By Tim Johnson — McClatchy Newspapers
MEXICO CITY — Some 2.2 percent of all U.S. gun sales are made to smuggling rings that take firearms to Mexico, a scale of illegal trafficking that’s “much higher than widely assumed,” an academic study released Monday found.
An average of 253,000 weapons purchased in the United States head south of the border each year, according to the study by four scholars at the University of San Diego’s Trans-Border Institute and the Igarape…
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Bill regulating drones dies in Wash. Legislatureespite having support from Democrats, Republicans, civil liberties advocates and those concerned over government intrusion, a measure regulating the use and purchases of drones by state agencies and local municipalities died in Olympia without getting a vote from any chamber.
Lawmakers said there wasn't enough time: At the House, the grappling over gun background checks ate up the clock before a voting deadline. In the Senate, a chair…
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SEATTLE — Washington high school students who participated in a statewide health survey say they are twice as likely to smoke marijuana as cigarettes.
High school smoking has decreased significantly across the state, with cigarette smoking down in grades 6, 8, 10 and 12, but the number of high school students who believe using marijuana is risky is also at a low point, health officials said Thursday after releasing the 2012 survey results.
"As the perception of harm…
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A Senate committee approved an assault weapons ban Thursday on a party-line vote that signaled how difficult it will be for the proposal to survive in the full Senate.
By ALAN FRAM Associated Press
WASHINGTON —A Senate committee approved an assault weapons ban Thursday on a party-line vote that signaled how difficult it will be for the proposal to survive in the full Senate.
The Democratic-led Senate Judiciary Committee approved the bill on a 10-8 vote after…
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RIO DE JANEIRO — The Brazilian newspaper O Globo is reporting that a doctor in Sao Paulo was arrested after being caught in the act of using fake fingers made of silicone and imprinted with real finger prints to defraud a hospital's biometric punch-in clock.
Ferraz Vasconcelos Hospital paid the director $2,400 per month to participate.
Ferreira will face charges of falsifying a public document and could get two to six years in…
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So I've come across a video that claims AJ has a lil sis and she is warning any1 who will listen that AJ is a CIA agent. Her youtube videos are listed under HistoryIsNOW. If you care to watch those keep in mind information that can be found at a site listing the following with neurolinguistic programming showing whether or not the eyes are telling the truth or making things up. Here is that addresss....…
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This month we should be seeing a lot of mayhem. According to the Illuminati Calendar and an article from before its news something should happen. We have from the 20th to the 24th events to unfold. Its 322 in 2013, Obama going to Israel, Dark Knight Rises symbolism, movie release of China attacking DC Obamacare with mandatory rfid chipping. Check out this page for more info...…
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Published: February 9, 2013
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SEATTLE — A 15-year veteran Army doctor has been suspended for alleged problems with patient care, but the Dr. Russel Hicks says the suspension is for providing information on Madigan Army Medical Center's troubled PTSD diagnosis program to investigators.
The Seattle Times (…
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Originally published February 5, 2013 at 9:41 PM | Page modified February 6, 2013 at 6:33 AM
At least a dozen people were packing at the Oak Harbor City Council meeting on Tuesday night. The topic: whether to repeal an ordinance banning guns from city parks and the marina.
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By Derrik J. Lang, The Associated Press February 4, 2013
This undated publicity photo provided by Naughty Dog/Sony Computer Entertainment America shows a scene from the video game, "The Last of Us." (AP Photo/Naughty Dog/Sony Computer…
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By Lee Berthiaume, Postmedia News February 6, 2013 9:51 AM
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney.
Photograph by: Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press/Files , Postmedia News…
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By ZOE FRALEY — THE BELLINGHAM HERALD
A house under construction on Hawthorn Road across from Fairhaven Middle School displays a no trespassing sign warning that there are guns on the site Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013.
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By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS — Associated Press
In this photo taken Jan. 15, 2013, a statue of a logger stands outside an elementary school in St. Maries, Idaho near where a survivalist group plans to build a compound. The proposal is called the Citadel and has created a buzz among folks in this remote logging town 70 miles…
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As more and more U.S. states move toward marijuana legalization, the Obama Administration needs to take a stand
By Ian Mulgrew, Vancouver Sun columnist
U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration has been silent on the issue of drug-policy reform since the states of Colorado and Washington voted to legalize and regulate cannabis.
Photograph by: LARRY DOWNING , REUTERS
Call it the Marijuana domino effect.
Less than two weeks after…
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By The Associated Press — The Associated Press
BP said Thursday it has agreed to pay $4.5 billion in a settlement with the federal government over the April 2010 explosion of the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon. The agreement includes nearly $1.3 billion in criminal fines, with the rest of the money going to several government-related entities. The criminal fine is the largest in U.S. history and eclipses a 2009 fine against drug-maker Pfizer Inc.
Here's a look at the largest criminal…
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West Coast gasoline- price spikes in May and October were widely blamed on refinery outages, but new research to be released at a California hearing Thursday shows that refiners continued to produce gasoline in periods when the public was told the contrary.
By Kevin G. Hall
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — West Coast gasoline-price spikes in May and October were widely blamed on refinery outages, but new research to be released at a California hearing Thursday shows…
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Published: October 11, 2012
By GENE JOHNSON — Associated Press
Marijuana is weighed and packaged for sale at the Northwest Patient Resource Center medical marijuana dispensary, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, in Seattle. Washington state is on the verge of becoming the first in…
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UPDATE: 10 a.m. | The suspicious device destroyed by an FBI bomb squad outside the downtown Seattle FBI building appeared to be a flashlight with a blinking red light.
Spokeswoman Ayn Dietrich says it was not explosive or hazardous and no threat had…
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Published: October 7, 2012 Updated 11 minutes ago
By PABLO GORONDI — The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A strong warning from the World Bank that growth in Asia may slow further dragged down the price of oil Monday.
The World Bank signaled the…
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The scores of 'fusion centers' across the country threaten civil liberties while doing little to counter terrorism, a two-year study by a Senate subcommittee finds.
The "fusion center" in the L.A. area, the Joint Regional Intelligence Center in Norwalk, shown above, has provided valuable information to the LAPD, the department's counter-terrorism bureau chief says. (Brian Van der Brug, Los Angeles…
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