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  • Hillary Clinton.
  • Hillary Clinton is in the Bay Area to receive an honor from the American Bar Association.
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  • Hillary Clinton.
  • Hillary Clinton is in the Bay Area to receive an honor from the American Bar Association.
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  • President Obama
  • President Obama said Snowden is not a patriot and challenged him to return to the U.S. to face espionage charges.
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  • President Obama
  • Caught between domestic gridlock and foreign policy crises, the president held a news conference Friday before going on vacation.
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  • The top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee calls it the most serious threat Ive seen in a number of years.
  • The State Department says U.S. diplomatic posts in 19 countries in the Muslim world will be closed through Saturday.
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  • The top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee calls it the most serious threat Ive seen in a number of years.
  • All US embassies located throughout 22 countries were shut down Sunday because of an al-Qaida terror threat.
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  • Barack Obama
  • President Barack Obama is accusing Washington of taking "its eye off the ball" and getting distracted from the economy.
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  • Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed sweeping new abortion regulations that threaten the existence of most clinics in the state.
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  • Liz Cheney addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.
  • Dick Cheney's daughter Liz says she will run against Wyoming's senior U.S. senator in next year's Republican primary.
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  • DREAMers and parents take an oath in a mock citizenship ceremony.
  • President Obama is pressing the Republican-controlled House to embrace a path to citizenship.
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  • Gov. Rick Perry says the abortion bill awaiting his signature to become Texas law is constitutional and will withstand court challenges by those who oppose it.
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  • Republicans pushed a scaled-down farm bill through the House on Thursday, putting off a fight over food stamp spending.
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  • The Texas House approved new abortion limits less than two weeks after Senate Republicans failed to finish work on the bill.
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  • With a backdrop of college students on the step of the House of Representatives, Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, and GOP leaders talk about the politics of federal student loan rates which doubled on July 1
  • The Senate scheduled a procedural vote for Wednesday on a bill that would restore the interest rate on subsidized Stafford loans.
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  • Republicans and Democrats will put good will to the test when Congress returns this week.
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  • Edward Snowden
  • Presidents Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua and Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela are willing to grant asylum to dward Snowden.
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  • Rebounding state revenue bolstered by temporary tax increases are paying off for California's largest public employees' union.
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  • Bolivias President Evo Moraless plane
  • Bolivia's president left Europe for home on Wednesday amid diplomatic drama after his flight was rerouted and delayed overnight in Austria.
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  • Moscows Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow, Russia
  • The plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales was rerouted to Austria because of suspicions that NSA leaker Edward Snowden was on board.
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  • The Interfax news agency says a Russian consular official has confirmed that NSA leaker Edward Snowden asked for political asylum in Russia.
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  • A demonstrator protests with a poster against NSA in Hanover, Germany.
  • The Obama administration faced a breakdown in confidence Sunday from key foreign allies.
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  • Border security amendment offered in Senate
  • An agreement to vastly increase fencing, patrols and monitoring along the U.S.-Mexico border was unveiled in the Senate Friday.
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  • Gov. Jerry Brown discusses the budget compromise reached with Democratic leaders, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento left, and Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, right, during a Capitol news conference in Sacramento, Calif.
  • The California Legislature on Saturday approved a budget bill expanding Medicaid to 1.4 million low-income residents.
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  • A Republican leader says the NSA programs are legal and subject to rigorous oversight.
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  • The man who inspired Edward Snowden to release the information appeared Tuesday night in Berkeley. Daniel Ellsberg is famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
  • The man who inspired Edward Snowden to release the information appeared Tuesday night in Berkeley.
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  • The man who inspired Edward Snowden to release the information appeared Tuesday night in Berkeley. Daniel Ellsberg is famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
  • The man who inspired Edward Snowden to release the information appeared Tuesday night in Berkeley.
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  • A Republican leader says the NSA programs are legal and subject to rigorous oversight.
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  • Woman at a shooting range
  • The Santa Monica shooting spree has given California lawmakers another reason to renew the debate over stricter gun control.
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  • Bullets
  • Democrats in the state Senate have passed a series of firearms bills intended to reduce the chances for widespread carnage.
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  • Big special interest groups -- including labor unions -- made up the bulk of the donations to support Prop. 28.
  • California lawmakers are heading into the final week to move legislation from one house to the next with a lengthy to-do list.
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  • Democrats say there's enough money to make California's neediest residents smile again, but Gov. Brown wants to wait.
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  • Democrats say there's enough money to make California's neediest residents smile again, but Gov. Brown wants to wait.
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  • Abuse of tax loophole led to IRS scandal
  • We take a look at how political groups may have taken advantage of a tax loophole meant for "social welfare" organizations.
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  • Abuse of tax loophole led to IRS scandal
  • We take a look at how political groups may have taken advantage of a tax loophole meant for "social welfare" organizations.
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  • U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder testifies about IRS scandal
  • Lawmakers are questioning U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder over the IRS scandal targeting conservative charities.
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  • Eric Holder
  • The Justice Department is opening a criminal investigation into the IRS targeting of the Tea Party.
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  • Gregory Hicks gives testimony about Benghazi attack
  • In emotional testimony, the former U.S. deputy chief of mission in Libya described the night four Americans were killed.
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  • Drone.
  • California lawmakers are attempting to regulate the use of drones and unmanned aircraft to gather information.
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  • Coast Guard helicopter
  • The San Francisco Bay will see fewer Coast Guard patrols as sequester cuts start to be felt by Homeland Security.
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  • Coast Guard helicopter
  • The San Francisco Bay will see fewer Coast Guard patrols as sequester cuts start to be felt by Homeland Security.
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  • President Obama speaks at the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner
  • At the annual White House Correspondents' dinner, President Obama got to deliver some jokes and jabs at people and issues.
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  • This video frame grab provided by Senate Television shows Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. using a poster of weapons as she speaks about gun legisalation, Wednesday, April 17, 2013, on the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington.
  • The Senate has rejected a bipartisan effort to expand federal background checks to more firearms buyers.
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  • same sex marriage
  • The GOP is shifting its views to broaden the party's appeal to gays as Hillary Clinton is stating her support for same-sex marriage.
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  • Ohio Senator Rob Portman waves to the delegates during the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla.
  • A GOP senator's embrace of gay marriage is the latest sign of soul-searching in a party struggling with society's changing views.
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  • Sequester deadline passes, budget cuts begin
  • On Friday there was no chance between Democrats and Republicans to avoid the $85 billion in government cuts.
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  • **FILE** In this file photo from June 17, 2008, John Lewis, left, puts a wedding ring on the hand of Stuart Gaffney as they exchange marriage vows at City Hall in San Francisco.
  • Meg Whitman is among several Republicans who signed a legal brief arguing that gay people have a right to marry.
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  • ABC7 News anchor Dan Ashley was in Washington DC for a Bay Area exclusive one-on-one interview with President Barack Obama
  • ABC7 News anchor Dan Ashley was in Washington DC for a Bay Area exclusive one-on-one interview with President Barack Obama.
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  • $85 billion in spending cuts
  • A new poll out says 40 percent of Americans are OK with spending cuts, in spite of the administration's full-court press.
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  • ABC7 News anchor Dan Ashley was in Washington DC earlier this week for a Bay Area exclusive one-on-one interview with President Barack Obama.
  • Obama is now reaching out to the Republicans about the automatic spending cuts that will kick in next week.
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  • Ray LaHood
  • Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says California's high-speed rail project is ahead of the curve in terms of the rest of the country.
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