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Ricin letter sent to Obama; suspicious packages, envelopes reported on Capitol Hill
Associated PressLetters sent to President Barack Obama and a Mississippi senator tested positive for poisonous ricin in preliminary checks Wednesday, and authorities chased reports of other suspicious mail at a U.S. Capitol already on edge. An FBI intelligence...Tags: Claire McCaskill, Sports, Jay Carney, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Police Investigations
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Senate panel approves Kerry's nomination as Secretary of State
The Associated PressThe Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday swiftly and unanimously approved President Barack Obama’s choice of Sen. John Kerry to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state. By voice vote, the panel approved the nomination of the...Tags: Condoleezza Rice, Leon Panetta, Libyan No-Fly Zone (2011), Chuck Hagel, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
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Panetta opens combat roles to women
The Pentagon is lifting its ban on women serving in combat, opening hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs after generations of limits on their service, defense officials said Wednesday. The changes, set to...
Tags: Armed Forces, Afghanistan, The Pentagon, Loretta Sanchez, Feminism
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Allan Powell: History only repeats itself with human assistance
It took more than 600 pages for author William D. Cohan to disclose the origin and development of what became Goldman Sachs, a financial giant which once had an office on Wall Street. There is much to be learned about investment and banking from Cohan&...Tags: Great Depression (1929), Economy, Business and Finance, Lloyd Blankfein, Warren Buffett, Financial Markets
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IRS bureaucrats saw Obama in rearview mirror
Of course the president deserves some of the blame. Yes, it's extremely unlikely he ordered the IRS to discriminate against tea party, pro-life or Jewish groups opposed to his agenda (though why anyone should take his word for it is beyond me). And...Tags: Taxation, Internal Revenue Service, Tea Party Movement, George W. Bush, U.S. Congress
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Hagel informed Obama of military's latest sex assault allegations; president urged action
AP National Security WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel informed President Barack Obama of the latest sexual assault allegations against a soldier who was assigned to prevent such crimes — the second soldier involved in similar accusations — and...Tags: Armed Forces, Patty Murray, Sex Crimes, Entertainment, U.S. Army
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AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT
Justice investigating IRS targeting of tea party; government watchdog blames lax management WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is opening a criminal investigation of the Internal Revenue Service just as another probe concludes that lax...Tags: U.S. Department of State, Joe Williams, Taxation, Personal Weapon Control, Abortion Issue
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Congress speaks with a loud, muddled voice on Syria
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein made headlines recently by demanding a forceful U.S. response to Syria's use of chemical weapons against its population. Less noticed was that the California Democrat wasn't urging deeper military involvement...
Tags: Bob Corker, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Guest Commentary: Support is vital for our Guard and Reserve families
The following guest commentary was written by Carl Levin, the senior U.S. senator from Michigan and the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Recently I had the privilege of speaking to the National Research Summit on Reserve Component...Tags: Armed Forces, University of Michigan, Family, Health, U.S. Army
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States try to tackle 'secret money' in politics
WASHINGTON — Early last month, state lawyers and election officials around the country dialed into a conference call to talk about how to deal with the flood of secret money that played an unprecedented role in the 2012 election. The discussion,...Tags: Government, Internal Revenue Service, Martin O'Malley, Elections, Jerry Brown
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