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Ancient cave paintings found in northeastern Mexico
A detail from a copy of the more than 17,000 year old Swimming Stags Frieze from the famed cave paintings of Lascaux is seen during a media preview on March 19, 2013 in Chicago. (Mira Oberman/AFP/Getty ...
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Mexico drug war rebooted
It's the general's hour again in Mexico as the new president deploys troops in Michoacan, where gangsters are facing off against vigilante ...
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Obama Frames Covert Drone War as Necessary Evil
President Barack Obama reacts as his speech is interrupted by CODEPINK founder Medea Benjamin, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez ...
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Obama Benghazi Terrorist Attack Was a ‘Localized’ Threat
President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (CNSNews.com) -- President Barack Obama said the terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, which killed four Americans including the U.S. ambassador, was a "localized" threat. "Today, the core of al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan is on the path to defeat," said Obama in a speech at Ft. ...
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Obama’s prom photos emerge
The two previously unpublished pictures were given to Time magazine by the girl who was escorted by Barak Obama's best friend. NBC's Ann Curry ...
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Obama defends drone strikes ‘in last resort’
A demonstrator adjusts a sign reading "Stop Killer Drones" hung on a mock drone at the gates of Fort McNair where US president Barack Obama spoke yesterday. Photograph: Kevin ...
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Guantanamo Prisoners Tune In for Obamas Speech on Their Fate
MIAMI -- Among those tuning in to President Barack Obama's national security speech on Thursday were some prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, who rely on television broadcasts and newspapers for hints about their ...
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Parents launch petition to bring back Father’s Day cards after school replaces holiday with ‘Family Day’
Michelle Allaby spent Thursday night carrying a stack of paper door-to-door in her Dartmouth, N.S., neighbourhood. She and two other mothers have amassed more than 350 signatures in protest of what they call ';political correctness to the extreme.'; Less than a month before Father’s Day, the women are trying to reverse a year-old decision at Astral Drive Elementary School that ...
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Obama shifts U.S. from perpetual war-footing limits drone strikes
1 of 12. U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about his administration's counterterrorism policy at the National Defense University at Ft. McNair in Washington, May 23, ...
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President Obama Heckled During Speech At Ohio State
During a speech given at Ohio State University, President Obama had to deal with hecklers, as respect for the position he holds continues to erode in the eyes of those who believe differently. The Commander in Chief had to deal with audience member interruptions one more than one occasion, as one audience member challenged the President to read a book he was holding. The lead video reveals the ...
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Anti-war activist heckles Obama over Gitmo
President Obama had a run-in with a heckler on Thursday, when a founder of the anti-war group Code Pink interrupted a speech on drone policy and other national security ...
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Press Party Obamas blunders so long Tim Murray and more
The "Press Party" panel takes aim this week at the White House's failed attempts to rein in media scrutiny of the IRS scandal and Lt. Gov. Tim Murray's abrupt exit from office. Also, are reporters risking their lives covering stories and the worst media blunder of the week - a CNN reporter's embarrassing gaffe. Take a look and leave a comment below and take the poll at ...
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Has Obama Presented a New Plan to Fight Terror or More of the Same
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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Z on TV Ailes grabs high ground over Obama on phone email seizures
Roger Ailes rallied his troops Thursday with a memo that claimed the moral high ground in his channel's latest battle with the Obama White ...
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Watch Digital Report President Obama Delivers National Security Speech
This is a special report from ABC news. I'm Tanya Rivero in New York with this ABC news digital special report hello to. Those of you watching on Yahoo! and Hulu as well as abcnews.com. The ...
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Mark Carney’s tribute to Canada
Canadians are not in the habit of thinking of their country as similar to the euro zone group of countries, but Mark Carney, in his speech to the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal on Tuesday, presented Canada's monetary union, with "internal real exchange rates," as a much more successful version of the same phenomenon as the euro zone. Canada's different regions do ...
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Jurors deadlock on Jodi Arias penalty
Jodi Arias stands as the jury enters the courtroom on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Jodi Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, ...
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Parking deck collapses at Md. mall 1 killed
BETHESDA, Md. -; A parking garage partially collapsed Thursday outside a shopping mall in suburban Maryland, and officials said one construction worker died after being trapped under a concrete ...
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IRS replaces official in tea party controversy
In this May 22, 2013, photo, Lois Lerner listens on Capitol Hill in Washington. A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lerner has been replaced as director the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups. Danny Werfel, the agency's new acting commissioner, told IRS employees in an email Thursday, May 23, 2013, that he ...
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Three taxes fizzle for now
The Senate Appropriations Committee suspended consideration of the tax proposals amid its review of scores of bills to meet a legislative deadline. The levy on cigarettes could be heard later this year while the authors of the soda and oil severance taxes expect to have to wait until ...
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What Obamas Speech Means for Guantanamo
May 23, 2013 6:10 PM ET In a major speech Thursday at the National Defense University, President Barack Obama described in broad terms what his administration has framed as a new, more limited approach to waging what's known as the war against al Qaeda and associated forces. The speech covered many topics, including the role of drones and a potential repeal of the congressional ...
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Archaeologists Discover Several Thousand Ancient Cave Paintings In Mexico
Image Caption: Specialists of the NIAH located the cave paintings in the Sierra de San Carlos, Tamaulipas. Credit: Mexican National Institute of Anthropology ...
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Obama Bring Gitmo Home
Joint Task Force Guantanamo]. I transferred 67 detainees to other countries before Congress imposed restrictions to effectively prevent us from either transferring detainees to other countries, or imprisoning them in the United States," Obama said during ...
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Obama orders review of DOJ process for investigating journalists
President Barack Obama said on Thursday he directed Attorney General Eric Holder to conduct a review of Department of Justice guidelines for investigations that involve journalists and report back by early July.Obama has come under criticism for his administration's pursuit of journalists who have reported leaked material.In recent weeks, it emerged that the Justice Department seized ...
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Obama speech suggests possible expansion of drone killings
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Thursday defended his administration’s use of drone strikes to kill terrorists as effective, lawful and “heavily constrained,” but he also appeared to be laying groundwork for an expansion of the controversial targeted killings. In remarks at the National Defense University in Washington, Obama cast the use of such operations as a ...
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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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