Author: Michelle Ye Hee Lee
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Eleven donors plowed $1 billion into super PACs since 2010
Eleven donors plowed $1 billion into super PACs since 2010 the big-money entities that have given wealthy contributors a powerful way to influence elections. The list of donors – a bipartisan collection of hedge fund billionaires, entrepreneurs, media magnates and a casino mogul – together contributed more than one-fifth of the $4.5 billion collected by…
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‘Al Franken kissed and groped me without my consent,’ broadcaster Tweeden says
WASHINGTON – Broadcaster and model Leeann Tweeden said Thursday that Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., “forcibly kissed” her and groped her during a USO tour in 2006, saying that “there’s nothing funny about sexual assault.” “You knew exactly what you were doing,” Tweeden wrote in a blog post for Los Angeles radio station KABC, for whom…
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Fact-checking the ‘final arguments’ of Trump and Clinton Donald Trump Hillary Clinton
With the 2016 presidential election race coming to a close tomorrow, here’s a roundup of 29 claims being made by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in their “final argument” speeches. Trump repeated many of his greatest hits of debunked claims, and Clinton mainly attacked Trump. And, remember, no matter what your politics, please don’t take…