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RGIII Fumes Over Calls for Redskins Name Change

In the latest effort to get the Washington Redskins to change its name, D.C. council member David Grosso, along with…

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Troubles run deep for key labor union in D.C.

The Laborers’ International Union has in its legislative affairs office a lobbyist who pleaded guilty in a fraud case despite a federal law banning convicts from overseeing unions’ finances.
The troubled union also was hit…

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Obama recess appointments unconstitutional

In a case freighted with major constitutional implications, a federal appeals court on Friday overturned President Obama’s controversial recess appointments from last year, ruling he abused his powers and acted when the Senate was not…

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Gun Owners Expected to Rally for Jan. 19 ‘Gun Appreciation Day’

“On 01/19/13 go to your local gun store, gun range or gun show with your Constitution, American flags and your…

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Petition Aims to Stop ‘Gun Appreciation Day’

As Vice President Joe Biden’s working group prepares to deliver gun-control recommendations to the president, a national day to celebrate…

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Coalition to hold national ‘Gun Appreciation Day’ amid calls for more gun laws

Firearms groups are banding together across the country with a so-called “Gun Appreciation Day” this month as part of a…

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D.C. police: Illegal for David Gregory to show empty gun magazine on TV

A Washington Metropolitan Police Department spokesman tells POLITICO that it was illegal for NBC’s David Gregory to show an empty…

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Judge: DC Metro Must Allow Anti-Jihad Ads

Associated Press
The D.C. transit system must allow a pro-Israel ad that equates Muslim radicals with savages, a federal judge ruled Friday. A spokesman for the Metro system said it would comply with the judge’s…

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D.C. will revisit gun law for outsiders

By Andrea Noble-The Washington Times
A bill that would decriminalize gun and ammunition possession charges for some legal firearms owners from outside the city caught traveling through the District with their weapons goes before a D.C. Council…

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DC Council chair Kwame Brown resigns after bank fraud charge

WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the District of Columbia Council resigned Wednesday effective immediately after being charged with lying about his income on loan applications.
The bank fraud charge against Kwame R. Brown, one…

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House urges D.C. to loosen gun laws for troops

By By Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times
The House voted late Thursday to urge the District of Columbia to allow U.S. troops to carry personal firearms within the nation’s capital — and the city’s non-voting…

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Feds bulk up for retrial of Clemens over steroids

By Frederic J. Frommer-Associated Press
WASHINGTON — On a baseball field, players back up teammates to limit the damage from…

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Mitt wins Maryland, D.C.

By ALEXANDER BURNS |Politico
The long, draining Republican primary season may finally have reached a turning point Tuesday, with Mitt Romney on his way to sweeping three contests in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia, and…

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