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Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) hasn’t picked a new Lieutenant Governor — and it’s not yet clear he will — but he told WFLA-AM that former Rep. Allen West (R-FL) “would make a superb choice” and would be”a great Lieutenant Governor.” Tweet This Post
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Forget the Unemployment Rate: The Alarming Stat Is the Number of ‘Missing Workers’
Posted by admin on May 3rd, 2013
The federal government’s latest snapshot of the unemployment rate offered few bright spots on Friday. The economy added 165,000 jobs in April—slightly better than March’s revised number of 138,000 jobs. Unemployment went down 1 percentage point to 7.5 percent; and health care, retail trade, and the food services industry added positions. Politics News Headlines – [...]
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No Comments »Victims’ Rights Pamphlet Offers Number to Sex Line
Posted by admin on March 29th, 2013
Law enforcement officials in Florida “say a phone number written on a pamphlet given to domestic violence and sexual assault victims actually went to a sex hotline instead,” WKMG-TV reports. Tweet This Post
Open thread for night owls: Number of far-right ‘Patriot’ groups at all-time high
Posted by admin on March 6th, 2013
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About the same number of people oppose raising the minimum wage as liked Dick Cheney
Posted by admin on February 22nd, 2013
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Totals of number of Hispanics in House differ
Posted by admin on February 5th, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — How many Hispanic members are there in Congress? Turns out narrowing it down to one number is not easy. Tweet This Post
Air Force calls number of sex assaults ‘appalling’
Posted by admin on January 23rd, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force’s top officer says the service recorded an “appalling” number of reports of sexual assault last year even as it worked to curb misconduct in the wake of a sex scandal at its training headquarters in Texas. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
Guttmacher Institute: States passed the second highest number of new abortion restrictions in 2012
Posted by admin on January 3rd, 2013
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Posted in Breaking News Tags: 2012, abortion, Guttmacher, highest, Institute, number, passed, restrictions, second, States No Comments »Record number of claims against NYC police in FY 2011: report
Posted by admin on December 27th, 2012
(Reuters) – A record number of legal claims were filed against the New York City Police Department in fiscal year 2011, according to a report scheduled for release on Thursday. In fiscal 2011, which ended June 30, 2011, a total of 8,882 claims were filed against the NYPD, up from the previous high of 8,110 [...]
Number of registered Syrian refugees tops 500,000: UNHCR
Posted by admin on December 11th, 2012
GENEVA (Reuters) – More than half a million Syrian refugees are now registered or awaiting registration in the region, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday. “According to UNHCR’s latest figures for Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey and North Africa, 509,559 Syrians are either already registered (425,160) or in the process of being registered,” [...]
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