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Does tougher gun control have a future?
In principle, at least, most Americans want tougher gun control laws. But as the…
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Trial of Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law faces ‘stunning’ delay due to sequester...
The highly anticipated New York trial of Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law could be delayed because his court-appointed lawyers have been hit by US budget cuts, they said Monday. Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan...
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Obama moves towards sending military weapons to Somalia
President Barack Obama took the first step Monday toward providing US military assistance to Somali forces battling Islamist militants, after the easing of a UN arms embargo last month. Obama signed a...
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Montana lawmaker rips conservatives who voted against bill to decriminalize...
Montana state Rep. Amanda Curtis (D-Butte) slammed her Republican colleagues on Monday for supporting a state law that makes homosexuality a felony. A bill to repeal the obsolete law was passed by the...
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Senate confirms Mary Jo White as head of SEC
The US Senate confirmed veteran prosecutor Mary Jo White to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, placing her in charge of implementing President Barack Obama’s Wall Street reforms....
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Rep. Mike Rogers: ‘Significant improvements’ to CISPA over privacy concerns
Backers of a cybersecurity bill which stalled in Congress last year offered changes in an effort to ease concerns of privacy and civil liberties activists. The two top lawmakers on the House...
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Columnist Star Parker tells Hannity: Slave plantations were run by liberal...
Columnist Star Parker of the Scripps Howard News Service on Monday night alleged that liberal Democrats were “slave overseers.” “When we look at who is behind this strategy, the liberal Democrats have...
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Phil Donahue: Bush used other people’s kids to prove he’s tough
Phil Donahue, who was fired from MSNBC for speaking out against the Iraq war, explained Monday night that making a documentary about a young paralyzed veteran was akin to a “spiritual experience.” His...
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U.S. official: Warlike rhetoric of North Korea ‘perfectly predictable’
With tensions on the Korean peninsula soaring to include threats of nuclear war, frustration is mounting at what US policy experts see as the failure of all efforts to rein in North Korea. Decades of...
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Russia’s Putin faces thousands of pro-LGBT protesters in Amsterdam
Over 3,000 people protested Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Amsterdam on Monday, with rainbow flags flying at half-mast around the city that prides itself on enjoying every kind of freedom....
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Jon Stewart: It takes a brain injury for Republicans to support marriage...
On his show Monday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart lampooned the nation’s current debate over allowing gay and lesbian couples to wed. After taking some time to poke fun at some of the Obamas...
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Obama speaks to Afghan president three days after NATO strike kills children
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday spoke to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, for what officials said were regular consultations, three days after a NATO air strike killed 11 Afghan children. The White...
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Cuba to turn over fugitive U.S. couple who fled with kids
Cuba has told the United States it will return an American couple who fled to the Caribbean nation after removing their two sons from the care of their grandmother in Florida. The Foreign Ministry said...
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Joe Biden attacks ‘mind boggling’ threat to filibuster gun debate
US Vice President Joe Biden warned Tuesday the world would be mystified if Republicans followed through on a “mind boggling” threat to block votes on new gun laws after the Newtown massacre. Biden, who...
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Bill O’Reilly smears Tesla Motors with 2011 financial data
On his show Tuesday night, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly falsely claimed that the California-based Tesla Motors was $523 million in the hole. The conservative Fox News host was discussing the alleged...
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Jon Stewart lampoons anti-sodomy, anti-abortion, anti-welfare Republicans
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Tuesday night ripped into Republican across the country amid a game show he dubbed, “Sodomy, zygotes, and welfare.” Stewart began by noting that Virginia Attorney...
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Equal pay: Raising minimum wage will help women – and the economy
Copyright ImageClick to View Jennifer Diagostino, executive director of the Coalition for Economic Justice, CWA Local 1122 vice president, John Mudie, center, and president, Jim Wagner, right,...
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Beyonce and Jay-Z’s Cuba trip was legal: U.S. Treasury
Pop diva Beyonce and hip-hop star Jay-Z’s controversial trip to Cuba was part of a cultural exchange and did not violate the economic embargo imposed on the island by the United States, a senior US...
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Top admiral worries North Korea crisis could escalate ‘pretty quickly’
US Navy Adm. Samuel Locklear waits to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the US Pacific Command and US Forces Korea in review of the Defense authorization request for fiscal...
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For the price of the Iraq War, U.S. could power half of the country with...
Discussions of how to respond to climate change often involve Very Large Numbers — the needed investments to transition to a fully renewable energy system are in the hundreds of billions. The brain...
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