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ust days after he was indicted on federal charges of using illegal campaign donations to conceal his mistress from voters, the U.S. Marshals Service on Wednesday released the mugshots of former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C). Edwards, who was the 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee, pleaded not guilty to the charges. The six-count indictment triggered immediate criticism from a range of campaign finance and legal experts, who said the government’s case is unprecedented and appears weak. They questioned whether it would survive the fierce defense being mounted by Edwards’s lawyers, who contend that his actions did not constitute a crime.

Oops he did it again. When asked to name and provide the number of federal departments he’d eliminate as president, Texas Gov. Rick Perry managed to list three, but they weren’t the three agencies he consistently names on the stump or that he attempted to name when he committed his now infamous “oops” moment. “Three right off the bat, you know, commerce, interior and energy are three that you think,” Perry said during a radio interview with Bill Edwards on WTKS Radio in Savannah. Perry made no mention of the Department

Click through for nine challenges growing businesses face and tips on how to tackle them, as identified by Edward D. Hess, professor at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business and author of Growing an Entrepreneurial Business: Concepts & Cases.

While publishers are grumbling about Apple’s new enforcement of in-app purchases for content, parents and one lawmaker are also raising questions about the way Apple handles in-app payments in apps aimed at children. According to the Washington Post, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D – MA) on Tuesday urged the Federal Trade Commission to review the way Apple markets its apps because of questions about the ease with which children are buying items in games.

Rep. Edward Acevedo (D-Chicago), a state representative since 1997 and Illinois House’s assistant majority leader had a handgun pointed at him in the Lower West Side’s area of Chicago. 47 year old Acevedo won re-election last November after running unopposed. The motive....

In what may well be his last appearance on the national stage, Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) gave an extraordinary speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver tonight.Sen. Kennedy, who is suffering from a malignant brain tumor, literally came from the hospital to address the convention.

If only John Edwards had couched his infidelities behind the cape of patriotism, as perennial Republican not-quite presidential candidate and “ideas man” Newt Gingrich is currently doing with his own escapades outside the realm of family values, then perhaps we’d still be able to kick Edwards around—at least he’d still be hammering home his pet hypothesis: that there are “two Americas”; the haves and the have-nots, those with access to health care and higher education and financial expertise and those without. The hypothesis is certainly not the sole provenance of Edwards; it’s a foundation of the Left and its modus operandi. The oft-repeated factoid concerning America’s massive income disparity is an important piece of evidence for this assertion.