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- A gay country music star plays it (relatively) safe
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- Senate to vote on restoring lower student loan rate
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- Nuclear watchdog: Ocean contamination likely at Fukushima
- Sarah Palin is mulling a bid for Senate
- Gun-rights activist reportedly arrested for firearm, drug possession
- McDonnell and his wife reportedly received additional $120,000 from donor
- Comedy Central to roast James Franco
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- CNN asks if Korea’s hierarchical culture caused crash
- Federal judge: Apple conspired to raise e-book prices
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- Run Sarah run!
- Bill to prevent LGBT workplace discrimination advances in the Senate
- North Carolina Republicans sneak antiabortion provisions into motorcycle safety bill
- Senate fails to keep student loan rates low
- Execution of “mentally retarded” man moves ahead
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- Woman blasts Texas lawmakers over abortion ban, is forcibly removed from Capitol
- London Review of Books marginally improves its female representation
- Ill Doctrine: BET’s apology insults our intelligence
- Conspiracy theorists: Dzhokhar was framed!
- Texas House approves sweeping abortion restrictions
- Only 1 percent of “terrorists” caught by the FBI are real
- Jason Schwartzman, Patton Oswalt, Billy Dee Williams do “Star Wars” karaoke
- This summer’s blockbusters are really about overpopulation
- For 10 years, Elisabeth Hasselbeck was conservatism’s Trojan horse
- Comcast profits off of poverty
- Texas GOPer wants to defund schools that ban imaginary guns
- In the “mommy wars,” black single moms are invisible
- Starbucks Glock sale could have broken the law
- Snowden denies giving info to China, Russia
- Christian scouting group launches for boys who don’t “openly flaunt sexuality”
- Apple’s latest setback won’t bring e-book prices down
- Tsarnaev pleads not guilty
- GOP will filibuster just about anything
- George Zimmerman won’t testify
- 6 most influential women writers you’ve never heard of
- Americans much calmer about national security than lawmakers
- Family Research Council sounding a lot like the “Patriot” movement
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