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However, the Indiana law differs in several ways, primarily in that it allows a business to assert a right to "the free exercise of religion." | 0 | 0 | neu |
The Guardian reported Wednesday that the National Security Agency had obtained a court order to collect phone records from Verizon Wireless customers, while The Washington Post reported Thursday of the existence of a program launched in 2007 called PRISM, which tracks information from nine leading U.S. Internet companies: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, AOL, YouTube, Apple, PalTalk and Skype. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“I think the parent should be in charge,” he added, “working with the local school district to try to design an educational environment for each child that optimizes their potential.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
On Wednesday, he adopted a strikingly different approach, sitting patiently for a series of interviews at which he insisted he had done nothing wrong and marveled at what he said on MSNBC was the “Alice in Wonderland world” in which a wayward Twitter message had become the talk of the town. | 1 | 0 | lex |
Larry Johnson, a former head of criminal investigations for the U.S. Secret Service who also served as a special agent in charge of the presidential protective detail, agreed that bomb makers usually leave evidence – and their signature- behind. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Police still stood guard, but many wore regular uniforms rather than riot gear. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"And it's going to be completely useless. ... | 0 | 1 | info |
"I welcome this debate and I think it's healthy for our democracy," he continued. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The president himself responded on Twitter late Friday, calling the special counsel’s statement “a very sad day for journalism, but a great day for our Country!” | 0 | 1 | info |
It would also stem the use of military-style weapons -- the White House says its proposal would improve on the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, which was riddled with loopholes -- and give schools and communities resources to address violence when it occurs. | 0 | 0 | neu |
I think some things I’ve been asked to do are beyond my ability. | 0 | 0 | neu |
In casting the plan as a compromise, the president sought to shift pressure to Democrats — who have repeatedly refused to give Mr. Trump any money for his border wall — to end the shutdown. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But the lingering animosity from the presidential campaign was on display, too. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Some in the GOP have called for spending cuts in military spending, with which he disagrees. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“Rather, the intelligence community is conducting court-authorized intelligence activities pursuant to a public statute, with the knowledge and oversight of Congress and the Intelligence Committees of both houses.” | 0 | 1 | info |
"None of this would have happened without Glenn," she said. | 0 | 1 | info |
Netanyahu was invited to speak in front of a joint session of Congress by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who did not seek approval from the White House before sending the invitation. | 0 | 1 | info |
The House vote to reaffirm that "In God We Trust" is the U.S. motto is "not putting people back to work," President Obama said Wednesday in a speech pushing his jobs bill. | 0 | 0 | neu |
One strain of criticism came from human rights and civil liberties activists, who expressed alarm over Judge Gorsuch’s experiences as a Justice Department official in the Bush administration in 2005 and 2006, when he helped to defend and advance the executive branch’s positions on matters like detainee treatment and surveillance. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But it was the review of Benghazi-related documents last summer that, within the State Department, set off the chain of events leading to the public disclosure this week of Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email account, according to the current and former department officials. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“You want to pet him?” Mr. Obama asked his daughters. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The bill aims to answer rising attacks on voting rights from courts and politicians across the country, and also to stem the increasing inequality of campaign funding by empowering small donors with matching contributions from public funds, among many other things. | 0 | 0 | neu |
It was on vivid display Tuesday before hundreds of supporters, including many of Mr. Christie’s oldest friends and most loyal aides. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Foreign affairs is, we take care of ourselves first." | 0 | 0 | neu |
Mr. McCarthy has been preparing for months to move up from No. 3 in the Republican leadership to No. 2 in the event that Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio would retire after the November elections. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s chairman, Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, has been nominated to succeed Mrs. Clinton and is scheduled to appear before his committee on Thursday for a confirmation hearing. | 0 | 0 | neu |
To that effect, the Office of Management and Budget circulated a letter to affected agencies and departments on Friday afternoon instructing management to prepare for an “orderly reopening” and to prioritize pay and benefits for workers. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Trump also noted over the weekend that Clinton was not recorded or under oath during that interview. | 0 | 0 | neu |
In a response shortly after the emails were made public on Wednesday, Brendan Buck, spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), said just that. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Authorities haven’t said whether the devices were built to explode and kill or simply sow fear. | 0 | 0 | neu |
President Barack Obama urged lawmakers to move on the transportation funding portion of his jobs bill Wednesday, while simultaneously mocking them for spending time on supposedly less-important undertakings, such as a recent measure to reaffirm "In God We Trust" as the national motto. | 1 | 0 | lex |
This is not about immigration. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“Aside from being unconstitutional, such an executive order would exacerbate racial tensions, exploit fears and drive further polarization across the country at a moment that calls for the promotion of unity and inclusion,” Ms. Clarke said in a statement. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Biden looked as if he could barely stay in his seat for much of the night, interrupting Ryan repeatedly and sometimes making it difficult for the GOP nominee to get out his answers. | 0 | 1 | info |
Ms. Lerner has become a person of intense interest to Congressional investigators, who insist that she made, at best, incomplete statements when she said she first learned that her subordinates had singled out Tea Party groups after reading news media reports last year. | 0 | 1 | info |
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said a handshake with Putin would be "a moment of historic cowardice." | 0 | 1 | info |
In fact, at least 30 other countries, including Canada, Mexico and many others in the Western Hemisphere, grant automatic birthright citizenship, according to a study by the Center for Immigration Studies, an organization that supports restricting immigration and whose work Mr. Trump’s advisers often cite. | 0 | 0 | neu |
One candidate, Scott Smith, the mayor of Mesa, who is a Mormon, said that the bill “gives carte blanche for anybody to discriminate under the guise of religion.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
More important, what extra money does come in will be from tariffs, which are paid by people in the U.S., not Mexico. | 0 | 0 | neu |
There are, of course, those who think we should pull out of Afghanistan, and they’re certainly entitled to make their case. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“That response ignited what we have seen all week.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
Calls and e-mails to a half-dozen advisers on the subject were not returned on Tuesday. | 0 | 1 | info |
It was a sharp and spirited debate, with both candidates delivering some lacerating blows, but Mr. Ryan at times seemed disconcerted by the sheer blowhard intensity Mr. Biden brought to the night. | 1 | 0 | lex |
In addition, Democrats are still irritated at Roberts for promising to call only “balls and strikes” in his 2005 confirmation hearing. | 0 | 0 | neu |
While offering no endorsement himself, Sanders said he spoke with Clinton and congratulated her “on her very strong campaign.” | 1 | 0 | lex |
Mr. Trump was facing a potentially awkward task: moderating a debate that only two candidates said they would attend. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"And that's the kind of -- and even putting that aside, the plaintiffs needed to come forward with something that showed that there was this miraculous recurrence at every decision across every store of stereotyping, and the evidence simply doesn't show that." | 0 | 0 | neu |
Mike Flynn, a conservative blogger for biggovernment.com, wrote that the confrontation occurred last week outside a fundraiser headlined by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. | 0 | 0 | neu |
After many hours of prayer, talking to my parents, and re-reading my words online I can see more clearly just how hurtful my words were. ... | 0 | 1 | info |
Speaking at the White House on Friday, Mr. Trump praised law enforcement officials for quickly arresting a suspect. | 0 | 0 | neu |
When asked point-blank by a reporter in the Oval Office Thursday if Lieberman was the leading contender, Trump replied, "Yes." | 0 | 0 | neu |
Republican leaders, who have led calls for revamping Social Security, had no immediate comments on AARP’s willingness to consider benefit reductions. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The Republican governor returned home Tuesday afternoon to a political climate that is much different from just a week ago when she left for Washington the last five days for a governor's conference. | 0 | 0 | neu |
A late and somewhat unlikely addition to Trump's short list, Lieberman is nonetheless the sudden frontrunner. | 0 | 0 | neu |
WASHINGTON — Real estate tycoon Donald Trump said Thursday he hopes questions surrounding Barack Obama’s U.S. citizenship won’t be the defining issue if he’s chosen as the Republican candidate to challenge the president’s re-election. | 0 | 0 | neu |
There's only one way out: open the government, Mr. President, and then Democrats and Republicans can have a civil discussion and come up with bipartisan solutions." | 0 | 0 | neu |
Though not affiliated with either major political party, tea party activists espouse a political philosophy of less government, a free market, lower taxes, individual rights and political activism. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Republicans are challenging a host of statements made by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Democratic allies during Wednesday's heated Libya testimony -- claiming that complaints about a lack of funding are bogus and questioning the secretary's insistence she never saw urgent cables warning about the danger of an attack. | 1 | 0 | lex |
By appearing to retreat on Monday, Democrats have stirred new talk on the left about challenging incumbents who had previously given little thought to their own nominations. | 0 | 0 | neu |
At least four of the documents were marked “classified.” | 0 | 1 | info |
He also took a swipe at President Obama for declining to recognize the Islamic State group as radical Islamic terrorists and vowed to stop them. | 1 | 0 | lex |
Cowan's selection is a step forward for a state that has a troubled history with race relations, exploding in the South Boston busing riots in the 1970s. | 0 | 0 | neu |
In recent days, with the approach of the midterm balloting in which Republican control of Congress is at risk, he has sought to appeal to voters by making other dramatic claims that appear to have no chance of materializing, such as imminent action to grant a 10 percent tax cut for the middle class. | 0 | 1 | info |
But he also said that Mr. Moore was not guilty of “forcible rape.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
She does, however, condone “mocking the Mocker in Chief.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
But the president's campaign, responding forcefully to the new frontrunner in the GOP race, said the remark is a personal affront. | 0 | 0 | neu |
After Gorsuch repeatedly stated that there was ample room for Congress to legislate without worrying about court decisions, Democrats reminded him of how the court’s decisions play a key role in shaping who is elected to Congress and, therefore, what bills can be passed in the first place. | 0 | 0 | neu |
They existed in different circles of New York’s ultrarich: Mr. Bloomberg is known as a generous philanthropist; Mr. Trump appears to have been flinty in his giving. | 0 | 1 | info |
Slightly more has been requested for fiscal 2013. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“Such discussions are fully consistent with the relevant law and ethical requirements.” | 0 | 1 | info |
“We think we're hopeful because the people that elected Nancy Pelosi didn't elect her to come up here and do nothing and didn't elect her to play political games,” she said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Diverting Pentagon funding, however, is expected to set off a legal battle and has already prompted fierce opposition from Democrats in Congress. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“We all know that the justices on the Supreme Court have political views. | 0 | 0 | neu |
It is unclear why Mr. Trump reversed the decision, but the announcement faced backlash from both conservatives and liberals. | 0 | 1 | info |
"It's time to get rid of this. | 0 | 0 | neu |
DeFazio said House Democrats aren't going to keep rubber-stamping deals they don't like. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Trump is now insisting that Congress appropriate $5.7 billion for that project, while Democrats want a short-term spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security and full-year funding for the other affected agencies while funding for the wall is negotiated separately. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Democrats face an uphill battle in their efforts to take back the House, where Republicans hold a 242-190 seat advantage. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But Mr. Romney’s campaign is also trying hard to make sure that the convention projects an image that swing voters in battleground states will find appealing. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Lawmakers in both chambers needed to muster a two-thirds majority to override, and did so easily. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The inspector general, who uncovered the messages, found no evidence that the pair imposed their political views on their investigative decisions but cited that exchange as “not only indicative of a biased state of mind but, even more seriously, implies a willingness to take official action to impact the presidential candidate’s electoral prospects.” | 0 | 1 | info |
The United States has never seen a president quite like Mr. Trump, the son and grandson of immigrants who grew up to become a real estate magnate, casino owner, beauty pageant operator and reality television star whose tumultuous love life played out in the tabloids. | 0 | 1 | info |
"Sen. Reid respects that but thinks that the mosque should be built someplace else." | 0 | 0 | neu |
The emails, disclosed in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the conservative group Judicial Watch, were uncovered during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to Politico, part of the FBI’s probe into Clinton’s use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Below are some of the photos shared Wednesday on Twitter from Chick-fil-A restaurants around the country. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Mr. Cohen was sentenced in December to three years in prison for lying to Congress, campaign finance violations and financial crimes. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day – as it is being called was the idea of former Arkansas governor and Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee. | 0 | 0 | neu |
When a video message from President Trump played on the big screen, some of the Democrats in the crowd booed, but less lustily than usual. | 0 | 1 | info |
Michael Dukakis, the former governor and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee, and Victoria Kennedy, Sen. Kennedy’s widow, had also been mentioned as possible candidates for the interim post. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"They are pulling people together and focusing on the negative, and then it's hard to make anything positive out of that," said Anita L. Russell, president of the Kansas City, Mo., branch of the NAACP, which introduced the resolution. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Members of the House voted 420-0 to release the report. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“I can’t say with certainty very much about where the photograph came from.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
Administration officials had spent time and capital recruiting Senator Arlen Specter to switch parties and run for re-election as a Democrat. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The Jacksons were appearing separately before U.S. District Judge Robert L. Wilkins in Washington, D.C. Jackson's wife spent $5,150 on fur capes and parkas, court documents said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Other Democrats said they did not see the fight resonating strongly outside New York and did not expect it to become a defining campaign issue. | 0 | 0 | neu |
With AARP potentially backing off its opposition, other groups are poised to take up the fight. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Trump requested $5.7 billion for construction of the wall, while Democrats vowed to block any spending proposal that included such funding. | 0 | 0 | neu |
As he took the oath, a cluster of people blew whistles and screamed, “Not my president,” before being escorted out. | 0 | 0 | neu |
As the official, Lois Lerner, appeared under subpoena before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, she sternly told her questioners that accusations that she had misled Congress in previous testimony were false. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But by the time Republicans had the 60-plus votes, with support from 33 Democrats, the revolt was in full force. | 0 | 0 | neu |
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