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Hunger strike, Yemeni dilemma could spur Guantanamo closure plans
A 100-day-old hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay prison for suspected terrorists has agitated international human rights advocates anew, prompting fresh calls worldwide for closure of the detention center that President Obama vowed to shutter more than...
Tags: Credit and Debt, Crime, Law and Justice, Wars and Interventions, Ali Abdullah Saleh, European Parliament
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Immigration bill would restrict drone use in California
WASHINGTON – Concerned that border surveillance drones might fly over much of Southern California, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) successfully amended the proposed Senate immigration overhaul bill Tuesday to limit such flights to within three...
Tags: Justice System, National Security, Crime, Law and Justice, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Cocoa Beach
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Immigration bill survives first day of debate in Senate committee
WASHINGTON — After eight hours of debate, the bipartisan Senate immigration bill emerged mostly intact Thursday, despite Republican-led efforts to make substantial alterations in the first of what is certain to be many long committee meetings to...
Tags: Lindsey O. Graham, Mexico, Crime, Law and Justice, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Immigration
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L.A. County officials worried about costs of immigration overhaul
WASHINGTON — Few regions will absorb the impact of future immigration reforms more than Los Angeles County, home to an estimated 1.1 million people in the country illegally, one-tenth of the nation's total. As the Senate Judiciary Committee...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Immigration
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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: The Washington Post, Kelly Ayotte, Chris Rock, Adam Kinzinger, Stephen Schwarzman
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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: Lindsey O. Graham, Crime, Law and Justice, Wars and Interventions, John McCain, Carl Levin
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L.A. worries about immigration reform's cost to taxpayers
As Congress takes up immigration reform, Los Angeles County officials are voicing concerns that local taxpayers will be "left holding the bag" to pay for the brunt of healthcare and other services for the multitudes of immigrants who apply for...
Tags: Healthcare Policies, Politics, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Zev Yaroslavsky
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McManus: Obama plays for time to avoid 'red line'
Barack Obama really, really does not want to get tangled up in Syria. For almost a year, Obama's secretaries of State — first Hillary Rodham Clinton, now John Kerry — have pressed the president for more aid to the insurgents who are fighting...
Tags: Weaponry, United Nations, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Wars and Interventions, George W. Bush
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Erasing the stain of Guantanamo
At his news conference Tuesday, President Obama made a powerful plea for ending the humanitarian and diplomatic disaster created by the continued detention of more than 160 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, more than 100 of whom are engaged in a hunger...
Tags: Politics, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Barack Obama, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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The GOP's Latino problem
Abel Maldonado, the Republican iconoclast most recently famous for his brief stint as California's appointed lieutenant governor and his unsuccessful run for Congress last year, is making noises about running for governor in 2014 against Jerry Brown....
Tags: Insurance, Crime, Law and Justice, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, U.S. Senate
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Congress members urge NASA to spare planetary science funding
This post has been updated. See below for details.Don't cut planetary science funding, members of Congress urged NASA on Friday. In a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), urged the space agency to maintain funding levels for...Tags: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Science, Adam B. Schiff, Space Programs, Science and Technology
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Senate rejects gun background check measure
WASHINGTON — Gun control advocates had told themselves this time would be different. It wasn't. The two-decade deadlock that has gripped congressional efforts to act on gun control continued Wednesday as a measure to require more gun buyers to...
Tags: Laws, Mark Kirk, Weaponry, Patrick J. Toomey, Assault
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