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Boy Scouts leaders will vote Thursday to lift ban on gay youth members
Photograph: Rex Features The Boy Scouts of America will vote on Thursday on whether to accept gay youth members, partially overturning a long-running ban on allowing gay people to join the organisation.
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Governor Scott Walker won't be around to lobby lawmakers Tuesday, as they act on some of his biggest state budget proposals.
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President Obama has formally appointed the ten members of a special commission designed to look for improvements in U.S. election systems.
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A 2012 Republican presidential campaign intern who worked for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will make an initial appearance in federal court Tuesday on charges he cyber-stalked 15 women and extorted them into sending nude photos.
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In the midst of scandal, it now appears that the president was reelected to some degree under false premises.
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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul made another stop in an early voting state Monday evening, continuing to feed the speculation that he will possibly run for president in 2016.
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Democrats strike back at GOP voting measures
In this Nov. 6, 2012 file photo, Roland and Natalie Jones embrace as President Barack Obama is predicted as the winner over challenger Mitt Romney at a Colorado Democrat's election party at the Sheraton Hotel in Denver.