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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
The research doesn't say that most violent criminals are Democrats. At all.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from CNN.com - PoliticsDonald Trump said Monday that President Barack Obama's comments that climate change poses one of the greatest threats to the U.S. is one of the "dumbest things" ever said.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from CNN.com - PoliticsTexas is not backing down from its pledge to try to block Syrian refugees from its borders.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comIt's tempting to write that, like politics, all pollution is local. After all, we experience the effects of smog in our lungs or fouled water in our bellies in a profoundly personal way. When it comes to cities and climate, however, what...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Townhall's New CategoryWASHINGTON (AP) — Ted Cruz says the question follows him into the hallways of foreign capitals around the world. In whispered tones, heads of...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Townhall's New CategoryBAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's prime minister has defended his country's security forces, saying they're capable of defeating the Islamic State group...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from BBC News - PoliticsSome of the key contributions from House of Commons as MPs debate whether to extend UK air strikes into Syria.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Top Stories
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from News Politics Priority RSSThe Women’s Legal Centre wants government to pass legislation to protect women married under Muslim rites.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from BBC News - PoliticsWhat you need to know about Wednesday's Commons vote
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Townhall's New CategoryWASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time in the year-plus fight against Islamic State militants, the U.S. is putting American combat troops on the...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostAfter only 10 months, the close-knit group of conservatives has claimed an influential spot at the table.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from ABC News: PoliticsLess than half of Republicans say Carson has the experience to be President.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from CNN.com - PoliticsFormer Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she wants to involve the Russians as much as possible in Syria, especially since they now have felt the wrath of ISIS.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from BBC News - PoliticsSir Charlie Bean's interim review of UK economic statistics says the Office for National Statistics needs more staff in London.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from CNN.com - PoliticsThe video opens with a shot of Ted Cruz, his wife and two young children around a kitchen table for a family meal.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostA look at the numbers.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Townhall's New CategoryCAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian researcher and freelance journalist detained upon arrival in Egypt is being investigated for spreading false news, in...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Politics News - UK PoliticsLabour leader dismisses David Cameron's 'bomb first, talk later' approach, describing air strikes as 'reckless, half-baked intervention'
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostThe Choice program, created after coverups of long waiting lists for VA care came to light, has had trouble attracting veterans.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsA City Council committee asked Comcast to agree to enhanced customer services and employee pay for the bill’s passage.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Reuters: PoliticsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will address Ukraine's legislature on Tuesday as part of a two-day visit to the country, a senior administration official said on Wednesday.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from CNN.com - PoliticsTed Cruz is no stranger to colorful quips -- as Monday night's riff about "the condom police" showed.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from CBS News - PoliticsChicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy was forced to resign Tuesday
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from The Scotsman - Politics FeedScotland’s TV production industry could enjoy a £100 million boost if BBC Scotland is handed more control of licence fee cash raised north of the border, Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop has said.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Top Stories
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from CNN.com - PoliticsEven before the debris from the Paris terrorist attacks was swept away, politicians began sounding the alarm that Syrian refugees could be a national security threat to the United States. The issue has dominated the U.S. political...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Townhall's New CategoryTOKYO (AP) — Japan's government has violated the rights of Okinawa's residents for decades by allowing a heavy presence of American troops on the...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Reuters: PoliticsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives will take up a bill this week to tighten U.S. border control after last month's Paris attacks by toughening entry requirements for those traveling from "visa waiver" nations, a...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Top Stories
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Townhall's New CategoryLONDON (AP) — The British Parliament is set to decide Wednesday whether to take more aggressive action against Islamic State extremists even as...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from CBS News - PoliticsMarco Rubio has surged into second place with 17 percent support. Ted Cruz jumped to16 percent, tying with Ben Carson
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | theguardian.comRolling coverage of the Commons debate ahead of the vote, expected after 10pm, on extending airstrikes against Isis to Syria 1.10pm GMT Charles Lister , a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center who has written about Isis in Syria,...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from BBC News - PoliticsA majority of Northern Ireland's 18 MPs will support UK air strikes in Syria during Wednesday's vote in the House of Commons.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Townhall's New CategoryBRUSSELS (AP) — NATO member states formally invited Montenegro to join the alliance, drawing a prompt response from Russia that it plans to...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Townhall's New CategoryCHICAGO (AP) — The release of squad-car video showing a white Chicago police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times set off a dramatic chain...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from CNN.com - PoliticsChris Christie lit into rivals Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio on Tuesday, saying the two senators lack the experience he has dealing with terrorism and homeland security.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from CNN.com - PoliticsSupport for ISIS in America has reached an unprecedented level with several thousand U.S.-based sympathizers and more terrorism-related arrests in 2015 than any year since 9/11, according to a report by George Washington University's...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Townhall's New CategoryNEW DELHI (AP) — Farmer Ajmad Miyah has given up on ever settling down again. Three years after the sea swallowed his home on the Bangladeshi...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostA search and destroy mission.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Politics News - UK PoliticsJeremy Corbyn challenges David Cameron to apologise for his "terrorist sympathiser" comments telling him that he "demeans the office of Prime Minister"
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comTOP STORIES U.S. ASSAULT FORCE HEADED TO IRAQ "The U.S. military will deploy a new special operations force to Iraq to step up the fight against Islamic State militants who are unleashing violence and are determined to hold territory...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from CBS News - PoliticsGOP candidate repeats debunked claim that thousands in N.J. rejoiced over attacks and his adviser cites clips from WCBS and MTV as proof
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from CNN.com - PoliticsStanding at the same pulpit the catapulted Martin Luther King Jr. to national prominence, Hillary Clinton told an audience marking the 60th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott that while civil rights have come a long way since the...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from CNN.com - PoliticsHere's something that no liberal would ever have predicted: The Republican race could be between two candidates of Hispanic origin. Two months out from the Iowa caucus and the men with the most momentum right now are Marco Rubio and Ted...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from CNN.com - PoliticsTexas Sen. Ted Cruz claimed Monday during a radio appearance that "the overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats."
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from CNN.com - PoliticsDemocratic Rep. Diana DeGette on Tuesday tied Republicans' anti-Planned Parenthood rhetoric to the shooting at one of the organization's clinics in Colorado.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from BBC News - PoliticsThere were fears over gaps in the regulation of private colleges a year before BBC exposed a scam at a Cardiff college, an assembly committee says.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from CNN.com - PoliticsDonald Trump is now the undisputed leader of the Republican presidential pack, a new Quinnipiac University poll shows.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Townhall's New CategoryMOSCOW (AP) — Russia's deputy defense minister: Turkish president, family benefit from illegal IS oil trade.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015 from NPR Topics: PoliticsFor the first time in a decade, congressional leaders have reached a bipartisan agreement on a long-term bill to fix, maintain and expand the nation's roads, bridges, rails and mass transit.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsThe under-fire president is unlikely to get an easy ride at Westminster after athletics was rocked by a series of scandals.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Irish Times Politics RSSTaoiseach says staff there are working in one of the most inadequate facilities in country
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsSTATE ATTORNEY General Kathleen Kane's Porngate news conference looked as if it were going to derail just a few minutes after it began yesterday morning at the National Constitution Center.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsThe Royal Institute of British Architects says space standards that are currently optional should apply across the board.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015 from NPR Topics: PoliticsWhile many GOP presidential hopefuls have denounced the attacks on Planned Parenthood, some push back on liberal critics who say heated anti-abortion rhetoric played a role in the rampage.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsHARRISBURG - While reiterating that a budget deal could be completed soon, Gov. Wolf acknowledged Wednesday morning that details remain in flux on a number of big-ticket items that are central to an agreement.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from NPR Topics: PoliticsEven as a bipartisan group of Senators introduced a bill to tighten potential security gaps in the visa waiver program, they acknowledge the measure has limits on how effective it might be.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015 from The Globe and Mail - Politics RSS feedThanks to the in-the-second urgency of social media, and a frantic search for a viable business model for journalism, news is presented as though everything matters to everyone – every moment of the day
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) - Investigators would need a search warrant to get people's old emails under a bill considered Tuesday by a House panel looking to update a nearly 30-year-old federal law to reflect today's communications.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republican leaders seem to have carried out a delicate balancing act in their drive to dismantle President Barack Obama's health care law and close the federal funds spigot to Planned Parenthood.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from All News RSS Feed
Sen. Barbara Boxer is retiring at the end of 2016, and between now and then she’ll be collecting the customary number of thank yous as she prepares for post-Congress life. -
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 from RedStatePresident Obama is going to spark a mass outbreak of shooters gunning people down. He should be ashamed of his overheated fear mongering. In Paris, President Obama had this to say: Our understanding of the ways human beings disrupt the...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsMACON, Ga. (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump joked Monday that he may charge CNN for appearing in the next GOP primary debate - but probably won't because he'd be called a "chicken."
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015 from All News RSS FeedPuerto Rico has run out of money.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) - As President Barack Obama worked to hammer out a global climate agreement in Paris, Republicans in Congress moved to block his plan to force steep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsOn Thursday voters will go to the polls in the Oldham by-election. Sophy Ridge reports on how the Corbyn factor is playing out.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) - The House is ready to vote Wednesday on a long-sought rewrite of the 2002 No Child Left Behind education law that would roll back the federal government's authority to push academic standards and tell schools how to...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from All News RSS Feed
The researchers whose study Ted Cruz’s campaign cited to back up his claim that “the overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats” said Tuesday night the Texas senator is “misrepresenting” their work. -
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 from All News RSS Feed
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley has a message for House Democrats: Let me be your second choice. -
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Foreign Policy JournalWar advocates do not believe their own propaganda. They believe in their own greed and their own careers. The article Do War Makers Believe Their Own Propaganda? was originally published at Foreign Policy Journal .
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from FiveThirtyEight » Politics | FiveThirtyEight
We’re talking Donald Trump — again — in this week’s 2016 Slack chat, but with a thespian twist. As always, the transcript below has been lightly edited. micah (Micah Cohen, politics editor): OK, we’re going to do... -
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 from RedState
The radical anti-Christian Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) has launched a crusade to ban the Bible in hotel rooms. In fact, FFRF is comparing the Bible to the health and safety dangers of smoking. The post Angry Atheists Demand... -
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from All News RSS FeedThe budget brinksmanship is over. At least so say big majorities of both Democratic and Republican congressional aides surveyed in late November by CQ Roll Call.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015 from Philly.com Politics
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015 from RedStateIn Paris on Tuesday, President Obama had a press conference as part of the Paris global warming convention, when he said something so monumentally insensitive that, for once, I actually agree with the idea that Obama should be...
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) - A proposed law meant to encourage companies to share information about cyberthreats with the U.S. government includes measures that could significantly limit what details, if any, the public can review about the program...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsDENVER (AP) - A Republican state lawmaker from Denver blamed Planned Parenthood for a deadly shootout last week at a clinic in Colorado Springs.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015 from The Globe and Mail - Politics RSS feedStatement by PM’s spokeswoman says Trudeau family employs two household employees as secondary caregivers
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsDUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) - Jeb Bush and his allies are spending circles around his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination. Yet for all the money they've invested - $26 million on television ads alone - they've yet to see a...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsDeWeese says those who got him sent to prison for theft of services are guilty of the same thing.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015 from NPR Topics: PoliticsThe New Jersey governor is showing off his credentials as a former prosecutor to argue he can fight terrorism.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsTwo U.S. senators - one Republican, one Democrat - said in a report Tuesday that Gilead Sciences had priced its groundbreaking hepatitis C medicines to maximize profit and "broad, affordable access was not a key consideration"...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Irish Times Politics RSSAgriculture comprises 30% emissions but is crucial part of economy, writes Harry McGee
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from All News RSS Feed
“Drink a beer, smoke a joint. But lay off the crack, it will rot your teeth.” -
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsMayor-elect Jim Kenney is announcing four more members of his administration's leadership team Wednesday including a prekindergarten director, a new post that will oversee Kenney's key initiative of expanding pre-k programs in the city.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsLE BOURGET, France (AP) - President Barack Obama said Tuesday that parts of the global warming deal being negotiated in Paris should be legally binding on the countries that sign on, setting up a potential fight with Republicans at home.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015 from All News RSS FeedWhat does it look like from the photography well of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s weekly presser? Photographer Al Drago answered that question with Roll Call’s new 360° camera.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015 from NPR Topics: PoliticsIn Paris, President Obama made the case for taking action against climate change and addressed the ongoing fight against ISIS.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Irish Times Politics RSSFianna Fáil leader says rival’s ‘way of doing business’ is incompatible with his party
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from NPR Topics: PoliticsSen. Mitch McConnell wants to do away with limits on how much a party committee can spend to support a candidate. Party committees are bound by contribution limits intended to prevent corruption.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsPennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane has appointed the former top law enforcement officer in Maryland to head a wide-ranging investigation into the chain of pornographic emails exchanged among state prosecutors, judges, and law...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from RedStateThe attacks on Donald Trump by the establishment are not forthcoming. Do not expect them to happen. Expect instead that [mc_name name='Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)' chamber='senate' mcid='R000595' ] starts going up in the polls. It has come...
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015 from NPR Topics: PoliticsNPR's Robert Siegel talks with Matthew Bunn, a nuclear and energy policy analyst and professor of practice at the Harvard Kennedy School, about the role nuclear power will play in the future. As world leaders meet in Paris for the U.N....
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Irish Times Politics RSSRreport expected to examine 11 key areas including the banks and role of State authorities
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Standing in the pulpit where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led the historic Montgomery bus boycott, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reached out to black voters Tuesday saying the U.S. is still...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) - The House and Senate have reached agreement on a 5-year, $281 billion transportation bill that would increase spending to address the nation's aging and congested highways and transit systems - a legislative feat that...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from RedState
This it the time of year for a nice, heartwarming Christmas story. Perhaps one about a miser who has an epiphany brought on by a glimpse of his own life and mortality. Right on time Bloomberg Business delivers. Remember Dan Price. The... -
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from Foreign Policy JournalThe Intifada operates on the basis of a collective spirit that can neither be intimidated by violence nor procured by funds. The article Reclaiming Palestine: How Israeli Media Misread the Intifada was originally published at Foreign...
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) - Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley appealed to House Democrats on Tuesday to keep him in their consideration as he runs for president.
