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NFL pledges player safety reforms, Sen. Durbin says
Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Wednesday assured him the league was taking steps to project player safety and the league's integrity in the wake of an ongoing scandal involving player bounties.
Obama opens big lead over Romney in Bloomberg poll
President Obama holds a big lead over Republican rival Mitt Romney in the presidential race, a new poll shows.
PICKET: Oversight Committee votes to place Holder in contempt...Dems defend exec privilege
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Texas Democrat, discussed why she believed the President could assert executive privilege today. President Obama did this in order to withhold documents relating to the Fast and Furious investigation Congressman Darrell Issa's Oversight Committee has subpoenaed.
PICKET: Boehner, Cantor Announce House Fast & Furious Contempt Vote Next Week
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) issued the following statement after the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee approved a resolution holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for his refusal to turn over subpoenaed documents related to the Fast & Furious operation
Virginia Tech latest ACC school to release league schedule
Hokies open league play at Maryland on Jan. 5 or 6.
The Washington Times is the media sponsor of the 2012 Congressional Award Gold Medal program.
The Washington Times is the media sponsor of the 2012 Congressional Award Gold Medal program. The Washington Times joins Congress, community leaders and Earth, Wind and Fire in honoring Congressional Award Gold Medal winners in Washington, D.C.
PICKET: Oklahoma CD-2 GOP primary candidate under the gun
A six person GOP primary for Oklahoma’s 2nd congressional district is coming up next week on June 26, and the race for the retiring Rep. Dan Boren brings about interesting issues with it. One of the candidates, Markwayne Mullin, a local businessman and rancher, released a poll last week showing him with a wide margin lead of 15 points to the second place GOP candidate.
Georgia State, Old Dominion denied CAA postseason opportunities
Both schools departing the conference in summer of 2013
Studying blue-chip freshman wideouts and instant impacts
What does recent history show about hyped receivers --- and what does it reflect for Maryland freshman Stefon Diggs
Maryland football and the preseason magazines
Noting some honors and predictions from four publications
Pieces of Maryland's ACC basketball schedule filling in
Schools rolling out tentative league slates
Brown agrees to Brokaw debate — with conditions
Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown has agreed to face his November challenger Elizabeth Warren in a debate moderated by Tom Brokaw — but only if MSNBC isn't involved and the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's widow doesn't take sides in the election.
PICKET: Senators to IRS - Congress has made privacy the rule not the exception
Eleven Republican Senators on the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) citing concerns over privacy protections and requested additional information regarding the agency's request of private donor information from organizations seeking tax exempt status.
Culligan's Comments: Circulation of The Washington Times continues to grow across the metropolitan region
Is this exciting or what? Two full months into the baseball season and the Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles are still in first place! On top of that was the excitement generated by Bryce Harper’s first home run.
PICKET: Caroline Kennedy's kumbaya with Obamas after reported snubs
President John F. Kennedy’s daughter Caroline sent Obama supporters a note on Father’s Day on Sunday praising not only President Barack Obama but also first Lady Michelle Obama. Under normal circumstances this e-mail would be par for the course. After all, the late Senator Ted Kennedy endorsed Mr. Obama during the Democratic primary in 2008 and half of the Kennedy family followed Senator Kennedy’s lead on his endorsement. However, according to the New York Times #1 bestselling book The Amateur by Ed Klein, Caroline Kennedy was snubbed by both Barack Obama and Michelle the moment Mr. Obama took the oath of office.
MILLER: D.C. police damage soldier’s guns
(Part 4 of 4) Army First Lt. Augustine Kim’s finally got the Washington Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to return his guns after two years -- only to find them permanently damaged. The department violated its own regulations on handling firearms in evidence by engraving marks on the sides of the guns, and the city should reimburse the soldier for the loss.
VIDEO: Emily Miller on NRA News (June 2012)
Senior Editor Emily Miller was interviewed by NRA News about Washington D.C. police attempt to cover up the warrantless search and seizure of Iraq vet's guns. Cam Edwards is the host of the radio show "Cam and Company." The video of the interview is below
PICKET: (VIDEO) Obama 2011 - I can't stop deportations by executive order
On Friday, President Barack Obama issued an executive order that will allow illegal immigrants who came to the United States before they were 16 years old and are younger than 30 years of age to be allowed to remain in the country without the fear of being deported. This announcement is contradictory to the president's remarks over a year ago
Obama: 'Forgotten' Father's Day gets short end of stick
President Obama thinks Father's Day is a "forgotten holiday," but you won't catch him saying it around his wife anymore.
PICKET: (AUDIO) Rep. Steve King to sue Obama admin over amnesty order
Rep Steve King, Iowa Republican, and Vice Chairman of the House Immigration Subcommittee, said he plans to sue the Obama Administration over its decision to halt deportations of young illegal immigrants.
