Politico taps FitzGerald campaign as one of nation's worst

That's how Washington-based Politico assesses the Ohio gubernatorial campaign of Ed FitzGerald, a Democrat challenging Gov. John Kasich. Politico noted the high hopes of Democrats when Fitzgerald launched his campaign last year, but says he "has been crushed by scrutiny into his past - specifically, revelations that early one morning in 2012, police had found FitzGerald in a car with a woman who wasn't his wife."

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Kelly Ripa Went Too Big [VIDEO]

Kelly Ripa just can't handle all 5.5 inches of the new iPhone 6 Plus, she admitted to David Letterman Wednesday night. The "Good Morning America" host said her co-host Michael Strahan told her she wouldn't be able to handle its size.

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Appeals court hears NC voter suppression case

A federal appeals court is hearing arguments in a case challenging a new North Carolina voting law that critics say will suppress minority voter turnout in November.

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"Bo Snerdley" Speaks To The Black Community

Rush Limbaugh's call screener and right-hand man James Golden was interviewed by Ginny Thomas and discussed the black commmunity in America. Golden, who himself is black, made the following interesting and provocative points: "Most black people live their lives as conservatives; a lot of them vote liberal because that's the way their families vote, that's what they grew up voting.

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Obama establishes world's largest marine preserve

In this photo taken Jan. 18, 2014, a satellite-linked transmitter is visible on the dorsal fin of L87, an orca from the southern resident group of killer whales, while swimming in Puget Sound in view of a state ferry west of Seattle. President Obama is carving out a wide swath the Pacific Ocean for an expanded marine preserve, putting the waters off-limits to drilling and most fishing in a bid to protect fragile underwater life.

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Bill, Hillary Clinton back Obama's ISIS strategy

Former US President Bill Clinton listens as former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the 2014 Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York September 22, 2014. Bill and Hillary Clinton publicly backed President Obama's strategy to degrade and destroy Islamic militants in Syria and Iraq on Wednesday, throwing their voices behind the president as he works to corral support at home and abroad for his mission.

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Democratic Auditor candidate would push for more audits of JobsOhio

The Democratic candidate for state auditor said Sept. 24 he would press JobsOhio to release financial documents for public review, regardless of laws enacted under Statehouse Republicans.

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Exoskeleton suit to aid paraplegics under development at Macedonia lab

Michael Gore, who lost the use of his legs in 2002, gets to walk only a few times a year. He walked for the third time this year on Sept.

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Georgia News Roundup

The educational arm of an LGBT rights group is seeking to advance LGBT inclusion on the campuses of historically black colleges and universities.

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Inconveniences

There has been a very strong and concerted public-relations effort to spin the recent shale energy plays of the U.S. as complete game-changers for the world energy outlook. These efforts do not square with the data and are creating a vast misperception about the current risks and future opportunities among the general populace and energy organizations alike.

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Nick Turse: American "Success" and the Rise of West African Piracy

As American hysteria over events in the Middle East rises, news about whatever grim video the Islamic State has just released jostles for attention with U.S. bombing runs in Iraq, prospective ones in Syria, and endless confusing statements out of Washington about what the next seat-of-the-pants version of its strategy might be. These days, such things are endlessly on the American radar screen.

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Police: Woodside man's lewd conduct and attempt to open plane's exit door forces emergency landing

A Woodside man was arrested Monday after committing a lewd act and trying to open an emergency exit door during a Virgin America flight, according to police. Doug Adams, 26, was "masturbating in flight and later tried to open an exit door," according to an Omaha police report obtained by NBC Los Angeles.

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Suspect captured, but UVa student still missing

24, 2014. . Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo announces that Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. has been arrested in Galveston, Texas during a news conference in Charlottesville, Va., Wednesday, Sept.

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Landrieu highlighting opposition to sanctions bill

U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu is traveling to the Citgo refinery near Lake Charles to highlight her successful stalling of a bill to impose sanctions against human-rights abusers in Venezuela's government. While the Democratic senator has been criticized as siding with Venezuelan leaders who have committed horrible abuses, she says she's protecting 2,000 Louisiana jobs at the refinery, which imports oil from the country.

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Rush Limbaugh Must Be Terrified - He's Releasing Secret...

Rush Limbaugh Must Be Terrified - He's Releasing Secret 'Facts' About StopRush - Rush Limbaugh, bless his cold little heart, claims he has cracked a major mystery.

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Zoo in coverup after groundhog dropped by de Blasio dies

Zoo in coverup after groundhog dropped by de Blasio dies - Mayor Bill de Blasio couldn't hold onto the Staten Island Zoo's squirming groundhog. - Mayor Bill de Blasio has groundhog blood on his hands! - A week after Hizzoner dropped Staten Island Chuck in front of a crowd of spectators on Feb. 2

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The Reeducation of Dinesh D'Souza

The Reeducation of Dinesh D'Souza - Crime is not disease. - Reading the New York Times account this morning of the sentence passed on Dinesh D'Souza - the filmmaker, writer, and outspoken critic of President Obama - for violating the laws relating to campaign finance

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Threat to post nude photos of Emma Watson apparently a hoax - Film News

An online marketing company purporting to be behind Rantic.com has claimed EmmaYouAreNext.com was a publicity stunt to shut down the messageboard 4chan. The 4chan site has been the focal point of recently leaked nude photos of celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence and Rihanna following the previously reported iCloud hack .

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Does Team Hillary Want a Democratic Challenge?

Dispense with the hoary notions that maybe she will decide for a quiet retirement as a Chappequa grandma, or the idea that there is any Democrat lurking in the shadows somewhere who could really derail Hillary Clinton's march to the nomination. The former Secretary of State is all but certain to run for president - and nearly all but certain to become her party's standard-bearer.

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Obama Administration Expands Protection of U.S. Ocean Treasure

The Pew Charitable Trusts applauded President Barack Obama's decision today to expand the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, a group of five highly protected reserves that is home to some of the nation's most important ocean wilderness. Today's action by the president protects some of the world's most important ocean habitats and provides sanctuary for rare and endangered sharks, seabirds, turtles, and marine mammals.

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Down-ballot ad war intensifies, Ed FitzGerald tries an old Mitt Romney strategy: Ohio...

Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel and challenger Connie Pillich have debuted their first TV ads of the fall campaign. Here come the ads: What had been a trickle of first TV ads in the down-ballot statewide races has swelled into a crush.

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Gillespie Trailing Warner by Single Digits in New Va. Poll

Former Republican National Committee chairman is still a contender in the Virginia Senate race against incumbent Mark Warner, according to a new poll. A Quinnipiac survey has Gillespie trailing Warner by nine points, 48 percent to 39, among likely voters.

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The Newsroom

The people have spoken and Bill Maher agrees: John Kline from Minnesota s 2nd District has got to go! Help us boot America s lamest congressman out of office. Academy Award winner Frances McDormand leads an all-star cast in the four-part miniseries based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

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Mass Shootings Dramatically on the Rise, FBI Says

A new study by the FBI has found that mass shootings have increased dramatically over the past decade. Nearly three times as many incidents have occurred in the past seven years as in the years between 2000 and 2006, according to the report, which analyzed 160 shootings, including the ones at Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, Aurora, Colorado and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, among others.

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FBI adds animal cruelty to its much-studied list of U.S. criminal activity: Animals in the...

Dick Goddard and PAWS director Amy Beichler testified Oct. 16, 2013, at the first hearing on House Bill 274, Dick Goddard's Law, to make cruelty to pets a felony. Local and national pet activist groups are applauding the Federal Bureau of Investigation's recent decision to add animal cruelty statistics to its Uniform Crime Report .

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Today in History for September 25, 2014

Today is Thursday, Sept. 25, the 268th day of 2014. There are 97 days left in the year.

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Corporations may be people -- we just cana t tell which ones

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Sen. Carl Levin has tried for a decade to force companies to disclose their owners. Back in the late 1980s, Dennis Lormel was an FBI agent, working a case concerning a large enterprise called the Bank of Commercial Credit International.

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McColly Real Estate Congratulates Lou Dennison

RISMEDIA, September 17, 2014-McColly Real Estate is pleased to announce that Lou Dennison, from the McColly Real Estate Valparaiso office, was recently honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by One Region, a nonprofit initiative to improve the quality of life across Northwest Indiana. Dennison's twin passions of providing quality health care while improving the quality of life in Northwest Indiana have been satisfied through her work as the permanent secretary of the Asian American Medical Society .

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Obama to Address UN Ebola Meeting

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, Sept. 24, 2014.

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North, South football teams scheduled to renew rivalry game

Grosse Pointe North head football coach Frank Sumbera and some players are pictured at last season's game against rival Grosse Pointe South. The two programs are scheduled to renew their rivalry this Friday.

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