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Sotomayor scheduling conflict leads to Biden's early swearing-in
WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden will not be sworn in Sunday at noon alongside President Obama at the White House because Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor had somewhere else to be. Biden selected Sotomayor, the first Latino justice, to...
Tags: Barack Obama, Sonia Sotomayor, Crime, Law and Justice, White House, John G. Roberts, Jr.
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Rahm Emanuel wants Chicago to end all investments in gun makers
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Monday he was requesting all of his city’s pension funds to divest their investments in gun manufacturers, becoming the latest public official to use the purse as a weapon in the growing battle against gun violence....
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Assault, Regional Authority, Economy, Business and Finance
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Wal-Mart to meet with Biden on guns
WASHINGTON – Representatives from Wal-Mart will meet with Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday to discuss gun policy, after initially declining the administration’s invitation because of a scheduling conflict. David Tovar, a spokesman for...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Rentals, White House, Walmart, The Washington Post
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Connecticut group wants 'common sense' solutions to gun violence
A month after a gunman invaded Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing 20 children and six adults, a group of local residents are calling for efforts to make communities safer from gun violence. A news conference is scheduled for Monday, the one-month...
Tags: Shootings, Personal Weapon Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Politics, White House
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Obama campaign will retain assets as new group launches
WASHINGTON — A new advocacy organization launched by aides to President Obama on Friday will lease the database developed by his reelection campaign, which plans to hold onto such valuable assets for the foreseeable future. The arrangement will...
Tags: Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, New Products, White House, Politics
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McManus: Obama, Version 2.0
Four years ago, on a bright, cold Jan. 20, Barack Obama took his first oath of office as president and proclaimed a new post-partisan era. "The stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply," the Obama of 2009 said. The...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Barack Obama, John Boehner, David Axelrod, Public Finance
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Parents' group attacks ABC for 'graphic' 'Scandal' torture scene
The debate over violence on TV is heating up, with a parents' group attacking ABC for a "graphic and disturbing" torture scene on the political drama "Scandal." "On the very same night that Vice President Joe Biden met with entertainment industry...
Tags: Lena Dunham, PBS (tv network), Entertainment Events, Scandal (tv program), Satellite and Cable Service
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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: Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama, Justice System, Mitt Romney, John G. Roberts, Jr.
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Sundance 2013: Robert Redford weighs in on Hollywood and violence
PARK CITY, Utah -- Violence in entertainment isn't just a topic for Washington this week -- it's also on the mind of Sundance Film Festival organizers. Days after a White House Task Force on Gun Violence led by Vice President Joe Biden met with a...
Tags: Robert Redford, Vice (movie), White House, Arts and Culture, Movies
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Alex Jones and other pro-gun paranoids put the nuts in gun nuts
It is hard to have a reasoned discourse about guns when one side of the discussion seems to be dominated by people ready to hole up in an Idaho survivalist camp to await the arrival of the black U.N. helicopters filled with Kenyan commandos coming to...
Tags: Hugo Chavez, Gaming, Barack Obama, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Alex Jones
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2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
FrameworkCHARLOTTE, N.C. — Four years after riding a wave of optimism into the White House, President Obama offered a sobering message as he asked Americans for another term to help complete the country’s recovery from the worst economic crisis since...
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