Posts Tagged ‘federal’

GOP hopefuls would limit federal role in education (AP)

FILE - In this June 18, 2005, file photo Gov. Rick Perry announces a special legislative session in Austin, Texas, during which he called on lawmakers to pass a school finance reform plan after vetoing the $35.3 billion Texas education budget. When it comes to education, the Republican field of presidential candidates has a unified stance. They all want the federal government out of schools. But how they’d do that varies. Take the Education Department. Perry along with Reps. Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul want to close it. (AP Photo/Thomas Terry, File)AP – When it comes to education, the Republican field of presidential candidates has a unified stance: Get the federal government out of schools. How they’d do that varies.


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Lupica: Federal investigation inevitable at PSU

A very smart New York defense and civil rights lawyer named Tom Harvey was in the Daily News talking about how he believed the federal government would eventually need to sort things out at Penn State.

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Federal Reserve wraps up policy meeting (AP)

AP – The Federal Reserve, after employing a dwindling set of policy options at its last two meetings, may hit the pause button in hopes that the faint signs of the economy’s rebound will grow stronger.

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Federal judge orders more review on polar bears (AP)

FILE - This undated file photo released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a sow polar bear resting with her cubs on the pack ice in the Beaufort Sea in northern Alaska. A federal judge on Monday, Oct. 17, 2011, threw out a key section of an Interior Department rule that declared global warming is threatening the survival of the polar bear.  (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wild Life Service, Steve Amstrup, FILE)AP – A federal judge has thrown out a key section of an Interior Department rule concerning the threat to polar bears posed by global warming.


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‘Merchant of Death’ trial begins in federal court

The man known around the world as the “Merchant of Death” was prepared to sell 100 surface-to-air missiles, 20,000 AK-47s, 10 million rounds of ammunition and more to kill Americans, prosecutors told a Manhattan jury Wednesday.

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Federal court tosses lawsuits over health reform (AP)

AP – A federal appeals court in Virginia dismissed two lawsuits Thursday that had challenged the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.

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Obama pledges federal help for Irene recovery (AP)

President Barack Obama meets with residents on Fayette Avenue in Wayne, N.J., Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011, as he visits flood damage caused by Hurricane Irene. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP – President Barack Obama stood on a bridge overlooking the rain-swollen and fast-rushing Passaic River in New Jersey’s third-largest city and said Sunday the federal government would work to rebuild towns recovering from Hurricane Irene’s wrath.


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