Maryanne Jordan said she's not worried - yet - that state lawmakers will undo city laws that protect homosexuals from discrimination. On the other hand, Boise's City Council president left no doubt how she felt about Idaho Republicans' resolution encouraging legislators to do just that.

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COLLEGE PARK, Md. — In the darkened stacks of a nondescript building in the suburbs outside Washington, dozens of federal employees wearing protective gloves spend day after day sifting through millions of pages of secret documents, some of them nearly a century old. The 70 staffers of the National Declassification Center are charged with deciding – anonymously and quietly – which of the nation’s old secrets can be laid bare for the world to see.

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WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service diverted applications for tax-exempt status from tea party and like-minded organizations to a special track known as Group 7822 for special scrutiny, according to transcripts of an interview by congressional interrogators with a key IRS official.

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• Link | Transcript: IRS tea party cases were referred to “Group 7822”

WASHINGTON — California dairy processors are still trying to squeeze a better deal from a big farm bill up for House debate this week.

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• Link | House Agriculture Committee

WASHINGTON — The director of the National Security Agency testified Tuesday that the government’s massive surveillance program helped thwart more than 50 terrorist “events” worldwide since Sept. 11, 2001, including a planned bombing of the New York Stock Exchange that involved a Kansas City man.

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• Story | As public concerns grow, Congress spooked over spying
• Story | Feinstein will seek limits on who can see NSA spy data
• Story | Alaska delegation suspicious of NSA data collection

NEWARK, N.J. — In an accelerated election for a new U.S. senator from New Jersey, the Democratic field is Cory Booker vs. everyone else.

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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina rode President Barack Obama's coattails in 2008, winning a seat Republicans had held for nearly four decades.

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WASHINGTON — If reports of political targeting of conservatives by the Internal Revenue Service shocked the nation, they didn’t seem that surprising to many other groups who experienced problems with the tax agency in the past.

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• Story | Congress blasts spending on IRS conferences, spoof videos
• Story | Liberal groups say they don’t see IRS targeting their tax applications
• Story | Groups tell of IRS abuse, Ways and Means chief promises to look at IRS employees

WASHINGTON — A fight is brewing over President Barack Obama's efforts to fill three vacancies on a single federal court that Republicans claim doesn't do enough work to merit them.

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The conservative Club for Growth tags Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor as President Barack Obama's "closest ally" in the state. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's gun-control advocacy group says Pryor "let us down."

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