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 Palins Won't 
 Split Up: Biographer 

Sarah and Todd are building a 'summer White House'

Nov 1, 09 4:59 PM CST
(Newser) - Some oracles read tea leaves; Sarah Palin's biographer tells the future from home construction. "They're building another house and an airplane hangar," author Joe McGinniss, just back from Wasilla, tells Rush & Molloy of the Daily News . "Just based on the size of the compound, I'd say... More »

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Alaska • Republican • publishing • Sarah Palin • Wasilla • Todd Palin • Joe McGinniss • Broadway Books

 Todd Palin Quits Oil Job 


Oct 3, 09 6:28 AM CDT
(AP) - Another Palin calls it quits: Two months after Sarah stepped down as governor of Alaska, Todd has resigned from his oil field job on the North Slope. Todd Palin's resignation as a production operator for oil giant BP PLC was apparently effective September 18. As Palin fans await the release... More »

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Alaska • resignation • Sarah Palin • oil industry • Todd Palin • BP Plc

INTERVIEW

 Sarah Wanted to 
 Adopt My Kid: Levi 


Sep 2, 09 12:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - Levi Johnston continues his gripping expose of the Palin family in an interview with Vanity Fair. Some choice revelations from Bristol's ex, who lived with the family for two months following the election:
  • "There wasn't much parenting in that house": The Palin parents were too busy
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Alaska • parenting • governor • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Bristol Palin • Todd Palin • Levi Johnston • Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston

 Levi, Kathy Plan 'Love Igloo' 

Plus, Levi dishes on Palins' marital problems

Aug 11, 09 8:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Kathy Griffin rehashed her date with Levi Johnston last night on Larry King Live, in what the Huffington Post and Gawker declare quite possibly the most entertaining segment in the show’s history. Amid recollections of “spooning” in the arms of her “tiger” and imagining their “... More »

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entertainment • Larry King • celebrity • Sarah Palin • celebrity interview • Bristol Palin • Todd Palin • Levi Johnston • Kathy Griffin • Miley Cyrus pole dance • Miley Cyrus stripper pole

Palin Lawyer Threatens Blogger With Summons

'Gryphen' broke divorce rumor yesterday

Aug 2, 09 4:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin's lawyer says he'll serve an Alaska blogger with libel papers unless he retracts a story that Sarah and Todd are "splittsville," the Huffington Post reports. Thomas Van Flein threatened "Gryphen," author of The Immoral Minority blog, with the summons at a kindergarten... More »

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divorce • lawyer • blogger • kindergarten • Sarah Palin • celebrity divorces • Todd Palin

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 Palin Camp Denies 
 Divorce Rumor 

Affairs, work stress caused marriage to deteriorate

Aug 1, 09 4:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin denied a report today that she and former “First Dude” Todd Palin are getting a divorce: "Yet again, some so-called journalists have decided to make up a story," Palin's spokeswoman writes on Facebook.  "There is no truth to the recent 'story' ... ... More »

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Alaska • divorce • governor • Sarah Palin • Todd Palin

(Newser) - Very late in the presidential campaign, staffers for Sen. John McCain came to the painful realization that it would be impossible, ever, to get Sarah Palin up to speed, reports Vanity Fair. They discovered, too late, she was a truth-shifting, self-regarding "little shop of horrors" who knew little about... More »

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politics • Vanity Fair • GOP • Republican Party • Sarah Palin • Bristol Palin • Todd Palin • right-wing extremism

(Newser) - Weren't we just here? Sarah Palin and David Letterman had another go-round today, the Daily News reports. Palin laid into Letterman for what she termed a "sexually perverted joke" about her 14-year-old daughter. Letterman, while admitting "poor taste," said on his show tonight that his remark—"... More »

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David Letterman • Sarah Palin • Bristol Palin • Todd Palin • Willow Palin

Palin Tours Feminist Landmarks

Media scarce as Alaska gov. launches low-key visit to lower 48

Jun 6, 09 7:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - There were few reporters to be seen as Sarah Palin visited some landmarks of early feminism in upstate New York yesterday, Politico reports. The Alaska governor is at the start of a low-key out-of-state trip with no mass rallies or major addresses planned. Most of the events she plans to... More »

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Alaska • Republican • feminism • Sarah Palin • Todd Palin

 Dump Levi, Get a Car: 
 Dad to Bristol 

Teen parents are exchanging flirty text messages, but no reunion in sight

May 28, 09 9:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - The chill between Levi Johnston and Bristol Palin is thawing, but the same can’t be said for Johnston and his babymama’s parents: Todd Palin offered, more than once, to buy Bristol a car if only she’d dump Levi. That tidbit, as well as the revelation that Johnston... More »

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teen pregnancy • Bristol Palin • Todd Palin • Levi Johnston • Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston

Bristol Palin Ends Feud
With Babydaddy Levi

Teenage mom says their families will play nice for Tripp's sake

May 22, 09 2:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bristol Palin is no longer at war with her baby daddy’s family. In fact, “I don’t think we were ever at war at all,” the 18-year-old mom tells People, adding that she and former fiancé Levi Johnston are trying to work together for the sake of... More »

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Alaska • feud • gossip • Sarah Palin • Bristol Palin • Todd Palin • Levi Johnston • Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston

OPINION

Bristol as a Role Model?
You Must Be Kidding


May 7, 09 9:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - When the Candie’s teen fashion line came under fire for dressing high school girls like hookers, it formed a nonprofit to fight teen pregnancy. And when the foundation needed a “teen ambassador,” it called Bristol Palin. “Can I say upfront that this is a terrible, terrible... More »

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abstinence education • teen pregnancy • Gail Collins • Sarah Palin • Bristol Palin • Todd Palin • Levi Johnston • Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston

Palin's Sister-in-Law Arrested for Burglary

Todd Palin's half-sister accused of breaking into Wasilla home to steal cash

Apr 4, 09 3:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin's sister-in-law has been arrested on suspicion of burglary, the Anchorage Daily News reports. Diana Palin—half-sister of Sarah Palin's husband Todd—is accused of breaking into the same house in Wasilla, Alaska twice in one week to steal money. She faces two counts of felony burglary and misdemeanor... More »

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(Newser) - Todd Palin says the $150,000 spending spree that outfitted his wife during last fall’s campaign was “out of our control,” the AP reports. “You come into a campaign late,” he told Men’s Journal. “You put all your trust into the team.”... More »

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John McCain • Alaska • RNC • clothes • campaign trail • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Todd Palin

(Newser) - Sarah Palin has been accused of another ethics violation, this time for wearing gear made by the company that sponsors her husband’s snow-machine adventure, the Anchorage Daily News reports. The governor supported Todd at the annual Iron Dog race in an outfit from Arctic Cat, which gave the snowmobiler... More »

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ethics • clothing • Sarah Palin • corporate sponsorship • complaints • Todd Palin • snowmobile • Iron Dog • snow machine • Howard Stern Grid

Palin Paying Back State for Family Travel

Guv agrees to $7,000 settlement in ethics probe over kids' trips

Feb 25, 09 3:31 AM CST
(Newser) - Sarah Palin has agreed to reimburse Alaska for family travel she billed to the state, reports the Anchorage Daily News. An investigator probing an ethics complaint filed against the governor found nine trips involving Palin's children in which the personal benefit clearly outweighed any benefit to the state. Palin will... More »

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ethics • Alaska • Sarah Palin • Todd Palin • travel expenses • Piper Palin

Palin's Husband, Aides Found in Contempt 

State lawmakers slap wrists for ignoring Troopergate subpoenas

Feb 7, 09 6:03 AM CST
(Newser) - Alaska's Senate has voted to hold Todd Palin and nine of Sarah Palin's aides in contempt for not showing up to testify when subpoenaed in the Troopergate probe, reports the Anchorage Daily News. The resolution doesn’t call for any further punishment, because all 10 submitted written statements to investigators... More »

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Alaska • contempt of court • Troopergate • Sarah Palin • Walt Monegan • Todd Palin

 It'll Be a Boy for Bristol: Gramps 

Governor's grandson due Saturday

Dec 18, 08 11:11 AM CST
(Newser) - Bristol Palin and babydaddy Levi Johnston will welcome a boy roughly any second now, spills Sarah Palin's dad in an interview with Grandparents.com, but "they don't have a name for it yet." Soon-to-be great-grandfather Chuck Heath said the guv will make a great grandmother. "I don't... More »

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grandparents • Sarah Palin • Bristol Palin • Todd Palin • Levi Johnston • Chuck Heath • Sally Heath

Fox Pundit: Media Bashed Palin for Not Aborting Trig

Writer makes 'humorous dig' at liberal media for relentless Palin attacks

Nov 12, 08 4:54 AM CST
(Newser) - Political analyst Michael Barone was booed by a crowd of academics after saying the media hated Sarah Palin for not aborting Trig, Politico reports."The liberal media attacked Sarah Palin because she did not abort her Down syndrome baby," the US News & World Report writer said, prompting... More »

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abortion • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Todd Palin • Trig Palin

 Palin: I'm No Bubblehead 

Candidate tells People she's an intellectual, a voracious reader, and a great cook

Oct 23, 08 1:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tina Fey's portrayal of Sarah Palin as a bubblehead is way off, the candidate tells People magazine in a joint interview with hubby Todd. Palin says she considers herself an intellectual and is a voracious reader, largely of historical books and autobiographies. The Looming Tower, a look at events leading... More »

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Tina Fey • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • interview • Todd Palin

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