president of South Carolina and opening his own super-PAC. Now it’s no joke — Stephen Colbert’s sister, Elizabeth Colbert Busch,...
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Obama’s Boston Memorial Address: ‘We Will Finish the Race’
“On Monday morning, the sun rose over Boston, the sun glistened off the Statehouse dome… Runners laced up their shoes and set out on a 26.2-mile test of determination and grit and the human spirit.” Hundreds of thousands of people...
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An official walks past a hazardous materials response team truck outside a mail sorting facility April 16, 2013 in Hyattsville, Maryland
Carney: Boston, Letters Unconnected
Fear and loathing has gripped certain corners of Washington. Where a letter laced with suspected ricin showed up at a mail-sorting facility this week — addressed to a senator. And where a letter with a “suspicious substance” was found at...
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‘Terror’ in Boston, by Any Other Name — Obama Today: ‘Terrorism’
Updated at 11:35 am EDT President Barack Obama acknowledged a federal investigation of terrorism today, the day after the fatal bombing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. “This was a heinous and cowardly act,” Obama said at a...
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Senate Budget Committee staff members hand out copies of the Obama Administration's proposed FY 2014 federal budget in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill April 10, 2013 in Washington, DC.
Obama: ‘Not a Lot of Smoke and Mirrors’
The 2014 budget that President Barack Obama proposed today is all about creating jobs and boosting the economy, the president said today. His budget, he said, replaces the cuts of sequetration with “smarter ones.” It builds new roads and bridges,...
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, center, arrives for the weekly Republican policy luncheon on the Capitol on April 9, 2013 in Washington, DC.
McConnell Turns Table on ‘Liberal Left:’ Louisville Fundraising Bonanza
There is Hollywood, and then there is Louisville. And Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate from Kentucky who privately discussed ways to “do out” anyone who opposes him for re-election, has turned an audio-taping of that February...
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Elizabeth Colbert Busch, left, sister of Comedian Stephen Colbert, during a campaign fundraiser breakfast at ILA Hall on February 24, 2013 in Charleston, South Carolina.
Colbert Busch: No ‘Party Line’
Elizabeth Colbert Busch won’t win a special election next month in South Carolina by playing up her affiliation with the Democratic Party. Seeking the seat in a Republican-tilting district in and around Charleston, the business development executive and older sister...
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President Barack Obama walks with California Attorney General Kamala Harris after arriving at San Francisco International Airport.
Obama’s Apology to Kamala Harris: Phone Call to an Old Friend
Kamala Harris, California’s attorney general, got an apologetic phone call last night from the president of the United States — for calling her good looking. Not only good looking — “the best-looking attorney general,” President Barack Obama called Harris, during...
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