Tensions deepen after missing Israeli teens found dead in West Bank - CNN

Israeli forces destroy suspects homes and carry out airstrikes in Gaza"It's just too sad to even imagine," victim's aunt tells CNN"Hamas will pay" for the deaths, says the Israeli Prime MinisterA Hamas spokesman warns against escalation; the group has denied involvement(CNN) -- Nineteen days ago, three Israeli teenagers, trying to hitchhike home from the southern West Bank, disappeared.Monday afternoon, volunteers from a nearby Israeli settlement...

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How Hobby Lobby Ruling Could Limit Access to Birth Control - New York Times

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Bodies of 3 abducted Israeli teens found in West Bank - USA TODAY

Michele Chabin and Oren Dorell , USA TODAY 1:58 a.m. EDT July 1, 2014 Israelis hold a poster showing the three missing Israeli teens at a Tel Aviv rally under the slogan "Bring Our Boys Home" on June 29.(Photo: Lior Mizrahi, Getty Images) 2745 CONNECT 10 LINKEDIN EMAILMORE JERUSALEM — The bodies of three Israeli teenagers kidnapped more than two weeks ago on their way home from religious school were found shot to death Monday, Israeli officials...

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How Hobby Lobby Ruling Could Limit Access to Birth Control - New York Times

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Obama's immigration pivot - Politico

The White House’s immigration reform ceasefire is over.President Barack Obama came to the Rose Garden Monday to lay out the case: he gave House Speaker John Boehner “space” to convince his members. He kept quiet about the Republicans he knew were open to an overhaul. He avoided talking about the issue much himself.Continue ReadingNo more.(Also on POLITICO: Obama: GOP failed to pass a 'darn' immigration bill)Obama was one of the few people holding...

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President Obama vows to unilaterally revise immigration laws - Kansas City Star

President Barack Obama plans to go it alone to revise the nation’s broken immigration laws, saying Monday that Republican obstructionism has left him no choice.Obama said he would asked Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and Attorney General Eric Holder to recommend by summer’s end steps he can take unilaterally.The move comes as the president is under fire from immigration advocates for record deportations and for pushing the speedier removal...

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Israel Finds Bodies of Kidnapped Teenagers - Voice of America

JERUSALEM —The hunt for three missing Israeli youths in the West Bank has come to a tragic end.After a long and massive search, Israeli forces found the bodies of three Jewish seminary students who were kidnapped in the West Bank more than two weeks ago. The teenagers apparently were shot shortly after they were abducted while hitchhiking near the biblical town of Hebron.An Israeli military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner said the bodies...

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Obama to expand safeguards for transgender workers - PallTimes.com (subscription)

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Obama to expand safeguards for transgender workers - PallTimes.com (subscription)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is preparing an executive order offering transgender federal workers formal protection from discrimination at work, President Barack Obama announced Monday. kAmpE =62DE EH@ @E96C >62DFC6D 2=C625J AC6G6?E E96 7656C2= 8@G6C?>6?E 7C@> 7:C:?8 A6@A=6 7@C 36:?8 EC2?D86?56C[ D@ ~32>2VD 2??@F?46>6?E :D =2C86=J DJ>3@=:4] $E:==[ 25G@42E6D 92:=65 E96 >@G6 2D 2 A@H6C7F= 24E @7 C64@8?:E:@? 7@C EC2?D86?56C...

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Hobby Lobby Ruling Raises Question: What Does 'Closely Held' Mean? - Wall Street Journal

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Obama's immigration pivot - Politico

The White House’s immigration reform ceasefire is over.President Barack Obama came to the Rose Garden Monday to lay out the case: he gave House Speaker John Boehner “space” to convince his members. He kept quiet about the Republicans he knew were open to an overhaul. He avoided talking about the issue much himself.Continue ReadingNo more.(Also on POLITICO: Obama: GOP failed to pass a 'darn' immigration bill)Obama was one of the few people holding...

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Obama's immigration pivot - Politico

The White House’s immigration reform ceasefire is over.President Barack Obama came to the Rose Garden Monday to lay out the case: he gave House Speaker John Boehner “space” to convince his members. He kept quiet about the Republicans he knew were open to an overhaul. He avoided talking about the issue much himself.Continue ReadingNo more.(Also on POLITICO: Obama: GOP failed to pass a 'darn' immigration bill)Obama was one of the few people holding...

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Court: Religious rights trump birth control rule - The Seattle Times

Originally published June 30, 2014 at 7:23 AM | Page modified June 30, 2014 at 7:04 PMWASHINGTON —A sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that some companies with religious objections can avoid the contraceptives requirement in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, the first time the high court has declared that businesses can hold religious views under federal law.The justices' 5-4 decision, splitting conservatives and liberals, means...

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