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SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The woman behind an early Facebook post spreading a harmful and baseless claim about Haitian immigrants eating local pets that helped thrust a small Ohio city into the national spotlight says she had no firsthand knowledge of any such incident and is now filled with regret and fear as a result of the ensuing fallout. “It just exploded into something I didn’t mean to happen,” Erika Lee, a Springfield resident, told NBC News on Friday. Lee recently posted on Facebook about a neighbor’s cat that went missing, adding that the neighbor told Lee she thought the cat...

In an apparent slip of the tongue, Harry Reid this morning referred to the gun-control bill he brought to the Senate floor as “anti-gun legislation.” “On the anti-gun legislation before the Senate, we are making good progress on the effort to schedule a series of votes on amendments to the anti-gun-violence legislation before the Senate.” Some, however, are questioning whether the Senate minority leader accidentally revealed his true feelings. GOP Sentaor Ted Cruz, a leading opponent of the bill, asked whether Reid’s statement was a ”Freudian slip.” He said in a Tweet:

FARRAKHAN: "I warn my brother do you let these wicked demons move you in a direction that will absolutely ruin your future with your people in Africa and throughout the Arab world...Why don't you organize a group of respected Americans and ask for a meeting with Qaddafi, you can't order him to step down and get out, who the hell do you think you are?

Botox. Billionaire. Prenup. Private plane. Eccentric. "Mama T." Sexy. Cheeky. "Shove it!" Hardly typical images for a would-be first lady, but ketchup heiress Teresa Heinz Kerry, 65, is one of a kind ... ~snip~ Some delegates loved it but others were aghast as she bragged of speaking five languages ... ~snip~ "It stinks. And it ain't going to play in Peoria," groaned a New York Democrat who's at least as liberal as Heinz Kerry. ~snip~ It seems Team Kerry's strategy was to hide her in plain sight by having her speak Tuesday, the one convention night with no prime-time network...