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Police search for active shooter on grounds of Washington Navy Yard in Southeast D.C. — A D.C. police officer is among the people shot at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday morning. — A police spokesman confirmed at 9:20 a.m. that the officer was shot near the room where a lone gunman …
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Active Shooter at Washington Navy Yard — WASHINGTON (NNS) — An active shooter was reported inside the Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters building (Bldg. 197) on the Washington Navy Yard at 8:20 a.m. (Eastern Time). — There is one confirmed injury.


Four Dead Among 10 Shot at D.C. Navy Yard; At Least 1 Shooter Still At Large — D.C. police officer, base security officer among those shot; at least one gunman still at large — Four people were killed and at least 10 were shot - two of the victims police officers - at the Washington …
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Russian Official Gloats Over Navy Yard Shooting — With multiple people injured and the gunman still at large, a member of Russia's parliamentary foreign affairs committee says the shooting is an example of “American exceptionalism.” — A shooting at the Washington Navy Yard …
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Multiple People Killed in Shooting at Washington Navy Yard
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Two law officers among 10 people injured in naval facility shooting
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How a Small Team of Democrats Defeated Larry Summers—and Obama — The president's presumptive choice for Federal Reserve chair withdrew his name from consideration on Sunday. — No one has ever said President Obama's relationship with Congress was warm.
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Summers Pulls Name From Consideration for Fed Chief
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Summers Withdraws Name for Fed Chairmanship
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Summers' End
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Summers Quit Fed Quest After Democrats Spurned Obama Favorite
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Five reasons Obama should name Janet Yellen to chair the Federal Reserve
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With Larry Summers out, what's next?
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As Health Care Law Proceeds, Opposition and Uncertainty Persist — One-in-Four Backs Efforts to Make the Law Fail — As a key step in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act approaches, public views of the 2010 health care law are as negative as ever, and many are unaware of the elements …
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USA TODAY/Pew poll: Health care law faces difficult future — THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT: STILL A TOUGH SELL — Three years after President Obama signed his signature health care overhaul, Americans are as negative toward it as they have ever been, and disapproval of the president on the issue has reached a new high.
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Conservatives: Obama will blink — A weakened President Obama will back down if there is a standoff over funding ObamaCare and preventing a government shutdown, House conservatives say. — They are urging Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) …
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Congress's Exemption from Obamacare
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Bill Thompson quitting mayor's race — Bill Thompson is quitting the race for mayor. — Sources said the former comptroller will throw in the towel Monday morning at a “unity” press conference on the steps of City Hall with Democratic rival Bill deBlasio and Gov. Cuomo — who thus far hasn't taken a public position in the contest.
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Sources: Cuomo working on an end to Democratic mayoral primary
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How Detroit went broke: The answers may surprise you - and don't blame Coleman Young — Detroit is broke, but it didn't have to be. An in-depth Free Press analysis of the city's financial history back to the 1950s shows that its elected officials and others charged with managing …
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President Obama holds fire — but media doesn't — President Barack Obama is damaging his presidency, weakening America's standing in the world, and displaying “inexplicable” incompetence. — The media figure making those accusations isn't Bill O'Reilly or Rush Limbaugh, Charles Krauthammer or Glenn Beck.


Obamacare will question your sex life — A man holds a sign at the ‘Exempt American from Obamacare’ rally on Sept. 10, 2013 — 'Are you sexually active? If so, with one partner, multiple partners or same-sex partners? Be ready to answer those questions and more the next time you go to the doctor …
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Obama's Syria Meanderings Border on Incompetence — President Barack Obama risks getting stuck with a rap as toxic as an unpopular war or a troubled economy: incompetence. — The president may escape collateral damage if the ambitious deal reached Sept. 14 between the U.S. and Russia holds …
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New Syria Agreement Is a Big Victory. For Assad.
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CNN 2016 Poll: Clinton favored for Democrats; no clear GOP leader — Washington (CNN) — A new national poll in the battle for the 2016 Democratic and Republican presidential nominations indicates what you would expect: Hillary Clinton is the overwhelming Democratic frontrunner …
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Inside the conservative brain: What explains their wiring? — The question of human nature reliably polarized political philosophers across many centuries and several oceans. One group of these thinkers viewed people as innately cooperative or potentially compassionate; another group argued for an inherently competitive human nature.
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UN: ‘CONVINCING EVIDENCE’ OF SYRIA CHEMICAL ATTACK — You are here — Home » John Kerry » UN: ‘Convincing evidence’ of Syria chemical attack — UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. inspectors said in a report Monday there is “clear and convincing evidence” that chemical weapons …
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State Department Staffers Forced To Mark Benghazi Anniversary On Their Own — Staffers at State Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. held their own private ceremony Wednesday to commemorate the first anniversary of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya after finding …
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