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Senate approves 'fiscal cliff' deal, sends it to House
Hours before a midnight deadline Monday, the White House reached a tentative deal with Congress to stop an enormous tax hike for all but the wealthiest households and to postpone for two months tough decisions on how to cut federal spending. After a rare...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Democratic Party, Pat Roberts, Family, Benjamin L. Cardin
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Gun control: Surge in support, new poll shows
Public support for stricter gun laws has leaped to its highest point in eight years with 58% now in favor, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll released Thursday. That's a 14-point jump from last year. Of those surveyed, 92% of Americans want background...
Tags: Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Firearms, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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Former President George H.W. Bush in intensive care
Former President George H.W. Bush has been moved to the intensive care unit at Methodist Hospital in Houston, hospital officials confirmed to the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday. Bush, 88, has been struggling with fever, weakness and a bronchitis-like...
Tags: Holidays, Los Angeles Times, Religious Festivals, Hospitals and Clinics
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Spokesman: George H.W. Bush in intensive care
HOUSTON (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush has been admitted to the intensive care unit at a Houston hospital "following a series of setbacks including a persistent fever," but he is alert and talking to medical staff, his spokesman said...
Tags: George W. Bush, White House, Jeb Bush, Government, World War II (1939-1945)
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Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Thursday
WEATHER: Windy, with gusts up to 50 mph and wind chills in the 20s. TRAFFIC: Check our traffic updates for this morning's issues. TOP NEWS More wintry weather in forecast amid bout of slush: Winter waited until the busy holiday season to arrive, and...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Baltimore Ravens, Ray Lewis, Stranger Than Fiction, Jacoby Jones
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Warren B. Rudman dies at 82; senator co-authored budget-balancing law
Former Sen. Warren B. Rudman, who co-authored a ground-breaking budget-balancing law, championed ethics and led a commission that predicted the danger of terrorist attacks years before 9/11, died Monday at a Washington, D.C., hospital. He was 82. The...
Tags: Ethics, Judges, Washington, DC, U.S. Senate, Justice System
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New Yorkers say Chris Christie did best job after Hurricane Sandy
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.New York City voters give their leaders high marks for dealing with Hurricane Sandy, but it was the governor of New Jersey who won the highest accolades, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Tuesday. New Yorkers continue to deal with the...Tags: News Corp., Chris Christie, Television Networks, Manhattan (New York City), Andrew Cuomo
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For former members, life after Congress
Connie Morella served as an ambassador in Paris. Helen Bentley became a consultant to the port of Baltimore. Wayne Gilchrest opened an environmental education center on the Eastern Shore. Former members of Congress from Maryland, they rebounded from...
Tags: Christopher Van Hollen Jr., U.S. Congress, Democratic Party, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Port of Baltimore
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The feds' education power grab
In December, California's application for a waiver from provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act was denied by the U.S. Department of Education. This, we were told, was because California had failed to embrace the federal department's reform agenda,...
Tags: Teachers, Academic Progress, Students, U.S. Congress, Columbia University
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Former President George H.W. Bush improving, out of intensive care
Former President George H.W. Bush has been moved out of intensive care at a Houston hospital after his condition improved, a family spokesman said Saturday. Bush, the oldest surviving president at 88, is now in a regular patient room at Methodist...
Tags: George W. Bush, Central Intelligence Agency, World War II (1939-1945), Hospitals and Clinics
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The real reason Obama won
Baltimore's Fifth Regiment Armory is a good place to start for some perspective on the recent presidential election. Within its gray stone walls, the tumultuous 1912 Democratic National Convention played a major scene in the political drama that...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Woodrow Wilson, Spiro Agnew, Elections, Politics
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Spokesman says ex-President Bush's fever rising
HOUSTON (AP) - A spokesman says the fever that kept former President George H.W. Bush in a Houston hospital over Christmas has worsened, and doctors have put him on a liquids-only diet. Jim McGrath had said earlier Wednesday that the fever had gone...
Tags: Tylenol (drug), Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland)
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