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    Perry's Sign Problem Could Spell Another Long Week Ahead

    Oct 03, 2011 12:53 PM EDT

    ... entrance of a West Texas ranch leased by the governor's family. The Post reported that the land had a stone at one of its gates with "Niggerhead" painted on it in big block letters. The name, according to the Post, became attached to the site before Perry's family ...

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    President to Address Nation on Libya

    Mar 28, 2011 12:59 PM EDT

    ... what is being asked of our men and women in uniform. The second major objective is the far trickier one, and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates didn't do much to clear the path on the Sunday morning political talk shows. "No, no. It was not," Gates replied to ABC ...

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    The Morning Line: Obama 2.0 Launches

    Nov 29, 2010 01:46 PM EDT

    ... Biden to assume the seat once held by President Obama. On MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Kirk previewed his first move as a senator. "My first bill that I'm going to introduce tomorrow is called the Spending Control Act," Kirk said. One provision of the bill he highlighted is an ...

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    Pitchfork Music Festival, From the Windy City & WBEZ

    Jul 17, 2010 04:43 AM EDT

    Music critics Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot are interviewed for a Sound Opinions video segment about Pitchfork. Photo by Kate Gardiner/PBS NewsHour. Don’t even think of trying to get into this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival by just showing up — the epic three-day event has been sold ...

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    Acting White

    Sep 27, 2004 04:00 AM EDT

    ... white mother from Kansas, has a more positive view of blackness. He wants the rest of us to pass that message on to our kids. BILL COSBY: There is a time, ladies and gentlemen, when we have to turn the mirror around. CLARENCE PAGE: So does Bill Cosby. Now 67 ...

  • Bill Nye on his 'codebreaker' mom and how science teachers can change the world

    Bill Nye on his 'codebreaker' mom and how science teachers can change the world

    Apr 03, 2017 07:21 PM EDT

    “These are my people,” Bill Nye said ahead of his lecture to some of the 10,000 science educators who attended the National Science Teachers Association’s (NSTA) National Conference in Los Angeles last week. When Nye, the well-known 1990s television host of "Bill Nye the Science Guy ...

  • Benghazi panel to interview more of Clinton's inner circle

    Benghazi panel to interview more of Clinton's inner circle

    Sep 04, 2015 03:30 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON — The chairman of a congressional panel investigating the deadly Benghazi attacks said Friday that a member of Hillary Rodham Clinton's inner circle could provide key insight into how the State Department maintained its presence in Libya prior to the 2012 attack.

  • Ebola, final-stretch campaigning, and “fan-gate”

    Ebola, final-stretch campaigning, and “fan-gate”

    Oct 17, 2014 01:25 PM EDT

    Today in the Morning Line: Obama opens door to Ebola czar In for a wild last two weeks of the campaign Stay cool, man, especially when you’re in Florida Here comes the czar? Ebola, final-stretch campaigning, and “fan-gate.” It was all part of another wild week in politics. President Obama on Thursday opened the door...

  • Gwen’s Take: 5 things you may have missed in my Bill Clinton interview

    Gwen’s Take: 5 things you may have missed in my Bill Clinton interview

    May 16, 2014 08:48 PM EDT

    It’s always gratifying when an interview gets headlines. We cover the news, but it’s also kind of fun to make news from time to time. So I knew when I walked on stage to interview former President Bill Clinton at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation’s annual fiscal summit this week that I would ask about...

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    Potential Deal on Border Security Could Boost Immigration Bill's Outlook

    Jun 20, 2013 01:05 PM EDT

    The U.S.-Mexico border wall in Nogales, Arizona. Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images The prospects for a decisive vote in favor of a Senate plan to overhaul the nation's immigration system appeared to brighten in the past 24 hours with word that two Republican senators have closed in on an agreement with the Gang of Eight...