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Sex scandal: Secret Service investigators examining previous trips
WASHINGTON — With eight Secret Service agents already forced out of the agency in the aftermath of a prostitution scandal, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a Senate committee on Wednesday that investigators were trying to...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Politics, Mark J. Sullivan, Sex Crimes, Charles Grassley
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Violence Against Women Act passes in the Senate
Washington BureauWASHINGTON -- Sidestepping a politically dangerous fight, Senate Republicans made temporary peace with Democrats to approve the reauthorization of a popular law designed to help prevent and respond to domestic and sexual abuse. Passage of the Violence...Tags: U.S. Senate, Republican Party, Politics, Career and Workplace, Sex Crimes
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Goldberg: The false modesty of 'nerds'
Washington is full of nerds. I know. I speak nerd, not fluently mind you, at least not anymore. But I certainly know more than a few phrases memorized from a Berlitz nerd-to-English phrase book. I can talk Dungeons & Dragons (both D&D and AD&D). I know...
Tags: George Clooney, Nobel Prize Awards, Lindsay Lohan, Jimmy Kimmel, Reese Witherspoon
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Sen. Dick Durbin says he'll hold hearing on sports bounties
Senate Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Thursday that he would chair a hearing of the Judiciary Committee on bounties in sports to determine whether federal bribery laws should be expanded to include such activities. Durbin made the...
Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Corporate Crime, Warren Sapp, Dick Durbin, Football
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U.S. intends to deliver full aid to Egypt despite objections
World NowThe Obama administration announced Friday that it intends to deliver all $1.3 billion in promised aid to Egypt’s military, despite calls from lawmakers and rights advocates to hold back money because of limits on political rights in the North... -
Targeted killings: Who's checking the executive branch?
During a recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Chairman Patrick Leahy and Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. appeared to share a chuckle over issues related to the targeted killing last year of an American citizen by the United States. According to news...
Tags: Politics, Lawyers, Justice System, Judges, United States Naval Academy
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Partisan politics plague probe of 'Fast and Furious'
"Fast and Furious," the federal government's ill-fated operation to track gun sales along the Mexican border, set out to penetrate drug cartels before it spiraled out of control. Under the program, agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and...
Tags: U.S. Senate, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, FBI, U.S. Department of Justice, Justice System
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The Senate's 'Dr. No' delivers a surprise 'yes
![The judicial confirmation wars are clearly escalating when Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) calls for a halt to the carnage. Coburn, dubbed "Dr. No" for his unyielding opposition to many of his colleagues' ideas, including judicial appointments, proclaimed this month that the confirmation wars must end. He said: "I think the very issue [of judicial selection] is what makes Americans sick of what we're doing. It's a tit for tat. We've got to get beyond that. The problems are too great for our country. What I do know is that presidents are entitled to their nominees." The senator must now follow his words with actions, and both Democrats and Republicans must heed his admonitions.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-03/68787962-13195536.jpg)
The judicial confirmation wars are clearly escalating when Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) calls for a halt to the carnage. Coburn, dubbed "Dr. No" for his unyielding opposition to many of his colleagues' ideas, including judicial appointments, proclaimed...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Dianne Feinstein, Charles Grassley, Justice System
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SOPA and PIPA opponents warn the bills are not dead yet
TechnologyA day after a widespread Internet blackout, key opponents of SOPA and PIPA warned Thursday that the controversial online piracy bills are not dead yet and called for lawmakers to slow down and start over.... -
SOPA sent back to the drawing board in wake of Internet protests
TechnologyThe SOPA online piracy bill that helped spark this week's unprecedented Internet protests will be redrafted, its lead sponsor said Friday. The move came not long after the Senate postponed a key vote on the companion PIPA bill scheduled for next week.... -
Senate Democrat challenges Obama on killing American terror suspects
This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for detailsA Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee says it is "unacceptable" that the Obama administration is refusing to provide Congress with the secret legal opinions cited to justify killing American citizens during counterterrorism operations. Sen. Ron...Tags: U.S. Senate, Polls, Laws, Politics, National Security
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Gun-smuggling cartel figures possibly were paid FBI informants
Congressional investigators probing the controversial "Fast and Furious" anti-gun-trafficking operation on the border with Mexico believe at least six Mexican drug cartel figures involved in gun smuggling also were paid FBI informants, officials said...Tags: Crimes, Lawyers, Firearms, Defense, Police Investigations
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