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June 2007 - Posts
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June 30: How will the recent immigration deadlock affect the Hispanic vote? NBC’s John Yang reports that the biggest political casualties could turn out Read More...
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June 30: Though Al Gore and Fred Thompson are not currently running in the presidential race, what influence do they have over the frontrunners? MSNBC's Read More...
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June 30: Now that the immigration bill is defeated, what is next? MSNBC's Alex Witt talks to 'The Boys' political analyst Pat Buchanan and democratic strategist Read More...
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Elephant seals live at sea for months at a time, diving several thousand feet below the surface and swimming from northern California to Russia and back Read More...
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This week the Senate dealt a final blow to President Bush's immigration bill. Also, the Supreme Court voted to limit the use of race in school integration Read More...
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Anthony Riley, 20, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for singing in a Philadelphia park. Residents who live near Rittenhouse Square had Read More...
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Seventy-five years ago, delegates to the National Democratic Party Convention narrowly nominated Franklin Delano Roosevelt as their presidential nominee. Read More...
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The Department of Homeland Security was supposed to issue secure identification cards for workers at 10 seaports by July 1. But officials now say cards Read More...
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The Supreme Court's surprise decision this week the hear another case involving the rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees could have a profound impact on Read More...
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The Supreme Court wrapped up its term this week with a bang that pleased many conservatives. The court delivered decisions that limit voluntary school Read More...
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With the immigration bill dead, troop-withdrawal deadlines vetoed and other high-profile initiatives stalled, Democratic leaders closed six months in control Read More...
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President Bush loses his power Saturday to seal "fast track" trade agreements without interference from Congress, where Democrats blame recent deals for Read More...
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Democrats want to cut President Bush's budget for Guantanamo Bay prison in half, beating the administration to the punch in shutting down the facility Read More...
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For day laborers seeking work in a sun-baked parking lot on Thursday, defeat of President Bush's plans for an immigration overhaul has set back their dreams Read More...
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Congressional Democrats took the first steps Friday in what could be a long march to court, with the Bush administration and Congress in a legal tug-of-war Read More...
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President Bush likes big ideas. Yet his second term shows the risk - big collapses. Read More...
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A cartoon round-up from MSNBC.com's Daryl Cagle Read More...
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For a good part of the last five years, Dennis Kucinich has held two jobs: Ohio congressman and quixotic presidential candidate. In fact, if his White Read More...
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It is incredibly interesting to look at the vastly different trajectories for each party's 2008 presidential nominating contests, with a dozen Republicans Read More...
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The Supreme Court, reversing course, agreed Friday to review whether Guantanamo Bay detainees may go to federal court to challenge their indefinite confinement. Read More...
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A report from the group Women's Voices, Women Vote suggests that single women are the new electoral bloc for politicians to court, and says that the biggest Read More...
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President Bush's summertime meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Bush family's oceanfront estate is about lobsters, legacies and a break Read More...
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Just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on school desegregation all eight Democratic candidates for president debated domestic issues important Read More...
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg frequently talks about health but never publicly revealed that he had heart surgery before running for mayor, a fact that emerged Read More...
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Senate Democrats are cutting President Bush's marquee foreign aid program to help emerging democracies and funneling more money to fight AIDS, malaria Read More...
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In a highly unusual reversal, the Supreme Court has agreed to review whether detainees at Guantanamo Bay can challenge their confinement in federal court Read More...
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According to a new Mason-Dixon survey, given exclusively to NBC/MSNBC and McClatchy newspapers, Clinton is the only major presidential candidate -- either Read More...
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President Bush's attorney has notified Congress that he will not respond to subpoenas for documents and testimony in the scandal over fired federal prosecutors. Read More...
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The Supreme Court will review whether Guantanamo Bay detainees may go to federal court to challenge their indefinite confinement, in a reversal of the Read More...
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Justices on both sides of the Supreme Court decision cited the landmark 1954 school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education. But they came to very Read More...
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Opponents of the Senate immigration bill are declaring victory after the legislation fell 14 votes short of the 60 needed to pass a procedural vote. Supporters Read More...
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In a decision with profound implications for the nation's public schools, the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated two voluntary desegregation plans because Read More...
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Officials in Seattle and Louisville, Ky., schools named in the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 desegregation ruling were encouraged by the separate and deciding Read More...
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The White House invoked executive privilege Thursday in withholding subpoenaed documents on fired U.S. attorneys out of confidence that it can prevail Read More...
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Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy got nearly seven Read More...
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The House on Thursday rejected an attempt to eliminate the vice president's executive office budget, a move that Democrats tied to Cheney's assertion that Read More...
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The struggles of the nation's blacks - a loyal Democratic voting bloc - topped the agenda Thursday as the party's eight presidential candidates gathered Read More...
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For years he was known as chief of staff to Vice President *** Cheney and assistant to President Bush. On Wednesday, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby became federal Read More...
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Should court-watchers be surprised at how Chief Justice Roberts ruled in Thursday's school cases? Not if they were paying attention two years ago when Read More...
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President Bush held up Israel as a model for defining success in Iraq, saying Thursday that the goal of the U.S. mission there is not eliminating attacks Read More...
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Dwight Eisenhower was the first president to coin the phrase "executive privilege," but not the first to invoke its principle: that a president has the Read More...
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The Senate killed his main domestic policy issue -- overhauling immigration laws -- as Republican support collapsed. News from Iraq was grim. And the White Read More...
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The Supreme Court blocked the execution of a Texas man convicted of killing his mother- and father-in-law because the man has a long-documented mental Read More...
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In an interview on TODAY, the wife of presidential candidate John Edwards calls the conservative political commentator’s remarks “hate language.” Read More...
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The Supreme Court on Thursday abandoned a 96-year-old ban on manufacturers and retailers setting price floors for products. Read More...
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The White House, moving toward a constitutional showdown with Congress, asserted executive privilege Thursday and rejected lawmakers' demands for documents Read More...
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The 2006-2007 Supreme Court term was the first full one for Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito. In a term where many major decisions were 5-4 splits, Read More...
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The U.S. Senate killed the immigration bill. Senators were 14 votes short of the 60 needed to move toward final passage of the bill, which was criticized Read More...
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The Supreme Court is expected to issue rulings Thursday, including one about the use of race to assign students to public schools. Read More...
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Conservative Republican senators and a handful of Democrats are trying to put a final knife in President Bush's plan for legalizing millions of unlawful Read More...
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The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down two public school plans aimed at achieving racial diversity. The 5-4 ruling could imperil similar plans in schools Read More...
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Asserting executive privilege, the White House says it will not respond to subpoenas for documents and testimony sought by Congress in the firing of eight Read More...
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The White House, moving toward a constitutional showdown with Congress, asserted executive privilege Thursday and rejected lawmakers' demands for documents Read More...
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The state treasurer who was suspended after an indictment last week on a cocaine distribution charge will seek treatment at a rehabilitation center, prosecutors Read More...
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The criminal case against former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay now hinges on two money laundering charges after Texas' highest criminal court refused Read More...
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As if to prove Thomas Wolfe wrong, three top presidential contenders tried to go home again this week. Hillary Clinton traveled to Little Rock, Mitt Romney Read More...
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A day after his wife Elizabeth called in to MSNBC’s “Hardball” to confront conservative commentator Ann Coulter, Democratic presidential candidate John Read More...
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A U.S. Senate panel Wednesday began drawing up a sweeping law that would put mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions after a key Republican endorsed Read More...
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Unease with American foreign policy and President Bush has intensified in countries that are some of the closest U.S. allies and around the globe, while Read More...
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Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul will add party crashing to his campaign tactics this weekend. Read More...
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Some Democrats in Congress are concerned about the conservative nature of talk radio. They would like to reinstate something like the now-defunct Fairness Read More...
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Talk radio has been instrumental in the 12-year run of Republican control of Congress. But the folks behind the microphones have been restless lately, Read More...
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The Senate Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the White House and Vice President *** Cheney's office Wednesday for documents relating to President Bush's warrant-free Read More...
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Former U.S. Attorney Paul Charlton of Phoenix, one of the federal prosecutors whose firings caused controversy earlier this year, says he objected to the Read More...
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In 2006, Connie Schultz took time off to campaign for her husband, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown. Her new book "... and His Lovely Wife: A Memoir from Read More...
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A cartoon round-up from MSNBC.com's Daryl Cagle Read More...
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