Saturday's Top 100 Breaking Politcs News, Headlines & Stories
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Wiens & Stangler, The Hill
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Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post
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In the map above, darker shaded states have higher unemployment rates. Hover over a state to see its rate. Fourteen states have unemployment rates below 5 percent, the low-end of a range of Federal Reserve officials’ predictions for wher...
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Greg Sargent, WP
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Ed Miliband promises there will be no return to the tax and spend policies of past Labour governments, in a speech to Labour's national policy forum.
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Anderson & Kristol, Weekly Standard
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Dana Milbank, Washington Post
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Sally Kohn, CNN
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At least 38 people were killed Saturday when a truck, filled with flammable liquid, crashed into a bus in the central Hunan province in China, causing a fresh uproar over unsafe road transportion in the country.
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Nate Cohn, NYT
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Not so long ago the federal deficit was projected to destroy the country, our children’s future and just about everything else. The politicians and media regularly fretted about what to do. Budget battles shut down the entire government ...
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The Obama administration sides with energy developers over environmentalists on this issue.
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WASHINGTON -- Although legal experts warned at the time that little would come of Rep. Darrell Issa's (R-Calif.) attempt to prosecute former IRS official Lois Lerner for contempt of Congress, Republicans on Issa's Oversight and Governmen...
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WASHINGTON -- If there's one thing Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) wants you to know about his crusade to block the District of Columbia's marijuana decriminalization statute -- which officially went into effect on Thursday -- it's this: He's d...
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WASHINGTON -- This year, for the first time since the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling unleashed the unlimited-money super PAC, the majority of Senate races feature super PACs that focus on just one candidate. These personaliz...
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Gail Sheehy, Politico
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An ultimatum reportedly issued by rebels aligned with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, has sparked a mass exodus of Iraqi Christians from the rebel-controlled city of Mosul, where they were advised to convert to Islam, pay a...
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Larry Kudlow, IBD Across his remarkably successful presidency, Ronald Reagan repeatedly made the link between the U.S. economy and U.S. international security and defense. He consistently argued that weakness at home leads to weakness ab...
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The Obama administration is furiously working to build support for a tough international response to Russia following the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the Russia-Ukraine border.President Obama spent most of Friday on the p...
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Call for action after claims of four deaths this year at controversial North Mara site run by African Barrick Gold Killings at a British-owned gold mine in east Africa have alarmed a group of MPs, lawyers and human rights campaigners, wh...
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A Conservative MP says recent court decisions that call on the government to change legislation amount to a trend. Dan Albas, the MP for Okanagan-Coquihalla, says that while he respects the courts he also believes an increasing number of...
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Davis says he has a list of Republican backers, but it turns out some of them aren't Republicans.
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Social media can dramatically influence the food system and, ultimately, food policy.
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John Feehery, WSJ
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Ben Domenech, Federalist
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Bill McGurn, NYP
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Kimberley Strassel, Wall St. Journal
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Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
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Anne Applebaum, Slate
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When it comes to adorable fashions, it’s hard to outdo the kids’ red carpet.
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The Russian government has reportedly been trying to tamper with the Wikipedia page relating to the Malaysian Airlines MH17 flight tragedy.
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Iran and the six world powers negotiating over Tehran’s nuclear program agreed to a four-month extension of their talks Saturday after acknowledging they will fail to meet a deadline Sunday.
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Byron York, DC Examiner
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Welcome back to Five Questions! Today, meet Pete Aguilar, a Democrat running in California's 31st district. The mayor of Redlands finished second in last month's top-two, all-party primary last month, narrowly averting disaster for Democ...
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Incoming House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) criticized President Obama for saying he would use his "pen and phone" to accomplish his agenda without the help of Congress. Scalise, the former leader of the conservative Republican St...
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Virginia Postrel, Bloomberg
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The Russian government was reportedly spotted editing a Wikipedia page about the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on Thursday. The crash killed 298 people aboard MH17.
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Suspected Boko Haram gunmen killed many villagers in the northeastern Nigerian town of Damboa, where a number of homes were set ablaze.
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Of all the 31 charges announced against Mike Duffy, the one that arguably stood out and generated the bulk of coverage was the lone charge of "bribery of a judicial officer." But how can you charge someone with accepting a bribe but no o...
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Remember back in childhood how, whenever a melee erupted on the playground or in a backyard, mothers, fathers or teachers would suddenly emerge to pull wrestling bodies apart while some sweaty kid, with pointed fingers and glaring eyes, ...
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon decided at an emergency Security Council meeting Friday he will leave for the Middle East Saturday to aid in a resolution of the conflict between Israel and Hamas in the strife-ridden region, where Isra...
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Access to the crashed remains of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was blocked by pro-Russia rebels who prevented a team of international investigators from reaching the site, BBC reported Saturday. Michael Bociurkiw, a member of the Organiz...
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PEMBERTON, B.C. - Police are investigating a suspicious death at the Pemberton Music Festival, north of Vancouver. Members of B.C.'s Integrated Homicide Investigations Team cordoned off an area near a row of portable toilets after the de...
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SACRAMENTO California (Reuters) - California has banned the sale of single-shot handguns that can be altered into semi-automatic weapons, handing a modest victory to proponents of tougher gun laws while striving to protect antique collec...
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A bill to legalise assisted dying has passed its second reading in the Lords on Friday without a vote.
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Secretly intercepted chatter suggests a deadly Russian missile system was smuggled across the border to Ukraine just hours before a Malaysia Airlines flight was shot down.
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Public Health England is considering giving supermarkets its algorithms or formulae so they can work out the sugar and fat content in people's shopping baskets
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Israeli tanks and troops swept deeper into Gaza on Friday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the military was prepping to expand its bloody ground offensive.
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Assemblyman John A. Pérez ended the recount in the controller race on Friday, halting a process that many have criticized as a weakness in California election laws.
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Civil rights lawyer Richard Emery was appointed by Mayor de Blasio on Thursday as chairman of the police Civilian Complaint Review Board .
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Taking strong exception to CBSE's Sanskrit Week celebrations in schools under its ambit next month, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today said it would be appropriate to have organised a 'Classical Language Week' in each state b...
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At the annual conference known as Netroots Nation, the vice president received a warm embrace from progressive activists. But that doesn't mean they want him to run for president in 2016.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Afghan election crisis and unraveling of Iraq have lawmakers and regional allies thinking President Barack Obama should rethink his decision to withdraw virtually all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the close of 2016.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says all American workers deserve to know that if they lose their jobs, their country will help them train for a better one.
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Some of Johannesburg's major shopping malls, hotels, real estate agencies and car dealers have allegedly been colluding to defraud the city of more than R200 million, The Saturday Star reported. An investigation into council staff involv...
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Evgeniy Tankov, 35, from Karaganda, was looking after an inheritance case on behalf of a client when he lost his temper. Mr Tankov approach the judge before saying: 'Let's not hang about arguing the law here, let's decide this with...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Dwayne Johnson says he considers New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie "a buddy" despite making Christie take down an online video that featured the Hollywood star.
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The Telegraaf makes no bones about where it thinks the blame lies. 'Murderers' screams the front page headline, above a photograph of Alexander Borodai, the 'self-proclaimed premier of the people's repubic of Donetsk' surrounded by armed...
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The press secretary for a central Pennsylvania congressman was arrested this morning after attempting to take a handgun into a congressional office building.
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The height of partisan turmoil in the House of Representatives last year was occasionally punctuated by news of the death of an Australian soldier in Afghanistan, and a later start to Question Time as the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, w...
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If the U.S. Congress does not block the Commission's decision on sentencing, the amnesty will come into force on November 1, 2015 U.S. authorities are willing to early release from federal prison, more than 46 thousand prisoners. This de...
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The Aam Aadmi Party today slammed the BJP for the arrest of its Delhi unit secretary Dilip Pandey and said that it was trying to replicate Gujarat style of functioning in the National Capital. The post AAP slams BJP for arrest of its Del...
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The MH17 disaster has hung over the G20 summit in Sydney as senior world leaders met to discuss trade.
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Bianca Olds it was a blow from her husband, Mark, that saved her life. As the couple were preparing their Queensland home for sale last year, Bianca lost her balance while painting the pair's granny flat, accidentally grabbing a powerlin...
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Thousands of people have marched to protest alleged police inaction after a 6-year-old girl was raped at a school in Bangalore, India's technology hub. More than 4,000 parents and relatives of children who attend the school shouted sloga...
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A day after Uttar Pradesh Governor Aziz Qureshi sought a report on the brutal rape and murder of a young woman in Mohanlalganj area of the state capital, the Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today held a meeting with him. The post UP rape, ...
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ET Okanagan-Coquihalla MP Dan Albas says government decisions are being overturned by courts and interest groups with no accountability. (CBC) A Conservative MP says recent court decisions that call on the government to change legislatio...
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But throughout most of central and eastern Europe, leaders withheld judgment, expressing shock but refusing to say more until more facts are in. The caution is not surprising: Several former Soviet satellite states have developed closer ...
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Police say the pair were travelling on the Castlereagh Highway, south of St George when they left the road around 2pm on Friday...The 67-year-old woman was taken to Dirranbandi Hospital and later airlifted to Toowoomba, where she remains...
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The announcement comes amidst political fall-out in Sadtu and its mother federation, Cosatu. (AFP) The national coordinating committee of the splinter group met in Johannesburg on Friday and resolved to form a new, non-aligned trade unio...
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Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today ordered an inquiry into the allotment/settlement of land in Guwahati Metropolitan area, particularly on wetlands and water bodies. Gogoi directed state Chief Secretary Jitesh Khosla to ensure the co...
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Rubbishing allegations made against him by Narayan Rane, Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray today said the sulking Congress minister needs "consolation". The post Uddhav rubbishes Rane’s threats to quit, says he needs consolation...
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Queensland LNP candidate Bob Andersen has conceded defeat in the Stafford by-election after a massive swing.
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A 21-year-old college student was allegedly gang-raped by four persons after they thrashed her lover and tied his limbs near Rayakottah area here, police said on Saturday. The girl was talking to her lover, a car driver, with his vehicle...
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Taipei, July 19 (CNA) The family of a Japan ese in a coma has called for public donations to help transport him back home in an emergency medical charter plane. The man, identified as Kiyoshi Kawauchi, boarded a plane at...
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Taipei, July 19 (CNA) One of three red pandas obtained from China 's southern Fujian Province made its public debut at the Taipei Zoo Saturday. Children thronging in front of the animal's enclosure were elated to see Huan Huan peeping...
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China is opening up to the world and is promoting the wider global use of its currency, the Renminbi (RMB). This could present opportunities for other countries, including Qatar, to benefit.
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U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power said at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council that the United States does not dismiss the Russia involvement for the launch of the ground-to-air, brought down an airliner Boeing-777 Mala...
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Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin compared Washington's hasty conclusions on the cause of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing-777 crash in Ukraine to its statement on Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction made years ago.
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PATEROS, Wash. (AP) — Residents strolled through the smoldering rubble of their neighborhoods, some wearing surgical masks to protect their lungs from the smoke and ash lingering in the air of the riverside community they call "Paterodis...
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Legislators should work for the welfare of not only their constituency but also the whole state, Sumitra Mahajan said.
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Labor is on track to comfortably win the Stafford by-election in Qld, with two-thirds of the vote counted.
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They say the law allows unlicensed pop-up beer gardens to operate, which was never the intent.
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The world’s top five emerging economies, BRICS, will participate in the elimination of Afghani drug production together with the Russian Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN), Russia’s anti-narcotics chief Viktor Ivanov told RIA Novosti Sa...
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The Department of the Interior might not have the largest Twitter following among federal agencies, but its account might be the most loved of all.
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Major changes are in the offing in the way the PM's National Relief Fund is managed as Prime Minister Narendra Modi today directed that the Gujarat model should be emulated in selection of beneficiaries, giving priority to the poor and c...
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A U.S. drone fired several missiles at a sprawling compound in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region bordering Afghanistan on Saturday, killing eleven militants, two Pakistani intelligence officials said. The of...
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BJP wish to destroy this brand through its tactics of spreading rumor and fomenting fear among masses, said Nitish.
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Qld's Supreme Court has intervened in a dispute over election signs displayed in the Stafford by-election.
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Andrew Donaldson on the latest comments of SA's anti-Bertrand Russell, and other matters
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NEW YORK (AP) — The jetliner is much more than a machine used to get from one spot to another. It often carries deep symbolism, especially when flying for a national airline. It can represent hope, modernity and a country's power. And wh...
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The Human Resources, Finance and Administration Division at Dubai Customs has launched "Talent Care Program", a first-of-its-kind initiative at the local, regional and international Customs level. The new program is in line with Dubai Go...
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From power purchase agreements to who controls Hyderabad, everything that remains contentious between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The post States at war: 10 points of discord between Telangana and Andhra appeared first on Firstpost .
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The surge of Central American children crossing the U.S. southern border has shifted the politics of immigration, weakening one of the most potent arguments Democrats plan to make against Republicans in November and in the next president...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama plans to sign executive orders Monday prohibiting discrimination against gay and transgender workers in the federal government and its contracting agencies, without a new exemption that was reques...
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Narayan Rane has been looking for some face-saving measure ever since his campaign to oust CM Prithviraj Chavan failed. The Sena and BJP have said he is unwelcome. The post Maharashtra Cong: Rane runs out of options, could be poll campai...
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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki received at his official office the Secretary General of the National Security Council of Iran, Ali Shamkhani and the accompanied delegation.
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Amman, July 18 (Petra) -- His Majesty King Abdullah on Thursday sent a letter to President of the European Parliament (EP) Martin Schulz congratulating him on his re-election.The King also sent a letter to Jean-Claude Juncker congratulat...
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[...] chance? DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry is visiting Iowa for the fourth time in eight months, hoping for a second chance to win over Republican voters who delivered him a stinging caucus loss when he ran for president...
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President of the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) Mustapha Ben Jaafar denied, Friday, any intention of the NCA to impede review of the anti-terrorism draft law.
