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PokerStars chairman to pay $50 mln to resolve U.S. case
ReutersNEW YORK, June 12 (Reuters) - The chairman of PokerStars has agreed to pay $50 million to resolve forfeiture demands by the U.S. government connected to a money laundering lawsuit the online gambling company settled last year, court documents said....Tags: Criminal Laws, Organized Crime, Justice System, Trials, Politics
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Some in Congress question aid to Egypt over NGO prison sentences
McClatchy Foreign StaffCAIRO An Egyptian court's decision to convict 43 democracy proponents along with a proposed Egyptian law that would restrict how nongovernmental organizations here operate has spurred a chorus of concern from European leaders, members of the U.S. Congress...Tags: Trials, Punishment, Justice and Rights, Hosni Mubarak, Cairo (Egypt)
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U.S. swaps regulator faces leadership shake-up
ReutersBy Douwe Miedema WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) - The top U.S. derivatives regulatory agency is facing a leadership shake-up just as it deals with some of the thorniest issues in its overhaul of rules for Wall Street, lobbyists and people inside the...Tags: Business Enterprises, Investment Service, Washington, DC, Lobbying, Politics
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Bad signs on immigration
Even as the Senate takes up the issue of immigration reform this week, Republicans are increasingly giving indications that the effort isn't likely to go very far. First, it was Sen. Marco Rubio's dance around the issue — repeatedly speaking out...
Tags: Health Insurance, Social Issues, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, John Cornyn, Government Health Care
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Every vote counts: Conemaugh Township supervisor could have just enough write-in votes to force a runoff
peteb@dailyamerican.comThere is a possibility incumbent Conemaugh Township Supervisor Steven Buncich — who already locked up the Democratic nomination to return to the board last month — can tie the presumptive Republican nominee if every write-in vote goes in his...Tags: G. Terry Madonna, Politics, U.S. Army, Elections, Local Elections
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Bloomberg targets political donations in latest gun-control push
ReutersBy Edith Honan NEW YORK, June 12 (Reuters) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in his latest bid for tougher gun control, is urging the city's legions of Democratic donors to withhold funds from four Democratic senators who opposed a background checks...Tags: Lobbying, Politics, Gun Control, Mark Pryor, Interior Policy
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Column: Palmer Raids Redux: The NSA versus civil liberties
Reuters(Reuters) - During the "Red Scare" that swept the United States in the wake of Russia's 1917 Bolshevik revolution, the Justice Department launched a cycle of raids against radicals and leftists. The U.S. attorney general, a once-celebrated Progressive...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Career and Workplace, International Law, Justice and Rights, George Washington
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Defending NSA spying puts GOP establishment on wrong side of debate
Yes, President Big Brother has been hurt by the National Security Agency domestic spying scandal. He once campaigned for the White House as a champion of civil liberties, and now he haplessly defends the NSA's secret data mining of the American people,...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Justice and Rights, F James Jr Sensenbrenner, Edward Snowden, Politics
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Obama urges Massachusetts voters to back Markey's Senate bid
ReutersBOSTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, fighting to protect his party's margin of control in the U.S. Senate, urged Massachusetts voters on Wednesday to back fellow Democrat Edward Markey in a June 25 special election that could gauge Americans'...Tags: Political Fundraising, Polls, Barack Obama, Gabriel Gomez, Personal Weapon Control
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In first joint event Democratic ticket mates label GOP opponents as too extreme
RICHMOND – Fresh off their wins in the primary election the Democratic nominees for lieutenant governor and attorney general joined gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe at a rally in Richmond Wednesday, where they contrasted themselves with their...Tags: Hampton Roads, Social Issues, Tea Party Movement, Religion and Belief, Lawyers
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Civil rights case is obstacle for Obama's Labor Department pick
WASHINGTON — It began with an odd civil rights claim, one that now threatens to derail the confirmation of President Obama's civil rights chief to lead the Labor Department. White landlords had sued the city of St. Paul, Minn., for aggressively...Tags: Career and Workplace, Justice System, Social Issues, Justice and Rights, Orrin Hatch
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Wasserman Schultz staying away from Nan Rich kerfuffle
Sun SentinelU.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Weston, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, says she won’t get involved in the flap over gubernatorial candidate Nan Rich’s desire to get a five-minute speaking slot at the state party’s...Tags: Florida Legislature, Weston (Broward, Florida), Politics, Elections, Republican Party
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