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Senate committee approves gun trafficking bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation Thursday making gun trafficking a federal crime as lawmakers cast the first vote in Congress to curb firearms since December's horrific shootings at a Connecticut elementary...
Tags: Mark Kelly, Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Senate, Gun Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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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: U.S. Senate, Video Games, Entertainment, White House, Services and Shopping
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Texas executes Mexican after court stay rejected
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Mexican national was executed Thursday for the rape-slaying of a San Antonio teenager after the U.S. Supreme Court turned down a White House-supported appeal to spare him in a death penalty case where Texas justice...Tags: U.S. Senate, Treaties, White House, Social Issues, Lawyers
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Democrats push repeal of Defense of Marriage Act
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats who back gay marriage have decided now is the time to repeal a federal law defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman. The Democrats may satisfy their gay marriage supporters, but the bill won't get...Tags: Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Senate, Parties and Movements, Marriage, Social Issues
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In uproar over U.S. seizure of AP records, focus turns to Holder
ReutersBy Tabassum Zakaria and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was likely to face a storm of questions on Tuesday over the Justice Department's controversial decision to seize telephone records of the Associated...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, Parties and Movements, Jay Carney, White House
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Key U.S. senator to fight for tracking system in immigration law
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, who is considered crucial to the passage of an immigration law overhaul, on Tuesday vowed to fight for a biometric system that would track foreigners entering and exiting the country after a...Tags: Business, U.S. Senate, Parties and Movements, Sports, Government
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Government secretly obtains phone records from journalists
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors secretly obtained telephone records from more than 20 lines belonging to the Associated Press and its journalists in an attempt to learn who leaked information on how the CIA thwarted an apparent terrorist plot...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Jay Carney, White House, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Journalism
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Associated Press says U.S. government seized journalists' phone records
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Associated Press said on Monday the U.S. government secretly seized telephone records of AP offices and reporters for a two-month period in 2012, describing the acts as a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into news-gathering...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, Parties and Movements, Jay Carney, White House
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Analyst who said immigrants have lower IQ resigns from U.S. conservative group
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 10 (Reuters) - A Heritage Foundation policy analyst who co-authored a study slamming the U.S. Senate immigration bill, is resigning, the conservative group said on Friday, after revelations he once wrote that Hispanic immigrants had a...Tags: U.S. Senate, Minority Groups, Social Issues, Government, Illegal Immigrants
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Gay rights amendment offered to US immigration bill in Congress
Reuters* Rubio warns gay rights proposal would 'kill' bill * Committee Republicans offer mountain of amendments (Adds details and context paragraph 11 onward) By Thomas Ferraro and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee...Tags: U.S. Senate, Parties and Movements, John Cornyn, U.S. Congress, Republican Party
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WRAPUP 1-Battle over U.S. immigration bill starts in Congress
Reuters* Senate Judiciary debate gets under way on Thursday * Special interests to push controversial amendments * Supporters drive for lopsided Senate approval By Caren Bohan and Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress this week opens...Tags: Business, U.S. Senate, Parties and Movements, POLITICO LLC, U.S. Congress
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Israel says strikes in Syria target arms for Hezbollah
JERUSALEM — With three airstrikes against Syria since January, Israel has inserted itself forcefully into the "Arab Spring's" most intractable conflict, heightening fears that Syria's civil war could spiral into a regional conflagration. The...
Tags: Armed Conflicts, White House, Weaponry, Government, United Nations
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