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Federally-Contracted Workers Strike in D.C.
Called the "Good Jobs Nation" campaign, the workers will protest Monday outside the Reagan Building, the American History Museum, Union Station and Columbus Circle. The group represents the nearly two million workers employed by private businesses to work in federally-owned buildings, serving food, selling memorabilia and even making military ...
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DC Fire Carbon Monoxide Sickens 7 Workers
WASHINGTON (AP) - A D.C. fire department official says seven construction workers were sickened by carbon monoxide and sent to area hospitals. Fire department spokesman Lon Walls say 10 people were affected by the fumes on Monday night as they worked at the National Press Club. Walls says the workers were sickened while removing asbestos from the building at 14th and F streets northwest. Walls ...
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Thunderstorms possible in Eastern Washington
Forecasters say there's a chance of thunderstorms Tuesday in Eastern Washington as a cold front moves inland. By Tuesday afternoon storms could become strong in the northeast corner of the state and the Idaho ...
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Several Protestors Arrested Outside Dept. of Justice
Up to 10 people have been arrested at the Department of Justice for blocking the building while protesting home foreclosures. News4's Megan McGrath ...
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CIA Drones Pentagon To Take Over Some Operations Sources Say
WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration has decided to give the Pentagon control of some drone operations against terrorism suspects overseas that are currently run by the CIA, several U.S. government sources said on ...
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Pentagon UnitedHealth still too slow
The Defense Department has relaxed rules for thousands of military families that are covered by a newly won contract by UnitedHealth Group Inc., saying that the insurer is still taking too long to provide care. The Star Tribune reports on the move, the latest evidence that Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth (NYSE: UNH) is having more trouble than expected taking over the $20.5 billion contract to ...
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Workers at federal buildings and museums in D.C. to protest low pay
Hundreds of low-wage workers employed in federal buildings in the District are expected to gather outside the Ronald Reagan Building on Wednesday to picket outside several of the city's most iconic structures urging for better pay for those who clean the buildings, serve fast food to commuters and sell museum souvenirs to tourists, The Washington Post reported. Many of the workers will be on ...
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Fairfax Team Ready to Help Okla. First Responders
The Fairfax Urban Search and Rescue Team says they are prepared to mobilize within hours if first responders in Moore, Okla., one of the hardest hit areas, need their ...
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Dish Network bids $2B for LightSquared frequencies
Various outlets have pegged Dish Network Corp.'s bid to purchase Clearwire anywhere from $2 billion to $10 billion, but the deal is probably closer to $5 billion. Charlie Ergen's Dish Network Corp. is said to have placed a $2 billion stalking-horse bid for mobile broadband spectrum from bankrupt Reston-based wireless startup LightSquared Inc., just as shareholders in another company ...
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Oklahoma twister spawns political firestorm in Washington
Weather A political storm has already broken out over the Capitol as Democrats and Republicans attempt to advance their agendas in the wake of the devastating tornado that ravaged parts of Oklahoma on Monday. After the mile-wide tornado - which focused much of its fury on the town of Moore, on the outskirts of Oklahoma City - cleared, a bipartisan battle erupted in Washington in what appears ...
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Apple set for tax grilling in Washington
Apple executives are set to defend the company's tax practices and call for corporate tax reform on Capitol Hill Tuesday amid harsh criticism following a Senate ...
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Ex-IRS chief heads to Hill as Carney says White House senior staff told of probe findings
Lawmakers will get their first opportunity to question the man who ran the IRS when agents were improperly targeting tea party groups Tuesday, as the timeline for when senior White House officials knew about the scandal seems to be shifting. The lawmakers are expected to ask former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman why he didn't tell Congress that agents had been singling out conservative ...
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Dulles Greenways Drive For Charity sets record
The Dulles Greenway's annual Drive For Charity set a record on May 16, with more drivers that day than on any day in the past three years, the Leesburg Today reported. The charity resulted in collections of $268,942.85, all of which will be donated to local organizations and used for college scholarships. Over the past eight years, the one-day event has raised nearly $1.8 ...
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Anger as Barack Obama rewards Burmese President Thein Sein with White House visit despite recent claims of violence
Welcoming the first Burmese head of state to visit the White House in nearly 50 years yesterday, President Obama said "the leadership of President [Thein] Sein" had "allowed this shift" in the ...
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Strasburg faces Giants looking to continue momentum
Before this season began, the pitching matchup fans will be treated to Tuesday night when the Washington Nationals visit the San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park would have been billed as a duel between two of baseball's best. And it still could very well be by the time the season is over. But for now, the Stephen Strasburg vs. Matt Cain tilt will be one pitting two right-handers who ...
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Smithsonian launching first-ever yoga exhibit
The Smithsonian Institution in October will open what curators believe is the first exhibition about the visual history of yoga, The Associated Press reported. When it opens, "Yoga: The Art of Transformation" will feature temple structures, devotional icons and manuscripts, as well as early photographs, books and films about yoga. The Sackler Gallery is organizing the exhibit, for which ...
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Myanmar’s President Makes Historic Divisive Visit to White House
- Myanmar's President Thein Sein on Monday became the first leader of that country in almost a half-century to pay a call on the White House, a visit that has simultaneously highlighted a series of monumental changes seen in Myanmar in recent years as well as a reforms process that many are warning may have ...
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Virginia transportation board delays vote on North-South plan
Virginia's Commonwealth Transportation Board last week delayed a vote to accept the state's North-South Corridor master plan that includes a proposal to link Loudoun and Prince William counties' roadways, the Loudoun Times-Mirror reported. Pro-business officials from both Loudoun and Prince William have been adamantly in favor of the plan, while environmentalists and more ...
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Leaks turn to deluge for reeling White House
A few hours after that, we were told that everybody at the most senior levels of the White House knew about the report revealing the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service - everybody but the president, who maintains he learned about it from watching TV.By far the most damaging of the stories has to do with the assault on press freedom.In 2009, Fox News reporter James ...
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The taxman’s targeting blame the White House
Whether the Obama administration could have stopped the IRS’ targeting of conservative groups.***Jonah Goldberg made an excellent point in "IRS Follows O’s Lead," (PostOpinion, May 17) when he said: "Imagine for a moment if black civil-rights organizations, gay groups or teachers unions were targeted by the IRS." The White House would have started a major ...
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Duke has short start in Nationals third straight loss
SAN FRANCISCO -- Before Monday night's first pitch against the Giants, Nationals manager Davey Johnson said he was hoping spot starter Zach Duke would be able to get through five good innings. It turned out Duke couldn't even escape the fourth frame of the series opener, which ended in an 8-0 Washington loss. Starting in place of southpaw Ross Detwiler, who is nursing a right oblique ...
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MLB San Francisco 8 Washington 0
Ryan Vogelsong earned a win but was injured Monday in San Francisco's 8-0 rout of Washington. Belt scored four times and his blast in the fifth inning handed a 6-0 lead to San Francisco, which opened a homestand by snapping a three-game ...
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Tiger Woods says hes open to moving ATT National out of Washington
Tiger Woods Tiger Woods was in Bethesda Monday to promote next month's AT&T National golf tournament at Congressional Country Club. The event is guaranteed to be at the course only through the next year, so the question came up as to if the event would return, and if not, where it would end up, according to The Washington Post. Thats something that we are obviously addressing now, and were ...
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Washington’s hacking charges escalate pressure on China
Yesterday, top US officials and media made unsubstantiated allegations of hacking of US computer systems by a military unit in Shanghai, escalating tensions with China. ...
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Irish P.M. Enda Kenny applauded at Boston College graduation
Boston College graduates gave Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny a standing ovation Monday while a small group of anti-abortion activists protested outside. ...
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