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Joe Biden touts White House progress on gun control
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden, seeking to reinvigorate the White House's stalled gun safety push, touted incremental progress Tuesday in nearly two dozen executive actions pledged by the administration in January. In a speech to...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Interior Policy, Laws, Michael Bloomberg, Washington, DC
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Pennsylvania leads the nation in lost or stolen guns
WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania led the nation in the number of firearms lost or stolen from federally licensed gun dealers last year, according to a new government report released as part of the White House's effort to keep attention on gun issues in the...Tags: Theft, Criminal Laws, Fort Lauderdale, Inventories, Interior Policy
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Michael Hastings dies at 33; his article led general to resign
Michael Hastings, an aggressive and iconoclastic journalist whose reporting exposed the vagaries of the war in Iraq and helped bring down the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, died early Tuesday in a car crash in Los Angeles, according to two of his...Tags: Obituaries, Unrest, Conflicts and War, New York University, International Military Interventions, George Polk Awards
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The two tortured political marriages of Richard Nixon
Just as they say that the poor are always with is, so it is with Richard Nixon, arguably the most tormented American president, who comes back to us in the new book "Ike and Dick" (appropriately subtitled "Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage"). The...
Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Marriage, Henry Kissinger, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Political Dissent
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White House pushes gun safety, but it means little without Congress
WASHINGTON -- The White House plans to announce Tuesday that it has improved gun safety in the country by chipping away at 21 of 23 items on an executive to-do list issued in January. But the progress report will also highlight steps that Congress has...Tags: Mental Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Washington, DC
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Politics as Usual
Toomey reaffirms background check support Six months after the Sandy Hook murders of 20 children and six adults, U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., reaffirmed his support for expanding background checks on firearms sales, and said he hopes the Senate can...Tags: Allentown, Criminal Laws, Interior Policy, Don Cunningham, Crime, Law and Justice
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Surveillance leaks show Obama's hypocrisy
The revelation that the federal government has spied on millions of supposedly private phone and Internet communications makes President Barack Obama's headache over the IRS targeting of conservative groups seeking tax exemptions seem like a passing...Tags: Dianne Feinstein, POLITICO LLC, Unrest, Conflicts and War, The New York Times, Jarmes R. Clapper
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Toomey test article
Call Washington BureauOn the eve of the six-month anniversary of the Sandy Hook murders, Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey issued a statement reaffirming his support for expanding background checks on firearms sales and said he hopes the Senate can find the votes to make...Tags: New York City, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice, Patrick J. Toomey
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Newtown Church Bells Will Ring On Anniversary
The Hartford CourantIn Newtown Friday, church bells will toll, clergy will host an inter-faith gathering and activists will call for stricter gun laws as the community observes the six-month anniversary of the worst elementary school shooting in U.S. history. The day...Tags: New York City, Human Interest, Interior Policy, Nancy Pelosi, Arts and Culture
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Gun control advocates mark 6 months since shooting
WASHINGTON (AP) — Six months after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, some of the victims' families are heading to Capitol Hill to remind lawmakers they are painfully waiting for action, while some of the president's allies are asking him to...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Barack Obama
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Democrats seek to avoid repeat of 2010 loss in Massachusetts
WASHINGTON — Desperate to avoid another Massachusetts special-election debacle, Democrats are pulling out all the stops for Rep. Edward J. Markey in the contest to keep the Senate seat formerly held by Secretary of State John F. Kerry in...
Tags: John Kerry, Social Issues, Political Candidates, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Interior Policy
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Obama urges Massachusetts, Florida voters to back Democrats
ReutersMIAMI BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, fighting to protect his party's margin of control in the U.S. Senate and hoping for gains in the House of Representatives, urged Massachusetts voters and well-heeled Floridians to back Democrats....Tags: Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), John Kerry, Sandwiches, Interior Policy, Republican Party
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