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State Sen. Scott Brown is an attorney, lieutenant colonel in the Army National Guard and triathlete who once helped pay his law school bills by posing naked in 1982.

Insider, centerfold lead in race for Kennedy seat

The race for a Senate seat once held by "liberal lion" Edward M. Kennedy is shaping up as a battle of relative national unknowns, led by a state Democratic insider and a Republican lawmaker perhaps best known as a male centerfold. Full story

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Atlanta mayor's race headed for recount

How will Congress pay for the Afghan surge?

No. 2 at Justice Department stepping down

Climate e-mails debated at House hearing

Palin book tour host to foreign press: Stay away

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Obama details Afghan war plan, troop increases

Salahis: ‘We were invited, not crashers’

Shooting re-opens Huckabee's clemency record

Newsweek: Why Cheney should run in 2012

Can Obama retain Hispanic support?

NYC’s Bloomberg spent $183 per vote

The Grio: Rep. Rangel faces challenge from former staffer

Gay marriage momentum stalls in 2 states

Newsweek quiz: How well do you know Sarah Palin?

NYT: Medical debt spurs more bankruptcies

U.S. sets climate target ahead of summit

Obama vows to ‘finish the job’ in Afghanistan

Source: Palin book sold 700,000 in first week

GOP opens probe into climate science e-mails

Murray: Is the GOP making a comeback?

Sizing up the next generation of Kennedys

Palin visits Florida town that feted her in 2008

No jail time for figure in Abramoff scandal

Iraq inquiry: Early U.S. push on Saddam

Kansas Rep. Moore won't seek re-election

Kennedy dispute reveals a Catholic divide

McCain: ‘I enjoyed’ Palin's book

S.C. governor faces 37 ethics charges

Former ACORN official gets probation

Army to allow media to Palin book event

Giuliani said to lean toward Senate race

Go 'Rogue' in brief: Campaign, family, oil

Gov. Sanford reporting new trips

Media blocked from Palin’s Fort Bragg event

Governor's blindness now fodder for jokes, jabs

Where coverage of 'Going Rogue' goes wrong

S.C. governor to face ethics charges

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Rep. Defazio on jobless rate
Dec. 3: Rachel Maddow is joined by Rep. Peter Defazio, D-OR, to discuss ways the White House can lower the unemployment rate.

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Getting to know Sen. James Inhofe

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