Conservation groups push back on federal lands transfer idea

National conservation groups are mustering opposition to the rising call in many western states to transfer federal lands to state control. The U.S. Senate last month narrowly approved a budget amendment sponsored by Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski that would allow future legislation to sell or transfer federal lands to state or local governments.

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"A Female Shouldn't Be President"

"A Female shouldn't be president" says Cheryl Rochefort Rios of Dallas, Texas....because you know, the Bible tells us so....plus "the way men look at women".....just to drive her point home.... Rios posted her opinion in opposition to Hillary Clinton's announcement as a Presidential candidate for the 2016 election on Facebook and has received thousands of irate responses. But Rios went well beyond a political position.

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Video: Hillary Clinton orders chai, and water with a twist at Iowa coffee shop

U.S. 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stops at a local Le Claire, Iowa coffee shop for one of her first public campaign appearances in the key caucus state.

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New study: For every 1,000 people killed by police, one officer is convicted of a crime

In what may be one of the most thorough and informative studies done on police officers who've killed people in the United States since 2005, the Washington Post and Bowling Green State University have done an amazing job giving color and context to an American epidemic that has been swept under the rug far too often. In this study, it was determined that out of thousands and thousands of people killed by police since 2005, only 11 officers have been convicted of any crimes whatsoever.

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Wait, What's Indicted Rick Perry Doing About 2016?

All the political news you can use these last few weeks has been about Republican candidates not named Governor Goodhair. Very swiftly, the media focus has centered around Cruz, Paul, Rubio, and Bush .

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FBI seeks public's help identifying, locating individual in sexual exploitation case

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is seeking the public's helping identifying and locating an individual that "may have valuable information regarding the identity of a child victim in an ongoing sexual exploitation case." The FBI's Honolulu office is working with its headquarters on a nationwide alert to find the man dubbed "John Doe 29," the FBI said Tuesday.

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Sen. Ben Cardin Moves Into Spotlight On Iran Nuclear Bill

NPR profiles Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin, who has become the senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee just as it is crafting a role for Congress to weigh in on the Iran nuclear deal. Please keep your community civil.

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Hillary Clinton Kicks Off Presidential Campaign With First Events In Iowa

Hillary Clinton makes her first public appearances in Iowa Tuesday as a declared 2016 presidential candidate. Her campaign's strategy is to keep this first visit purposefully low key and play down any sense of inevitability.

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White House willing to sign compromise Iran bill as it clears committee hurdle

After months of tensions with Congress over a bill giving the legislature a say in the potential Iran nuclear deal, the White House indicated Tuesday that the president would be willing to sign the compromise version of the measure. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved the new version, which Democratic lobbying had watered down, in a vote Tuesday afternoon.

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Fact Check: Estate tax hits fewer than 1 percent of estates

The federal estate tax inspires a lot of heated political rhetoric for a tax that very few people actuall... . FILE - In this June 4, 2013 file photo, Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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Avian flu detected in Western Iowa

The United States Department of Agriculture confirmed the presence of H5N2 avian influenza in a Buena Vista County. While this virus can be harmful to humans, the Center for Disease Control says the risk to people is low and no infections have been reported at this time.

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The latest on Hillary Clinton's campaign trip to Iowa

Instead, she sat down with community college students and teachers for the start of what she's labeled a "listening tour." It's a trip that's targeting middle-class voters, who swept her out of the race and Barack Obama into the white house almost 8 years ago.

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TSA Can't Deny Latest Groping Allegations

Two Transportation Security Administration employees were recently fired for allegedly colluding to allow a male screener to repeatedly grope "attractive" male passengers. According to reports obtained during a CBS4 investigation , the TSA began investigating the employees at Denver International Airport - one male and one female - following an anonymous tip last November, but did not take action until February, after a supervisor observed the behavior in person.

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Is this anecdote from Byron York new or did I miss it when he first published it? Either way, can't wait until Rubio gets asked whether he still believes this at his first presidential campaign townhall. Oh, by the way: What he says here is 100 percent correct.

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Eduardo Galeano: Author who chronicled the West's plundering of...

'Power is like a violin,' he once noted, 'it is held by the left hand and played by the right' Eduardo Galeano's anti-capitalist polemic The Open Veins of Latin America served for decades as a lodestar for leftist dissenters around the world. Last year, however, he startled his admirers when he impugned the book's writing and scholarly value.

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Watch Live: Senate Committee Debates Iran Nuclear Framework

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee meets Tuesday to mark up Sen. Bob Corker 's legislation creating a 60-day congressional review period of any nuclear agreement reached between Iran, the United States and five other countries. We can spin ourselves all we want, but the opinion of rest of the world will not be changed.

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If Hillary Clinton enters the White House, just what will they call Bill?

When Australia was governed by a woman for the first time, they called Julia Gillard's partner the First Bloke, but that is not very American Andy McSmith is a senior reporter at The Independent. He has vast experience in political journalism and has also appeared on documentaries for BBC Radio 4. Note: We do not store your email address but your IP address will be logged to prevent abuse of this feature.

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First lady: Gospel a fuels my lovea of music in general

"It's what helps connect us to God, to that higher power," the first lady said Tuesday at a White House-arranged gospel music workshop for students from around the country. "For so many, when times have darkened, when there's struggle, gospel music is that ray of hope and it gives you that strength."

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Marco Rubio's Presidential Bid Creates Open-Seat Scrum

Marco Rubio on Monday became the third Republican senator to announce a bid for president and the first of the group to leave behind a competitive seat. Rubio vacating his seat in Florida in favor of national ambition gives the GOP another potentially strong White House contender.

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The safety risk of shrinking airline seats questioned by DOT

Planes are filled with more passengers than ever before. Fliers are older and heavier.

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Democrats Rebut McConnell's Message to States on EPA

A group of Democratic caucus members in the Senate has asked governors to consider the views of other Kentuckians before taking Majority Leader Mitch McConnell 's advice on implementing the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan. The Kentucky Republican has espoused the view that states should consider avoiding developing their own plans for implementing the power standards.

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White House indicates Obama will sign compromise Iran bill

The White House abruptly agreed Tuesday to a compromise bill that would ensure that Congress has a say in an emerging nuclear deal with Iran. Just a few hours after news of a compromise trickled out on Capitol Hill, the White House said that President Barack Obama, who has threatened to veto the bill for weeks, would sign the revised version.

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In Iowa, Clinton lays out tenets of 2016 campaign

Hillary Rodham Clinton began laying out her Democratic presidential campaign message in Iowa on Tuesday, casting herself as a 'champion' for struggling Americans and calling for a purging of 'unaccountable money' from the campaign finance system. 'I think it's fair to say that as you look across the country the deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top,' she said in a meeting with students and teachers at a community college in rural Monticello.

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Hillary Clinton kicks off at Kirkwood

She spent the night in the swanky Hotel Black Hawk in Davenport, stopped to talk to LeClaire's mayor at a coffee shop, and then made her first Iowa campaign appearance in Monticello. Clinton told a panel of four students and two educators that her Democratic presidential campaign is about being "a champion for students and families".

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Market Breadth Is Fine, But Keep An Eye On The Transportation Average

Haven't written for Seeking Alpha in a while: I am in the early stages of a seven-month bicycle tour across the USA, now high in the San Jacinto wilderness of Southern California. You don't know how much relief it is not to have to endure commentary about how Mario Draghi will save Europe, or Hillary Clinton is really running for President.

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ABA honors Kentucky lawyer John M. Rosenberg for efforts in providing access to legal services

John M. Rosenberg, former director of the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky , will receive the American Bar Association Grassroots Advocacy Award April 15 for his longtime service and his outstanding work in providing access to legal services. Rosenberg served as director of AppalReD from the time it first received funding from the Office of Economic Opportunity in 1970 until he retired almost three decades later.

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Corker: White House 'Spinning' on Iran Switcheroo

Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker said the White House's about-face on his Iran legislation is likely because they were about to lose. The White House went Tuesday from vowing to veto the Corker-Menendez Iran bill to backing an emerging compromise, with caveats.

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Nova Scotia court upholds ruling against wrongfully convicted man

A Nova Scotia court has rejected the appeal of man who argued unsuccessfully last year that RCMP negligence caused his wrongful conviction on a statutory rape charge 45 years ago. Gerry Barton's lawyer argued at a hearing in January that a Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge erred a year ago when he cleared the RCMP of wrongdoing.

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Hillary Clinton still isn't a great candidate - and 4 other things I've learned about 2016

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with local residents at the Jones St. Java House on April 14 in LeClaire, Iowa. It's been a whirlwind three weeks in the 2016 game.

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Legislators Wrap Up Session In Boise

This session lawmakers had an increase in funding to work with after they passed legislation aimed at helping the state's education system. One of those laws will increase starting salaries for Idaho's new teachers potentially fixing a problem plaguing many districts across the state.

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