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Final L.A. vote count shows Garcetti's meager mandate
Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles' incoming mayor, won the office with fewer votes than any newly elected mayor since the 1930s, when the city population was less than half its current size, according to a Times analysis of final results released late Friday....Tags: Voting, Wendy Greuel, Politics, Primaries, Antonio Villaraigosa
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Newtown families push for gun control, go back to Congress
WASHINGTON — Although the drive for tougher gun controls has faded into the background, families of victims in the Newtown school shooting returned to the Capitol on Wednesday to show they are not giving up. Advocacy groups on both sides of the...
Tags: Patrick J. Toomey, Chris Christie, National Rifle Association of America, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Gun Control
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Republicans oppose, Democrats support NSA surveillance, poll says
A majority of Americans oppose National Security Agency programs using records gathered from telecom and Internet companies, according to a poll released Wednesday. Fifty-three percent told Gallup they disagree with federal efforts to “compile...
Tags: The Huffington Post, Terrorism, National Security Agency, Computer Networking and Internet, George W. Bush
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Senate opens debate on immigration overhaul
WASHINGTON — With an overwhelming vote, the Senate on Tuesday launched debate on an ambitious overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, as Republicans, most of whom have not yet embraced the effort, declined to stand in the way of bringing it to...
Tags: Marco Rubio, DREAM Act, Career and Workplace, Heritage Foundation, Mexico
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Southern Baptists oppose Scouting's policy on gays
HOUSTON -- Members of the Southern Baptist Convention at their annual meeting Wednesday voted to support families who leave the Boy Scouts due to the group’s plans to accept gay Scouts, urged the removal of Boy Scout leaders who championed accepting...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Baptist, Youth Organizations, Social Organizations, Lifestyle and Leisure
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C'mon, Hillary Clinton, throw your followers a tweet or two
I must admit I was pretty excited Monday to find that @HillaryClinton had joined Twitter as the only “wife, mom, lawyer, women & kids advocate, FLOAR, FLOTUS, US Senator, SecState, author, dog owner, hair icon, pantsuit aficionado, glass ceiling...
Tags: Twitter, Inc., Social Media, Hillary Clinton, Politics, Sarah Palin
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NSA aftershocks: Leak inspires lawsuit, letters of protest
WASHINGTON — The massive leaks about U.S. spying systems caused sharp political and legal aftershocks Tuesday as the Justice Department prepared to file criminal charges against Edward Snowden, a government contractor who has publicly admitted...
Tags: Government, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Arts and Culture, Justice System, Edward Snowden
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Anaheim again balks at putting council districts on ballot
It's been nearly a year since officials in Anaheim -- pressured by anger and violent street protests over ethnic divisions in Orange County's largest city -- first floated a ballot measure that would alter the structure of City Council elections in an...
Tags: Minority Groups, American Civil Liberties Union, Voting, Politics, Local Elections
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Calderon fundraisers double up on limits
With four family members running as many as 10 overlapping campaign accounts open at any one time, California's Calderon family shows that bypassing state political contribution limits is as easy as opening up multiple accounts. Sen. Ron Calderon (D-...
Tags: Charles M. Calderon, FBI, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Politics, Ron Calderon
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How money twists L.A.'s elections
Often, by the end of an election, the weaknesses of the existing campaign finance laws have become evident, and the need to update them has been made clear by the ways those weaknesses have been exploited. That is certainly the case with Los Angeles' most...
Tags: Richard Riordan, Eric Garcetti, Political Fundraising, Politics, Antonio Villaraigosa
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Stop the deficit extremists
The U.S. economy is improving, yet Congress seems still to be in the grip of the delirium that shrinking the deficit in the near term is still a matter of paramount urgency. That's what's prevented lawmakers from dealing with their real task, which is...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Gross Domestic Product, Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Congressional Budget Office, Republican Party
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Amendments to immigration overhaul bill stall in Senate
WASHINGTON — Enthusiasm in the Senate for the debate over immigration gave way to reality Wednesday as party leaders quarreled to a stalemate over how to consider dozens of proposed amendments. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's move to...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Republican Party, Career and Workplace, Chuck Grassley, Parties and Movements
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