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New abortion rules assume women are really stupid
The House Judiciary Committee, dominated by Republican men who still have not learned to avoid the subject of rape and pregnancy, took up the issue of abortion this week. Normally, the news about abortion focuses on the machinations of conservative...
Tags: Mike Lee, Social Issues, Justice System, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Abortion
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Snowden smuggled out data on thumb drive, officials say
WASHINGTON — Former National Security Agency contract employee Edward Snowden used a computer thumb drive, a portable data storage device that is supposedly barred inside the spying agency, to smuggle highly classified documents out of an NSA...
Tags: China, The Washington Post, Mike J. Rogers, John Conyers, Jr., South China Morning Post Limited
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FBI director defends secret surveillance programs
WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert Mueller III strongly defended the government’s secret collection of millions of phone logs and emails Thursday, saying federal judges, Congress and the Department of Justice inspector general’s office...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, John Conyers, Jr., Police Investigations, Justice System, Robert Mueller
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McManus: Head-in-the-sand Congress
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) , a former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is hopping mad. Sensenbrenner considers himself the father of the Patriot Act, the 2001 law that gave the federal government new powers to investigate potential...
Tags: The Washington Post, Justice System, Saxby Chambliss, Jeff Merkley, Barbara A. Mikulski
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Online tax cheats: Being young is no excuse
Contrary to what it claimed Thursday, the libertarian advocacy group Generation Opportunity hasn't killed a Senate-passed bill to compel most online retailers to collect sales taxes. But the group seems to have done its best to mislead and confuse the...
Tags: Justice System, Apple iTunes, Social Media, Computers, Services and Shopping
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GOP lawmakers criticize Atty. Gen. Holder over leak probes
WASHINGTON — Republicans sharply criticized Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. on Sunday for his handling of an investigation into a possible leak of classified information to a Fox News reporter, suggesting that Holder lied to Congress last month in...
Tags: ABC (tv network), Justice System, Journalism, Darrell E Issa, Eric Holder
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Holder pledges to probe IRS handling of conservative groups
WASHINGTON – Testifying on Capitol Hill, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. promised a thorough criminal investigation of the targeting of conservative organizations by the IRS that will look at potential civil rights violations and false statements that...
Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Justice System, Steve Chabot, Tea Party Movement, Eric Holder
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White House to renew bid for bill to protect journalists
WASHINGTON — Facing questions about the Justice Department's secret seizure of reporters' phone records, the White House says that it will renew its push for legislation that would offer federal protections to journalists and their sources....
Tags: Arlen Specter, Carney (music group), Justice System, Journalism, Judges
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Government secretly obtains phone records from journalists
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors secretly obtained telephone records from more than 20 lines belonging to the Associated Press and its journalists in an attempt to learn who leaked information on how the CIA thwarted an apparent terrorist plot...
Tags: Al-Qaeda, Justice System, Journalism, Darrell E Issa, Emergency Incidents
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House feels the heat on immigration reform
WASHINGTON — Committee approval of a sweeping Senate immigration overhaul has put pressure on the House, where Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and top leaders have been pushing a bipartisan group of lawmakers to produce its own bill. House...
Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Healthcare Policies, Career and Workplace, Justice and Rights, Immigration
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House Speaker Boehner unlikely to support Internet sales tax bill
WASHINGTON — House Speaker John A. Boehner said he probably won't support legislation allowing states to require that larger retailers collect sales taxes on Internet purchases. And a key House committee chairman said his panel would take a...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Jackie Speier, Crime, Law and Justice, John Boehner, Justice System
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Senate OKs Internet sales tax
WASHINGTON — The Senate gave strong bipartisan approval to landmark legislation that could largely lead to the end of the nation's decades-long Internet sales tax holiday. Now the issue shifts to the more skeptical, Republican-controlled House,...
Tags: Justice System, Amazon.com Inc., Computing and Information Technology Industry, Small Businesses, Steve Womack
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