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Bijan Pakzad's Beverly Hills estate reportedly sells for $9.8 million
This post has been corrected. Please see below for details.The Beverly Hills home of the late menswear, jewelry and fragrance mogul Bijan Pakzad reportedly has sold for $9.8 million. [For the record, 12:05 p.m. May 6: An earlier version of this post and headline incorrectly said that Bijan Pakzad's home sold...Tags: George H.W. Bush, Personal Service
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Blacks in 2012 voted at higher rate than whites for the first time
WASHINGTON — November’s election marked the first time in U.S. history that black voters turned out at a higher rate than whites, according to new census data showing how much the country’s burgeoning population of racial and ethnic...
Tags: Polls, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Social Issues, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Mitt Romney
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The wrong way for Washington to avoid defaulting
It's rare that the president explicitly pledges to veto a bill -- usually, the White House says the president's advisors would "recommend" a veto -- but that's what happened Tuesday. The measure in question is HR 807, the Full Faith and Credit Act, by...
Tags: Viagra (drug), Tom McClintock, Pfizer Inc., Medicare, White House
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Record exports mean U.S. summer gasoline prices won't be much lower
Summer gasoline prices will be lower in the U.S. than they were last year. But they won't be much lower, experts say, because U.S. refineries have been exporting record amounts of fuel overseas. That's behind what would normally just be a good news...
Tags: Kelley Blue Book LLC, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Gasoline Industry, Market and Exchange, Luxury Vehicles
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Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines returns with solo album 'Mother'
Natalie Maines, the Dixie Chick whose criticism of then-President George W. Bush’s handling of the Iraq War while on tour in Europe a decade ago got the group effectively banned from country radio, has resurfaced this week with her debut solo album,...
Tags: Twitter, Inc., Court Yard Hounds (music group), Iraq War (2003-2011), Relentless7 (music group), Entertainment
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USAID develops a bad reputation among some foreign leaders
WASHINGTON — When Bolivian President Evo Morales expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development from his impoverished country last week, he complained that Washington "still has a mentality of domination and submission" in the region. It...
Tags: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Arab Spring, Bolivia, U.S. Department of State, Elections
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Ruben Barrales, party guy
When President Obama told students in Mexico that without the support of U.S. Latinos he would not be president, he wasn't talking about the GOP's Ruben Barrales. But Barrales gets the message. He is the son of immigrants, and San Mateo County's first...
Tags: DREAM Act, Social Issues, University of California, Riverside, Same-Sex Marriage, Mitt Romney
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Permanent imprisonment at Guantanamo betrays American values
One hundred prisoners held in the American detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are engaged in a hunger strike -- a desperate attempt to get the attention of President Obama, who was elected in 2008 having promised to shut the place down. Not only...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Punishment, Politics, U.S. Congress, Prisons
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McManus: Obama's Gitmo woes
President Obama sounded genuinely outraged last week when he talked about the Kafkaesque situation at the Guantanamo prison camp, where the United States has been holding 166 men without trial for terms that are, at this point, officially endless. "It's...
Tags: Joe Biden, David Petraeus, Lindsey O. Graham, FBI, Robert Mueller
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Terminal at Bush airport is closed during shooting investigation
Most of Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport was open to travelers Thursday except for one terminal that remained closed as officials investigated a shooting that left a gunman seriously wounded. Police and other officers were still at...
Tags: Shootings
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Hillary Clinton to appear in Beverly Hills for award and speech
In the sort of appearance destined to fan speculation about her presidential aspirations in 2016, Hillary Rodham Clinton will speak in Beverly Hills next week at a gala hosted by the Pacific Council on International Policy. The nonpartisan group,...
Tags: European Union, Joe Biden, Epilepsy, Same-Sex Marriage, White House
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Another kind of gun control
Supporters of a measure that would have expanded background checks for firearm purchases decried the bill's death in the Senate last month. But was the defeat really such a bad thing? Had it passed, the new law would have been hailed as a historic...
Tags: Garry McCarthy, Justice System, Lawyers, Politics, Rutgers University
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