Xbox blocks W.Va. gamer over town's name: Fort Gay (AP)Romanian Gypsy leader compares Sarkozy to Nazis (AP)8 people missing in Colo. wildfire (AP)Fla. minister: Sept. 11 Quran burn still planned (AP)
Lone Republican Senator blocking a million-plus Americans from receiving unemployment benefits (The Newsroom)
The Newsroom - Sarah Palin stormed the bestseller list last year with "Going Rogue"-a political memoir whose title coyly referenced the former GOP vice presidential nominee's supposed defiance of the consultants running the McCain campaign. But this year we have a new poster boy for the Going Rogue playbook: GOP Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky. For the past week, Bunning has been single-handedly blocking more than a million Americans from receiving unemployment and COBRA health insurance benefits, as of today, when their benefits funded under the 2009 stimulus law run out. The suspension of benefits affects everyone from doctors to government employees.
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