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US gun sales: Public relations success story?Globe and Mail, CanadaInc. filed a 10-K in which the gun maker said: "We believe the overall market for our products picked up subsequent to the US presidential election and we believe this is attributable to consumer concerns that the new administration could ban and ... |
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March 31st, 2009 By NEIL A. LEWIS
Republicans are threatening to filibuster the confirmations of two of President Obama’s choices for senior Justice Department posts.
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March 31st, 2009 By KAREN ANN CULLOTTA
Proposals by a reform commission included limiting political campaign contributions and making it easier for the authorities to use wiretaps when investigating corruption offenses.
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March 31st, 2009 By ADAM LIPTAK
A 1993 Congressional apology for the U.S.’s role in overthrowing Hawaii’s monarchy a century earlier does not prohibit Hawaiian officials from selling or transferring state land, the court ruled.
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March 31st, 2009 By DAVID STOUT and BERNIE BECKER
A three-judge panel ruled that only 400 absentee ballots — far fewer than Republican Senator Norm Coleman had sought — should be examined for possible counting.
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March 31st, 2009 By DAVID M. HERSZHENHORN
The House voted overwhelmingly to approve an expansion of national community service programs, a measure President Obama has said he would sign.
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Candidates clash as election date nearsTerrace Standard, CanadaAnd if you are re-elected on the 12th of May, let us accommodate your schedule.” Van Dyk hit back the next day with a press release, which stated that Austin had failed the residents of Terrace, and has been absent in addressing the needs and concerns ... |
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Reuters - Activist investors are looking to block the re-election of American International Group Inc director James Orr, chairman of the insurer's board's compensation committee, the Wall Street Journal said.
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March 31st, 2009 By DUFF WILSON
The legislation, which authorizes the F.D.A. to approve or reject tobacco products and ingredients, is expected to be approved by the House, but could meet resistance in the Senate.
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March 31st, 2009 By C. J. CHIVERS
The countries’ embassies have been without defense attachés as a result of a Canadian espionage accusation against Moscow, but the dispute appeared to be near resolution.
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March 31st, 2009 By PETER BAKER and HELENE COOPER
American and Russian officials say they share a willingness to reduce their nuclear stockpiles to no more than 1,500 warheads.
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March 31st, 2009 By DAVID E. SANGER
Amid signs of a rebuke of American economic leadership, the president arrived for a meeting of the Group of 20.
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Reuters - President Barack Obama's thinking on the crisis facing General Motors Corp has not changed since Monday, a senior administration official told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Reuters - The partisan sniping over President Barack Obama's expensive 2010 budget plan became a battle of posters and charts in a show-and-tell debate on the U.S. Senate floor on Tuesday.
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Politico - President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev will likely commit to beginning new talks on reducing nuclear arms stockpiles to no more than 1,500 deployed nuclear warheads when they meet for the first time Wednesday, people familiar with the discussions said
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Reuters - President Barack Obama and President Dmitry Medvedev will hit the restart button on U.S.-Russian ties by agreeing to begin talks on a new nuclear arms treaty when they meet for the first time on Wednesday.
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By Al Kamen The White House tonight announced that President Obama intends to nominate several individuals for top jobs, including: Anne Castle, a Denver lawyer, to be assistant secretary for water and science at the Department of the Interior; Mathy V. Stanislaus, an environmental lawyer and chemical engineer, to be assistant administrator for the office of solid waste and emergency response at the Environmental Protection Agency; Jo-Ellen Darcy, who has been Senate Finance Committee senior environmental adviser, to be assistant secretary of the Army (Civil Works); and, former Office of Personnel Management deputy director John U. Sepúlveda to be assistant secretary of human resources at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Politico - Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) moved to change the location of a $1,000-a-head April 7 fundraiser in New York City Tuesday, after learning that it was to be held at an exclusive club long criticized for having no minority members.
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AP - It's time for Congress to end restrictions that for more than half a century have prevented most Americans from visiting Cuba, a bipartisan group of senators said Tuesday.
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AP - Ten years and a day after a jury awarded Mayola Williams nearly $80 million in punitive damages in her fight with a cigarette maker, the Supreme Court said Tuesday she can collect her share.
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Politico - Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius has paid back taxes and interest of more than $7,800 stemming from "unintentional errors" revealed during her accountant's review of recent tax returns.
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AP - Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius recently corrected three years of tax returns and paid more than $7,000 in back taxes after finding "unintentional errors" the latest tax troubles for an Obama administration nominee. The Kansas governor explained the changes to senators in a letter dated Tuesday that the administration released. She said they involved charitable contributions, the sale of a home and business expenses.
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AP - Desperate but divided on ways to lift their nations from economic misery, world leaders converged for an emergency summit Tuesday holding scant hopes of finding a magic-bullet solution for the crisis that brought them hurrying to London.
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AP - Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Tuesday that mayors should take control of big-city school districts where academic performance is suffering.
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March 31st, 2009 By KATE PHILLIPS
The governor from Kansas appears at the first of two hearings this week as her candidacy to become health and human services secretary moves forward.
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AP - Reporters who decline to reveal confidential information or sources would gain limited protection in federal court under a bill approved Tuesday in the House.
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Reuters - The partisan sniping over President Barack Obama's expensive 2010 budget plan became a battle of posters and charts in a show-and-tell debate on the U.S. Senate floor on Tuesday.
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AP - Banks that have received federal aid are using the money as they see fit, in some cases providing new loans to customers, retiring debt or buying mortgage-backed securities, a chief investigator told Congress on Tuesday.
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CQPolitics.com - Republican leaders in the Senate are clashing with John McCain, their party's 2008 presidential nominee. He wants to offer an alternative to the Democratic budget and they don't.
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AP - Tens of thousands of Americans, from teenagers to baby boomers, soon will get a fresh chance to lend a helping hand in a time of need.
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AP - Volunteers knocked on doors and surrogates fired off e-mails Tuesday afternoon amid reports of light turnout in a special congressional election focused on President Barack Obama and his economic stimulus plan.
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AP - A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the United States to release a prisoner from the Guantanamo detention center who said he fears for his life after informing against senior al-Qaida leaders.
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AP - Saying she'd be a tough enforcer, President Barack Obama's choice to head the Health and Human Services Department on Tuesday called for a crackdown on medical fraud as part of any health care overhaul.
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March 31st, 2009 By DAVID E. SANGER
President Obama’s decision to reshape the automakers inverts the relationship that helped define the rise of manufacturing in the U.S.
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March 31st, 2009 By CARL HULSE
President Obama traveled to Capitol Hill to bolster House Democrats as Congress began a politically charged budget debate.
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AP - The recession is projected to wipe out annual cost-of-living increases for 50 million Social Security beneficiaries for the next three years, something that hasn't happened since automatic adjustments were adopted in 1975.
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AP - The U.S. Border Patrol is erecting 16 more video surveillance towers in Michigan and New York to help secure parts of the U.S.-Canadian border, relying on technology to assist agents stationed along the 4,000-mile northern stretch.
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AP - The National Wildlife Federation on Tuesday challenged a government subpoena aimed at finding out who leaked the Bush administration's plans to weaken the Endangered Species Act just weeks before President Barack Obama took office.
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AP - In a cautious first step toward unlocking 30 years of tense relations, senior U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke had a brief but cordial meeting with Iran's deputy foreign minister Tuesday at an international conference on Afghanistan.
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Politico - Democrats are hailing a ruling from a three-judge panel in the long-running Minnesota Senate race, saying it only puts a limited number of ballots in play that will make it difficult for Republican Norm Coleman to overcome the 225-lead held by comedian Al Franken.
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AP - Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday unveiled a plan to tackle climate change by cutting greenhouse gases by one-fifth over the next decade, a faster clip than urged by President Barack Obama.
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March 31st, 2009 By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and CLIFFORD KRAUSS
A concept embraced by President Obama would provide cash to buyers of new fuel-efficient cars -- if they trade in a clunker.
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Politico - Congressional Republicans are replacing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as the headliner of their big spring fundraising dinner with former Speaker Newt Gingrich after the party's former vice presidential candidate vacillated publicly about the appearance, sources familiar said Tuesday.
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March 31st, 2009 By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and BILL VLASIC
President Obama on Monday set out strict standards that the carmakers must meet to get more government aid.
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