Latest and Breaking Politics News and Top Stories - June 20
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Margaret Hodge, who chairs the Public Accounts Committee, says the implementation of the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) has been a "shambles", and asks why nobody thought of piloting the flagship welfare scheme before its introduction
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Members of a House committee want to know why an agency that has come under fierce attack for covering up long delays in service to veterans says all of its senior executives are “fully satisfactory” or better. Read full article >>
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On May 24, Abdelilah Benkirane, Morocco’s ruling Islamist party’s prime minister, called for a 10-day boycott of Dannon products at a political rally in the central Moroccan city of Agourai. The call was issued a little over a week after...
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The House Ethics Committee ordered Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) to pay a nearly $60,000 fine for taking 15 inappropriate trips, using campaign funds for personal use and accepting other unethical gifts. Young — who has battled a series of f...
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We’ve written several times about the Park Service’s new policy, begun on Earth Day in April 2013, to start removing trash cans from sites along the George Washington Memorial Parkway — the Iwo Jima Memorial, Great Falls and Roosevelt ...
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Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced a series of management changes Friday intended to consolidate responsibilities for the operations of the federal health insurance marketplace — something critics have urged sin...
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Conservative MP Michael Fabricant apologises for saying he might end up punching a journalist "in the throat" if he appeared on a discussion show with her.
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The Passport Office is having to deal with a far higher backlog than previously thought, figures reveal.
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The head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has called on former Internal Revenue Service counsel Jennifer O’Connor to testify Tuesday about the disappearance of IRS mails that could shed light on the agency’s tea par...
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) addressed an audience of socially conservative activists Friday with this message: Holding an antiabortion stance should extend to supporting people not just at birth but for the rest of their lives, to...
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The Pew Research Center recently published a fascinating study about polarization that, among other things, suggested that partisan Republicans and Democrats not only have sharply divergent political views, they also prefer to live in di...
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House Republicans accused John Koskinen of lying to the House Ways and Means Committee, while Democrats dismissed the hearing as a witch hunt.
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Republicans livid over Lerner's hard drive being destroyed in targeting scandal.
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Pope Francis on Friday condemned the legalization of drugs for recreational use as a failed policy, but Catholics in the United States have complicated views on the subject — at least as it relates to marijuana. Read full article >&...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Friday announced the creation of a new chief executive position to oversee operations of the federal Obamacare marketplace that provides private health insurance to consumers in 36 U.S. ...
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Vince Cable declares a controversial opinion poll, which was viewed as a bid to undermine Nick Clegg's leadership, as a £6,000 donation.
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George W. Bush left the White House more than five years ago but it would be hard to tell that if you have been listening to Hillary Clinton over the past month.
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Jake Tapper takes a look at the hedge fund billionaire who might be providing political campaign funds for the Democrats.
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How big of a threat is ISIS really? The White House wants to find out and is deploying as many as 300 military advisers to Iraq to assess the might of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service refused to apologize on Friday for the loss of emails that Republican investigators want as part of a year-old inquiry into the tax agency's scrutiny of politically con...
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Sajid Javid, the Culture secretary, wants mobile phone firms to introduce national roaming for users in the UK.
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President Obama announced that he's prepared to send up to 300 military advisers to Iraq. Analysts join guest host Audie Cornish to discuss some of the biggest political stories of the week.
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) encouraged a crowd of social conservative activists Friday not to shy away from their faith in their public lives. "Reject any politicians that claim religion can't be a part of public life," he said. He made his r...
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In Brandon Rottinghaus’ post earlier Friday morning, he described research on the consequences of political scandal in light of the investigation into whether Scott Walker’s 2010 gubernatorial campaign illegally coordinated with outside ...
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They say it will help build character.
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The victim's accused attacker was successfully defended by Hillary Clinton in 1975.
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SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown was set Friday to sign a $156 billion budget plan that includes funding for a controversial high-speed rail project and preschool education for low-income children.
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Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) trails challenger Chris McDaniel in the state's Republican senate primary run-off by eight points according to a poll earlier this month . As the Associated Press noted earlier this week , numbers like those h...
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An Irish judge has rendered a preliminary judgment that may have sweeping consequences for U.S. e-commerce firms. The judgment involves a case by a European privacy activist against Facebook. Businesses like Facebook, Google and Microsof...
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He says at the Road to Majority conference that blue-collar conservatives are America's future.
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The Labor Department issued a proposed rule Friday stating that any employee is eligible for leave to care for a same-sex spouse under the Family and Medical Leave Act regardless of whether they live in a state that recognizes their mari...
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The measure is billed as pushback against Obama's decision to swap prisoners for Bergdahl.
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He urges the president to deploy them to the border "immediately."
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Nina Turner, an Ohio state senator, has been on the front lines of many of the biggest political battles in her state over the last several years. The Democrat was a leading and highly visible voice during the debates around collective ...
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The shocking primary defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and rapid ascension of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif) to replace him left House Democrats sitting on the sidelines for much of this week as they watched the majority party s...
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The counsel and legislative director for House Financial Services Committee Democrats is leaving.
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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) delivered a blistering critique of Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday, insisting in a speech that the former secretary of state is not qualified to lead the nation's armed forces as president. Read full arti...
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The government is at risk of breaching its self-imposed limit on welfare spending due to the rising costs of the main sickness benefit, leaked documents say.
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The Obama administration, increasing efforts to reduce the influx of migrants crossing the Southwest border illegally, will detain more of those migrants and accelerate their cases so they can be deported more quickly, officials said.
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Records show he earned $28,365 this year, before leaving the network to run for Senate.
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Lawmakers say the National Security Agency should need a warrant to look for Americans emails and phone calls it gathers while targeting foreigners.
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FREMONT, Calif. — Inside a two-bedroom beachside apartment, Elliot Rodger began his Santa Barbara rampage last month by mutilating his two roommates and their friend. The scene, police said, was horrific. Read full article >>
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Damage to Britain's roads is getting worse because fuller employment means more people are driving to work, Robert Goodwill says
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Former presidential candidate Rick Santorum urged the Republican Party to prioritize its commitment to everyday people over the interests of corporate America, hitting on a populist theme he has been highlighting over the past year. Read...
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The White House blog on Thursday announced a series of additional actions the US government was taking against Uganda following enactment of Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill . These go beyond the actions taken by the US government shortl...
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Gallup released a new poll on Thursday revealing that only seven percent of Americans have any real confidence in Congress . It's an historic low, and probably one that 93 percent of Americans think is still higher than it should be. Rea...
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The key document assistant health minister Fiona Nash claims prevented a junk food lobbyist working in her office having a conflict of interest 'does not exist', according to government agencies.
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Social conservative activist Ralph Reed forcefully criticized President Obama's foreign policy before a crowd of religious conservatives gathered in Washington on Friday. "This administration fiddles while Rome burns," Reed said. He pann...
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Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) on Friday requested detailed information about a federal investigation into alleged retaliation against dozens of Veterans Affairs employees who say they tried to expose the agency’s hospital scandal . Read...
