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COLORADO SENATE PRESIDENT JOHN MORSE, STATE SEN. ANGELA GIRON OUSTED — An epic national debate over gun rights in Colorado on Tuesday saw two Democratic state senators ousted for their support for stricter laws, a “ready, aim, fired” message intended to stop other politicians for pushing for firearms restrictions.
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Colorado state senators recalled over gun control support — FILE: This image shows Colorado Democratic State Senate President John Morse, left, and state Sen. Angela Giron, D-Pueblo.AP — Two Democratic lawmakers in Colorado, including the president of the state senate …
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Colorado Lawmakers Ousted in Recall Vote Over Gun Law — COLORADO SPRINGS — Two Colorado Democrats who provided crucial support for a package of state gun laws were voted out of office on Tuesday in special elections seen as a test of whether swing-state voters would accept gun restrictions …
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Obama's Remarks on Syria — Following is the complete text of President Obama's speech about Syria from the East Room of the White House on Tuesday, as transcribed by Federal News Service. — MR. OBAMA: My fellow Americans, tonight I want to talk to you about Syria, why it matters and where we go from here.
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The President Makes The Case — That was one of the clearest, simplest and most moving presidential speeches to the nation I can imagine. It explained and it argued, point after point. Everything the president said extemporaneously at the post-G20 presser was touched on, made terser, more elegant and more persuasive.
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Obama's Zig vs. Zag
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Chemical Disarmament Hard Even in Peacetime
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Stumbling toward a solution on Syria
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Transcript: Obama's address on Syria
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President Barack Obama has ordered the U.S. military to maintain …
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Who Do You Trust? — WASHINGTON — Vladimir Putin, who keeps Edward Snowden on a leash and lets members of a riotous girl band rot in jail, has thrown President Obama a lifeline. — The Russian president had coldly brushed back Obama on Snowden and Syria, and only last week called John Kerry a liar.
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A new error in U.S. foreign policy. — “Secretary of State John Kerry may not have expected his casual suggestion that Syria avert American military action by giving up its chemical weapons to be taken seriously,” the New York Times editorializes. “But it may have created a diplomatic way out for President Obama.”
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The President lets Putin outmaneuver him on Syrian chemical arms.
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If your foreign policy has to be rescued by a dictator, you are doing it wrong.
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Sydney Leathers, former sexting partner of Anthony Weiner, attempts to crash his election night party — The 23-year-old, clad in a tight red dress and platform heels, said that she wanted to finally meet the man who ‘manipulated’ her into a months-long relationship.
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VIDEO: Anthony Weiner Sprinted Through A McDonald's So The Press Wouldn't See Him Talk To Sydney Leathers
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Sydney Leathers shows up at Anthony Weiner election party
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Anthony Weiner concedes in Democratic mayoral primary race
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Anthony Weiner Office Visited By Sydney Leathers On Election Day (PHOTO)
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De Blasio First in Mayoral Primary; Unclear if He Avoids a Runoff — Bill de Blasio, whose campaign for mayor of New York tapped into a city's deepening unease with income inequality and aggressive police practices, captured far more votes than any of his rivals in the Democratic primary on Tuesday, according to exit poll results.
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Stringer Defeats Spitzer in Comptroller Primary — Eliot Spitzer lost a bid for political redemption on Tuesday as he was defeated in the Democratic primary for New York City comptroller by the current Manhattan borough president, Scott M. Stringer. With 97 percent of the precincts reporting …
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De Blasio tops NY mayoral primary; Weiner distant fifth
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This Was a Samantha Power Speech — America still doesn't quite grasp the novelty of what Obama is doing in Syria. This is an intervention driven primarily by humanitarian concerns. There is no chance we'd have reached this point without those chemical attacks.
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Barack Obama's Syria speech was an incoherent mess - he is outperforming Jimmy Carter as the most feeble US president of modern times — Billed as a game-changer on Syria, the President's White House address landed with a thud that could be heard as far away as Damascus.
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Florida Police Chief: Either George Zimmerman Or His Lawyer Is Not Telling The Truth — George Zimmerman on Monday, shortly before being handcuffed — The Florida police chief that is actively investigating a confrontation between George Zimmerman, his wife and his father in law says someone is lying …
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Top 1% take biggest income slice on record — The gulf between the richest 1% of the USA and the rest of the country got to its widest level in history last year. — The top 1% of earners in the U.S. pulled in 19.3% of total household income in 2012, which is their biggest slice of total income …
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The Rich Get Richer Through the Recovery
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Green power groups: Energy Department's crystal ball is broken — Green energy and environmental groups say the federal government is publishing “unreasonably low” renewable power growth forecasts - and that the faulty crystal ball could slow investment in the industry.
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Obama's Semi-Moot “War Speech” — The President last night made a remarkably brief and direct speech last night making the case for a use-of-force resolution in Congress that he probably won't get, may not need, and put off indefinitely. As such, it represents less of an exhortation …
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CNN Instant Poll: Did Obama move the needle on Syria? — Washington (CNN) - A majority of Americans who watched President Barack Obama's prime time address to the nation on Tuesday said they favor the approach to Syria that the president spelled out in his speech, according to an instant poll.
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