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Apple CEO Tim Cook to senators: 'We don't depend on tax gimmicks' [video chat]
WASHINGTON -- Apple CEO Tim Cook defended the company's tax avoidance strategies in an appearance Tuesday before the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Wearing a business suit, white shirt and powder blue tie, Cook read an...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Economy, Business and Finance, Ron Johnson, Politics, John F. Kennedy
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Gun control backers turn up heat on selected senators
WASHINGTON — First came the letter-writing campaigns, then the protests at town hall meetings and now the television ads. The last several weeks in New Hampshire have had the feel of a heated electoral season — but the target of this siege,...Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Michael Bloomberg, Politics, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Elections
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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: John Boehner, Politics, Jack Reed, Government, Hillary Clinton
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The NRA doesn't deserve my sympathy, or yours
Usually when a senator suffers a big public defeat, he slinks off to lick his wounds. He rarely retwists the arms that didn't bend his way. Colleagues don't like to be seen switching. Were they horribly mistaken the first time? Don't know what they...Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Politics, Elections, Joe Manchin III, John McCain
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Saturday's TV Highlights and Weekend Talk Shows: 'The Confession'
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 12 - 18, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Orphan Black Paul (Dylan Bruce)...
Tags: Tammy Duckworth, Robert Gates, Jack Reed, Maya Angelou, Linda Sanchez
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Benghazi attack tops Sunday morning news menu
Staff writerThe Benghazi attack will be the main topic this weekend on Sunday morning chat programs. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., talk to NBC's "Meet the Press" at 9 a.m. on WESH-Channel 2. They will discuss whether there was...Tags: Tammy Duckworth, Robert Gates, U.S. Marine Corps, Jack Reed, State of the Union Address
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Gabrielle Giffords' story a different kind of profile in courage
Gabrielle Giffords received a Profile in Courage award this weekend at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. The award is fitting, though she is displaying a different kind of courage than was celebrated by the late president in his 1957 best-selling...Tags: Human Interest, John F. Kennedy, Politics, John McCain, Parties and Movements
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Is New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte in trouble?
Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire was the only senator from the Northeast to vote against the bill that would have required universal background checks on gun purchases, something nearly all Americans support. Gun safety supporters have...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America
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10 Things to Know for Today
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. THOUSANDS RALLY FOR LABOR REFORMS The workers paraded through Dhaka, Bangladesh, to demand safety at work after a garment factory building...Tags: Edward J Markey, Food and Drug Administration, John Kerry
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Courage in short supply
WASHINGTON -- The gun bill was going down, but Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who reached a compromise to try to save it, went to the Senate floor Wednesday morning to give it one more try. In an unorthodox tactic, he appealed directly...
Tags: Joe Manchin III, Parties and Movements, Lobbying, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Harry Reid
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Senate blocks expanded gun sale background checks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans backed by a small band of rural-state Democrats scuttled the most far-reaching gun control legislation in two decades on Wednesday, rejecting calls to tighten background checks on firearms buyers as they...
Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Joe Manchin III, U.S. Congress, Max Baucus, Lobbying
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Bill to expand gun background checks faces likely defeat in Senate
Associated PressA bipartisan effort to expand background checks faced almost certain defeat Wednesday as the Senate approached a long-awaited vote on the linchpin of the drive to curb gun violence. As the showdown drew near, an Associated Press-GfK poll showed ebbing...Tags: Polls, Joe Manchin III, Parties and Movements, U.S. Congress, Assault
May 21, 2013
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May 6, 2013
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