B Media Network US News Editor's Home Page: April 2015

Sunday, April 19, 2015

Smarter Than A Climate Scientist? Marco Rubio Knows With 'Certainty' He's Wiser About Global Warming

Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio asserted on Sunday that he was skeptical of human-induced global warming because there "never has been a moment" when the climate was not changing. During an interview on Face the Nation , CBS host Bob Schieffer pressed the Florida Republican on whether he really believed that climate change could not be linked to human activities.

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College Student Dress In 'Red Face, Berate Native Elder: 'Go Back To Reservation, You F*cking Indian'

A group of college students at Eastern Michigan University are under investigation after they allegedly held a "Red Face" party and shouted racial slurs at an elderly Native American man who complained to them that he was offended. Omaha Nation member Nathan Phillips told WXYZ that he is proud of his Native American heritage, so he was upset when students saw him on the street last Friday and waved him over to their "Red Face" party.

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Call to consolidate commissaries, exchanges gaining momentum

Consolidation of the Defense Commissary Agency and three separate military exchange services into a single Defense Retail Activity is gaining support among policymakers inside the Department of Defense and perhaps a key congressional subcommittee, a source reports. The idea to merge all military stores under a single agency is a major recommendation of the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission.

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These GOP candidates are willing to attend gay weddings

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker told reporters Saturday night although he doesn't support same-sex marriage he attended a wedding reception for a gay relative. "Even though my position on marriage is still that its defined as between a man and a woman, and I support the constitution of the state but for someone I love, we've been to a reception," he said at the end of the GOP Summit in New Hampshire.

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Bill McCollum Should Stay Away from Third Senate Bid in 2016

Reports are out that Bill McCollum is at least thinking about running for the Senate in 2016. Sorry, but the longtime Florida Republican leader should probably stay at home.

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Comcast and TWC will negotiate with officials to save their merger

The merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable is no longer as certain to get approval as it once was, and the two cable giants know it. Wall Street Journal sources understand that the companies will meet with Department of Justice officials this week in hopes of negotiating concessions and saving the deal.

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Cities arena t great with data. Could Mike Bloomberg change that?

If you call the fire department in Mesa, Ariz., chances are it won't respond with a big ladder truck. That's because you probably don't need one.

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LoBianco: Beneath RFRA politics, an 'unknown' challenge

Of the Democrats who would like to capitalize on Pence's self-inflicted wounds, not many Hoosiers know who they are. LoBianco: Beneath RFRA politics, an 'unknown' challenge Of the Democrats who would like to capitalize on Pence's self-inflicted wounds, not many Hoosiers know who they are.

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Scoreboard Roundup - 4/19/15

The family of a Colorado man missing for nearly two weeks believes a concussion he suffered may have led to his disappearance.Oliver Pareece Jones, a father of f... -- The U.S. Agency for International Development announced this weekend that it would provide $126 million in funds to help rebuild health services in Ebola-affecte... TOKYO _ Top Japan and U.S. trade officials plan to meet this weekend, seeking to close gaps over autos and farm trade before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Washington l... KEARNEY, Neb.

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New southeastern Utah conservation plan has a distinctly personal motivation -- homecoming

Where is it? Utah State Road 261 heading north across Cedar Mesa towards the "Bears Ears" in San Juan County. .photo by Al Hartmann.

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Beneath budget dispute, a tussle over regulatory power

Minnesota legislative Republicans are moving to strip powers from Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton, ranging from limiting his team's authority to write regulatory rules to curbs on staffing. Republicans who control only the House see the chance to have more say over workplace safety regulations, water-quality rules, health standards and environmental permitting as a crucial check against an executive branch they've been shut out of since Tim Pawlenty left office in 2011.

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Family Believes Concussion Led to Colorado Father's Disappearance

Researchers Say College Major Does Matter

Four people have been arrested after a student was shot Sunday morning on the Johnson C. Smith University campus in North Carolina, school officials said.... -- The U.S. Agency for International Development announced this weekend that it would provide $126 million in funds to help rebuild health services in Ebola-affecte... TOKYO _ Top Japan and U.S. trade officials plan to meet this weekend, seeking to close gaps over autos and farm trade before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Washington l... KEARNEY, Neb.

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Sen. Michael Bennet raises $2 million; Rep. Mike Coffman raised $300,000

Sen. Michael Bennet raised $2 million in the first quarter for his re-election campaign. Rep. Mike Coffman , who has convinced some local Republicans that he won't challenge Bennet in 2016, raises only $300,000 in the quarter.

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Scandal Is Billary's Middle Name. And First. And Last.

"You ever hear 'em ask Hillary Clinton, this money she's getting, whether it influences her decisions?" said Paul, referring to media questions about donors to the Clinton family's charitable organizations. "There's going to be stuff coming out about the Clinton Foundation and their donations from different companies that get special approval from the Secretary of State.

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Analysis: Lawmakers start looking at taxa

Analysis: Lawmakers start looking at tax proposals this week Analysis: Lawmakers start looking at tax proposals this week Check out this story on shreveporttimes.com: Rep. Patricia Smith, D-Baton Rouge, asks Louisiana's higher education leaders about possible budget cuts next year, during a House Appropriations Committee hearing on April 8, in Baton Rouge. As they look for ways to solve next year's budget problems, Louisiana lawmakers are getting a crash course in the state's tax system: the loopholes they've created, the tax cuts they've given and the price tag for the myriad of tax breaks they've approved.

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NC man's obituary urges readers to reject Hillary Clinton

A North Carolina man's obituary asked two things of friends and family: instead of sending flowers for the funeral, give the money to charity. And don't vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016.

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Rubioa s intellectually hollow position on climate change

Like many GOP presidential hopefuls, Sen. Marco Rubio is trying to locate the maximally spineless position on climate change, bending to the anti-scientist crowd without sounding wholly anti-science. And like many GOP presidential hopefuls, he looks not just cowardly but intellectually hollow.

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Less 'satisfaction': Why Jon Stewart is leaving 'Daily Show'

For the man who's interviewed countless political candidates and covered four presidential elections, a fifth election season just doesn't carry the same excitement as it once did. Jon Stewart, the soon-to-be former host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," opened up to The Guardian about his decision to leave the wildly popular TV program after 16 years.

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Louis Tomlinson shows off his football skills as he captains team...

Widow and daughter, 14, who disappeared without a trace during trip to Times Square three weeks ago, had been 'stressed' by battle over late husband's will with his five grown-up children Senator Robert Menendez used political clout to get visas for three of wealthy donor's foreign girlfriends, according to corruption indictment All the president's men: How Ronald Reagan asked Soviet rival Mikhail Gorbachev for help fighting alien invasion Son of medical marijuana activist taken by child protective services after the 11-year-old spoke out to disagree with an anti-drug presentation at his school Poland demands formal apology from the U.S. after comments claiming 'the country shares responsibility for the Holocaust' made by head of FBI sparked outrage Air Force veteran who posed for Playboy is tackled by cops and arrested for taking on protesters who were trampling on US flag Angry New ... (more)

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Walker: I've attended a gay wedding reception

New STEM academy program coming to Iberville schools

The Iberville Parish School System is starting a new academy this fall that will give parents and students yet another choice when it comes to education. The Advocate reports the system's fifth themed academy, called the "Starship Program," will feature a curriculum focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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Feds seek files on elite nonprofit in Chicago schools probe

Federal investigators looking into Chicago Public Schools ' dealings with a leadership training academy are also examining records involving an elite nonprofit group led by a powerful board comprised of movers and shakers. Authorities have sought documents related to the Chicago Public Education Fund , according to a report in the Chicago Tribune .

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Is Jeb Bush already the next Mitt Romney?

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush jokes with a member of the audience at a 'Politics and Eggs' event, a breakfast fixture for 2016 presidential prospects Friday at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. In New Hampshire this weekend, there was already the scent of it. Perhaps not overpowering yet, but unmistakable and very familiar.

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2016 Presidential Toe-Dippers, Sunday Talk-Show Edition

A number of potential 2016 candidates edged closer to the presidential race on Sunday without actually jumping in, with some saying they'll wait until next month to decide. In separate television interviews, Republicans John Kasich, the governor of Ohio, and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said they are considering running, as did Democrats Jim Webb, a former Virginia senator and Martin O'Malley, the former governor of Maryland.

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Obamacare Repeal Falls Off GOP To-Do List

After 5 yeas and more than 50 votes in Congress, the Republican campaign to repeal the ACA is essentially over. GOP Congressional leaders, unable to roll back the law while President Obama remains in office and unwilling to threaten further shutdowns to pressure the administration, are now focused on other issues, including trade and tax reform.

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Marco Rubio believes 'people are born' gay or lesbian

Sen. Marco Rubio's evolving view on homosexuality falters from the ultra-conservative belief that being gay is a choice. "I believe that sexual preference is something that people are born with," the Republican presidential candidate said Sunday morning on CBS's Face the Nation.

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VIDEO: Today's Headline News...

THE RACE OF JESUS: UNKNOWN, YET POWERFUL For two thousand years, he has been worshipped and adored. Multitudes look to him each day.

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Idaho mom to travel to D.C. to fight for cannabis oil

After the veto of a bill that would allow the use of cannabis oil to treat seizures, a mom is heading to D.C.. Idaho mom to travel to D.C. to fight for cannabis oil After the veto of a bill that would allow the use of cannabis oil to treat seizures, a mom is heading to D.C..

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Cuba holds local vote with a twist: 2 opposition candidates

Cuba on Sunday held its first local elections since a historic thaw in relations with the United States with an unusual wrinkle in the single-party system: two of the 27,000 candidates openly oppose the government. Hildebrando Chaviano and Yuniel Lopez were chosen by a show of hands in Havana neighborhood nominating meetings and hope to win two of the 12,589 seats at stake in 168 municipal councils, which deal with services such as street repair, water supplies and insect fumigation.

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Manchin bypasses run for Governor

Our eNewspaper network was founded in 2002 to provide stand-alone digital news sites tailored for the most searched-for locations for news. With a traditional newspaper format, more than 100 sites were established each with a newspaper-type name to cover the highest-ranked regions, countries, cities and states.

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Less 'satisfaction': Why Jon Stewart is leaving 'Daily Show'

Marco Rubio Really Wants to Be the Candidate of Ideas

CBS's Bob Schieffer asked Florida senator Marco Rubio this morning why he wants to be president - and his answer, which echoed a number of themes from his candidacy announcement earlier this week, makes it pretty clear that he's going to try to position himself as an ideas guy, serious on policy and with a big, positive vision.

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Rubio's New Immigration Plan Sounds Pretty Good

Senator Marco Rubio responded to an odd question from CBS's Bob Schieffer this morning - whether a President Rubio would sign the Gang of Eight Senate immigration bill that Rubio pushed for, and later abandoned - by laying out his new vision for how immigration reform should go. It sounds pretty good: He naturally emphasizes, for instance, that security should come first, but mentioned E-Verify and visa tracking before talking about border security per se, which would probably not benefit much from just giving the effort more money, as Congress is wont to do.

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Expert: Obama's amnesty 'profoundly unfair' to 4 million legal immigrants | WashingtonExaminer.com

While the administration struggles to move forward with its plan to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants, the list of foreigners trying to get into the United States legally has surged to 4.4 million, over 100,000 more than last year, according to the State Department. Those on the list either have a family member who is a U.S. citizen or green card holder, sponsoring their entry, or an employer wants them.

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By one measure, Hillary earned more than America's top 10 CEOs | WashingtonExaminer.com

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is drawing a populist bead on lavish Wall Street pay packages as she revs up her march to the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, but in some respects the fat-per-speech fee she can charge puts her far ahead of the top 10 highest-paid American CEOs.

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After NH confab: Rubio rising, Walker steady, Bush plodding, Christie ...

Via C-Span coverage, some thoughts on the state of the 2016 GOP primary race after the two-day Republican Leadership Summit in New Hampshire: 1) Marco Rubio is clearly enjoying a moment. He is relaxed and funny in front of crowds, flying high after a well-received campaign announcement.

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Automation Could Exacerbate Problems with TPP

As the TPP deal is being fast-tracked through Congress, Zeynep Tufekci writes that even having a college degree will not necessarily protect your job from being outsourced. More and more, jobs which we thought were safe are being taken over by machines.

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Despite victory, Israeli leader struggling to form coalition

With a resounding election victory last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed to have an easy path toward quickly establishing a coalition government with his traditional nationalist, religious and ultra-Orthodox Jewish allies. But after weeks of negotiations with potential partners, Netanyahu is finding the task harder than expected and is flirting with the idea of reaching out to his main dovish rivals to form a unity government.

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We won't be calling it Obamacare in 2045. How about 'Americare'?

Let's get a couple of things straight. I'm not talking about a new name for Obamacare because its actual contents are more popular than the name itself, which is what Kathleen Sebelius said last December when she suggested that the program needs rebranding.

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NC man's obituary urges readers to reject Hillary Clinton

EU considers emergency summit on migrant crisis: spokesman

EU president Donald Tusk is considering holding an emergency summit on illegal immigration, after the latest migrant boat tragedy in the Mediterranean in which up to 700 people are feared to have died. Tusk said on Twitter he had spoken to Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and "will continue talks w/ EU leaders, Commission & EEAS on how to alleviate situation".

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OMalley strongly hints he will run in 2016

Deadline to Register to Vote is Monday, April 20

The countdown to the May primary is on, but in order to cast your ballot you have to register to vote, by Monday, April 20. "Someone can either register to vote in the May primary, or make changes, whether it be their party, their name, or their address," said Doug Smith, clerk of elections for Erie County. Smith says the May 20 primary is a closed election, meaning only democrats or republicans can vote.

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Clear post-ice Lake Michigan shows off submerged shipwrecks

The clear blue, post-winter waters of northern Lake Michigan have disclosed some of their hidden history to a U.S. Coast Guard crew, which took a series of photographs of shipwrecks lying on the lake bottom in the waters off the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The Grand Rapids Press reports that the Traverse City-based helicopter was a on a routine patrol when the crew spotted the wrecks Friday and got pictures of them.

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Why Does Drudge Think Romney May Run for President Again?

After a Washington Post report Saturday included two-month-old speculation that Romney could make a 2016 presidential run, the Drudge Report bannered a link to the story titled "Romney May Return." In the Post's report, Democratic strategist James Carville speculated at a panel discussion in February that if former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush fails in the Granite State, Republicans may summon the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 GOP nominee to run.

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N.C. man's obituary urges readers to reject Hillary

Family Uses Man's Obit to Tell People Not to Vote for Hillary Clinton

"In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to Shriners Hospital for Children," concludes Larry Upright' s obituary . "Also, the family respectfully asks that you do not vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

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O'Malley: More Democrats Should Challenge Clinton

Former Governor Martin O'Malley said it would be an "extreme poverty" if only one person decided to seek the Democratic nomination for president.

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Saturday, April 18, 2015

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry waves after speaking at a Republican Leadership Summit, Friday, April 17, 2015, in Nashua,NH . Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush autographs a wooden egg at a "Politics and Eggs" event, a breakfast fixture for 2016 presidential prospects, Friday, April 17, 2015, at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. .

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Obama's Immigration Order Blocked by Courts; Activists Lament

A federal judge has refused to allow Obama's immigration executive order to go through as 26 states filed an injunction against it. Spencer Irvine Spencer Irvine graduated from Brigham Young University in International Relations and currently works for AIM running operations and social media.

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Abuse of attention deficit pills graduates into the workplace

Fading fast at 11 p.m., Elizabeth texted her dealer and waited just 30 minutes for him to reach her third-floor New York apartment. She handed him a wad of twenties and fifties, received a tattered envelope of pills, and returned to her computer.

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For immigrant family, life in US brings heartache, hope

The couple's daughters, Paulina Bustillos, 16, and Nathalie Bustillos, 11, watched and wondered if their family would stay together. Everyone wants a place to call home.

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Rubio's Age Problematic, But Hillary Being Post-Menopausal Makes Her 'Perfect'?

Time.com's Zeke Miller tweeted yesterday that a "reporter" asked recently declared presidential candidate Marco Rubio of Florida the following question: "Is 43 old enough to be president?" Meanwhile, two weeks ago, a column at Time.com claimed that Hillary Clinton is "biologically primed to be a leader." Seriously.

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Where is McVeigha s co-consiprator?

It's known in pop culture as "supermax," but to the federal Bureau of Prisons, its name is USPFlorenceADMAX. Or ADMAX for short.

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Despite downpour, playground rises up for Morris Jeff Community School

For hours Saturday morning, rain poured from the sky, pooling on freshly laid sod and a concrete foundation for Morris Jeff Community School's new playground. But the deluge did not deter more than 150 volunteers from the mission: Create a play space and garden for a school that had never had one.

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Rand Paul Focuses His Campaign On Bashing Hillary, Not Issues

The First In The Nation Summit in Nashua, N.H. was a chance for Republican hopefuls to put themselves out there and prove to their party who is most electable. Contrary to what will work in a general election, these Republicans must also satisfy the fringe element that needs to be placated.

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Family wins back seized gold coins that could be worth $80M

EXCLUSIVE: Disgraced ESPN reporter abandoned her car in Chinese restaurant parking lot after happy hour ... before abusing clerk when it got towed the next day Mystery as Long Island widow and daughter, 14, drive to New York City to see a play, park their car and then disappear without a trace St. Louis police fatally shoot black man, 23, 'after he charged at them with a knife and a bible and told his mother he was planning a black revolution' Mother found dead at home of woman who 'lured her and her newborn baby there by posing as a child protection worker'... and then told neighbors the child was hers Oklahoma legalizes execution by NITROGEN gas chamber: State will kill prisoners with 'foolproof, fast and painless' method if lethal injection isn't possible Putin announces he's ready to work with the US... only two days after accusing America of trying to dominate world affairs 'When ... (more)

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Thousands Rally in Germany Against US-EU Trade Deal

President of France Francois Hollande, U.S. President Barack Obama, Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G20 leaders summit in Brisbane, Australia, Nov. 2014. The protests, billed as a "Global Day of Action," came ahead of a new round of talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, beginning Monday in New York.

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Watch Live: Global Citizen 2015 Earth Day Concert

The director of the new Wonder Woman movie is Patty Jenkins, once in talks to direct Thor: The Dark World for Marvel Studios. A Texas veterinarian is at the center of a social media firestorm, and could face charges, after bragging about killing a cat with a bow and arrow.

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Man's obituary asks people not to vote for Hillary Clinton

A Cabarrus County man died Monday night at Carolinas Medical Center Northeast. Larry Upright, 81, had one final request made in his obituary.

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Lawmakers mull oil tax revamp as hedge against low prices

Oil companies could see a big tax cut if crude prices continue to slide, and the state could lose billions of dollars. A state law forgives a 6.5 percent extraction tax if the five-month average price of oil slips below a ``trigger'' price.

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.com | With 2 years left, Obama getting tough on critics

Just as Congress is hitting something of a bipartisan stride on such issues as Medicare, Iran and trade, President Barack Obama and his White House team have decided to go after their Republican critics, picking fights and scornfully calling them out by name. In just the past week, the president and his spokesperson have targeted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republican Senators John McCain and Charles Grassley, on topics from climate change to the Iran nuclear deal.

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Fiorina: Hillary Can't Play the Gender Card with Me

Carly Fiorina, the lone Republican woman eying the White House, wants to block Hillary Rodham Clinton from playing the "gender card" in the 2016 presidential race. A former business executive with limited political experience, Fiorina argues that if Republicans nominate her, it would neutralize any advantages the Democrats might get from having a woman at the top of their ticket.

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GOP presidential hopefuls woo party faithful in New Hampshire

GOP presidential hopefuls have descended on New Hampshire as part of the Republican Leadership Summit, a two-day event that has drawn about 500 activists and the party's entire 2016 field to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Nashua. The event's speakers range from party front-runners to little-known candidates, all of whom are offering up criticisms of President Barack Obama, espousing conservative principles and seeking to distinguish themselves from the rest of the GOP pack.

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Feminism as Rationalization or, Hating Men Because Men Don't Like You Enough

Lindsay King-Miller writes a column for @thehairpin , which is a spinoff site from TheAwl.com , which is one of those Trendy But Not Actually Popular Kind of Blogs That You Should Never Call a "Blog." There are dozens of these sites out there trying to convince investors that they could be The Next Buzzfeed.

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Victims of California gas-line blast released from hospital

Authorities said Saturday that police officers shot and killed a suburban St. Louis man after he charged at them with a knife. Authorities said Saturday that police officers shot and killed a suburban St. Louis man after he charged at them with a knife.

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Come here children we are friends of your parents.

"The police coerced our children into the back of a patrol car, telling them they would drive them home," she wrote in a subsequent post. "They kept the kids trapped there for three hours, without notifying us, before dropping them at the Crisis Center, and holding them there without dinner for another two and a half hours.

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Now Jeb Is Pushing the Climate Change Scam - Checking All the (Democrat) Boxes One By One

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush acknowledged on Friday that he's "concerned" about climate change, but argued that the U.S. has largely addressed carbon emissions through private sector innovation that has led to a natural gas boom. Speaking at the New England Council's "Politics and Eggs" series in Manchester, New Hampshire, a popular stop for presidential hopefuls, Bush fielded a question about whether his energy policy would take the environment into account.

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Ohio Governor Kasich Flirts With Presidential Run in New Hampshire

In this March 24, 2015, file photo, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio speaks at a Politics and Eggs Breakfast with state political activist and area business leaders hosted by the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College, in Manchester, N.H. Ohio Governor John Kasich took his presidential flirtations to a new level Saturday, asking New Hampshire Republicans to keep their powder dry as he decides whether to run. "Think about me, would ya," he said at the party's first in the nation conference.

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Parents of Marathon Victim Want Death Penalty Off Table

The parents of the youngest victim of the Boston Marathon bombing are urging federal authorities to consider taking the death penalty off the table for the man convicted in the case. Bill and Denise Richard, whose 8-year-old son, Martin, was one of three people killed by the April 2013 explosions at the marathon's finish line, say in a front-page piece in Friday's Boston Globe that sentencing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death "could bring years of appeals and prolong reliving the most painful day of our lives."

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Senate OKs auto insurance bills amid debate over cost limits

A divided state Senate approved revisions Thursday to Michigan's auto insurance law that backers said would curtail costs in the only state to require unlimited medical benefits for those severely injured in crashes and that opponents warned wouldn't guarantee rate relief. The Republican-led chamber voted 21-17 mostly along party lines to move the legislation to the House after five hours of closed-door meetings and debate on the floor.

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Georgia car dealers expect drop in electric vehicle sales

Car dealers say they expect sales in electric vehicles will drop now that Georgia is eliminating a tax credit to subsidize them. Gov. Nathan Deal , a Republican, is expected to soon sign legislation eliminating the $5,000 tax credit June 30. The following day, Georgia will begin imposing a $200 registration fee on those vehicles.

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Spring 2015 Part 3

The Civil War The Civil War is part of American history. We can't know about American history in a full fashion without understanding what the Civil War was all about.

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Protests Outside New Orleans Courthouse as Obama's Immigration Order Still Stalled

On Friday demonstrators gathered outside of a New Orleans federal courthouse to voice their frustration at the way President Barack Obama's attempts to overhaul the U.S. immigration system seem to have been stifled. Justice Department lawyers have urged a federal appeals court to lift an injunction on a plan that, if in effect, would allow up to 5 million illegal immigrants to live in the country, letting them freely obtain work permits At the request of 26 states that opposed Obama's attempts at immigration reform, U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen granted a preliminary injunction, which for time being has blocked the Obama administration from implementing planned policies that would protect illegal immigrants from deportation.

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Spring 2015 Part 4

Technology The evolution of technology is never stagnant, but rapid in our generation. From the years from 2000 to 2015, we have seen the transition from small cell phone with limited capacities to now I-Phones which have Internet access, email, texting procession, and other advanced instruments.

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Election 2016: Republican Presidential Contenders Strive To Shine At New Hampshire Summit

Republican presidential hopefuls gathered in New Hampshire this weekend for a two-day conference showcasing an array of possible contenders in the 2016 race. Nineteen Republican politicians, including declared candidates and others mulling campaigns of their own, aired out their political stances and tried to differentiate themselves from other contenders before a host of GOP supporters as the Republican field remains wide open.

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Bobby Jindal Advocates for School Choice in New Hampshire

Gov. Bobby Jindal addressed the New Hampshire Republican Leadership Summit on Saturday. Currently considering joining the 2016 presidential race, Jindal shared what the American Dream has meant for his family, especially how education created opportunities.

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Rick Scott's Medicaid Debacle: "Like King Midas In Reverse"

Rick Scott has taken his years-long fight to keep people from getting access to health care to monumental levels of absurdity recently in Florida, and if it weren't for the fact that people are dying every day because he and ideologues in his party are using them as political footballs, it would be funny. Now he's twisting his excuses to block Medicaid expansion into a pretzel of fail.

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Judge, jury uphold HERO

A state judge in Texas ruled that opponents of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance did not gather enough signatures to force a repeal referendum. After separate rulings from both a jury and state District Judge Robert Schaffer, attorneys for both sides entered dueling counts of the valid signatures, adding and subtracting voters as Schaffer responded to motions.

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Into the Woods (Photos): Street Prophets Saturday

Glacier National Park in Montana is best known for its spectacular scenery: snowcapped mountains and beautiful lakes. Visitors to the Park, both locals who are here all the time and tourists who may come only once or twice in a lifetime, spend a lot of time just absorbing the great majesty created by the ancient ice fields.

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Victims of California gas-line blast released from hospital

The Oklahoma City bombing thrust Diane Koch into the life of a crime victim's advocate for 13 years, until she realized she had to leave the state to start a new chapter of life. The Oklahoma City bombing thrust Diane Koch into the life of a crime victim's advocate for 13 years, until she realized she had to leave the state to start a new chapter of life.

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A woman that Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's administration has frequently held up as a success story in his efforts to connect welfare recipients with jobs is a temporary state employee. The Republican governor mentioned Valerie Cahill, of Kansas City, Kansas, in his State of the State address.

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Woman Comes Home to Find Cops Surrounding Her House. They Don't ...

Woman Comes Home to Find Cops Surrounding Her House. They Don't Have a Warrant but They Tell Her Something Outrageous - and It's Because Her Son Spoke Up in School.

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Elvis Presley Paid $4 for His First-Ever Recording. White Stripes...

After anonymously buying Elvis' first-ever recording at a January auction, Jack White is offering a limited-run vinyl re-release of "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin" at his Third Man Records in Nashville. The 10-inch, 78-rpm facsimile of the 1953 recording was digitally transferred from the original acetate onto new vinyl discs with no cleanup - pops, crackles and all.

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Dr. Oz' will mount on-air defense against critics who want him fired

Mehmet Oz, the television host "Dr. Oz," plans to set aside a portion of his popular TV show in the coming week to address critics who say he no longer deserves to be associated with a prestigious Ivy League university. The detractors sent a letter this past week to Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons - where Mehmet Oz is vice chair of the Department of Surgery - urging the school to cut ties to the man who promotes green coffee bean extract, raspberry ketones and other dubious treatments.

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2 Cuban dissidents up for election in unprecedented vote

At least two dissidents made it past a first round of voting and are standing as candidates in municipal elections that will be watched on and off the island Sunday as an unprecedented test of Cuba's single-party system. Both men told The Associated Press that they expect to win the second round and become the first officials elected from outside the Communist Party since the first electoral law was established by Fidel Castro's government in 1976.

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Rand Paul cracks Hillary jokes at FITN Republican summit

Rand Paul cracked jokes about Hillary Clinton and criticized her leadership abilities at First In The Nation Republican Leadership Summit.

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Robert Jeffress and Bill O'Reilly Think It'll Be 'Open Season on...

Robert Jeffress and Bill O'Reilly Think It'll Be 'Open Season on Christians' Following SCOTUS Gay Marriage Ruling: VIDEO On Friday's The O'Reilly Factor , host Bill O'Reilly and Fox News Contributor/First Baptist Church Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress talked about the Supreme Court's upcoming ruling on same-sex marriage bans and discussed what terrible aftermath awaits America should the court rule in favor of the freedom to marry. I believe that if the Supreme Court, as expected, enshrines gay marriage as a constitutional right, I believe it's truly going to be, to use your phrase, open season on Christians and those who believe in traditional marriage.

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Figures: Sympathetic BuzzFeed Article on American Jihadi Downplays HerTreasonous Role with ISIS

A BuzzFeed article by reporter Ellie Hall is drawing praise from her peers for actually doing her job of reporting. And while the article does give insight in to how an American-born Muslim daughter of Yemeni immigrants came to join the Islamist terrorist group ISIS, the article downplays her role in the organization such that she comes off as little more than a devout Muslim who became the young widowed bride of a jihadist in Syria.

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Letter: Is Schumer pandering to Kiryas Joel?

An article that appeared on March 26 about Senator Schumer urging New York to dole out the maximum amount of federal funding for sewer projects by issuing grants rather than loans by New York's Clean Water State Revolving Fund administered by the Environmental Facilities Corporation piqued my interest.

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The Latest: Presidential Contenders Woo New Hampshire Voters

Ohio Gov. John Kasich would like Republican voters in New Hampshire to hold off committing to a presidential candidate while he decides whether to become one. "I'm trying to figure out what the Lord wants me to do with my life," he said.

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GOP White House hopefuls bicker over America's role in world

Rand Paul lashed out Saturday at military hawks in the Republican Party in a clash over foreign policy dividing the packed GOP presidential field. Paul, a first-term senator from Kentucky who favors a smaller U.S. footprint in the world, said that some of his Republican colleagues would do more harm in international affairs than would leading Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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Blaine, Custer counties back Simpson's wilderness bill

Commissioners in two central Idaho counties are backing a new wilderness plan put forward by Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho. The Idaho Statesman reports that Blaine County Commissioner Larry Schoen and Custer County Commissioner Wayne Butts in an April 13 letter say they prefer Simpson's wilderness plan to a national monument designation.

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Georgia car dealers expect drop in electric vehicle sales

Car dealers say they expect sales in electric vehicles will drop now that Georgia is eliminating a tax credit to support them. Gov. Nathan Deal is expected to soon sign a bill eliminating the electric vehicle tax credit on June 30. The same bill imposes a $200 registration fee on those cars.

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Abbas invites Israel Arab party leader to Ramallah

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met Saturday with Joint List leader Ayman Odeh in Ramallah and Islamic Movement leader Abdullah Nimar Darwish. Abbas told the two that the Arab League was expected to invite all the members of the Joint List of Arab parties to the group's headquarters in Cairo and a meeting of its council in Doha, Qatar, Ynet reported.

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Christine ODonnell responds to FEC complaint

Musicians unite for album promoting LGBT equality in Indiana

Dozens of musical acts, from Indiana and across North America, are contributing songs to a compilation album to raise funds for groups that promote LGBT equality in Indiana. Indianapolis-based Joyful Noise Recordings is issuing "50 Bands & a Cat for Indiana Equality," a project inspired by the state's controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

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Friday, April 17, 2015

Marilyn B. Tavenner joins the board of LifePoint Hospitals Inc.

Brentwood, Tenn.-based LifePoint Hospitals Inc. has named Marilyn B. Tavenner, the former administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, to its board of directors. Before joining President Barack Obama's administration in 2010, Tavenner was Virginia secretary of health and human resources under Gov. Tim Kaine.

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Gun-magazine bill rift leads to unheard of maneuver in Colorado House

The schism among conservatives over Colorado's gun laws widened this week when four House Republicans formed a secret pact and pushed for a procedural move that exposes five members to potentially tough primaries in 2016. "It was a clever idea, but it put some people in a very bad position," said Rep. Don Coram, R-Montrose.

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Clinton Cautious About Obama's Pacific Trade Deal

Hillary Rodham Clinton says she will be closely watching efforts by the Obama administration to negotiate a broad trade policy pact with Pacific nations that's raising concerns over potential harm to workers. As she kicks off her presidential campaign, Clinton is under pressure from the liberal wing of her party to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

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Oklahoma governor signs bill allowing nitrogen in executions

Oklahoma has become the state in the U.S. to allow the use of nitrogen gas in carrying out executions. Gov. Mary Fallin on Friday signed into law a bill that allows nitrogen to be used if lethal injection is ruled unconstitutional or if the deadly drugs used in executions become unavailable.

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Steve Huntley: Too bad wea ve lost interest in term limits

Republican John McCain says he will seek election to a sixth six-year term in the U.S. Senate. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid built a power base over nearly 30 years before deciding this year to retire.

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Obama defends pursuit of sweeping trade pact

President Barack Obama on Friday defended his pursuit of a sweeping trade pact as good for American workers in a global economy, dismissing fierce opposition from his own party as a "ratification of the status quo." The challenge for the Democratic president was on stark display hours before he began speaking at a White House news conference.

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Congressman Green supports "good earmarks"

U.S. Rep. Al Green was the guest of honor at the Missouri City Leadership Luncheon last Thursday. Green addressed multiple topics in his speech, including the importance of bringing back "good earmarks" to congress.

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Fact Sheet: VA Vet Centers and Administration Progress on Mental Health

Vet Centers are community-based counseling centers that provide a wide range of social and psychological services including professional readjustment counseling to Veterans and active duty Servicemembers and their families. A core value of the Vet Center program is to promote access to care by helping Veterans, Servicemembers, and their families overcome barriers that impede them from using those services.

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Huffpost Hill - Jeb Bush Kisses Baby, Signs Autograph, Pulls Plug On Your Grandmother

HuffPost Hill turns five this weekend, meaning Boehner might finally put us on appropriations. Marco Rubio's healthcare program only covers 80 people, but to be fair, that doesn't include all the patients in gay conversion therapy.

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Family wins back seized gold coins that could be worth $80M

A Philadelphia family has been awarded the rights to 10 rare gold coins possibly worth $80 million or more after a U.S. appeals court overturned a jury verdict. U.S. Department of the Treasury officials insist the $20 Double Eagles were stolen from the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia before the 1933 series was melted down when the country went off the gold standard.

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Sunken World War II aircraft carrier found off California coast

A federal oceanic agency has discovered the sunken wreckage of the World War II aircraft carrier USS Independence off the Northern California coast, saying the ship is remarkably well-preserved, likely with a plane still in one of its hanger bays. The Independence, which operated in the central and western Pacific Ocean from November 1943 through August 1945, later survived the Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests before it was scuttled in January of 1951.

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Sunken aircraft carrier rediscovered off California coast

Scientists have rediscovered a mostly intact World War II aircraft carrier used in atomic bomb tests and then sunk at a secret location off the Northern California coast decades ago. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration located and recorded video of the U.S.S. Independence as part of a mission to map an estimated 300 historic shipwrecks in the waters outside San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.

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Debate rages over whether there's an energy crisis in NH 7

The shooting of man in the middle of Hanover Street Thursday morning involved a May-December romance between a school janitor and a former stripper, and centered on the Nissan he leased for her and... Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, 43, is the youngest declared Republican candidate for President but says he's ready for the job, thanks in large part to ... (more)

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Ron Littlepage: Dredging proposal gets more complicated by the day

A stumbling block has emerged in the push to deepen the St. Johns River shipping channel in addition to the environmental harm the dredging would cause. JaxPort and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials talked around the edges of the latest problem during a meeting of the port task force last week.

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"Don't Trade Away Our Future!" Protesters Call on Congress to Reject Trade Promotion Authority...

Social justice organizations from across the country together with organized labor will join together to speak out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership in the nation's capital on Monday, April 20th. Protesters will march from Lafayette Square to the office of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative to demand that Congress reject so-called "Fast Track" Trade Promotion Authority.

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CAIR: Arizona Muslim, Interfaith Leaders Condemn Harassment of Mosque Worshipers

The Islamic Community Center of Tempe , the Arizona chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and a coalition of Arizona interfaith leaders today condemned a series of Islamophobic protests targeting worshipers at the mosque. [ MEDIA ADVISORY: The Islamic Community Center of Tempe will host an open house 6 p.m. Friday, April 17, to push back against the hateful narrative and promote mutual understanding.

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As Yemen Spirals Further into Chaos, UN Urges Humanitarian Relief

The United Nations on Friday launched an appeal for nearly $274 million in humanitarian aid from the international community to help Yemen over the next three months as airstrikes continued to bombard the war-torn country. The United Nations on Friday launched an appeal for nearly $274 million in humanitarian aid from the international community to help Yemen over the next three months as airstrikes continued to bombard the war-torn country.

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FBI watched as hacker dumped Bell Canada passwords online

In this Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 photo illustration, hands type on a computer keyboard in Los Angeles. In the wake of the Heartbleed security threat, many security experts recommend a second layer of authentication _ typically in the form of a numeric code sent as a text message.

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3 Arrested In Murder Of Reginald Ballard On Feb. 20

Mr. Ballard was found dead at 3625 Ringgold Road, the Cascades Motel. Mr. Ballard had been shot two times.

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Sanjay Gupta Says It's Time For A Medical Marijuana 'Revolution'

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, has issued his strongest statement on legal weed yet, calling for a full-scale "medical marijuana revolution." "We should legalize medical marijuana," he wrote in an op-ed published Thursday on CNN's website.

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Republicans Are Enthusiastic About Scott Walker, Divided On Jeb Bush

Republicans are most enthusiastic about the prospects of nominating Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker for president, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds, but they're open to rallying around a number of potential candidates -- with the possible exception of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Members of the party are generally optimistic that whoever emerges from the crowded field of prospects will succeed.

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McVeigh defense archive shows bomber viewed blast as failure

Timothy McVeigh considered the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building 20 years ago somewhat of a failure, viewed himself as a "Paul Revere-type messenger" and even suggested his defense team should receive $800,000 from the government, according an archive of documents donated by the convicted bomber's lead attorney. The estimated 1 million pages of paper documents from Stephen Jones now fill 550 file cabinet-sized boxes at the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas, where the Enid, Oklahoma, attorney received his undergraduate degree.

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Schumer, Gillibrand all aboard rail-safety bill

U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand signed on Friday to legislation introduced by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., that would speed up Positive Train Control on passenger rail lines and tracks traveled by trains carrying crude oil or ethanol. Positive Train Control, mandated by Congress in 2008, is the railroad world's equivalent of an air-traffic-control system.

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Philadelphia family wins back seized rare Double Eagle gold coins possibly worth $80 million

GOP question of the week: Are you too bigoted to attend a same-sex wedding?

The media has fixated this week on a simple question for Republican presidential candidates regarding same-sex marriage: Would they attend a gay wedding? First, the 43-year-old candidate of tomorrow who spent the week trying to explain how the youngest buck in the field could be so obsolete. Marco Rubio : "If it's somebody in my life that I care for, of course I would.

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FAA Reauthorization: Keeping Our Place as the World's Aviation Leader | Commentary

The United States has been the international leader in aviation since the Wright brothers' first flight in 1903. Our aviation system has provided the model for the rest of the world over the past 112 years, and today, it is among the safest and most efficient.

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Like Vietnam, "Military Advisers" can Snowball in Ukraine

Today, in the papers, it was announced that the US has sent 300 military "advisers" to Ukraine to train their army. That measure seems for all the world like it is a safe choice for President Obama -- after all, it is much less than what hawks in Congress want.

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FBI watched as hacker dumped Bell Canada passwords online

When Bell Canada's website was hacked last year - and the accounts and passwords of more than 12,000 Canadians posted online - the Federal Bureau of Investigation was not only watching, but letting the hackers stage the attack from what was secretly an FBI server. The bureau had spent more than a year keeping tabs on the 15-year-old Canadian teenager, who discovered the vulnerability then passed it to an American counterpart.

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Congress is Rewarding the Rich Again

I just finished reading about a new tax cut for the rich that the Republican House passed, and that the Senate is eager to approve. A $269 billion tax break for the top .2 % - the wealthiest in this country, by getting rid of the estate tax.

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Isakson, Blumenthal Call for Investigation of Outrageous...

Senator Johnny Isakson is the Chair of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and Senator Richard Blumenthal is the Ranking Member of the Committee. Their offices issued this joint-statement today: veterans

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Racial Inequity in Minneapolis Metro Leads to Another Police Shooting

When I found out about the Robbinsdale police-involved shooting of 18 year old Tania Harris , a local high school student in the Minneapolis suburb that borders North Minneapolis , I held my head in my hands. Minneapolis and Minnesota as a whole have been making headlines lately as an example to aspire to.

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Discuss

President Obama is clearly fed up with Senate Republicans breaking their own obstruction records by refusing a confirmation vote on Loretta Lynch to be attorney general. President Obama on Friday vented his frustration over the delay in confirming his attorney general pick Loretta Lynch, calling the Senate's handling of her nomination "embarrassing."

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Oklahoma City bombing: lesson 20 years later

Twenty years ago, on April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a massive truck bomb in front of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The attack killed 168 men, women and children, injured hundreds more, and remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.

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US lawmakers ease Obama's path to Pacific deal

Senior U.S. lawmakers reached a deal Thursday to make it easier for President Barack Obama to negotiate trade accords, including a massive deal with 11 other Pacific nations. If Congress grants Obama so-called "fast-track" authority, it would let lawmakers vote to approve or reject the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership , but prevent them from introducing changes to the largest accord since the North American Free Trade Agreement.

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Kansas governor signs bill to issue $1 billion in pension bonds

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed off on a bill to issue $1 billion in pension obligation bonds for the $16 billion Kansas Public Employees Retirement System, Topeka.

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Chicago schools chief requests temporary leave amid probe

The head of Chicago Public Schools has requested a leave of absence amid a federal investigation over a $20.5 million no-bid contract the district awarded to a training academy where she once consulted. Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett's attorney Michael Scudder confirms a letter was sent Friday to Board of Education members requesting a leave effective April 20. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Board of Education President David Vitale said earlier this week that the nation's third-largest district is being investigated by federal authorities.

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Syrian President: 'Europe Cannot Be Safe' as Long as Conflict Continues

Save water or face the consequences: That's Rick Silva's message to the Los Angeles communities he patrols.Silva is a water cop, or more formally ... -- Pope Francis may soon give a further boost to U.S.-Cuban relations.Citing a person familiar with the situation, The Wall Street Journal reports the pope is consideri... Today, House Agriculture Committee Chairman K. Michael Conaway issued the following statement on the introduction of Trade Promotion Authority legislation. "... Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany says making freshmen ineligible in college football and basketball could help correct the imbalance between athletics and academics.

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Timothy McVeigh: How a soldier became a terrorist

Less than two hours after the deadliest act of domestic terrorism ever committed in the U.S., an observant but unsuspecting Oklahoma state trooper arrested the man implicated in the crime. From the time the FBI released a sketch of "John Doe No.

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Pope Francis Considering Visit to Cuba as Part of US Trip

Sen. Shaheen: It's time to put a woman on the $20 bill

The first woman to serve as both governor and U.S. senator is backing a campaign to put a female face on the $20 bill. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen filed legislation this week that would create a citizens panel to recommend an appropriate choice to the treasury secretary.

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Pretty Good Partisan Differentiator

Pretty Good Partisan Differentiator - So the House went ahead and voted to totally repeal the federal estate tax yesterday. But something was missing from similar votes back in the day: widespread Democratic defections. Used to be a standard push-off-the-left Blue Doggy thing to oppose the

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Over the past week in India, there has been a lot written ...

Over the past week in India, there has been a lot written about Internet.org and net neutrality. I'd like to share my position on these topics here for everyone to see.

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U.S. Antitrust Lawyers Said to Be Leaning Against Comcast Merger...

U.S. Antitrust Lawyers Said to Be Leaning Against Comcast Merger Staff attorneys at the Justice Department's antitrust division are nearing a recommendation to block Comcast Corp.'s bid to buy Time Warner Cable Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.

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Republican presidential contenders clash in New Hampshire

The Republican Party's most ambitious figures have stormed into New Hampshire for a showdown highlighting the diversity, political challenges and sheer size of the GOP's 2016 presidential class. On Friday, former Florida Gov. Bush pleaded for bipartisanship on a day when his moderate brand of politics was on display.

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Senator to DHS: Suspend Visa Broker Facing FBI Probe

The National Corn Growers Association applauded the introduction today of bipartisan legislation to renew and modernize Trade Promotion Authority and urged Congress to q... -- President Obama appeared on Friday to have softened his position on a key element of the Iran nuclear deal: When sanctions would be lifted.The White House has ... -- For more than a month, Sam Smith has been working hard to get in shape. Now, he's four pounds away from his goal weight, he wrote on Instagram.

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Cheap coal is a lie - stand up to the industry's cynical fightback

Cheap coal is a lie - stand up to the industry's cynical fightback - Vested interests are pushing the dirtiest fossil fuel as the energy solution in poor nations. In fact, the argument for investing in solar is overwhelming - It is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid the reality

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Undaunted, Immigration Hawks Meet in D.C. to Plan Their Next Moves...

While the forum is intended to encourage talk show hosts, law enforcement officials, activists, and others to make lawmakers listen, many in attendance sought to reach conservative listeners outside the district. The mainstream media may have skipped it, but approximately 42 conservative personalities lined radio row at the Phoenix Park Hotel to 'speak truth to power.'

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Sunken aircraft carrier rediscovered off California coast

Scientists have rediscovered a mostly intact World War II aircraft carrier used in atomic bomb tests and then sunk off the Northern California coast decades ago. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration located the U.S.S. Independence as part of a mission to map an estimated 300 historic shipwrecks in the waters outside San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.

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Fiorina aims to keep Clinton from playing the 'gender card'

Railroad unions advancing two-person crew legislation to protect safety

Continuing a cooperative effort to promote safety in the railroad industry, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and the Transportation Division of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers International Association have jointly announced that legislation requiring at least two crew members on all freight trains in the U.S. has been introduced in the 114th Congress. The Safe Freight Act , introduced by Congressman Don Young on April 13, would require two crew members - one certified locomotive engineer and one certified conductor - on all freight trains.

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Thursday, April 16, 2015

Higher ed leaders: La. must invest in its future

Higher ed leaders: La. must invest in its future Gov. Bobby Jindal said decreasing business exemptions could help fund Higher Ed.

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FDA approves Novartis, Momenta's MS drug

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first generic version of Teva Pharmaceutical's blockbuster multiple-sclerosis drug Copaxone, although it remains unclear when the copycat version may come to market. The generic, known as Glatopa, was developed by Novartis AG's Sandoz business and Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc. Sandoz is evaluating the timing of the launch, Momenta said in a news release.

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Kansas senatora s phone rings to a oeLet It Goa during hearing

While US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was speaking on Tariff Policy, "Let It Go" from the Disney hit movie "Frozen" rang out from Kansas Senator Pat Roberts' cell phone.

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Conservative group bars GOP gay organization from event

Organizers of a conservative conference in Denver this summer have told a gay Republican group it cannot have a booth at the event. The Western Conservative Summit is scheduled for June in Denver, where thousands of conservative activists will gather to hear Republican presidential hopefuls like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Pennsylvania Sen Rick Santorum speak.

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Mayor Emanuel Announces 24,000 Job Opportunities Available for Youth through One Summer Chicago 2015

Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced today that the One Summer Chicago program will expand to provide summer job and internship opportunities for 24,000 youth ages 14 to 24 in neighborhoods across Chicago. Since One Summer Chicago was launched in 2011, Mayor Emanuel has steadily increased the number of available opportunities to keep youth safe and engaged each summer.

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Sony exec pushed employees to donate to Cuomo: docs

Sony Pictures executive Keith Weaver urged co-workers to raise money for Gov. Cuomo's reelection to get around corporate campaign contribution limits, leaked documents reveal. A Sony bigshot put the arm on co-workers last year to get around corporate campaign contribution limits and raise $50,000 for Gov. Cuomo's successful reelection campaign.

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Gyrocopter Landing at Capitol Raises Security Questions

A member of a bomb squad checks a gyrocopter sitting on the West Lawn of the Capitol in Washington, April 15, 2015. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says the man who landed a single-seat helicopter Wednesday on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol literally flew "under the radar."

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Dutch team find more remains at Ukraine MH17 crash site

Dutch investigators have recovered more body parts at the MH17 plane crash site in Ukraine after searching a location that was previously inaccessible, the Netherlands announced on Thursday. All 298 passengers and crew onboard the Malaysia Airlines jetliner - 193 of them Dutch - died when it was shot down over war-torn eastern Ukraine last year.

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Solar Growth in Georgia, Southeast to Highlight New Conference

U.S. solar energy leaders and representatives of top solar companies from an 8-state area will gather in Atlanta, GA, on May 7-8 at the Marriott Marquis for the inaugural Solar Power Southeast conference, co-sponsored by the Solar Energy Industries Association and the Solar Electric Power Association . U.S. solar energy leaders and representatives of top solar companies from an 8-state area will gather in Atlanta, GA, on May 7-8 at the Marriott Marquis for the inaugural Solar Power Southeast conference, co-sponsored by the Solar Energy Industries Association and the Solar Electric Power Association .

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Don't Miss Tonight's CWA Telephone Town Hall Call

CWA activists will be sharing their strategies for persuading our elected office holders to take a stand against "fast track" and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Mark Lowry, president of ATU Local 843, will explain how bus drivers helped influenced city councils in Seattle and Bellingham, Wash., to pass resolutions opposing "fast track."

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Josh Earnest Accuses Chuck Grassley Of Being 'Duplicitous' For Delaying Loretta Lynch Nomination

New committee chairman Senator Chuck Grassley takes his seat for a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill January 22, 2015 in Washington, DC. AFP PHOTO/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest called out Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley on Thursday after Grassley blamed Democrats for not confirming Loretta Lynch while they controlled the Senate.

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Modi likely to leave some votes behind for Harper: Tim Harper

The Canadian prime minister merely need smile then reap the electoral benefit from playing good host to his Indian guest Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, places a wreath at the memorial for Air India flight 182 in Toronto. Modi's three-day visit has provided a nice boost to the Canadian prime minister, writes Tim Harper.

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Special Needs Trust Fairness Act Reintroduced in Congress

After falling short in the previous Congress, Congressmen Glenn 'GT' Thompson and Frank Pallone, Jr. recently introduced the Special Needs Trust Fairness Act of 2015, a bill designed to make it easier for people with special needs to create their own first-party special needs trusts . The current law governing first-party special needs trusts states that a trust must be created by the beneficiary's parent, grandparent, or guardian or by a court, even if the beneficiary is mentally competent.

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Murphy Bill Would Create Tax Break For 'Angel' Investors

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy would give "angel" investors a new federal tax break and is also a co-sponsor of another bill introduced Thursday that will erase a barrier between those investors and start-up companies that need their money. Murphy's "Angel Tax Credit Act" would give individual investors, known as "angels," a new 25 percent federal tax break if they put at least $25,000 of their money in U.S.-based, high-tech startups.

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Records Show Schock Spending Continued Through Last Days

Former Peoria Congressman Aaron Schock apparently didn't stop his spending, even after a federal investigation into his expenses started to pick up steam. According to his campaign finance reports for the first quarter of the year, Schock left Congress at the end of March with three-point-two-million-dollars in his treasury.

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Obama says Cuba has agreed to address cases of US fugitives

Cuba has agreed to work on resolving the cases of U.S. fugitives harboring from justice on the island as part of the effort to normalize relations between the two nations, President Barack Obama told lawmakers as he made the case for removing the former Cold War foe from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. In a message to Congress dated Wednesday, Obama acknowledged that Cuba has gone so far as to provide housing, food ration books and medical care to some of the fugitives wanted to stand trial or serve sentences on serious charges in the United States.

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Obama could ease many Iranian sanctions without Congress

In this April 14, 2015 file photo, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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NFL reinstates Adrian Peterson from suspension

Commissioner Roger Goodell sent Peterson a letter advising him of his reinstatement. Goodell wrote that Peterson will have to fulfill all the obligations of his plea deal that reduced a felony charge to a misdemeanor.

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Troy Kelley 'determined to fight' charges of misdeeds

Troy Kelley takes questions at a news conference in Olympia in 2012. In an indictment unsealed Thursday, a federal grand jury charged Kelley with filing false tax returns, obstruction of justice and possession of stolen property.

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Allentown mayor expected to run for US Senate

Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski is expected to announce on Friday that he will run to challenge U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey's re-election bid, creating the potential for a contested Democratic Party primary in 2016. The mayor briefly tested his statewide electoral prospects in last year's governor's race, but he never made the ballot and dropped out after reporting disappointing fundraising.

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An Unpaid Doc Fix

In a bipartisan vote this week, the Senate undid the longtime Sustainable Growth Rate can-kick for a more permanent fix - but one that is not paid for by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, the Senate rejected an opportunity to require the increased payments to physicians be paid for: Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee had introduced a potential amendment to the bill that would have subjected the bill to spending rules known as pay-as-you-go, which would have required the cost of the bill to be fully offset by spending cuts or tax increases.

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Meeting Mia Speaking of Rep. Love, she is now one of the go-to people when delegations of Utahns visit Washington, D.C. Whether she heeds constituent concerns is another issue, but you have to give her a thumbs-up for meet-ups. When Everette Bacon, a Utah representative of the National Federation of the Blind, stopped in, he and his group were led to a committee meeting Love was attending.

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State auditor Troy Kelley indicted on 10 charges

A U.S. Grand Jury in Seattle has returned a 10-count indictment against state Auditor Troy X. Kelley for his alleged scheme to keep stolen money and hide it from both the IRS and those due a refund related to their purchase of a home or refinance of a home mortgage, announced acting U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. The majority of the criminal conduct detailed in the indictment spans years prior to Kelley's election to statewide office.

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Sen. Pat Roberts' 'Let it Go' ringtone goes off mid-hearing

Sen. Pat Roberts , R-Kansas, was in middle of a Senate Finance Committee hearing when his cellphone went off with a "Let it Go" ringtone.

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Senate OKs auto insurance bills amid debate over cost limits

A divided state Senate approved revisions Thursday to Michigan's auto insurance law that backers said would curtail costs in the only state to require unlimited medical benefits for those severely injured in crashes and that opponents warned would hurt patients. The Republican-led chamber voted 21-17 mostly along party lines to move the legislation to the House after five hours of closed-door meetings and debate on the floor.

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Perry hits 2016 GOP hopefuls over experience

Rick Perry is trying to make it clear that the next Republican presidential nominee needs to be a governor, not a first-term senator like the three candidates who currently make up the GOP field. While the former Texas governor was in New Hampshire on Thursday, he praised Sens. Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio for being great public speakers, but insisted that they didn't have the experience necessary to be President.

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Election Complaint Filed in Columbus Mayor's Race

Columbus elector Jonathan C. Beard today filed an elections Complaint seeking to end false campaign statements being made by Columbus mayoral candidate Andrew Ginther and his surrogates. My Complaint, filed with the Ohio Elections Commissions, alleges multiple violations of ORC 3517.21, which bars false statements to promote or oppose candidates in elections for public office.

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Cruz Aide Leading New Political Action Committee

The campaign manager for Ted Cruz 's successful 2012 U.S. Senate bid won't be working directly for the senator's 2016 presidential campaign, but his new job means that he will still have an active role in supporting his former boss. be the executive director of Make DC Listen, a new political action committee that endorsed Cruz's presidential bid on its first day in operation Thursday "Our goal is to raise grassroots contributions for [Cruz's] campaign so he has the resources to get his message out and win," Drogin said in a statement.

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Senator's phone rings during committee hearing to - Frozen' song

When your phone rings during a meeting, it can be embarrassing. It can be even more humiliating when it's a senator's phone ringing during a committee hearing.

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Rolly: Mormon critic wins JFK Profile in Courage Award

The John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, named after the nation's first Catholic president who had to fend off religious bigotry during his 1960 presidential campaign, has been awarded to a former congressman who questioned Mitt Romney's Mormonism when the latter ran for the White House. The award, presented by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, went to former South Carolina Republican Rep. Bob Inglis , who lost his congressional seat in 2010 to a tea party candidate largely because he came out as a believer in climate change.

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Sen. Robertsa a Frozena ringtone interrupts hearing

The U.S. Congress takes care of the serious business of running the country but sometimes a softer side pokes through. Senator Pat Roberts' ring tone, which interrupted a committee meeting Wednesday was that of the new classic "Let it go" from the movie "Frozen."

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Obama could ease many Iranian sanctions without Congress

Even if Congress rejects his final Iranian nuclear deal, President Barack Obama could use his executive pen to offer Tehran a hefty portion of sanctions relief on his own. Lawmakers have insisted on having a say on what could be a historic accord that the U.S. and five other nations are trying to finalize with Iran.

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78-year-old senator's 'Frozen' ringtone interrupts senate meeting

Pat Roberts, the 78-year-old, fourth-term, Republican senator from Kansas has something in common with pre-teens everywhere: he is apparently a big fan of Frozen. And, as everyone watching a Senate committee Thursday found out, he's a big enough fan to have 'Let it Go' as his ringtone.

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Lincoln to buy fuel system to make regional airport more competitive

An airship crew from Lightship Group Inc. of Orlando, Florida, wrestles a Hangar 1 Vodka blimp onto the ground at Lincoln Regional Airport in this 2011 BDN file photo. The airship made an unplanned stop in Lincoln when one of its ground crew pickup trucks needed repair officials said.

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Bobby Jindal supports plan to implement gay bashing - Religious Freedom Act' in Louisiana

WASHINGTON, DC: Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal is supporting a plan that would see his state implement a version of the controversial "religious freedom act," enabling antigay discrimination on an even harsher scale than what has been seen in Indiana and Arkansas, according to The Advocate, since it involves not only religious, but also "moral" beliefs. filed as House Bill 707 and authored by Rep. Mike Johnson, has polarized state lawmakers.

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Bangor to host solar power workshop in May

A city councilor is hopeful an upcoming workshop on solar energy will begin a discussion that could result in Bangor's government and its residents turning to solar power as a means of reducing utility usage. "I'd like to see us talk about it," Councilor Josh Plourde said this week.

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How did Doug Hughes manage to land a gyrocopter on Capitol Hill?

The U.S. military says the North American Aerospace Defence Command, the Federal Aviation Administration and other law enforcement and intelligence organizations are reviewing sensor data and reviewing what happened when a gyrocopter landed on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol . A NORAD spokesman says the incident highlights a persistent vulnerability: the inability to detect some low, slow-flying objects.

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Former Lt. Gov. Brown trailing in fundraising for Congress

Former Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown is trailing former Prince George's County State's Attorney Glenn Ivey in fundraising dollars in their bids for the 4th Congressional District seat.

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UPDATE 1-Florida governor fights Obama administration over healthcare funding

Florida Governor Rick Scott said on Thursday he would sue to stop U.S. health leaders from ending more than $1 billion in federal funding for low-income patients, arguing it stemmed from the state's refusal to expand Obamacare for the working poor. The dispute between Florida's Republican leaders and President Barack Obama's administration is entangled in Florida's rejection, so far, of about $51 billion available over 10 years to expand Medicaid coverage to some 1 million Floridians under the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare.

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House bill could give former presidents a pay cut

U.S taxpayers provide former presidents with a pension of $203,000 a year - plus annual expenses that can add up to more than $1 million. But most of them don't need the money, says Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah.

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Pat Robertsa phone gets a Frozena in Senate hearing and rings Disney across the Internet

Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas became an Internet sensation on Thursday when his cellphone went off in the middle of a senate finance committee hearing, filling the somber room with the first few bars of a song from Disney's "Frozen." The 78-year-old Republican had been questioning Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who tried in vain to repress a smile as Roberts muttered, "Oh come on," and fumbled with his phone.

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Hillary Parks in Handicap Spot

Hillary Parks in Handicap Spot - Hillary Clinton's van parked in a handicap spot, RNC deputy communications director Raj Shah points out in a recent tweet. "Woman of the people!! @HillaryClinton Scooby Doo Van parks in handicap spot," Shah tweets. Shah includes this picture:

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Photo Emerges of Marco Rubio Acting Like a High Schooler in High...

Photo Emerges of Marco Rubio Acting Like a High Schooler in High School - Chippendales-style routine depict fast times at South Miami High - At the end of March, two weeks before he declared his candidacy for President, Marco Rubio visited New York City's Upper West Side to meet

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Obama Is About To Sign The Biggest Health Care Bill Since Obamacare

Obama Is About To Sign The Biggest Health Care Bill Since Obamacare - WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is poised to sign into law the most far-reaching health care reform bill since Obamacare, permanently ending the "doc fix" dilemma that has haunted Congress for more than a decade.

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Liberal Media Say Clinton Campaign Lacking "Substance"

While some in the liberal media have been fawning over Hillary Clinton's campaign, since she officially announced that she was running for president on Sunday, there are some who are unimpressed by her efforts to date. The Huffington Post's Howard Fineman is one of those who sees little difference between this campaign and the one she ran in 2008.

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Baby food recalled because of possible contamination

Beech-Nut Nutrition, of Amsterdam, N.Y., is recalling approximately 1,920 pounds of baby food products that may be contaminated with small pieces of glass, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced April 15. The product subject to recall bears the establishment number "P-68A" inside the USDA mark of inspection. The affected product expires in "DEC 2016" and includes product numbers "12395750815" through "12395750821".

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Bill Shuster admits 'private and personal relationship' with airline lobbyist

Bill Shuster admits 'private and personal relationship' with airline lobbyist - She "doesn't lobby my office," Transportation chairman says.

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WikiLeaks creates searchable Sony leak database

WikiLeaks creates searchable Sony leak database - WikiLeaks has made tens of thousands of leaked Sony documents easily searchable on its website. - The anti-secrecy group said its searchable archives contain more than 30,000 documents and 173,00 emails, which were leaked last year as part

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West Deptford administrator resigns over 'frivolous reprimands,' changes in municipal...

WEST DEPTFORD TWP. -- Township administrator Brandon Umba announced Thursday night he would be resigning next month, citing "frivolous reprimands" from the Democratic-controlled township committee, as well as recent personnel changes within the municipal government.

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Lisa Mason's News a " 04/16/15

As Hillary Clinton's Misery Machine continues chugging cross country, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is poised to enter the presidential arena. Christie says he will crack down on legal marijuana if he became president.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Shirley, You Can't Be Serious. Airplanes Are Hackable?

There are two ways to describe an important report issued by Congress' General Accountability Office this week about airplanes and computers. Here's how the GAO titled its paper: "FAA Needs a More Comprehensive Approach to Address Cybersecurity As Agency Transitions to NextGen."

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4This Bloomberg Businessweek cover nails it on Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign

Hillary Clinton is on the cover of this week's Bloomberg Businessweek, complete with a "days without an accident" sign re-purposed to show how many days its been without "mismanagement, factionalism, or infighting."

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Bipartisan House statement expresses lost confidence in DEA chief

DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart testifies before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on April 14. The powerful House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has lost confidence in Drug Enforcement Administration chief Michele Leonhart, according to a statement from a majority of the panel Wednesday. "After over a decade of serving in top leadership positions at DEA, Administrator Leonhart has been woefully unable to change or positively influence the pervasive 'good old boy' culture that exists throughout the agency," the message said.

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Ninth Circuit St. Luke's decision ignores the American healthcare transformation

In its recent decision in an Idaho healthcare provider acquisition matter--Saint Alphonsus Medical Center-Nampa Inc. v. St. Luke's Health System Ltd.--the Ninth Circuit proclaimed that it is not the court's "job to determine the optimal future shape of the country's healthcare system."

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At a glance: Indiana Senate budget proposal

Here are key points of the two-year state budget proposal approved Wednesday by the Indiana Senate and some differences that will need to be resolved with the House before the General Assembly's April 29 adjournment deadline: Education funding: Senate and House plans each increase K-12 funding by nearly $470 million, or 2.3 percent a year, over the budget's two years. Those plans differ in how deep funding cuts will be for many urban and rural districts with shrinking enrollments.

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Conservative pundit Coulter: Bring back voter literacy tests

A half-century after the 1965 Voting Rights Act abolished literacy tests - long a vehicle to keep African Americans from voting - conservative pundit Ann Coulter proposes to bring back the condition. Coulter made her suggestion on "Fox and Friends", a daytime TV program that has produced some of the most extreme and factually challenged commentary in American politics.

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President Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell say the United States has no choice but to invade Iraq because that country's leadership refuses to disarm. They say that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction, and that is simply intolerable.

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Nice Community You've Got Therea Be a Shame if Someone Were to Organize ita

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Auburn Aviation first school to receive FAA drone approval

Auburn University has received the nation's first FAA approval to operate a new Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight School as part of the Auburn University Aviation Center. Unmanned aircraft systems, or drones, are expected to play a huge role in the future of aviation and the economy.

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Nkenge Harmon Johnson, former Kitzhaber press secretary, named CEO of Urban League of Portland

Attorney Nkenge Harmon Johnson is the new chief executive officer of the Urban League of Portland , the nonprofit's board announced Wednesday. Harmon Johnson will be the fourth female CEO of Portland's Urban League, an African-American civil service group that offers community health, workforce and youth programs.

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Christie concedes political risks in pushing Social Security reform

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who is making cutting Social Security and Medicare the centerpiece of a possible presidential campaign, conceded on Wednesday that he is taking a risk with the proposal. "There is no political upside to it," the Republican told more than 200 local residents who gathered to size up Christie ahead of a summit of potential 2016 Republican presidential candidates this weekend.

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Tennessee House approves bill to make Bible official state book

Tennessee state legislators on Wednesday advanced a bill to make the Bible the official state book, a measure the state attorney general said would be unconstitutional and Republican Governor Bill Haslam has called disrespectful. The Republican-controlled state House of Representatives voted 55-38 to approve the Bible as state book.

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'A Female Shouldn't Be President,' Says Female CEO

Cheryl Rios is the CEO of Dallas-based Go Ape Marketing , but some are saying her views on leadership are as primitive as her company's moniker. Rios recently made it clear on Facebook that she doesn't support Hillary Clinton as president - but it's not just Clinton herself that bothers Rios.

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Capitol stunt: Pilot lands little helicopter on West Lawn

Police arrested a man who steered his tiny, one-person helicopter onto the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, surprising spring tourists and prompting a temporary lockdown of the Capitol Visitor Center. Capitol Police didn't immediately identify the pilot or comment on his motive, but a Florida postal carrier named Doug Hughes took responsibility for the stunt on a website where he said he was delivering letters to all 535 members of Congress in order to draw attention to campaign finance corruption.

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April 15, 2015 - House committee approves water heater, coal ash...

The House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee on April 15 approved two pieces of legislation supported by public power, one that would modify the efficiency standard for grid-enabled water heaters, with the other measure addressing coal ash. The first measure, H.R. 906, which would modify the efficiency standard for grid-enabled water heaters, was adopted by voice vote.

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Correction: Obama-Gospel story

Kicking off a foot-stomping, hand-clapping celebration of gospel music, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that this particular genre of music had helped to shape America, beginning with the slave era and continuing on through the civil rights movement and beyond. "It still has an unmatched power to strike the deepest chord in all of us, touching people of all faiths and of no faith," he said as he opened the latest in a series of White House concerts, this one celebrating the role of gospel music in American life.

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John Cornyn: Oh, yeah, Loretta Lynch. We're making her wait even longer

For the most callous, disrespectful, and dismissive performance of the year by a Republican asshole, I nominate Sen. John Cornyn . Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn warned Wednesday that the Senate could bypass a sex trafficking bill that's been entwined with Lynch's nomination in order to deal with Iran review legislation that unanimously cleared the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.

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Jim Webb: 'People are looking for leadership they can trust'

Former Democratic Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia said Wednesday that "people are looking for leadership they can trust" and that he thinks a lot of people want to go back to the party of former Presidents Harry Truman and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. "Think about Harry Truman, what he would be saying to someone who told him he needed a consultant to show him how to dress or a lifestyle consultant [tell] him that he needed to go to Wal-Mart?" Mr. Webb said on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports."

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Baby Food Recalled For Containing Tiny Shards Of Glass! Find Out What ...

Beech-Nut Nutrition is recalling 1,900 pounds of baby food products due to a serious potential health hazard of tiny shards of glass in their jars. The U.S. Department of Food Safety & Inspection Service announced the recall, which affects 4-ounce glass jars labeled "Stage 2 Beech-Nut CLASSICS sweet potato & chicken" that expire Dec 2016.

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Court upholds finding of racial profiling by Arizona sheriff

An appeals court on Wednesday upheld key findings in a 2013 ruling that deputies under Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio systemically committed racial profiling of Latinos. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the previous ruling by District Judge Murray Snow that unconstitutional practices targeting immigrants had extended traffic stops in the Phoenix area.

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Federal prosecutors: No laws broken in arrest of Russian

The judge found no "outrageous conduct" by the agents and did not object to the arrest. He was then flown to Seattle.

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Medical marijuana bill gets Senate approval

A plan to expand access to medical marijuana won approval in the Democrat-led Senate on Wednesday, but the legislation is unlikely to move any further this year in the Legislature. The Senate voted 26-19 in favor of the bill, which would make medical marijuana available to people with certain chronic diseases, such as cancer, multiple sclerosis and epilepsy.

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Report: Airliners Vulnerable To In-Flight Hacking

Airliner controls might be vulnerable to hacking from passengers using in-flight Wi-Fi. That's according to a Government Accountability Office report released yesterday.

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Customer #0045, or Hillary Clinton's Burrito Bowl

Mrs. Clinton's van-with two aides and Secret Service agents aboard-pulled into a Chipotle restaurant for lunch in Maumee, Ohio, a suburb of Toledo. And no one recognized her.

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Copy of the heartbreaking civil rights lawsuit Eric Garner filed against the NYPD in 2007

On September 1st, 2007, seven years before NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo would choke Eric Garner to death in a video watched all over the world , he filed a heartbreaking civil complaint against NYPD Officer William Owens, the City of New York, and the NYPD over an awful incident in which he was illegally strip searched near his home. In the complaint, Eric describes how Officer William Owens, in the middle of the street, inserted his fingers up Eric Garner's rectum and made Eric pull his underwear completely down while he "searched" around Eric's testicles.

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Hillary Clinton has my vote locked up, and I don't fully trust her

As I am long on record, Hillary Clinton has my vote. I like and respect Hillary Clinton in many respects.

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Small aircraft lands on Capitol lawn; pilot in custody

A member of a bomb squad pulls something off of a small helicopter and throws it after a man landed on the West Lawn of the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Police arrested a man who steered his tiny, one-person helicopter onto the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, astonishing spring tourists and prompting a temporary lockdown of the Capitol Visitor Center.

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Indiana's Economic Development Contract Porter Novelli to Help Indiana Reputation

INDIANA Indiana's Economic Development and Tourism Offices have contracted with New York PR firm Porter Novelli to strengthen the reputation of the Hoosier State. "Just being on social media, no one is looking forward to coming to Indiana so I think it's important to fix."

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Midday open thread: Cuomo botchery, gun violence charts, eco-activists view Hillary Clinton

Touted as a way to jumpstart moribund local economies, our governor, in his infinite wisdom and benevolence, created a program entitled Start-Up NY. This plan would allow corporations to expand or relocate in designated "tax-free zones" and receive an extremely generous set of breaks.

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Caroline Kennedy for President . . . a Return to Camelot

Now that Hillary has announced herself as a candidate in the 2016 Presidential election, Democrats need to be thinking about what the debate should be about going forward. The Republicans are right now readying a plan to paint her as a Romney-style out-of-touch plutocrat, and this may resonate with a lot of Democrat and Progressive voters who have never much liked Hillary in the first place.

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Small aircraft lands on Capitol lawn; pilot in custody

Up with umlauts: Lindstrom, Minnesota, to get its dots back

More unreported shootings are coming come to light after the disclosure that a guard shot a handcuffed inmate to death at a Nevada prison where guns were fired more than 200 times in a recent five-year period.

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Cubans to open talks about US fugitives as ties warm

A man on a bike balances bread in one hand as he rides behind a private shared cab in Havana, Cuba, early Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Cuban officials and ordinary citizens alike hailed the island's removal from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, saying the move by President Barack Obama heals a decades-old insult to national pride and clears the way to swiftly restore diplomatic relations.

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