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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:14:30 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Fresno looks for cost savings after Measure G fails</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Fresno City Council is looking at ways to avoid layoffs and other cuts.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[Council members Blong Xiong and Lee Brand made several motions that could use some unexpected funding sources to reduce the  nearly three million dollar deficit. Those motions were welcome news to employee groups who were targeted for layoffs in the budget plan proposed by Fresno's mayor.]]></dig:D3text>
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<title>Court: Arizona citizenship proof law illegal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states cannot on their own require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[The justices voted 7-2 to throw out Arizona's voter-approved requirement that prospective voters document their U.S. citizenship in order to use a registration form produced under the federal "Motor Voter" voter registration law.]]></dig:D3text>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:18:14 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Fresno polls open for Measure G special election</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The special election will determine if city leaders can outsource residential trash pickup.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[City leaders want to outsource residential trash pick up to save what they say is millions in taxpayer money. But opponents say the deal puts some trash collectors at risk for losing their jobs.]]></dig:D3text>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:24:12 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Court: Police can take DNA swabs from arrestees</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday said police can routinely take DNA from people they arrest, equating a DNA cheek swab to other common jailhouse procedures like fingerprinting.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[At least 28 states and the federal government now take DNA swabs after arrests. But a Maryland court was one of the first to say that it was illegal for that state to take Alonzo King's DNA without approval from a judge, saying King had "a sufficiently weighty and reasonable expectation of privacy against warrantless, suspicionless searches."]]></dig:D3text>
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<title>California senate approves earthquake early warning system</title>
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<description><![CDATA[People living in California are used to feeling the earth shake because of earthquakes. At this time there is no way for authorities to warn residents of a tremor. But now, California lawmakers are working on an early warning system.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 19:00:48 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Michele Bachmann says she won't run for re-election</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, a conservative firebrand, presid]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA["My decision was not influenced by any concerns about my being re-elected," Bachmann said. She narrowly won a fourth term in 2012 over Democrat Jim Graves, a hotel chain founder who is running again in 2014.]]></dig:D3text>
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<dig:alt><![CDATA[FILE - In this May 16, 2013 file photo, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.]]></dig:alt>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 14:22:31 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Fresno City Council votes against planned bike lane</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A long planned bike lane for North Fresno has been killed by the city council.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 19:23:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Obama defends drone strikes but says no cure-all</title>
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<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama on Thursday defended America's controversial drone attacks as legal, effective and a necessary linchpin in an evolving U.S. counterterrorism policy.]]></description>
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<dig:alt><![CDATA[President Barack Obama talks about national security, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington.]]></dig:alt>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 20:24:38 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Andy Vidak wins 16th State Senate District</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Republican Andy Vidak is the winner in Tuesday's special state senate election.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[Tuesday night, Vidak's supporters gathered at his Hanford-Armona farm and cheered him on as the votes came in from all four counties in Senate District 16. This includes all of Kings County, where Vidak lives, and portions of Fresno, Tulare and Kern counties.]]></dig:D3text>
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<title>Eric Garcetti elected Los Angeles mayor</title>
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<description><![CDATA[City Councilman Eric Garcetti defeated Controller Wendy Greuel to become next mayor of Los Angeles after a campaign in which he depicted his rival a pawn of powerful labor bosses.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:50:06 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>LA voters back measure to cap number of pot shops</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles voters have approved a proposition limiting the number of medical marijuana dispensaries in the city.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:31:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>State senate special election approaching</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Voters will soon decide who will fill the state senate seat in the 16th district.]]></description>
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<title>The final push for California's 16th Senate seat</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the final push before election day, the campaign to fill the 16th District State Senate seat vacated by Michael Rubio has candidates scrambling for votes. But one candidate has the clear advantage when it comes to fundraising efforts.]]></description>
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<title>Eric Holder: Potential civil rights violations at IRS</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The FBI's criminal investigation of the Internal Revenue Service could include potential civil rights violations, false statements and potential violations of the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from engaging in some partisan political activities, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday.]]></description>
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<dig:alt><![CDATA[Attorney General Eric Holder, the nations top law enforcement official, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 15, 2013, before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the U.S. Department of Justice.]]></dig:alt>
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<title>Attorney General orders probe into IRS targeting conservative groups</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Justice Department is opening a criminal investigation into the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of tea party groups for extra scrutiny over whether they qualified for tax exempt status, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Tuesday.]]></description>
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<title>Prison overcrowding: Gov. Jerry Brown submits revised plan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gov. Jerry Brown is waiting to hear whether federal judges will accept his revised plan to cut crowding at state prisons.]]></description>
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<title>UFW head Arturo Rodriguez testifies at Senate immigration hearing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Senate Judiciary Committee held its second hearing Monday on the "gang of eight's" immigration overhaul.]]></description>
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<title>House passes pro-business cybersecurity bill</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pro-business legislation aimed at helping companies fend off sophisticated foreign hackers sailed through the House on Thursday despite a White House veto threat and an outcry from privacy advocates]]></description>
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<title>Judges deny Calif. bid to end prison oversight</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A federal judicial panel on Thursday denied Gov. Jerry Brown's request to lift a court-ordered prison population cap and threatened him and other state officials with contempt of court if they fail to comply.]]></description>
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<title>Gun control bill clears first hurdle in Senate</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gun control supporters won the first Senate showdown Thursday over how to respond to the December carnage in Newtown, Conn., defeating an effort by conservatives to derail a package of firearms restrictions before debate could even start.]]></description>
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<dig:alt><![CDATA[Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, left, and Republican Sen. Patrick Toomey of Pennsylvania, right, announce that they have reached a bipartisan deal on expanding background checks to more gun buyers]]></dig:alt>
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<title>US budget deficit for March falls to $107 billion</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The U.S. federal budget deficit grew more slowly in March, keeping the annual spending shortfall on pace to finish below $1 trillion for the first time in five years.]]></description>
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<title>Obama sends Congress $3.8 trillion spending plan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $3.8 trillion spending blueprint that strives to achieve a "grand bargain" to tame runaway deficits.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[The president's budget projects deficit reductions of $1.8 trillion over the next decade, achieved with higher taxes, reductions in payments to Medicare providers and trims in the cost-of-living adjustments paid to millions of recipients in Social Security and other government programs.]]></dig:D3text>
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<dig:alt><![CDATA[President Barack Obama, accompanied by acting budget director Jeff Zients, speaks about his proposed fiscal 2014 proposed budget, Wednesday, April 10, 2013, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington.]]></dig:alt>
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<title>Senators reach background check gun control deal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Two pivotal senators announced a bipartisan deal Wednesday on expanding background checks to more gun buyers, an agreement that could build support for President Barack Obama's drive to curb firearms violence.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Patrick Toomey, R-Pa., said their accord would help keep firearms from criminals and the mentally ill. Subjecting more firearms purchases to federal background checks has been the chief goal of Obama and gun control supporters, who promote the system as a way to prevent criminals and other potentially dangerous people from getting the weapons.]]></dig:D3text>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:38:45 GMT</pubDate>
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