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Obama met with Friedman Ignatius
President Obama held a private meeting with top national security journalists on Thursday afternoon following his national security policy address at the National Defense University in Washington, POLITICO has learned. Present at the meeting ...
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MAD debuts Obama Drone Ranger
How is President Barack Obama like the Lone Ranger? MAD Magazine is having its say on the matter, featuring the president - in spoof form- as the masked, Old West ranger on the cover of its latest issue. (The Lone Ranger was a 1930s radio show that became a television program and comic series. Most recently, it was made into a movie, coming outin July.) His Tonto, of course, is Vice President ...
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Theres No Place For Sex Assaults In Military Obama Says
President Obama delivering the commencement address Friday at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Saying that "those who commit sexual assaults are not only committing a crime, they threaten the trust and discipline that make our military strong," President Obama on Friday urged Naval Academy graduates to help bring an end to a disturbing series of such offenses. ...
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Video Obama reveals clearer guidelines for drone strikes
In a counterterrorism speech on Thursday, President Obama focused on narrowrt guidelines for deadly drone strikes, arguing they are legal and effective, and announced an end to the ban on transferring detainees from Guantanamo back to Yemen. NBC's Peter Alexander ...
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At Navy graduation Obama assails military sexual assaults
President Obama decried a recent spike in military assaults -- and appeared to criticize turmoil at the IRS -- as he delivered the commencement speech Friday at the US Naval Academy in ...
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Obama Outlines Rules for US Drone Attacks
Drone strikes are largely undertaken by the CIA under strict supervision by the White House. With increasing insistence, critics at home and abroad have been demanding more transparency into how terrorist targets are chosen. Congress meanwhile has become progressively uneasy over its lack of control over this revolution in ...
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President Barack Obama Delivers Remarks Presenting Carole King The Gershwin Prize Political Transcript Wire
MAY 22, 2013 SPEAKER: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA [*] OBAMA: Thank you. I have to say that as the podium came out, which meant that was my cue, my mother-in-law said, "Oh, shoot." (Laughter.) True story -- she was getting into the music. (Laughter.) Welcome to the White House, everybody. I want to start by thanking all the incredible artists who have joined us to pay tribute to the ...
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Obama Started Targeting “Enemies” In 2008
Barack Obama’s minions – including his future White House counsel – began targeting his political opponents as far back as 2008, according to a report published ...
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LONDON ATTACK UK Launches Inquiry Into MI5 Tracking of Terrorists
The savage attack mounted by Muslim terrorists on a soldier on a busy London street has prompted a parliament inquiry into what the nation's vaunted MI5 domestic intelligence agency could have done to stop the suspects, both of whom had raised alarms with authorities. The two suspects accused of hacking 25-year-old British soldier Lee Rigby to death Wednesday remained hospitalized under ...
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Consultant takes blame after Weiner campaign site shows Pittsburgh skyline not NYCs
Anthony Weiner's campaign for New York City mayor got off to an energetic, but bumpy, start this week after his campaign website briefly featured an image of the wrong city's skyline -- instead of showing the Big Apple, the website featured a shot of beautiful Pittsburgh. A technology firm is taking the blame for the photo mix-up. NGP VAN, which does consulting work for ...
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Special Ops Stealthy Pickup
Battelle has designed an armored pickup truck for the U.S. Special Operations Command that's ready for action in the world's toughest environments, while protecting the troops inside of it a lot better than your super cab can. Based on a stock truck Battelle would rather not call out by name, but is as popular overseas as the Ford F-150 is in the United States, the modified machine ...
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Obama ‘Misconduct of a Few’ Erodes ‘People’s Trust in Their Government’
- President Barack Obama delivered the commencement speech at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., on Friday, blaming the "misconduct of a few" for erosion of the public's "trust in the government." "Everyday our civil servants do their jobs with professionalism, protecting our national security and delivering the services that so many Americans expect, but as ...
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Corporate America Blind to gender discrimination
How can a company expect to survive, let alone thrive, if half of its talent pool is excluded from key positions? Most companies can't even recognize they have a problem with gender ...
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Canada threatens retaliation over U.S. meat-labelling rules
U.S. rules that require meat producers to specify where the source animal was born, raised and slaughtered and restrict what can be labelled as a product of a certain country of origin are too costly and cumbersome and discriminate against foreign livestock, Canadian producers and government officials argue. (Jessica Rinaldi ...
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Canada not joining Pacific Alliance trade bloc yet
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, front right, was part of the official photo at the Pacific Alliance Summit in Cali, Colombia on Thursday. Canada has observer status for these trade negotiations. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian ...
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Canadas Eugenie Bouchard falls just short in Strasbourg semifinals
Third-seeded Alize Cornet of France edged Eugenie Bouchard of Canada 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-3 on Friday to reach the final of the Strasbourg International. Cornet broke the Canadian teenager twice in the last set of the French Open clay-court tuneup and saved six break points. Bouchard, 19, had reached the semifinals of a WTA event for the first time in her career. She was looking to become the first ...
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Canadian buskers offer a glimpse into the life of a street artist
Some Canadian buskers jump through fire as part of their act, but the uncertainties of street-performance are the unseen hoops that many of them worry about leaping through. (Photo: ...
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Mariahs dress pops open on TV
Mariah Carey suffered a major wardrobe malfunction on live TV on Friday morning after her dress popped open as she prepared to perform on Good Morning America. The hitmaker donned a sequin Versace frock for her appearance on as part of the program's summer concert series in Central Park, but the zipper to her form-fitting gown split down Carey's back as she spoke with anchor Lara ...
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Obamas national security speech reveals his fatigue over terrorism
"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender…" These were words President Obama never used during his speech at the National Defense University yesterday. Rather, he said anything but anything that sounded like Winston Churchill’s immortal ...
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High-speed chase leads to two hour stand-off at top of Halifax electrical tower
HALIFAX -- A high-speed police chase in the Halifax area took a bizarre turn early Friday when the suspect fled from his vehicle, climbed an 18-metre electrical tower and held police at bay for two hours. Police say the speeding car was first spotted at 3 a.m. near the Mic Mac Mall in Dartmouth. Minutes later, the driver lost control of the vehicle and it rolled over on an off-ramp along ...
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Hurricane season is going to be bad this year Atlantic Canada should be ready Canadian centre says
HALIFAX -- The Canadian Hurricane Centre is backing U.S. predictions of an active season this year, telling residents in the Atlantic provinces they should prepare. The Canadian centre says an unusually warm tropical Atlantic Ocean is one of the factors behind the forecast of an active hurricane season, which continues a 15-year period of high hurricane activity. The National Oceanic and ...
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Obama admonishes U.S. military to stamp out sexual assault
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged the future leaders of the U.S. military on Friday to stamp out sexual assault from their ranks, warning that a few individuals could undermine the strongest military in the ...
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Obama drone oversight proposal prompts concern over kill courts
Obama said he would ask Congress to review his proposal for future drone strikes to be subject to court review. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty ...
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Americas oldest veteran to spend quiet Memorial Day at Texas home
World War II veteran Richard Overton, left, is seen in his Army uniform in an undated photograph provided by the City of Austin. Overton, 107, sits outside his Texas home earlier this month. (AP/Austin American ...
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Cannes Sony Pictures Classics Acquires The Lunchbox for North America
, a mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together by leaving notes in a lunchbox, but their fantasy gradually threatens to overwhelm ...
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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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