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WASHINGTON -- Sexual misconduct allegations have shaken Congress, with the Dean of the House -- its longest-serving member -- among the accused.Democrat John Conyers was holed up in Detroit on Wednesday after leaving Washington, D.C., in the middle of the workweek. He is at hom
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The Senate took up legislation Thursday to make it a crime to harm a fetus during commission of a violent federal crime, an issue that has become deeply entangled with the battle over abortion.The vote, expected late Thursday, is being closely watched by anti-abortion and other conservative groups, who have made passage of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act
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