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‘I want him to suffer’ Mother of kidnapped sexually abused N.S. teen still angry as former captor pleads guilty
BRIDGEWATER, N.S. _ The mother of a teenage boy who was kidnapped and sexually assaulted for days says she was overwhelmed to see her son’s abuser in court, admitting she wanted him to suffer after hearing him plead guilty to the charges. With her hands shaking and emotion straining her voice, the woman said outside court that her 16-year-old son is trying to put behind him the days of ...
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‘We will be defending this case vigorously’ Second accused in Tim Bosma murder case to plead not guilty
HAMILTON -- Mark Smich, the second man accused in the high-profile murder case of Tim Bosma, looked gaunt and agitated when brought into court in leg shackles on Thursday morning. When asked to tell the court his name, he said ';Mark.'; After court prompting to provide his full name, he added ';Smich.'; Some observers thought they saw minor wounds on his face. Outside ...
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CONTRADICTS REALITYSenators Rip Obama Call to Repeal Use of Force Law
President Obama drew sharp criticism from Republican senators Thursday for urging the repeal of the 2001 law that effectively authorized the war on terror. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., claimed the president was assuming Al Qaeda is "on the run," calling that mindset "really incredible." The president addressed the law, known as the Authorization for Use of ...
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For Obama a New Plan to Fight Terror or More of the Same on the Biggest Issues
US President Barack Obama speaks about his administration's drone and counterterrorism policies at the National Defense University in Washington, DC, May 23, ...
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Obama Speech Interrupted Medea Benjamin Gets in News Conferences Using CodePink Magic
During Obama's speech on Thursday, CODEPINK's co-founder Medea Benjamin demanded the closure of GITMO and the end of his killer drone ...
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Obama Repeatedly Heckled By Bay Area Activist During Security Speech
Medea Benjamin, an activist from the organization called Code Pink, shouts at U.S. President Barack Obama while he speaks at the National Defense University May 23, 2013 in Washington, DC. Obama used the speech to outline and justify his administration’s counterterrorism policy, including increased cooperation with Congress on matters of national security, added transparency regarding the ...
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Market Update – Mexico giving ground after 42 move from the lows in June ’12
) - "Southern Texas" Weak. Why? Mexico has been in a deep swoon and has now broken the 200 day moving average support for the first time in over a ...
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5000 cave paintings discovered in Mexico
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found nearly 5000 cave paintings made by hunter-gatherers in a northeastern Mexico mountain range where pre-Hispanic groups were not known to have existed. The yellow, red, white and black paintings depict humans, deers, lizards and centipedes, suggesting that the groups hunted, fished and gathered food, according to the National Anthropology and History Institute ...
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Obama’s Pledge to ‘Scale Back’ Drone Attacks Not Enough for Pakistanis
Pakistanis have long complained about the US drone program that targets people in the country’s tribal area. And they’ve demanded that the US stop their activities. For them, the president’s pledge to ';scale back'; those strikes isn’t enough. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with reporter Fahad Desmukh in ...
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Video Obama renews pledge to close Guantanamo Bay
President Barack Obama announced a renewed push to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, including lifting a moratorium on prisoner transfers to ...
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Fiddler Natalie MacMaster on the Canadian passport
Does it bother you when you don't get a stamp in your passport as a memento? It used to bother me just getting waved through some foreign immigration outpost without an interesting stamp to show for ...
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NYPD Merchant held for ransom tortured for month
NEW YORK -; A businessman was snatched from a New York City street in broad daylight, then held captive for more than a month in a warehouse where he was bound and burned with acid as he was held for a $3 million ransom his family back in Ecuador did not have, authorities ...
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Rep. Jo Bonner resigning to take Ala. college post
MOBILE, Ala. -; U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner says he is resigning from Congress effective in August to take a post with the University of Alabama ...
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Obama sees narrower terror threat defends drones
President Barack Obama continues to speaks about national security, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, as CODEPINK founder Medea Benjamin of Code Pink shouted at him from the back of the auditorium. (AP Photo/Carolyn ...
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NJ students to help Michelle Obama harvest garden
WASHINGTON -; Schoolchildren from New Jersey shore communities battered by Superstorm Sandy will join Michelle Obama for a garden harvest next ...
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Tea party vs. old guard in Senate GOP rift
FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2013, file photo, Senate Armed Services Committee member Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, questions Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The committee's ranking Republican Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. listens at left. A long-simmering feud in the Senate between establishment Republicans and tea ...
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AP others fight for details in Maine girls death
BANGOR, Maine -; News organizations are challenging a judge's decision to keep the public from seeing details of how and why police believe a 15-year-old girl from Maine was killed by a 20-year-old ...
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IRS replaces official who oversaw targeting
IRS official Lois Lerner is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, before the House Oversight Committee hearing to investigate the extra scrutiny IRS gave to Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. Lerner told the committee she did nothing wrong and then invoked her constitutional right to not answer lawmakers' questions. (AP ...
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Ohio kidnap case hero gets year of free McDonalds
FILE - This May 6, 2013 file photo shows neighbor Charles Ramsey speaking to media near the home where missing women Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight were rescued in Cleveland. Ramsey, the man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive for a decade in an Ohio house will never have to pay for another burger in his hometown. Ramsey has been promised free ...
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Manson disciples tapes being analyzed by LAPD
LOS ANGELES -; Los Angeles police have obtained the decades-old taped conversations between a Manson family disciple and his attorney, officials confirmed ...
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Obama increases fed share of Sandy relief for NY
WASHINGTON -; President Barack Obama is providing more Hurricane Sandy disaster relief to New York, increasing the share of public assistance that the government will pay from 75 percent to 90 percent of the ...
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Obamas drone policy at a glance
President Barack Obama defended the United States' use of drone attacks as an important part of the U.S. counterterrorism policy on Thursday but signed new presidential policy guidelines to spell out for Congress and the public the standards that the U.S. will use before carrying out drone ...
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Obamas booming drone business
President Barack Obama said Thursday that he wants to scale back the killing of terrorists with unmanned systems, but that doesn’t mean the end of drones. In the defense world, the drone business is booming.The reality is that for the foreseeable future, drones will be used more, not less, in military operations worldwide as the U.S. continues its historic shift toward use of unmanned ...
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Black Caucus Leader We Disagree With Presidents Even Obama
Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH) chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, says her group fears an immigration overhaul that greatly expands high-tech visas could have an adverse impact on blacks aspiring to such ...
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Murder suspect’s death accusations shock to Orlando neighbors
KISSIMMEE -- Ibragim Todashev, the Chechen martial-arts fighter killed by an FBI agent in Orlando on Tuesday, was a bit of a mystery to his neighbors in his modest gated community in Kissimmee.They knew little about his lifestyle, his travels or his relationship with one of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing.They did know him as the kind of guy who helped neighbors in the ...
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North America's unknown potential disaster
North America is facing a potential ecological disaster that most people are not even aware of, according to scientists who have been studying the little brown bat (or myotis bat), the most common species of bat in the United States and the wider North American continent.
This is because the bat is under attack by a killer fungus that grows on the bats’ wings during hibernation and causes them to lose body fat and wake early from their sleep, which causes them to eventually die. The fungal infection is said by researchers to be capable of killing off the bat within the next 16 years when their current population, which numbers up to several million, may fall to just 0.01% of present levels. Read more
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