On the morning of Jan. 21, 2000, David Duke stood in a rented room at the National Press Club to announce his next act.
It had been a few months since Duke tried and failed to win a congressional seat in Louisiana, and his own electoral career—which peaked when he got into 1991’s runoff for governor of Louisiana—was over.
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President Obama set out Tuesday on a three-day West Coast fundraising tour, despite mounting domestic and global crises — and criticism from Republicans that..
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$5.2 billion for just 364,682 “enrollees”
In her testimony before Congress today, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius provided an updated dollar amount for the cost of HealthCare.gov: $677 million. In addition to the $677 million spent on the federal Obamacare website, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has shoveled $4.5 billion of taxpayer money to promote Obamacare on the state level.
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Fifty-five miles and three days down the Colorado River from the put-in at Lee’s Ferry, near the Utah-Arizona border, the two rafts in our little flotilla suddenly encountered a storm.
It sneaked up from behind, preceded by only a cool breeze. With the canyon walls squeezing the sky to a ribbon of blue, we didn’t see the thunderhead until it was nearly on top of us.
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Jahleel Logan, 3, poses with Santa Claus, a.k.a. Langston Patterson, 77, at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza. Patterson has been the South L.A. mall’s Santa since 2004, with African American families coming at specific times of the day just to visit him. “I just don’t want him to think that all greatness comes from a different race,” said Jahleel’s godmother, Arlene Graves, 45. “There are Santa Clauses his color doing good work too.” (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times / December 7, 2013)
Dressed in a red Santa suit, white beard and rimless glasses balanced on his nose, Langston Patterson sits on a velvet couch and waits for his adoring fans.
Some call first to make sure he will be there. They come from Palmdale, Thousand Oaks and San Bernardino, driving past many shopping malls with Santas, but none that look like him.
The chairman of a Chinese provider of seismic information services to the oilfield industry has become the latest billionaire from the country.
Zhou Jinming’s 57% stake in Sino Geophysical was worth $1.04 billion today, even after the Shenzhen-traded stock fell by 2.4% from its all-time closing high of 34.7 yuan..
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(CNSNews.com) – The new debt run up by the federal government since House Speaker John Boehner cut his first spending deal with President Barack Obama has now topped $3 trillion—exceeding all the debt accumulated under all American presidents from George Washington through Ronald Reagan.
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