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British businesses could have their gas supplies cut off in order to keep households in other parts of Europe warm, under a proposed new EU law. A new "solidarity principle" would apply to gas supplies to ensure that households, healthcare and security services across Europe were maintained as a priority in the event of a severe crisis. "In practice this means member states will have to give priority to protected consumers in neighbouring countries over non-protected customers at home," Miguel Arias Canete, the EU energy commissioner, said. "We don’t back legally-binding rules in this area, which is what we and...

Three things about Donald Trump have now become clear to the Republican establishment: 1) He might not implode before people start voting for president next year. 2) He could actually wind up as the Republican nominee for president. -snip- Right to Rise raised more than $103 million in the first six months of this year. It spent - as I mentioned above - $28 million on ads. Let's say the organization has spent another $15 million on fundraising, consulting fees and other miscellaneous costs. And let's assume, just for the sake of this argument, that Right to Rise hasn't raised...

A community college student in Massachusetts faces possible disciplinary action for shouting "Remember Chappaquiddick!" during an on-campus speech by Democrat Sen. Edward Kennedy. Paul Trost, 20, a student at Massasoit Community College in Brockton, Mass., says he was upset by an introduction of Kennedy given by Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., in which the congressman noted how the long-time senator overcame hardship in life on his way to success. "Lynch said Kennedy had overcome such adversity to get to the place he was, and that's a bunch of bull," Trost said of the introduction, which occurred in the school's student center...

Police Group Asks Congress, 'How Many More Cops Must Die?'; Life Saving Legislative Priority of Rank and File Cops Stalled in Congress 5/12/2004 12:26:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Ted Deeds of the Law Enforcement Alliance of America (LEAA), 703-847-2677 WASHINGTON, May 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As America marks the ultimate sacrifices made by men and women in blue during National Police Week, one law enforcement group is placing at least some blame, squarely at the feet of Congress. The Law Enforcement Alliance of America (LEAA) suggests that Congress' failure to enact life-saving legislation that would allow qualified off...