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  Apr 29, 2013

  Eight Senators Join Fight Against Common Core

  Eight U.S. senators, including Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, have signed onto Sen. Chuck Grassley's (R-Iowa) fight to defund the Common Core State Standard's Initiative.

• Apr 29, 2013

  Top 10 Obama Jokes From White House Correspondents Dinner

  Washington bigwigs took a break from partisan bickering Saturday night to enjoy some laughs and mingle with celebrities. President Barack Obama delivered some of the best jokes of the night in his speech at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington, D.C. Here are 10 of his funniest lines:

• Apr 25, 2013

  FRC Posts Video of Attack at Headquarters, Shooter Naming Southern Poverty Law Center as Source

  The Family Research Council posted a video (see below) Thursday of building manager Leo Johnson thwarting the Aug. 15, 2012, attack by gunman Floyd Corkins. The video also shows an FBI interrogation of Corkins saying he chose FRC as a target after visiting the website of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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  Apr 25, 2013

  Congressional Leaders Worried About Joining 'Obamacare' Exchanges

  Some congressional leaders are looking at changing a part of the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare," that requires members of Congress and their staff to get their health insurance from the new health care exchanges.

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  Apr 24, 2013

  Contrary to Clinton Testimony, Libya Security Reductions Were Signed Off by Her Prior to Benghazi Attack

  In April 2012, prior to the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on a U.S. Embassy compound in Benghazi, Libya, Secretary Hillary Clinton signed a document acknowledging that requests were made for additional security in Libya while also signing off on a plan to reduce the number of security personnel in Libya. In sworn testimony at a Jan. 23, 2013, House hearing, though, Clinton said that diplomatic security needs did not rise to her level.

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  Apr 23, 2013

  Arguments Heard Today in German Homeschoolers Deportation Case

  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit heard arguments Tuesday in a case, Romeike vs. Holder, that could grant or revoke asylum for the Romeike homeschooling family. If the Romeikes lose, they could be deported back to Germany, where the state threatened to take their children away from them if they did not send them to public school.

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  Apr 23, 2013

  White Evangelical Support for Immigration Reform Increases When Requirements Are Mentioned

  Support for immigration reform increases dramatically among white evangelical Christians if the polling question mentions that specific requirements must be met for current unauthorized immigrants to qualify for citizenship. This was the finding of new research conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute and The Brookings Institution.

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  Apr 23, 2013

  3 Political Questions Raised by the Abortionist Gosnell Trial

  Much like the shooting death of Trayvon Martin and the massacre of school children in Newtown, Conn., the horrific accounts of beheadings of hundreds of newborn babies described during the trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell could have political implications beyond the trial itself. Here are three issues that may become part of the public debate because of the events at Gosnell's abortion clinic.

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  Apr 22, 2013

  Should Boston Bomber Be Treated as 'Enemy Combatant?'

  Some Republican members of Congress are calling on the executive branch to treat Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the two brothers suspected of being responsible for last week's terrorist attack in Boston, as an enemy combatant, but not to try him in a military court.

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  Apr 22, 2013

  Should Boston Bombings Delay, or Speed Up, Immigration Reform?

  The bombings in Boston last week have entered the debate over immigration reform. Some are suggesting the immigration reform effort should be delayed to consider what can be gleaned from the attacks to improve the immigration system, while others suggest that the attacks demonstrate the need to reform the system soon.