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Tuesday, 09 April 2013 16:37 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden says he refuses to believe a small group of senators will block a vote on gun legislation.
The vice president says it would be "embarrassing" if a filibuster would be the climax of a national tragedy like the shooting at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Biden spoke to law enforcement officers at the White House just before Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced he would push for a vote Thursday. He encouraged the police and sheriff's deputies to go talk to their lawmakers in uniform to encourage passage of the bill.
Biden vowed to win the fight on guns, even if this vote is blocked. He said Americans won't stand for inaction after Sandy Hook. |
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Monday, 08 April 2013 15:37 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — What business gets more customers every year, yet keeps losing money?
It's the U.S. Postal Service.
The agency delivers mail to 11 million more homes, offices and other addresses than it did a decade ago — even as the amount of mail people in the United States receive has fallen sharply.
The number of new addresses had been rising by roughly 2 million almost every year since 1989. But that was cut in half to 1 million or less during the recession and housing crisis this decade.
With the economy improving, the constant march upward in the number of places the postman has to travel is expected to accelerate.
At the same time, total mail volume is declining. Analysts say that combination could be financially dicey for the Postal Service. |
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Monday, 08 April 2013 15:26 |
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MIAMI (AP) — Lawyers for prisoners held at Guantanamo say the U.S. government is notifying them if their clients are being force-fed during a hunger strike at the U.S. base in Cuba.
Lawyer Cori Crider among those to get the first-time notification. She was told Sami Mukbel of Yemen was being force-fed and was allowed to speak with him by phone Monday.
Crider says he has lost about 30 pounds since the strike began in February as a protest over indefinite confinement and what prisoners say are intrusive searches of their Qurans.
A military spokesman says the U.S. previously avoided discussing any prisoner by name. The military says there are 42 prisoners on hunger strike and 11 are being force-fed to prevent dangerous weight loss. Lawyers say the figure is higher. |
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Monday, 08 April 2013 15:11 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is bringing 11 families of those killed in the shooting at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School to Washington on Air Force One.
A nonprofit organization that works with the families, Sandy Hook Promise, says the president is bringing victims' relatives with him on his plane after he delivers a speech Monday on gun control in Hartford.
The White House says Obama is going to say in his remarks that lawmakers have an obligation to the children killed and other victims of gun violence to act on his proposals.
Gun legislation is up for debate in the Senate this week after lawmakers return from spring break. The Sandy Hook families want to speak to lawmakers to encourage their vote amid tough opposition to the proposals.
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