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School resumes for Newtown students as new details surface in investigation
(CNN) -- Across this devastated town, students returned to schools Tuesday, marking the beginning of a new reality. With their sense of normalcy shattered after last week's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary, students at other schools are seeing more...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Elections, Shootings, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Criminal Laws
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States petition to secede from union, including Indiana and Michigan
CBS NewsThey don't want to take their country back. They just want to leave it behind. As the dust settles in the wake of President Obama's decisive reelection last Tuesday, the White House petition website has been flooded by a series of secession requests,...Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Elections, White House, Republican Party
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Obama's health care overhaul turns into a sprint
WASHINGTON (AP) — Its place assured alongside Medicare and Medicaid, President Barack Obama's health care law is now in a sprint to the finish line, with just 11 months to go before millions of uninsured people can start signing up for coverage....
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Texas AG intervenes in cheerleader banner dispute
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said Wednesday he will defend high school cheerleaders who want to use Bible verses on banners at football games. Abbott has filed court papers to intervene in a lawsuit that cheerleaders at...Tags: Steve Thomas, Civil Rights, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Church and State Relations
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Judge rules for cheerleaders in Bible banner suit
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A judge says an East Texas school district policy barring cheerleaders from quoting biblical scripture on banners at high school football games appears to violate their free speech rights. KFDM television in Beaumont reports...
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Obama defends typically GOP states in race to 270
President Barack Obama begins his re-election campaign defending traditionally Republican territory that he carried when he won the White House four years ago. Republican Mitt Romney is looking to reclaim any combination of these GOP strongholds now in...Tags: Elections, Republican Party, Chess Playing, Game Playing, Regional Authority
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Feds to stop funding Texas women's health program
HOUSTON (AP) — The federal government will stop funding a Texas health program that serves 130,000 low-income women because of a state law that bars abortion-affiliated clinics from getting public money. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen...Tags: Cancer, Hospitals and Clinics, Women's Health, Kathleen Sebelius, Health
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Republicans say lower taxes create jobs
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential hopefuls say lower taxes and fewer regulations will create jobs. But they're struggling to explain what they'd do differently from their rivals to make that happen. In a presidential debate Saturday,...Tags: Politics, Republican Party, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney
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'We are the 99 percent' chosen as year's top quote
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A Yale University librarian says the slogan "We are the 99 percent" by Occupy Wall Street protesters is the year's most notable quote. Fred Shapiro has released his sixth annual list of the most memorable quotations of the...Tags: Elections, Anthony D. Weiner, Political Candidates, Occupy Wall Street, Manhattan (New York City)
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Perry: Abortion allowed if woman's life at risk
INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry says he would allow abortion if a woman's life were at risk, seeming to contradict a policy reversal offered a day earlier. Perry said Wednesday that he opposes abortion but would...Tags: Abortion, Social Issues
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Bill Clinton calls Perry 'good-looking rascal'
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton says Rick Perry is a "good-looking rascal" but dismisses the Texas governor's policies as "crazy." Clinton made the comments Monday during an address to a meeting of the International Association of...Tags: Politics, Elections, Bill Clinton, Texas, Executive Branch
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GOP front-runner Perry will campaign in Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican presidential front-runner Rick Perry is planning to campaign in Indiana next month. The Texas governor accepted an invitation from state Republican Chairman Eric Holcomb to visit Indiana. Holcomb announced Thursday...Tags: Barack Obama, Elections, Republican Party, Political Candidates, Regional Authority
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