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Oscars 2013: FLOTUS Michelle Obama announces best picture
One of the most powerful women in the country stepped into the spotlight to announce Oscar’s biggest prize — the award for best picture — even though she wasn’t in the auditorium, or anywhere near Hollywood. When Jack Nicholson...
Tags: Entertainment Events, White House, Michelle Obama, Jack Nicholson, Movies
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Newton: Endorsement games
Over the past few weeks, the race for mayor of Los Angeles has been less a contest of ideas and leadership than it's been an endorsement roulette, with Controller Wendy Greuel and Councilman Eric Garcetti trotting out their latest pledges of support as...
Tags: Ed Reyes, Local Elections, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Magic Johnson, Social Issues
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President Obama decides not to endorse in L.A. mayoral runoff
WASHINGTON -- President Obama doesn't plan to weigh in on the Los Angeles mayoral race because it pits two Democrats against each other, his spokesman said Tuesday. Obama appreciates the support City Councilman Eric Garcetti has given him over the...
Tags: Wendy Greuel, Hillary Clinton, White House, Eric Garcetti, Elections
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Eric Garcetti wins endorsements from Wesson, Perry and Parks
Surrounding himself with the City Council’s three African American members, mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti traveled Saturday morning to Leimert Park -- the historic heart of black Los Angeles -- for a rally in which he sought to galvanize support...
Tags: Local Elections, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Magic Johnson, Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Career and Workplace
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Political consultant Carville pushes Hillary Clinton for president
WASHINGTON – Democratic strategist James Carville has thrown his weight behind a new "super PAC" that is promoting a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential run in 2016. The Ready for Hillary PAC has no formal connection to the former first lady...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, Hillary Clinton, Lincoln Center, James Carville, Politics
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Hillary Clinton returns to public stage as 2016 watch begins
— Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to the public stage Tuesday night for the opening scene in what many expect to be a carefully plotted performance concluding with another presidential try. The high-profile venue: the Kennedy Center in the nation'...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Same-Sex Marriage
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McManus: For Democrats, unity and its pitfalls
It's hard to recognize the Democratic Party these days. In recent decades, it's been a divided, brawling tribe. But this year, Democrats are one big, happy family. Sure, there was grumbling from the left over President Obama's agreement to keep tax cuts...
Tags: Congressional Budget Office, Health Insurance Cost, Interior Policy, Medicare, John Boehner
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Group backing Wendy Gruel for L.A. mayor buys more TV ad time
L.A. NOWWith the television ad war in the Los Angeles mayor's race heating up, a pro-Wendy Greuel committee backed primarily by labor has purchased more than a half-million dollars of additional air time, according to city disclosure documents filed Friday.... -
McManus: Obama's less-is-more agenda
President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday, the first of his second term, won't be long remembered. It didn't offer much in the way of new ideas. It was short on memorable lines — except, perhaps, his demand for congressional action on gun...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Interior Policy, Afghanistan, White House, Career and Workplace
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D.C. is an issue in Oscar campaigns
Hollywood director David O. Russell took a meeting this week to talk about a movie. But the man in the room with him wasn't a studio executive or an actor hoping for a role — he was Vice President Joe Biden. Russell met Biden and spoke on the...
Tags: Vice (movie), Entertainment Events, Voting, Dianne Feinstein, John McCain
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Grammy Awards 2013: Mumford & Sons' 'Babel' wins album of the year
The Grammy Awards gave their top honor to British roots music band Mumford & Sons for their album “Babel” on Sunday at the 55th awards ceremony on a night that distributed honors broadly to an array of younger generation acts including New...
Tags: Rachel Maddow, Entertainment Events, Maroon 5 (music group), Adele (music artist), Computer Networking and Internet
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The 'Argo' factor in this year's Oscar fest
In the week since Oscar nominations were announced, we've sat through two award shows — the Critics' Choice Awards, thrown by a group of junketeers who, according to Anne Hathaway at least, can't even spell the names of their winners right, and...
Tags: Rupert Murdoch, Human Interest, Django Unchained (movie), Entertainment Events, Michael Haneke
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