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Garcetti makes history as next LA mayor
May 22nd, 2013
07:34 AM ET
2 days ago

Garcetti makes history as next LA mayor

(CNN) – Eric Garcetti won the Los Angeles mayoral race, and will become the first Jewish mayor of the nation's second-largest city.

"Thank you Los Angeles - the hard work begins but I am honored to lead this city for the next four years," Garcetti, 42, wrote on Twitter on Wednesday morning. "Let's make this a great city again."

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Filed under: California
Syrian civil war in photos
May 15th, 2013
01:50 PM ET
9 days ago

Bipartisan pull pushes weapons for Syrian rebels

(CNN) - Washington's battle over whether the United States should get involved in Syria's civil war took a new turn on Wednesday as the two top senators on the Foreign Relations Committee called for arming rebels and announced that the panel would take up their proposal next week.

Sen. Robert Menendez, the committee's Democratic chairman, and Sen. Bob Corker, the panel's top Republican, introduced legislation to provide lethal weaponry and training "to vetted Syrian groups" fighting forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, they announced in a statement.


Filed under: Bob Corker • Bob Menendez • Syria
May 14th, 2013
12:03 PM ET
10 days ago

IRS political targeting alleged in multiple cities

(CNN) - While the Internal Revenue Service has admitted that members of its Cincinnati office engaged in political targeting of some conservative groups, documents suggest at least three other offices did the same.

Letters provided to CNN show IRS officials in Washington and California contacted conservative groups to demand more information before approving the groups' requests for tax-exempt status.

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Filed under: Congress • IRS
May 13th, 2013
04:18 PM ET
10 days ago

Gosnell horror fuels fight for abortion laws

(CNN) - The depraved acts Dr. Kermit Gosnell is convicted of have sparked a new turn in the nationwide battle over abortion laws.

Groups that oppose legal abortion are using the horror surrounding his clinic, which garnered fresh attention during his murder trial, to push for new state and federal restrictions - even though Gosnell's acts were already illegal.

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Filed under: Abortion
Loaded language poisons gun debate
January 31st, 2013
09:01 AM ET
113 days ago

Loaded language poisons gun debate

(CNN) – It's the biggest, fiercest debate taking place across America. But it's poisoned from the get-go by a Tower of Babel predicament.

In disputes over the future of gun laws, people espousing different positions often literally don't understand each other.

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Filed under: Gun rights
January 13th, 2013
02:25 PM ET
130 days ago

Countdown to new wave in gun violence battle

(CNN) – When a set of recommendations to reduce gun violence hits President Barack Obama's desk on Tuesday, it will trigger a new stage in a decisive political battle consuming Washington. And it will show just how much America may have changed in the wake of last month's massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.

The proposals from a White House task force may include some with broad support on issues involving mental health. But one of the most intense flashpoints is already known: The group, overseen by Vice President Joe Biden, is expected to support reinstating an assault weapons ban.

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Filed under: Gun rights • Joe Biden • NRA • President Obama
Biden vows recommendations to curb gun violence by Tuesday
January 10th, 2013
12:55 PM ET
134 days ago

Biden vows recommendations to curb gun violence by Tuesday

(CNN) - A federal task force looking for ways to curb gun violence will have a set of recommendations by Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday.

Speaking during a week of meetings with disparate groups on various sides of the issue - including some for and others against stricter gun controls - Biden, who oversees the task force, said the recommendations given to President Obama will serve as a beginning.

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Filed under: Gun rights • Joe Biden • White House
January 8th, 2013
07:36 AM ET
136 days ago

Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly launch battle against gun lobby: No more 'fear'

(CNN) – Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly have launched what they hope will mark a new era in the battle over gun rights in America.

On the second anniversary of a mass shooting in Arizona that wounded Giffords and killed six others, the couple launched a political action committee, Americans for Responsible Solutions, along with a website calling for contributions to help "encourage elected officials to stand up for solutions to prevent gun violence and protect responsible gun ownership."

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Filed under: Gabrielle Giffords • Gun rights
Chuck Hagel's military, government career
January 7th, 2013
02:01 PM ET
137 days ago

Sparks could fly in 'historic' Hagel confirmation hearings

(CNN) – He forged his views of war and the military as a young man in mine-plagued fields of Vietnam. Now Chuck Hagel may become the first Vietnam veteran and first enlisted soldier to serve as U.S. defense secretary.

He would also be one of the few Pentagon chiefs ever to have been wounded in war, President Barack Obama said in announcing his selection on Monday to take over for outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

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Filed under: Chuck Hagel • Department of Defense
January 2nd, 2013
12:29 PM ET
142 days ago

Furor over dropped vote for Sandy aid defused

(CNN) - The promise of $60 billion can do a lot to calm outrage.

That point was underscored Wednesday, when House leaders met with irate representatives from New York and New Jersey who felt they had been ignored by House Speaker John Boehner when he scrapped a planned vote late Tuesday on a massive aid package for Superstorm Sandy victims.

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Filed under: New Jersey • New York • Peter King
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