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Suspect In Navy Yard Attack Previously Arrested In Seattle For “Anger-Fueled” Shooting — Aaron Alexis, the man identified by Washington D.C. police as a suspect in this morning's tragic attack on a US Navy Yard, was previously arrested by Seattle police in 2004 for shooting out the tires …
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Navy Yard massacre should move Americans to more than sorrow — FOR ALL the unknowns about Monday's mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, there was a nauseating familiarity to the unfolding events: the witness accounts of chaos and fear; the plea from officials for the public's help …
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Alleged Washington shooter served as Navy reservist, may have recently lost job — The man accused of killing 12 people in a gun rampage at the Washington Navy Yard was described by mystified friends and family as a Buddhist and Thai speaker who, in the words of one friend, “could not be the shooter.”
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Washington Navy Yard shooting: Aaron Alexis was treated for “serious mental illness” — WASHINGTON (AP/WJLA) - The deadly attack at the Washington Navy Yard was carried out by one of the military's own: a defense contract employee and former Navy reservist who used a valid pass to get onto …
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D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray: Cuts ‘put people at risk’ — As questions grow about the access the gunman in Monday's shooting had to Washington Navy Yard, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray said Tuesday that sequestration cut costs of projects, then “we put people at risk,” when asked whether it was about policy or money.
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D.C. Navy Yard gun attack kills 12, wounds 14; alleged shooter dead, ID'd as Aaron Alexis — A gunman killed a dozen people as the workday began at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, creating an improbable moment of horror at a military facility with armed guards at every gate …
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D.C. Gun Laws Some of the Strictest in the U.S.
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Fort Worth man, 34, accused of shootings in Navy Yard
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Aaron Alexis, Suspect In Washington Navy Yard Shooting, Was Once Arrested For Shooting Bullet Into Neighbor's Home
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REVEALED: Gunman, 34, who murdered TWELVE in Washington Navy Yard rampage claimed he had 'anger issues …
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Aaron Alexis, 34, is dead gunman in Navy Yard shooting, authorities say
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If House Republicans can't hold together, they have no leverage at all. — Perhaps the only war strategizing more inept than President Obama's on Syria are GOP plans for the budget hostilities this autumn. Republicans are fracturing over tactics, and even over the nature of political reality …
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About That Other Debacle — For ObamaCare, it's only the end of the beginning. — If you're the kind of driver who can't help but gawk at the wreckage when you pass an accident—and honestly, who isn't?—you'll enjoy today's lengthy account in The Wall Street Journal of the runup to last week's Putin-Assad triumph.
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Get Ready for the Status Quo — For months now, my theory has been that there were two competing narratives about what the political environment would be like for next year's midterm elections and, for that matter, going into the 2016 presidential election.
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After shooting, talk turns to gun control — President Barack Obama on Monday stepped onto a podium and lamented the deaths of a senseless mass shooting — just as he did after Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn. — This time, his remarks came as office workers scrambled for cover …
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Carney: Obama Implementing Executive Actions Following Navy Yard Shooting
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One Conservative's Provocative Rules For Covering Mass Shootings
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Navy Yard shooting hits home
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Senate Officials Shut Complex While Shooter Sought
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The Movement Strikes Back — As the deadline to fund the federal government nears, Republican leaders are struggling mightily to come up with legislation that can pass the House. Over the weekend, leadership staffers fired off anxious e-mails and uneasy veteran House members exchanged calls.
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Powerful Senate Conservatives Fund Expands To Focus On House Races
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This Time There Really Will Be a Government Shutdown
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Push for Yellen to Lead at Fed Gathers Steam — WASHINGTON — Janet L. Yellen told friends in recent weeks that she did not expect to be nominated as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. Although she had been the Fed's vice chairman since 2010 and would make history as the first woman to hold the job …
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Obama's style on Syria needs refashioning
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Costa Concordia pulled completely upright off Italy — Uprighted Costa Concordia is seen in waters just off Italy on Sept. 17, 2013 / CBS — The crippled Costa Concordia cruise ship was pulled completely upright early Tuesday after a complicated, 19-hour operation to wrench it from its side …


Obama waives ban on arming terrorists to allow aid to Syrian opposition — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL BARACK OBAMA SYRIA TERRORISM ISLAMIC JIHAD AL QAEDA BOB CORKER BASHAR ASSAD — President Obama waived a provision of federal law designed to prevent the supply of arms to terrorist groups …
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Exclusive: Bill Daley drops bid for Illinois governor — In this raw Sept. 16, 2013 interview, Bill Daley explains to Chicago Tribune reporter Rick Pearson why he is dropping out of the Illniois governor's race. (WGN-TV) — Bill Daley abruptly ended his bid for the Democratic nomination …
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Alan Simpson: 'Don't use our names' — The bipartisan co-chairmen of the president's fiscal commission, former Sen. Alan Simpson and former White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, said Tuesday they stand ready to help Congress figure out the nation's budget — but they don't have to attach their names to it.