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WASHINGTON — New Hampshire U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, currently engaged in a heated campaign to win a second term and keep the Senate's balance of power tilted in favor of the GOP, is beginning to show a willingness to break from her party to confront controversial gun issues.
Democrats
NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Charles Schumer is slamming a White House proposal that would reduce funding for counterterrorism programs across the country by nearly $300 million. The New York Democrat is pushing President Barack Obama to reconsider the cuts.
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ISIS
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Fran Townsend was counterterrorism adviser to President George W. Bush, she says, her worst nightmare was that the al Qaida network would send men with assault rifles into malls across the American heartland on a crowded shopping day. Al Qaida was more focused on airplanes and spectacular
terrorism
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's sweeping new counterterrorism law erodes basic rights and defines terrorism so broadly that it could encompass civil disobedience, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. The New York-based group says in a report that the law, passed by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi last weekend, gives prosecutors greater power
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