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Saturday's TV Highlights: 'Smash' on NBC
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of April 28 - May 4, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Fix This Yard The season premiere...
Tags: Olivia Wilde, National Security Agency, Google Inc., Elizabeth Banks, Dan Coats
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Charlize Theron on 'Fox News Sunday'
Staff writerCharlize Theron puts in an appearance this weekend on "Fox News Sunday." The Oscar-winner is a messenger of peace for the United Nations. She and Michel Sidibé, executive director of UNAIDS, are in the power play segment of the program at 10 a.m. Sunday...Tags: CBS Corp., Dan Coats, Marsha Blackburn, Lindsey O. Graham, Keith Ellison
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CORRECTED-Texas fertilizer company didn't heed disclosure rules before blast
Reuters(Corrects rental truck brand used by McVeigh was from Ryder, not U-Haul, in paragraph 20) By Joshua Schneyer, Ryan McNeill and Janet Roberts NEW YORK, April 20 (Reuters) - The fertilizer plant that exploded on Wednesday, obliterating part of a small...Tags: Plant Openings, Litigation and Regulation, Environmental Issues, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, National Security
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Boston bombings to dominate Sunday morning shows
Staff writerTHIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED: Discussion about the Boston Marathon bombings and the suspects will fill the Sunday morning talk shows. A look at the guest list, which has been very fluid this weekend: ABC's "This Week" features Mayor Thomas Menino, D-...Tags: Dianne Feinstein, Tim Roemer, Fareed Zakaria GPS (tv program), Dan Coats, Brad Garrett
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Protect Our Prairies Act creates a nationwide ĀSodsaverĀ provision
Washington, DC - On Feb. 14, Representatives Kristi Noem (R-SD) and Tim Walz (D-MN), along with six additional cosponsors, introduced bipartisan legislation that would protect our nation's remaining native prairies and prime grasslands. The Protect...Tags: Earl Blumenauer, Politics, Natural Resource Industry, Environmental Issues, John Thune
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BioWatch upgrade apparently postponed
WASHINGTON — Amid concerns about cost and reliability, the federal Department of Homeland Security has quietly postponed plans to buy technology that officials have long claimed could provide a life-saving upgrade of BioWatch, the nation's system...
Tags: Janet Napolitano, George W. Bush, Democratic National Convention (2008), National Security, U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security
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Congress members voice doubts about BioWatch
WASHINGTON — Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee and a senior Republican colleague voiced grave doubts Thursday about the viability of BioWatch, the nation's system for detecting biological attacks that has been plagued by false...
Tags: Laura Richardson, Politics, National Security, Los Angeles Times, Bioterrorism
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Americans on no-fly list allowed to learn to fly
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. citizens who are on the government's list of people banned from flying because they're considered terror threats are not prevented from learning how to fly in schools around the country, according to government regulation....
Tags: Security Measures, Criminals, National Security, Washington, DC, Crime, Law and Justice
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Victims of 1998 Africa bombing still seeking compensation
Fourteen years after a truck bomb ripped through the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, the families of 12 Americans killed in the attack are still fighting for federal compensation that has been granted to other terrorism victims — a struggle that has...Tags: Africa, Al-Qaeda, Politics, Barbara A. Mikulski, U.S. Department of State
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Homeland Security official: Airport employees are potential terror risks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Commercial air travel is at risk from terrorists who quietly get jobs at airports so that they can attack from within sensitive areas, a senior Homeland Security Department official told lawmakers Wednesday. There has never been...
Tags: Queens (New York City), Politics, National Security, Justice System, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
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House vote sets up Senate cybersecurity showdown over privacy, corporate and government spying
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House’s solid bipartisan vote for a cybersecurity bill sends a message to the Senate: Now it’s your turn to act. Ignoring a White House veto threat, the House approved the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and...
Tags: National Security Agency, Joe Lieberman, Politics, National Security, Defense
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