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26 min ago | Phoenix New Times

Morning Poll: Did ICE Help Kill Phoenix Officer Daryl Raetz, as Senator John McCain Asserts?

U.S. Senator John McCain sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday demanding more information about why the immigrant suspect in Phoenix cop's death was released from custody in 2012.

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Related Topix: Prison, Immigration Reform, US Politics, US News, US Senate, John McCain, Republican, Phoenix, AZ

26 min ago | Free Republic

McCain Accuses Tea Party Colleagues Of Pushing Dems Too Far

A long-simmering feud between establishment Republicans and Tea Partyers broke into full view Thursday, with Sen.

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Related Topix: US News, Tea Party, US Politics, US Senate, John McCain, Republican

1 hr ago | Yahoo!

Blasts, shooting in center of Afghan capital

The first blast was a suicide car bomb and occurred at about 4 p.m. near an intersection in the district of Borj-e Sharahah, said It was not clear what the attackers' target was, but the intersection is close to U.N. accommodation and the headquarters of the Henny Youngman, the late borscht belt comedian, told hundreds of politically incorrect ... (more)

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, John McCain, Republican

5 hrs ago | Fox News

Republicans Blast Obama Over Call To Repeal 9/11 Law on Military Force

President Obama drew sharp criticism from Republican senators Thursday for urging the repeal of the 2001 law that effectively authorized the war on terror.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US Senate, John McCain, Republican, Terrorism, Bob Corker

Thu May 23, 2013

The Beaumont Enterprise

Tea party vs. old guard in GOP Senate rift

In this May 21, 2013, photo, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., expresses his displeasure that Apple CEO Tim Cook was being brought before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee as the panel examines the methods employed by multinational corporations to shift profits offshore and how such activities are affected by the ... (more)

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Senator Rand Paul, John McCain, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Mike Lee

Sunherald.com

Tea party vs. old guard in GOP Senate rift

In this Feb. 7, 2013, file photo, Senate Armed Services Committee member Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, questions Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US Senate, John McCain, Republican, Senator Rand Paul, Senator Mike Lee, Patty Murray, Democrat

CBS News

Video: Obama: The war on terror, "like all wars, must end"

Warning of the danger of keeping America on a "perpetual wartime footing," President Obama called for an end to the war on terror, explaining, "Our systematic effort to dismantle terrorist organizations must continue, but this war, like all wars, must end - that's what history advises; that's what our democracy demands." Flanked by several GOP ... (more)

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Related Topix: Terrorism, US Politics, US News, US Senate, John McCain, Republican, Guantanamo Bay, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, John Boehner, US House of Representatives

CBS News

Video: GOP Sens. slam Obama's suggestion that war on terror "must end"

Flanked by several GOP colleagues who echoed his remarks, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., blasted the president's declaration that the war on terror "must end" as premature and foolhardy, saying that a desire to bring the war "to a compete closure contradicts the reality of the facts on the ground," and arguing that "al Qaeda will be with us for a long ... (more)

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, John McCain, Republican, Terrorism, Guantanamo Bay, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, John Boehner, US House of Representatives

Washington Times

Obama's Morehouse speech sparks backlash on race

President Obama's Sunday commencement address at Morehouse College is bringing him the latest blues for the triangulation that everyone knew the first black president would have to perform: being black without being too black.

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Related Topix: Morehouse College, US Politics, US News

Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph

Wacko Bird Ted Cruz Goes After Angry Bird John McCain Over the Debt Ceiling

Good C-SPAN fun on an ongoing theme . First up, warhorse Sen. John McCain accuses newbie liberty-movement Sen.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, John McCain, US Senate, Republican, Senator Mike Lee

Roll Call

Levin, McCain: Suspend Lois Lerner From IRS Job

In a letter to new IRS Acting Commissioner Danny Werfel, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., and ranking member John McCain, R-Ariz., requested Lerner be suspended immediately due to an apparent failure to disclose information to their investigatory subcommittee.

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Related Topix: Tax, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Carl Levin, Democrat, John McCain, Republican

The Washington Post

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Meeting with reporters shortly after Obama outlined the future of his counterterrorism policies , John McCain , Saxby Chambliss , Lindsey O. Graham and Kelly Ayotte also provided pointed, specific criticism of several of the president's broader points.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, John McCain, Republican, Saxby Chambliss, Senator Kelly Ayotte, Terrorism

St. Petersburg Times

As IRS scandal flares, a watchdog calls attention to other tax-exempt groups

There's a framed Wall Street Journal editorial outside Fred Wertheimer's office that still makes him smile.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Non-Profit, US Senate, John McCain, Republican

WebProNews

John McCain: "ESPN Tax" Needs To Go

John McCain became the best friend of many cable subscribers around the country earlier this month when he introduced the Television Consumer Freedom Act.

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Related Topix: US Senate, John McCain, Republican, US Politics, US News

The Hill

Scandal of dysfunction

Amid scrutiny and oversight of the Obama administration's many failures and the scandals that have resulted, it's easy to forget that Congress has failed - once more - to fulfill its statutory duty to pass an annual budget by April 15.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US Senate, John McCain, Republican, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Harry Reid, Democrat, Opinion

KTRE-TV Lufkin

Nixon library hosts 40th reunion for Vietnam POWs

14, 1973 file photo, released prisoner of war John McCain is greeted by President Richard Nixon, left, in Washington.

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Wed May 22, 2013

Roll Call

McCain Looks to Defuse 'Nuclear' Threat

McCain and Rubio disagree over how hard the GOP should push debt limit restrictions when allowing the appointment of budget agreement conferees.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, John McCain, Republican, Senator Marco Rubio, Senator Mike Lee, Senator Ted Cruz

Townhall

When Did We Vote to Become Mexico?

At first I thought the IRS scandal was leaked to distract from the Benghazi scandal.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Opinion

WSFA-TV Montgomery

Apple case seen as possible spur to tax action

Now that tech darling Apple Inc. has been dragged front and center into the debate over the U.S. tax code, lawmakers are hoping that the spotlight on such a high-profile company could be the catalyst for Congress to take action to close loopholes or reform the law.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Apple, Startups, US News, US Politics, US Senate, John McCain, Republican, Carl Levin, Democrat

Sonoran News

ObamaCare to increase cost of cancer treatments

Pointing to the state capitol and legislature buildings, Whittle said, 'The state sold these buildings to pay for programs you can't afford.' PHOENIX Five busloads of people were brought to a rally at the Arizona State Capitol last Wednesday to show support for Gov.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, US Governors, Jan Brewer, Immigration Reform, US Politics, US News, Jeff Flake, Republican, US House of Representatives