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The owners of the pizzeria that makes Barack Obama's favorite pies are heading to Washington, NBC 5's Anthony Ponce reports.

Italian Fiesta Pizza in Hyde Park is taking its spicy-sauced, thin crust pizza to D.C. for an event previewing the food at the inauguration:

The Ritz in Washington D.C. is paying to fly the pizzeria's owners to the nation's capitol for the inauguration expo to be held there next week to serve their pizza there.

Two reports tonight, one from the New York Times, and the other from Newsweek, contradict John McCain's statement this week that his campaign manager Rick Davis had no involvement with mortgage giant Freddie Mac for the last several years.

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We're shocked it took them until Friday. In response to the Supreme Court ruling overturning Washington, D.C.'s gun ban -- which most likely will affect Chicago's own ban in the near future -- Reverend Jesse Jackson announced at his Rainbow PUSH headquarters that his organization was going to increase their fight against guns.

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We're the seventh-biggest "cybercity" according to a new report, whose findings we will immediately dismiss based on their use of the prefix "cyber." What year is it, people? We ranked behind New York, Washington, D.C., San Jose, Boston, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Los Angeles.