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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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Obama ‘Respects Inherent Dignity of Every Human Life’—When Deciding Whether to Abort Terrorists
a speech on counter-terrorism policy at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., today, President Barack Obama explained that when deciding whether to target terrorists with drones--whether or not the terrorists are U.S. citizens--he has set a "high threshold" of respect for human life. "But the high threshold that we have set for taking lethal action applies to all ...
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Obama seeks new path in war on terror
/enpproperty--> WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama on Thursday sought to redefine his administration's counterterrorism policies, announcing new guidelines codifying controversial drone strikes against militant targets, while renewing his pledge to close the Guantanamo Bay military detention facility. Obama made the announcement during a major policy speech delivered at the National ...
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Scouting Community Fear Sex Politics of Gay Agenda Will Fracture Boy Scouts of America
May 23, 2013 3:21 pm GRAPEVINE, Texas – Opponents of the BSA's resolution to allow openly-gay membership in the scouts frequently speak about keeping sex and politics out of the scouts – an institution where young boys, many of whom grow up in fatherless homes, depend on mentors who can teach them how to become moral and upstanding citizens, according to Robert Schwarzwalder, ...
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Drone strikes Barack Obama sets new rules for lethal force
United States US president Barack Obama has defended the use of drones to kill suspected terrorists, but is imposing limits on how they are used in the future. In a rare public discussion of the country's covert drone program, Mr Obama said targeting terrorists with unmanned aerial vehicles was a legal, effective and just military tactic."Plots have been disrupted that would have ...
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Obama refines counterterrorism strategy
Saying America has reached a "crossroads," President Obama laid out clearer, more narrow guidelines for deadly drone strikes. NBC's Peter Alexander ...
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Matthews Obama spoke authentically about protecting US
John Podesta from the Center for American Progress and Mother Jones' David Corn join Chris Matthews for a look at Obama's counterterrorism speech and the way the president handled the woman who kept calling him ...
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Rycroft Time for De Rosario Team Canada to part ways
Dwayne De Rosario is arguably the best player ever to suit up for the Canadian men's soccer team. But with injury and age not on his side, it might be time for Team Canada and the veteran striker to part ...
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Factbox Obama Outlines Steps Toward Closing Guantanamo Prison
* The United States set up the prison after U.S.-led forces invaded Afghanistan in pursuit the al Qaeda network behind the hijacked plane attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, the Pentagon and rural Pennsylvania on September 11, ...
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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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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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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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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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