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The deadly crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on Thursday near Ukraine's border with Russia, which killed all 298 people on board, triggered a range of emotions from leaders around the world, many of whom pledged resources to help in...
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Two football fans and a worker from the World Health Organization are confirmed to have been among the UK passengers on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
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If you're not familiar, Dave Weigel has a great recap of the hottest new trend in anti-environmentalism: Rolling coal . It's basically where people who own pickup trucks with diesel engines rig them to consume more fuel so that they shoo...
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By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) NOTABLES U.S. POISED TO PLAY AN ‘ADVISORY ROLE’: Investigators will have to navigate charred wreckage and regional hostility in efforts to uncover answers into the downed Malaysia Airlines Flig...
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A section of the flight route and crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, which crashed Thursday killing all 298 people on board, was within firing range of Ukraine’s missile systems, the Russian Defense Ministry’s press service tol...
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Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian prime minister, won an appeal Friday against his conviction in a sex-for-hire case with an underage prostitute. The decision overturns a lower court's decision that initially sentenced Berlusconi to ...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Friday that the Jewish state is preparing to “significantly widen” its ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
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As part of our continuing series of Monkey Cage election reports , the following is a post-election report on the recent Indonesian presidential elections from Cornell University political scientist Tom Pepinsky . Read full article >...
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The highlights of a very personal Lords debate
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John Kass, Changing Lanes
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This is a bonus installment of TMC’s A frican Politics Summer Reading Spectacular . Leonardo Arriola , Associate Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley, writes about his recent book, “ Multiethnic Coalitions in Africa: Business F...
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David Remnick, The New Yorker Geography, motive, communications intercepts, and all manner of circumstantial evidence suggest that the likeliest suspect in the horrific deaths of two hundred and ninety-eight people aboard Malaysia Airlin...
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Karen DeYoung, Wash Post The downing of a Malaysian commercial airliner flying at 33,000 feet over Ukraine could dramatically broaden the Ukrainian crisis, even before it is determined who bears responsibility.
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Sign up for Read In and get all the news you need delivered to your inbox promptly at 8 a.m. every weekday! A1: The stories you need to read before your first conference call. -- Malaysia Airlines flight 17 was carrying as many as 100 HI...
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Women must push harder for pay rises, says a Lib Dem minister as she unveils proposals to close the gender pay gap.
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Michael Riley, Bloomberg BusinessWeek
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Lord Falconer, the fFormer Lord Chancellor, says his Bill would give those with a terminal illness and just months to live the chance to end their lives
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It's nine weeks to go until the referendum and, as the debate ramps up, it can be be easy to lose track. But we're here to help.
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Markets watchdog the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has recommended a full competition inquiry into banks.
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High Court says original inquest was "insufficient" and quash its open verdict, after family obtained mass of evidence they claim was not properly examined - including witnesses who may have lied
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Judges say original inquest was "insufficient" and quash its open verdict, after family obtained mass of evidence they claim was not properly examined
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Tom Bevan, RCP DAVENPORT, Iowa -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie wrapped up his first trip to Iowa in more than two years this evening, exhorting a crowd of hundreds of GOP activists at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds here to help mak...
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He says they "failed to give the Ukrainians weapons with which to defend themselves."
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Libyan militia fighting for control of Tripoli's main airport have agreed to a cease-fire after five days of heavy fighting with a rival armed group, media reports said Friday. The news comes after the government asked the U.N. Security ...
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Brian Beutler, New Republic
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Klaus Larres & Peter Eltsov, Politico
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Israel's first major ground offensive in Gaza in five years comes as cease-fire efforts stall.
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Laurence Tribe, Boston Globe
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We still know very little about precisely what happened Thursday in Ukraine . What we do know is that few people in key countries are going to give Russia the benefit of the doubt. Last week, the Pew Research Center released a poll detai...
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The White House issued a number of new sanctions against Russian companies Wednesday, including Kalashnikov Concern, maker of AK-47s. And the Russian government is concerned about what this will mean for American gun owners. Read full ar...
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Plans for a new law on assisted dying lack proper safeguards, according to one of the country's most eminent end-of-life doctors.
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Thanks to migration and other forces, Southern blacks may play a larger role in 2014 than in any national election since Reconstruction.
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Paul Begala, CNN
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Owen Paterson, the former environment secretary who was fired in Monday's reshuffle, signs up to deliver annual lecture for climate sceptic group
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Owen Paterson, the former environment secretary who was fired in Monday's reshuffle, signs up to deliver annual lecture for climate sceptic group
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Legalising assisting dying would mean "less suffering not more deaths", says Lord Falconer as peers debate the issue in the House of Lords.
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The liberal comic is recieving backlash after a tweet he sent out amid tensions in the Middle East.
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Eastern Ukraine’s airspace was shut down Friday by the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation while the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA, extended its advisory to avoid routes above Ukraine.
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The Environmental Protection Agency will issue a proposal Friday under the Clean Water Act that would limit mining activity in Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed, according to two individuals familiar with the decision. Read full article ...
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Has food - especially junk food - played as large a role in the messaging of any other presidential administration as it has in that of President Obama? Obama has long complained about feeling hemmed in by the presidency, and has made a ...
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Americans for Prosperity, the on-the-ground wing of the network of conservative organizations spearheaded by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, will open new state chapters in South Dakota and Alaska in coming weeks, ...
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Deputy Attorney General James Cole on Thursday testified before a House oversight panel about how the FBI ended up with a database from the Internal Revenue Service containing private taxpayer information for about 12,000 nonprofit advoc...
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“In these economic times, one simply cannot ignore $175 billion in lost export revenue or 200,000 lost jobs in one year.” —Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, in a news release, July 14, 2014 Read full articl...
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We send people to death row but rarely execute them. The result a judge says, is a system that is arbitrary and unconstitutional.
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Daniel Innis, a former business school dean running a long-shot campaign for the House in New Hampshire, faced a big financial disadvantage until a wealthy friend put hundreds of thousands of dollars into a super PAC backing his candidac...
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Terry Eastland, Weekly Standard
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You can do politics in two ways. One is politics as problem solving. The other is politics as parlour game.
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The former Italian prime minister, who was sentenced to 7 years last year for sex with a minor and an attempted cover-up, has been acquitted by an appeals court.
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Phil Berger Jr.'s loss in Tuesday's Republican runoff in North Carolina's 6th District was about more than an establishment favorite getting knocked off by an anti-establishment challenger.
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Four House Republicans -- who are also roommates -- aren't messing around with collecting dues for the National Republican Congressional Committee.
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With three weeks left in the work period before Congress leaves for its long summer recess, the Senate is likely to leave nearly 300 House bills aimed at spurring economic growth gathering dust on Leader Harry Reid's desk.
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In less than a month, Washington will play host to roughly 50 African heads of state, hundreds of cabinet-level ministers, and over a thousand American and African business leaders and investors. It will be a truly historic moment. More ...
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At Tuesday's congressional briefing on marine mammal strandings, Congressmen William Keating, D-Mass., and Jared Huffman, D-Calif., spoke to approximately 80 congressional staffers and others about how crucial The John H. Prescott Marine...
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What do Richard Boulware, a federal judge in Nevada, Nina Pillard, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Mel Watt, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency have in common?
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Senator Elizabeth Warren has had a busy mid-term election season campaigning for Democratic Senate hopefuls — especially women — across the country. Warren has ruled out a presidential run in 2016.
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Australia has wound up the pressure on Moscow and is re-considering Vladimir Putin’s attendance at the G20 in November as the world reels from the downing of Malaysia Airlines MH17 killing 298 people - 28 of them Australians.
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A people-smuggler who promised to ferry asylum seekers from Indonesia to Australia will remain behind bars until at least 2018.
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The Abbott government is set to dissolve a Senate committee scrutinising the NBN and replace it with a new committee dominated by Coalition members.
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CQ Roll Call's Kerry Young reports that Amazon has asked lawmakers to tweak federal health privacy law to allow freer data flow for research projects conducted through its cloud-services business while maintaining information security.
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A ranking by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy released Thursday finds that the United States lags behind other industrialized nations in terms of energy efficiency, ranked at 13th place.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce endorsed GOP Rep. Justin Amash's primary challenger in Michigan's 3rd District.
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For this week's edition of Throwback Thursday, we turn to a 2007 book excerpt about how the Defense Department headquarters came to be a five-sided building.
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Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has signaled his intention to push for legislation shutting down "corporate inversions," techniques used commonly by companies to dodge the corporate income tax.
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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., is optimistic about Senate support for an appropriations rider that would dismantle local gun laws in the District of Columbia, but he doubts the chamber will consider the measure.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has sent the White House the final payment rule proposals for fiscal 2015 Medicare provider payments for skilled nursing, psychiatric and inpatient rehabilitation facilities.
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The specially appointed House GOP border surge working group is poised to submit its formal policy recommendations to party leaders, while two of its members appear to be pursuing alternate tracks.
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"Come on out tonight," could be the unofficial motto for good-timing Memphis band Lucero, a band dedicated equally to touring and defying easy classification. Country? Sure. Punk? Why not. Roadhouse? Yeah.
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John Devaney, who will soon become the new managing partner of law firm Perkins Coie, has some big shoes to fill.
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The White House's request for more funds on immigration could get a congressional vote soon. Meanwhile, the border crisis is complicating Obama's plan to take unilateral action to ease deportations.
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The Senate has voted to reauthorize terrorism risk insurance, to help businesses stay solvent in the event of attacks. The bill faces a tougher road in the House, where some Republicans want to reduce the potential price tag for taxpayers.
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Delphi, the company that made the defective ignition switch in General Motors vehicles, has stayed out of the harsh glare in the recall scandal. But that changed Thursday, as Delphi's CEO joined GM CEO Mary Barra and GM's top lawyer for ...
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Go figure, right? We all just KNEW that privatizing a bunch of government-run hospitals for poor people would explode the budget. Because that’s happened…never. Louisiana spent $52 million less than was budgeted for Gov. Bobby Jindal’s p...
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Updated 6:59 p.m. | The Senate is set to confirm a new U.S. ambassador to an international body that's been responsible for investigating airplane crashes such as Malaysia Airlines MH17.
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One of the most widely accepted expectations of both proponents and opponents of the 2010 health care law was that health care utilization rates would increase as newly insured persons sought treatment options. However, a report this wee...
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Federal law prohibits most interstate highway tolling. Lifting that ban is not likely to happen soon, even though toll revenue would help states pay for some infrastructure projects.
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When Barack Obama requested the Congress approve a mammoth $3.7 billion appropriation to deal with the Obama created crisis on our southern border, the House GOP was underwhelmed. The general distribution of the funds request was: And is...
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The United States has not sent an ambassador to the U.N. International Civil Aviation Organization, which has, in the past, investigated air disasters like the one Thursday in which a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet reportedly was shot d...
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**Promoted from the diaries. – Aaron** You may be seeing a concerted attempt by liberals and their media allies to convince you that Obamacare is 1) succeeding; 2) losing political impact for the midterms; and 3) being emphasized l...
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The Energy Department will provide $3.5 million to a Hawaii firm to use algae to produce oil.
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Updated 6:25 p.m. The United States has not sent an ambassador to the U.N. International Civil Aviation Organization, which has, in the past, investigated air disasters like the one Thursday where a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet report...
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If it's determined that Ukrainian separatists shot down the Malaysia Airlines plane that crashed in Eastern Ukraine Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin should face consequences, Sen. John McCain said.
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Beyond the well-reported traumatic brain injuries and loss of limbs, this generation of war veterans is facing other conditions that reflect the way the fighting has occurred in Iraq and Afghanistan. Skin cancer, epilepsy, sleep disorder...
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Speaker John A. Boehner seems to be losing confidence that Congress can pass legislation addressing the wave of children coming across the border before lawmakers head back to their districts for the August recess.
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If it's hump day, budding coalition builder Sen. Joe Manchin III is probably breaking bread with members of his slowly widening circle of fellow comity seekers.
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Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said the strength of individual candidates will help her party outperform expectations in the upcoming midterms.
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A member of the House GOP working group tasked with making policy recommendations on how to manage the influx of unaccompanied child migrants on the Southwest border said the group will release a set of proposals today that closely follo...
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Even as President Barack Obama was headed to Delaware on Thursday to promote public-private partnerships to finance infrastructure, Peter Ruane, president of the American Road and Transportation Builders Association, was telling a confer...
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Robert Wilson, Paul Milgrom and R. Preston McAfee will each receive Golden Goose Awards for work that led to the design of the first Federal Communications Commission spectrum auction.
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The Food and Drug Administration lab on the NIH campus where six vials of smallpox were discovered also had biological agents causing such diseases including dengue, influenza, Q fever, and rickettsia, government officials have disclosed.
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A Malaysian airliner carrying 295 persons has crashed in eastern Ukraine earlier today. There were no survivors. The circumstances of the crash are still unclear but the preponderance of early reports indicate that it was shot down by a ...
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Conservatives should take comfort in knowing that part of the underhanded tactics we are watching establishment Republicans engage in against us is a sign of how threatened they feel and how angry they are over the gains conservatives ar...
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A nomination hearing Thursday for Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, Jr. to take command of the Marine Corps spent most of its time focusing on his current job as commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan. He backed the Afghanistan withdrawal plan as...
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A recent incident during which workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were potentially exposed to anthrax is part of a larger pattern of "an insufficient culture of safety," Director Thomas R. Frieden told a House comm...
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Mark Pryor is in the fight of his political life against Tom Cotton in what has become one of the reddest states in the country, and also one of the most religious states in the country. It is no coincidence then that Pryor has been seen...
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For those who have not been following the issue, Louisiana is the current ground zero in the fight over the implementation of Common Core standards. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has issued an executive order suspending implementation ...
