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Ted Cruz and the tea party vying for Texas Senate seat
Tea partyers riding high off of their successful efforts to further shake up the Republican establishment in Nebraska and Indiana have turned their eyes to Texas, where challenger Ted Cruz has a chance to at least force another vote in the hunt for the...
Tags: Kay Bailey Hutchison, Tea Party Movement, Elections, Regional Authority, Politics
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein outpaces challengers in fundraising
Twenty-three largely unknown, underfinanced challengers are vying for the chance to take on U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) in the fall.
Among the 14 Republicans on the June 5 ballot are Laguna Niguel dentist and lawyer Orly Taitz, 51, who made a...Tags: Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Elections, Carly Fiorina, Politics
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Romney starts to chip away at Obama's big fundraising lead
WASHINGTON — Effectively clinching the Republican presidential nomination last month allowed Mitt Romney's campaign to marshal larger checks and chip into President Obama's huge lead in the money chase heading into the general election.
Romney...Tags: Campaign Finance, Harold Hamm, Elections, Charity, Mitt Romney
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Romney chipping away at Obama fundraising lead
WASHINGTON – By effectively clinching the Republican nomination last month, Mitt Romney’s campaign was able to marshal larger checks and chip into President Obama’s huge head start in the money chase heading into the general election....
Tags: Campaign Finance, Harold Hamm, Elections, Charity, Mitt Romney
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John Edwards waits as jury continues deliberations
GREENSBORO, N.C. — A federal jury in the political corruption trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards deliberated for a second day Monday without reaching a verdict, as Edwards quietly awaited his fate inside a federal courthouse.
The...Tags: Justice System, Elizabeth Edwards, Elections, Politics, Political Corruption
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John Edwards appears confident as defense rests in his trial
GREENSBORO, N.C. — His political career is wrecked, his reputation is destroyed. He poisoned his marriage, and his martyred wife died knowing he cheated on her and lied about it to the world. And yet Johnny Reid Edwards has behaved as if he owns...
Tags: Campaign Finance, Justice System, Elizabeth Edwards, U.S. Department of Justice, Elections
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Edwards defense testimony focuses on payments, ex-aide
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Lawyers for John Edwards spent their second day of defense testimony Tuesday trying to discredit the chief witness against him while also seeking to prove that money paid to support Edwards' mistress constituted private gifts...
Tags: Witnesses, Justice System, Elections, Rentals, Politics
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John Edwards' legal team opens defense
GREENSBORO, N.C. — After weeks of riveting and often salacious testimony about an extramarital affair and the elaborate lies that once kept it hidden, testimony in the John Edwards trial turned Monday to a more prosaic topic: campaign finance law....
Tags: Campaign Finance, Witnesses, Justice System, Elizabeth Edwards, Elections
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Election decision may force disclosure of secret donors
WASHINGTON — Advocacy groups spending millions of dollars to influence the 2012 election now face the prospect of having to reveal their secret donors, after a federal appellate court panel refused to block a lower-court order requiring the...
Tags: Campaign Finance, Justice System, Finance, Americans for Prosperity, Elections
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Court ruling may force advocacy groups to disclose secret donors
WASHINGTON -- Advocacy groups spending millions of dollars in the 2012 campaign are now faced with the prospect of having to reveal the donors who have been secretly financing their efforts after a federal appellate court panel refused to block a lower...
Tags: Campaign Finance, Justice System, Finance, Americans for Prosperity, Elections
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John Edwards trial shifts from affair to campaign finance law
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- For nearly three weeks, testimony in the campaign finance corruption trial of former Sen. John Edwards has focused on his extramarital affair -- and his attempts to cover it up. On Monday, the intricacies of federal campaign finance...
Tags: Campaign Finance, Rielle Hunter, Witnesses, Justice System, Lawyers
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Closing arguments in John Edwards trial
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Both sides in the John Edwards trial gave detailed closing arguments Thursday to a federal jury that will decide whether the former presidential candidate knowingly violated campaign finance laws in a scheme to hide an...
Tags: Campaign Finance, Witnesses, Justice System, Services and Shopping, Elizabeth Edwards
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