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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Barbara Boxer, the three-term Democratic U.S. senator from California, is running for re-election against Carly Fiorina, the tea party-courting Republican nominee and former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard. As part of a Politics Daily series providing background about the major candidates in the 2010 elections, here are answers to some frequently asked questions about Boxer's pre-political life. --Carl Franzen How old is Barbara Boxer? Boxer is 69 years old, but will celebrate her 70th birthday just nine days after the Nov. 2 election. When was Barbara Boxer born? Boxer was born on ...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (Sept. 17) -- A one-legged Chechen boxer injured in an explosion at a Copenhagen hotel was preparing a letter bomb, likely intended for a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, police said Friday. The device went off as the man was assembling it in a hotel bathroom on Sept. 10, said Svend Foldager, a police spokesman. The suspect received cuts to his face and no one else was injured. "We're dealing with a letter bomb. The bomb was completed. Apparently it was of a low-technology type, with a highly explosive substance inside," Foldager told ...
Google on Tuesday released the top searches within the United States for 2009; the results are surprising and interesting. The top Google searches for senators show that people are more interested in reading about Democrats than Republicans -- only Chuck Grassley of Iowa at No. 9 made the list for the GOP. And it also shows that people are doing more searches for senators with key roles in legislation than for senators caught up in scandals. No surprise, Ted Kennedy tops the Senate Google searches, as he died this year. Second on the Senate list is Nelson, but the Google people don't tell us ...
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