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One Cabinet pick approved, two narrowly advance
WASHINGTON — President Obama's nominee to lead the Energy Department won unanimous confirmation by the Senate on Thursday while two other Cabinet choices narrowly advanced out of committee, amid complaints from Democrats over Republican delaying...
Tags: Jeff Merkley, Marco Rubio, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Thomas Edward Perez
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Smart TV: The industry push to keep getting smarter
For decades we've been watching TV. Now a new generation of televisions is beginning to watch us. Technological advances are giving the old clunky "boob tube" an I.Q. injection. Some of the new breed of smart TVs comes equipped with facial recognition...
Tags: The Wall Street Journal, International CES, Personal Service, Advertising, Electronics
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Defense official says U.S. has authority to target terrorists anywhere
WASHINGTON — A senior Pentagon official told a Senate committee Thursday that the U.S. would be at war with Al Qaeda for 15 to 20 more years and said the military could target terrorists anywhere under a law passed after the Sept. 11 terrorist...
Tags: Al-Qaeda, George W. Bush, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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John McCain introduces Television Consumer Freedom Act of 2013
Calling the business practices of the television industry an "injustice being inflicted on the American people," Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) introduced legislation Thursday he said will give consumers more choice and control over their pay-TV services....
Tags: ABC (tv network), Television, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Comedy Central (tv network), Television Industry
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McCain again calls for special congressional panel on Benghazi
WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) pressed Sunday for a special congressional committee to investigate the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, last year, insisting that questions about former Secretary of State...
Tags: ABC (tv network), Lindsey O. Graham, John Boehner, Jack Reed, Darrell E Issa
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2013 TV upfronts: ESPN not worried about a la carte or competition
ESPN President John Skipper said Tuesday he isn’t too worried about proposed legislation from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) that would allow consumers to pick what channels they want instead of buying a big package of networks. “We don’...
Tags: Television, Fox Sports (tv network), Television Industry, College Baseball, U.S. Open (tennis)
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Prince Harry plays football, honors war veterans on U.S. visit
Prince Harry has a future in American football if that whole royal heir/third in line to the throne thing doesn't work out. The young royal set out on his U.S. visit over last week and, over the weekend, he partook in a very American pastime: football....
Tags: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Harry Potter (fictional character), Greenwich, United Kingdom
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Congress speaks with a loud, muddled voice on Syria
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein made headlines recently by demanding a forceful U.S. response to Syria's use of chemical weapons against its population. Less noticed was that the California Democrat wasn't urging deeper military involvement...
Tags: Harry Reid, Parties and Movements, U.S. Military, Bob Corker, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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Saturday's TV Highlights and Weekend Talk Shows: 'The Confession'
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 12 - 18, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Orphan Black Paul (Dylan Bruce)...
Tags: Cathy McMorris, Ben Stiller, Dennis J. Kucinich, The Huffington Post, BBC
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Schwarzenegger lends muscle to immigration discussion
Arnold Schwarzenegger uses his own improbable rise from bodybuilder to action hero to California governor as an argument for immigration reform. As a teenager in his native Austria, Schwarzenegger saw the United States as the only place he could achieve...
Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Michael F. Bennet, U.S. House of Representatives, Immigration, Antonio Villaraigosa
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John McCain's wish list! Will Fox blow up 'American Idol'?
After the coffee. Before seeing if I can make it here. The Skinny: It took almost two hours to get from JFK to the Upper West Side on Wednesday but a four-mile run in Riverside Park recharged me. Think of me in a sticky subway station while you're in...
Tags: The Wall Street Journal, Television, Fox News Channel (tv network), Mariah Carey, Taken 2 (movie)
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McCain is prepping legislation to overhaul pay-TV business
The maverick wants to cook the TV industry's golden goose. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is preparing to introduce legislation perhaps as early as Thursday that would dramatically overhaul the television business and will probably be met with strong...
Tags: ABC (tv network), Television, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Comedy Central (tv network), Television Industry
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