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Garcetti makes final campaign push 'like I'm 20 points behind'
With polls showing a potentially close race for Los Angeles mayor, candidate Eric Garcetti trolled for last-minute votes in Pacific Palisades with former Republican contender Kevin James at his side. Though Garcetti had a 7-point margin over his rival...
Tags: Eric Garcetti, Wendy Greuel, Politics, Elections, Kevin James
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Commencement speakers: Conservatives need not apply
We have once again entered the college commencement season, which means we'll soon be reading about uplifting graduation speeches delivered by prominent Americans. Or at least by prominent liberal Americans. It's becoming increasingly apparent that...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Jon Huntsman, Jr., Lindsey O. Graham, University of Richmond, Justice System
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Spotlighting a terrorism risk, and profiting
WASHINGTON — Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, National Government, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Vaccines, White House
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Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthcare disparities
WASHINGTON — Republican opposition in many statehouses to expanding Medicaid next year under President Obama's healthcare law — opposition that could leave millions of the nation's poorest residents without insurance coverage — will...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Health Insurance, Nikki Haley, Social Issues, Parties and Movements
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Letters: Back and forth over Benghazi
Re "Benghazi's smoking guns," Opinion, May 14 Two questions came to mind reading Jonah Goldberg's column. First, who cut the security funding of diplomatic missions a year before the Benghazi attack? (The Republican-controlled House.) And second,...Tags: Benghazi
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McManus: The second-term scandal plague
What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. All governments make mistakes, and all governments try to hide those mistakes. But the longer an administration is in office, the more...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Christopher Stevens, Justice System, Monica Lewinsky, Central Intelligence Agency
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The GOP pivots on the IRS scandal
The scandal surrounding the Internal Revenue Service's handling of applications for tax-exempt status by "tea party" groups and other right-leaning organizations took a sharp turn at the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday. In addition to decrying...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Justice System, White House, Internal Revenue Service
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Scientists create human embryos to make stem cells
For the first time, scientists have created human embryos that are genetic copies of living people and used them to make stem cells — a feat that paves the way for treating a range of diseases with personalized body tissues but also ignites fears of...
Tags: Health Treatments, Nobel Prize Awards, Biotechnology Industry, Entertainment Events, Alzheimer's Disease
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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: Crime, Law and Justice, Military Equipment, U.S. Department of Defense, Al-Qaeda, Justice System
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House showdown set over IRS targeting of conservative groups
WASHINGTON -- The ousted top official of the Internal Revenue Service will appear before a House committee Friday morning, his first public appearance since controversy erupted last week over how the agency mishandled applications for tax-exempt status...
Tags: Jack Lew, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Internal Revenue Service, Labor Legislation, Taxation
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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: U.S. Senate, Crime, Law and Justice, Marco Rubio, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Politics
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Ridiculous Republican rhetoric undermines Benghazi probe
Republicans could make an easy hit on the Obama administration by highlighting the State Department’s apparent bureaucratic blundering during and after the deadly terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last fall, but they...
Tags: Glenn Beck, Hillary Clinton, September 11, 2001 Attacks, U.S. Department of State, Steve King
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