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Pentagon opens combat roles to women
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is lifting its ban on women serving in combat, opening hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs after generations of limits on their service, defense officials said Wednesday....
Tags: Iraq, The Pentagon, Politics, Washington, DC, Loretta Sanchez
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Hundreds attend gun rights rally at Mich. Capitol
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Hundreds of people have gathered outside the Michigan Capitol for a gun-rights rally, a few days after President Barack Obama called for new restrictions. MLive.com (http://bit.ly/10acIcS ) says some people freely carried...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Barack Obama, Elections, Politics, Interior Policy
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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: Personal Weapon Control, Laws, Politics, Interior Policy, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
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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: White House, Justice System, Lobbying, Interior Policy, Gun Control
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Out of Washington, Pence redefines his image
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — It looks like Mike Pence is hanging up his mitts after more than a decade of leading religious conservatives in fights against abortion, gay marriage and President Barack Obama in Washington. Blasts against Planned Parenthood...
Tags: Marco Rubio, Minority Groups, Same-Sex Marriage, Family, U.S. House of Representatives
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Obama wants action on government's borrowing limit
HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama is hailing a last-minute deal that pulled the country back from the "fiscal cliff," but warned that he "will not compromise" over his insistence that Congress lift the federal debt ceiling. Obama said in...
Tags: Credit and Debt, Barack Obama, Fiscal Cliff, Public Finance, Dave Camp
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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: Health and Safety at School, Arne Duncan, Mental Health, U.S. Department of Justice, White House
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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: Mitch McConnell, Credit and Debt, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Fiscal Cliff
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WSBT one-on-one with Upton on economic battle in Congress
The fiscal cliff battle in Washington is over for now, but another economic standoff is brewing. President Obama says he will not allow spending cuts in exchange for a hike in the national debt limit. Many Republicans say the president has no choice....
Tags: Republican Party, Fiscal Cliff
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Giffords, Kelly launch gun control lobbying effort
BRIAN SKOLOFF,Associated PressTUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband launched a political action committee aimed at curbing gun violence on Tuesday, the second anniversary of the Tucson shooting that killed six people and left her critically...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Jan Brewer, Mental Health, Michael Bloomberg, Ron Barber
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South Bend council head calls for police in every school
WSBT-TVSOUTH BEND – In the wake of the Newtown shooting, South Bend's Common Council president believes there should be an armed officer at EVERY school. Students at Riley High School in South Bend are used to seeing police officers around, not only...Tags: Joe Donnelly, Shootings, Columbine High School
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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: American School for the Deaf, Laws, Lobbying, Teaching and Learning, Asperger Syndrome
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