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Legalizing marijuana won't be easy for Trudeau, says Colorado regulator
A Colorado official has some sobering words of advice for prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau if he fulfils his promise to legalize pot in Canada. "It's going to be a lot harder to implement than you think. It's going to take a lot longer to do it. And it's going to cost more than you think," said Lewis Koski, director of the state's Marijuana Enforcement Division.
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The Greatest Boat Race Ever (Dreamed Up Over Beers)
The rules: Pilot a boat 750 miles from Port Townsend, Washington, to Ketchikan, Alaska—no motors allowed. The prize: $10,000 nailed to a piece of wood. The result: Seven capsizings, four lifesaving Big Macs, one dramatic coast guard rescue, and a cast of oddball adventurers who reclaimed the salty heart of ocean racing. By Abe Streep.
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Chipotles close in Ore., Wash., after 22 sick from E. coli
The Mexican restaurant chain has had at least two other food-borne illness outbreaks since August.
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Clinton explains why she won't say 'radical Islam' - CNNPolitics.com
Hillary Clinton explained on Sunday that she won't use the term "radical Islam" because it "sounds like we are declaring war against a religion."
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6th December 1884 - Washington Monument completed
Workers place a nine-inch aluminum pyramid atop a tower of white marble, completing the construction of an impressive monument to the city’s namesake and the nation’s first president, George Washington. As early as 1783, the infant U.S. Congress decided that a statue of George Washington, the great Revolutionary War general, should be placed near the site of the new Congressional building, wherever it might be.
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Northwest Braces for More Rain after Day of Drama
Numerous rescues but at least two deaths amid downpours, flooding, mudslides, downed trees, power outages
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Now Use a Mobile App to Keep Track of Your Wine Events & Wineries
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- A lot of times if you attend a wine event, it is hard to keep track of...
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[Letter from Washington] A Special Relationship, by Andrew Cockburn
One morning early in 1988, Ed McWilliams, a foreign-service officer posted to the American Embassy in Kabul, heard the thump of a massive explosion from somewhere on the other side of the city. It was more than eight years after the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, and the embassy was a tiny enclave with only a handful of diplomats. McWilliams, a former Army intelligence operative, had made it his business to venture as much as possible into...
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The Forgotten Founding Father Who Explains America's Political Dysfunction
Cato's life is the story of how, at the improbable height of crisis, a dream came true. And it is also the story of how the dream failed.
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New York rebounds from blizzard, D.C. stuck in snowy gridlock
Following a day of hunkering down, New Yorkers and Washingtonians surged back into the streets on Sunday after a massive blizzard brought much of the U.S. East Coast to a standstill, bringing a festive mood to both cities as they prepared for a new workweek.
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Elwha: Roaring back to life
Washington State's Elwha watershed is booming with new life, after the world's largest dam removal.
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Obama says he plans to stay in Washington after presidency
President Obama says he plans to stay in Washington after the end of his presidency so that his younger daughter can finish high school with her class, a rare disclosure about his family's personal plans. During a visit with voters in Milwaukee on Thursday, Obama said he wasn't sure where he and wife Michelle Obama would settle down for the long term, but added that they were putting off the decision until daughter Sasha finished at Washington's Sidwell Friends School in spring 2019.
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Police arrest 400 at U.S. Capitol in protest of money in politics
Police arrested more than 400 protesters outside the U.S. Capitol on Monday from Democracy Spring, an organization seeking to remove big money from politics and combat restrictive voter identification laws. The mostly calm and orderly demonstration resulted in arrests for what the U.S. Capitol Police called "unlawful demonstration activity" such as crowding and obstruction. Organizers vowed to repeat the demonstration every day for a week.
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Native American high-schoolers who want to wear eagle feathers for graduation take their cause to court
Last graduation season Waverly Wilson’s high school in Washington state told her she couldn’t wear a sacred eagle feather with her cap and gown. But she wore it anyway. While most public schools allow Native American students to wear eagle feathers at graduation, some do not. And students are taking their cause to court.
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DC Council OKs $15-an-hour minimum wage
The D.C. Council on Tuesday approved a $15-an-hour minimum wage bill. Mayor Muriel Bowser has promised to sign the measure, which will raise the wage by 2020. In a ceremonial news conference, the mayor and council announced they have come to an agreement on a $15 wage. The council formally voted on the bill Tuesday afternoon. Minimum wage workers in the District currently make $10.50. That rate will increase to $11.50 in July under legislation signed in 2014 by Bowser’s predecessor, Vincent Gray.
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Who Killed the Arab Spring?
On May 19, 2011, President Barack Obama stood in the ornate Ben Franklin Room on the State Department’s 8th floor and called for a broad change of approach in America’s engagement with the Middle East, making clear that he backed political and economic reform. Responding to the dizzying first six months of the Arab Spring, Obama reiterated America’s enduring security interests, yet acknowledged that grievances had accrued among ordinary people that “only feed the suspicion that has festered for years that the United States pursues our interests at their expense.”
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Washington state to sue Comcast for $100M
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson is expected on Monday morning to announce a $100 million consumer lawsuit against Comcast. A news release says the lawsuit accuses Comcast of "engaging in a pattern of deceptive practices." The lawsuit alleges more than 1.8 million individual violations of the Washington Consumer Protection Act. The Attorney General's Office says 500,000 Washington consumers were affected. A spokesman for Comcast said the company had not seen the lawsuit but will likely have a full statement after Ferguson's news conference.
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Gross 'black slime' creeps over Washington DC's most famous monuments
Nasty looking 'blame slime' has grown all over Washington DC's National Mall's most famous monuments, including the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials. Experts are still seeking a solution.
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U.S. Government To Pay $492 Million To 17 American Indian Tribes
The U.S. government has agreed to pay a total of $492 million to 17 American Indian tribes for mismanaging natural resources and other tribal assets, according to an attorney who filed most of the suits. In a joint press release by the Departments of Interior and Justice, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewel said, "Settling these long-standing disputes reflects the Obama Administration's continued commitment to reconciliation and empowerment for Indian Country."
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The long history of the U.S. interfering with elections elsewhere
One of the more alarming narratives of the 2016 U.S. election campaign is that of the Kremlin's apparent meddling. Last week, the United States formally accused the Russian government of stealing and disclosing emails from the Democratic National Committee and the individual accounts of prominent Washington insiders. The hacks, in part leaked by WikiLeaks, have led to loud declarations that Moscow is eager for the victory of Republican nominee Donald Trump, whose rhetoric has unsettled Washington's traditional European allies and even thrown the future of NATO — Russia's bête noire — into doubt.
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