Account of 2007 Speech Prompts Letter from Senators to Hagel

Sens. Graham, Ayotte ask Hagel if he said Israel controls U.S. State Dept.
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Republican Senators Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte sent a letter to secretary of defense nominee Chuck Hagel Friday afternoon asking whether he said the U.S. Department of State was an extension of the Israeli government in a 2007 speech at Rutgers.

Warren’s Snowed ‘Globe’

Questions raised over Boston Globe reporting on Massachusetts Democrat’s law school application
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The campaign of Democratic Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren may have leaked previously unavailable documents to the Boston Globe in order to defuse the growing controversy over her claim to American Indian ancestry, according to correspondence obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.