Articles by Alex Swoyer
After eight days of deliberation, the judge declared a hung jury Thursday in the sentencing of Jodi Arias for the 2008 murder of her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander. Prosecutors had originally sought the death penalty.
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March 5, 2015
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Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz told The Washington Times that Hillary Clinton "owns the Obama-Clinton foreign policy."
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March 2, 2015
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Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz told a handful of reporters at CPAC he thinks Loretta Lynch's confirmation out of the Senate Judiciarry Committee was "heartbreaking."
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February 26, 2015
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In an exclusive interview with The Washington Times, Ben S. Carson said radical Islamic terrorists threaten the United States, and he called for boots on the ground to defeat the organization.
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February 25, 2015
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The Department of Veterans Affairs notified the wife of a former Marine that he had died, but Mark Ellis Jr. is very much alive.
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February 22, 2015
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Actor Charlie Sheen says he considers himself a "constitutional Republican" and he'd like to use his celebrity to run for president.
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February 11, 2015
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Women usually pay more at a salon for a haircut than men, but it turns out deodorant, razors and cars actually have "The Woman's Tax" — causing them to pay more than men for essentially the same product, KOMU 8 News reported.
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February 10, 2015
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Sen. Mike Lee and his staff wanted to show the public the amount of laws passed by Congress and signed by the President in comparison to the large number of regulations issued by unelected bureaucrats, so he took to social media to make his point.
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January 27, 2015
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White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest used a press conference on Friday to poke fun at Tom Brady's failure to explain the use of deflated footballs during the Patriot's game against the Indianapolis Colt.
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January 24, 2015
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A woman stole a flat screen television in Costa Rica — but the way she did it is catching attention.
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January 21, 2015
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An 86-year-old Florida widow has chosen to spend the rest of her golden years aboard a opulent cruise ship — and she's willing to pay upwards of $164,000 a year to do it.
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January 20, 2015
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Roughly a dozen veterans — half of them with canes — marched from the Department of Veterans Affairs to the White House Saturday morning. They want the government to create a health registry for veterans who served at Fort McClellan prior to its closing in 1999 due to toxic contaminants.
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January 17, 2015
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A South Carolina state lawmaker wants students to celebrate gun rights in schools, so he introduced the "Second Amendment Education Act," which designates Dec. 15 as "Second Amendment Awareness Day" and requires instruction on the right to bear arms for at least three consecutive weeks in the school year.
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January 15, 2015
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Sunday marked the 13-year anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility in Cuba. Close to 800 men have been held at Gitmo throughout the 13 years since it opened.
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January 11, 2015
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Putting budget concerns ahead of troop welfare, a top Obama administration appointee declared to Congress that the Pentagon doesn't want to spend the money to alert hundreds of thousands of soldiers who served at a once-contaminated Army base that they may have been exposed to toxins.
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January 11, 2015
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More than a third of millennials say connecting with others online and forming "elationships" is just as meaningful as face-to-face relationships, according to the Cassandra Report published by Deep Focus, a marketing expertise company.
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January 5, 2015
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Rep. Louie Gohmert said Sunday morning that he will challenge John Boehner for the post of House speaker.
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January 4, 2015
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With a new year kicking off, certified financial planner Wendy Weaver says now is the time for millennials to begin considering their financial future and how to get there.
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January 1, 2015
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President Obama released five more prisoners from Guantanamo Bay Naval Base overnight, Fox News reported. They were held for more than a decade and were sent to resettle in Kazakhstan.
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December 31, 2014
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The American Automobile Association predicts lower gas prices will increase holiday travel by at least 4 percent during the next two weeks. Nearly 99 million people will travel at least 50 miles during Christmas and the New Year.
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December 18, 2014
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