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The European Union’s demand for a road map leading to the next legally-binding global warming treaty raises a hurdle that may snarl negotiations at the United Nations climate conference this week.

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (UPI) — Texas’ top lawyer went to the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to try to head off a court-ordered redistricting map that may help Democrats’ congressional fortunes.

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A new trailer for Battlefield 3′s first map pack, “Back to Karkand,” profiles the second of four arenas of destruction, Gulf of Oman.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Texas asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to stop implementation of an interim Texas map for congressional districts that was crafted by a panel of federal judges and could favor minorities and Democrats in 2012 elections. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott made the emergency request in opposing the court-drawn congressional redistricting plan. Abbott, a Republican …

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A federal court refused late Friday to block a congressional redistricting map it drew up for Texas, rejecting a request from the state’s attorney general just hours after the Republican accused the court of “undermining the democratic process.”

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A new reapportionment map that redraws state legislative districts was adopted Tuesday by the state reapportionment commission, and if ratified by the state Supreme Court, it would create two primaries between El Paso County Republican legislators in next year’s election.House Majority…

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While most Americans were still recovering from their Thanksgiving turkey-induced comas, Democrats in Texas were getting one step closer to gaining three Congressional seats in the traditionally red state’s redistricting battle. After Democrats and Latino groups filed a lawsuit against the map drawn by the…

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The once-booming industry has been bruised and bloodied from nearly every angle: Home prices have plunged 30 percent nationally over the past five years, millions of Americans have lost their homes to foreclosure, and millions more are on the brink with underwater mortgages. Still others are seriously delinquent on their home loans.

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A new interim redistricting map in Texas would give Democrats a good shot at winning three of the state’s four new House districts and could help them win the battle to create new Democratic-leaning congressional districts nationwide in the decennial round of redistricting. Republicans had drawn a Texas map that would likely net them three seats and Democrats one, but a long-term court battle …

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Herman Cain has released a “vision for foreign policy and national security” on his web site, and it includes a map in which he labels major world countries with pithy (and boy do we mean pithy) summaries of the U.S. relationship with them. So while Canada gets the label “friend and ally,” Pakistan gets the more foreboding “Danger and opportunity. …

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House Republicans will try to bring a new congressional map to the floor for a vote today but if it fails to garner enough support from Democrats, negotiations will continue, said House Speaker William Batchelder, R-Medina. Batchelder, who has 59…

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Ohio Republicans failed in an effort Thursday to bring a second congressional map up for a vote as they sought to defuse Democratic opposition to the state’s newly adopted map, with shouting erupting on the Ohio House floor over who fairly should represent the battleground state in Washington.

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Less black on the map looks encouraging, but check the legend. Photo Credit: LeAnne Gendreau

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A new congressional map circulated in the Ohio General Assembly today would avoid forcing Miami Valley Republicans Steve Austria and Mike Turner to run against each other.

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China’s ambassador to India becomes involved in a heated exchange over a map that shows parts of India within China’s border.

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The Chinese ambassador to India told a journalist in New Delhi to “shut up” in a heated exchange over a map that showed parts of India within China, newspapers reported on Friday.

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WASHINGTON — A new congressional map being circulated in the Ohio General Assembly today may spur Rep. Steve Austria to run against Rep. Steve Stivers instead of Rep. Mike Turner in the June primary election.Two sources close to the process said a revised redistricting plan scheduled to be voted on in the House today would redraw the potential Turner-Austria district to give that district all of …

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COLUMBUS – A GOP-redrawn congressional district map wasn’t tweaked enough to appeal to Democrats, and now House Republicans will schedule committee hearings to try to head off a costly referendum fight, two primary elections and a whole lot of uncertainty over how Ohio will elect its 16 congressional seats next year.

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Ohio may finally have a new congressional map if state lawmakers can come to agreement later this afternoon. House Bill 319 was passed in September but Democratic lawmakers feeling the new voting districts showed bias and favored Republican candidates appealed the bill’s passage to Secretary of State John Husted. Although the bill was initially upheld due to state statutes relating to the …

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Republicans and Democrats alike are lamenting a proposed new map for different reasons.

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This map provides users with the highest-resolution global topography data available to the public.

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Discussion at the Oakdale City Council was heated on Monday night, Oct. 17 during a review of the proposed 2050 agricultural preservation map. The map is a countywide effort to prepare a growth plan through the year 2050 to present to the Local Agency Formation Committee by December. The map will potentially serve as a guideline for a ballot initiative taken to voters some time next year.

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Gov. Gary Herbert should take a close look at the congressional district map delivered by the Utah Legislature on Monday, and then veto it for what he finds.

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The most complete digital topographic ever made of the Earth was released by NASA today (Oct. 17).

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The Republican presidential candidates released their fundraising totals this week–Rick Perry raised $17 million; Mitt Romney, $14 million–so one map-making journalist posed the question: where in the country is that money coming from? Matt Stiles, a data journalist at NPR, traces the geographic source of each campaign dollar contributed to the eight main players in the GOP field using public …

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Massachusetts lawmakers yesterday released a new map of legislative districts that doubles the number that are âmajority-minorityâ districts, reflecting the state’s growing racial diversity and giving black and Latino voters more political clout.

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Update: Republicans approve new Utah congressional map By Lee Davidson and robert gehrke The Salt Lake Tribune Published Oct 18, 2011 02:49PM MDT After a long day of closed-door negotiations, protests and one GOP misstep that forced a temporary retreat, Utah lawmakers finished months of battling and finally passed a map for Utah’s new congressional districts. (View the map at http://bit.ly …