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- ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's new prime minister, a top judge who is the country's first female premier, was to name the members of her caretaker...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from International Business TimesAn elderly man in Utah died of plague earlier this month, state health officials said Thursday. This is the first death from the disease in the state and the fourth in the U.S. this year. Authorities did not disclose the man’s identity,...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Townhall's New CategoryBy Gene Cherry BEIJING (Reuters) - Home favorite Guowei Zhang sailed into the high jump final at the world athletics championship on Friday...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from International Business TimesAn arrest warrant has been issued for an unnamed suspect in a Bangkok riverside bomb blast that took place just a day after the Erawan Shrine attack killed 20 people, Thai police said Friday. Authorities, meanwhile, are still looking for...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Townhall's New CategoryWASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - The chairman of China's Tsinghua Unigroup traveled to the United States this week to meet with board members of...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Top StoriesBut Democrats are more confident the governor will take the plunge than Republicans.
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Townhall's New CategoryBy Howard Schneider and Jonathan Spicer JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. (Reuters) - Wild swings in world financial markets this week have shown how...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from ABC News: PoliticsNew State Department e-mails highlight Abedin's role in Clinton world in 2012
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Townhall's New CategorySAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Erika lashed Puerto Rico early Friday with heavy rains and wind after killing four people and causing...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from International Business TimesWisconsin Governor and Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker laid out his vision for the country’s foreign policy in a speech Friday. "America can and must do better,” Walker said, speaking at The Citadel, a military college in...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageMarco Rubio, WSJ
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Townhall's New CategoryBEIJING (AP) — The U.S. national security adviser held talks Friday in Beijing to help lay the groundwork for Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Firstpost » PoliticsRBI has projected consumer inflation will hit 6% by January 2016 before gradually easing to 4% in two years later The post Staying focused: RBI to bring down inflation to 4% by March 2018 appeared first on Firstpost .
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comGeorge Zimmerman, the Florida man who shot and killed an unarmed black teen in 2012 but was acquitted of second-degree murder charges , took to social media this week to call President Barack Obama an "ignorant baboon." ...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from International Business TimesTwo small plane crashes in Alabama and Michigan killed two people Thursday evening. A single-engine plane went down while landing near the Shelby County Airport in central Alabama, and an experimental aircraft crashed at the W.K. Kellogg...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from News Politics Priority RSSThe government and the judiciary have acknowledged the potential damage caused by their public spats.
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from The Scotsman - Politics FeedScottish Labour has attracted more than 3,400 new members since the general election.
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from CBS News - PoliticsAhead of Friday's Democratic National Committee meeting, campaign releases memos detailing its strong organization
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | theguardian.comPro-merger MP emerges from Commons meeting assured of party leadership against David Owen’s wishes Mr Robert Maclennan was last night guaranteed election as the Social Democratic Party’s third leader and probably its last, against the...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from BBC News - PoliticsConservative peer Lord Norton and crossbench peer Lady Deech call for the House of Lords to be made smaller and more efficient.
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from International Business TimesNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un has dismissed top party officials following a recent standoff with South Korea. The officials were dismissed at a meeting held by the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), and...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageRich Lowry, New York Post A funny thing happened on the way to China’s inevitable global dominance — the country’s economic tumult rocked markets around the world.China long ago replaced Japan as the...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Politics - latimes.comA new report from city analysts raises concerns about Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's plan to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, pointing to missing budgetary details and questioning the feasibility and cost of building a downtown Olympic...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Townhall's New CategoryBy Emma Thomasson BERLIN (Reuters) - Growing demand for more information about the products we buy could mean the end of the simple barcode...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from CBS News - PoliticsThe woman who finally put to rest questions about whether GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump wears a toupee spoke to CBSN
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Townhall's New CategoryHANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has granted amnesty to more than 18,000 prisoners to mark the 70th anniversary of independence from France, but...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Top Stories
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Reuters: PoliticsNEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Manhattan real estate lawyer John Mechanic remembers the summer day a decade ago when Donald Trump gave him a tour of a vacant retail space inside the Trump Tower on a glittering stretch of Fifth Avenue in...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from International Business TimesTwo more suspected members of a banned Islamist group have been arrested by police in Bangladesh in connection with the killing of secular blogger Niloy Neel. Neel, 40, was hacked to death earlier this month -- the fourth such killing of...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Slate ArticlesWelcome back to Slate ’s weekly news quiz. I’m your host, 74-time Jeopardy! winner Ken Jennings. Every Friday I’ll be testing your knowledge with 12 challenging questions on the week’s news events, big and small, including happenings in...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from CBS News - PoliticsDonald Trump immediately antagonized his 2016 rival over the new endorsement
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | theguardian.comDavid Cameron’s new peerages don’t rebalance but only further bloat an institution in need of radical reform Eighteen summers ago, in the early weeks of the newly elected Labour government, I had lunch with Tony Blair’s chief of staff,...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from BBC News - PoliticsUK economic growth for the second quarter of the year was unrevised at 0.7%, official figures have shown.
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from International Business TimesBANGALORE -- Every morning P Chinnasamy, like his father before him, makes the short journey to his family-owned textile mill, KKP Textiles, in the southern Indian town of Namakkal, on the periphery Coimbatore, one of India’s largest...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Townhall's New CategoryRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — If the worst economic crisis in a decade, a massive corruption scandal centered on her ruling party and approval ratings in...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Townhall's New CategoryCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker says the United States under his leadership would aggressively confront what...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageRobert Creamer, Huffington Post
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Philly.com Politics"Hey - my name's Alex. I'm running for Congress," the affable young fellow says, deftly deploying a handshake that's as earnest as his eye contact.
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Top StoriesWho would give money to a billionaire? These guys.
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from International Business TimesTRIPOLI (Reuters) - A boat packed with mainly African migrants bound for Italy sank off the Libyan coast on Thursday and officials said up to 200 might have died. A security official in the western town of Zuwara, from where the...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsHe has played up his experience as a former federal prosecutor, declared victory over the "Democratic machine" in New Jersey, and downplayed the disappearance of text messages exchanged with an aide.
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from International Business TimesAustralia -- one of the world's largest per capita emitters of greenhouse gases -- has fallen behind other industrialized nations in its efforts to curb emissions and tackle anthropogenic climate change, according to a new assessment by...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from International Business TimesA Texas judge Thursday denied a request for a temporary restraining order to prevent the University of Texas (UT) at Austin from removing a statue of former Confederate President Jefferson Davis from its campus. A lawyer for the Sons of...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Townhall's New CategoryWASHINGTON (AP) — New federal rules to protect smaller streams, tributaries and wetlands took effect on Friday — but only in some states.A federal...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Townhall's New CategoryATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's new prime minister, a top judge who is the country's first female premier, was to name the members of her caretaker...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageDavid Ignatius, Washington Post WASHINGTON -- Does Hillary Clinton have a serious legal problem because she may have transmitted classified information on her private email server? After talking with a half-dozen knowledgeable lawyers, I...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageCharles Blow, New York Times
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Politics News | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comThe panda team at the National Zoo plans to reveal the gender of the giant panda cubs born recently, as well as which panda fathered the cubs. … Click to Continue »
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Firstpost » PoliticsThe contradiction between Hindutva and ideas of social justice is embodied in Modi’s personality. He is the Hindu Hriday Samrat. He has also become an OBC leader, largely because he harped on it to harvest votes in Bihar and Uttar...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Townhall's New CategoryWASHINGTON (AP) — In ways both subtle and blunt, Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign is sending a message to Vice President Joe Biden about his...
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from RedState
The media today is dutifully reporting that Hillary Clinton has "changed her tack" on the email scandal that is threatening to sink her campaign. What does that allegedly involve? Almost exclusively saying that she "takes responsibility"... -
Thursday, August 27, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsGREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - GOP presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are expected to headline a Capitol Hill rally against President Obama's proposed nuclear agreement with Iran, both candidates confirmed Thursday.
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsHundreds of former state prosecutor Frank Fina’s pornographic emails were released yesterday.
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from RedState
The Sacramento Bee reports this week that Jerry Brown has granted a final exam “reprieve” to high school students who faced an uncertain outcome of their senior year thanks to California’s incompetent government. But in so doing, what... -
Thursday, August 27, 2015 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsFacebook Europe's former boss says parents are struggling to "keep up" with their children and understand their internet habits.
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsGREENFIELD, Iowa (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker called Thursday for better mental health treatment in the wake of the Virginia shootings and dismissed Hillary Rodham Clinton's call for tighter gun control as a...
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsNEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump's onscreen confrontation with Univision's Jorge Ramos on Tuesday over the Republican presidential candidate's immigration plan should only be a surprise to those who don't know Ramos.
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsCity Council is not happy with the Philadelphia School District - again. This spring, Council publicly blasted Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. and other officials for what it said was a lack of transparency and information, but...
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsPENSACOLA, Florida (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Wednesday he's proud of kicking one of the country's best-known Spanish-language journalists out of an Iowa news conference - the latest in a series of clashes...
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from All News RSS FeedBy Dan Maffei
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from RedState
Back when Tiger Woods was far and away the best golfer on the planet, one of the things that people used to say about him was that he was the most "mentally tough" athlete on the planet. However, as his career went on, people started to... -
Thursday, August 27, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) - Conservatives are demanding that a Smithsonian Institution art and history museum remove its bust of the founder of Planned Parenthood in their latest offensive against the organization.
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from NPR Topics: PoliticsIn a new report sent to Congress, the organization says controversial videos alleging the sale of fetal tissue are "heavily edited" to "significantly distort" actual events and conversations.
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsSen. Ted Cruz set up a false bogeyman when he said the Supreme Court is “one justice away” from ordering that crosses on tombstones at Arlington National Cemetery be torn down.
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from The Globe and Mail - Politics RSS feedNanos poll suggests Justin Trudeau’s refusal to rule out running a deficit is in sync with the majority’s mood
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from NPR Topics: PoliticsThe natural disaster of Katrina and the man-made tragedy that followed catapulted local figures and obscure federal officials into the spotlight.
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from All News RSS Feed
September is looming large, with the August recess eventually coming to an end. But these several weeks aren’t wasted time. On the contrary, August recess actually improves a congressional office’s effectiveness, says Brad... -
Thursday, August 27, 2015 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsSeven names put forward for the Lords are deemed unsuitable - but a former MP who claimed £2,200 to clear his moat gets a seat.
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsHARRISBURG - You can order groceries online these days, stream live TV, hail a cab, and schedule when your dry cleaning will be picked up.
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from All News RSS Feed
“If you come to New Orleans and you don’t get a grease spot on your clothing, you didn’t really enjoy the city.” -
Thursday, August 27, 2015 from All News RSS Feed
The legal team representing Douglas Hughes plans to poke holes in congressional testimony from federal officials who were called before Congress in the wake of Hughes’ April 15 landing of his gyrocopter on the Capitol’s West... -
Thursday, August 27, 2015 from Newsmax - PoliticsA month before quitting former Texas Gov. Rick Perry's campaign and signing on to become Donald Trump's new national campaign co-chairman, Sam Clovis soundly disparaged his future boss in scathing emails released by Perry supporters, The...
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsThe figure - the difference between those entering and leaving the UK - is "deeply disappointing", says the immigration minister.
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsHe has played up his experience as a former federal prosecutor, declared victory over the "Democratic machine" in New Jersey, and downplayed the disappearance of text messages exchanged with an aide.
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsDENISON, Iowa (AP) - GOP presidential candidate Scott Walker renewed his call Wednesday for President Barack Obama to cancel an official state visit with the president of China, saying the move would not hurt trade with states like Iowa,...
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsF&M poll finds a majority of voters hold the Republican-controlled Legislature responsible for the lack of a state budget
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from All News RSS Feed
Eric Cantor, the former House Majority Leader who primary election loss was one of the biggest political shockers of 2014, has re-emerged from the private sector to lend his support to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s campaign in his... -
Thursday, August 27, 2015 from RedStateTrying to get the GOP base on your side? Master stroke from Jeb! here. Cantor was courted intensely by other candidates. Cantor retains a strong political network in Virginia, a key primary and swing state. And he has enviable...
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from All News RSS Feed
Rare is the senator who hasn’t praised Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s character. -
Friday, August 28, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsThe D.A. is caught in a political rip current, the feds go power crazy in Fattah case, and Councilman David Oh’s bad timing.
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) - A four-year investigation has concluded that officials of the solar company Solyndra misrepresented facts and omitted key information in their efforts to get a $535 million loan guarantee from the federal government.
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from RedStateWhile I continue to admire Donald Trump's ability to command attention at long, rambling, unscripted press conferences, I still am not persuaded he will be the next President of the United States. Nonetheless, the GOP establishment in...
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from NPR Topics: PoliticsPresident Obama celebrated the progress made to rebuild New Orleans but said what started out as a natural disaster became something much worse when government didn't "look out for its own citizens."
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from Philly.com Politics
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from All News RSS Feed
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsHARRISBURG - Attorney General Kathleen Kane blames two former state prosecutors for the criminal case against her, saying they "corruptly manufactured" the investigation to cover up the fact that they had viewed pornography on...
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsThe charity Mencap says the deaths of 2,380 people raise questions about the fairness of the work capability assessment.
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Irish Times Politics RSSSale of Project Arrow assets not in taxpayers’ interest, says TD, calling for an investigation
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from All News RSS FeedBy Robert Sirico
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from NPR Topics: PoliticsGov. Bruce Rauner acknowledges his state is dealing with a serious heroin addiction crisis, but he is stripping a key provision from a measure aimed at tackling the problem.
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from All News RSS Feed
After it provoked a dispute between key players in Capitol Hill’s ethics enforcement process, Congress handed a probe of Azerbaijan travel to the executive branch and headed out for recess. But the battle is still brewing in... -
Friday, August 28, 2015 from Foreign Policy JournalRegardless of whether Arabs bomb Libya, or Western powers do so, the crisis in that country is likely to escalate, if not worsen, as history has amply shown. The article ‘Islamic State’ Pretense and the Upcoming Wars in Libya...
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsMINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Democratic National Committee barely has more cash than it does IOUs, and it is being outraised month after month by its Republican competitor.
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from RedStateA judge has put an injunction on the EPA's latest power grab (the Clean Water Rule). And no, we don't trust the EPA. No sane person does. The post Federal judge blocks administration’s ‘Clean Water Rule’ waterways...
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsFor motorists stuck in traffic on the Schuylkill Expressway or I-95, it may be of little comfort, but highway congestion in the Philadelphia region isn't as bad as it is in many other urban areas.
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Friday, August 28, 2015 from Irish Times Politics RSSBuilding society solvent on night of bank guarantee, claims former chief executive
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) - Donald Trump has exposed anew the deep rift inside the Republican Party on immigration, a break between its past and the country's future the party itself has said it must bridge if the GOP ever hopes to win back the...
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsFederal prosecutors on Wednesday accused U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah of trying to influence potential jurors with recent public statements in which he touted his accomplishments in Congress and questioned the motives of authorities handling...
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from RedStateBarack Obama is looking for an architect for his library. What exactly will be in the library other than his Nobel Peace Prize? Mounds of shredded documents? Stacks of erased hard drives? A taxidermied Valarie Jarrett? The "most...
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsAs Attorney General Kathleen Kane plotted to leak secret grand jury information and instructed aides to spy on her employees' emails, prosecutors said, she used personal email accounts to conduct business.
