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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsThe apparent beheading of a US journalist by militants Islamic State was "shocking and depraved", UK Prime Minister David Cameron says.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from International Business TimesTwo U.S.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Top StoriesHowever, the Senate majority leader also urges increasing oversight on how the equipment is used.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostMake sure to sign up for Read In , your one-stop shop for all the political news of the day! A1: The stories you need to read before your first conference call. -- A grand jury plans to begin hearing evidence today in the shooting death ...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostThe following is a guest post from social scientist Arkadiusz Wiśniowski of the University of Southampton . ***** Time is ticking away fast in campaigning for the referendum on Scottish independence. Interest in the referendum reache...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostJob Corps celebrates its 50th anniversary on Wednesday, marking a half century as one of the nation’s largest career-training networks for low-income youths. The program, a vanguard of President Lyndon Johnson’s war on poverty, has seen ...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageHoward Kurtz, FOX News
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageFeldenkirchen, et al, Der Spiegel
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsA Whitehall department denies advising its staff to vote "No" in the Scottish independence referendum.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageScott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsThough Republicans have dominated federal offices since Alaska became a state in 1960, luck and the advantage of incumbency have had a large role.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageKirsten Powers, USA Today
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageJonathan Turley, USAT
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Top StoriesIt calls for a law that requires police to wear a camera while on duty.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageS. Joshi, Telegraph
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from International Business TimesA former Chinese railway official being tried on corruption charges was handed a death sentence by a Beijing court on Wednesday. However, the sentence will be commuted to life in prison if the accused completes two years of imprisonment ...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsThere are two ways to think about domestic migration: where people started, and where they ended up.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageBenjamin Wallace-Wells, NY Magazine This summer in street politics has been long and violent. But in the midst of the chaos, there has been a steady signal. It is becoming possible to detect a subtle, tidal shift in the attentions of the...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Top StoriesA plurality of voters -- 48 percent -- believe Cuomo is part of the problem of ethics in government.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostDavid Rothschild, Sharad Goel, Doug Rivers and I write : How can election polls swing so much given the increasingly polarized nature of American politics, where switching one’s support between candidates is a significant move? We invest...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostPresident Obama's decision to launch airstrikes in Iraq was a popular one -- especially among his biggest political adversaries, conservative Republicans. According to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll , 63 percent of conservative Repu...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from ABC News: PoliticsAfter splitting evenly two months ago, a majority of Americans now support U.S. air strikes in Iraq – but without additional credit to Barack Obama for ordering them. Support for the military action against Sunni insurgents in Iraq is ...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsOne of the women who accused Lord Rennard of harassment said she is "flabbergasted but really not that surprised" that his membership suspension has been lifted.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Reuters: PoliticsJUNEAU Alaska (Reuters) - Mainstream Republican Dan Sullivan claimed victory early on Wednesday in Alaska's three-way primary race ahead of a November election seen as critical to the party's bid to regain control of the U.S. Senate.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostFERGUSON, Mo. — This was Day 11 of the life Keith Griffin never imagined. He’d viewed himself, before the flashpoint in Ferguson, foremost as a father, a magazine publisher, a gym fanatic, an early sleeper. Now he barely got to see his k...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsSusan Gasczak says decision leaves Mr Clegg with a "bigger problem" with women in his party than he had ever faced before
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageTodd Purdum, Politico
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepagePatrick Reis, Natl Journal
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Top StoriesHe vows a fair and thorough investigation into the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostGLOUCESTER, Va. — Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) had just finished greeting the members of the Disabled American Veterans Chapter #58 and removed his suit jacket when the emotional stories about misplaced paperwork, frustrating interactions an...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Top StoriesHis clash with the law may prove to be a valuable selling point in his 2016 bid.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Top Stories"Tonight we saw a different dynamic," says Captain Johnson after a relatively quiet night in Ferguson.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsBritish intelligence agencies are likely to use voice recognition software to try to identify the British jihadist and the where he grew up and lived
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsA senior Welsh Lib Dem who claims she was harassed by Lord Rennard says her party should be "ashamed" over lifting his membership suspension.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageCharles Hurt, WT
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageNakamura & Zezima, WP
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostFederal hiring has declined rapidly in recent years, while the number of departures has increased nearly as fast. That’s a recipe for a shrinking government. As we pointed out in an earlier article , the federal workforce has been dwindl...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageDerrick Z. Jackson, Boston Globe
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageEd Rogers, Washington Post
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageJonah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times The events in Ferguson, Missouri, have launched a familiar spectacle: the race to be wrong first.Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African-American man, was shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. The...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsBritons who have joined Isis are recruiting on more young men on social media, an expert on radicalisation warns as he says British nationals in Iraq are acting as suicide bombers and operating as executioners
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsDan Sullivan defeated two rivals and will face the Democratic Senator Mark Begich in a closely watched election that could tip the Senate to Republican control.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - Homepage
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageAmir Taheri, New York Post
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - Homepage
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsDavid Cameron breaks off holiday after jihadist with a London accent is filmed beheading US journalist James Foley
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostFormer state attorney general Dan Sullivan won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Alaska on Tuesday, setting the stage for a competitive showdown against Sen. Mark Begich (D) in one of the most important contests in the battle ...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Top StoriesHe will face Democratic Sen. Mark Begich this fall in a crucial race for control of the Senate.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from All News RSS FeedSPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The national political tide isn't looking good for Democrats, but in Illinois this November, down-ballot candidates have an even bigger problem: the drag of Gov. Pat Quinn.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from All News RSS FeedAlaska Republicans have finally picked a nominee to take on Democratic Sen. Mark Begich, one of the most vulnerable incumbents of the cycle.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from All News RSS FeedLOUDON, N.H. | Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack joined Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen at a hilltop farm here Tuesday to tout new federal grants.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from All News RSS FeedIt's a bad sign for Democrats when they have more Mid-Atlantic congressional opportunities in West Virginia than in Pennsylvania.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from All News RSS FeedCristian Omar Reyes, an 11-year-old from Honduras, lost his father in March after he was robbed and murdered by gangs while working as a security guard protecting a pastry truck. Three others he knows were killed this year. "I'm going [t...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Begich wants Alaskans to know he is one of them and an independent voice against President Barack Obama. So he's opening campaign offices in far-flung places like a coin-operated laundry...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Philly.com PoliticsThe corruption trial of State Sen. LeAnna M. Washington could start in October or November, a Montgomery County Court judge said Tuesday.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Philly.com PoliticsHARRISBURG - A top state prosecutor told a judge Tuesday that the Attorney General's Office was "breaking new legal ground" in using "a pattern of conduct" - and not explicit "quid pro quo" evidence - as the...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Philly.com PoliticsHARRISBURG - A coalition of doctors, nurses, and environmental groups is calling on the Corbett administration to address citizen complaints more comprehensively and better track potential health effects related to natural-gas drilling.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Philly.com PoliticsState Senate President Stephen Sweeney says he will accept Gov. Christie's changes to a bill intended to expedite development of privately run public "Renaissance" schools in Camden.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Philly.com PoliticsWilliam Penn is finally getting his Centre Square back. Or, at least how he might have envisioned it 400 years on.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from RedStateMy most frustrating moments on CNN were during the course of 2009 and early 2010 special elections. In several cases they went to the Democrats. The liberal on with me would make a passionate case that this was a harbinger of future Demo...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Politics RSS FeedA tea party attempt to overcome a mainstream Republican appeared to be coming up short in Alaska as former state Attorney General Dan Sullivan took a primary lead late Tuesday in the fight to be the GOP candidate to take on Democratic U....
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsFERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Police and protesters in Ferguson were finally able to share the streets again at night, putting aside for at least a few hours some of the hostility that had filled those hours with tear gas and smoke. The St. Louis...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from World PoliticsKurdish forces battling Islamic State insurgents face a potent mix of genuine grievance, clever propaganda and unrelenting cruelty.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A tea party attempt to overcome a mainstream Republican appeared to be coming up short in Alaska as former state Attorney General Dan Sullivan took a primary lead in the fight to be the GOP candidate to take on U...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Firstpost » PoliticsCongress President Sonia Gandhi today said her party will put "full pressure" on the NDA government to pass the Women's reservation bill. The post Cong to put ‘full pressure’ on govt to pass women’s bill: Sonia Gandhi a...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsBEIJING (AP) — Chinese and Russian state media have seized on the U.S. police shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old and ensuing protests to fire back at Washington's criticisms of their own governments, portraying the United States as...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Philly.com PoliticsCHRISTIE CHRONICLES The political ramifications of last week's indictment of Texas Gov. Rick Perry were evident Monday on both sides of the Delaware River.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Philly.com PoliticsWASHINGTON - Not long ago, Democrats aiming to take control of the House thought the Philadelphia suburbs offered abundant opportunities.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from PoliticsBlack Americans have consistently held more negative views of the police than whites, providing context for understanding the continuing protests resulting from the controversial death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Firstpost » PoliticsAccepting the State Department suggestion of immunity, the judge ruled that "although he is no longer a head of state, Singh is entitled to residual immunity for acts taken in his official capacity as Prime Minister The post No immunity ...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Philly.com PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) - When racial tensions erupted midway through his first presidential campaign, Barack Obama came to Philadelphia to decry the "racial stalemate we've been stuck in for years." Over time, he said, such wounds, rooted in Am...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsPresident Obama's carefully avoided taking sides following the shooting of Missouri teen Michael Brown, disappointing some African-American observers.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political NewsDespite recent setbacks, the region still holds promise, writes Swatick Majumdar of Digital Entertainment Ventures.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In its latest personal attack on a prominent official from a rival country, North Korea on Wednesday called U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry a wolf with a "hideous lantern jaw." North Korea has unleashed a sle...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Sky News Australia
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsFRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The candidates in Kentucky's U.S. Senate race are answering questions together for the first time amid a squabble over a bus rental. Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell is accusing Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes of ac...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) — Control of the Senate could lie in the fortunes of female candidates and the deep-pocketed donors, like former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who are sending piles of cash their way. So far this election cycle, donor...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsNEW ORLEANS (AP) — Nine years after Hurricane Katrina, charter schools are the new reality of public education in New Orleans. The majority of public school students will attend charter schools established by a state-run school district ...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Firstpost » PoliticsWith the Left and the Congress in retreat, the BJP is seeing a rise in its fortunes in West Bengal. It is now positioning itself as the prime opposition to Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress The post Mamata-mukt Bengal? BJP set to occu...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) — In a horrifying act of revenge for U.S. airstrikes in northern Iraq, militants with the Islamic State extremist group have beheaded American journalist James Foley — and are threatening to kill another hostage, U.S. off...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from RIA NovostiSwitzerland has refused to allow some European Union food producers, subject to a Russian ban on food imports, to route supplies through its territory, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing Switzerland’s Federal Office for Agriculture.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) — Eric Holder talks about the nation's civil rights struggles in a way no previous U.S. attorney general could — by telling his own family story. As he increasingly pushes his Justice Department to protect voting rights a...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is promising to change the way travelers can ask to be removed from its no-fly list of suspected terrorists banned from air travel. The decision comes after a federal judge's ruling that there w...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from The Globe and Mail - Politics RSS feedI will fulfill my responsibility as a citizen to vote in every election for which I am eligible, and to answer my phone even if I don’t recognize the number on call display
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from The Globe and Mail - Politics RSS feedAs Scottish voters prepare to vote on a short, simple referendum question, PQ leadership hopeful Bernard Drainville says Quebec should follow the Caledonian example
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political News20 August 2014 BEIRUT: U.S. Republican Congressman Darrell Issa held meetings with top Lebanese officials Monday and Tuesday, in a brief visit to discuss U.S. support for the Lebanese state and Army, a U.S. Embassy statement said. ...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political News20 August 2014 Last week, the National Constituent Assembly in Tunisia began discussing an anti-terrorism and money laundering law. While a clear improvement over the law used in the Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali era, the law opens the door fo...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political News20 August 2014 AMMAN: Sheikh Hareth al-Dari rarely makes media appearances these days, but as a long-term opponent of U.S. military presence in Iraq, former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and jihadist groups, the prominent religious scho...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsFERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said Tuesday that he would not seek the removal of the prosecutor overseeing the investigation into the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown, which has sparked more than a week of nightly cl...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsJERUSALEM (AP) — When Israel completes its damage assessment from its latest war with Hamas, it may conclude that one of the biggest casualties was its all-important relationship with the United States. A recent American decision to hold...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsNEW YORK (AP) — American cities looking to be more innovative in how they address local issues can now get a helping hand from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's charitable foundation. Bloomberg Philanthropies on Wednesday is...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Firstpost » PoliticsModi has a political compulsion -- having pointed out the UPA's soft-pedalling on Pakistan-sponsored violence, he cannot very well be seen as doing little when LOC ceasefire violations are on the rise. The post Pakistan in crisis: Does M...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Philly.com PoliticsAUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry was defiant Tuesday as he was booked on abuse of power charges, telling dozens of cheering supporters outside a Texas courthouse that he would "fight this injustice with every fiber of my being."
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political NewsLack of transportation infrastructure between rural and urban Egypt has taken its toll on the domestic labor market.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Firstpost » PoliticsThe BJP plans to launch a multimedia messaging service on the lines of WhatsApp before the scheduled local body elections. The post Why the BJP plans to launch a WhatsApp-like messaging service appeared first on Firstpost .
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry gave a confident, wry smile beneath flawless hair for his mug shot. Then he went out for a vanilla ice cream. That's how the possible 2016 presidential candidate greeted his booking o...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political NewsAmerican President , Barack Obama urged Iraqis to hasten to form a government that includes different components and to show unity in facing the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria "ISIS" organization, warning that "the wolf is at the door" ...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political NewsThe statement of the presidency of KRG received by "Shafaq News", said that ,
