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Zardari likely will lose Pakistan's presidency � and immunity from prosecution
McClatchy Foreign StaffISLAMABAD Pakistan's president, Asif Ali Zardari, will almost certainly lose his job in September and like his predecessor, retired Gen. Pervez Musharraf, he's likely to face criminal charges under the government of newly elected Prime Minister Nawaz...Tags: National Government, Crime, Law and Justice, Asif Ali Zardari, Trials, Prosecution
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Garcetti's advantage
As Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti assembles his new administration, it is interesting, and encouraging, to note the odd confluence of circumstances that will leave him beholden less to factions or special interests and more to the people of Los Angeles....
Tags: Eric Garcetti, Bankruptcy, Politics, Local Elections, Elections
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Local enterprise zones at risk
Staff WriterEditor's Note: This article has been corrected. Gov. Jerry Brown is once again pushing to do away with enterprise zones and their tax break benefits, a move that the local enterprise zone manager says would severely hinder the Valley’s capacity to...Tags: Politics, Regional Authority, Credit and Debt, Executive Branch, Business
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Tuesday showed 2014 is looking good and ugly
Capitol IdeasYo! Congrats to the House’s two newest members: Kevin Schreiber of York and Dan Miller of Allegheny County. Unofficial election results from Tuesday's primary show Schreiber takes over the 95th District and Miller the 42nd, both of which had been...... -
Let us not pray A hopeful wish for the end of religious exercises at the beginning of government meetings
Change of SubjectI wish atheist lawmaker Juan Mendez hadn't delivered his "prayer" to open the Tuesday afternoon session of the Arizona House of Representatives. Mendez, a freshman Democrat who represents Tempe, began by asking his assembled colleagues not to bow their... -
IRS officials aren't cooperating in probes at top or bottom
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Internal Revenue Service officials are not fully cooperating with efforts to learn who is responsible for targeting conservative groups, lawmakers learned Wednesday during the third and most tense, dramatic hearing on the scandal. First, the...Tags: Trey Gowdy, Jay Carney, This Week (tv program), U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Arts and Culture
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Can Fort Lauderdale compel background checks at gun show?
A showdown is brewing between Fort Lauderdale and the Ohio-based company that has long held gun shows at the city-owned War Memorial Auditorium. The city has clamped down on the arms-bazaar excesses of the show, and a lawyer for Suncoast Gun Shows say...Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Politics, Public Officials, Fort Lauderdale, Father's Day
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Cass R. Sunstein: Why second-term scandals are almost inevitable
In the last month, there has been a lot of talk about whether American presidents face a second-term curse. It's not clear that such a thing exists, but any second- term president is likely to have to deal with some real or apparent scandals. The reason...Tags: Dartmouth College, Politics, John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate, Executive Branch
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Obama nominee vows to work with Congress to fund transportation
ReutersBy Doug Palmer WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's choice to be transportation secretary promised on Wednesday to work with Congress to figure out how to fund U.S. transportation needs during a time of tight budgets and faced...Tags: National Government, John Thune, Ray LaHood, John D. Rockefeller IV, U.S. Congress
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Cuccinelli was first to order investigation of McDonnell
Nearly five months before the financial relationship between Gov. Bob McDonnell, his family and Jonnie R. Williams came to light, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli had already initiated an investigation into the matter. In early April the Washington Post...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Regional Authority, Corporate Crime, Herring, Science and Technology
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Report: China continues foreign automotive investment incentives after all
Autoblog.comFiled under: China, Plants/Manufacturing, GM, Volkswagen China has reversed a policy that would have nixed incentives for investments from foreign automakers, paving the way for further expansion by General Motors, Volkswagen and others. Legislators had... -
Report: Ford to cease Australian automaking operations after 90 years
Autoblog.comFiled under: Sedan, SUV, Plants/Manufacturing, Ford, Australia Ford began manufacturing cars in Australia in 1925 with the Model T. In 2016, Ford will stop manufacturing cars Down Under, including the Falcon and the Territory SUV. Ford Australia CEO Bob...
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