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White House's Hard Line on Shutdown, Debt Ceiling Has Risks Attached … President Barack Obama is sticking to his stance that he won't negotiate with Republicans over the government shutdown or the higher-stakes fight over the federal debt ceiling. — The question, for Republicans …
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Bad blood: Four feuding leaders — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid privately told fellow Democratic senators this week what he really thought of Speaker John Boehner. — “He's a coward,” Reid angrily said, referring to Boehner's private push for federal health care contributions for lawmakers and their staff.
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G.O.P. Elders See Liabilities in Shutdown — WASHINGTON — The hard-line stance of Republican House members on the government shutdown is generating increasing anger among senior Republican officials, who say the small bloc of conservatives is undermining the party and helping President Obama …

Senior Admin. Official: 'We Are Winning...It Doesn't Really Matter to Us' When Shutdown Ends — Although the government shutdown continues, it appears President Barack Obama and the White House are not getting any closer to negotiating with Republicans. A quotation from an unnamed senior …
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Dumbest extortion attempt ever: Republican scheme's perverse logic — GOP's demands are putting the economy and American presidency on the line — and now they can't back away from them — This is the fourth day of the GOP's government shutdown and the sequence of events that will ultimately end it …
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Boehner to White House: 'This Isn't Some Damn Game'
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What the White House fears most about the debt limit fight
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Republicans finally confronting reality: They're trapped!
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Obama hammers Boehner on shutdown, debt ceiling
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GOP Begins Search for Broad Deal on Budget
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Rattled Congress Seeks Way Out of Its Standoff
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Woman in DC chase may have thought Obama was stalking her, sources say — Investigators have found indications that the woman who led authorities on a chase from the White House to the Capitol before she was shot to death by police thought that President Barack Obama was stalking her, law enforcement sources told NBC News.
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Police suspect dental hygienist Miriam Carey was behind the wheel of Capitol chase — She had a toddler with her, confounding everyone who watched the car crash through barriers and lead police through the heart of high-security Washington. — Law enforcement officials said the black Infiniti …
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Miriam Carey, Capitol Suspect, Suffered Post-Partum Depression
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U.S. Capitol shooting: Brooklyn neighbor says Connecticut woman shot dead outside Capitol 'seemed …
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In shooting near Capitol, government workers rush into danger
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DC attacker a dental hygienist, shot dead after chase
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$175 premium for a young, healthy student? Thanks, Obamacare! — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL OBAMACARE THE WASHINGTON POST HEALTH CARE — American media outlets were finally able to track down a mythical creature — a person who actually signed up for the Obamacare exchanges online.
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Surprise: Media's Obamacare health insurance exchange poster boy is OFA volunteer
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Nearly 9 in 10 Americans displeased with Washington, poll says — As the partial federal government shutdown continues with no break in the impasse between Democrats and Republicans in Congress, nearly nine in 10 Americans are unhappy with the way things are going in Washington …
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Fox News Poll: Voters support delaying Obamacare, but oppose defunding it
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Pelosi: Dem spending concessions ‘lost in the news’ on shutdown
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Gov. compares same-sex marriage to incest — (CNN) - Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's stance on same-sex marriage is no secret, after bringing a legal challenge against a county clerk who tried to sign marriage licenses for same-sex couples. Friday, Corbett went a step further, comparing gay marriage to a union between siblings.
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Corbett compares gay marriage to incest
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Important Customer Security Announcement — Cyber attacks are one of the unfortunate realities of doing business today. Given the profile and widespread use of many of our products, Adobe has attracted increasing attention from cyber attackers. Very recently, Adobe's security team …
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How A Rand Paul Republican From Alabama Learned To Love Obamacare — Joshua Pittman is a 31-year-old self-employed videographer from Montgomery, Alabama. A libertarian Republican who voted for Ron Paul in 2012 and believes that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is the future of the GOP …
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WWII Memorial Barricade Wired Shut — On Tuesday morning, seven National Park Service employees were seen erecting and tending to a barricade around the World War II memorial in Washington, D.C. One NPS employee was operating a forklift. There usually aren't any NPS employees working at the World War II memorial.
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We need climate-change risk assessment — Michael Bloomberg, an independent, is mayor of New York. Hank Paulson, a former chairman of Goldman Sachs and Treasury secretary in the George W. Bush administration, is chairman of the Paulson Institute, which promotes sustainable economic growth.
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Why Obamacare isn't ‘settled’ — Gerard Magliocca is a professor of constitutional law at Indiana University. His latest book is “American Founding Son: John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment.” — The Affordable Care Act was passed by Congress, signed by President Obama …
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