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Immigration bill survives first day of debate in Senate committee
WASHINGTON — After eight hours of debate, the bipartisan Senate immigration bill emerged mostly intact Thursday, despite Republican-led efforts to make substantial alterations in the first of what is certain to be many long committee meetings to...Tags: Jeff Flake, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Parties and Movements, Politics, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
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Many amendments, few changes to immigration overhaul
WASHINGTON -- Senators on Thursday began the arduous task of going through some 300 proposed amendments to the delicately constructed bipartisan immigration bill. By lunch, they had disposed of 17. With a packed audience of many pro-immigration...
Tags: Jeff Flake, Elections, Parties and Movements, Gays and Lesbians, Politics
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Gay rights amendment offered to US immigration bill in Congress
Reuters* Rubio warns gay rights proposal would 'kill' bill * Committee Republicans offer mountain of amendments (Adds details and context paragraph 11 onward) By Thomas Ferraro and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee...Tags: Jeff Flake, Orrin Hatch, Gays and Lesbians, AFL-CIO, Politics
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Obama's red line on Syria gets squiggly
The hawks are squawking. Congressional conservatives and the right-wing media are blasting President Barack Obama for going soft on the Syrians. The president insists there is a "game-changing" red line the Syrian government will have crossed if it is...
Tags: Chuck Hagel, Barack Obama, Wars and Interventions, Pulitzer Prize Awards, United Nations
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Letters: Debating Guantanamo
Re "Obama's Gitmo woes," Opinion, May 5 As a fan of Doyle McManus, I was disappointed to read his claim that most of the detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay were anti-American extremists when they were apprehended. Our own government has...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, John McCain, Judaism, Wars and Interventions, Religion and Belief
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In South Carolina, an ex-governor's quest continues
CHARLESTON, S.C. — At a harborside reception overlooking Ft. Sumter, where the Civil War began, Mark Sanford batted away a TV reporter's question about the latest insult to his comeback campaign: an unwanted endorsement from pornographer Larry...
Tags: Political Fundraising, Barack Obama, David Koch, Rand Paul, Government
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McManus: Obama's Gitmo woes
President Obama sounded genuinely outraged last week when he talked about the Kafkaesque situation at the Guantanamo prison camp, where the United States has been holding 166 men without trial for terms that are, at this point, officially endless. "It's...Tags: Barack Obama, Robert Mueller, Wars and Interventions, Politics, Career and Workplace
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Zuckerberg's advocacy ads under fire
SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg is the public face of one of the world's most prominent companies. But now it's his actions as a private citizen that are making him — and Facebook Inc. — a target of environmentalists and progressive...Tags: Government, Politics, Corporate Officers, Bill Gates, Justice System
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Mark Zuckerberg's Fwd.us in heated controversy over political ads
SAN FRANCISCO -- Mark Zuckerberg is being unfriended by progressives angered by television ads from his political advocacy group Fwd.us that praise lawmakers for supporting the expansion of the Keystone XL oil pipeline and drilling in the Arctic...Tags: Elections, Mark Zuckerberg, Media Industry, Government, Politics
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Boston bombing brings out the new xenophobes
The Boston Marathon bombing has brought out the xenophobes. Often when America suffers some large, inexplicable tragedy, we want to blame "foreigners" and look for ways to fortify ourselves against them. It's more reassuring to believe that an evil lies...Tags: Court Administration, Rand Paul, Politics, Harry Reid, Justice System
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U.S. government begins intelligence review in Boston bombing case
WASHINGTON — The CIA and departments of Justice and Homeland Security have begun a high-level internal review of whether intelligence was mishandled prior to the Boston Marathon bombings, though President Obama and his top advisors said they had...
Tags: Kennedy Airport, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, High Blood Pressure, Police Investigations, White House
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Legal options were few in handling of Boston bombing suspect
WASHINGTON — The federal rules say a person making an arrest "must take the defendant before a magistrate without unnecessary delay." And the Supreme Court has said the judicial process must begin within 48 hours. This rule aims to "prevent secret...
Tags: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Police Arrests, Sports, Safety of Citizens, Defendants
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