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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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President Obama makes case for end of the war on terror
Chris Hayes highlights the president's big policy speech on drone strikes, closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, and ending the war on terror. He's joined by Congressman Keith Ellison, Democrat of ...
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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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Federal Court wont remove MPs over robocall allegations
Voters backed by the Council of Canadians challenged the 2011 election victories by Conservative MPs, clockwise from top-left, Kelly Block, John Duncan, Jay Aspin, Joyce Bateman, Joe Daniel, Lawrence Toet and Ryan Leef. The challenge against Daniel was dropped Oct. 23. The Federal Court says it won't throw six MPs out of seats over allegations of widespread vote suppression through ...
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Judge says there was election fraud in 2011 but cant say who did it
(QMI Agency) A Federal Court judge has ruled a crime was committed in the last general election but the case is still a whodunit. Judge Richard Mosley said voters in at least six ridings across the country were victims of electoral fraud during the 2011 general election, but he stopped short of naming the perpetrators of the fraud. The Council of Canadians had backed an effort by a handful of ...
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Christian Brothers settle with sex abuse victims for $16.5M
Hundreds of victims of sexual abuse by the Christian Brothers reached a financial settlement Thursday. The religious order agreed to pay $16.5 million to 400 claimants, including 90 from Canada, who say they were molested as children by members of the order. The Brothers ran the Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John's, N.L., for 84 years, until it announced 1989 it would shut down following ...
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Obama lays down rules for drone killings
(15 mins ago) US President Barack Obama laid out new guidelines for drone strikes abroad and launched a new bid to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, seeking to rein in a ';boundless'' US war on terror. In a major policy speech, Obama said the United States faced a new threat from ';diverse’’ terrorist franchises and the growing threat of homegrown radicals. ...
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Anti-war activist rattles Obama
(20 mins ago) An anti-war heckler repeatedly interrupted President Barack Obama in a major speech on reframing US counter-terrorism policy, prompting him to depart from his prepared remarks. ';The voice of that woman is worth paying attention to – obviously I don't agree with much of what she said,'' Obama said, after repeatedly asking the woman to sit down. ...
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Obama in heated exchanges with Code Pink anti-war protester
1 of 2. Protester Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the Code Pink activist group, interrupts U.S. President Barack Obama as he speaks about his administration's counter-terrorism policy at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, May 23, ...
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Obama Lifts Moratorium on Transfer of Some Detainees
Guantnamo Bay , Cuba, to Yemen and, in a surprise move, announced the creation of a new Pentagon position to spearhead the transfer of ...
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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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