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GOP, Democrats continue to dispute regarding Benghazi deaths
WASHINGTON (AP) — Politicians love few things better than a scandal to trip up their opponents, and Republicans hope last year's fatal attack on U.S. diplomats in Libya will do exactly that to Hillary Rodham Clinton and other Democrats. History...
Tags: Darrell E Issa, Politics, Democratic Party, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter
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Perez vote delayed as confirmation fight intensifies
WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee vote on Labor Secretary nominee Tom Perez was postponed hours before it was set to take place Wednesday, highlighting what appears to be a growing partisan fight over the confirmation of the former Maryland official. ...Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Labor Legislation, Politics, Democratic Party
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U.N.'s Carla del Ponte says Syrian rebels may have used sarin
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.BEIRUT — A leading member of a United Nations investigatory commission says there are “strong concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof” that Syrian rebels have used the nerve agent sarin. Carla del Ponte, a former...Tags: Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Biological and Chemical Weapons, Wars and Interventions, BBC, Bashar Assad
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McCain again calls for special congressional panel on Benghazi
WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) pressed Sunday for a special congressional committee to investigate the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, last year, insisting that questions about former Secretary of State...
Tags: CBS Corp., Darrell E Issa, Politics, John McCain, John Boehner
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Obama golfs with GOP senators
WASHINGTON -- On the first green, President Obama put his arm around Sen. Bob Corker, the Tennessee Republican. He shared his golf cart with Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Republican from Georgia. Obama hasn’t had much luck schmoozing GOP lawmakers in...
Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Interior Policy, Bob Corker, Politics
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Lives lost mean 'Benghazi' should be more than a political buzzword
Mention the word "Benghazi" to Republicans, and chances are, they'll become eager, animated, even predatory, seeking weakness in President Barack Obama. But say "Benghazi" to Democrats and they'll flinch. Some will step back as if you're carrying a...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, White House, Elections, Christopher Stevens
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With new revelations, outrage spreads about IRS targeting
WASHINGTON — Top career officials in the Internal Revenue Service withheld information from Congress for months about the tax agency's targeting of conservative organizations for extra scrutiny, according to documents released Monday as a...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Pension and Welfare, Impeachment, Barack Obama, Interior Policy
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Government secretly obtains phone records from journalists
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors secretly obtained telephone records from more than 20 lines belonging to the Associated Press and its journalists in an attempt to learn who leaked information on how the CIA thwarted an apparent terrorist plot...
Tags: Al-Qaeda, Darrell E Issa, Patrick Leahy, Politics, Terrorism
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Obama dismisses Benghazi criticism as 'sideshow'
WASHINGTON — A defiant President Obama dismissed as a "sideshow" the controversy over his administration's handling of last year's armed assault in Benghazi, Libya, accusing critics of trying to make political hay from the deaths of four Americans....
Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Politics, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, White House
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Column: Benghazi and IRS: Sons of Watergate?
In his defense of President Barack Obama, press secretary Jay Carney is beginning to sound a lot like Ronald Zeigler, Richard Nixon's spokesman. Carney only has to use the word "inoperative," as Ziegler did when incriminating evidence surfaced that proved...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, CBS Corp., Al-Qaeda, Politics, White House
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L.A. mayor candidates urge DWP to release pay records
Shortly after lawyers for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power employees' union filed a lawsuit to delay release of their members' names and current salaries, both mayoral candidates called on the agency to make the information public as soon...
Tags: Wendy Greuel, Labor Legislation, Politics, Litigation, Elections
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Obama has kind words for former President George W. Bush
DALLAS -- President Obama is in the heart of George W. Bush country to pay tribute to the former president he describes as “concerned about all people in America, not just those who voted Republican." Obama kicked off his Texas visit at a...
Tags: Sports, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Politics, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
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