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Appeals court shields lawmakers from testifying, showing draft maps in redistricting lawsuit
Tallahassee Bureau ChiefTALLAHASSEE – A divided appeals court ruled Wednesday that Florida legislators should not be questioned under oath about whether they "intended" to gain partisan advantage when they re-drew congressional maps last year. Two sets of groups have...Tags: Elections, Leon County (Florida), Trials, Gainesville, Common
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Appeals court says legislators can't be questioned about gerrymandering 'intent'
TALLAHASSEE – A divided appeals court ruled Wednesday that Florida legislators may not be questioned under oath about whether they "intended" to gain partisan advantage when they re-drew congressional maps last year. The ruling came in one of two...Tags: Elections, Leon County (Florida), Trials, 2010 Census, Gainesville
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Apple Computer answers charges it's avoiding billions in taxes
news@ky3.comWASHINGTON (AP) - Apple's CEO is disputing assertions by a Senate panel that the company avoids billions of dollars in U.S. taxes by shifting profits to foreign affiliates. Tim Cook testified at a hearing Tuesday by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on...Tags: Tim Cook, Politics
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Charley Reese: Longtime Sentinel columnist was a popular conservative voice
Charley Reese, a retired Orlando Sentinel columnist who for decades argued forcefully for less government and more personal freedom, died Tuesday. He was 76. Reese, who lived in Seminole County, died of respiratory failure after a long illness, family...
Tags: Israel, Seminole County, Periodicals, U.S. Army, Lebanon
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First lady tours historic slave quarters
Tribune reporterWASHINGTON -- First lady Michelle Obama, whose great-great-great maternal grandmother was a slave, made a short trip from the White House on Wednesday to the nearby Decatur House, touring the historic former home and its adjacent slave quarters....Tags: American Express Company, Human Interest, Slavery, Politics
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Reid to delay Senate votes on most Obama nominees until July
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that he will delay votes on several of President Obama’s nominees for key posts until July, a decision raising the prospect that he’ll seek further changes to Senate rules...Tags: Elections, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), George W. Bush, Jeff Merkley, Thomas Edward Perez
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Senate panel approves immigration bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Far-reaching legislation to grant a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a solid bipartisan vote Tuesday night after supporters somberly...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Orrin Hatch, Minority Groups, Patrick Leahy, Lindsey O. Graham
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California drops a notch in public school spending
California slipped a notch in spending per public school pupil in 2011, falling to 35th among states in a year that marked the first overall drop across the nation in nearly four decades, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday. The 50 states and...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Teaching and Learning, Finance, Personal Income, Jerry Brown
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Wyatt gets county job
Staff WriterLess than six months after leaving office, former Imperial County Board Supervisor Gary Wyatt is back with the county as the new intergovernmental relations director, the chairman of the board confirmed Monday. Wyatt chose not to seek reelection after... -
Lawmakers grill Apple execs over tax strategy
WASHINGTON — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook was supposed to face a hostile Capitol Hill crowd but instead he wielded the company's popularity like a shield to deflect some of the most aggressive questioning over the company's...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Claire McCaskill, Apple Inc., Carl Levin, Corning Incorporated
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Will Senate bid lure Rogers from his House seat?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Mike Rogers has pulled off a rare feat in a bitterly divided Congress — a working, productive relationship with Democrats in overseeing the nation's 16 spy agencies. The question now is whether the...
Tags: Rick Snyder, Robert Mueller, Kim Jong Un, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Human Rights
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IRS' last two commissioners deny lying; official to take the 5th
WASHINGTON — As the Internal Revenue Service's last two directors struggled to provide answers Tuesday about the agency's improper scrutiny of conservative groups, a lawyer for another key IRS official said she would invoke the 5th Amendment...Tags: John Cornyn, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013), Taxation, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Tea Party Movement
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