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  • Congress Renews Ban On X-Ray-Evading Plastic Guns

    9 December 2013, 7:07 pm

    But Republicans blocked a measure that would have strengthened the restrictions on the firearms that can skirt airport detectors.
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  • Ethics Panel Hands Down Holiday Gift Rules — In Rhyme

    9 December 2013, 6:32 pm

    With stern and often complex limits on accepting gifts, the House Ethics Committee sends out a guidance memo each holiday season. This year's version has seven pages of Capitol Hill holiday gift rules — and one page of advice in the form of a poem.
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  • Senate GOP Could Taste Sweet Revenge In Supreme Court Case

    9 December 2013, 5:42 pm

    If the Obama administration winds up losing a Supreme Court case challenging President Obama's recess appointments, the Senate back story could make the win especially gratifying for Republicans.
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  • Government Sells Last Shares In GM, Loses $10 Billion

    9 December 2013, 5:19 pm

    Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced the government lost $10.7 billion on the deal but saved an estimated 1.5 million jobs in the industry.
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  • Without Opponent, Sen. Kay Hagan Already Faces Re-Election Fight

    9 December 2013, 4:29 pm

    North Carolina is expected to host one of the nation's toughest U.S. Senate races next year. First-term Democrat Kay Hagan is seeking re-election, but recent polls show that even though her GOP opponent won't be known until the spring, her support for…
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  • Congress Tries To Craft Budget Deal Before Holiday Break

    9 December 2013, 4:29 pm

    The Senate is back from vacation and trying to get a budget deal completed. The House plans to leave town for the year at the end of the week, which means the heat is on to settle on spending levels for 2014 and 2015. Democrats would also like to insert money…
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  • The Secret's Out: Obama Acknowledges Existence Of Area 51

    9 December 2013, 1:49 pm

    Conspiracy theorists have been obsessed with the secret Nevada military base for decades, claming that the U.S. government is holding aliens and crashed UFOs there.
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  • Tech Team Podcast, Episode 4: HealthCare.gov's Epic Fail

    9 December 2013, 10:03 am

    How did HealthCare.gov go so spectacularly wrong? The tech team takes you through the past two months in our latest podcast.
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  • Now Praised By Presidents, Mandela Wasn't Always Admired In The U.S.

    9 December 2013, 8:53 am

    During the Cold War, successive U.S. leaders supported the white South African government because it staunchly opposed communism. Mandela's African National Congress, meanwhile, had many ties to the Soviet Union and viewed it as more sympathetic to their cause…
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  • Will Seniors Leave Republicans Out To Dry In 2014?

    9 December 2013, 6:44 am

    One group of voters that the GOP has traditionally been able to count on are those over 65. But a new survey of battleground congressional districts show some cracks in that foundation, possibly enough to swing some closely contested seats.
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  • Will Obamacare Play Big In 2014? Keep An Eye On N.H. Senate Race

    9 December 2013, 5:45 am

    Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a popular Democrat, former governor and strong proponent of the Affordable Care Act, is taking some heat back home for the problems with HealthCare.gov. She faces re-election next year, but a formidable Republican opponent has yet to…
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  • Looking Past Website, More Challenges Await Obamacare

    9 December 2013, 4:00 am

    An increasing number of people are signing up for health insurance through the government's new exchange, suggesting the Obama administration has made progress in fixing its broken website. But the exchange is just one part of the health care law, which…
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  • Debate On Wage And Wealth Gap Heats Up; Solutions Elusive

    8 December 2013, 2:00 pm

    Fast-food workers across the country protested their low pay this week, while President Obama decried the nation's growing wealth gap, calling it "the defining challenge of our time." Meanwhile, the nation's capital city passed a new minimum wage law.
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  • Congress Aims For The Modest Bargain

    8 December 2013, 8:00 am

    It's not a grand bargain, as many were hoping, but House and Senate leaders say they are close to a budget agreement that will avoid a shutdown and set spending levels for the next two years. NPR's Tamara Keith talks to host Rachel Martin about the…
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  • Economists Toast 20 Years Of NAFTA; Critics Sit Out The Party

    8 December 2013, 5:35 am

    In December 1993, President Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement into law. Presidential candidate Ross Perot predicted Americans would hear a "giant sucking sound" as Mexico vacuumed up U.S. jobs. Economists say that the worst of Perot's…
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