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Watch the video at the link. It’s not often that Ted Cruz struggles with his words. But during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, the GOP presidential candidate spoke about his half-sister’s struggle with addiction, and their family’s inability to save her.Cruz told Tapper that following her parents’ divorce, his sister Miriam became angry and turned to drugs: “Her whole life she lived basically as an angry teenager. She was sort of frozen emotionally as a rebellious teenager … She struggled her whole life with drug and alcohol addiction.” In the Texas Senator’s book, A Time for Truth, Cruz recalled...

Rush Limbaugh clowns about Winfrey's family secret Foreign Policy: While Chinese President Hu flaunted his country's power during his Western tour, his No. 2 economy raked in billions in Western aid. That's right. We're still subsidizing China. Why? According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, foreign aid to China totals $2.6 billion a year. The biggest donor is Japan, followed by Germany, France and Britain, then the U.S. All of these countries, meanwhile, are in debt to China and running massive deficits. U.S. aid, at $65 million a year, is relatively small thanks to sanctions imposed following Beijing's...

The throng of Asian-American donors drew closer, drinks in hand, to hear Barack Obama's sister describe the wide arc of his life: beyond politics and Chicago, into his childhood in Indonesia and Hawaii. To many in this crowd Obama's Asian-American half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, represents yet another aspect of Obama's identity that makes him unique as a presidential candidate, although it has been underplayed amid the excitement surrounding his shot at becoming the first black president. "It would be the first time that the first family is comprised in part of Asian-Americans _ as well as African-Americans, of course," said Keith...