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  • Boston bomber a victim of gun violence?

    By Ashe Schow | 06/19/13 11:15 AM

    At a gun control rally in New Hampshire on Tuesday, the name of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the Boston Marathon bombers, was read as one of those "killed by guns" among a list including the children killed during the Sandy Hook massacre. When Tsarnaev's name was read, the crowd booed and shouted,...

  • A quarter of young people don’t want health insurance, think it’s a ripoff

    By Timothy P. Carney | 06/19/13 11:15 AM

    About one in four Americans ages 18-30 say they “don’t really need” health insurance, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. About 35 percent are unwilling to say it’s “worth the money it costs.” Those are pretty big minorities of the population that don’t want health...

  • Obama calls for major cuts to nuclear arsenals

    By Brian Hughes | 06/19/13 11:00 AM

    President Obama on Wednesday called for the United States and Russia to reduce their arsenals of nuclear weapons by up to one-third, using a speech at the iconic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to renew a long-stalled push for disarmament. “We may not live in fear of nuclear annihilation, but as...

  • Obama: Our efforts against al Qaeda are ‘evolving’

    By Charlie Spiering | 06/19/13 10:40 AM

    During his speech in Berlin today, President Obama declared once again that the “decade of war” against terrorism was coming to an end. “The Iraq war is now over, the Afghan war is coming to an end, Osama bin Laden is no more, our efforts against Al Quada are evolving,” he declared....

  • Family: Country singer Slim Whitman, famous for his signature yodel, dies in Fla. at age 90

    06/19/13 10:30 AM

    MIAMI (AP) — Family: Country singer Slim Whitman, famous for his signature yodel, dies in Fla. at age 90.

  • Governors, state lawmakers: Help us hike your sales taxes by $23 billion

    By Sean Higgins | 06/19/13 10:30 AM

    We aren’t taxing consumers nearly enough, the National Governors Association and National Conference of State Legislators argue in a rather blunt  joint press release issued today. The release is calling for the passage of the Marketplace Fairness Act, a bill that would make it easier for...

  • If voter ID was about minority disenfranchisement, then it seems to have failed

    By Timothy P. Carney | 06/19/13 10:25 AM

    The primary consequence of Republican state-level laws requiring voters to present identification or prove citizenship was probably a higher turnout of minority Democrats, as liberals successfully painted these measures as modern-day Jim Crow. Arizona had a law requiring people to prove their...

  • VIDEO – Berlin crowd goes wild after Obama takes off his jacket

    By Charlie Spiering | 06/19/13 10:20 AM

    During his speech in Berlin today, President Obama thanked the people for their warm welcome. “In fact, it’s so warm and I feel so good, I’m going to take off my jacket and anybody else who wants to – feel free to,” he said, as he stripped off his suit coat. “We can be a little...

  • Coburn: Treasury keeps stalling congressional request for full listing of conference costs

    By Susan Ferrechio | 06/19/13 10:15 AM

    The Treasury Department has yet to provide Congress with a full list and cost of employee conferences, despite repeated requests from Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. Treasury officials blame multiple requests from different Congressional panels, admitting “confusion,” but Coburn isn’t buying it....

  • House panel starts rewrite of No Child Left Behind

    06/19/13 09:26 AM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — House lawmakers are beginning work on a rewrite of the No Child Left Behind education law that would give states more authority and Washington less. Members of the House Education and the Workforce Committee on Wednesday considered a replacement to the law that...


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