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• NHL notifies NHLPA it wants to modify/terminate CBA

  Move is necessary step toward negotiations.

  Published 3:06 p.m., May 16 2012 in Capitals Watch

• PICKET: S&P cautions California on its budget

  Four months after Standard and Poor's rating agency upgraded California's financial future from "stable" to "positive" the S&P is noting they could reverse that rating anytime soon if state lawmakers do not pass a solid budget this year.

  Published 2:36 p.m., May 16 2012 in Water Cooler

• PICKET: Boehner to Obama - Tell Holder to cooperate with Issa on Fast and Furious

  House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican, urged President Barack Obama on Wednesday to tell Attorney General Eric Holder to cooperate with the congressional investigation relating to the now defunct Fast and Furious gun walking operation.

  Published 2:30 p.m., May 16 2012 in Water Cooler

• Verizon Center to host East Regional in 2013

  Building to host tournament for sixth time

  Published 1:48 p.m., May 16 2012 in D1SCOURSE

• Preakness field set at 11 horses

  Bodemeister expected to be morning-line favorite.

  Published 1:31 p.m., May 16 2012 in Preakness Watch

• Capitals must build team without Evgeny Kuznetsov

  With top prospect remaining in Russia, George McPhee not giving up on him being part of future.

  Published 11:55 a.m., May 16 2012 in Capitals Watch

• Romney hits Obama over red ink

  Presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney said Wednesday that President Obama has failed to follow through on his vow to end the kind of debt spending racked up during the George W. Bush years — creating a cloud of economic uncertainty that is hurting graduating college students, homeowners and seniors alike.

  Published 11:37 a.m., May 16 2012 in Inside Politics

• Boston Globe corrects claim of Warren's ancestry

  The Boston Globe ran a correction in Tuesday's paper admitting an error in its reporting of Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's ancestry in a May 1 article titled "Document ties Warren kin to Cherokees," saying they have no proof that the Democrat is part Cherokee as she has claimed.

  Published 11:10 a.m., May 16 2012 in Inside Politics

• I'll Have Another enjoys another strong gallop

  Horse has been at Pimlico for over a week.

  Published 10:51 a.m., May 16 2012 in Preakness Watch

• Obama's, Democrats' fundraising efforts slump in April

  President Obama's campaign and the Democratic Party committee helping him get re-elected raised $43.6 million in April, down from the previous month's take, despite the beginning of the general election campaign, with Mitt Romney all but securing the Republican presidential nomination.

  Published 10:08 a.m., May 16 2012 in Inside Politics

• Club for Growth cool on some 'tea party' freshmen

  An influential conservative advocacy group says many House Republican freshmen have abandoned the "tea party" values they promised to uphold while campaigning for office two years ago.

  Published 10:41 p.m., May 15 2012 in Inside Politics

• Jeff Halpern tried to put on happy face

  Veteran sees himself playing next season.

  Published 9:02 p.m., May 15 2012 in Capitals Watch

• Obama takes Wall Street cash while attacking Romney

  The Obama campaign and the White House labored to explain the logic behind the president's decision to hold a fundraiser at the home of a hedge fund president the same day the re-election team released an advertisement bashing Mitt Romney for his tenure at Bain Capital.

  Published 6:12 p.m., May 15 2012 in Inside Politics

• PICKET: (VIDEO) Bernie Sanders angrily defends so-called 'passed' year old Senate budget

  Senator Bernie Sanders, Vermont Independent, was approached by the Washington Times affiliated radio program America's Morning News and was asked why Senate Democratic leadership has not passed a budget for three years. Mr. Sanders, who caucuses with the Democrats, answered angrily that the Senate passed a budget last year and blamed the trillions of dollar debt on billionaires "who want to cut" social security.

  Published 5:03 p.m., May 15 2012 in Water Cooler

• Forward Ashton Pankey departing Maryland

  Forward leaving for family reasons

  Published 4:09 p.m., May 15 2012 in D1SCOURSE

• Super PAC to spend $1 million in Texas Senate race

  An independent "Super PAC" has made a $1 million media buy in support of Texas Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst's Senate bid.

  Published 2:50 p.m., May 15 2012 in Inside Politics

• Strasburg's day done after four tough innings

  Surely this isn't how Stephen Strasburg envisioned his first start against his hometown team. The Nationals' ace departed after only four innings Tuesday afternoon against the Padres, handing reliever Tom Gorzelanny a 4-0 deficit to manage.

  Published 2:45 p.m., May 15 2012 in Nationals Watch

• Warren takes advantage of JPMorgan loss

  U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren hasn't hesitated to jump into the storm over JPMorgan's $2 billion trading loss, seizing the opportunity to remind voters of her record of taking on Wall Street.

  Published 2:39 p.m., May 15 2012 in Inside Politics

• Alex Semin's agent not closing door on Caps, questions direction

  Mark Gandler says his client is not considering going to the Kontinental Hockey League.

  Published 1:55 p.m., May 15 2012 in Capitals Watch

• Longtime Democratic senator predicts Keystone will be built

  Former North Dakota Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan, a leading voice in his party on energy issues during his 30 years in Congress, said Tuesday that he believes the massive Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL oil pipeline will eventually be built, even if President Obama wins re-election in the fall.

  Published 12:18 p.m., May 15 2012 in Inside Politics

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