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Veterans poll: 91 percent back gun checks — The vast majority of veterans support universal background checks, a new poll shows. — According to a survey commissioned by the organization Vote Vets and the liberal Center for American Progress Action Fund, 91 percent of veterans support requiring …
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The Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act
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Senate in Deal on Gun Checks
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Senate poised to debate gun control measure
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Gun Shop Where Lanza's Mother Bought Bushmaster Shut Down For Selling To A Felon, Background Check Violations — EAST WINDSOR, Conn. (AP) — Federal authorities say a Connecticut gun shop that legally sold weapons used in the Newtown school shootings lost its federal firearms license …
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Gun control, immigration and budget talks: Is there a thaw in Washington? — For the first time in a while, members of the two parties — at least some of them — appear to be talking about getting things done, even without the deadline of a manufactured crisis looming.
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Obama: White House dinner with GOP senators ‘constructive’
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'We won't have the White House forever, folks!'
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Philadelphia abortion clinic horror: Column — We've forgotten what belongs on Page One. — Infant beheadings. Severed baby feet in jars. A child screaming after it was delivered alive during an abortion procedure. Haven't heard about these sickening accusations? — It's not your fault.
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90% Bull — Fig leaves wilting! It looks like the requirement that the Border Patrol catch 90% of illegal crossers-reported by the WSJ and touted by both Marco Rubio's chief of staff and my colleague Matt Lewis as an example of the “ tough border enforcement measures” …
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Senators' Group Reaches Deal on Immigration
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NBC/WSJ poll: Strong majority backs citizenship for undocumented immigrants
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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: Immigration and the knowledge economy — Mark Zuckerberg is founder and chief executive of Facebook and co-founder of Fwd.us. — Earlier this year I started teaching a class on entrepreneurship at an after-school program in my community.
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Facebook's Zuckerberg launches lobby group with push for immigration reform
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Daughter of former Obama pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright indicted … The daughter of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright — the controversial former pastor to President Barack Obama — was indicted today in an expanding federal probe of a state grant tied to a former suburban police chief.
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David Corn and Mother Jones find themselves with another audio scoop — David Corn says one good scoop may have led to another. And might even lead to still others, too. — The Mother Jones magazine reporter and MSNBC pundit was busy Wednesday handling the fallout from, and some fawning over …
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Where's Mitch McConnell?
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Immigration, gun deals make Tea Party lawmakers restless — House conservatives are growing restless. — With bipartisan deals emerging on guns and immigration, Tea Party lawmakers in the lower chamber are warning their leaders to slow down. — Longtime immigration reform critic Rep. Steve King …


Ben Carson steps down as Hopkins commencement speaker … Neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson stepped down Wednesday as commencement speaker at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine after complaints from students about controversial comments concerning same-sex marriage.
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Exclusive: Blair warns Miliband: offer answers, not outrage — The former prime minister says Labour must be more than “fellow travellers in sympathy” and warns it not to “tack left on tax and spending”. — In his statement on Margaret Thatcher's death earlier this week …
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Jay-Z brags about Cuba trip in rap — Rapper Jay-Z released a new track Thursday in which he boasts about his recent trip to Cuba with superstar Beyoncé and says that President Barack Obama told him he'd get him “impeached.” — “I done turned Havana into Atlanta,” Jay-Z raps in “Open Letter,” which he released Thursday.
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Mark Pryor rakes in cash in first quarter — Endangered Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) raised nearly $2 million in the first quarter of this year, a financial show of strength his campaign hopes sends a message to state and national Republicans still looking for a candidate to take him on next year.


Israel Detains Five Women For Wearing Prayer Shawls At Western Wall — JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police on Thursday detained five women at a Jerusalem holy site for performing religious rituals there that ultra-Orthodox Jews say are reserved for men. — The detentions come …

Britain snubs Argentina's Fernandez over Thatcher funeral — LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will not invite Argentine President Cristina Fernandez to Margaret Thatcher's funeral next week in a snub likely to deepen a long-running diplomatic dispute over the Falkland Islands.
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Top Republican Blasts Obama Budget As ‘Shocking Attack On Seniors’ — Remember those warnings about how instead of welcoming President Obama's adoption of Chained CPI, Republicans would continue to deny him a budget deal and attack him for proposing to cut Social Security?
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Paul Ryan Stumped: Can't Name A Single Area Of Compromise In His Budget
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Haley Barbour Leaves American Crossroads Amid Concerns Over Conservative Victory Project — The powerful fundraising team that American Crossroads deployed in 2012 to pull in more than $300 million has lost ace fundraiser Haley Barbour, according to three GOP operatives close to the super PAC.