Mia Love says little regarding Steve Scali...

The first black Republican woman elected to Congress has declined to say much about a controversy over a House Republican leader speaking to a white supremacist group 12 years ago. Utah congresswoman-elect Mia Love says commenting on the revelation that surfaced Monday about House Majority Whip Steve Scalise is difficult because she hasn't spoken with him about it.

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Wheat prices - will they kick their losing habit in 2015?

Wheat futures fell in 2014 for a second successive year, weighed by the strong world grain production result which hit prices of the likes of corn too. Still, the decline was limited in the end to 2.6% in the Chicago contract, the world benchmark, which ended 26% above the five-year low reached in late September, in a recovery fuelled by concerns over Russia - both in terms of export curbs and a poor start for autumn-sown seedlings.

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National View: Climate change cools, and other 2015 predictions

As we say goodbye to 2014, I offer my predictions for the new year. Some are serious, some are whimsical, most are heartfelt.

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Who Would Benefit If Clinton Decides Not to Run?

It's hard to imagine Hillary Rodham Clinton not running for president again ? and easy to image the result of such a decision: political chaos. "It would be shocking," says Tad Devine, a Democratic strategist who is advising Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Democrat who is considering a presidential campaign himself.

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AirAsia search in Java Sea graveyard for WWII naval battle

The Java Sea where a massive search operation is underway for AirAsia Flight QZ8501 is also the graveyard for one of the largest naval engagements of World War II. [JAKARTA] The Java Sea where a massive search operation is underway for AirAsia Flight QZ8501 is also the graveyard for one of the largest naval engagements of World War II.

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A Virginian who might run for President is getting some questions about his political action committee. A publication called Business Insider has reported former U.S. Senator Jim Webb's committee has paid nearly $92,000 to family members since 2006.

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Hawaii hopes to be home to Obama library

The hunt to become the home of Barack Obama's lasting White House legacy has become a game of presidential library survivor. For now, the President's native Hawaii can only hope, to borrow a phrase, that it is not voted off the island.

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Appeal: Pot-derived assets should be protected in bankruptcy

The federal government cannot passively allow a billion-dollar marijuana industry to flourish by not prosecuting certain crimes and then later deny its participants bankruptcy protection, a new court filing says. By refusing to allow marijuana-derived assets to be protected in bankruptcy in the same way other assets are, the government is passively prosecuting the crimes it had earlier said it would not, "a Catch-22" of the U.S. Department of Justice's own making, according to an appeal filed by a Denver couple whose bankruptcy was dismissed because much of their income was derived from a medical marijuana business.

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10 who might have an impact on 2016 campaign

In this Dec. 10, 2014 file photo, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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Five ways to know you're speaking to white supremacists

There was a simpler time in America, a time when racists wore white hoods and carried torches, when Nazis wore swastikas and a skinhead could shave his scalp without being mistaken for a metrosexual. But those days are long behind us.

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Joseph John Lesko

Joseph John Lesko, 90, of Amherst, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 at Mercy Regional Medical Center in Lorain, following a full and blessed life. He was born March 21, 1924 in Lorain, to Andrew and Anna Lesko.

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Metro Police helicopter crashes near downtown Las Vegas

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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Billy Joel Honored with Gershwin Prize

Billy Joel receives the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from Dr. James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor . This music special honors singer-songwriter Billy Joel's receipt of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

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GOP legislators thwart bids to expand Medicaid

Governors across the political spectrum are hitting a roadblock in their bids to expand Medicaid with federal funds: Republican legislators who adamantly oppose "Obamacare." While some of these governors themselves have criticized the president's health care law in general, they've come to see one component - Medicaid expansion - as too generous to reject.

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Most wanted: Cyber special agents for the FBI

The Federal Bureau of Investigations has launched a new recruitment campaign to bring in tech experts who will become "cyber special agents." The agency recently posted a job listing describing the job, which will include extensive cyber crime investigations.

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10 things in 2015 that could affect 2016 campaign

There's a whole year of campaigning, positioning and politicking to go before the next campaign for president kicks off with the Iowa Caucus in early 2016. Ten things to look out for next year that might tell us something about how that campaign to come may shake out.

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2014 in Review: Weather, airport, election among top 2014 stories

Staff / Tom Spigolon A list of speakers, including Loren Wills, helped open the WellStar Paulding replacement hospital in late March. Special Photo An ice-covered Paulding road is littered with vehicles unable to maneuver the hill during the late January ice storm that paralyzed metro Atlanta.

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Sen. Marco Rubio Hopes For A Congress 'Whose Work Is Relevant' To Americans

"We certainly have different ideas about how to solve problems, and so I think you're certainly going to see that." Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is spending the holidays thinking of his future.

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Jennifer Rubin: The big losers of 2014

This year was a nonstop horror show for some in the political class. Aside from President Obama, who presided over his party's electoral debacle at the federal and state level, the year proved to be the undoing of a long list of characters and movements.

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Life is a cabaret, old chum

To Brooklyn bar owner Andrew Muchmore, New York City's 89-year-old cabaret law - which prohibits dancing in a venue that does not have a specific cabaret license - shows shades of Footloose -style censorship. Muchmore, who also happens to be an attorney, is challenging the law on the grounds that it violates the First and 14th amendments.

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American Indians challenging eagle feather rules get a boost from 'Hobby Lobby'

Lipan Apache religious leader Robert Soto prepares to perform at a June 2013 powwow in Monroe, Michigan. Photo courtesy of Tom Hawley and the Monroe News.

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EagleMed Air Medical Transport Company Grows During 2014

EagleMed critical care air medical transport company performed well in 2014, adding locations, aircraft and employees. During the year, EagleMed employment grew from about 400 to more than 475, serving at 30 locations in 13 states throughout the United States.

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Klobuchar, McCaskill make bet on Citrus Bowl

Klobuchar is wagering her signature ``frozen'' dessert hot dish against McCaskill's offering of Buck's Tiger Stripe ice cream. The Minnesota Gophers take on the 16th-ranked Missouri Tigers in the New Year's Day bowl game in Orlando, Florida.

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Brothers retire after long careers with Corps

Brothers Bobby and Billy Stokes have a combined total of 80 years of service with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Vicksburg. WLBT-TV reports that the Stokes brothers are retiring from the River Operations Branch of the Corps' Vicksburg district.

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Hawaii hopes to be survivor in competition to house Obama library

The hunt to become the home of Barack Obama's lasting White House legacy has become a game of presidential library survivor. For now, the President's native Hawaii can only hope, to borrow a phrase, that it is not voted off the island.

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A Night Out With theClintons and Their Brain Trust

It is the end of the year 2014 and the beginning of 2015. Perhaps it is an appropriate time to think about what we are to be confronted with in the presidential year 2016.

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Here's How You Can Amplify Sounds From Your Smartphone Without...

"My Papa is a very accomplished woodworker. Every year he makes something for everyone in the family for Christmas," she wrote in the video description.

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How Racial Opportunists RuinReal Chances for Police Reforms

The two men could not be more different. Brown died after robbing a liquor store and initiating confrontation with police.

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In praise of Tom Coburn,the thinking man s Ted Cruz

When the new Senate is sworn in come January, Republicans will hold the majority. But one of the better Republican senators of the past decade wonA t be there: Tom Coburn.

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The pace of agencies issuing new rules and regulations has hit a record high under President Obama, whose administration's rules have filled 468,500 pages in the Federal Register. And, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the president is poised to unleash another 2,375 new rules on American businesses without first giving Congress an up or down vote.

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