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• Politics, Palin good for ‘Saturday Night Live’
NEW YORK - The politics-fueled ratings train of "Saturday Night Live" keeps rolling along this election season with Tina Fey's impersonations of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin luring viewers. "SNL" averaged a 7.4 household rating/18 ...
• Transgender politician wins legal battle
... voters by identifying herself as female. "This is a great victory for me and anyone who believes in equality," Bruce said in a statement. "It gives me hope that the Georgia Supreme Court did what was right and did not buy into hate-based politics."
• Jury hears Sen. Stevens tell pal to 'lay low'
Stevens says he was adamant that he pay all the bills and had no idea Allen was absorbing most costs himself. Stevens, 84, a patriarch of Alaska politics for generations, has been holed up in the courtroom for more than two weeks while a Democratic ...
• Abe Lincoln's anger revealed in Civil War letter
Neagle was more about politics than family. "Lincoln was not feeling optimistic at the time, as it didn't look like he'd be reelected," Cornelius explained, adding that, based on other documentation, Lincoln was also sick and possibly bedridden when he ...
• Politics of bailout engrossing, dumbfounding
In the latest episode of the financial drama “Credit Crunch,” the President, the Presidential candidates, and congressional leaders from both parties gather in the White House to agree on a seven-hundred-billion-dollar bailout for the very ...