Talk about fairweather friends. Iowa state Sen. Kent Sorenson (R), who was Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann ’s state campaign chairman, endorsed Texas Rep. Ron Paul Wednesday night. At a rally in Des Moines, Sorenson told the crowd , “We’re going to take Ron Paul all the way to the White House.” He did not tell Bachmann of his decision until he was en route to the Paul rally, billed as an event for veterans. Read full article > >

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Kent Sorenson, Bachmann’s Iowa chair, defects to Paul

At a town hall meeting at the Institute of Politics at New Hampshire’s Saint Anselm’s College Tuesday, Rick Perry asked that all of the college students in the crowd who will be 21 by Nov. 12 support his bid for the presidency. Say what? Read full article > >

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Rick Perry gets U.S. voting age wrong in New Hampshire

Some of the people camped out Zuccotti Park for the Occupy Wall Street protest want to End the Fed. Others want to tax Wall Street. One woman assured me that “very few” of the top one percent live in New York, or even in the United States. “They’re in gated communities all around the world,” she said. Someone else saw this as a cultural revolution. When I arrived, the crowd seemed almost entirely under-30. By the time I left, it was considerably less homogenous. Read full article > >

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A tipping point for Occupy Wall Street

About 100 protesters trapped the American diplomat for 90 minutes in his office building until security forces showed up at the scene and dispersed the crowd.

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U.S. Ambassador to Syria Trapped for 90 Minutes by Pro-Assad Crowd

CORONA DEL MAR, Calif. — If Texas Gov. Rick Perry was looking for a sign that the United States was ready for the “provocative language” about Social Security he offered in Wednesday night’s debate , he quickly found one here. After praising his “inflammatory rhetoric,” the county supervisor who introduced Perry at a Thursday gathering of Orange County Republicans asked those in attendance what they would call Social Security. “Ponzi scheme!” the crowd of hundreds cried out in response, echoing Perry’s term for it. “Ponzi scheme!” Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney campaign seizes on Rick Perry’s Social Security comments after debate

CORONA DEL MAR, Calif. — If Texas Gov. Rick Perry was looking for a sign that the United States was ready for the “provocative language” about Social Security he offered in Wednesday night’s debate , he quickly found one here. After praising his “inflammatory rhetoric,” the county supervisor who introduced Perry at a Thursday gathering of Orange County Republicans asked those in attendance what they would call Social Security. “Ponzi scheme!” the crowd of hundreds cried out in response, echoing Perry’s term for it. “Ponzi scheme!” Read full article > >

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Listen to what Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch had to say about the company’s newest Nook e-reader , released Tuesday . It’s for people who are “turned off by buttons, keyboards, and complexity,” he said. “Kindle 3 has 38 buttons. That’s 37 more than the all-new Nook,” Lynch told the crowd at a media event in New York. Excess buttons, he noted, “assault the user.”And there’s 80% less flashing when you turn the pages! Can’t you hear it? The growing roar of the unspeakably obvious? Read full article > >

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Barnes & Noble’s even newer Nook — there’s a word for that

Manny Pacquiao retained his World Boxing Association welterweight title in a bout against Shane Mosley that did not please the crowd.

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Pacquiao Takes Decision, but Disappoints Fans

Explore our high definition image of the royal wedding procession and, by zooming in, see if you can find yourself in the crowd.

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Spot yourself in our hi-def wedding picture

Charlie Sheen may not be winning anymore. The volatile star kicked off his Violent Torpedo of Truth tour Saturday night-and was met with jeers, boos, and walkouts. “I’m a giant and leaky bag of mayhem,” the former Two and a Half Men star told the crowd…

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An estimated 400,000 people hit the streets of London on Saturday, some bused in from around the country to protest cuts to the public sector. But there seems to be a small band of anarchists in the crowd, smashing windows and throwing paint bombs and…

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Anarchists Crash London Protests

An estimated 400,000 people hit the streets of London on Saturday, some bused in from around the country to protest cuts to the public sector. But there seems to be a small band of anarchists in the crowd, smashing windows and throwing paint bombs and…

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Massive Protest in London

Protests in Saudi Arabia turned violent when police officers opened fire on marchers in the eastern city of Qatif. Witnesses dispute whether police fired over people’s heads or directly into the crowd, but at least three people were injured in the…

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Saudi Arabia Protest Turns Violent

Before he addressed the crowd that had assembled in the St. Louis Hyatt Regency ballroom last November, Lt. Gen. John F. Kelly had one request. “Please don’t mention my son,” he asked the Marine Corps officer introducing him.

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Lt. Gen. John Kelly, who lost son to war, says U.S. largely unaware of sacrifice

Maybe he just wanted some fresh air? U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman is making headlines in China, where he was spotted at a pro-democracy demonstration in a busy Beijing commercial neighborhood. Someone in the crowd recognized him and accused him of…

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Huntsman Spotted at Chinese Protest