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Sequestration hits IRS. To comply with the budget cuts demanded by
sequestration, the IRS plans to furlough its entire staff of 89,551
for five days spread…
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Open season. Sen. Max Baucus will not seek reelection in 2014,
Democratic strategists announced today, fueling speculation
Republicans might have a chance to…
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Waiting game. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old suspect accused of
helping his brother plant bombs that killed three and wounded 176
at last Monday’s…
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This is West. Boston celebrated a return to near normal this
weekend at churches and at sporting events. Not so in West, Texas,
where a fertilizer plant blew…
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Texas officials have recovered 14 bodies from the disaster zone
around the fertilizer plant in West, Texas, that exploded Wednesday
evening. They do not…
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U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said 60 people remain unaccounted
for after Wednesday’s fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas. At
least 11 emergency…
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Explosions in the Sky. I’m in Austin, Texas, this week, and in
honor of that I’ve been listening to Explosions in the Sky, a Texas
“post-rock” band,
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The state of Texas joins the small town of West in mourning today
as a public safety official confirmed, “with a heavy heart,” that
search and rescue…
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Stalemate. North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un is not interested in
negotiating an end to his country’s nuclear and missile programs, a
top Pentagon…
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UPDATE (3 p.m.): Search and rescue teams continued to comb through
smoking piles of debris Thursday afternoon, looking for survivors
of Wednesday’s…
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Suspicious mailings. A letter addressed to President Barack Obama
and received at the White House off-site mailing facility Tuesday
contained a “suspicious…
