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Civil rights group warns of rising danger from extreme right
Efforts to limit gun violence and to bring about immigration reform have led to a growing backlash from the extreme right, including the so-called patriot and militia groups, a civil-rights group said Tuesday. In its latest report, the Southern Poverty...
Tags: Justice and Rights, U.S. Congress, Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Labor Legislation, Gun Control
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Janet Napolitano: Budget feud has resulted in long airport lines
The budget battle in Washington that is forcing cuts to federal budgets has already resulted in delays and long lines at some of the nation's largest airports, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday. At a breakfast meeting with the...
Tags: POLITICO LLC, O'Hare International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, National Security, Transportation Security Administration
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Detained immigrants released; officials cite sequester cuts
WASHINGTON -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have released “several hundred” immigrants from deportation centers across the country, saying the move is an effort to cut costs ahead of budget cuts due to hit later this week. ...
Tags: Justice and Rights, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Extradition, Republican Party, Safety of Citizens
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BioWatch stands at a crossroads
WASHINGTON -- Year after year, health officials meeting at invitation-only government conferences leveled with one another about BioWatch, the nation's system for detecting deadly pathogens that might be unleashed into the air by terrorists. They...Tags: U.S. Congress, Political Fundraising, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Unrest, Conflicts and War, National Security
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Obama to keep up the pressure for immigration reform
WASHINGTON -- President Obama’s public focus will be on gun violence this week, but behind the scenes he and key administration officials plan to keep pushing for immigration reform. As Obama heads to Minneapolis on Monday to talk about the...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Immigration, Barack Obama, Travel, Migration
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Memorial today for slain Coast Guard officer
L.A. NOWMemorial today for slain Coast Guard officer... -
Coast Guardsman dies after suspects ram boat; Napolitano reacts
L.A. NOWU.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday she was saddened by this weekend's death of a U.S. Coast Guard member in the Channel Islands.... -
President Obama: A 'friendly guy' who likes 'a good party'
WASHINGTON -- President Obama insists he’s a “pretty friendly guy” but made clear Monday that he’s skeptical that personal relationships with members of Congress have much to do with whether legislation passes. “I like...
Tags: John Boehner, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Elections, Chuck Hagel
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A permanent war on terror
When it comes to homeland security, we've been seduced for more than a decade by a "preemptive" mandate that directs us to catch terrorists before they strike next. Where law enforcement once investigated crimes to determine who was responsible and how...
Tags: Justice and Rights, U.S. Congress, Faisal Shahzad, Unrest, Conflicts and War, National Security
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Former Marine back in the U.S. after months in a Mexican prison
After spending months in a Mexican prison for attempting to carry his great-grandfather’s shotgun into the country, a former Marine has been released and is back in the United States. Jon Hammar, 27, a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,...
Tags: U.S. Congress, U.S. Border Patrol, Prisons, Hillary Clinton, Mexico
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Woman in applesauce dispute with TSA still fighting
L.A. NOWA woman who tussled with Bob Hope Airport security officers over a container of applesauce for her elderly mother seems poised to draw the ire of another federal official — this time a U.S. District Court judge.... -
BioWatch technology couldn't detect lethal germs, tests found
WASHINGTON — For two years, the nationwide BioWatch system, intended to protect Americans against a biological attack, operated with defective components that left it unable to detect lethal germs, according to scientists with direct knowledge of...
Tags: U.S. Congress, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Republican Party, National Security
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