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Republicans demand changes in Senate immigration bill
WASHINGTON — As a sweeping immigration bill moves forward in the Senate, Republicans are demanding stronger border security measures than those agreed upon during four months of bipartisan negotiation. The process of toughening the bill could...
Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Crime, Law and Justice, FBI, Justice and Rights, Career and Workplace
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People Evacuated, Homes Flooded in Galena
Galena became the most recent area experiencing abnormal flooding along the Yukon River on Monday. Jeremy Zidek, of the Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, says the late spring and rapid warm-up is partially to blame. “...
Tags: Memorial Day, Weather Warnings, American Red Cross, Floods, Rivers
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International concerns
The Benghazi cover up/lie is snatching the daily headlines; dynamic duos such as Batman and Robin, The Lone Ranger and Tonto, Cisco and Pancho are a few of the fictional protectors of justice of yesteryear. A twosome of real life evil minded, self-...Tags: Libya, Jihad, Wars and Interventions, Weaponry, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Baltimore police choose new internal affairs leader
The Baltimore Police Department tapped one of its lawyers as the new head of internal affairs, saying Rodney Hill's experience as an officer and his recent turn as a prosecutor of police misconduct cases give him the credibility to lead a group charged...
Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice, Montgomery County (Pennsylvania), Baltimore Police Department
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Houston airport shooting hot topic at NRA convention
HOUSTON -- When the annual National Rifle Assn. convention opened Friday, the day after an incident in which a gunman died at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, attendees didn't shy away from discussing the incident. In fact, it was a hot topic of...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Gun Control, Shootings, Politics, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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More on Boston Marathon scams
Watchdog with Paul MuschickI previously passed along the Pennsylvania attorney general's warning to be cautious when donating to causes for victims of the Boston Marathon bombing. Here's more information about things to watch for. Today's Watchdog column notes that a suspicious... -
Igerwatch ends with fireworks, 'Star Wars' jokes, no news
The Disney rumor mill was moving at hyperspeed Saturday. The story, which got a big push from Twitter, purported that Walt Disney Co. CEO Robert Iger and Lucasfilm mastermind George Lucas would appear Saturday evening at Disney's Hollywood Studios theme...
Tags: Lucasfilm Ltd., Amusement and Theme Parks, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Social Media, The Walt Disney Co.
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Terror database too vague to flag Boston suspect
WASHINGTON — When a Russian intelligence service told the CIA that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had become an Islamic radical looking to join underground groups, the agency put his name in the government's catch-all database for terrorism suspects. The...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Police Investigations, FBI, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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Houston airport gunman left note citing 'monster within me'
Just before pulling the pistol he would use to shoot himself at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Carnell Moore apparently tried to keep bystanders out of harm’s way, authorities said. In a suicide note quoted by authorities Friday,...
Tags: George W. Bush, Suicide
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Political calculus keeps Cuba on U.S. list of terror sponsors
Cuba’s communist leadership was quick to send condolences to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings and to reiterate to Washington that it “rejects and condemns unequivocally all acts of terrorism.” Once a key supplier of arms and...
Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Fidel Castro, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hillary Clinton
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FEMA teams in Indiana to assess flood damage
KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — Federal Emergency Management Agency teams are in Indiana assessing damage caused by recent flooding, which also claimed two lives. Local, state and federal officials moved into Huntington, Grant and Tippecanoe on Friday to take...Tags: Executive Branch, Floods, Politics, FEMA, Government
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Reassess school funding
The Tribune’s recent article on “poverty grants” to local school districts raises some important issues about education funding in Illinois (“Illinois’ method for measuring student poverty raises count statewide,” News,...Tags: Poverty, Government Health Care, Social Issues, Economic Policy, Budgets and Budgeting
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