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Emanuel's 911 center pick gets thumbs up from aldermen
Clout StPosted by John Byrne at 11:50 a.m. The nomination of a new director of Chicago's Office of Emergency Management and Communications will head to the full City Council for consideration after a council committee gave him the OK during a...... -
Letters to the Editor: Insight into police work, alimony reform, NSA scandal
Insight into police work Thanks to the Winter Park Police Department for all the work that went into organizing the Citizens' Police Academy that will end this week. For those of us who attended, it was a valuable experience, taught by obviously...Tags: Winter Park, Crime, Law and Justice, Internal Revenue Service, Executive Branch, Social Security
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Senate rejects move to tie immigration overhaul to border security
WASHINGTON — In the first and only vote Thursday on the immigration bill, senators turned back a Republican measure that would have delayed a path to citizenship for those in the country illegally until after the border with Mexico is fully secure....
Tags: White House, Crime, Law and Justice, Mark Pryor, Career and Workplace, Mary L. Landrieu
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A year after Obama grants young immigrants a respite from deportation, the debate continues
Last June, the Obama administration unveiled a special program that grants some young undocumented immigrants protection from deportation. A year later, that program remains in place and so does the controversey surrounding it. Under the program,...
Tags: Migration, Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace, U.S. Military, Criminals
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Valley Police Beat: Several pounds of narcotics found inside muffler
Staff WritersCALEXICO — More than 23 pounds of heroin and methamphetamine were found concealed in a car muffler Wednesday as the driver attempted to cross through the Downtown Port of Entry, a press release announced. The narcotics were found around 12:30 p....Tags: Drug Trafficking, Methamphetamine (drug), Theft, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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NSA leaks shift focus to intel contractors
An intelligence contractor's disclosure of covert National Security Agency surveillance programs reopened a debate Monday over how much the government relies on private companies for spy work and whether those firms must do more to vet employees and...
Tags: Edward Snowden, Manufacturing and Engineering, Aerospace Manufacturing, Dwayne Johnson, WikiLeaks
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Senate rejects Republican effort to gut immigration bill
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A landmark immigration bill survived a major challenge in the Senate on Thursday when its bipartisan "Gang of Eight" sponsors beat back an amendment that would have delayed a pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegal residents....Tags: Dick Durbin, White House, Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace, John Cornyn
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FDA urges protection of medical devices from cyber threats
Reuters(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday urged medical device makers and medical facilities to upgrade security protections to protect against potential cyber threats that could compromise the devices or patient privacy. It...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Instrument Engineering, Manufacturing and Engineering, National Security, Networking
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Sasha Chavkin: Marco Rubio's private prison connection
As an immigration reform bill grinds its way through Congress, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has emerged as perhaps its most crucial broker. The rising Republican star has put reform at the center of his political ambitions, using his conservative bona...Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Migration, Crime, Law and Justice, Lobbying, John Cornyn
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Immigrants help Medicare stay solvent
WASHINGTON — Immigrants in the United States both legally and illegally are helping sustain Medicare, contributing about $14 billion more a year to the federal health program for the elderly than they use in medical services, a new study indicates....
Tags: Migration, National Government, Harvard Medical School, Health Insurance, Career and Workplace
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Senior Senate Republican proposes tougher plan for border security
WASHINGTON -- A senior Senate Republican has proposed a new $6-billion border security amendment for the Senate immigration bill, a measure designed to appeal to conservatives that is likely to face resistance from Democrats and immigrant advocates. The...
Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Migration, Rand Paul, John Cornyn, U.S. Congress
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State Plan For Cyber Threats To Electric Grid Taking Shape
The Hartford CourantDan Esty, the state's energy commissioner, sat across a conference table from Art House, Connecticut's head utility regulator, in the bunker of the State Armory in Hartford last July for a drill that simulated a statewide response to a major hurricane....Tags: Environmental Issues, Energy Saving, Labor Day, Northeast Utilities, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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