OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - A gun rights bill introduced at the Washington state Capitol includes some quotes falsely attributed to America's Founding Fathers.
The News Tribune reports (http://goo.gl/27c7Ti ) Republican Rep. Matt Shea of Spokane Valley introduced the measure Friday.
House Bill 2975 would create penalties for public officials who ...
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2016 couldn't have started better for Italy's economy and tech sector. In January, Cisco signed an agreement with the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) to provide training to teachers and students through the Cisco Networking Academy. As the first step in developing the Italian startup ecosystem, the tech giant is pursuing investment opportunities together… Read More
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A new Missouri law overhauling the state's municipal courts and police departments violates the separation of powers, defies the state constitution's limits on unfunded mandates and unfairly singles out the St. Louis area, an attorney representing 12 St. Louis County municipalities told a courtroom Friday.
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"Why recommend him for vice president, if he didn't have the experience back then?"
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This morning, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched a Boeing-built satellite into orbit as part of the U.S. Air Force's Global Positioning System (GPS). This $131 million satellite was the final addition to the Air Force's most recent 12-satellite GPS series, known as the Block IIF satellites. GPS satellites are operated by the Air Force and provide global… Read More 
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - The New Mexico Foundation for Open Government says a House appropriations committee locked out the public from a meeting on the state budget.
Foundation Executive Director Susan Boe wrote to the House speaker and Senate president Friday to urge that all legislative committee meetings be ...
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Uber has slashed driver wages in the last month, with some reportedly earning less than minimum wage. Now drivers are planning a protest in San Francisco right when they could be significantly increasing their hourly pay. The city expects roughly 300,000 visitors to begin pouring in this weekend for the Super Bowl and that means a very real increase in traffic and Uber ride requests. Uber,… Read More 
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There were 94,062,000 Americans not participating in the labor force in January, a decline of 41,000 individuals from the previous month, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday.
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Sen. Bernard Sanders has essentially erased what had been a 31-point deficit to 2016 Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton in December, according to a poll released Friday.
Mrs. Clinton, the former secretary of state, had 44 percent support among likely Democratic primary voters in the national Quinnipiac poll, and ...
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"Your beliefs don't shift in an instant."
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"If something were to ever happen and I didn't try to defend my kids, I couldn't live with that."
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Are you a Slovenian web dev? A French iOS programmer? A sad person in need of friends? Get thee to the Hamster Pad. This new site Matt Schlicht and his buddy Adam McKenna aggregates hundreds of Slack communities, from programming-centric rooms to rooms for writers. "Nothing like Hamster Pad exists right now. We have literally taken the Slack API and started to create an entire social… Read More 
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump leads in New Hampshire just days away from Tuesday's primary, with Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida moving into second place, according to a pair of polls conducted after the Iowa caucuses.
An NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll released Friday showed Mr. Trump in the lead ...
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The city of Paris has disclosed that Airbnb handed over nearly €1.2 million in tourist taxes in the last quarter of 2015. The actual figure was €1.169 million euros ($1.310M), generated by 1.4 million overnight stays during this period, according to AFP. Read More 
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We are planning on holding a mini-meetup in Barcelona during MWC, offering you a chance to pitch TC writers and hold a pitch-off, with pinners getting free tickets to Disrupt New York. We need your help. We have a venue, but we need more sponsors. Things are still in the planning stage but we will hold the event on Wednesday, February 24 in the evening. Sponsors would be responsible for… Read More 
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In his cute, brief poem, The Persian Version, written between 1938 and 1945, Robert Graves speculatively lampooned how he imagined Achaemenid elites must have rationalized their defeat at the hands of some quarrelsome, backwards Greeks located at the very western extreme of their magnificent empire. You can get the sense from the first two lines: "Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon /
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon…"
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The great takeout shakeout continues apace. Since going public in 2014, Rocket Internet has been trying to simplify and reorganize the tangle of e-commerce startups funded and grown by the Berlin-based incubator to make the main business more profitable. Today comes the latest move on that front: Rocket Internet is selling food takeaway operations in Spain, Italy, Brazil and Mexico to Just… Read More 
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