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Obama: Newtown tragedy should bring 'perspective' to fiscal talks
WASHINGTON – President Obama urged Republican congressional leaders to view recent national tragedies as inspiration to abandon partisan bickering and work together on a major deal to get the government's fiscal affairs in order. Obama said he...
Tags: Plan B (drug), White House, Republican Party, John Boehner, Parties and Movements
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White House task force to tackle gun violence
WASHINGTON -- Announcing his first steps in response to the Newtown, Conn., school massacre, President Obama on Wednesday charged a task force with drawing up a list of proposals to reduce gun violence across the nation and urged Congress to hold votes on...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Shootings, Barack Obama, Justice and Rights
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Grief unending for Sandy Hook -- 'There is no answer to this'
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- People in this idyllic New England town returned on Thursday morning to the church that has served as the centerpiece of its grief and mourned another of the town’s young victims killed last week at Sandy Hook Elementary School....
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Timothy M. Dolan, Roxbury, Human Interest, U.S. Department of Justice
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Treasury Secretary Geithner reportedly wants to leave by month's end
WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, the last remaining member of President Obama's original economic team, has made it clear he did not intend to stay in the high-pressure job for more than four years. And now, with Obama set to be...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Eric Holder, Timothy Geithner, Barack Obama, John Kerry
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Robert H. Bork dies at 85; pivotal figure in Supreme Court history
Robert H. Bork, the conservative legal champion whose bitter defeat for a Supreme Court seat in 1987 politicized the confirmation process and changed the court's direction for decades, died Wednesday. He was 85. The former Yale law professor and judge on...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, University of Chicago, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Gays and Lesbians, Social Issues
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White House says a fiscal cliff deal has been reached
WASHINGTON – The White House said a deal had been reached to avert the “fiscal cliff” and dispatched Vice President Joe Biden to Capitol Hill late Monday, an indication lawmakers were heading toward a possible late-night vote on the...
Tags: John Boehner, Parties and Movements, U.S. Senate, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress
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Joe Biden: Costco-shopper-in-chief
Vice President Joe Biden appeared at the grand opening of Washington, D.C.’s first Costco Thursday morning, meeting with co-founder Jim Sinegal and CEO Craig Jelinek and most importantly, searching for pies. Biden, who re-activated his Costco...
Tags: Books, Media Industry, Books and Magazines, Services and Shopping, Pies and Tarts
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Wednesday's TV Talk Shows: Damian Lewis; Robert Ross; Neil Young
Click here to download TV listings for the week Nov. 25 - Dec. 1 in PDF format This week's TV Movies  -------------------- CBS This Morning (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Dr. Phil McGraw; Chris Mann performs; Meredith Vieira; journalist Richard Cohen. (N) 7...
Tags: Judy Greer, Steven Tyler, Alice Cooper, Helen Mirren, Entertainment
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It's official: Obama, Biden win second term
President Obama was declared the winner of the 2012 presidential election Friday in a special joint session of Congress, finally closing the book on the tumultuous and expensive campaign. Vice President Joe Biden, serving as president of the Senate,...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Arts and Culture, Colleges and Universities, Sonia Sotomayor, 2012 U.S. Presidential Election
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A Thanksgiving Day good news list
Along with giving thanks for making it to another Thanksgiving Day, The Times' editorial board is grateful that: The 2012 elections are finally over. And that after the June presidential primary, the November general election, this coming March's...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, Family, Paul Ryan, Barack Obama
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Sandy Hook: Firefighters salute Daniel, 7; teacher has hero's honor
NEWTOWN, Conn -- Daniel Barden wanted to be a fireman like his father’s cousins in New York City, whom he idolized. So it was only fitting that at Wednesday's funeral for Barden, one of the young victims in the Sandy Hook massacre, dozens of...
Tags: Adam Lanza, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Barack Obama, FBI
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Obama's second-term agenda just added a new priority: gun control
President Obama’s pledge on Wednesday to press for new gun control measures was an important commitment -- even if, despite his protests, it might look like just another Washington commission. Only one week ago, gun control wasn’t on Obama&...
Tags: White House, Assault, Interior Policy, Gun Control, U.S. Senate
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