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Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is making extended remarks on the Senate floor in opposition to provisions in the PATRIOT Act related to NSA surveillance.
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When a Republican lawmaker in 2011 asked an Obama administration Office of Management and Budget official to name regulations where costs were not justified by benefits, the official had a ready answer. Sunstein's pooh-poohing of PTC in 2011 is all the more remarkable because the Obama administration's efforts to push forward regulations in a variety of areas -- notably air pollution and climate change -- against Republican accusations that they would cripple the economy. Republican lawmakers, the railroad lobby and even conservative columnist George Will were quick to pounce on Sunstein's words, using them in their battle against what they viewed as over-zealous regulation. PTC is a system in which a network of transponders tracks train movement and speed, and sends wireless signals to locomotives that can slow or halt trains traveling at dangerous speeds. The 2008 law mandated that PTC become operational by Dec. 31, 2015. [...] the railroad lobby has fought for an extension, arguing installation of PTC is too complicated to meet the year-end deadline.
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Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro expressed his pleasure with Los Angeles increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour
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“Climate change, especially rising seas, is a threat to our homeland security — our economy, infrastructure, and the safety and health of the American people,” President Obama plans to say at the Coast Guard Academy.
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One of the authors of a recent study which claimed that short conversations with gay people could change minds on same-sex marriage has retracted it. The retraction this week of the popular article published in a December issue of the Science academic journal follows revelations that his co-author allegedly faked data for the study, “When contact...
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Confirming the worst fears of users, Reddit CEO Ellen Pao has told NPR that she does not want the site to be a “completely free-speech platform”. Her comments followed last week’s introduction of new ‘anti-harassment’ policies on the link-sharing site that
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Hired protesters with the Black Lives Matter movement have started a #CutTheCheck hashtag and held a sit-in at the offices for the successor group to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) in Missouri after the group allegedly stopped paying them.
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This is how the UK handles police brutality, page 1
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A survey of ranked GOP candidates by preference, weighted average.
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With David Letterman officially signing off as host of CBS’s Late Show on Wednesday, the liberal comic took time once again to bash Republicans for their support of traditional marriage during his Monday night monologue.
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LA Employers Investing: But in Automation over People
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Coulter to '16 GOP Candidate: 'People Hate the Media, Use That to Your Advantage'
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Employment decreased when the wage floor rose, leading many to emigrate -- but not as much as researchers expected.
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Mark Steyn was on Hannity tonight talking about Hillary Clinton and everything from her sense of entitlement to her dishonest. He even says that he'd love to see Elizabeth Warren run, because while...
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By Douglas Ernst, Washington TimesThe Boy Scouts of America has put out approved activities for its members, and water gun fights are strictly prohibited.
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In a video played this morning on MSNBC, Iowa Democrats were not able to name an accomplishment of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential frontrunner. Watch here:
'I really can't name anything off the top of my head,' one voter says after letting out a long sigh.
Another asks the interviewer, 'Want to give me a minute? Give me two minutes.'
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Expectations of what it means to be a man are still stuck in the 1950s.
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Saying Texas needs to avoid a “patchwork of local regulations” that threaten oil and gas production, Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday signed legislation that would pre-empt local efforts to regulate a wide variety of drilling-related activities.
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The Goldsmiths diversity officer embroiled in a racism row could lose her job after allegedly tweeting with the hashtag "kill all white men".
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Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz hit some of his main platform points while meeting with local leaders in Beaumont Tuesday afternoon, then sparred with reporters over his views on same-sex marriage.
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Everybody wondered whether Clinton would sense the shifting political winds blowing from the left. The early evidence is pretty clear.
