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on November 5, 2014 in World News

West Virginia Elects 18-Year-Old State Lawmaker

  West Virginia Elects 18-Year-Old State Lawmaker College freshman defeated her Democratic opponent 63% to 30% A West Virginia University freshman who did most of her campaigning out of her dorm room became the youngest state lawmaker in the nation Tuesday. Republican Saira Blair, a fiscally conservative 18-year-old, will represent a small district in West Virginia’s eastern panhandle, about 1½ hours outside Washington, D.C., after defeating her Democratic opponent 63% to 30%, according to the Associated Press. A third candidate got 7% of the vote. In a statement, Ms. Blair thanked her supporters and family, as well as her opponents… View Article

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on November 5, 2014 in World News

Obama sued for changing Obamacare

Obama sued for changing Obamacare Case charges president illegally flipped federal law ‘upside down’ Major Garrett wrote in National Journal: “The Affordable Care Act means what it says and says what it means. Until it doesn’t.” And the New York Times compiled a list of more than a dozen significant changes President Obama made to the law in just over a year, such as extending deadlines and allowing insurers to reinstate canceled plans. All of that could be the subject of a federal court hearing in Washington on Wednesday, where a lawsuit challenges as unlawful the executive orders Obama used… View Article

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on November 5, 2014 in World News

Top lawman in Texas ready to lasso lesbian mayor?

Top lawman in Texas ready to lasso lesbian mayor? Pastor who had sermons subpoenaed takes fight to city hall Pastors in a coalition fighting a Houston ordinance granting transgender “rights” are asking city residents to rally at city hall Wednesday to urge the mayor to put the issue up for a vote. And they are calling for an investigation of city hall’s actions in the dispute, which included negating an apparently valid petition effort against the ordinance and subpoenaing the sermons of five area pastors in a subsequent lawsuit against the city. “There is a growing call for the attorney… View Article

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on November 5, 2014 in World News

RCMP unveils massive border security project

RCMP unveils massive border security project New details surfaced Tuesday about a massive intelligence-gathering network of RCMP video cameras, radar, ground sensors, thermal radiation detectors and more to be erected along the Ontario and Quebec borders with the United States – which could eventually have access to the collected data. The $92-million surveillance web, formally known as the Border Integrity Technology Enhancement Project, will be concentrated in more than 100 “high-risk” cross-border crime zones spanning 700 kilometres of eastern Canada, said RCMP Assistant Commissioner Joe Oliver, head of technical operations. He was addressing security industry executives attending the SecureTech conference… View Article

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on November 5, 2014 in World News

Preferred PM gap between Trudeau and Harper narrows

Preferred PM gap between Trudeau and Harper narrows Over the past four weeks the advantage enjoyed by Trudeau over Harper on the preferred PM measure has narrowed from eight to three points. In the latest Nanos tracking 32 per cent of Canadians would prefer Trudeau as Prime Minister while 29 percent prefer Harper, 20 per cent Mulcair and four per cent May (14 per cent of Canadians were unsure). Of note, Mulcair is near a 12 month high for his individual score on the preferred PM tracking. On the Nanos Party Power Index as a whole, the Liberals continue to… View Article

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on November 5, 2014 in World News

Joni Ernst: ‘We Are Going to Make ‘Em Squeal!’

Joni Ernst: ‘We Are Going to Make ‘Em Squeal!’ State Sen. Joni Ernst defeated Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) here, likely becoming the Republican pickup that handed the GOP control of the Senate. Ernst emerged from relative obscurity in March with a television ad that made her instantly famous, introducing herself as someone who grew up “castrating hogs on an Iowa farm” to make a point about cutting government pork barrel spending. “Thanks to all of you we are heading to Washington, and we are going to make ’em squeal!” Ernst said in a victory speech here. Alone among Republican… View Article

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on November 5, 2014 in World News

Bill Clinton—Useless in Arkansas

Bill Clinton—Useless in Arkansas Bill Clinton made his hometown of Hope, Ark., famous in his 1992 presidential election, but he couldn’t deliver any good news for in-state Democrats running this year. Representative Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) won a convincing victory over Senator Mark Pryor, despite Bill Clinton’s best efforts to efforts to salvage a victory for Democrats in his home state. Fox News called the race for Cotton pretty quickly — he leads 52 to 45, at the moment. That’s got to be a disappointment for Clinton, who urged voters to push President Obama out of their minds, because he’ll… View Article

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on November 5, 2014 in World News

Republicans surge to Senate control

Republicans surge to Senate control Riding a powerful wave of voter discontent, resurgent Republicans captured control of the Senate and tightened their grip on the House Tuesday night in elections certain to complicate President Barack Obama’s final two years in office. Republican Mitch McConnell led the way to a new Senate majority, dispatching Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky after a $78 million campaign of unrelieved negativity. Voters are “hungry for new leadership. They want a reason to be hopeful,” said the man now in line to become majority leader and set the Senate agenda. Two-term incumbent Mark Pryor… View Article

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on November 4, 2014 in World News

Scotiabank Cuts 1,500 Jobs Amid Venezuela, Caribbean Charges

Scotiabank Cuts 1,500 Jobs Amid Venezuela, Caribbean Charges Bank of Nova Scotia, Canada’s third-largest lender by assets, will take a C$451 million ($396 million) charge as it cuts about 1,500 jobs, writes down its investment in Venezuela and loans sour in the Caribbean. Two-thirds of the job losses will be in Canada, including some head-office positions, the Toronto-based company said in a statement today. Scotiabank will also close or shrink about 120 international branches. Scotiabank also said the charge, which will be taken in the fiscal fourth quarter, reflects a lower exchange rate used to value its stake in a… View Article

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on November 4, 2014 in World News

Alison Redford could face criminal charges, review finds

Alison Redford could face criminal charges, review finds Charges dependent on RCMP proving allegations in auditor general’s report An Alberta Justice internal review concluded former premier Alison Redford could face four criminal charges if allegations contained in an auditor general’s report about her use of government airplanes are proven by an RCMP investigation. Internal government documents obtained exclusively by CBC News show Justice Minister Jonathan Denis informed then interim premier Dave Hancock of the conclusions of a report prepared by a special prosecutor. “The report indicates that the allegations, if proven, ‘could constitute the criminal offence of forgery, uttering a… View Article

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