Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) announced Sunday that she will resign her seat in Congress this week. About a year ago, the Congresswoman suffered a near-fatal gunshot injury while conducting a “Congress on Your Corner” meeting with constituents at a supermarket in Tucson. Her last official act Monday will be to finish that aborted meeting. A [...]
Two men will become one at a South Carolina rally Friday. One of them is examining the feasibility of a presidential bid. The other has dismantled his campaign, despite still being on the ballot. Together, they want to convince voters that Stephen Colbert and Herman Cain are one and the same. ‘The Rock Me Like [...]
Rick Perry officially dropped his bid for the Republican presidential nomination Thursday. The former candidate has given his support to former House speaker Newt Gingrich. Not about any specific candidate Perry said Thursday at a press conference in North Charleston, S.C., that the current campaign has never been about specific candidates but about ousting President [...]
Newt Gingrich, the current front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, signed a pledge while on the campaign trail in Iowa Thursday. The pledge is to push for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages. The candidate also said that he believes homosexuality is a choice. National Organization for Marriage The pledge was drawn up by the [...]
The newly-opened Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Wednesday that it will be looking into banking practices as they relate to overdraft fees. Near the top of consumer complaints, banks say that overdraft fees are a fair way to keep customers from getting overextended. Others say they are just a profit-making venture. CFPB probes banking practices [...]
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Former Republican candidate Bob Dole took aim at GOP frontrunner Newt Gingrich in a letter Thursday, saying the candidate is not trustworthy enough to occupy the White House. His comments immediately follow some cryptic insider criticism from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. An open letter to Romney campaign Dole, who was a Senator when Gingrich [...]
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