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<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 00:15:57 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>State senate special election approaching</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Voters will soon decide who will fill the state senate seat in the 16th district.]]></description>
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<title>The final push for California's 16th Senate seat</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the final push before election day, the campaign to fill the 16th District State Senate seat vacated by Michael Rubio has candidates scrambling for votes. But one candidate has the clear advantage when it comes to fundraising efforts.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 03:11:39 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top Democrat calls for public testimony on Benghazi</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The top Democrat on the House Oversight panel said Monday that the authors of an independent investigation into the deadly assault in Benghazi, Libya]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[Issa said he wants to know with whom the pair spoke to reach their conclusions about Clinton. Cummings suggested that they testify in public before the committee on May 22.]]></dig:D3text>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 17:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Prison overcrowding: Gov. Jerry Brown submits revised plan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gov. Jerry Brown is waiting to hear whether federal judges will accept his revised plan to cut crowding at state prisons.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 05:56:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UFW head Arturo Rodriguez testifies at Senate immigration hearing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Senate Judiciary Committee held its second hearing Monday on the "gang of eight's" immigration overhaul.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:07:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>House passes pro-business cybersecurity bill</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pro-business legislation aimed at helping companies fend off sophisticated foreign hackers sailed through the House on Thursday despite a White House veto threat and an outcry from privacy advocates]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:18:11 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Judges deny Calif. bid to end prison oversight</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A federal judicial panel on Thursday denied Gov. Jerry Brown's request to lift a court-ordered prison population cap and threatened him and other state officials with contempt of court if they fail to comply.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:57:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Gun control bill clears first hurdle in Senate</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gun control supporters won the first Senate showdown Thursday over how to respond to the December carnage in Newtown, Conn., defeating an effort by conservatives to derail a package of firearms restrictions before debate could even start.]]></description>
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<dig:alt><![CDATA[Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, left, and Republican Sen. Patrick Toomey of Pennsylvania, right, announce that they have reached a bipartisan deal on expanding background checks to more gun buyers]]></dig:alt>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 02:16:59 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>US budget deficit for March falls to $107 billion</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The U.S. federal budget deficit grew more slowly in March, keeping the annual spending shortfall on pace to finish below $1 trillion for the first time in five years.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:07:41 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Obama sends Congress $3.8 trillion spending plan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $3.8 trillion spending blueprint that strives to achieve a "grand bargain" to tame runaway deficits.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[The president's budget projects deficit reductions of $1.8 trillion over the next decade, achieved with higher taxes, reductions in payments to Medicare providers and trims in the cost-of-living adjustments paid to millions of recipients in Social Security and other government programs.]]></dig:D3text>
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<dig:alt><![CDATA[President Barack Obama, accompanied by acting budget director Jeff Zients, speaks about his proposed fiscal 2014 proposed budget, Wednesday, April 10, 2013, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington.]]></dig:alt>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:42:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Senators reach background check gun control deal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Two pivotal senators announced a bipartisan deal Wednesday on expanding background checks to more gun buyers, an agreement that could build support for President Barack Obama's drive to curb firearms violence.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Patrick Toomey, R-Pa., said their accord would help keep firearms from criminals and the mentally ill. Subjecting more firearms purchases to federal background checks has been the chief goal of Obama and gun control supporters, who promote the system as a way to prevent criminals and other potentially dangerous people from getting the weapons.]]></dig:D3text>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:38:45 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Clovis parents look to change California AB 109 prison realignment law</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A group of Clovis parents is out to change the prison realignment program, which shifts convicted felons from state prisons to already overflowing county jails.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:56:49 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Obama to announce 34K Afghanistan troops to be home in 1 year</title>
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<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama will announce in his State of the Union address that 34,000 U.S. troops will be home from Afghanistan within a year, two people familiar with his remarks said Tuesday.]]></description>
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<title>Effort building to change US pot laws</title>
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<description><![CDATA[An effort is building in Congress to change U.S. marijuana laws, including moves to legalize the industrial production of hemp and establish a federal pot tax.]]></description>
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<title>Some California GOP lawmakers urge immigration reform</title>
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<description><![CDATA[California lawmakers, both Democratic and Republican, are urging the federal government to pass sweeping legislation.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:58:05 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>FRESCA group postpones Fresno trash lawsuit</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A citizens group fighting garbage privatization is putting off a lawsuit against the City of Fresno.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The City of Fresno is still negotiating with the Central Valley SPCA to continue providing temporary animal control services, and it's not cheap.]]></description>
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<title>Mass. gov. picks William Cowan as interim senator</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has tapped his former chief-of-staff William "Mo" Cowan to serve as interim U.S. senator until a special election to fill the seat left vacant by Secretary of State-designate John Kerry.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:52:37 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Firebaugh Ford dealership prepares to close</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As Firebaugh's Ford dealership gets ready to close its doors, the city is bracing for how the closure is going to impact its overall budget.]]></description>
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<title>Mayor Swearengin attends President Obama's immigration speech</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Fresno's Mayor Ashley Swearengin was one of four mayors from around the country who was invited to Nevada to attend the President's speech.]]></description>
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<title>Board balks at putting animal shelter tax to voters</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Fresno County's stray and abandoned dogs have been housed in this temporary shelter on the grounds of the old county morgue for three months. The county wants to build a permanent home.]]></description>
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<title>Senate confirms John Kerry nomination for Secretary of State</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed President Barack Obama's choice of five-term Sen. John Kerry to be secretary of state, with Republicans and Democrats praising him as the ideal successor to Hillary Rodham Clinton.]]></description>
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<dig:alt><![CDATA[Senate Foreign Relations Chairman JohnKerry, D-Mass., sits before the committee he has served on for 28 years and led for the past four as he seeks confirmation as U.S. secretary of state, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013.]]></dig:alt>
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