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Monday, April 6, 2015 from International Business TimesFearing an influx of immigrants and terrorists infiltrating the country, Bulgaria is building a 100-mile fence on its border with Turkey, where refugees and militants with the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq cross over for safety o...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageJuan Williams, The Hill Let Republicans now praise Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.).Since there is silence, let me help.Sen. Mitch McConnell (R- Ky.), the new Senate Majority Leader, famously promised that once he won control of the Senate, the ...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Daily News - PoliticsMitt Romney may be bad at running for president, but he’s apparently amazing at picking his NCAA bracket.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from International Business TimesThe man who was charged with the February murders of three Muslim students near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is scheduled to be in court Monday for a hearing over the potential for him to face the death penalty. Craig ...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Reuters: PoliticsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Likely Republican presidential contender Jeb Bush, who was popular among Spanish-speaking voters while Florida governor, marked himself as 'Hispanic' on a 2009 voter registration application, The New York Times rep...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from CBS News - PoliticsCBS News Homeland Security Correspondent Jeff Pegues and CBS News Senior National Security Analyst Juan Zarate discuss the ongoing battle for Shiite control of the poor Gulf nation.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageJohn Sides, Washington Post Jonathan Martin in the New York Times:The uproar set off by legislation in Indiana and Arkansas that sponsors billed as religious freedom measures not only signaled a revival of the culture wars, but also thre...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comBOSTON -- Two depictions of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev emerged since the admitted Boston Marathon bomber's trial began on March 4 and it's almost time for the jury to decide once and for all which side it believes. To prosecutors, he's a violent,...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from BBC News - PoliticsYoung people should be made to vote in the first election after they turn 18, a think tank proposes.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from PoliticsFormer Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) listed himself as "Hispanic" in a 2009 voter registration form, The New York Times reported Monday . The Times posted its copy of the registration online , and the expected presidential candid...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comMICHAEL BIESECKER, The Associated Press DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The man accused of killing three North Carolina college students — their family says because they were Muslim — is scheduled to appear in court for a hearing Monday to determine...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comWhen Irish America requested that I research and write a piece on Hillary Rodham Clinton's heritage (pages 50-52), I was concerned. Why? Because delving into the ancestral past of celebrities has become something of a sub-hobby in the wo...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | theguardian.comThe Hull West and Hessle candidate threatened to stand as an independent in May’s local council elections Continue reading...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comWASHINGTON -- Four years ago, Alabama’s new Republican governor, along with the state's first majority-GOP legislature since Reconstruction , faced a tough, high-stakes decision: Make the best of a federal health care reform law they hat...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — As Iran's nuclear negotiators returned home with the framework of a deal with world powers, joyous revelers joked that "still, there is no whiskey" in the Islamic Republic, a jab at its theocratic government. But hard...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from International Business TimesKenya launched airstrikes against Islamic militants in Somalia on Sunday and Monday in which its air force bombed two al-Shabab camps in the neighboring country. The military response is the first after last week’s attack on the Garissa ...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from BBC News - PoliticsThe NUT conference votes for a strike ballot over threats to school funding which they warn will mean the loss of teaching posts
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Daily News - PoliticsRussia-backed separatists dismissed Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's gesture as meaningless.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comKABUL, April 6 (Reuters) - The head of Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents, Mullah Omar, is alive and in touch with current events, the group has said in a 5,000 word document released to mark his nineteenth year of leadership. Published on...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostDo you Read In? Sign up today and get all the political news you need delivered right to your inbox!-- As the gridlock in Washington worsens, the laboratories of democracy are actually doing something. One of the things a growing number ...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageRon Christie, The Daily Beast There used to be a time in the American political landscape when Republicans could forcefully articulate their policy positions to sway public opinion. In the Obama era, facts have given way to spin and mess...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageCoronel, Coll & Kravitz, CJR LAST JULY 8, SABRINA RUBIN ERDELY, a writer for Rolling Stone, telephoned Emily Renda, a rape survivor working on sexual assault issues as a staff member at the University of Virginia. Erdely said she was...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Reuters: PoliticsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal filed by Alan Gross, the U.S. contractor detained in Cuba for five years who had sued the U.S. government for negligence.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from stories: PoliticsThe Alpena News. March 30. What went wrong in Yemen needs to be examined In January, President Barack Obama referred to U.S. anti-terrorism efforts in Yemen as a "model" for avoiding massive deployments of American troops. Last week, U.S...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostJeb Bush is admitting it: he made a mistake. And ask his aides and his family and the answer is the same in English and Spanish: No, Bush is not Hispanic -- and doesn't think he is, either.The New York Times reported Monday that it had o...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageLloyd Grove, The Daily Beast The Columbia Journalism School ripped apart the UVA rape story—but the magazine's chief blames a fabulist, not his own editors who got played.They don’t get it; they just don’t get it.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Top StoriesThe slogan is designed to evoke populist, anti-establishment themes.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from CNN.com - PoliticsThe Democrats need Wall Street's campaign donations to be competitive in 2016.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Daily News - PoliticsFormer Florida Gov. Jeb Bush once identified himself as Hispanic on a voter registration form, according to a report.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from CBS News - PoliticsSays it's best way to keep Tehran from developing nuclear weapon, but critics continue to fire verbal salvos at it
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comEver hear of Oscar DePriest? He made history a hundred years ago Monday. Few today remember him -- about the only lasting nod to his legacy is an elementary school bearing his name in East Garfield Park -- but a hundred years ago, on Apr...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from stories: PoliticsThe presidential exploratory committee of retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson raised more than $2 million in less than a month of activity, his team said Monday. The $2.1 million total came from about 36,000 new donors, with an average donat...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comHow an American Fantasy Conflict Created Disaster in Afghanistan Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com [ This essay is taken from chapter five of Anand Gopal’s No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afg...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostIf a presidential run were a movie, the campaign announcement would be the red-carpet premiere — a highly orchestrated, old-school ritual infused with ego and bathed in Klieg lights.On Tuesday, Republican Sen. Rand Paul will begin a clas...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageAndrew McCarthy, PJM The Obama Justice Department has filed its much anticipated corruption indictment against Senator Robert Menendez. He is the New Jersey Democrat who, from his powerful senior seat on the Senate’s Foreign Relati...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comAs the northeastern United States fights a losing battle to maintain its population, California, the Southwest and Florida continue to grow like there's no tomorrow. Only there will be a tomorrow. And more people, changing patterns of ra...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from CNN.com - PoliticsA majority of voters in three key swing states support legalizing marijuana, according to a new Quinnipiac poll.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from stories: PoliticsAhead of Sen. Rand Paul's expected presidential campaign announcement Tuesday, the Kentucky Republican is out with a new video that likely offers a preview of how Mr. Paul plans to present himself to prospective voters on the trail. The ...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageAlbert Hunt, Bloomberg Gay rights won't fade as a political issue. The Republican base won’t let it.Prominent Republicans calculated that if the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage was constitutionally protected, the issue w...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comNEW YORK (AP) — A judge has given a New York City woman permission to file for divorce from her elusive husband via a Facebook message. The woman's lawyer says the ruling was made by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Matthew Cooper. The Da...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageJohn Fund, NRO A group of Asian-American students has filed suit against Harvard’s admissions policy, charging that it seeks to limit the number of Asian students much like quotas held down the number of Jewish students until the 1...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comThough the focus of the Republican presidential race has shifted to other contenders , New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) sees a path that could lead him back to the forefront of the 2016 discussion -- one that ambles through the quaint ...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from International Business TimesJohn Oliver, host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, traveled to Russia to interview whistleblower Edward Snowden for his latest episode, nearly two years after the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor fled to Russia to escape prose...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Daily News - PoliticsPaul released a highly produced YouTube video that all but promises he will launch his 2016 campaign on Tuesday.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | theguardian.comRise in VAT the only way Tories could fund post-election tax cut for millionaires, says shadow chancellor at campaign event Continue reading...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from The Hill - AdministrationPresident Obama is making an aggressive sales pitch for the preliminary nuclear agreement with Iran, calling it a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon while offering a chance to change the Mi...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comFormer Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) identified himself as Hispanic in a 2009 voter registration application, according to a Miami-Dade County document published Monday by The New York Times . A Bush spokeswoman "could offer no explanation f...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Reuters: PoliticsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked President Barack Obama's administration to weigh in on an appeal by the Iranian central bank over whether $1.75 billion must be paid to victims of the 1983 Lebanon U.S. Marine...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from RIA NovostiHead of the foreign-affairs committee of the Russian State Duma Alexei Pushkov claims that Washington fears its attempts to isolate Russia from the Western world are failing as seen in the US reaction to Czech President Milos Zeman's pla...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from The Scotsman - Politics FeedTALK of Cameron victory being best bet for a Yes vote next time round is no help for independence campaign, writes Pat Kane
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Sky News AustraliaBritain's May 2015 general election is expected to put the nail in the coffin of two-party politics.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from The Week: Most Recent Politics PostsIn every election cycle, there is a candidate who looks great on paper, but for mysterious reasons fails to click with the voters and fades away. (Remember Tim Pawlenty? Jon Huntsman? Hillary Clinton ?) This is part of what makes politic...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsEd Balls says the Tory scheme will aid "the very richest", despite George Osborne saying there are "no plans" to cut the 45p rate.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political NewsSharjah-UAE: April 6, 2015 - His Highness Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Crown Prince and Deputy Ruler of Sharjah and Chairman of the Sharjah Executive Council, honoured the winners of the second edition of the Sharjah ...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from NPR Topics: PoliticsAs much effort as it's taken to get Iran to agree to limit its nuclear ambitions, it will be a monumental sell for the administration to get Congress and key Mideast allies to go along with the deal.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from All News RSS FeedBy Luke Wachob
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsThe city's television airwaves will be packed for the next six weeks with campaign commercials about mayoral candidates. But that air war is just half the effort needed to win the May 19 Democratic primary election.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from The Scotsman - Politics FeedSCOTTISH Secretary Alistair Carmichael has admitted that a Scotland Office civil servant wrote the memo at the centre of a furious political row.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Newsmax - PoliticsNew Hampshire Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte has accepted the resignation of her state director, David Wihby, following his arrest for solicitation of prostitution, The Washington Post reported.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Newsmax - PoliticsGary Hart, a two-time Democrat presidential candidate, tells Politico that a billion-dollar Hillary Clinton campaign for the White House ought to frighten every American.
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Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsThe SNP leader tries to shrug off the memo controversy and again challenges Ed Miliband to join forces in a coalition.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Politics from NewserRick Santorum has weighed in on the debate over Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act using what appears to have been the most provocative comparison he could think of. "Tolerance is a two-way street," he told CBS News yesterday, a...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from All News RSS FeedWith the final votes concluded before the House left town for the two week recess, Florida Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was running 20 minutes late for a scheduled interview.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Newsmax - PoliticsSenate Republicans on Sunday pressed their demand that Congress be allowed to vote on a nuclear agreement with Iran, but signaled they are willing to wait for last week's interim agreement to be finalized before passing judgment.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsRadical action is needed to halt the declining influence younger and poorer voters have on election results, the IPPR claims.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsTRENTON - The public on Monday will get its first chance to scrutinize the details of the Christie administration's proposed $225 million settlement with Exxon Mobil, starting the clock on a legal process that will last at least a month ...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political NewsGoldman Sachs forecasts an average price of USD 50 a barrel this year- a sobering thought for Gulf countries' governments.
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Sunday, April 5, 2015 from World PoliticsWhen and how did these talks begin?Talks that led to a breakthrough interim agreement agreed in November of 2013, known both as the Geneva Accord and the Joint Plan of Action, began in February of that year. Prior to that there had been ...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from The Scotsman - Politics FeedGEORGE Osborne refused to rule out a cut in the top rate of tax yesterday despite stating that further help for the UK’s wealthiest was not “one of our priorities” if the Conservatives win May’s general election.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Firstpost » PoliticsSwaraj Samwad (a dialogue on swaraj) could well mark the launch of a new political outfit by Prashant Bhushan, Yogendra Yadav and their comrades in AAP, all of whom are still hanging on to the party but are out of it for all practical pu...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from The Scotsman - Politics FeedNicola Sturgeon has today warned she will fight moves to increase in the state pension age in Scotland.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Irish Times Politics RSSCoalition has agreed in principle to introduction of second year of free pre-school
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political NewsOman will be among the worst affected in the Gulf if oil prices stay low
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsMeticulously, the mayor of Evesham Township arranges two primitive tiki figures on the desk in front of him as he takes his seat on the dais before the public meetings begin.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Mail.com: PoliticsCLEVELAND (AP) — The outcome of voluntary manslaughter charges against a Cleveland police officer likely will rest on a judge's decision whether the final 15 shots he fired during a 137-shot barrage by officers was justified. Michael Bre...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from The Globe and Mail - Politics RSS feedAt Foreign Affairs, his candour was a breath of fresh air. His sprint to the corporate world, less so
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Firstpost » PoliticsCBI has turned down the request of Karnataka Government seeking a time-bound probe in the alleged suicide of IAS officer D K Ravi. The post IAS official DK Ravi death: CBI tells Karnataka govt it can’t set deadline for probe appear...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from RedStateEarlier this week, Barack Obama committed the United States to a disastrous course of action that ensures the terrorist state of Iran will be allowed, with Western assistance, to build a nuclear weapon. I outlined how Obama lied to the n...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from The Globe and Mail - Politics RSS feedIndustry Minister James Moore defends Conservative plan to balance budget rather than run deficit as part of stimulus package
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Sunday, April 5, 2015 from The Globe and Mail - Politics RSS feedResidents pay a steep price as waves of deregulation and privatization have produced none of the savings that politicians repeatedly promised
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political NewsThe court of cassation upheld a two-year jail term against opposition activist Ayyad Al-Harbi for tweets deemed offensive to HH the Amir.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Philly.com Politics“School Play” is based on interviews with parents, students, teachers, and state policymakers about Pennsylvania’s funding issue. The play is also based on letters from students and other source materials.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsMayoral candidates and Gov. Wolf seek better public schools. But policies already in place show a pattern that’s somewhat less than promising.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political NewsAbu Dhabi Retirement Pensions & Benefits Fund announced the launch of their e-payment portal, in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance and National Bank of Abu Dhabi.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from RedStateThe events of last week were the subject of much conversation in churches yesterday. The rapid shift in society not just away from the church, but the growing hostility to the church and often with voices claiming to be of the church, le...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Politics RSS FeedWASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional scrutiny and approval of any nuclear agreement with Iran are essential and will help ensure the deal isn't a bad one, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Sunday. Speaking on "Fox Ne...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) - Change? For sure. Hope? Maybe not so much.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsThe two camps give conflicting accounts over Mike Whitehead's switch to Nigel Farage's UKIP party.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Newsmax - PoliticsThe U.S. Senate, and not the United Nations, will decide whether the tentative nuclear deal with Iran announced last week stands, Sen. Ted Cruz said Sunday.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political NewsOsama Rawashdeh, a student from Islamist list Basmat Amal, claimed that the elections were marked by "a few violations".
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from The Scotsman - Politics FeedLABOUR has a different “radical plan” for Scotland which is a “world of difference” from what is offered by the Conservatives, Scottish leader Jim Murphy will tell voters today.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Irish Times Politics RSSTwo Oireachtas members have failed to register pensions in members’ interests list
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from The Scotsman - Politics FeedThe Prime Minister’s wife, Samantha Cameron, has revealed how the couple’s strain in coping with their disabled son, who later died, had brought them to “breaking point”.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from RIA NovostiUS President Barack Obama said in an interview that the political framework agreement reached between the P5+1 mediators and Iran in the Swiss city of Lausanne was the best way to ensure that Tehran does not develop nuclear weapons.
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Firstpost » PoliticsJairam Ramesh explained the reasons of his party's opposition to amendment in the land acquisition Act by the NDA government saying it will push the peasants to colonial era and drive the land owners to lose rights over their property. T...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Irish Times Politics RSSTotal bill included more than €82,000 in the three-week lead-up to President Higgins’s visit
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Firstpost » PoliticsAt a seemingly innocuous conference with judges and chief ministers on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the opportunity to take on critics. The post PM Modi vs judiciary: It is a pointless war of jibes over ‘five star̵...
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Monday, April 6, 2015 from Firstpost » PoliticsMembers of LVM cleaned a statue of socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia with water after ex-CM Jitan Ram Manjhi garlanded it in the district. The post RJD student wing members clean Lohia’s statue after CM Manjhi garlands it; 4 booke...