JUNEAU, Alaska — E-mails shed new light on Todd Palin’s role while his wife was Alaska’s governor, showing that the one-time oil field worker’s advice was sought on board appointments and suggesting he was close to matters related to state government, his wife’s image and politics. Relatively few …
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Palin E-mails Suggest Todd Was Intimately Involved In Governing – Huffingtonpost.com
JUNEAU, Alaska — E-mails shed new light on Todd Palin’s role while his wife was Alaska’s governor, showing that the one-time oil field worker’s advice was sought on board appointments and suggesting he was close to matters related to state government, his wife’s image and politics …
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Palin e-mails reveal husband’s role in governing – Everett Herald
President Barack Obama urged Republican lawmakers Friday to work with Democrats on job-creation proposals and other initiatives, decrying sharp partisan splits and “the politics of no” that have divided Congress into warring camps.
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Republicans Take Obama To Task At Open Forum – CBS 13/CW31 Sacramento
By LINDA DEUTSCH Tuesday, January 19, 2010 8:45 PM CST Lawyers for Roman Polanski said Tuesday he should be sentenced in absentia to time served and accused the district attorney of playing politics with the case. In a legal brief filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the attorneys urged a …
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Polanski lawyers say D.A. is playing politics – Chippewa Herald
Lawyers for Roman Polanski say the director should be sentenced in absentia to time served and are accusing the district attorney of playing politics with the case. The comments came in a legal brief filed Tuesday in which attorneys urged a full hearing with witnesses testifying on allegations of …
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Polanski lawyers: Time served is proper sentence – San Francisco Chronicle
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Bush e-mails recovered – Columbus Dispatch
(AP) — JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – An attorney says a former Missouri House speaker plans to withdraw from politics altogether after he was accused of assaulting a woman during a sexual encounter
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Mo. ex-speaker accused of assault to close firm – Oregonian
An attorney says a former Missouri House speaker plans to withdraw from politics altogether after he was accused of assaulting a woman during a sexual encounter. Rod Jetton was charged Monday in southeast Missouri’s Scott County with felony second-degree assault.
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Mo. ex-speaker accused of assault to close firm – San Francisco Chronicle
FILE – In this Aug. 11, 2006 file photo Circuit Judge Herman Thomas is shown in Mobile, Ala.
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Ex-Ala. judge accused of trading sex for leniency – El Paso Times
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2 Colorado men, 1 NYC man arrested for making false statements to FBI in federal terror probe – Minneapolis Star Tribune