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Obama weighing executive action on guns
WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing powerful opposition to sweeping gun regulations, President Barack Obama is weighing 19 steps that could be taken through executive action alone, congressional officials...
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Harkin cuts ties with namesake Iowa State center
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Sen. Tom Harkin abandoned plans Tuesday to donate his papers to a namesake institute at Iowa State University after a power struggle between his supporters and university leaders...
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The text of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, released by the White House as prepared for delivery:___Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens:Fifty-one...
View ArticleText of Sen. Marco Rubio's GOP response to Obama
The text of the Republican response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, as prepared for delivery by Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, and provided by the press office of the...
View ArticleUS Naval Academy announces new commandant
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The U.S. Naval Academy has announced a new commandant, who is responsible for the day-to-day training and development of midshipmen.The academy said Thursday that Capt. Bill Byrne...
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Pentagon to furlough teachers, cut commissary time
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will furlough about 15,000 military school teachers and staff around the world because of the automatic budget cuts that took effect last Friday, but spokesman George...
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No assault weapons ban: Not in Dems' Senate bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — An assault weapons ban won't be in the gun-control legislation that Democrats bring to the Senate floor next month, a decision that means the ban's chances of survival now are all but...
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Senate gun bill will expand background checks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gun control legislation the Senate debates next month will include an expansion of federal background checks for firearms buyers, Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday in a victory...
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Petraeus Re-emerges
LOS ANGELES (AP) — David Petraeus, who has remained largely in seclusion since being forced to resign as head of the CIA after the disclosure of an extramarital affair, returns to the public spotlight...
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Connecticut reaches deal on tough gun laws after Newtown massacre
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut lawmakers announced a deal Monday on what they called some of the toughest gun laws in the country that were proposed after the December mass shooting in the state,...
View ArticleFeds: Man stole US cancer data to study in China
MILWAUKEE (AP) — When three vials of a possible cancer-fighting compound disappeared recently from a professor's desk at the Medical College of Wisconsin, suspicion quickly fell on a research assistant...
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NRA study urges trained, armed school staffers
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate gun control debate on the near horizon, a National Rifle Association-sponsored report on Tuesday proposed a program for schools to train selected staffers as armed security...
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One Boston marathon suspect dead, massive manhunt for second
WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) — Two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed an MIT police officer, injured a transit officer in a firefight and threw explosive devices at police during their getaway...
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Photos force suspects' move, breaking bombing case
BOSTON (AP) — Moments after investigators went before television cameras to broadcast photos of the two men in ball caps wanted for the Boston Marathon bombing, queries from viewers started cascading...
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The stories of 2 brothers suspected in bombing
BOSTON (AP) — Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an amateur boxer with muscular arms and enough brio to arrive at a sparring session without protective gear. His younger brother Dzhokhar was popular in high school,...
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W.Va. student, school at odds over NRA T-shirt
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia student was charged with causing a disruption at a middle school when he refused to remove a T-shirt that displayed the National Rifle Association's logo and a...
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Law schools helping vets overcome VA benefit delays
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Dustin Allison was riding in an armored vehicle at the head of a convoy in Iraq one morning in 2007 when an improvised explosive device went off, killing the driver and leaving...
View ArticleRepublicans: Give governors more school say
WASHINGTON (AP) — Education Secretary Arne Duncan and his successors would be relegated to cheerleaders for the nation's schools, and governors would be put in charge of classrooms under companion...
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Three blockbusters among Supreme Court's last cases
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has 11 cases, including the term's highest profile matters, to resolve before the justices take off for summer vacations, teaching assignments and international...
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Gay marriage ruling will help many veteran spouses
WASHINGTON (AP) — For Stewart Bornhoft, who completed two tours of duty in Vietnam, the Supreme Court's decision granting federal benefits to married, same-sex couples means that he and his spouse,...
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