Friday's Top 50 Politics News & Stories
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The Department for Transport defends the geographical knowledge of its staff after several blunders appeared in an official announcement.
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David Cameron may end up having to recommend that the UK leaves the EU, former Chancellor Lord Lawson says.
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Rich Lowry, National Review As a defender of the nationÂ’s borders, President Barack Obama is a hell of a pool player.The president enjoyed a game at a bar in Denver with Colorado governor John Hickenlooper the other day, witho...
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House Speaker Boehner said the Republican lawsuit against President Obama is based on his circumventing Congress to delay requirement for businesses to provide coverage.
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Lord Coe almost certain to be named BBC Trust chairman with backing of David Cameron and George Osborne, says Robert Peston
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David Cameron says the government is to give local authorities the power to stage motor races on public roads.
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S. Malanga, City Jrnl
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Although the circumstances are unusual, the city is acting normally in providing a service to the needy.
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Video stills released from Capitol shooting
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David Nather, Politico
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Rep. Henry Cuellar has lost patience with President Barack Obama over his response to the surge of minors from Central America crossing the southern border.
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(Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will vote on Friday on a proposal intended to modernize the subsidy program that helps fund Internet access in public schools and libraries, which has faced criticism from Republican...
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More money. More National Guard troops at the border. More children deported. A slew of possible solutions for the Texas immigration crisis emerged this week as President Barack Obama visited the Lone Star State.
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Juliet Eilperin, Wash Post Bears, beer and horse heads: What exactly is going on with the leader of the free world?On a single day this week in Denver, President Obama scarfed down pizza and drinks with strangers, shot pool with Colorado...
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During his weekly briefing, House Speaker John Boehner lashes out at the President over his actions on immigration.
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Jacob Heilbrunn, Los Angeles Times
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Philip Klein, Examiner
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President Obama didn't hold back his feelings about immigration at an event in Texas, but Congress had words for him too.
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Charles Krauthammer, Investor's Biz Daily As is his wont, President Obama is treating the border crisis — more than 50,000 unaccompanied children crossing illegally — as a public relations problem. Where to photo op...
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Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal Is a nation without borders a nation? Washington's leaders seem to recognize what's happening as a political problem, not a real problem. That is, they betray no honest alarm. They just sort of stand in ...
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Everyone loves to back a winner. And Charlie Dent is a pretty sure bet. Rep. Dent (R-Pa.) boasted one of the best fundraising quarters of his congressional career. He hauled in more than $400,000 this spring. Read full article >>
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Pensioners in Scotland could be £260 a year better off after independence, Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says.
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House subcommittee members will examine the “viability” of the federal Senior Executive Service (SES) at a hearing Friday. SES members might not have known there was a question about the ability of their workforce to continue, but that’s...
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Baroness Warsi rules herself out of the running for EU Commissioner after Lord Kinnock says the job should go to her.
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Some famous faces speak up for the side they support in the Scottish independence campaign ahead of the 18 September vote
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CNN's Erin Burnett speaks with Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) about the escalating border crisis.
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Dan Balz, Changing Lanes
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David Cameron's cabinet reshuffle will be far wider than previously thought with major names set to be sacked or moved, writes the BBC's Deputy Political Editor James Landale.
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Michael Barone, Examiner Skitter, scamper, scuttle. That seems to be the mode of the Obama administration of late.Skitter away from your red line in Syria. Scamper off to a meeting you'd previously nixed with Texas Gov. Rick Perry.Scuttl...
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Eugene Robinson, Washington Post WASHINGTON -- There's no objective need for President Obama to visit the Texas-Mexico border and see the immigration crisis first-hand, but he shouldn't have claimed that "I'm not interested in photo ops....
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Jonah Goldberg, National Review In the film Obvious Child, Jenny Slate plays Donna Stern, a stand-up comedian who specializes in making jokes about her private parts, with the occasional foray into fart humor. She is about to go onstage....
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Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics GOFFSTOWN, N.H. -- Two months before the New Hampshire Republican Senate primary, Bob Smith was scrutinizing a shopping cart full of watermelons near the checkout line at SullyÂ’s Market. "That's...
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Keli Goff, The Daily Beast
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Josh Voorhees, Slate
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Welsh holidaymakers desperate to get their passports are still turning to their local MPs for help - a month after a row broke out about delays.
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At the beginning of the 2014 election cycle, there wasn't much that Republicans loved talking about more than Obamacare. And they're still talking about it, but not nearly as much. Read full article >>
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Paul Krugman, New York Times One unhappy lesson weÂ’ve learned in recent years is that economics is a far more political subject than we liked to imagine. Well, duh, you may say. But, before the financial crisis, many economist...
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Sally Kohn, The Daily Beast Republicans are largely accusing that when President Obama granted immigration reprieve to so-called Dreamers—young undocumented immigrants already in the United States and brought here when they we...
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“Senator, I’m a retired coal miner and I want to know how you could have voted to raise my Medicare costs by $6,000.” —Don Disney of Cloverlick, Ky., in an ad for Alison Lundergan Grimes, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Read full ar...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is enlisting several major U.S. and multinational companies to draw attention to an initiative aimed at helping small businesses expand and hire workers.
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Election Day isn’t just about control of the U.S. Senate or House of Representatives, or even gubernatorial races in more than 30 states. Voters who head to the polls Nov. 4 will also decide which party controls 91 legislative chambers a...
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U.S. officials confirmed Thursday that hackers may have breached an Office of Personnel Management’s network that contains personal information about federal employees. Details of the impacts of the attack are sparse at this time, but cy...
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Taxpayers may have lost out on around £1bn in undervalued Royal Mail shares and assets, a committee of MPs says.
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Mike Allen sits down with Senator Rob Portman of Ohio.
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The most prominent donors are pouring money into the sleepy, sprawling suburbs east of Denver.
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Speaker John Boehner dispatches his own team to twist some of the stragglers' arms.
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President Obama has asked for $3.7 billion to deal with the southern border crisis. There are predictions the number of unaccompanied children entering the U.S. could reach 90,000 by October.
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Labour leader may struggle to meet US President before 2015 general election due to 'bruises' left by his inaction over Syria and Barack Obama's hectic schedule
