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Obama defends legal drone killings
President Barack Obama has defended America's controversial drone attacks as legal, effective and a necessary linchpin in an evolving US counter terrorism ...
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Irish storm chaser leads tornado recovery efforts
Oklahoma for the last two years, has even been taking part in search-and-rescue teams in the affected areas. He has made the Journey Church in Norman, just outside of Moore, an unofficial base camp, leading several other volunteers eager to do their bit in helping rebuild the community."For many of these people, all of their possessions are gone," he told the Irish ...
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Man shot by FBI linked Boston bomber to triple murder
Boston police believe were committed by Tamerlan Tsarnaev two years before he bombed the city's marathon.Todashev, a 27-year-old Chechen immigrant, reportedly admitted that he and Tsarnaev were responsible for the killings and began to write out a confession, the ...
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Oklahoma faces $2bn disaster damage bill
The tally is based on visual assessments of the extensive damage zone stretching more than 17 miles and the fact that the tornado was on the ground for 40 ...
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As Anti-Gitmo Protester Heckles Obama He Says Her Voice Is Worth Listening To
President Barack Obama at a previous speech at the National Defense University (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama this afternoon was repeatedly interrupted by a female heckler who shouted at him from the audience, apparently to protest that he was not immediately releasing people from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the U.S. government keeps terrorists, such as 9/11 ...
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Obama on precarious legal ground in American deaths by US drone strikes
Jeremy Scahill, national security correspondent for The Nation and author of "Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield," talks with Rachel Maddow about the Obama administration's case for the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlawk and the legal questions surrounding the 'non-specific targeted' killing of his 16-year-old ...
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Obama backs effective drone hits
Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba and pledged to allow greater oversight of the controversial unmanned drone programme. But he plans to keep the most lethal efforts with the unmanned aircraft under ...
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‘We Can Blow Things Up’ America’s Power in the Middle East
In an article published May 15, 2013, American historical social scientist Immanuel Wallerstein wrote, "Nothing illustrates more the limitations of Western power than the internal controversy its elites are having in public about what the United States in particular and western European states should be doing about the civil war in Syria." Those limitations are palpable in both ...
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Obama curtails use of drones
President Barack Obama talks about his administration's counter-terrorism policy at the National Defense University in Washington. Photograph: Larry ...
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Barack Obama drone strikes have saved lives - video
The US president defends his country's use of unmanned drones as part of their continued counter-terror policy. Barack Obama says the actions save lives in America and internationally and are legal, referring to federal agreement over the use of force in retaliation to the 9/11 terrorist attack. He calls the air strikes a 'last resort', saying the US's preference is to ...
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Srikanth Srinivasan will serve with distinction Obama
With his confirmation, Srinivasan has become the first South Asian to be appointed to the top court, amid speculation that he may one day be tapped for the Supreme ...
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Xi-Obama meeting to further define ties
/enpproperty--> BEIJING - Chinese experts said the upcoming summit between President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Barack Obama will clarify bilateral relations in a broad sense. The Foreign Ministry announced earlier this week that the two leaders will meet from June 7 to 8 in California's Sunnylands following Xi's visit to three Latin American states. It will be their first ...
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Obama balances threats against Americans rights
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Forecasting the changing nature of threats against the U.S. for years to come, President Barack Obama says "America is at a crossroads." And so, too, is his presidency's counterterrorism policy, which has long struggled to balance protecting the nation from terror attacks while upholding Americans' ...
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A Skeptical Celebration of President Obamas Shifty Terrorism Speech
well-crafted speech at National Defense University: he signalled that counterterrorism efforts would change significantly in his second term; and like his predecessor, he avoided mentioning that the forsaken policies were mistakes. Like all presidents, Obama began his tenure with a daunting challenge: a rapid transition from a political campaign to a constant barrage of often intractable, ...
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Americas Corrupt Justice System Federal Private Prison Populations Grew by 784 in 10 Year Span
rose 18 percent , an increase largely reflected by the "drug war" and stringent sentencing guidelines, such as three strikes laws and mandatory minimum sentences. However, total private prison populations exploded fivefold during this same time period, with federal private prison populations rising by 784 percent (as seen in the chart below complied ...
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Safe Room Mandates Remain Rare in Tornado States
After living nearly 20 years in their one-story brick home, Sherry and Larry Wells finally won the lottery -- for a state rebate on a home storm shelter, that is. A contractor finished installing the concrete bunker beneath the slab of their garage in early May. About three weeks later, the shelter saved their lives when a tornado that killed 24 people tore through their neighborhood. Should ...
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Antiwar activist repeatedly interrupts Obamas speech
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama had a run-in with a heckler Thursday, when a founder of the antiwar group Code Pink interrupted his speech.Near the end of Obama's address at the National Defense University, a woman identified as activist Medea Benjamin implored the president to close the Guantanamo Bay prison. Through three episodes, the president traded words with Benjamin, asking her ...
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GUN RIGHTS FIGHTNew York Sheriffs Aim to Challenge New State Law
ALBANY, N.Y. – County sheriffs have asked to join the federal lawsuit challenging New York's tough new gun restrictions, calling some provisions vague and impossible to enforce fairly. The New York State Sheriffs' Association and five individual sheriffs are asking U.S. District Judge William Skretny to add their position to the record. They support gun rights advocates seeking ...
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Hurricane center Beware of the storm surge
By JENNIFER KAYAssociated Press MIAMI (AP) - The National Hurricane Center is changing the way it talks about storm surge in hopes that emergency officials, the media and the public can better understand the dangerous phenomenon. Storm surge is the hurricane hazard that poses the greatest threat to life and property. It is the abnormal rise in sea water during a hurricane, and it can happen ...
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Barbara Yaffe B.C. residents healthiest in Canada despite spending less on medical care
British Columbians can take pride in being the Swedes of Canada, boasting the best lifestyle habits and health status in the country.That's one of the findings of a Conference Board of Canada report titled, Paving the Road to Higher Performance: Benchmarking Provincial Health Systems.The report, released Thursday, accords B.C. an A grade, "on the strength of having the healthiest ...
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Obama heckled by Code Pink founder
Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin (centre back, wearing a black jacket) interrupts US President Barack Obama as he speaks about his administration's counter-terrorism policy at the National Defence University at Fort McNair in ...
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Obama does not foresee U.S. ground troops in Syria
Visiting U.S. President Barack Obama said here Friday he does "not foresee" a circumstance under which Washington would send ground troops to war-torn Syria. "I do not foresee a scenario in which boots on the ground in Syria -- American boots on the ground. (It) would not only be good for America but also would be good for Syria," Obama said at a news conference in the Costa ...
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Hobby Lobby takes ObamaCare fight to appeals court
DENVER – In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. asked a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill. The Oklahoma City-based arts-and-crafts chain argued that businesses -- not just the currently exempted religious ...
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Fox News Host Urges Viewers To Physically Harm Obama Voters
. In both the 2008 and 2012 Elections, the American people voted overwhelmingly to send Barack Obama to the White House much to the chagrin of Fox News and Republicans. Since that first election, President Obama has made an effort to make life better for people across the country. And despite obstruction from the right and disappointment from the left, Obama has time and time again attempted to ...
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US highway bridge linking Seattle with Canada collapses
The major highway bridge linking Seattle with Canada and the rest of the Pacific Northwest region collapsed on Thursday evening, dumping a handful of vehicles and people into a river, the Washington State Patrol said. Authorities said there were no deaths, and three people were rescued and taken to hospitals.The four-lane Interstate 5 bridge - more than half a century old - collapsed about ...
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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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