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Russian President Vladimir Putin lost two of his most senior commanders in a single day in a devastating bridge ambush in eastern Ukraine, a group of independent journalists working on both sides of the war have claimed. Russia confirmed the death of Major-General Roman Kutuzov on Sunday, but new reports on Monday said Lieutenant-General Roman Berdnikov was killed on the same day in an attack carried out by Kyiv's forces. It has been suggested that the unusual speed with which Kutuzov's death was confirmed by Moscow was an attempt to cover up the loss of Berdnikov, 47. Less than a...

After confirming that Donald Trump would not be attending Thursday night’s GOP debate, rumors began circulating that the GOP frontrunner would appear on Bill O’Reilly‘s show. Mediaite reached out to a Fox News spokesperson, who confirmed that Trump would be appearing on The O’Reilly Factor tonight.

DAVENPORT, Iowa, Jan. 28 — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was in a Cedar Rapids living room crammed with Iowa voters on Saturday night when a voice from the back asked why the Clintons were such polarizing figures in American politics. The room grew still, except for the crackle of the fireplace. “I could give you a flip answer that, you know, some people are going to like me, and some people are not,” Mrs. Clinton said, smiling and sipping from a cup of water. “But I think it’s bigger and deeper than that.” For the next few minutes, Mrs. Clinton...

She had only token opposition, but Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton still spent more on her re-election — upward of $30 million — than any other candidate for Senate this year. So where did all the money go? It helped Mrs. Clinton win a margin of victory of more than 30 points. It helped her build a new set of campaign contributors. And it allowed her to begin assembling the nuts and bolts needed to run a presidential campaign. But that was not all. Mrs. Clinton also bought more than $13,000 worth of flowers, mostly for fund-raising events and as thank-yous...

For right-wing conspiracy theorists, this is the belly of the beast—a dinner at the Four Seasons in New York for the 20th anniversary of Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. Portentous Ivy League professors, Upper East Side gazillionaires, Precambrian media pooh-bahs; Dan Rather and Al Franken and Paul Pelosi, spouse of the Speaker-elect. Almost all in attendance cheer the results of the midterms while bemoaning the demise of old media. Suddenly, shimmering over the tabletops, comes a vision of what was and might yet be again: in full plumage, arriving and departing separately per their...

Hillary Meter Just 24% Consider Clinton Likely Candidate in 2008 November 6, 2006 In the most recent Rasmussen Hillary Meter survey, former First Lady Hillary Clinton has shifted three points to the left on the ideological continuum to 58 points left of the nation’s political center. Only twice in 2006 has she been seen so far to the left. In October of 2005, she was seen as 60 points to the left of the nation’s political center. More recently, she had moved somewhat to the right, settling at 50 a month ago, and 51 a month before that. The political...