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Background checks measure faces defeat, sponsor says
WASHINGTON -- The lead author of a compromise plan to expand background checks, seen as the centerpiece of larger gun legislation before the Senate, all but conceded Wednesday that there won't be the votes needed to adopt it. During an appearance on...
Tags: Lisa Murkowski, Personal Weapon Control, Politics, Republican Party, Joe Manchin III
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Time Warner Cable lets customers take TV on the road
Time Warner Cable subscribers can now take a lot of their television lineup with them on the road. The cable company, which has more than 2 million subscribers in Southern California, is now offering its customers the ability to access content from...
Tags: The Walt Disney Co., Time Warner Cable Inc., Nickelodeon (tv network), Television Industry, Netflix Inc.
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Live updates: Krystle M. Campbell mourned as 2nd Boston bombing victim
Friends of 29-year-old Krystle M. Campbell mourned her Tuesday as the second victim of the Boston Marathon bombings. On Facebook, employees of the Summer Shack restaurant in Hingham, Mass., where she was general manager said they were devastated “by...Tags: Laws, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Road Running, White House, Government
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Congress reacts to Boston Marathon bombings
WASHINGTON -- Congressional leaders reflected with grief on the tragic loss of life in the bombings at the Boston Marathon on Monday, but had few immediate answers as to the nature of the attack. The flag over the U.S. Capitol was at half staff and...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Chris Murphy, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Dianne Feinstein, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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In the Senate, a gun rights ally's choice to compromise
WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Manchin III owns two 12-gauge Beretta shotguns, a semiautomatic Remington 58 Sportsman and a deer rifle. Since he was elected to the Senate two years ago, he has easily maintained an A rating from the National Rifle Assn....Tags: Firearms, CBS Corp., White House, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Tom Coburn
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Former Congressman Connie Mack joins Washington lobbying firm
Sun SentinelCornelius Harvey McGillicuddy IV, known to most people as Connie Mack IV, is joining the ranks of many other former elected officials – including his father – by joining a K Street lobbying firm in the nation’s capital. Mack is a...Tags: U.S. Congress, Public Officials, Business, Government, Politics
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Rand Paul has lotsa 'splaining to do
Within hours after Sen. Rand Paul's news-making speech at historically black Howard University, someone posted this new definition on the user-driven Urban Dictionary website of an awkward-sounding but quite timely verb: "whitesplain": "The act of a...
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Politics
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How Prince became royal
Here are things you may not have known about Prince: In high school, he was a decent basketball player. "Amadeus" was at one point his favorite movie. And he may not have believed that Ronald Reagan suffered from Alzheimer's disease. These tidbits,...
Tags: SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, Entertainment, Music Industry, Alzheimer's Disease, Ronald Reagan
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Laurene Powell Jobs gives first interview since Steve Jobs' death
Laurene Powell Jobs is giving her first public interview on Friday since the death of her husband, Steve Jobs. Jobs will appear on NBC's Rock Center with Brian Williams to promote a new documentary called "The Dream is Now" that will air this weekend...Tags: Steve Jobs, DREAM Act
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Eye-candy comment leaves sour aftertaste
Dear Barry: Ordinarily, I'd address you as Mr. Obama or Mr. President, in deference to your office. But we need to have us a guy-to-guy chat here, so I hope you'll excuse the familiarity, because I just have to ask: Barry, brotherman, bubbeleh, what the...
Tags: Kamala D. Harris, Shaun Donovan, Science and Technology, The Miami Herald, Star Trek: The Next Generation (tv program)
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Rand Paul's rough day at Howard University
WASHINGTON -- Tea party titan Rand Paul, visiting Howard University on Wednesday, told students that he had been called "either brave or crazy to be here" at the historically black college. Probably some of each: brave, because he's trying to sell...
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Tea Party Movement, Voting, Republican Party, Politics
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Obama's eye-candy comment leaves sour aftertaste
Dear Barry: Ordinarily, I'd address you as Mr. Obama or Mr. President, in deference to your office. But we need to have us a guy-to-guy chat here, so I hope you'll excuse the familiarity, because I just have to ask: Barry, brotherman, bubbeleh, what...
Tags: Kamala D. Harris, Shaun Donovan, Science and Technology, Star Trek: The Next Generation (tv program), Pittsburgh Penguins
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