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Israeli airstrikes may have exposed Syrian flaw, U.S. officials say
WASHINGTON — Recent Israeli strikes inside Syria may have exposed weaknesses in the regime’s air defenses and could embolden the U.S. and its allies to take more steps to aid rebels fighting the regime there, said lawmakers on Sunday....
Tags: Weaponry, NBC (tv network), Wars and Interventions, Government, Politics
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Obama: Same-sex provision should not derail U.S. immigration move
Reuters* Proposal could spark opposition in Congress * Obama under pressure for legislative victory By Steve Holland and Mark Felsenthal SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, May 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama signaled on Friday that a proposal to add a same-sex...Tags: Politics, Government, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Costa Rica, Executive Branch
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Brendon Ayanbadejo on 2 Sunday shows; Warren Buffett on 'This Week'
Staff writerThe Sunday morning topics and guests: Gay rights supporter Brendon Ayanbadejo of the Baltimore Ravens will be a guest on "Meet the Press" and "Face the Nation." He will discuss the meaning of NBA player Jason Collins' coming out. NBC's "Meet the...Tags: Football, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Whoopi Goldberg, Sports Illustrated, Periodicals
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Saturday's TV Highlights: 'Orphan Black' on BBC
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 5 - 11, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies   -------------------- SERIES Orphan Black A trip to the suburbs...
Tags: Football, Whoopi Goldberg, John Travolta, Evan Bayh, Dick Durbin
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Immigration talks bog down over numbers
WASHINGTON — Senate negotiations to overhaul the nation's immigration laws have stumbled over the hiring of half a million migrant farmworkers each year — an issue that is crucial for California's vast agricultural industry, which employs more...
Tags: Mitch McConnell, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Interior Policy, Michael F. Bennet, Personal Data Collection
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FBI's longtime director faces criticism of bureau again
ReutersBy Susan Cornwell and Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) - As he nears the end of a dozen years as director of the FBI, Robert Mueller finds himself defending the agency over its handling of two high-profile cases. It is a familiar spot for...Tags: Laws, Lifestyle and Leisure, Crime, Law and Justice, Sports, FBI
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Lawmakers cite Boston bombings in questions on immigration bill
WASHINGTON — On the third day of hearings on a bill to overhaul the immigration system, senators took a break from partisan sniping and grilled Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on whether the Boston bombings had exposed shortcomings in...
Tags: John Cornyn, Interior Policy, Laws, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Crime, Law and Justice
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Washington draws the wrong lessons from Boston
Ordinary people, elected and unelected, behaved heroically last week. Unfortunately, it all happened hundreds of miles from Washington. In Boston, strangers gave clothes and shelter to shivering runners. They comforted injured spectators. They saved...Tags: Apple iPod, Dan Coats, Interior Policy, National Rifle Association of America, Chuck Schumer
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The Miami Herald Fabiola Santiago column
Miami HeraldSounds like many Republicans in Congress no longer remember they lost the presidential election. Judging by their comments in the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday on a bipartisan immigration reform proposal, the Republicans are back on the anti-...Tags: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Migration, Marco Rubio
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Scams blocking Chinese investors' path to U.S. green cards
Jianwei Li and two other wealthy Chinese businessmen thought they had a sure thing when they wired $1 million each to a California firm that had promised to build a fine Chinese restaurant in the Bay Area city of San Bruno. The project had an alluring...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, O'Hare International Airport, Interior Policy, Justice System
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Republican lawmakers show their division on immigration reform
WASHINGTON — The divide within the Republican Party over immigration reform was on full view Monday, as top party leaders made a case for overhauling the laws even as conservative senators argued that the Boston bombings showed the need to go slow....
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Justice System, Chuck Schumer, Luis Gutierrez, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Mike Sweet column
The Hawk Eye, Burlington, IowaThe roar of explosions and cries of the victims from the Boston bombing still were reverberating in America's psyche when U.S. senators Chuck Grassley, Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and other Republicans mounted their high horses to monger fear...Tags: Murder, Interior Policy, Justice System, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Timothy McVeigh
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