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Boehner: Congress can do immigration this year
WASHINGTON (AP) — With the Senate ready to cast the first floor votes on a landmark immigration bill, House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday he thinks there's a good chance the legislation can be signed into law "by the end of the year." Ahead of...
Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Laws, Patrick Leahy, Harry Reid, Chuck Grassley
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APNewsBreak: IG faults payments to ex-Rep. Wilson
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Energy Department's inspector general says former U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson collected $450,000 in questionable payments from the nation's federally funded nuclear labs after she left office. A report released Tuesday says...Tags: Politics, Lobbying
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US: No plans to end broad surveillance program
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration considered whether to charge a government contractor with leaking classified surveillance secrets while it defended the broad U.S. spy program that it says keeps America safe from terrorists. Facing a...Tags: U.S. Army, Jay Carney, Espionage and Intelligence, U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Laws
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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: Gun Control, Laws, Harry Reid, Barack Obama, Politics
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Want more time off? Some employers let you buy it
WASHINGTON (AP) — Want more time off work to hang out at the beach? Need some cash and have vacation days to spare? Some companies allow their workers to buy and sell vacation time. It's a perk that gives workers more flexibility in managing their...Tags: Career and Workplace, Trips and Vacations, Employees, Travel
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US whites now losing majority in under-5 age group
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, America's racial and ethnic minorities now make up about half of the under-5 age group, the government said Thursday. It's a historic shift that shows how young people are at the forefront of sweeping changes by...
Tags: Human Interest, Colleges and Universities, Poverty, Demographics, Barack Obama
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Newly released IRS video shows employees dancing
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service has provided Congress with another video featuring its employees, this one showing about a dozen of them practicing dancing on a stage. The video, which lasts under three minutes, comes weeks after it...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Taxation, Internal Revenue Service, Employees, Politics
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Court upholds rifle sales reporting requirement
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court panel has unanimously upheld an Obama administration requirement that dealers in southwestern border states report when customers buy multiple high-powered rifles. The firearms industry trade group, the...Tags: Gun Control, Politics, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control
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Coming soon? Nutritional labels on alcohol drinks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Alcohol beverages soon could have nutritional labels like those on food packaging, but only if the producers want to put them there. The Treasury Department, which regulates alcohol, said this past week that beer, wine and...
Tags: Diageo Plc, Food Industry, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Wines, Chemical Industry
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Study: Helmet law weakened, motorcycle injuries up
WASHINGTON (AP) — The average medical claim from a motorcycle crash rose by more than one-fifth last year in Michigan after the state stopped requiring all riders to wear helmets, according to an insurance industry study. Across the nation,...
Tags: Medical Research, Laws, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Lawyers, U.S. Congress
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Big asteroid swinging by Earth today has its own moon
WASHINGTON (AP) — Astronomers getting their first close-up glimpse of a giant asteroid about to whiz by Earth found a surprise bonus rock. A smaller moon asteroid is circling the larger space rock, an unusual but not unheard of space phenomenon....
Tags: NASA
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TSA drops plan to allow small knives on planes
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Transportation Security Administration says he's dropping a proposal that would have let airline passengers carry small knives, souvenir bats, golf clubs and other sports equipment onto planes. The proposal had...Tags: Transportation Security Administration
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