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Obama denounces deadly attack on British soldier
US President Barack Obama on Thursday denounced the deadly attack on a British soldier in a London street a day ago. "I condemn in the strongest terms the appalling attack against a British service member in Woolwich on May 22," the president said in a statement. "The United States stands resolute with the United Kingdom, our ally and friend, against violent extremism and ...
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I-5 bridge collapse in Washington state sends cars people into water
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. – An Interstate 5 bridge over a river north of Seattle collapsed Thursday evening, dumping vehicles and people into the water, the Washington State Patrol said. The four-lane bridge over the Skagit River collapsed about 7 p.m., Trooper Mark Francis said. There was no immediate estimate of how many people were in the water or whether there were any injuries or deaths, ...
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Obama to take on GOP anew over Guantanamo closure
Rachel Maddow reports on how much political will there was for closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, including from leading Republicans like President Bush and then-presidential candidate John McCain, and how that all disappeared once Barack Obama became ...
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Obama ‘America does not take strikes to punish individuals’
america does not take strikes when we have the ability to capture individual terrorists. our preference is always to detain, interrogate and ...
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Mexico wants to attract US retirees
Mexican legislators, seeking to make their country more attractive to US retirees, may soon lift a major impediment for foreigners who want to own a piece of Mexico's Pacific or Caribbean coasts. For the first time in nearly a century, lawmakers are moving to allow non-Mexicans to buy coastal real estate and hold the deeds to it, without having to set up bank trusts or find silent Mexican ...
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Obama limits the use of drones
United States President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks about his administration's counter-terrorism policy at the National Defence University at Fort McNair in ...
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US President Barack Obama urged to push for economic reforms in India
Washington: Ahead of a crucial Indo-US Strategic Dialogue in New Delhi next month, US President Barack Obama has been encouraged to push for economic reforms in India and to address the concerns of the Indian companies with regard to H-1B visas."The US and India have accomplished much in recent years, but we need a strong push to restore confidence that India is investment- and ...
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The Caucus Obama Defies Critics With State Dept. Choice
WASHINGTON -- President Obama defied Republican critics on Thursday by nominating to a high-ranking State Department job an official involved in editing controversial talking points about the attack last year in Libya. Mr. Obama sent the Senate his choice of Victoria Nuland, a former spokeswoman for the State Department, as assistant secretary for European and Eurasian affairs. Ms. Nuland had ...
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What Mattered in Obamas Speech Today Ending the Open-Ended War on Terror
my profile of Jerry Brown! And I didn't expect anyone to listen to me read my article aloud. Also, I am not going to deal with the part of the speech that has been most thoroughly discussed: changes, or not, in the administration's drone policy.Instead I'll focus on a part of the speech that I think matters even more: his argument that the time has come to end the "war on ...
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Boy Scouts of America Lifts Ban on Gay Youth 61 Percent Voted for Resolution
May 23, 2013 7:04 pm After a contentious challenge to their membership policy, 1,400 delegates of the 103-year-old Boy Scouts of America youth organization voted overwhelmingly to adopt an amendment that effectively lifts the ban on homosexual youth in the organization on Thursday.The ban on gay adult scout leaders will remain.Sixty-one percent of the delegates voted in favor of the resolution ...
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REFILE-UPDATE 1-Obama nominates Senate aides to serve as SEC commissioners
Thu May 23, 2013 10:50pm EDT By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON May 23 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama nominated two U.S. Senate aides on Thursday to serve as members of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the agency tasked with policing Wall Street. Obama said Kara Stein, an aide to Rhode Island Democratic Senator Jack Reed, would replace SEC Democratic Commissioner Elisse Walter. Michael ...
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Porsche abandoned on ferry as driver takes bus home
A sports car enthusiast claimed he couldn't find his car -- a Porsche -- on a B.C. Ferry bound for the Lower Mainland so he left without it and took the ...
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Abbotsford From ‘Homicide Capital of Canada’ to runner-up for ‘most boring city in Canada’
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford may be the Chris Farley of Canadian politics, but that doesn't mean any of us should be laughing at the pratfalls. As the situation at city hall in Canada's largest city grows ...
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Obama Spars With Activist During Terrorism Speech
Deep into an address at the National Defense University, where Mr. Obama sought to redefine America's approach to fighting terrorism, a heckler repeatedly interrupted from the back of the room, demanding an end to drone strikes and the closing of ...
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Obama Offering Support for Press Freedom Orders Review of Leak Investigations
President Obama ordered a review on Thursday of the Justice Department's procedures for legal investigations involving reporters, acknowledging that he was "troubled" that multiple inquiries into national security leaks could chill investigative ...
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Obama Prom Photos Surface and the POTUS Looks Sharp
Even the president of the United States can’t keep his prom photos a secret. Not that he’d want to – a white jacket and a blue tie is a good look for President Obama. But still, come on, right? The photos come from a former classmate, Kelli Allman, who attended Punahou School in Hawaii with the President back in ...
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President Obama to address Naval Academy commencement on Friday
Naval Academy commencement on Friday, addressing the class at a time when the military faces complicated internal challenges the graduating midshipmen will soon inherit.It is the second time Obama has spoken at the academy's graduation — the first was in 2009 — and it is the 22nd time a president has attended the ceremony since James A. Garfield spoke to the class of ...
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Obama Chinese president to try for new tone in desert summit
- China and the United States are hoping for a new chance to set the course for smoother relations through a secluded desert summit as the Asian power's leader Xi Jinping projects a more confident style. Xi and Barack Obama will meet June 7-8 at the tony Sunnylands resort in Rancho Mirage, California, their first encounter since the Chinese president took power and three months ahead of ...
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Obama vows accountability in IRS mess
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday weighed in on the row created by Internal Revenue Service ( IRS), vowing those responsible for targeting conservative political groups for extra scrutiny would be "held accountable." Obama made the comments during a White House press conference, saying "I've got not patience with it. I will not tolerate it, and we will make sure that we ...
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Obama Nominates 2 Senate Aides for S.E.C. Posts
President Obama continued his shake-up of the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, naming two Senate aides to senior posts at the Wall Street regulatory agency. The nominees to the five-member agency are Kara M. Stein, a Democrat, and Michael Piwowar, a Republican. If confirmed by the Senate, they will succeed commissioners whose terms are set to ...
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Illusion of progress Obama speech offers little insight on closing Guantanamo
USA US President Barack Obama reiterated the same "empty promises" to close Guantanamo Bay prison camp during his speech Thursday, according to attorney David Remes. Remes, who represents 17 Gitmo detainees, told RT the speech gave Americans little insight. Obama's comments were the first of his second term regarding the controversial counter-terrorism measures employed by the ...
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Obama gives robust defense of targeted killing program
the president made no defense of the other three american citizens who have been killed including abd al awlaki, the 16-year-old of anwar awlaki. despite claims from previous administration officials to the contrary. ...
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Why Obama gave this counterterrorism speech now
Chris Hayes talks with Democratic Congressman Keith Ellison, Spencer Ackerman of Wired Magazine, and The Huffington Post's Howard Fineman about the President Obama's speech and what it means for policy going ...
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Obama acknowledges protester is worth paying attention to
During a major speech on counterterrorism, touching on drones and Guantanamo Bay, President Obama was heckled by a protester with a history of interrupting speeches in both the Bush and the Obama ...
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Alleged Ford crack video seller not responding to calls
Gawker's editor reported last week that he had seen a video of Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine. He says an attempt to purchase the video may have hit a stumbling block. (Canadian Press ...
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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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