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• Ashley Judd Out, A Former Miss America May Challenge Mitch McConnell - Daily Beast

  

  Daily BeastAshley Judd Out, A Former Miss America May Challenge Mitch McConnellDaily BeastEven as both national parties have furiously recruited women to run in the 2014 midterm elections, the Democratic women who have considered challenging Kentucky…
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• House and Senate tension flares up as session winds down - Dallas Morning News

  

  KVUE House and Senate tension flares up as session winds downDallas Morning NewsWhile Democrats and Republicans have had fewer conflicts than in recent years, the relative unity was unable to contain the simmering anxiety that boils over as a matter…
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• Senate panel approves tighter oversight of compounding pharmacies, but bill is ... - Washington Post
  Senate panel approves tighter oversight of compounding pharmacies, but bill is ...Washington PostPublic health and consumer advocacy groups are attacking Senate legislation designed to tighten oversight of specialized pharmacies such as the one at th…
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• Texas Senate OKs $94.6 billion budget; deal reached on education - Dallas Morning News

  

  Dallas Morning NewsTexas Senate OKs $94.6 billion budget; deal reached on educationDallas Morning NewsAUSTIN — The Texas Senate passed a $94.6 billion budget, top policymakers reached overhauling public education and Gov. Rick Perry received a bill…
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• Transparency isn't coming easily to Obama White House - Los Angeles Times
  Transparency isn't coming easily to Obama White HouseLos Angeles TimesAnd in a speech meant to expose the top-secret drone program to public examination, President Obama shrouded key details, such as whether the CIA would still use drones. PHOTOS: ..…
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• drone rules provide limits, ambiguity - Fox News

  

  ABC Newsdrone rules provide limits, ambiguityFox NewsWASHINGTON – President Barack Obama left plenty of ambiguity in new policy guidelines that he says will restrict how and when the U.S. can launch targeted drone strikes, leaving himself significa…
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• Where's President Obama's climate agenda - Politico

  

  PoliticoWhere's President Obama's climate agendaPoliticoBy ERICA MARTINSON and JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 5/25/13 4:00 PM EDT. President Barack Obama began his second term with a ringing pledge to tackle climate change — saying that “the failure to do so…
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• Unions, the reliable Democratic supporters, split from president on ObamaCare - Fox News
  Unions, the reliable Democratic supporters, split from president on ObamaCareFox NewsLabor unions that have solidly backed President Obama are splitting with him over ObamaCare -- with one calling for the “repeal or complete reform” of the presid…
  - 15 hours ago, 25 May 13, 6:21pm -
• Obama tries again to nominate top lawyer on embattled labor relations board - Fox News
  Obama tries again to nominate top lawyer on embattled labor relations boardFox NewsPresident Obama is trying once again to get the Senate to confirm his pick for top lawyer of the National Labor Relations Board. ... Solomon is perhaps best known for…
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• Tuition Protesters Are Still in Top Office at Cooper Union - New York Times

  

  New York TimesTuition Protesters Are Still in Top Office at Cooper UnionNew York TimesAs embattled encampments go, the president's office at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is not exactly Zuccotti Park in the fall of 2011. Rat…
  - 18 hours ago, 25 May 13, 2:49pm -