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Lawmakers Renew Call To Restore Federal Assault Weapons Ban Following Newtown...
NEWTOWN, Conn. (CBSNewYork) – Much of the discussion on the Sunday morning talk shows focused on the deadly school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. on Friday. Lawmakers from...
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NRA Stands By Call To Have Armed Guards In Every School; Lawmakers Pounce On...
WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork/AP) – The issue of gun control was again a hot topic on the Sunday morning news programs, more than a week after one of the worst mass school shootings in U.S. history. The head...
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Connecticut Senators To Propose Assault Weapons Ban
HARTFORD, Conn. (CBSNewYork/AP) — Connecticut’s U.S. senators will join California Sen. Dianne Feinstein and other key senators in proposing a retooled federal ban on assault weapons in the wake of the...
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Sen. Murphy Disappointed Assault Weapons Ban Won’t Be In Federal Gun Bill
HARTFORD, Conn. (CBSNewYork/AP) – The prospects for congressional approval of an assault weapons ban appear to be even slimmer, now that Senate Democratic leaders are removing that provision from the...
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Report: National Security Agency Gets Phone Records Of Verizon Customers
WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork/AP) – The government is secretly collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top-secret court order, according to the chairwoman of the...
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Report: NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Avoids Extradition, Bound For Ecuador
MOSCOW (CBSNewYork/AP) – A former National Security Agency contractor wanted by the United States for revealing highly classified surveillance programs has been allowed to leave for a “third country”...
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U.S. Reps: Bergdahl Prisoner Swap Should End Releases From Guantanamo
WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork) — Following the controversial Taliban prisoner swap, members of Congress on Monday were questioning whether other prisoners should be released from Guantanamo. Meanwhile, as CBS...
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