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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Reuters: PoliticsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - James Jeffords, a soft-spoken Vermonter whose defection from the Republican Party in 2001 created an unprecedented power shift in the U.S. Senate and gave Democrats control of the chamber for 18 months, died on Mon....
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostFederal investigators said Monday that they could not substantiate recent claims that a U.S. border officer drew his gun on an Iowa Boy Scout at the Alaska-Canada border. “All investigative leads have been pursued and exhausted,” said De...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from International Business TimesKurdish forces said they recaptured Mosul Dam in northern Iraq from Islamic State militants Monday following U.S. airstrikes that supported Kurdish troops in an operation that began Friday . The dam, built in the 1980s, is the biggest...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsFormer Scottish education minister Sam Galbraith, thought to be the world's longest-surviving lung transplant patient, dies at the age of 68.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsAs President Obama increasingly turns to unilateral action to achieve policy goals, activists and businesses are coming forward with their wish lists and making their case out of public view.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsLawyers for Bob and Maureen McDonnell started calling witnesses to testify that they did not have a quid-pro-quo relationship with a businessman.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageCarl Cannon, RCP
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsHome Office must pay out to Raytheon, the US company, after termination of a deal overseen by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, is ruled unlawful
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsThe Home Office is told to pay £224m to a major US corporation it sacked for failing to deliver a controversial secure borders programme.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsThe Obama Doctrine sounds like advice offered by parents to teenagers on prom night: Don't do stupid stuff.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsSen. Mary Landrieu will reimburse the Senate more than $5,700 for a charter flight she paid for with taxpayer money after CNN questioned the expense.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsGov. Jay Nixon is criticizing the "over-militarization" of the police response to protests that have been spurred by the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsJim Jeffords, who shifted the balance of power in the Senate when he left the Republican Party in 2001, died on Monday.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostThe Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is out with a new ad Monday tying Iowa GOP Senate hopeful Joni Ernst to Sarah Palin. The 30-second ad plays audio of Palin praising Ernst and Ernst praising Palin. Read full article >>
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostIt will cost an average middle-income family nearly a quarter-million dollars to raise a child in 2013 to adulthood. Food, housing, childcare, education and other expenses will total $245,340 by the time the child turns 18, the Departmen...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsThe former Google engineer who helped solve the HealthCare.gov crisis is back in Washington, tasked with remaking the way the government uses computers and how citizens engage with it online.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsThe new film "The Giver" is the result of a partnership between conservatives and Hollywood liberal icons.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsChris King, editorial director at the St. Louis American, gives details about protests in Ferguson, Missouri.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostConsider a country where the richest of the rich—the 0.1 percent, as it were—are forced to loan exorbitant amounts of money to the government, loans that the government often fails to pay back; and where the government simply takes the p...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsMissouri Gov Jay Nixon on the state of the streets in Ferguson and the death of a black teen.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsGermany's intelligence service has intercepted phone calls by two U.S. secretaries of state, German media reports reveal.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsJohn King tells us to add Ohio Senator Rob Portman to the list of 2016 Republican hopefuls.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsSome of the fiercest rivalries in politics are prominent members of the same party in the same state, Missouri.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsTolls on the Severn Bridges would be scrapped if the Liberal Democrats are in government after next year's general election, the party says.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsComments made by a UKIP MEP about a Thai constituent are described as offensive, rude and outrageous by the woman's husband.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsErrol Louis says LBJ, FDR and Nixon among politicians who successfully ran for office while trailing the taint of party machine politics, but that doesn't mean the Texas governor is still anything but a long shot
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostFERGUSON, Mo. — The federal government on Sunday took on an intensified role in investigating the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teenager , but violent unrest erupted once again Sunday night on the streets of this St. Louis su...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from International Business TimesHundreds of members of the Shueitat tribe in Syria have been shot and beheaded by Islamic State, the militant group formerly known as ISIS, over the past two weeks, activists told the Associated Press on Monday. The mass killings were co...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsGov. Jay Nixon is criticizing the "over-militarization" of the police response to protests that have been spurred by the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostHillary Clinton will headline retiring Sen. Tom Harkin's annual steak fry in Iowa next month, according to a Democratic source familiar with event details, making her first visit to the Hawkeye State since losing the 2008 presidential ca...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from International Business TimesUnrest continues in Ferguson, Missouri, more than a week after a white police officer killed Mike Brown, 18, an unarmed black man who about to start college. Now the National Guard is stepping in after protesters allegedly threw Molotov ...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Top StoriesJeffords tipped control of the Senate when he quit the Republican Party to become an independent.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostOn June 19, the House voted on an amendment to a Department of Defense appropriations bill authored by Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.). In short, the amendment would have prevented the military from distributing to local police forces some of...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsMr. Jeffords tipped control of the Senate in 2001 when he quit the Republican Party to become an independent.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsJulian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, says he plans to leave the Ecuador embassy in London after spending two years there
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostThey say love isn’t just for the young. Though in this case, love is for Rep. Don Young. The 81-year-old congressman made public over the weekend that he’s engaged to remarry. Young (R-Alaska), the oldest Republican in Congress, introduc...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsThe Prime Minister has announced that mothers' names should be added to 'outdated' marriage certificates, signalling victory for the Telegraph Wonder Women-backed campaign
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Top StoriesThe event marks the former secretary of state's unofficial kickoff of the public political season.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsA lot of the donations sent to the House whip Steve Scalise have come from committees that did not give to his previous campaigns.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from PoliticsOver the past decade, white police officers have repeatedly slaughtered unarmed black men—Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri was one of many. On MSNBC, Nation columnist Melissa Harris-Perry named nine black men wh...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsJulian Zelizer says the left mistrusts Clinton but there are ways she can win support from liberals in 2016
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostHouse Democrats' campaign arm raised nearly $12 million in July, an impressive haul that includes a record-setting $7 million donated online. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced the totals Monday. Despite being in t...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsA former Speaker of the Commons, Baroness Boothroyd, has told the BBC the potential frontrunner to take up the role of Commons Clerk is "completely out of her depth".
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsPrime Minister David Cameron insists the government's position on Iraq is "clear" and says the UK will not deploy "boots on the ground".
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsThe Prime Minister says the Nationalists' claims that the Scottish NHS is at risk from the supposed privatisation of the English health service do not "stack up".
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsThe First Minister says sterlingisation - using the pound without a currency union - is a viable 'transition option' for an independent Scotland.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostNo civil unrest arises out of a single factor. It emerges instead from a series of frustrations that eventually reach a breaking point. As protests and clashes continue in Ferguson, Mo., there's been an increasingly close look at the und...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsPrime Minister admits he too struggles to control what his children watch as he launches new classification programme for 'graphic content' in online music videos
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Reuters: PoliticsRICHMOND Va. (Reuters) - The defense begins its case on Monday in the bribery and corruption trial of former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, with Robert McDonnell expected to testify at some point.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from All News RSS FeedEvents on Wikpedia, cybersecurity, startups, and government use of technology to lower costs are on tap this week and the Technology Policy Institute's Aspen Forum in Colorado continues early this week.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from All News RSS FeedHawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Oklahoma, and Utah scored the highest in an assessment of state open data policies and portals by the Center for Data Innovation.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from All News RSS FeedIt's good to know Rep. John Lewis can look back on all the awfulness he experienced as a youth and laugh about it now.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from All News RSS FeedThe Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee raked in $11.5 million in July, bringing the committee's total cash on hand to $56.7 million in the final stretch of the cycle, according to numbers released by the committee Monday.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from All News RSS FeedDNR Dan. Afghan Dan. The Other Dan.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from All News RSS FeedThis is the slowest week event-wise of the August congressional recess so far, at least as it pertains to defense and national security. There are, however, a few items of note.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from All News RSS FeedSen. John McCain got loose over the weekend, strutting his stuff alongside Oscar winner Jamie Foxx during a glitzy charity shindig.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsNPR TV critic Eric Deggans offers four suggestions beyond replacing host David Gregory for revitalizing NBC's Sunday politics show, based on his own experience as a CNN guest host.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from All News RSS FeedBefore the days of Starbucks in every urban street corner and suburban strip mall, "iced coffee" was rare. It had not yet arrived as a mainstay of American morning beverages, nor had the $4 coffee drink become the norm.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from RedState
Laura Myers spills the beans on Hillary’s extravagance. According to documents obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, this is what Hillary requires for a speaking engagement: A $300,000 speaker’s fee; Hillary insists on st... -
Monday, August 18, 2014 from RedStateOn today's edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson is joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss Paul Ryan's anti-poverty initiatives, the "makers vs. takers" argument and the role government should and shouldn't be playing in the "war ...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from RedStateThe Washington Post has an interesting story about the rising number of evangelicals feeling left out of politics these days and, in particular, out of the Republican Party. Many evangelicals have grown weary of Mike Huckabee and are con...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from RedState
It is not coercion to threaten to do something you are lawfully permitted to do. I successfully used this legal principle in court early in my legal career. This well-established legal principle is not some obscure legal concept, except ... -
Monday, August 18, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentI still can nostalgically dredge up the day I spent under the scotching sun; every inch of me was terribly exhausted, the day I made the decision about my political future for the next five years. Some people exhausted their...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Firstpost » PoliticsA statement from Varun Gandhi's office said the baby has been named Anasuya. The post Gandhi family just got bigger; Baby girl for Varun appeared first on Firstpost .
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsA team polishing the dials of the London landmark are also inspecting for damage to the 155-year-old timepiece.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsThe Prime Minister insists Britain will not fight another war in Iraq - amid reports extremists have been defeated at Mosul Dam.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Philly.com PoliticsDOUGLASSVILLE, Pa. - Gov. Corbett pushed off into the Schuylkill from a boat ramp in southern Berks County early Sunday morning on Day Two of his annual kayaking tour of Pennsylvania waterways.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentDallas PD at the scene of the shooting near Ledbetter and Sunnyvale (Dallas PD) [ Editor's note: This item has been updated since it was initially posted .] Dallas police are trying to determine if two early morning shootings that...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentA central Illinois hospital has canceled a mission trip to Liberia due to the Ebola outbreak that's killed more than 1,100 people in three West Africa countries. The Pekin Daily Times (http://bit.ly/1teYh70 ) reports that Pekin Hospital ...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Philly.com PoliticsResidents say contracting decisions are being made for them.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Philly.com PoliticsFour people who have had adversarial dealings with a West Oak Lane nonprofit founded by State Rep. Dwight Evans say they have been interviewed by the FBI about the agency, Ogontz Avenue Revitalization Corp.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentThe largest democracy in the world just celebrated its 68th Independence Day, and the world took notice of its patriotism...As individuals do we really take pride in our culture and heritage? Or has the westernisation of the East resulte...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentOur child was born this afternoon in New Delhi. "My family feels truly glad and grateful for this precious gift of a girl...Varun, son of the late Sanjay Gandhi and Union Minister Maneka Gandhi, had married Yamini at the Kamkoteshwar...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentSarod Maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan today expressed concern over increasing rape incidents in the country and asked the government to take stringent action against the culprits. "We respect women in India and consider the country as Bhara...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentDelhi on August 19 to have consultations ahead of Indo-Pak foreign secretaries' meet on August 25," state VHP patron Ramakant Dubey told reporters here. "India has always tried to maintain good relations with the neighbouring countries b...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentJustice is the greatest victim of these media-driven witch-hunts. August 2014 Get spiked by email T he very public police raid on Cliff Richard's home was a grotesque example of the pernicious inquisitorial spirit at the heart of today's...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentAsylum applications from Ukrainians in the Czech Republic have jumped this year due to the crisis in the country. The Ministry of Interior says applications so far this year total 250, that is already a third higher than for the...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentFerguson is a media circus, a cavalcade of lies by the left-wing opinion-makers masquerading as "objective" journalists St...A racist white police officer, driven by racial animus, chose a random African-American kid to harass, a confron...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentJoe Miller is the only rock solid conservative candidate in the August 19th Republican primary. While his GOP opponents are squishy on numerous issues, skilled in noncommittal political speech, Joe Miller always says what he means and me...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Channel 4 News Politics FeedDavid Cameron insists the government has a "fully worked through" strategy to tackle Islamic State (IS) extremists in Iraq and Europe.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Forbes - PoliticsNixon’s secretary of the treasury, John Connally, “was indicted for taking graft on the same day the President was charged by the House Judiciary Committee for abuse of power.”
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Philly.com PoliticsPITTSBURGH - Sophie Masloff, a no-nonsense pathfinder with a common touch and a voice all her own, rose from the Hill District home of immigrants to the seat of power in Pittsburgh, a place no woman has occupied before or since.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentWearing a fleece vest with his name and the logo of the northwestern city of Nome, Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell walked through this Anchorage suburb on a recent night, demonstrating how Alaska's unique political culture makes the outcome of T...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentThe organiser of a nudist sports festival has apologised for holding the event, which triggered outrage in Muslim-majority Malaysia and led to the arrest of eight people. A video of the May gathering, called the "Nude Sport Games 2014", ...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentWhen we published earlier this month a breakdown of which political party the richest person in each state supports, a question we heard was: What about the richest Americans overall? Surely there would be people in New York or Californi...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentHundreds of people gather outside the U.S. Agence France-Presse via Getty Images) The Republican Party is gradually moving toward a more accepting attitude toward gay rights. When it comes to their own families, though, it's slow-going.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Politicsweb - Daily news headlinesAnd other top advertising, media and marketing news, analysis and opinion on the website this week, including...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from The Scotsman - Politics FeedHEART of Midlothian Football Club have issued a statement accusing pro-independence campaigners of attempting to “hijack” the club’s logo ahead of yesterday’s Edinburgh derby against Hibernian.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Politicsweb - Daily news headlinesDA NS says it is absolutely horrifying that members of SA's LGBTI community have to live and love in fear
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey on Monday summoned Germany's ambassador and demanded a "formal and satisfactory explanation" over a report that Germany's foreign intelligence agency targeted NATO ally Turkey in addition to eavesdropping on ...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Politicsweb - Daily news headlinesDA MP says SABC chairperson reportedly misled parliament over her qualifications
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Politicsweb - Daily news headlinesDA MP says the deputy NDPP has reportedly been unable to validate her qualifications
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Politicsweb - Daily news headlinesFrancis Antonie says State seeking to overturn WCape High Court's ruling on unconstitutionality of SAPS Amendment Act
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Politicsweb - Daily news headlinesOffice of the Chief Whip says it would have been remiss of the President to confine himself to just the PP's report
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Politicsweb - Daily news headlinesDA leader says we are only now nearing the end of the beginning of this incredible saga
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Sky News Australia
A former union boss has said sacking a man who was about to run against him was a 'coincidence.' -
Monday, August 18, 2014 from The Scotsman - Politics FeedDIFFICULTIES with understanding northern dialects and local geography will put lives at risk following the closure of regional emergency services control rooms, it has been claimed.
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama returned to Washington just after midnight Monday for a two-day break from a summer vacation, during which airstrikes in Iraq and violent clashes in a St. Louis suburb intruded on his golf and bea...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 from Philly.com PoliticsTwenty months after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., some would say little has changed when it comes to guns in America.
