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Non-EU patients are to be charged 150% of the cost of NHS treatment in a fresh crackdown on so-called "health tourism".
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William Hague says the violence in Gaza is deeply concerning and 27 UK nationals and their dependants have been evacuated.
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Welsh Secretary David Jones is out of the cabinet after a reshuffle by Prime Minister David Cameron.
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Ken Clarke steps down as a minister and Welsh Secretary David Jones is sacked, as David Cameron begins his cabinet reshuffle.
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A few weeks back, I was asked during my weekly "Ask Aaron" live chat something I had never thought about: What is the most boring state in American politics? There are certainly states that rarely find themselves mentioned in the pages...
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As David Cameron reshuffles his cabinet, here's a full list of who was doing what job as of 13 July, 2014
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The Business Secretary has cancelled plans to sell the property body after being accused of selling Royal Mail too cheaply
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Everyone with even a passing interest in politics has likely followed the astonishing, self-inflicted, downhill slide of Hillary Clinton amid the launch of her most recent memoir, “Hard Choices.” Was Vice President Biden one of those wat...
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Both the Associated Press and National Journal argued in separate stories Monday that Democratic candidates for the Senate are missing key components of past electoral success: specifically, Republican candidates torching their own chanc...
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A pair of lawmakers from Texas will introduce bipartisan legislation in Congress on Tuesday to speed up the deportations of tens of thousands of Central American children who have entered the country illegally across the southern border....
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For senators in a tough re-election fight, putting daylight between themselves and the president is just part of the campaign strategy.
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The Republican Party says they anticipated the LeBron James’ move to Cleveland and he won’t be able to block their convention plans. In fact, they may have been planning for it, according to party and city officials. “We’ve worke...
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State Rep. Paul Hollis, a long-shot candidate for U.S. Senate who loaned himself more than $500,000, is dropping out of the race. "After prayer and thoughtful consideration, I have decided to withdraw from the U.S. Senate race in Louisia...
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President Obama is having increasingly frequent late-night dinners, here and abroad, with companions from fields like architecture, film, art and literature.
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Accused criminals in Vermont do not have to share their DNA with state police, at least until they’re convicted. The Vermont Supreme Court court ruled Friday that a state law allowing DNA samples to be taken from people who are charged —...
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Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) outraised his Republican challenger between April and June. Udall's campaign said Monday that it raised $3.1 million between April and June. It ended June with more than $5.7 million in the bank. Read full artic...
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The Ohio Republican says that opposition to the president is about policy, not about race.
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Baroness Butler-Sloss steps down as the head of an inquiry into historical child abuse - the Home Secretary responds by insisting she does not regret appointing her.
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In the last 48 hours, two likely Republican presidential candidates have exchanged foreign policy body blows via op-ed. First came Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who blasted Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul in a piece over the weekend in the Post . Perry...
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The judges back the former media chief's conspiracy conviction, but toss other charges.
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The former House speaker weighs in on the foreign policy debate between Rand Paul and Rick Perry.
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A Lords sleaze watchdog finds that Lord Blencathra's contract with the Cayman Islands breached the House of Lords' code of conduct which bans members of the Lords from lobbying MPs and other peers
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The Church of England has a second opportunity to approve the introduction of women bishops in a crucial vote of its ruling General Synod later.
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Major Web companies want federal restrictions on the ability of Internet providers to strike deals for faster delivery of content.
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Investigation to begin into whether he left his outpost.
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The News Corp CEO says climate change is only partially due to humans.
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The wave of violence that swept across Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend led to 14 deaths and at least 82 people shot. It was an exclamation point on the regular violence of the city, violence that continues to result in many murde...
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Rep. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) outraised Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) during the second quarter of the year, bringing in about $2.3 million to Pryor's $1.5 million. Cotton is running against Pryor in one of the most crucial battleground contests o...
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The former Taliban captive is assigned to U.S. Army North at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston.
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It’s possible that teenagers will be more conservative than their immediate elders. But it doesn’t seem true of today’s oldest teenagers.
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The Ex-Im Bank is likely to survive the latest conservative attacks, Politico's Ben White says.
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The Supreme Court has had the same nine members since 2010. And Americans still can't decide whether those nine justices are too conservative or too liberal. A new Gallup poll shows views of the court remain relatively steady -- at least...
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The U.S. Senate race in West Virginia is hardly a marquee match-up this cycle because it’s not exactly competitive — a Republican will very likely end up winning, flipping a Democratic seat. But, with two of the biggest figures in politi...
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The Prime Minister reiterates his support for women bishops in the Church of England
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Millions of dollars could pour into Tennessee to fund the battle over an abortion ballot measure that would amend the state constitution. Amendment 1 would add language to the constitution that would make it “neutral” on the topic, supp...
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An arrest in Libya led the Justice Department to delay suing the bank over mortgage securities, opening the door to last-minute talks that have culminated in a settlement expected to be announced Monday.
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The new White House press secretary watches CNN and reads POLITICO.
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Dozens of NHS executives face an HMRC inquiry into their tax affairs, Treasury discloses, after refusing to give assurances over use of personal companies
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The Royal Mail faces competition in its postal delivery business, with other firms taking on some of the work
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How the construction industry tries to recruit more women, and diversity in Parliament, the BBC and Hollywood films
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The Scottish government announces additional funding to help rural communities make greater use of their internet connections.
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Last week we ran a mini - symposium organized by Frank Gavin on what policymakers can learn from recent academic research into nuclear weapons. Here Todd S. Sechser and Matthew Fuhrmann respond to some of the issues raised in tha...
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David Cameron is expected to promote women MPs in his Cabinet reshuffle. Fantastic, says Sophy Ridge, but we shouldn't lump them together. Each has a world of different experience - outside Westminster
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The prime minister announces where £1.1bn of defence spending will go, including on drones and intelligence gathering to tackle terrorism.
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His campaign manager credits him for having the foresight to gear up early for a tough race.
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John King, Margaret Talev and Todd Zwillich on Sen. Warren's campaign trip to West Virginia.
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As one campaign ad ironically admits, nobody likes political ads. But we think you’ll get a kick out of these. From castrated hogs to talking dogs, the ads may lack gravitas -- but they seem designed to attract attention.
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John King, Margaret Talev and Todd Zwillich talk about the latest in the showdown between Gov. Perry and Sen. Paul.
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John King, Margaret Talev and Todd Zwillich discuss the blowback to calls for Pres. Obama's impeachment.
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War is expensive, and the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, has a default disinclination against both foreign military intervention and government spending. So, on Monday, Cato hosted a panel that asked whether a better option in...
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The head of one of the biggest rail shippers of Bakken crude oil from North Dakota to U.S. refineries made an assertive case Monday for transporting crude by rail, contending that the pipeline system isn't capable of dealing with today's...
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House Speaker John A. Bohener is always delicately balancing the demands of conservative Republicans, and for them, blocking President Barack Obama's health care initiatives by any means necessary is usually high on the list. Impeaching ...
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A century-old debate over the commercialization of college athletics is under renewed scrutiny on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers could face the issue in the coming months, and held little back when the leader of the NCAA testified recently befo...
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A new political documentary, "Getting Back to Abnormal" debuts this week on PBS and examines New Orleans politics in the post-Katrina era.
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For months, the president and his administration have called the bipartisan uproar over the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative non-profits a "phony" scandal. The Attorney General has done absolutely nothing to pursue th...
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Congressional efforts to keep gasoline prices low are missing the big picture, says the head of the International Energy Agency.
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A House-Senate conference committee tasked with writing a compromise veterans' health bill continues to struggle with a Congressional Budget Office cost estimate for what it will take to allow veterans to seek care from private health ca...
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On Tuesday the National Transportation Safety Board will meet to determine the probable cause of the collapse on May 23, 2013, of a bridge on Interstate 5 spanning the Skagit River in Washington State.
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Vox.com pronounces that "The July effect is real: new doctors really do make hospitals more dangerous" in an article posted yesterday. As the site points out, the term "is shorthand for the supposed spike in medical mistakes at hospitals...
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Rep. Paul Broun, the Georgia Republican who lost a Senate primary in May, endorsed pastor Jody Hice in the July 22 runoff to replace him.
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CQ Roll Call has launched Healthopolis, another Policy Pulse blog to join Five by Five, Technocrat and The Container. Written by Paul Jenks, it will be a platform for health policy news "from the capital and beyond." Jenks has already po...
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CQ Roll Call has launched Healthopolis, another Policy Pulse blog to join Five by Five, Technocrat and The Container. Written by Paul Jenks, it will be a platform for health policy news "from the capital and beyond," including several to...
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CQ Roll Call has launched Healthopolis, another Policy Pulse blog to join Five by Five, Technocrat and The Container. Written by Paul Jenks, it will be a platform for health policy news "from the capital and beyond," including at least o...
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This week, activity on the Hill includes hearings on botnets and the future of the video marketplace as well as House consideration of a permanent ban on taxing Internet access. Elsewhere in Washington, events on the IP transition, data ...
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State Rep. Paul Hollis, a Republican waging a bid in Louisiana's competitive Senate contest, withdrew his candidacy Monday.
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National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Greg Walden announced the names of his top lieutenants in the push for member dues ahead of the fall midterms, according to an internal conference email obtained by CQ Roll Call.
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Welcome to Energy Xtra, the fifth Policy Pulse blog from CQ Roll Call, where we'll be covering the all-of-the-above energy debates on renewable generation, efficiency, electric reliability, infrastructure, nuclear developments, coal tech...
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Ned Sauthoff, the director of U.S. involvement at an international fusion project in France, relied on popular references Friday to explain to lawmakers the status of technological advancement in the decades-long quest for fusion power.
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For a fleeting moment, a California lawmaker played with the idea of a filibuster Thursday, as he pushed for a requirement that exports of liquefied natural gas be shipped by U.S. flagged vessels. After the chairwoman told Rep. John Gara...
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As the hours dragged on while the House debated the Energy-Water spending bill Thursday night, proposals got less serious and leadership patience waned, teetered and at points seemed to snap.
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The nation's capital will be busy with transportation events this week:
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The House Energy and Commerce Committee today begins a markup session on a batch of bills that would renew targeted health programs.
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Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Bruce Braley has a restraining order out on it. The post Bruce Braley’s (D-CAND, Iowa-SEN) Fowl Play: legal threats against special ed therapist neighbor. appeared first on RedState .
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There have been several times in my life when earth-shattering, foundation-shaking events have caused me to reassess everything I do and believe. While on one hand, they are exhilarating experiences because they seem to open up a whole n...
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There are three hearings this week on the president's war-related spending account budget request, and two committee votes on the fiscal 2015 defense spending bill. But, yes, killer robots and outer space are also on the agenda.
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Predictably, Mark Begich (D-AK) is attempting to run away from, and even against, President Obama, who was never particularly popular in Alaska on his best day and is performing especially poorly now. Begich is so desperate to create spa...
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Australia was once an outpost of “rascals and outlaws” but will soon adjust to the shifting realities of power, says a Chinese state-owned newspaper, which also has called Foreign Minister Julie Bishop a complete fool.
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The more obscure House committee hearings can be like minor league baseball: a place to see raw talent refining its skills for a bigger stage. You just have to look past the wild pitches and base-running mistakes.
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We are moving the Minnesota Senate race from Safe Democrat to Democrat Favored, but readers should not make too much of the changed rating.
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Under California Republican Darrell Issa, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has been the Obama administration's No. 1 enemy on Capitol Hill, with high-profile hearings on everything from Benghazi to the IRS, to Operatio...
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To the Interns:
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Fifty years ago, when the ultra-conservative wing of the GOP overthrew Republican moderates to choose Barry Goldwater as the party standard-bearer, black voters deserted the GOP in droves.
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Josh Gordon
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Mo' money, mo' problems? That's the case for a few deep-pocketed House candidates, whose affluence has become a political issue in the districts they seek this November.
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On July 20, Iran and the United States reach a self-imposed deadline for reining in Iran’s nuclear weapons program. With the Vienna negotiations over Iran’s nuclear activities making halting progress at best and a deadline looming,...
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The humanitarian crisis at the Southern border has drawn not just migrants from Central America and Mexico, but members of Congress on fact-finding missions! Now we'll get to the bottom of things. Which brings us to this week's Capitol Q...
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Thanks to the many readers who contributed captions for last week's Capitol Quip contest. Here's the winning entry, as voted by readers of Heard on the Hill.
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On Iran, the White House says the leaders called for the Islamic republic to take the necessary steps to assure the international community that its nuclear program will be "exclusively peaceful."
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David Chavern says it was his idea to feature a picture of William Howard Taft wearing Google Glass on the brochure for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's new Center for Advanced Technology & Innovation. We're establishment and we're part of...
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Username Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) listens to the concerns of a Barrow resident during the opening of his campaign headquarters in Barrow on July 6. (Richard J. Alaska When Sen. Mark Begich talks about his role in American politics, he...
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Auckland [ change ] Fog Max 15° Min 7° Dunedin police lament bad behaviour Adam Walker, Newstalk ZB July 14, 2014, 10:58 am Dunedin police are lamenting a return to the bad old days in city's student quarters. With re-orientation...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell met privately with dozens of governors Sunday as the Obama administration tried to get support from the leaders of states that will host thousands of the...
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That concept is a solid foundation on which to build a great Nation," he says. This is not new thinking for Mr Craig who has been a Lecturer in the Maori Studies Department at Auckland University of Technology. The Conservative...
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The Conservative Party has promoted what some people regard as controversial policies, including putting an end all Treaty claims, and removing the Maori seats from Parliament. Professor Moon has been invited by the Party's leader, Colin...
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Twice during his interview on National Radio yesterday with Wallace Chapman, he claimed there were currently 160 murders a year. In fact there were 34 murders in the 2011 fiscal year, 43 in 2012, and 47 last year. The figures...
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The most opaque round of talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement to date ended in Ottawa yesterday. November hangs in the balance', according to Professor Jane Kelsey who has been in Ottawa to observe the talks. The twelve count...
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SUPPORT for independence would increase in the run-up to the referendum if Scots feared the UK would exit the EU, a poll for The Scotsman has revealed.
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AN INQUIRY into allegations of child sex abuse at the heart of the Establishment is likely to turn up fresh claims about the Church of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury has admitted.
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SCOTLAND could host the UK’s first dedicated base for space-planes, according to new Westminster plans.
