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Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama said Friday the head of the Justice Department's voting rights division should be fired for saying voter ID laws hurt the elderly but aren't a problem for minorities because they often die before old age.
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A string of e-mails between the Justice Department's Kyle Sampson and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers details the plan to fire U.S. attorneys. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he is "not aware of every bit of information that passes through the halls of justice," but he admitted mistakes were made.
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A leading Senate Democrat asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Wednesday to clear up apparent conflicts in testimony from Gonzales and former top Justice Department officials about the firing of federal prosecutors and other matters.
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The attorney for ousted Hewlett-Packard chairman Patricia Dunn fired back Wednesday at public comments made by board rival Thomas Perkins about theÂ HP pretexting scandal.
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The intense back-and-forth between the campaigns of Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama continued today, with an Obama supporter accusing Clinton's husband, former President Bill Clinton, of making comments meant to "suppress the vote, demoralize voters, and distort the record." Clinton, asked to comment, disputed the charge and lashed out at a reporter for asking the question.
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NBC News said Tuesday it has reprimanded the employee responsible for mistakenly flashing a picture of Osama bin Laden on MSNBC as Chris Matthews talked about Barack Obama.
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A former top White House official accused the Bush administration yesterday of trying to muzzle his criticism of its Iran policy and of falsely alleging  that his writings contained classified material to prevent them from being published.
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White House spokesman Tony Snow fired back at former President Bill Clinton after Clinton charged that the Bush administration believes the law is a "minor obstacle" in the "Scooter" Libby case.
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Barack Obama's presidential campaign complained in a letter to the Nevada Democratic Party Wednesday that rival Hillary Rodham Clinton benefited from numerous violations of party rules during the state's caucuses on Saturday.
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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki fired a top Sunni official Wednesday after he called for an international investigation into the rape allegations leveled by a Sunni Arab woman against three members of the Shiite-dominated security forces.
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Â· Speech posted on liberal Anglican websiteÂ· College principal under fire from some staff
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A union leader at the Federal Emergency Management Agency filed a complaint yesterday saying that FEMA is trying to force him out of his job because he urged Congress to take the agency out of the Department of Homeland Security.
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Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) issued a round of apologies  yesterday for a memo generated by his campaign staff that referred to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as a senator from the Indian region of Punjab and criticized her record on outsourcing.
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Saturday lashed out at rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, accusing her of dodging tough questions about Social Security.
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The probe into the Bush administration's firings of U.S. attorneys intensified Monday as lawmakers ordered two more ousted officials to tell their stories and the Justice Department said Republican Sen. Pete Domenici had complained repeatedly to the attorney general about one of the prosecutors.
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A judge who will decide whether Maryland's top elections official may keep her job on Friday questioned the attempt by the State Board of Elections to fire her, wondering how it might affect the November vote.
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A political tempest over the mass firing of federal prosecutors escalated yesterday with allegations from the departing U.S. attorney in New Mexico, who said that two members of Congress attempted to pressure him to speed up a probe of Democrats just before the November elections.