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Boston suspects' background threatens to derail immigration bill
WASHINGTON — The background of the Boston bombing suspects quickly emerged Friday as a potential hurdle to immigration reform, as renewed fears of terrorism gave conservative opponents a fresh argument against a proposed new law. "Given the events...
Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Chuck Grassley
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10 Things to Know for Today
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today (times in EDT): 1. DRAGNET TIGHTENS FOR MARATHON BOMBING SUSPECT One of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing is dead and a massive manhunt is...Tags: Nazi Party, Baltimore Ravens, Judges, National Football League, Ricin Mail Attacks (2013)
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Senators dispute Boston tie to immigration bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican senator said Friday the bombings in Boston raise questions about gaps in the U.S. immigration system, but a Democratic senator rejected such a connection and cautioned against conflating the Boston events with a new...Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Janet Napolitano, Chuck Grassley, Migration, Chuck Schumer
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Swift, hopeful reaction to immigration bill
WASHINGTON – An eagerly awaited immigration overhaul from a bipartisan group of senators arrived early Wednesday, an 844-page bill that both the political left and right now see as the best chance in decades to achieve fix a broken immigration...
Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Marco Rubio, Personal Data Collection, Corporate Officers, News Corp.
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Bipartisan group introduces immigration reform bill
WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of senators has introduced a bill to overhaul immigration laws and provide a path to legal status for an estimated 11 million people who overstayed their visas or illegally entered the United States, Senate aides said....Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), John McCain, Chuck Schumer, Marco Rubio, Michael F. Bennet
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GOP senator hopes to honor slain teen with gun bill
This post has been updated, as indicated below.WASHINGTON -- Sen. Mark Kirk, one of the lead Republican sponsors of a bipartisan compromise to expand background checks of gun purchases, says he hopes to name the legislation in honor of Hadiya Pendleton, a Chicago teen who was shot on a Chicago...Tags: Republican Party, Joe Manchin III, Barack Obama, Hadiya Pendleton, Patrick J. Toomey
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Obama appeals court pick has Republican support
WASHINGTON — President Obama, who has seen court nominees run into Republican roadblocks, may have found a winning strategy for putting a judge on the powerful U.S. appeals court here: He chose a highly regarded corporate lawyer whose resume...
Tags: Lawyers, Labor Legislation, Civil Rights, White House, U.S. Senate
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Robert B. Reich: The new xenophobes
American VoicesThe Boston Marathon bombing has brought out the xenophobes. Often when America suffers some large, inexplicable tragedy, we want to blame "foreigners" and look for ways to fortify ourselves against them. It's more reassuring to believe that an evil...Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Islam, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Robert B. Reich
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Medical liability bill gets snagged by gun concerns
Miami HeraldA Senate priority bill to limit the liability of Florida doctors ran into trouble in the House on Monday when opponents suggested that it could be used by insurance companies who represent the doctors to create a private registry of gun owners. The...Tags: Malpractice, Lobbying, Lawyers, Tom Lee, The Miami Herald
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Editorial: Shattering the silence
Ask any metropolitan police officer to name the greatest obstacles to cracking unsolved homicide cases, and one answer will predominate: the no-snitch culture that is all too prevalent in high-crime neighborhoods. Many of these homicides take place in...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Witnesses, Juvenile Delinquency, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Murder
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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: John McCain, Patrick Leahy, Lobbying, Marco Rubio, Personal Data Collection
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Amendment to Mike Chenault's Gun Bill Draws Criticism
Channel 2 NewsA Senate committee heard strong public testimony Monday in favor of criminalizing new federal gun regulations in Alaska HB69, by House Speaker Mike Chenault, would make any future federal laws that ban assault weapons or require gun owners to register...Tags: Justice System
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