The first federal government shutdown in 17 years has reached Week 2. The catalyst? The debt limit. The accelerant? Obamacare.
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10/10/13
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They say that “politics makes strange bedfellows.” While they are far from being alike, two members of Congress from Long Island are playing major roles in the ongoing debate about how to open up the government after a shutdown.
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10/10/13
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The bloody civil war in Syria took a turn for the worse last week.
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9/5/13
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Visiting a District 24 school this year will be more difficult than it had been, as a series of security enhancements that are taking effect this month, Superintendent Dr. Edward Fale announced last week.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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9/4/13
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After the tragic events at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. last December, school security has been thrust into the national spotlight and has educators across the country re-evaluating and re-assessing security systems in place.
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By Brian Croce
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8/28/13
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I’ve seen a lot of presidents come and go. The vast majority of them have made some type of mistake that hurt their popularity as well as their legacy, but there hasn’t been as big a mistake as President Obama’s mishandling of so-called Obamacare.
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8/14/13
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If you wrote the story of Edward Snowden as a novel, no one would buy it, literally or figuratively.
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6/20/13
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Is it spying when the National Security Agency listens to your phone calls and reads your text messages?
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6/20/13
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Despite the fact that it has been nearly a dozen years since 9/11, the recent Boston Marathon attack proves that terrorism is still a very real threat in this country.
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4/25/13
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At 2:49 p.m. on April 15, two crude bombs, fashioned out of pressure cookers and ball bearings, exploded 13 seconds apart at the Boston Marathon, killing three and severely injuring nearly 180.
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4/25/13
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