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Obama seeks to redefine the US war on terror
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama laid out new guidelines for drone strikes Thursday and launched a fresh bid to close Guantanamo, warning that a "perpetual" U.S. war on terror would be ...
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Questions Obama dodged in terror speech
But despite calling for a more targeted and not "boundless" theater of global operations, Obama left the specifics and timelines for action, by which his success or failure can be measured, out of his big speech. Here are some critical questions Obama did not raise or answer in the address at the National Defense University.Guantanamo Bay Timeline Obama renewed his call for the closure ...
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Canadas Harper says very sorry about snowballing expenses scandal
LIMA, Peru -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Wednesday said for the first time that he was "very sorry" about a growing expenses scandal that threatens to derail his Conservative government after seven years in ...
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Obama reframes the rules of engagement on terrorism
i think a lot of people had billed it as a speech about drones and clarifying the president's policy on drones and it certainly was that. but lost in a lot of the shiny metal object stuff of the interrupter who had interrupted three time, anti-war protester, you know, this was a speech, i think historians will look back on it and say let's look for an obama doctrine. let's look ...
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Obamas counterterrorism speech Most important of his presidency
Addressing an issue that has dogged his presidency and given ammunition to his critics, President Obama yesterday tackled head-on his administration's counterterrorism policy. Chairmen for Center of American Progress John Podesta joins the ...
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Why GOP wont stop trying to connect Obama to IRS
The GOP appears unwilling to abandon the idea that President Obama had a hand in the IRS' targeting of conservative groups. US Army vet Wes Moore, Politico's Maggie Haberman and Buzzfeed's Ben Smith join Alex Wagner to discuss. Former White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod also joins the ...
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Royal Bank pledges not to outsource jobs for savings alone
Royal Bank has promised it will never outsource a Canadian job to a foreign worker solely to save money. The bank updated its code of conduct on Friday, after facing intense criticism last month for its hiring ...
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Rizzuto associate pleads guilty to cocaine trafficking in N.Y.
Vito Rizzuto. (QMI file photo) MONTREAL -- Alessandro Taloni, a former jet-setting Mafia associate who ran a $1 billion cross-border drug ring, pleaded guilty to cocaine trafficking in a New York court. Taloni, 39, faces 10 years to life in prison plus a fine that could reach $2 million, after admitting to his crimes on Thursday. Following his arrest in 2011, the Montrealer made headlines for ...
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President Obama Again to Serve as Honorary Cup Chairman
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama has accepted an invitation to be honorary chairman of this year's Presidents Cup, the second time he will fulfil the role at the biennial team competition, the PGA Tour said on Friday. Obama, an avid basketball player who often escapes the pressures of the Oval Office by taking to the golf course, served as honorary chairman when the event was last ...
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NDP suspends MP from shadow cabinet over $58000 in unpaid taxes
MONTREAL -- The NDP has suspended a member from its shadow cabinet because of his chronic, long-term failure to pay taxes. Tyrone Benskin has been stripped of his role as official-languages critic until he pays the taxes he owes. The announcement follows a report that Quebec's revenue agency has contacted the House of Commons to seize part of his salary because of more than $58,000 he ...
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Canada will retain Montreal-based UN agency headquarters
MONTREAL -- Canada will keep its only UN agency now that Qatar has abandoned a bid to get the International Civil Aviation Organization to move its headquarters to the Middle Eastern country. ICAO confirmed the news Friday morning as did Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, who announced it on Twitter. Qatar has offered no explanation for its decision to back off. ICAO Secretary General ...
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Obama wants to end war on terror but Congress balks
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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Gawkers bid to give $200000 to Canadian drug dealers hits slight snag
United States . We can't have them high on crack.The spangers Gawker has deployed outside New York subway stops to raise money to buy a video purportedly showing Ford crack-smoking, however, smell bad and obstruct pedestrian flow. We exaggerate; Gawker has not deployed spangers. But the website is begging for money from the public to supplement its news gathering budget, so it can afford to ...
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Strip Searched During Exam Canada High School Has Some Explaining To Do
With technology growing every day, many things are becoming a lot easier. Finding a nearby restaurant on your smartphone, for example. Or, cheating on a test. For that reason, a Canada high school issued statements to parents recently after school staff conducted a strip-search to find a missing cell phone. The incident happened during Cap-Jeunesse High School’s final exams; each student ...
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Amid military sexual assault crisis Obama urges Navy grads to uphold honor
As the Obama administration and Congress attempt to respond to the sexual assault crisis plaguing the military, President Obama on Friday urged the graduating class of the U.S. Naval Academy to "uphold the highest standards of integrity and character." "It's no secret that in recent decades Americans have lost confidence in the institutions that shape our society," Mr. ...
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GOP Rep. Obama elected because of Reagans immigration reforms
President Obama sits in the White House today because President Reagan brought so many Hispanic voters into the nation's fold with the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, Rep. Steven King, R-Iowa, postulated on the House floor Thursday. King, one of the House's staunchest opponents to a comprehensive immigration reform bill, reached that conclusion by connecting two disparate ...
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Obama Plan to Close Guantanamo Prison Faces Significant Obstacles
Activists wearing orange jumpsuits mark the 100th day of prisoners' hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay during a protest in front of the White House in Washington May 17, ...
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Obama Speech Lays Out Shift in Terrorism Policy
In his speech at the National Defense University, Obama said the United States must adapt its fight against al-Qaida because the country can't conduct a "boundless" war on terror. "Our systematic effort to dismantle terrorist organizations must continue," Obama said. "But this war, like all wars, must end. That's what history advises. It's what our ...
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Obama’s Terrorism Speech Could Anger Left and Right
of his presidency – at least to date. He attempted to thread the needle in warding off attacks both from the right and the left – Code ...
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Video Prepare for more hurricanes than usual Canadian Hurricane Centre says
The Canadian Hurricane Centre is telling residents in the Atlantic provinces they should prepare for an active hurricane season. The centre's program supervisor says la Nina conditions could spark more storms than ...
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Video Obama Sexual assault threatens trust in military
Choosing future Navy and Marine leaders as his audience, President Barack Obama issued a pointed call Friday for an end to sexual assaults in the military, appealing to graduating midshipmen to contain what has become a growing ...
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Ill. House approves guns plan opposed by governor
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -; Gun owners in the only state still banning concealed weapons would win that right under a plan approved by the Illinois House on Friday, but the governor and other powerful Democrats oppose the plan because it would wipe out local gun ordinances - including Chicago's ban on assault ...
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Rand Paul Obama Embroiled In ‘Old MacDonald’s Farm’ Of Scandals
Senator Rand Paul hit out yesterday at the White House and the president himself regarding his handling of the triple whammy of scandals his administration has become embroiled in. "We have sort of an 'Old MacDonald Farm' of scandals--here a scandal, there a scandal, everywhere a scandal," Paul said during a Fox News appearance. "We're not sure which scandal to ...
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Obama refuses to meet border agents invites illegal immigrants to Oval Office
Washington Examiner May 24, 2013 President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met with three illegal immigrants who have been granted deferred action legal status in the Oval Office Tuesday. Meanwhile, Obama still refuses to meet with any border security enforcement officers about any aspect of immigration reform. "From Justino Mora, Angie Kim and Mehdi Mahraoui, to Diana Colin and Kevin ...
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Arizona investigating angry email sent lawmakers
A Republican member of the Arizona House who supports GOP Gov. Jan Brewer's push to expand Medicaid received an obscene and threatening voicemail at her office, a sign that the rancorous debate over embracing a signature component of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in the state is far from ...
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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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