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Staples Threatens To Fire Staff For Working More Than 25 Hours A Week
In 2015, an Affordable Care Act provision requiring large employers to offer health insurance to staff working more than 30 hours a week kicked into effect. Now, some part-time staff at Staples say...
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Two Key Marriage Campaigners Launch "People's Brief" For Supreme Court
HRC’s Chad Griffin — who fought California’s Prop 8 — joins with DOMA-slayer Robbie Kaplan to describe the “animus” that they say is behind states’ marriage bans. The brief will be one of many amicus...
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Black Lawmakers Urge Supreme Court To Strike Down Wisconsin Voter ID Laws
In an amicus brief provided to BuzzFeed News, the Congressional Black Caucus invokes the Voting Rights Act in their challenge to Wisconsin’s voter ID law. MILWAUKEE, WI - NOVEMBER 4: A man checks in...
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Jeb Bush Email Dump Contains Sensitive Personal Information Of Florida Residents
Social Security numbers, home addresses, and email addresses can be found in the former Florida governor’s eight years worth of emails. A spokesperson for Bush told BuzzFeed News that they are...
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How A Clinton Insider Fight Turned Public
The pro-Clinton groups are a delicate balance of money and power. On Monday, the uneasy alliance between former Obama and Clinton backers saw its first explosion — the big fundraising rift that must...
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Judge Awards Mexican Man $500,000 For Getting Shot In The Back By Border...
The ruling is one of the first to uphold the civil claims of Mexican citizens against U.S. border agents and the federal government. Jesus Castro Romo Brad Racino/ Investigative Newsource WASHINGTON —...
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Everyone On The Hill Wants To Make Changes To The White House's Draft War...
Hawkish Republicans say they won’t place restrictions on the commander-in-chief, but Democrats and dovish Republicans want a strict timeline and limits on ground troops. U.S. Senate Minority Leader...
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Obama On Kayla Mueller: Telling Families U.S. Won't Pay Ransom Is "As Tough...
Photograph by Jon Premosch for BuzzFeed News WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Tuesday he is heartbroken by the death of American hostage Kayla Jane Mueller, who had been held by ISIS for more...
View ArticleProgressive Caucus Chair: Netanyahu Speech To Congress An "Insult"
“Him insulting the presidency and siding with the Republicans and coming in to give that talk to a joint session, I think it smacks of politics.” w.soundcloud.com Progressive Caucus co-chairman Rep....
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Obama Welcomes Supreme Court Move To End “Patchwork” Marriage Laws
Photograph by Jon Premosch for BuzzFeed News WASHINGTON — President Obama Tuesday welcomed the Supreme Court's signals that marriage equality is on the verge of becoming the law of the land, adding...
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Liberal Organizing Group Implodes In One Tumultuous Afternoon
Eight senior staffers at the New Organizing Institute resigned after calling for the firing of President Obama’s 2012 data director. They took much of the rest of the staff with them. Executive...
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Here's The White House Proposal Authorizing War Against ISIS
The Obama administration sent Congress their draft AUMF Wednesday morning. U.S. President Barack Obama walks towards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House Larry Downing / Reuters WASHINGTON...
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Texas Congressman: I Don't Know If President Obama Has "Got America's Back"
“Very few that I talked to Craig trust this guy, our commander-in-chief, to prosecute a war in an appropriate fashion.” Via Facebook: TXRandy14 Republican Rep. Randy Weber of Texas said Monday he...
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Alan Grayson: Democrats Accused Of "Blood Libel" If They Don't Cater To...
“The country will be perfectly safe if we stop incessantly feeding the military industrial complex and military contractors with the billions upon billions in profits that they take out of taxpayers...
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Democrats, Republicans Will Try To End Mandatory-Minimum Sentences
The Smarter Sentencing Act is being reintroduced by a bipartisan coalition of conservative and liberal senators. Update: A White House official said the Obama administration “applauds” the effort....
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John Kasich Didn't Vote In 2008, His Spokesman Says His Ballot Got Lost In...
“He filled out his ballot, it was handed off to the postal service, but we don’t know what happened to his ballot after that.” Delaware County Board of Elections Republican Gov. John Kasich of Ohio...
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Top Latino Donors Warn Clinton: Do Better With Latinos Than Dems Did In...
The donors and fundraisers tell BuzzFeed News Hillary Clinton must set up a real and meaningful operation to reach Latino voters. Other wishes? A Latino vice presidential nominee. Andrés W. López, a...
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Federal Judge Orders Mobile County Official To Stop Denying Same-Sex Marriage...
Mobile County is the largest county in Alabama that is not issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. [Update: Mobile County is complying with the order.] WASHINGTON — The federal judge who...
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The 2001 Law Authorizing Many U.S. Military Strikes Isn't Going Away Soon
The White House didn’t ask for the 2001 law to be ended. And there’s little support among Republicans to do so. U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) Jonathan Ernst / Reuters WASHINGTON — The 2001 law that...
View ArticleRep. Peter King: Obama Finally Fulfilling Liberal Fantasy Of Getting Back At...
“One of his many liberal fantasies he fulfilling in his last two years,” says King. w.soundcloud.com Republican Rep. Peter King of New York says that President Obama is using the remaining to years of...
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