“Usually, when a political party decisively loses an election, the expectation is for it to shift its policy proposals closer to those of the victors — both to promote compromise and to acknowledge the preference of the voters expressed at the ballot box. However, the GOP has apparently decided to …

“House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Monday he saw a “possibility” that President Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are divided on whether tax rates on the top wage earners would need to rise in a proposed deal to avoid the “fiscal cliff.” Republicans said last week …

“There has been some attention paid, predictably enough, to Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s response to a GQ interviewer’s question about the age of the Earth. Here are the remarks themselves: GQ: How old do you think the Earth is? Marco Rubio: I’m not a scientist, man. I can tell you …

“An Oklahoma teen convicted of manslaughter has sentenced to 10 years of probation, with requirements that include regularly attending church. Tyler Alred, now 17, had been drinking when he crashed a pickup truck at around 4 a.m. on Dec. 3, 2011, Tulsa World reports. The accident killed Alred’s friend, 16-year-old …

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“He’s been dubbed the “shirtless FBI agent” — a rogue investigator so smitten with a pretty socialite that he sent her a bare-chested photo of himself and pursued her complaint about harassing emails all the way to Congress. The facts emerging about Frederick Humphries — until now perhaps the least-known …

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