HOUSE GOP EYES DEFAULT, SHUTDOWN
01/14/2013
Politico: “‘I think it is possible that we would shut down the government to make sure President Obama understands that we’re serious,’ House Republican Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington state told us.” http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=EC16A727-91B2-4C84-A4C4-1A5E703F4A9A
ON THIS DAY IN US HISTORY
On May 24, 1994, four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison. In November 1997, two more were convicted, including Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind behind the bombings. The terrorists received financing from Khaled Shaikh Mohammed, Yousef's uncle.
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