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In much of the U.S. West, even moderate states balk at gun control
HELENA, Mont. — Stephen Watt is no stranger to gun violence. In 1982, as a 26-year-old Wyoming state trooper, he stopped a fleeing bank robber who pumped five bullets into Watt before leaving him for dead on an empty stretch of highway. Watt...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Gabrielle Giffords, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, Civil Rights
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Chasm divides gun control and gun rights advocates
SACRAMENTO — "Living in parallel universes," is how Senate leader Darrell Steinberg describes it. Gun control and gun rights advocates "talking past each other." Emanating from different cultures, incapable of agreeing on how to make us all...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, Interior Policy, Donald P. Wagner, Lois Wolk
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Gun legislation failure dismays survivor of Texas mass shooting
Irma Garcia pulled back her sweater to show me where the bullet entered her shoulder and spun her around. It then torpedoed through her body and exited near the middle of her back. "I still have problems with it," she said, standing to show me how the...
Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Mental Illness, Interior Policy, Shootings, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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Obama: Senate gun vote marks 'shameful day in Washington'
WASHINGTON -- President Obama declared it a “shameful day for Washington” on Wednesday after the Senate defeated an effort to expand background checks for people trying to purchase guns. Standing in the White House's Rose Garden with...
Tags: Gabrielle Giffords, Crime, Law and Justice, White House, Barack Obama, Interior Policy
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New focus on scandal in 'All the President's Men Revisited'
Robert Redford never planned to play Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in "All the President's Men," the Oscar-winning 1976 adaptation of Woodward and Carl Bernstein's account of their investigation of the 1972 Watergate break-in and the cloak-and-...
Tags: White House, All the President's Men (movie), Pulitzer Prize Awards, Fiction, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
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Step toward possible military intervention in Syria
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is sending about 200 troops to Jordan, the vanguard of a potential U.S. military force of 20,000 or more that could be deployed if the Obama administration decides to intervene in Syria to secure chemical weapons arsenals...
Tags: Barack Obama, Bashar Assad, Martin Dempsey, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present )
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House passes CISPA, sets up showdown with White House and Senate
The House of Representatives passed a controversial cybersecurity bill as expected on Thursday, moving toward a possible confrontation with the Senate and White House. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2013, or CISPA, passed by a vote...
Tags: Ron Wyden, Barack Obama, White House, Rand Paul, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011
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LulzSec hacker sentenced to a year in federal prison
A member of the LulzSec hacker group was sentence to a year in federal prison Thursday as a result of his involvement with a cyberattack in 2011. The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ordered Cody Andrew Kretsinger, a 25-year-...
Tags: Prisons, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Central Intelligence Agency, Trials, Muhammad Ali
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Cowabunga! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arrive on iPhone, iPad
Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael -- the turtles, not the artists -- made their way onto smartphones and tablets for the first time Thursday, in a new app called "Rooftop Run." The new video game is available for the iPhone, iPad and iPod...
Tags: Apple iPad, Nickelodeon (tv network), Muhammad Ali, Apple iPod, Apple iPhone
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Cowardly Senate runs away from gun background checks
Polls indicate that 80% to 90% of Americans support expanded background checks for firearms sales, but on Wednesday such a plan could not get 60 votes in the United States Senate. In the White House Rose Garden, surrounded by families of children gunned...
Tags: Gabrielle Giffords, Parties and Movements, Barack Obama, White House, Mark Pryor
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Senate rejects gun background check measure
WASHINGTON — Gun control advocates had told themselves this time would be different. It wasn't. The two-decade deadlock that has gripped congressional efforts to act on gun control continued Wednesday as a measure to require more gun buyers to...
Tags: Gabrielle Giffords, Parties and Movements, Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama, John McCain
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FBI: No signs ricin letters connected to Boston attack
WASHINGTON – Investigators say there are no signs of a link between the Boston Marathon bombings and potentially poisonous letters sent to the President Obama and a U.S. senator. An FBI statement issued Wednesday said the investigation into the...
Tags: White House, Barack Obama, Roger F. Wicker, Jay Carney, Anthrax
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