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don't know thousand do it. now unless something happens very, very soon in less than three hours at 12:01 a.m. eastern time the department of homeland security will be shutting down in the united states of america. this is the front page on politico right now. boehner fails again. this is the front page tonight. chaos at the house, shut down nears. i don't think they have ever turned their front headline to red. stunner, house gop shuts down own bill. the republicans thought they had a plan they thought they had this under control. on the senate side they got this done. they passed a...

Hundreds more. at the aaron hernandez trial, the younger sister of odin lloyd is expected to testify. yesterday, the former nfl star video was seen shortly before lloyd was killed. they claim the tape links hernandez to the crime. no verdict yet in jodi arias sentencing retrial. after deliberating for two days the phoenix jury is taking the weekend off and resumes work on monday. the jury is deciding to sentence her to death or life in prison for killing her ex-boyfriend travis alexander. a missouri state auditor considered a leading republican candidate for governor died thursday in an ...

Says. spence jackson was tom schweich's communications director since 2011. police found his body last night after his mother was not able to contact him on friday saturday or sunday and she got very worried. they found his body on sunday night. they say he killed himself either on friday or saturday. the missouri republican party rocked by the second suicide in a month. we do not yet know what can fairly be said about the connection between the two suicides, but long-time political reporter from the kansas city star spoke to friends of jackson today who said that jackson continued to be angry...

Chairmanship of the party and the consultants working with catherine hanaway who put together a radio ad critical of tom had not been punished by other members of the party. in fact that consultant continued to get work. the word we got today is spence jackson was very upset at both of those developments and aapparently, as you suggest took his life over the weekend. >> in terms of what is happening in missouri republican politics right now, obviously this is a story about politics also a story about human beings and families and loss and there's no reason to put more politics in to this story...

Schweich made -- there are numerous calls, an unusual amount of evidence of why he did it. what had so upset him. what upset him is his pleef the chairman of the missouri republican party was falsely telling people he was jewish as a way to hurt his political career. the chairman of the missouri republican party, his name is john hancock. mr. hancock did not deny that he had been telling people that tom schweich was jewish. he sent a e-mail. he said until recently i mistakenly believed that he was jewish. why i do not recall doing so it is possible that i mentioned tom's faith in passing durin...