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Maryland gets more money for health reform as law faces legal setback
Even as the federal health care reform law appears to be headed to the Supreme Court after another legal setback Friday, Maryland received $27.2 million to move forward on implementing the law's insurance exchanges where consumers can shop for...Tags: Lawyers, Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Judges, Washington, DC
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Jackson urges NAACP to push voting issue
Sun StaffMILWAUKEE - Civil rights activist the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson capped off a day of grass-roots political strategizing yesterday by imploring NAACP members to urge their congressional representatives to extend soon-to-expire provisions of the 1965 Voting...Tags: Civil Rights, Activism, F James Jr Sensenbrenner, Judges, NAACP
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On abortion issue, Roberts leaves both sides with doubts
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - For many of the activists who have dedicated themselves to the battle over the U.S. Supreme Court, abortion rights is the issue that unites them. Yesterday, they got a chance to hear Judge John G. Roberts Jr. speak at length - and repeatedly...Tags: Abortion, Civil Rights, U.S. Supreme Court, Human Rights, Abortion Issue
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Nomination must go before the Senate Judiciary Committee
Sun StaffREPUBLICANS Chairman: Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Elected to a fifth term in November, Specter, 75, had to fight to win the committee gavel after conservatives blasted him for his remarks that President Bush might have a hard time getting anti-...Tags: Abortion, Lawyers, Jon Kyl, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mike DeWine
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Shuttle tiles under scrutiny
Sun StaffCrossing over California minutes before it broke apart, the space shuttle Columbia heated abnormally on its left side at about the time that an astronomer observed a large, bright object dropping from the spacecraft. The rising temperatures, together...Tags: NASA, Hospitals and Clinics, Metal and Mineral, Astronomy, Rocketry
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Judges weigh music industry subpoenas
The Associated PressA federal appeals court panel offered few hints today whether it will permit the music industry to continue using special copyright subpoenas to track and sue computer users who download songs over the Internet. The three-judge panel from the U.S....Tags: Piracy, Office Equipment and Supplies, Lawyers, Recording Industry Association of America, Trials
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Congress' probe to go beyond catastrophe
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - As investigators sort through the wreckage of the space shuttle Columbia, Congress is preparing a major re-evaluation of the space program's budget, its mission and its future course. Key lawmakers are seeking a detailed account of what...Tags: Kay Bailey Hutchison, NASA, Technology, Satellite Technology, Rocketry
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Gov. Brownback signs 2013 budget
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed the $14.1 billion state budget, vetoing minor spending provisions but maintaining increases for public schools and social services. The Republican governor signed the bill Friday as legislators...
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McConnell Intelligence Complex to be named after Gates
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsThe Kansas National Guard’s 184th Intelligence Wing will dedicate its Intelligence Complex to the former U.S. Secretary of Defense Dr. Robert M. Gates. “Because of the experience gained by more than 40 years of service to this nation, Dr....Tags: Barack Obama, Robert Gates, George Bush, Central Intelligence Agency
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KC area soldier killed by IED
KANSSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A 23-year-old soldier from suburban Kansas City has died of wounds suffered in Afghanistan. The Kansas City Star reports that Pfc. Cale C. Miller, of Overland Park, Kan., died Thursday in Afghanistan when insurgent forces...
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Governor Brownback to decide fate of anti-Islamic law bill
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Sam Brownback is preparing to decide the fate of a bill aimed at keeping Kansas courts or government agencies from basing decisions on Islamic or other foreign legal codes. Brownback had a Friday deadline to sign or veto...
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AG praises lawmakers' work on crime issues
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says legislators took important steps this year to protect children from sex offenders. The Republican attorney general says the GOP-controlled Legislature approved a package of...
Tags: Sex Crimes, Lawyers, Prosecution, Republican Party, Justice System
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