House GOP Plows Forward With Plans To Sue Obama

by Scott Horsley

July 11, 2014 5:35 PM ET Listen to the Story All Things Considered

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House GOP Plows Forward With Plans To Sue Obama

by Scott Horsley

July 11, 2014 5:35 PM ET Listen to the Story All Things Considered

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BRAZIL BEAT: Opera house, then football in Manaus

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — As World Cup selfies go, a group of noisy Brazilian kids got some real good ones as they crowded Robin van Persie and snapped away on their cellphones at a relaxed Dutch team training session.

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Obama longs to break out of White House bubble

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — It's perhaps appropriate that President Barack Obama is vacationing this weekend in California, where the state flag features a roaming grizzly.

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6 killed in house fire in Newark, New Jersey

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say six people have been killed in a fast-moving fire that roared through a single-family home in New Jersey's largest city.

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House to subpoena records in VA hospital deaths

WASHINGTON (AP) — Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki is brushing aside calls for his resignation in the wake of reports of 40 deaths because of delayed treatment at a Phoenix VA hospital.

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House votes to start new Benghazi investigation

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are set to begin a special investigation of the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, raising the stakes in a political battle with the Obama administration as the midterm election season heats up.

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Democrat Aiken goes for GOP-heavy House district

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Singer-songwriter Clay Aiken doesn't have a problem with name recognition. But that doesn't mean voters in North Carolina's 2nd Congressional District will send the "American Idol" star to Washington to represent them in Congress.

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In Asian-Majority District, House Race Divides Calif. Voters

by Hansi Lo Wang

April 21, 2014 5:02 AM ET Listen to the Story Morning Edition

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House passes Ryan budget with big cuts

FILE - House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., goes before the House Rules Committee for final work on his budget to fund the government in fiscal year 2015, at the Capitol in Washington, in this April 7, 2014 file photo. The plan being considered Thursday April 10, 2014 is a nonbinding framework aimed more at engaging GOP voters than rival Democrats. The budget plan from Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., revives a now-familiar list of spending cuts to promise balance, including $2.1 trillion over 10 years in health care subsidies and coverage under the Affordable Care Act; $732 billion in cuts to Medicaid and other health care programs; and almost $1 trillion in cuts to other benefit programs like food stamps, Pell Grants and farm subsidies. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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