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Rain hampers search for survivors of Texas explosion [Update]
Even as as President Obama pledged federal assistance to the devastated community, morning rainfall was hampering search and rescue efforts Thursday at the site of the West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion, which killed as many as 15 people and...Tags: CBS Corp., Broken Bones, Crime, Law and Justice, Fertilizer, White House
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Utah, Virginia governors visit California to woo businesses
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell were in California this week on a whirlwind tour to woo Golden State businesses to expand or relocate to their states. At the Westin South Coast Plaza hotel in Costa Mesa on Thursday, both state...Tags: Government, Regional Authority, Steven Spielberg, Adobe Systems Inc., Business
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Utah, Virginia are next up on woo-California-businesses circuit
First it was Texas Gov. Rick Perry who came to California with his cowboy swagger and boasts about lassoing away businesses. Then the South Dakota governor swept through to recruit dairy farmers. Soon after, the Iowa governor made an appearance. Now...Tags: Government, Amusement and Theme Parks, Travel, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Regional Authority
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Republicans turn back effort to change party rules
As members of the Republican National Committee met in Hollywood to debate how to reverse their party's recent losses in presidential campaigns, they narrowly defeated an effort by a Virginia committeeman to undo all the changes to party rules made during...
Tags: Elections, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Voting, Barack Obama
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Texas Gov. Perry to hold briefing on slayings, speak at memorial
KAUFMAN, Texas — This North Texas community about 35 miles east of Dallas prepared early Thursday to mourn the sudden loss of Dist. Atty. Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia. McLelland, 63, and his wife, 65, were gunned down at their home in...
Tags: Government, Justice System, Organized Crime, Mark Hasse, Gang Activity
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Rick Perry on Texas prosecutor slayings: 'We cannot react in fear'
KAUFMAN, Texas -- The state's governor denounced what he called "attacks on the rule of law," and vowed justice. Kaufman County's new district attorney mourned her fatherlike predecessor, fatally shot along with his wife in their home two months after...
Tags: Government, Justice System, Mark Hasse, Regional Authority, Lawyers
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Rick Scott to voters: Never mind
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Republican Gov. Rick Scott was one of those tea party stars whom voters believed had the courage of his convictions when he promised, as recently as last summer, to block The Affordable Care Act in his state. But last week, writes the...
Tags: Medicaid, Government Health Care, Government, Tea Party Movement, Quinnipiac University
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Budget cuts border security, immigrant detention
PHOENIX (AP) — Marco Antonio Durazo had been awaiting deportation from an Arizona detention center for six months when an officer came to get him from his cell. "Obama doesn't have any money," the officer said. "We found it very funny," Durazo...
Tags: Government, International Law, Organized Crime, U.S. Congress, Janet Napolitano
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Fed says economy growing modestly in the West and much of nation
WASHINGTON -- The economy grew modestly in California and the West this year, helped by increasing auto sales and a strengthening housing market, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday in its periodic business survey. Modest growth was reported in an...
Tags: Real Estate, Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Labor Markets, Federal Reserve, Services and Shopping
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Motor City blues
Michigan's Republican governor, Rick Snyder, took the unprecedented step last week of announcing that he considers Detroit's elected leaders incapable of fixing the city's fiscal problems, and so he will appoint an emergency financial manager with...
Tags: Government, Finance, Collective Contract, The Detroit News, Rick Snyder
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Supreme Court must not roll back voting rights
It would be troubling — though perhaps fitting — if Alabama, the state that gave us the Voting Rights Act in 1965 because of its opposition to providing African-American citizens the ability to register and vote, became the state that would...Tags: Government, Minority Groups, Social Issues, U.S. Congress, Laws
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Americans risk losing our most sacred right
It suddenly hit me this week: I don't live in the real world. I live in Washington, D.C. In the real world, nobody would argue about renewing the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). It's a no-brainer. Violence against women, all women, is wrong. Only...
Tags: Minority Groups, Justice System, John G. Roberts, Jr., Social Issues, Civil Rights
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