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Thursday, May 1, 2014

Most Hawaii exchange enrollees didn't receive aid

Sixty-two percent of the 8,592 people who bought plans as of March 31 didn't get aid, data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services showed.

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J is for Jobs

During the last American presidential election, Mitt Romney bragged that he had created around 100,000 jobs.

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Tribe, Robert Redford group OK wild horses plan

The Navajo Nation and a group founded by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and actor Robert Redford said Thursday they have agreed on a plan to manage thousands of wild horses on the reservation and keep the animals from being sent to slaughter houses.

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Membership, dues falling at SEIU Healthcare

Membership and dues have fallen at a union of health care workers after a Michigan law ended representation of home-based aides, according to reports filed with the government.

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Being mayor, player aided Johnson in Sterling push

The former NBA star led the city's successful effort to keep the Kings from moving to Seattle and was recently sworn in as leader of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

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Scott Brown to Jeanne Shaheen: Join me in supporting the Keystone pipeline

One thing I keep hearing from working men and women as I drive across New Hampshire is they want a shot at a good job that pays a fair wage with decent benefits.

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Franken, others demand more plans to avoid propane dearthFranken,...

Franken, others demand more plans to avoid propane dearth on sctimes.com: WASHINGTON The federal government must do more to avoid another propane shortage like the one last winter that devastated farmers and homeowners, Democratic and ... (more)

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Court Injunction Blocks Russian Engine Purchase by ULA for US...

United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket - powered by Russian made RD-180 engines - and Super Secret NROL-67 intelligence gathering payload poised for launch at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, in March 2014.

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Florida senator calls on EPA to review oil-drilling incident

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection already has intervened in the situation, which happened south of Lake Trafford in Collier County.

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2014 Changes to the Minnesota Business Corporation Act

On April 25, 2014, Governor Mark Dayton signed House Bill H.F. No. 2190 , which makes a number of changes to Chapter 302A of the Minnesota Statutes, the Minnesota Business Corporation Act .

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GOP: Health signups lagging

House Republicans issued a report Wednesday saying that one-third of people who signed up for health insurance through new federal exchanges hadn't paid their first month's premium as of mid-April, which could undermine the Obama administration's claims of robust enrollment under the new health law.

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Poll: Birth control mandate in Obamacare still popular

With the Supreme Court mulling over whether to allow employers to dictate what health care their employees-particularly those employees with lady parts-should be allowed to have, pollsters have been gauging public opinion on the issue.

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Senate Republicans all but cry 'uncle' on Obamacare

Boy, did Republican's "one big issue" for November fizzle out or what? Republicans were absolutely gleeful that Kathleen Sebelius's resignation was going to give them another shot at Obamacare bashing in the confirmation hearings for her successor, Sylvia Mathews Burwell.

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Rick Santorum: 'Obama minion' said I could have won

Republican presidential once-candidate Rick Santorum says he coulda been a contender.

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Report: Southern states resisting Medicaid expansion need it the most

People wait to receive a wristband number for medical treatment at the Remote Area Medical clinic in Wise, Virginia, July 20, 2012.

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Study: More Innocents on Death Row Than Previously Thought

In his 2006 dissent in a Kansas death penalty case, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argued that the incidence of wrongful conviction is, in essence, vastly overblown.

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Ryan, Luchansky face off in District 13 primary

Democratic Congressional incumbent Tim Ryan is being challenged by Boardman resident John Luchansky this primary election for Ohio's 13th District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, which encompasses Kent and Ravenna, the Youngstown area and eastern Summit County.

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GOP Senate races will test tea party's staying power

The tea party movement, staggered by dwindling popularity and strong challenges from the Republican establishment, faces a series of crucial primary election tests over the next month _ and its prospects look grim.

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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

White House back on defensive about Benghazi

Republicans say the emails released Tuesday by a conservative watchdog group are the long-sought-after "smoking gun" that show the administration tried to spin the tragedy to minimize damage to President Barack Obama in the final months of his 2012 re-election campaign.

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Apple is Evil: $130 Billion Offshored to Avoid Taxes

Apple is evil. There's no way around it. They have become one of the world's great tax dodgers, pissing off governments from Australia to France by their tax-dodging ways, all the while using the infrastructures those very countries established so that they can earn massive profits.

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White House caught red-handed lying about Benghazi

Journalist Charles Krauthammer is one of many Washington insiders that considers the Benghazi email uncovered by the Freedom of Information Act "the smoking document" that the Obama White House is guilty of a massive cover-up.

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10 Things to Know for Thursday

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, front, issues a statement to the media on the Execution of Clayton Lockett as Oklahoma Secretary of Safety and Security Michael C. Thompson, back, listens from the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, April 30, 2014.

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LAX ground stop lifted

All arriving flights that were inside the Federal Aviation Administration's Los Angeles Flight Center's airspace at the time of the ground stop landed at the airport, according to LAX spokeswoman Nancy Suey Castles.

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Casey continues fight for minimum wage hike

Sen. Bob Casey supports raising the minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $10.10 over 30 months.

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Police: Man sold guns, drugs out of parents' basement

If you're gonna sell tricked-out firearms and heroin with your buddy, you can at least have the courtesy to keep your business away from your parents' house.

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TalkBack for May 1: Bypass, junkyard and school lunches

Do you really think that, if they widen the bypass, you will be able to do the speed limit in the 45 mph zone? The only thing that will happen if there are two lanes is that there will be two people doing 40 mph in front of you, just like on Whiskey Road now.

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AARP joins fight to protect Detroit pensions in bankruptcy

The votes are in - more than 144,000 of them, a new record - and the shows TV fans most want to... One of the nation's most powerful lobbying groups filed a brief in Detroit's bankruptcy case Wednesday arguing a federal judge's ruling that U.S. bankruptcy law trumps pension protections in Michigan's Constitution should be reversed.

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