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Kennedy Patriarch Touted J. Edgar Hoover for President

4 days 15 hours ago |AOL News

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WASHINGTON (June 15) -- J. Edgar Hoover for president? Well, Joseph Kennedy, the patriarch of the Kennedy political dynasty, apparently thought it was a good idea in the 1950s, according to an essay ...

White House Gatecrashers Get Reality Show Gig

4 days 17 hours ago |Politics Daily

Mandel Ngan, AFP / Getty Images

(June 15) -- It's come to this. Michaele and Tareq Salahi are finally, officially, stars of Bravo's "Real Housewives of D.C." And what the network calls "the most talked about" installment in the ser ...

Rand Paul's Medical Certification Challenged

4 days 20 hours ago |AOL News

Ed Reinke, AP

(June 15) -- Senate candidate Rand Paul of Kentucky calls himself a "career doctor," but his certification is not recognized by the American Medical Association. Paul, a tea party favorite, has repea ...

Gen. Petraeus Chokes, Passes Out Briefly at Hearing

4 days 21 hours ago |AOL News Surge Desk

Evan Vucci, AP

(June 15) -- Gen. David Petraeus began choking and had to leave a Senate hearing room today as he testified on the situation in Afghanistan. The head of U.S. Central Comman was being questioned by Se ...

Whitman Allegedly Shoved eBay Employee in 2007

4 days 22 hours ago |AOL News

Reed Saxon, AP

(June 15) -- California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman was accused of shoving an employee while she was head of eBay in 2007 in a confrontation that ultimately cost the company six figures to se ...

Obama's Speech: Look to Jimmy Carter (No Kidding)

4 days 22 hours ago |Politics Daily

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(June 15) -- More than 30 years ago in an era of gas lines and OPEC boycotts, Jimmy Carter addressed the American people from the Oval Office and confronted this political conundrum: "Why have we not ...

Obama Ready to Seize Gulf Oil Spill Claims Process

5 days ago |AP

Charles Dharapak, AP

PENSACOLA, Fla. (June 15) -- President Barack Obama is poised to seize the handling of oil spill damage claims from BP, his chief spokesman said Tuesday, as Obama sought to reassure people he's up to ...

FBI Reveals Mafia Plot to Frame Ted Kennedy

5 days 17 hours ago |Politics Daily

WASHINGTON (June 14) -- The FBI received a confidential tip in 1965 that the Mafia was plotting to "attack the character" of Sens. Edward and Robert Kennedy and brother-in-law Peter Lawford by framin ...

Senator Tells FDA to Speed Up Study of Sunscreens

5 days 18 hours ago |AOL News

E. Jason Wambsgans, Chicago Tribune / MCT

(June 14) -- The battle over whether many sunscreens increase rather than prevent skin cancer is heating up as Capitol Hill weighs in. "With the recent reports suggesting a possible link between ski ...

FAA Resists Push for More Drones in US Airspace

5 days 18 hours ago |AOL News

Ross D. Franklin, AP

(June 14) -- Demands from U.S. lawmakers to deploy more drones along the U.S.-Mexican border is forcing the Federal Aviation Administration to consider opening the congested skies over the U.S. to un ...

Many Questions, Few Answers From Alvin Greene

5 days 18 hours ago |AOL News

Mary Ann Chastain, AP

(June 14) -- With every interview he does, the mystery of would-be U.S. senator Alvin Greene gets deeper and stranger. A week ago, virtually nobody had heard of the unemployed veteran with no politic ...

Vote Widens Split Between Belgium's 2 Regions

5 days 21 hours ago |AOL News

George Gobet, AFP / Getty Images

(June 14) -- The long-running divide between the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium and its French-speaking fellow citizens took a sharp and forceful turn as a separatist party scored a huge victory in a ...