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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Wednesday blocked a Republican effort aimed at undercutting last year's landmark international nuclear deal with Iran. The Senate fell three votes short of the 60-vote threshold — 57-42 — to move ahead on the amendment sponsored by freshman Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas. Cotton&
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Key Senate Republicans voiced optimism Tuesday about Donald Trump's presidential prospects in November, signaling clearly to the GOP rank and file to unite behind the bombastic billionaire and turn their energy toward battling Democrat Hillary Clinton. But it was uncertain whether they could quiet the doubters.
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HARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — As Donald Trump, Hillary and Bill Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigned in West Virginia this month before thousands of voters, ex-convict Keith Judd slipped into the state unnoticed. There were no campaign rallies. No preplanned speeches. No organized public events. Just a chance for the Democratic
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Small business owners, many of whom are currently adapting to recent state and local increases to the minimum wage and facing the prospect of even more dramatic mandatory wage increases in the future, may this summer be hit even harder with yet another government wage mandate. A proposed revision to
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In his first remarks about Donald Trump's status as the GOP's presumptive nominee, President Barack Obama on Friday urged the media to undertake tougher scrutiny of presidential candidates. "We are in serious times and this is a really serious job," Obama said
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Democrats are hoping to use state conventions to unite supporters of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders as fans of the two candidates engage in sometimes bitter disputes ahead of the presidential election. The scenario is playing out Friday in Maine, where Democrats are divided between supporters of
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's administration is revising a federal rule that allows wind-energy companies to operate high-speed turbines for up to 30 years, even if means killing or injuring thousands of federally protected bald and golden eagles. Under the plan being announced Wednesday, the companies could kill
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As if Dodd-Frank hasn't inflicted enough damage on the economy through its stringent and unnecessary securities rules, the president and his regulatory cronies are at it again, but this time, your cable box is on the hit list. "Competition is good for consumers," President Obama told
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