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Lawmaker confirms Secret Service investigating new misconduct allegations

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating allegations of improper conduct last year by personnel sent to El Salvador that mirror the behavior by employees implicated in the agency’s Colombia sex scandal, according to a lawmaker closely tracking the agency’s investigations.
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Blue Dogs lose their bite, Albright’s new memoir, and a despot’s First Lady (read-this roundup)

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

Here’s what the Loop is reading Thursday morning:

Pale-blue dogs — The caucus of moderate Democrats, the Blue Dogs, have lost their bite. Our colleague Paul Kane explores why they’re on the endangered species list.
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The mommy wars inside my head

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

LONDON — It’s been exactly two weeks since the dreaded “Mommy Wars” re-exploded into our collective lexicon. Since then — courtesy of figures as disparate as First Lady-hopeful Ann Romney and French feminist Elisabeth Badinter — we’ve been pitting stay-at-home-moms against working moms in an inexorable, intractable struggle.
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Could Newt Gingrich help Mitt Romney? (Thursday’s Trail Mix)

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich is dropping out of the GOP presidential race next week. Will his exit help Mitt Romney? Today’s Trail Mix video takes a look:
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Mourdock claims lead over Lugar in Indiana poll by Citizens United

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

Indiana state Treasurer Richard Mourdock has taken a slight lead on Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) in the state’s Republican Senate primary, according to a new poll from a Mourdock-aligned group.

The poll, conducted by GOP pollster Fritz Wenzel for Mourdock-supporting group Citizens United, shows Mourdock at 44 percent and Lugar at 39 percent. The poll has a margin of error of about 4 percent.
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