Posts Tagged ‘personal’

For Minnesota gay marriage sponsors, it’s personal

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — As a crowd of thousands roared from the lawn of the state Capitol, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton signed the bill Tuesday that makes gay marriage legal here come Aug. 1. Tweet This Post

Personal Baggage Weighs Down Sanford in Only Debate Against Colbert Busch

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch was no pushover in her first-ever political debate, leaving Republican Mark Sanford’s personal baggage to weigh him down just eight days before the May 7 special election. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

More See Personal Impact of Sequester

A new CNN poll finds 42% now say that the $ 85 billion in across-the-board cuts referred to as the sequester are impacting them personally. That’s up from 35% who said the same in March. Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire Tweet This Post

Gun Debate Gets Personal

By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) NOTABLES NEWTOWN FAMILIES HEAD TO THE HILL: With a filibuster threat in the air, the gun control debate takes a personal turn today on Capitol Hill as the families of the Newtown shooting implore members of Congress to revive legislation that… Tweet This Post

U.S. probes hack of personal data on Michelle Obama, Beyonce, others

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI and other U.S. agencies said on Tuesday they were investigating a website that posted financial and personal information about first lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and other government figures as well as celebrities including singers Beyonce and Jay-Z. Some of the information was fraudulently obtained via a commonly [...]

It’s personal and business in GOP fight over Hagel

WASHINGTON (AP) — The fierce Republican opposition to President Barack Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary is personal and business. Tweet This Post

Sportsgraphic: Highlights From Michael Jordan’s Personal Life

With Michael Jordan turning 50 on February 17, Onion Sports examines the greatest moments from the former NBA superstar’s private life.  1969: Upon witnessing a group of neighborhood kids play a pickup basketball game, a 6-year-o… Tweet This Post

Barbara Walters Gets Personal with the Obamas

In an interview with President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, Barbara Walters delved “right into what happens behind closed doors at the White House” and asked the Obamas how they “keep the fire going in their marriage,” making for a bit of an awkward exchange, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Tweet This Post

APNewsBreak: Sotomayor book offers personal look

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says in her upcoming memoir that her lifelong battle against diabetes and the fear that she might die early played a big part in her decision not to have children. Tweet This Post

Jindal Aides Use Personal Email to Avoid Scrutiny

Top officials in Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s (R) administration “used personal email accounts to craft a media strategy for imposing hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid cuts — a method of communication that can make it more difficult to track under public records laws despite Jindal’s pledge to bring more transparency to state government,” [...]