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As Boston buries its dead, more evidence gathered
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston area held funerals for two more of its dead Tuesday — including an 8-year-old boy — as more details emerged from U.S. officials and family members about how the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects may have...
Tags: Separation of Church and State, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Al-Qaeda, U.S. Embassy
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U.S. senators renew push against China currency 'manipulation' despite yuan's rise
ReutersBy Doug Palmer WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of senators on Wednesday introduced legislation to give the United States new tools to fight currency manipulation, an effort aimed mainly at China, just days before President Barack...Tags: Xi Jinping, Debbie Stabenow, Washington, DC, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Chuck Schumer
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Lawmakers ask who knew what about bomb suspect
BOSTON (AP) — Lawmakers are asking tough questions about how the government tracked suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev when he traveled to Russia last year, renewing criticism from after the Sept. 11 attacks that failure to share...
Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, U.S. Embassy, John Kerry, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Courage in short supply
WASHINGTON -- The gun bill was going down, but Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who reached a compromise to try to save it, went to the Senate floor Wednesday morning to give it one more try. In an unorthodox tactic, he appealed directly...
Tags: Frank Lautenberg, John McCain, Interior Policy, Lobbying, Chuck Grassley
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Gun-control plan several votes short in Senate
This post has been corrected and updated as indicated below.WASHINGTON -- A Senate plan to expand the background-check requirement for gun purchases faced a narrowing path to success Tuesday, as advocates for stricter laws sought to scrape together the last few votes they need from among a dwindling number of...Tags: Mark Kirk, Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer, John McCain, Interior Policy
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Twelve steaks and an arugula salad: Obama takes the GOP to dinner
President Barack Obama had a dinner date last week with a dozen of his worst enemies, thus proving that the governmental stalemate in Washington, D.C., is driving him to unusual acts of political creativity -- or desperation. The president personally...
Tags: Bob Corker, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Republican Party, Washington, DC, John Hoeven
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Efforts to avoid gov't shutdown move to Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Efforts to stave off a late March government shutdown shifted to the Senate after House Republicans swiftly passed legislation to keep federal agencies running, while also easing some of the effects of $85 billion in budget cuts....
Tags: Bob Corker, Washington, DC, John McCain, White House, Dan Coats
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Senators use hearing to air CIA controversies
WASHINGTON - The confirmation hearing Thursday of John Brennan to be CIA director reopened scrutiny of a wide range of controversies that have dogged the country for more than a decade, ranging from the Obama administration's embrace of targeted...Tags: Yemen, Washington, DC, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Barbara A. Mikulski, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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The challenging math of passing immigration reform
WASHINGTON – Senators from both parties are expressing enthusiasm for pushing a comprehensive overhaul of the nation’s immigration system. But while immigration politics appears to have changed in the wake of sweeping Republican rejection...
Tags: Mark Pryor, Science and Technology, David Vitter, Claire McCaskill, Dick Durbin
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Congress: VA official should be sacked for wasteful Orlando conferences that featured ‘Patton’ video
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelWASHINGTON — Two top Republicans in Congress want the Obama administration to fire a high-ranking official with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for not doing more to prevent wasteful spending at two training conferences in Orlando that... -
Penn State scandal: Senators demand stronger child abuse laws
Nation NowAs Jerry Sandusky waived his right to a preliminary hearing in a Pennsylvania courtroom, Washington lawmakers on Tuesday called for stronger child-abuse reporting laws. They were appearing at the first Capitol Hill hearing growing out of the Penn State... -
The Crowd: Fundraiser helps summer camp programs
It is one of the most passionate charity events on the Orange Coast. The Muscular Dystrophy Assn.'s annual Gift of Hope Gala raised more than $430,000 at its 16th annual celebration earlier this summer.
Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens was honored...Tags: Sandra Hutchens, Washington, DC, Entertainment, Happiness (state of mind), Rascal Flatts (music group)
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