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101-Year-Old Donor Had Crush on Edwards

Kevin Spak — Fri, 04 May 2012 10:48:05 CDT

Rachel "Bunny" Mellon didn't just throw money at John Edwards because she liked his liberal platform. A close friend of the 101-year-old testified yesterday that the millionaire heiress had something of a crush on the senator, the New York Post reports. "She liked how he looked, what he espoused, and...

Mystery Man at Tyler Clementi Trial: I Saw the Webcam

Kevin Spak — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:32:05 CST

The man Tyler Clementi was having sex with when his roommate allegedly spied on him says he noticed that a webcam was trained on them during the act, USA Today reports. "While we were intimate on the bed, I glanced over my shoulder and noticed the webcam facing toward the...

CIA to Examine Its Own Ties With NYPD

Kevin Spak — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:18:53 CDT

Newly minted CIA director David Petraeus says the agency’s inspector general is investigating the agency’s role in helping the NYPD gather intelligence in Muslim neighborhoods, the AP reports. The NYPD’s unit, revealed in this AP investigation , was set up beginning in 2002 with the help of an agent still on...

Ex-Execs Contradict James Murdoch Testimony

Matt Cantor — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:03:32 CDT

James Murdoch’s testimony to members of Parliament on the tabloid scandal is again being challenged , this time by two former News International executives. An ex- News of the World editor and another exec say that contrary to what the younger Murdoch testified, they “did inform” him of an email that...

Ex-Mob Boss Gives Tell-All Testimony

Kevin Spak — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:00:15 CDT

Joseph Massino wasted no time getting to the juicy stuff when he was brought to the stand yesterday. Asked by the prosecutors what powers he had as head of the Bonanno crime family, the first word out of his mouth was, “Murders.” Massino spent the next five hours giving his...

Petraeus: My Son Served in Afghanistan

Kevin Spak — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:34:45 CDT

In the midst of an emotional exchange today on Capitol Hill, David Petraeus revealed that his son had recently served a combat tour in Afghanistan, "which thankfully we were able to keep very quiet," the AP reports. Republican Rep. Walter Jones had pressed Petraeus to "be honest" about how long...

Fetuses to 'Testify' in Ohio Abortion Bill Debate

Kevin Spak — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 07:11:24 CST

A pair of fetuses—one of them nine weeks old, the other 11 weeks—will “testify” today in a committee debate over an Ohio bill that would ban abortions if the fetus has a heartbeat . Faith2Action, the Christian pro-life group coordinating the "appearance," boasts that they’ll be the youngest witnesses...

Colbert (Briefly) Breaks Character in Testimony

Kevin Spak — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:45:34 CDT

Stephen Colbert mostly yucked it up during his congressional testimony today, but towards the end, Democrat Judy Chu actually got him to break his faux-pundit facade. After relating the story of a worker overcome by heat stroke, but unable to find medical help, she asked Colbert why he had chosen...

Stephen Colbert Entertains House Panel

Kevin Spak — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:59:00 CDT

Steven Colbert had barely sat down for a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on migrant workers today when Michigan Democrat John Conyers asked him to leave, the Boston Globe reports. Conyers objected to the media attention Colbert garnered, saying he hadn’t seen so many reporters at a hearing since the Clinton...