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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!The marathon Senate debate on a bill tightening the regulation of financial markets is likely to roll along for at least several more days as support among Democrats has fractured -- at least temporarily. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had hoped to wrap the bill up this week but he fell three votes short Wednesday on a procedural attempt meant to cut off debate and move toward final passage. Two Democrats, Maria Cantwell of Washington and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, defected ship even as Reid got help from two moderate Republicans. Cantwell was apparently miffed because a vote was not ...
I was shocked to learn that four of the top-ten-most-read stories in Time magazine this week were about Tiger Woods and Amanda Knox. Although I have followed Tiger's career since 1997, when he burst on the golf scene, until last week, I had never heard of Amanda Knox. As I now know, Knox is a 22-year-old American exchange student who an Italian jury last Friday found guilty of murdering her British roommate two years earlier. A closer look at the most-read list showed just one serious topic –- the discovery of a planet-like object. Nowhere to be found on the list were articles about ...
James McHaney, an aide for U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), was arrested on Friday for allegedly planning a lunchtime sexual tryst with a teenage boy.According to federal court records, was caught after arranging the encounter through a "cooperating witness." The Smoking Gun, through court papers, has reported that the cooperating witness and McHaney were conversing online Friday afternoon when the witness asked McHaney if he was interested in having sex with a 13-year-old boy, to which McHaney replied, "I'll be there." McHaney was arrested in the lobby of a "predetermined location" ...
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