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With memorials and silent moments, Boston victims are honored
MEDFORD, Mass. — She was remembered for her smile. Outside of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Krystle Campbell's second-grade teacher reached into her black purse Monday and pulled out a class picture from April 1991 — 21 sweet, gawky children,...
Tags: Michael Muskal, Barack Obama, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Anglicanism, Local Government
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Skelton: Gun issues tear at nation
SACRAMENTO -- Last week, eight different bills involving gun control were approved by a state Senate committee. But that will only help so much if Congress continues to reject stricter federal rules, says George Skelton in his Monday column. A measure...Tags: Politics, U.S. Congress, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control
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Sens. Feinstein and Boxer keep racking up seniority
WASHINGTON — Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer have served longer together than any other pair of California senators — 20 years — and will soon replace Iowa's team as the current longest-serving tandem. In a chamber where the...
Tags: Politics, Parties and Movements, Illegal Immigrants, U.S. Congress, Daniel Inouye
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U.S. might not hit debt limit until October, new study says
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. might not hit its debt limit until October because of improved economic growth and higher tax revenue this year, according to a new estimate released Friday. The projection by the Bipartisan Policy Center would give Congress and...
Tags: Budget Control Act of 2011, Politics, U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Congress, Fiscal Cliff
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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: Arts and Culture, Health and Safety at School, Barack Obama, Laws, Republican Party
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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: Politics, Laws, Mark Leno, Tea Party Movement, U.S. Supreme Court
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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: Politics, Mental Illness, University of Texas at Austin, Behavioral Conditions, Personal Weapon Control
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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: Politics, Barack Obama, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Chuck Grassley, Personal Weapon Control
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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: Politics, Carl Bernstein, Movies, Entertainment, All the President's Men (movie)
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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, U.S. Congress, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Hillary Clinton, Martin Dempsey
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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: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Barack Obama, Politics, Corporate Crime, U.S. Congress
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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: Muhammad Ali, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Trials, Punishment, Central Intelligence Agency
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