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Will the GOP's special election jinx live on?

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Betty White: The baddest octogenarian

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Once-revered S.C. lawmaker freezes to death alone

Goggins was the first black woman in the S.C. Legislature and helped transform the American education system

Banning race-based abortions is wrong

Anti-choicers pretend to care about women of color while whittling away at their reproductive rights

How lesbians "ruined" prom

A school district preserves its bigotry by canceling the dance rather than letting a same-sex couple attend

GOP finance chief's dubious "charity" background

Rob Bickhart, the finance chief whose weird anti-Obama PowerPoint embarrassed the GOP, has a strange resume

Standing up like a man

What kind of a woman uses a funnel to go to the bathroom? I do, and it changed my life

Reid's wife breaks neck, back in car crash

Daughter also hurt. Senate majority leader's spokesman says their injuries are "non-life threatening"

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Glenn Beck misses Joe McCarthy

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Chris Dodd backbone alert

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Fair and balanced

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