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/ 30 January 2009
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was removed from office on Thursday after the state Senate unanimously convicted him on impeachment charges.
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/ 24 January 2009
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, charged with trying to sell Barack Obama’s Senate seat, said he will not take part in an impeachment trial.
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/ 10 January 2009
The House of Representatives impeached Rod Blagojevich on Friday for abuse of power, including a charge that he tried to sell Barack Obama’s seat.
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/ 11 December 2008
Obama has called on the Democratic governor of Illinois to resign after he was charged with trying to sell Obama’s US Senate seat.
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/ 25 October 2008
The mother and brother of Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Hudson were found shot to death in the mother’s Chicago home on Friday.
A transgender man who is six months pregnant said in an interview aired by Oprah Winfrey on Thursday that he always wanted to have a child and considers it a miracle. ”It’s not a male or female desire to have a child. It’s a human desire,” a thinly bearded Thomas Beatie said.
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/ 18 October 2006
A fresh wave of atheistic books has hit the market this autumn, some climbing onto best-seller lists in what proponents see as a backlash against the way religion is entwined in politics. ”Religion is fragmenting the human community,” said Sam Harris, author of Letter to a Christian Nation, number 11 on the New York Times non-fiction list on October 15.