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Friday, August 8, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsFootball boss Karren Brady and former Marks & Spencer boss Sir Stuart Rose are among 22 new life peers.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from ABC News: PoliticsBefore President Nixon officially resigned 40 years ago tomorrow, he had assured Americans that they deserved to know whether their president was a crook. "Well," he told a Nov. 17, 1973, news conference, "I'm not a crook."
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsScottish banks might not be bailed out in a financial crisis if an independent Scotland had no formal currency union with the rest of the UK, a report says.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsDeputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says he wants to see an end to people being sent to prison for possession of drugs for personal use, even for Class A substances such as heroin and cocaine
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from International Business TimesThe World Health Organization, or WHO, on Friday declared that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which is the deadliest on record, constitutes an “extraordinary event” and is an international public health emergency requiring a “coordin...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Top StoriesThe "Atrocities Prevention Board" has the responsibility of prodding the U.S. to fight genocide.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from International Business TimesAustralian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said that his country is preparing stronger sanctions against the “bully” Russia, after Moscow imposed a year-long ban on agricultural products from U.S., Europe and Australia on Thursday.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Top StoriesWhile individual races were won, party unity is still unresolved for Republicans.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Top StoriesLeaders dissect primaries that saw their candidates defeated by establishment Republicans.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from International Business TimesUpdate as of 4:20 a.m. EDT: The Israeli military has resumed air strikes in Gaza “in response to” Hamas rocket fire. According to Al Jazeera, civilian casualties are already being reported in an air strike in North Gaza. In response to t...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Top StoriesFour decades after Nixon's baleful farewell, here are 10 lasting legacies of the Watergate era.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Top StoriesHe didn't want to be in Iraq when he ran in 2008, and he doesn't want to be there now.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsLabour leader Ed Miliband calls on the Scottish government to spell out alternatives to currency union.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsOur ultimate political tour of London features 44 fascinating political sites around the capital
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsThe Lib Dems will vow to stop sending people to jail for drug possession in their 2015 election manifesto.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsUK Prime Minister David Cameron welcomes US President Barack Obama's decision to authorise air strikes against Islamic militants in Iraq.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from International Business TimesThere’s still no deal in Gaza. Negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian delegations took place in Cairo this week and both sides have made one thing clear: their demands are different from those made during previous Israeli-Palestini...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from International Business TimesThe U.S. Department of State on Thursday ordered the families of its diplomats in Liberia -- one of the worst-hit countries in the ongoing Ebola virus outbreak -- to leave the country, and recommended avoiding unnecessary travel to the r...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from ABC News: PoliticsNixon addressed the nation on Aug. 8, 1974.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsRed Cross called in to stave off an NHS winter crisis as waiting lists reach a record high
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostThe following is a guest post by Gabe Rottman, a legislative and policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union ‘s Washington Legislative Office. Read full article >>
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsIt started with a chat in a pub - now celebrities from all walks of life have added their names, says Tom Holland
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Top StoriesFCC rules created out of the Watergate era are under review 40 years after Nixon's resignation.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsTelegraph View The burdens of becoming a super-aged society must not be underestimated
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from International Business TimesU.S. President Barack Obama makes a statement about the humanitarian relief situation in Iraq inside the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, August 7, 2014. REUTERS/Larry Downing
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from International Business TimesAs a cease-fire begins to take hold in Gaza, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are returning to their homes, many of which have been destroyed by Israeli bombardments, to begin the process of rebuilding. But Hamas, the radical Islami...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from International Business TimesA relative reacts at a badly damaged house, which witnesses said was hit by an Israeli air strike that killed three Palestinians from the Wahdan family, as bloodstains are seen on a damaged wall in Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern G...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsStudy by women's groups accuses music industry of 'endemic sexism and racism'
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Reuters: PoliticsNASHVILLE Tenn. (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander on Thursday earned the Republican spot on the November general election ballot after defeating a state representative with Tea Party support in Tennessee's primary.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from CBS News - PoliticsApprehensions of unaccompanied children and parents with children dropped significantly last month
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from International Business TimesThis week's poor showing for Tea Party candidates in the Republican primaries continued with Joe Carr's loss to two-term incumbent Sen. Lamar Alexander in Tennessee. There was a lot of pressure on Thursday night for the Tea Party to pull...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from International Business TimesA small child was able to crawl through the White House fence, causing a security concern for the White House Secret Service on Thursday night. According to the tweets of Mark Knoller, CBS News’ White House correspondent, the crawling ch...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Top StoriesU.S. military warplane had not attacked as of early Friday, but the situation is moving quickly.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from International Business TimesPope Francis will be making his first trip to Asia next week, stopping in South Korea to meet with Asia’s Catholic youth and honor 124 Korean Catholic martyrs, marking the first trip to an Asian country by a pope in nearly 20 years. The ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostSen. Lamar Alexander easily won his primary on Thursday in Tennessee, effectively ending the tea party’s hopes of unseating a Republican senator for the third straight election cycle. Alexander beat state Rep. Joe Carr, a conservative in...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from ABC News: PoliticsPresident said he'll call in air strikes against ISIS to protect American interests if necessary.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsSenator Lamar Alexander outspent his chief opponent, Joe Carr, and voters also rejected an effort to force three State Supreme Court justices from the bench.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsPresident Obama said he had directed U.S. military forces to conduct targeted airstrikes on Islamic militants if they moved to take the Iraqi city of Erbil. He also said that U.S. military aircraft had dropped food and water to thousands...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from CBS News - PoliticsThe president is also considering using airstrikes to combat Islamic militants there
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from CBS News - PoliticsThe former secretary of state doles out advice to women facing 21st century sexism
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Top StoriesThe former secretary of state stresses the importance of knowing how to react to sexism.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from ABC News: PoliticsIncumbent Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander won his primary tonight, defeating tea party challenger Rep. Joe Carr in the Republican primary. With 24.5 percent of precincts reporting, Alexander bested Carr 52.3 percent to 37.6 percent, acc...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsA seventh suspect has been charged in the 2010 killing of a United States Border Patrol agent whose death is at the center of a scandal over a botched American gun-smuggling investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostPresident Obama announced Thursday night that he had ordered limited airstrikes on ISIS militants in Iraq if needed, along with a humanitarian effort to help thousands of minority Iraqis who are stranded on a remote mountaintop with litt...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from CBS News - PoliticsTom Frieden, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, weighs in during a congressional hearing on the current Ebola crisis in West Africa, which is on pace to sicken more people than all other previous outbrea...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostSen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) easily won his primary on Thursday, defeating a conservative challenger and effectively ending the tea party’s hopes of unseating a Republican senator for the third straight election cycle. Read full articl...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsSenator Alexander outspent his chief opponent, Joe Carr of the Tea Party, and had secured endorsement long ago from top state Republicans in a big win for the Republican Party establishment.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostThe number of unaccompanied minors apprehended crossing the southern U.S. border dropped by nearly half in July from each of the previous two months, Obama administration officials said Thursday. Figures from Border Patrol show that 5,50...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsInmates, likelier than the general population to have Hepatitis C, also have a constitutional right to medical care.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostA former postmaster general and prominent stamp collector is accusing the U.S. Postal Service of “prostituting” its stamp program, sacrificing cultural icons for pop culture in a wrongheaded search for “illusory profits.” Read full artic...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsForty years ago Friday, President Richard Nixon resigned because of the Watergate scandal. He made a speech and got on a helicopter to head back to California.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsJose Gomez is the Archbishop of Los Angeles — he was born in Mexico, and became an American citizen a few years ago. Steve Inskeep talks to Gomez about his views on U.S. immigration policy.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsPolice say they have received complaints after the veteran MP declared Bradford "an Israel-free zone" in a speech.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsThe party says warnings or fines should be given instead of jail sentences for people caught with drugs for personal use.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from All News RSS FeedUpdated: 12:25 a.m. | It was a night of small margins in Tennessee Thursday with one House Republican narrowly defeating his primary challenger and another clinging to a 33-vote lead with all precincts reporting.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from All News RSS FeedPresident Barack Obama has authorized airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq to protect U.S. personnel in Erbil and to shield about 40,000 people trapped on Sinjar Mountain from genocide.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from All News RSS FeedTennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander likely secured his Senate seat for another term Tuesday, handily winning the GOP primary in a safe Republican state.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsThe two-term Tennessee senator's win marks a milestone for the Republican establishment: a Senate primary season in which every serious Tea Party challenge to an incumbent was fended off.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedDimitri Moshovitis, co-founder and executive chef of the burgeoning Cava empire, has taken World Food Program USA's school meals mission to heart -- and he'd love to have other local toques lend a hand.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedThe Hawaii primary is in a state of uncertainty, as Hurricane Iselle and a second storm barrel toward the islands and get-out-the-vote pushes are intermixed with information on where to find emergency assistance.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedThe director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Thomas Frieden, told a House hearing Thursday that his agency has deployed teams who are working with officials in four African countries hit by the Ebola pandemic to he...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedThe Capitol Hill staffer who brought a 9 mm handgun to work on July 18 is working with his attorney to get the felony charges dismissed, in light of a federal judge's ruling that D.C.'s law against carrying handguns outside the home is u...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedThe Senate race in Montana continues to slip away from the Democrats. Burdened by plagiarism allegations, appointed Democratic Sen. John Walsh announced Thursday he will not seek election to a full term in November.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Channel 4 News Politics FeedJames Jeffrey, a former US ambassador to Iraq, discusses the country's current crisis. He suggests that Iraq needs a government that can accommodate everyone living there.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedMontana Sen. John Walsh said Thursday he won't be coming back to the Senate next year, confirming what was already the most likely conclusion to his campaign.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RedStateI wonder how this will all look in a month? The post Democrats putting on as brave a face as possible for 2014 House races. appeared first on RedState .
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RedStateAs you know, the RedState Gathering commences today in Fort Worth, TX, and runs through Sunday. Anyone who is important is there. That leaves a gap on the front page. If you’ve always had that desire to write at RedState this is yo...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedThe Federal Energy Regulatory Commission this week approved the use of a two-year licensing process for a hydropower project at a century-old dam on the Kentucky River.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsStars and public figures write an open letter to the people of Scotland asking them to stay part of the UK.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Channel 4 News Politics FeedChannel 4 News learns Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has sat on a proposal for the suspension of arms export licences to Israel - proposed by a fellow Conservative - for the last two weeks.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedThe Center for Responsive Politics is keeping a running tally of which companies and organizations are best represented among 2014 donors to federal candidate campaigns. The newest updated list counts six companies with significant defen...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsIn the wake of plagiarism accusations, appointed Democratic Sen. John Walsh announced Thursday he would not seek a full term in November.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RedStateFive months after Democrat members of the West Virginia House of Delegates suddenly sent thousands of mailings just prior to the primary, the state Ethics Commission says those lawmakers were in the wrong. The post #MailGate: West Virgin...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedPresident Barack Obama signed the overhaul of the Department of Veterans Affairs Thursday at Fort Belvoir in Virginia -- but not before dinging the Senate for failing to confirm more of his nominees for senior VA jobs.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedLawmakers are predictably split on the National Guard's announcement it will be slashing motor sports sponsorships -- just days after a car sporting the Guard's livery won a major NASCAR race.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RedStateYou cannot make me respect people who refuse to respect themselves. The post Enjoy, progressives! – Jon Corzine starting the process of joining Team Hillary Clinton. appeared first on RedState .
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedIs anything the same post-Nixon? Not really. But singer Barbara Foster was one of the first to put such sentiment to words and tunes when she released her song "San Clemente's Not The Same (Mr. Nixon, You're To Blame)," in 1969, bemoanin...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsDerya Dosdogru and her son are among thousands of homeless families who have waited for years for a permanent address.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedRepublican Scott Walker of Wisconsin isn't your typical governor running for re-election. He initially won in 2010, then two years later became the first governor to survive a recall attempt.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedRepublican operatives are as lost as last year's Easter eggs when it comes to stopping Hillary Rodham Clinton. It's two years from the presidential election, important 2014 elections are in front of us, and Clinton hasn't even decided wh...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedThe House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations holds a 2 p.m. hearing on the Ebola virus, which has reportedly killed more than 900 people.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedI set my alarm to 6 a.m. the night before so I could get some pretty sunrise photos.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS Feed"We aren't afraid to try new things, and that has given us great traction."
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedPresident Richard Nixon had a life after leaving the presidency on Aug. 9, 1974, and part of it can be glimpsed in this undated-but-most-definitely-post-1970s pic from the Roll Call archives with our own Morton M. Kondracke, former execu...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsJay Ashcroft, the son of the former U.S. attorney general — and governor and senator — is following in his father's footsteps by running for office.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RedStatePoint (July 2013): President Obama on Tuesday threatened to veto a pair of Republican bills in the House which would delay the employer and individual mandates for one year in the Obama health reform laws, as GOP leaders pressed Democrat...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentToday's decision convicting two of Cambodia's most senior former Khmer Rouge officials for crimes against humanity at the country's UN-backed Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) is an important step towards justice, A...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedThe Energy Department will provide $18 million for 32 advanced geothermal research projects, it announced Wednesday.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentThe cease-fire around the area where flight MH17 crashed does not apply. Provisionally That the Ukrainian government announced Thursday. Only when the Dutch and other experts to come back to continue the search for remains of victims, th...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Politicsweb - Daily news headlinesDA MPL says 300-bed hospital not significantly reducing load on Bara
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedA House Foreign Affairs subcommittee today holds a hearing on the U.S. response to the Ebola crisis. Roll Call will live stream the hearing session starting at 2:00 p.m.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedFormer solon turned Ambassador to China Max Baucus appears to have adopted a page from the administration's guest dining manual, whisking a Democratic operative visiting the Far East directly to a Western-style kitchen.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentLONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron to resign Pakistani nxadrkn letter of response to the concerns of the Parliament Warsi said that the Middle East can understand the feelings of Get. According to British media British Pakistan...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Politicsweb - Daily news headlinesUnion says the three were short while meeting at family home in Isithibe, fourth union member was critically injured
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentAt first glance, it might seem easy to adapt fantasy fiction for television. After all, it's made up anyway, so it should be no biggie beyond the cost of special effects, right?...Making fantasy fiction credible is more of a challenge...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentShe has a rabbit and a cat but they don't do anything and just lie about all day...What she wants more than anything is a real dog but her mum doesn't like furry animals that poo in the house so...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentTwo Scottish councils plan to fly Palestinian flag do you agree? Glasgow and Fife councils are planning to raise the Palestinian flag to show solidarity with people affected by the conflict in Gaza...Vote here Photograph: Khalil Hamra/AP...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentAP Photo/Anchorage Daily News, Erik Hill) In a newly published article , University of Massachusetts political scientist Jesse Rhodes investigates how state education reforms may affect parents' engagement in their child's school. I ask...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentPresident Obama has a problem with being late...A Google search for "obama always late" offers a multitude of articles . When he is late to an event, as he often is -- and was by more than an hour on...
