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• MO-Sen: Okay, so this is old news to you by now:

"First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare," [Republican Rep. Todd] Akin told KTVI-TV in an interview posted Sunday. "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."

Akin said that even in the worst-case scenario—when the...

Less than a decade ago, people who were saying ominous signs of warming were appearing in the Arctic were smeared and ridiculed and pilloried by the climate-change deniers, many of them bought-and-paid-for shills of Exxon-Mobil, the Koch brothers and like-minded folks who thought they could keep the lid on simply by doing what they'd done on so many other issues: lying.

Those were the days when even climate scientists saw the relatively modest changes they were predicting as coming very...

Hello, human diary. It is I again, Mitt Romney, your better.

Since I have been feeling somewhat down of late, Mr. Diary, I decided to take the day to take stock of things and be thankful for all that I have accomplished. While there were some mutterings from the press about gaffes during my recent foreign adventures, I never once got drunk and removed my clothing during any of those trip activities. I have not recently opined that women have the physiological ability to reject pregnancy...

The State Crime Laboratory in Arkansas has ruled that Chavis Carter committed suicide while handcuffed in the back seat of a police cruiser in Jonesboro the night of July 29. The report, however, shows only that the 21-year-old Carter died of a contact gunshot wound to the right temple. It does not prove who pulled the trigger. The medical...