Bad Weather in DC: 2 Hours Delay in Arriving to Work
Federal agencies in the Washington, DC, area are OPEN but under 2 hours DELAYED ARRIVAL.
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2014 brings several important changes and deadlines for Obamacare, elections, taxes and expiration of government funding.
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Apple, Google, Facebook and other top technology companies on Monday took their strongest stance to date against sweeping government surveillance that collects vast amounts of data – but they also urged countries not to react to U.S. snooping by walling off the Internet.
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