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Saturday's TV Highlights: 'Smash' on NBC
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of April 28 - May 4, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Fix This Yard The season premiere...
Tags: Marsha Blackburn, Peter T. King, CMT (tv network), John C. Miller, Interior Policy
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Charlize Theron on 'Fox News Sunday'
Staff writerCharlize Theron puts in an appearance this weekend on "Fox News Sunday." The Oscar-winner is a messenger of peace for the United Nations. She and Michel Sidibé, executive director of UNAIDS, are in the power play segment of the program at 10 a.m. Sunday...Tags: Michael Chertoff, Meet the Press (tv program), Marsha Blackburn, John C. Miller, Keith Ellison
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Boston bombings to dominate Sunday morning shows
Staff writerTHIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED: Discussion about the Boston Marathon bombings and the suspects will fill the Sunday morning talk shows. A look at the guest list, which has been very fluid this weekend: ABC's "This Week" features Mayor Thomas Menino, D-...Tags: Tim Roemer, Michael Chertoff, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Local Government, Woodrow Wilson
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Protect Our Prairies Act creates a nationwide ÂSodsaver provision
Washington, DC - On Feb. 14, Representatives Kristi Noem (R-SD) and Tim Walz (D-MN), along with six additional cosponsors, introduced bipartisan legislation that would protect our nation's remaining native prairies and prime grasslands. The Protect...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, Earl Blumenauer, Natural Resource Industry, Bob Latta, Agriculture
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BioWatch upgrade apparently postponed
WASHINGTON — Amid concerns about cost and reliability, the federal Department of Homeland Security has quietly postponed plans to buy technology that officials have long claimed could provide a life-saving upgrade of BioWatch, the nation's system...
Tags: George W. Bush, National Security, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Lab Tests, Anthrax
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Congress members voice doubts about BioWatch
WASHINGTON — Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee and a senior Republican colleague voiced grave doubts Thursday about the viability of BioWatch, the nation's system for detecting biological attacks that has been plagued by false...
Tags: National Security, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Democratic Party, Laura Richardson, Yvette D. Clarke
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TSA officers will be retrained after racial profiling complaints
CNNThe Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is retraining some workers after allegations of racial profiling by officers assigned to look for people behaving suspiciously, a spokesman said. The classes come after agents at Boston's Logan...Tags: The New York Times, Racism, Social Issues, Minority Groups, American Civil Liberties Union
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Americans on no-fly list allowed to learn to fly
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. citizens who are on the government's list of people banned from flying because they're considered terror threats are not prevented from learning how to fly in schools around the country, according to government regulation....
Tags: Washington, DC, National Security, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Crime, Law and Justice, Mike J. Rogers
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Victims of 1998 Africa bombing still seeking compensation
Fourteen years after a truck bomb ripped through the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, the families of 12 Americans killed in the attack are still fighting for federal compensation that has been granted to other terrorism victims — a struggle that has...Tags: U.S. Embassy, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Human Interest, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Kenya
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Homeland Security official: Airport employees are potential terror risks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Commercial air travel is at risk from terrorists who quietly get jobs at airports so that they can attack from within sensitive areas, a senior Homeland Security Department official told lawmakers Wednesday. There has never been...
Tags: National Security, Grupo Bimbo, Queens (New York City), Interior Policy, U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security
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House vote sets up Senate cybersecurity showdown over privacy, corporate and government spying
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House’s solid bipartisan vote for a cybersecurity bill sends a message to the Senate: Now it’s your turn to act. Ignoring a White House veto threat, the House approved the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and...
Tags: Government, National Government, Economy, Business and Finance, U.S. Senate, Democratic Party
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House members to TSA: You will inspect all inbound air cargo, right?
CNNSeveral House lawmakers want to know if the Transportation Security Administration is backtracking on plans to screen 100% of cargo placed on international passenger flights to the United States. In a letter to TSA Administrator John Pistole, the...Tags: National Security, Justice System, Laws, Defense, U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security
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