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Will Boehner risk speakership on bill
House Speaker John Boehner says he won't bring the immigration bill to the floor without majority Republican support. MSNBC's Alex Wagner, E.J. Dionne, and Joy Reid discuss how Speaker Boehner will handle his Republican ...
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House passes most restrictive abortion bill in 10 years
Despite no chance of the bill becoming law, House Republicans pushed through a bill that would ban most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. MSNBC's Alex Wagner gets the reaction of Dr. Willie Parker who performs second-term abortions, and discusses the chipping away of Roe v. Wade in the states with Planned Parenthood's Cecile ...
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Call him what you like but dont mess with American Samoa
Rachel Maddow reports on the quiet dignity of Congressman Eni Faleomavaega, of American Samoa, who ignored the ridiculous mispronunciation of his name in an introduction by Rep. Kerry Bentivolio but made sure Bentivolio and everyone in the room was clear on "American ...
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Sister Helen Prejean on her influential activism against the death penalty
Sister Helen Prejean, anti-death penalty advocate and author of "Dead Man Walking," talks with Rachel Maddow on the 20th anniversary of the publication of "Dead Man Walking" about the impact of the book and movie, the "weird relationship" Americans have with the death penalty, and the challenge of getting people to a point of reflection on complicated ...
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Plan presented to wrest control of ATF director from gun lobby
Rachel Maddow reports on a proposal by Senator Dick Durban that would move the ATF under the FBI to undo a tactic devised by NRA-beholden Republicans to hold up the appointment of any leader to the ...
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GOP brings anti-science perspectives to war on women
Adele Stan, senior Washington correspondent for RH Reality Check, talks with Rachel Maddow about the extreme and sometimes bizarre Republican perspectives on the reproductive rights of American women and they influence they're having on actual legislative policy ...
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Massachusetts police search NFL players home in homicide probe report
New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez talks on a phone during media day for the NFL Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis January 31, ...
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Empire State Building gets left-field $2 billion offer to sell
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City real estate company offered to buy the Empire State Building for $2 billion, a written offer showed, significantly below the skyscraper's appraisal price and about three weeks after investors in the iconic building approved a plan to take the tower public in a real-estate investment ...
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California senators want more information on oil well acid jobs
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - California state legislators on Tuesday told regulators and oil industry lobbyists they wanted more information about the use of acid to increase flows in wells in a technique that is used more often in the state than the controversial fracking ...
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Journalist who brought down U.S. general is killed in Los Angeles car crash
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Journalist Michael Hastings, whose 2010 Rolling Stone magazine profile of the U.S. military chief in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, led to the general being relieved of command, died on Tuesday in a car wreck in Los Angeles, his employer ...
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American Airlines-US Air merger denounced as “merger of convenience” and anti-consumer
Washington, D.C. - The Aviation Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce, Science and Technology Committee at a hearing on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, will discuss issues regarding the proposed merger of US Airways and American Airlines. Once considered a slam dunk for approval, this merger is now facing questions about competition and its effect on consumers. "There are no benefits to this ...
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Acrobat Pleads Not Guilty To Naked Rampage At BART Station
stripping naked and harassing people while doing acrobatic moves at a BART station in San Francisco last month pleaded not guilty Tuesday to seven felony and misdemeanor charges. Yeiner Perez Garizabalo, 24, faces two felony counts of false imprisonment, four misdemeanor counts of battery on public transportation and one misdemeanor count of sexual battery for the May 10 incident at the 16th ...
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AL West-Leading A’s Defeat Darvish Rangers
Brandon Moss #37 of the Oakland Athletics run the bases after hitting a solo home run in the second inning against the Texas Rangers at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington on June 18, 2013 in Arlington, Texas. (Rick Yeatts/Getty ...
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Mich. woman ordered to trial on false rape report
PORT HURON, Mich. -; A Michigan woman accused of faking a sexual assault was ordered to stand trial on charges of making a false report of rape and tampering with evidence Tuesday after a doctor said her purported bruises faded after he wiped them with ...
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Americas looming helium disaster
Imagine that you sustain an injury, sending you to the hospital. The doctor orders an MRI. But the critical material that allows the MRI to operate - liquid helium - is not available. So you don’t receive your MRI and a proper diagnosis cannot be made. If Congress does not act on bipartisan legislation by Sept. 30, such a scenario is a very real possibility in the near future.On that date, ...
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Should U.S. or Local Authorities Judge Borders Security Americans Divided
Fewer than half of Americans think the Homeland Security Department should be responsible for determining if the country's borders are secure, according to the latest United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll, indicating a small preference for a national agency over state and local ...
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Americans Split on Linking Border Security and Citizenship in Immigration Reform
Most Americans say illegal immigrants should be allowed to remain in the country, but the public divides evenly on whether citizenship should be linked to stiff progress in securing the border, as many Senate Republicans are demanding, the latest United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll has ...
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Patty Griffin performs songs from her new album American Kid Wednesday at the Neptune
Singer-songwriter Patty Griffin recently kicked off a tour in support of her seventh album, "American Kid," featuring the song "Don't Let Me Die in Florida." The album "was written to honor my father," Griffin says. It's her first collection of mostly new songs since "Children Running Through" in 2007. Before "American Kid," Griffin ...
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Republicans want to cut $20 billion from food stamps
The House is slated to debate a farm bill this week, in which Republicans want cut $2 billion a year from the food stamp program. The president has threatened to veto ...
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Meet the most powerful man in government youve never heard of
Chris Hayes looks at General Keith Alexander's historically long reign over the NSA with James Bamford and explains why he may be the most powerful man in Washington that you have yet to hear ...
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House Republicans take another stab at limiting abortion rights succeed
Despite the fact that President Obama has promised to veto the bill, on Tuesday the House held a symbolic vote to pass a ban on abortions after 20 weeks. Chris Hayes is joined by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee to talk about how bills like these serve as a distraction to the real issues Americans are ...
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U.S. official 4 Americans killed at U.S. base in Afghanistan
ISAF says four NATO coalition service members have been killed ISAF did not disclose the nationality of those killed A Pentagon official says the attack happened at Bagram Air ...
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3 charged with enslaving disabled Ohio mom child threatening them with snakes dogs no food
This undated photo released by the Department of Justice shows Daniel Brown. Authorities in Ohio have arrested three people, including Brown, on charges of enslaving a mentally disabled young mother and her daughter over a two-year period. Federal agents and Ashland police said Tuesday, June 18, 2013 the trio forced the woman to do housework, threatened her and the girl with violence and fed ...
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US State Department says screaming man was ex-employee
(20 mins ago) A US State Department spokeswoman says a man who ranted about national security and screamed ';I'm dead'' during a flight from Hong Kong once worked at the agency. The spokeswoman said the passenger ended his time at the department in 2006. She gave no details about his job or why he no longer works there. The man started screaming nine hours into a 15-hour ...
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California judge irked by accused killer acting as own lawyer
SAN RAFAEL, California (Reuters) - An accused California serial killer representing himself at his own murder trial drew a series of rebukes from the judge on the first day of testimony and was warned to obey procedural rules in court or risk losing the right to serve as his own ...
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Idaho looks to eco-business for eventual recovery
Colorado has been leading the country in developing a sustainable, environmentally-friendly ‘green economy’ using $1 billion in federal grants over the last ten years or so, the efforts have paid off and now it seems that Idaho’s leadership may be looking to do something similar.
Using a $1.25 million federal grant the state of Idaho is investigating the extent of our green economy. Officials from the Idaho Department of Labor are in the process of interviewing around 5000 large and small employers and asking them, basically, how many ‘green’ jobs they’re currently got and what their growth potential is for the coming years. Read more
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