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DEA declares marijuana has no medical use

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What the DEA's recent ruling could mean for medical marijuana dispensaries.
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Social Security on the table in debt limit talks

President Obama puts entitlement reform on the table in debt ceiling talks, Democrats say they were caught completely off-guard....
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Caught in terror watch list limbo

People with no terrorist connections who find themselves on the US watch list have a hard time getting off the list....
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State budget stallers and laggards

How Minnesota can learn from other states that have already settled their books....
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Jury convicts Blagojevich of corruption

A federal court in Chicago convicted former Ill. Governor Rod Blagojevich on 17 counts of corruption in a retrial....
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The Obama administration's war on whistleblowers

Barack Obama came into office promising transparency, but his administration is pursuing more leak prosecutions than all previous administrations combined....
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New immigration law controversies: Some harsher, some more forgiving

Alabama has passed the most severe anti-immigration law in the country, while Massachusetts has pulled out of federal immigration enforcement programs....
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Putin, Medvedev start Presidential campaigns in Russia

President Dimitri Medvedev and Former President, current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin are distinguishing themselves in anticipation of next year's Presidential election....
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Obama in Puerto Rico: The politics behind the visit

President Obama is the first sitting President to take an official state visit to Puerto Rico in nearly 50 years. His focus, however, may be on Puerto Ricans living on the mainland....
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Complete Pentagon Papers released 40 years later

Exactly 40 years after being published in articles by the New York Times, the National Archives and Records Administration will release the full Pentagon Papers....
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