So you think you know Sarah Palin?
There’s so much more to the former Alaska governor and possible 2012 presidential candidate than is on public view, according to a new and very lengthy “Vanity Fair” profile, which takes readers behind the scenes and into “the surreal new world Palin now inhabits.”
It’s not pretty. [...]

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Longtime Maryland Sen. Ulysses Currie, one of the most powerful and popular figures in the General Assembly, was indicted Wednesday on charges that he took more than $245,000 in bribes to use his position and influence to do favors for a grocery chain.

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The Iraq war ended where it began — at the president’s desk in the White House Oval Office.
President Barack Obama declared the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq with his hands folded on the desk where 7-1/2 years earlier President George W. Bush announced the beginning of military operations.
“Much has changed since that night,” Obama said in the second [...]

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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) concedes her primary race Tuesday night, becoming the third senator to lose re-nomination this year and the second to lose a primary.

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Things were looking good for President Barack Obama’s statement on the U.S. economy in the White House Rose Garden: the sun was shining in a bright blue late-August sky.
It was a chance to show that he was paying close attention to the issue most on the minds of Americans. The statement came just after he ended a [...]

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