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Gun control advocates mark 6 months since shooting
WASHINGTON (AP) — Six months after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, some of the victims' families are heading to Capitol Hill to remind lawmakers they are painfully waiting for action, while some of the president's allies are asking him to...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Lobbying, Laws, U.S. Congress
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RAW VIDEO: Prince harry pays respects at Arlington, visits wounded troops at Walter Reed
WASHINGTON (AP) — Britain's Prince Harry saluted America's war dead in somber remembrance at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday, pausing, too, to place flowers on the tombstone of President John F. Kennedy and visit the grave of a British World...
Tags: U.S. Army, Mother's Day, U.S. Congress, John F. Kennedy, Diana, Princess of Wales
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Obama unveils $500 million gun violence package
JULIE PACE,Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Braced for a fight, President Barack Obama on Wednesday unveiled the most sweeping proposals for curbing gun violence in two decades, pressing a reluctant Congress to pass universal background checks and bans on military-style...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, U.S. Congress, Entertainment, Crime, Law and Justice
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Obama unveiling gun violence measures (WSBT airing)
JULIE PACE,Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's broad effort to reduce gun violence will include proposed bans on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines as well as more than a dozen executive orders aimed at circumventing...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Carolyn McCarthy, Bobby Scott, U.S. Congress
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NY cardinal compares slain Conn. teacher to Jesus
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A single bell repeatedly rang a sad, slow beat Thursday at the Connecticut funeral of a 6-year-old girl killed by a gunman at her elementary school, while a cardinal in New York compared a slain teacher to Jesus for giving up...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Health and Safety at School, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Jim Fitzgerald, Eric Holder
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Culver Academy students preparing for inauguration parade
Culver Academy students are already in Washington DC to take part in Monday's presidential inauguration parade. But on Saturday morning their horses started making the journey. 90 horses have been loaded into six vans and are now en route to the nation'...
Tags: Students, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr., Arts and Culture, Katy Perry
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Gun control debate driving local gun sales
WSBT TVThe talk of new gun control laws is driving up sales of assault rifles and ammunition. Local gun stores are seeing lots of first time buyers as well as long time gun owners who worry about losing their Second Amendment right to bear arms. But others...Tags: Civil Rights, Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Laws, U.S. Congress
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NRA says Congress will not pass weapons ban
WASHINGTON (AP) — The powerful gun lobby is gauging enough support in Congress to block a law that would ban assault weapons, despite promises from the White House and senior lawmakers to make such a measure a reality. Senators plan to introduce a...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice, Assault
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Biden meets with gun safety, victims groups
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday heard personal stories of gun violence from representatives of victims groups and gun-safety organizations as he drafts the Obama administration's response to the shooting at a Connecticut...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Interior Policy, U.S. Congress, Kathleen Sebelius
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Finally, a breakthrough
CBS NewsMost of the world is counting down to a midnight New Year's celebration while Congress continues to watch the clock and count down to another deadline, despite the efforts of lawmakers to avert the "fiscal cliff." Those efforts are inching closer to the...Tags: Unemployment Benefits, Democratic Party, Republican Party, U.S. Congress, Credit and Debt
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Sandy Hook group launches anti-violence initiative
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Parents of children slain in the Connecticut school massacre held photos of their sons and daughters, cried, hugged and spoke in quavering voices as they called for a national dialogue to help prevent similar tragedies. "I do...
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Adam Lanza, Politics
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UPDATE: 11th-hour fiscal cliff deal reported
South Bend TribuneWASHINGTON -- Racing against the clock, the White House reached agreement with congressional Republicans late Monday on a deal to prevent across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts to government programs from taking effect at midnight, according...Tags: Democratic Party, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Defense, Fiscal Cliff
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