Our roundup of today's top news, headlines and stories from the world's most trusted news sources.
- Update as of 1:23 a.m. EDT: Four crew members aboard the plane that crashed into a Nairobi building earlier on Wednesday are confirmed dead, Associated Press reported, adding that the plane was carrying a cargo of Khat, a mild stimulant ...
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July, 2, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsAn MP wants to relax the 20-year-old Sunday Trading Act which allowed shops in England and Wales to open.
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July, 2, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsLord Brittan says he asked officials to "look carefully" at a "paedophile dossier" handed to him when he was home secretary in the 1980s.
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July, 2, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsLabour's biggest union backer Unite is to put pressure on party leader Ed Miliband to support an EU referendum.
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July, 2, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsEx-French President Nicolas Sarkozy is placed under formal investigation over alleged influence peddling, after a day of police questioning.
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July, 2, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsNo new laws are needed to deal with social media - just a better understanding of the existing ones, peers are told.
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July, 2, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsHer ancestors were dull and there was not enough material for the hour-long Who Do You Think You Are? the wife of former prime minister Tony Blair admits
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July, 2, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsThe former Home Secretary to make statement today after he was challenged to explain what he knew about a series of allegations about high profile paedophiles sent to him in the 1980s
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July, 2, 2014 from The Sydney Morning Herald articlesWind energy forced down wholesale power prices by more than $3.2 billion between 2007 and 2012 but consumers enjoyed little of the savings, according to researchers at the University of Queensland.
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July, 2, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsMinisters say the Work Programme is "improving rapidly" after fresh concerns are raised about the flagship back-to-work scheme.
- Politics probably “feels” polarized to most of us — and, in important ways, it is . But that feeling may reflect our own misperceptions as well as the facts. Or such is the conclusion of new research (gated version here ) by Doug Ahler...
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July, 2, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsUKIP won more seats at the European elections than any other UK party and the BBC's Graham Satchell spent day one with UKIP's newly elected MEP Janice Atkinson.
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July, 2, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsA senior MP is writing to the Home Secretary questioning South Wales Police's choice of assistant chief constable, while a report she led into a miscarriage of justice remains unpublished.
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July, 2, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsFunding cuts and ageing population leaving care system 'unsustainable' after 26 per cent squeeze on budgets, study concludes
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July, 2, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsAs he prepares to reintroduce the European Union (Referendum) Bill, Bob Neill says it could force a referendum by 2017
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July, 2, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsCabinet minister for unions is key demand of "new deal" with Labour, claims senior Unite official
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July, 2, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsTelegraph View A convincing case has been made for the retention of Britain's nuclear deterrent by the cross-party Trident Commission
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July, 2, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsA reluctance to talk about extra funding for the health service could prove disastrous, says Mary Riddell
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July, 2, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsWatchdog slams "weak" systems to tackle "hooch" and illegal drugs at Gartree prison in Midlands
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July, 2, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsThe Prime Minister's 'cack handed' review of the Muslim Brotherhood could inspire other jihadists, says Lord Macdonald
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July, 2, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsThe Government's 'review' of the group is not the way to tackle terrorism, says Lord Macdonald, the former director of public prosecutions
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July, 1, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsWhy don't the English want more power?
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July, 1, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageTimothy Carney, Washington Examiner
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July, 1, 2014 from Top StoriesProsecutors say Abu Khatallah "supervised exploitation" of scene after initial attack.
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July, 1, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageMaureen Dowd, NY Times
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July, 1, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepagePaul Moreno, Wall Street Journal
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July, 1, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsProtesters blocked buses carrying detained families who had been flown to Murrieta, Calif., to alleviate overcrowding at Border Patrol stations in Texas.
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July, 1, 2014 from Top StoriesPOLITICO Pro Report: He says, "We're going to keep putting the screws on this until it gets right."
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July, 1, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageEd Rogers, Washington Post
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July, 1, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsMPs are to recall the head of the Passport Office for a second round of questioning about delays in processing applications.
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July, 1, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsThe Lexington County sheriff, James Metts, 68, the state’s longest-serving sheriff, pleaded not guilty to federal bribery charges on Tuesday and was released on $100,000 bond.
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July, 1, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageRuth Marcus, Wash Post WASHINGTON -- How did the Supreme Court manage to agree unanimously that police must obtain a warrant before searching cellphones, yet split on whether employers must offer contraception as part of their health car...
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July, 1, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsA federal judge struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage on Tuesday, though the ruling was temporarily delayed and it was not clear when same-sex couples could be issued marriage licenses.
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July, 1, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageJuan Williams, The Hill
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July, 1, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageKirsten Powers, USA Today
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July, 1, 2014 from Top StoriesMembers of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board disagree on privacy proposals.
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July, 1, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsThe government is exploring emergency measures to kick-start house-building, amid an expected fall in new build this year, BBC Newsnight learns.
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July, 1, 2014 from Top StoriesThe two countries are closer to a deal after the Obama administration defused a trade dispute.
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July, 1, 2014 from International Business TimesAs Russia scrambles to supply Iraq with fighter jets to counter a Sunni extremist revolt, the U.S. delivery of F-16s to Iraq will be further delayed by the evacuation of contractors from Iraq, the Pentagon said Monday. Iraqi leaders have...
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July, 1, 2014 from International Business TimesIt is now illegal for residents of Colorado and Idaho to post so-called revenge porn after laws aimed at stopping dejected lovers and angry stalkers from posting nude images of an individual online went into effect Tuesday.
- When President Obama announced two weeks ago that he intended to expand federal protections around seven islands and atolls in the central Pacific Ocean, many environmentalists hailed the move as an important step for conservation. Read ...
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July, 1, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsWith immigration legislation dead for the year, Congress has a very short must-do list as relations between the two parties, already miserable, seem to be getting worse.
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July, 1, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsMr. Koskinen’s style — quick-witted to the point of being sarcastic — has left some wondering if he is the right person to restore the I.R.S.’s battered credibility.
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July, 1, 2014 from Reuters: PoliticsPORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) - Advocates of mandatory labeling of genetically engineered crops in Oregon said they had collected more than enough signatures to qualify a measure for the November ballot, and planned to submit them on Wednesday...
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July, 1, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsThe chain of craft shops, which fought a contraceptives mandate to the Supreme Court, has not been afraid to take on secular America.
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July, 1, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsMedicine could soon be "cast back into the dark ages" unless action is taken to tackle the growing resistance to antibiotics, David Cameron says.
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July, 1, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsPrime Minister David Cameron has called for global action to tackle the growing threat of resistance to antibiotics.
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July, 1, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsMarion S. Barry Jr. is trying to be remembered for more than the night in 1990 when he was caught on tape smoking crack cocaine.
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July, 1, 2014 from Top StoriesAmerica's crazy, patchwork health-care system just took another hit.
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July, 1, 2014 from Top StoriesFormer Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is in jail, but maybe not for long.
