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A Shutdown Threat, Trump’s Fed Hiring Spree and More From Presidential Candidates For most 2016 presidential candidates, the critical day of the campaign is still several months away, with the first votes being cast in Iowa on Feb.1. Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, however, appears to have a much closer date circled on his calendar, a date that federal employees are also keeping an eye on: Sept. 30, the last day Congress can pass a spending bill to avoid a government shutdown. Cruz is using his campaign soapbox to threaten to derail the funding process if Planned Parenthood receives federal appropriations....

My husband and I were in Longboat Key, Florida, whiling away a much-awaited holiday with our English friends Diane and Bernard Wilson: sun, sand, the simple life — a getaway. Then I made the mistake of reading an ad in the island weekly, The Longboat ObserverThe Invitation LONGBOAT KEY DEMOCRATIC CLUB Presents Barbara Zdravecky, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida. TOPIC: President Bush's War On Women. Date: May 13, 2003, Noon. Was the good Lord sending me an invitation? I said a prayer and decided to attend and Diane was good enough to say she'd come...

Inside Look at the Clinic A lawsuit filed by the United States Justice Foundation on August 12 is offering a rare view of the Encinitas Planned Parenthood clinic. Former Planned Parenthood employee Megan Allen, 36, is suing Planned Parenthood of San Diego, Riverside and Los Angeles counties for unfair business practices and wrongful termination. Allen's suit contends that she was fired after she pointed out problems at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Encinitas. Allen claims that her lawsuit is not about abortion but about the safety of women. According to Allen's complaint, which was filed in Riverside Superior Court, Planned...