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Internet Sales Tax Bill – Backed By Obama – Expected To Pass Senate This Week
A measure to empower U.S. states to require out-of-state retailers to collect online sales tax is expected to pass the Senate this week, after winning official backing from President Barack Obama Monday. Seventy-four senators voted Monday to limit debate...Tags: Finance, Overstock.com Incorporated, Dick Durbin, Small Businesses, Amazon.com Inc.
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Airlines fly above air traffic doomsday predictions
Criticism intensified Monday that the Obama administration is deliberately inconveniencing and potentially endangering the flying public by going ahead with threatened staffing reductions at airport air traffic towers and radar facilities, instead of...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Budgets and Budgeting, Federal Aviation Administration, Jerry Moran, Rick Larsen
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About 400 U.S. flights delayed as sequestration takes hold
Sequestration is starting to frustrate air travelers. About 400 flights were delayed Sunday because of air traffic controller furloughs, the Federal Aviation Administration said, and a few more interruptions were reported Monday, though the nation's air...
Tags: Air Transportation, Bill Shuster, Budgets and Budgeting, Career and Workplace, Federal Aviation Administration
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McManus: A tax everyone can love
The chairmen of Congress' primary tax committees, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), have launched a bipartisan effort to reform our messy, inefficient federal tax law. They've agreed to look for ways to lower tax rates on both...
Tags: John McCain, Mike Enzi, Petroleum Industry, Primaries, Politics
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Obama confident judicial system can handle Boston bombing suspect
WASHINGTON – President Obama believes the civilian justice system can handle cases of domestic terrorism and supports the decision to try the Boston Marathon bombing suspect in federal court, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Monday....
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, White House, Punishment, Sports, Trials
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Boston Marathon bombing suspect is charged
BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged in his hospital room Monday with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill — a crime that carries a possible death sentence. Tsarnaev, 19, was accused by federal...
Tags: FBI, Krystle Campbell, This Week (tv program), Defense Equipment, Trials
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Obama talks to Putin about Boston manhunt
WASHINGTON -- President Obama spoke on the phone Friday with President Vladimir Putin of Russia as U.S. officials scrambled to track the movements of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers. In the evening conversation, Obama praised the "close...
Tags: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, White House, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Vladimir Putin, Sports
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Obama: 'We've got better things to do' than OK Jay-Z's Cuba trip
Los Angeles TimesDid Jay-Z and Beyonce really get White House clearance to go to Cuba, as Hova rapped in his "Open Letter" that dropped last week, shortly after the trip raised some official eyebrows? White House spokesman Jay Carney said no, and now we have the...Tags: White House, Google Inc., Jay-Z, Social Media, Sports
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Boston bombings: Obama praises officers' sacrifices
WASHINGTON -- President Obama on Saturday praised the law enforcement officers who worked to search for suspects and secure the Boston area in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. In his weekly video and radio address, Obama praised officers...Tags: White House, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Law Enforcement, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sports
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Mississippi man arrested for mailing suspected ricin to Obama, senators
CORINTH, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man accused of mailing letters with suspected ricin to national leaders believed he had uncovered a conspiracy to sell human body parts on the black market and claimed "various parties within the government"...
Tags: Steve Holland, FBI, White House, Police Arrests, Government
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FBI: No signs ricin letters connected to Boston attack
WASHINGTON – Investigators say there are no signs of a link between the Boston Marathon bombings and potentially poisonous letters sent to the President Obama and a U.S. senator. An FBI statement issued Wednesday said the investigation into the...
Tags: Anthrax, FBI, White House, Sports, U.S. Senate
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Update: Ricin is indicated in letters to Obama, senator
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a capital city on edge, letters sent to President Barack Obama and a Mississippi senator tested positive for poisonous ricin in preliminary checks, and authorities chased a stream of reports Wednesday of other suspicious-looking...Tags: Jeff Flake, FBI, White House, Carl Levin, Richard Shelby
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