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Corporate lobbying network American Legislative Exchange Council is planning to draft a number of new bills attacking environmental protections
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House leaders may seek to restrict spending on the Department of Homeland Security, which is tasked with overseeing executive action on migrants
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Elizabeth Lauten, communications director for Stephen Fincher, had earlier apologised for attack on Malia and Sasha Obama
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Twitter campaign to fire Elizabeth Lauten goes viral after caustic Facebook post telling Sasha, 13, and Malia, 16, told to ‘try showing a little class’
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Liberal supporters detect fire of 2008 candidate in recent executive actions but with Republicans controlling both houses of Congress has it all come too late?
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Media expert David Brock, once an enemy of the Clintons, is now using his experience to help their party, writes Edward Helmore
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HB 663 would bar courts from access to essential information in state that has experienced four botched executions in eight years
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Dana Nuccitelli: A new free market climate bill puts Republicans in Congress between a rock and a hard place
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US releases Muhammad al-Zahrani, the 13th prisoner released this year and the seventh in just two weeks, despite calls from GOP to end transfers
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President’s move to grant amnesty to 5 million immigrants delights Hispanics at rally in Las Vegas, writes Rory Carroll
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President speaks to around 1,600 at Del Sol high school and says: ‘We’re not a nation that kicks out strivers and dreamers’
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House speaker John Boehner accuses president of ‘damaging the presidency’ by announcing executive order to shield undocumented migrants
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President characterised his move to reform immigration as pragmatic and ‘common-sense’ approach – but his decision is viewed differently among critics and supporters alike
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Republicans have vowed to thwart the president’s move to shield 5m migrants from deportation, but many experts believe Obama’s program is legally sound
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Most far-reaching aspect of executive action involves giving undocumented migrants who are parents of US citizens the chance to come out of the shadows
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Gustavo Arellano: The dirty little secret of the US immigration debate: Latinos love the Gipper and Dubya. If Obama really wanted to ‘know the heart of a stranger’, he’d take a page from the conservative playbook
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President expected to describe new executive actions on immigration reform that would remove deportation threat for millions of migrants
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President Barack Obama promised to ease the threat of deportation for about 4.7 million illegal immigrants
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Thursday night announcement set to be among most contentious of Obama’s presidency and puts White House on collision course with Republicans
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‘When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience?’ Republican asks in Senate floor speech appearing to mimic Roman philosopher
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Trevor Timm column The good news about the 'death' of NSA reform: surveillance supporters may have dug their own grave
Trevor Timm: Snowden haters may have blocked the USA Freedom Act, but the clock is ticking before the law that justifies vacuuming your phone records blows up in the face of newly conservative Washington
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Final waverer Senator Jay Rockefeller says he will vote no but vote is still likely to be indicator of trouble ahead for Obama
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Jeb Lund: It won’t lower your gas prices or create as many jobs as you’re being told. Is this vote the biggest Republican nothingburger yet?
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On Tuesday, the Senate will vote to approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. With Republicans now in control of both chambers in Congress, here’s a round-up of some of the most prominent climate sceptics (and deniers) in the GOP
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Gary Younge: He should be pushing at an open door on reforms to immigration. But his foes are pushing back
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President offered to drink Kentucky bourbon with House Republican leader but McConnell says picking favourite bourbon like picking favourite daughter
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Green Climate Fund pledge, broadly welcomed by campaigners, may help erode divisions between developed and developing states
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Senate will vote on similar bill next week over pipeline has taken centre stage in Louisiana Senate race
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Climate Consensus - the 97% Fact check: China pledged bigger climate action than the USA; Republican leaders wrong
Dana Nuccitelli: America can meet President Obama’s climate pledge relatively easily, but China’s will require dramatic change
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Calls from president’s party made as White House finalises plan for executive order that would provide work permits for half of undocumented migrants
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Six-term Kentucky senator will lead Republican agenda alongside House speaker John Boehner when new US Congress reconvenes in January
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George W Bush’s ‘pragmatic’ younger brother weighs up chance of eclipsing Florida governor role with White House incumbency
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Senate and House of Representatives schedule votes to support controversial pipeline, hours after president announced historic emissions deal with China
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Nell Boeschenstein: I have the BRCA1 breast cancer mutation. I also have a file of medical bills that my insurance currently covers because of the law the GOP promises to rescind
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Topics
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- Barack Obama
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Scott Lemieux column Want to know just how much Obama overreached on executive power? Wait for America's next 'king'