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The Hill: House Republicans will link passage of a balanced-budget amendment to Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) last-ditch debt-ceiling plan, which GOP lawmakers said would move the measure to passage in a high-stakes vote later on Friday. Republican lawmakers seemed confident after a vital Friday morning conference meeting that the tweaked Boehner proposal would pass muster [...]

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WACO, Texas (Reuters) – Army soldier Naser Jason Abdo shouted the name of a military psychiatrist accused of a 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, during his first appearance in court on Friday on a charge related to an alleged terror plot. Abdo, 21, was formally charged with illegal possession of a firearm two [...]

National Journal: Top Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee said Thursday they are investigating whether the Federal Communications Commission improperly coordinated with the White House and public interest groups in the development of the network neutrality rules adopted in December. In a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, the lawmakers cited instances where [...]

National Journal: U.S. military commanders in Iraq say Iranian-made weaponry is killing American troops there at an unprecedented pace, posing new dangers to the remaining forces and highlighting Tehran’s intensifying push to gain influence over post-U.S. Iraq. June was the deadliest month in more than two years for U.S. troops, with 14 killed. In May, [...]

The Cutline: Just 11 days ago, Casey Anthony walked out of a Florida jail and made a carefully orchestrated escape from the media mob that had followed her throughout her daughter’s murder case. Now Anthony wants the attention back. According to several media reports, including one from Nancy Grace, Anthony and her team of lawyers [...]

KRGV: KILLEEN – Officials say an AWOL soldier now in custody confessed he was planning to attack Fort Hood. The FBI says it will soon charge that soldier with possessing bomb-making materials. Killeen police arrested Pfc. Nasser Abdo on a child pornography warrant Wednesday night. He then admitted to planning an attack on Fort Hood. [...]

TV Guide: Amy Winehouse battled addictions to drug and alcohol for years, but her family says they believe it was her recent abstinence from alcohol that killed her, The Sun reports. A source close to her family tells the British newspaper that Winehouse ignored doctors’ advice to gradually give up alcohol and instead went cold [...]

NPR: Just as the Washington narrative had started to shift a bit from “House Speaker John Boehner doesn’t have the juice to get his conference to support him” to “Boehner is getting his fellow Republicans to rally around him” it shifts back to the former. That’s because he was unable to get enough members of [...]

Border Boletin: Federal legislators have introduced a bill to name the Border Patrol’s Naco Station after slain agent Brian Terry, who was killed last December in a shootout near Rio Rico. The “Brian A. Terry Memorial Act” was introduced late Wednesday and has 52 co-sponsors, including Democrats and Republicans, said Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ office in [...]