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The number of women serving in the US Senate today remains disturbingly small, but at least there are more than a handful, and several exert real power. This was hardly the case just a few years ago. And, further back, In 1950, only three women had ever se rved in that boys club, and mainly as appointees filling out their husbands term

TIME Magazine reporter and author of the best-selling book Game Change, Mark Halperin, told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that he believes President Barack Obama will endorse gay marriage in an ABC interview later on Wednesday afternoon.

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1:55Much media coverage today on President Obamas painfully slow-to-evolve position on gay marriage, on how Vice President Bidens statement has him (and Biden)on the spot, and whats ahead. Frank Bruni's column inNYThits him for delaybut also finds it an ac ceptable political move, for now. Right now, Obama could stir up a lot of counterproductive noise and passion with an emphatic position in favor of marriage equality

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Note: Greg Mitchells bookThe Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclairs Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics, winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize, has recently been published in its first e-book edition and in a new print edition.

Army investigators say they found no bullet wound and no foul play in the death of a soldier in Afghanistan during a Skype video chat.