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How should Obama address the drone policy
john podesta is chairman for the center of american progress and he was clinton's chief of staff. nice to meet with you and thank you for your time. i want to ask you about an op-ed you wrote. you called for the president to go public with the justification of the drone program and swroit beyond dispute that some information must be closely held to ...
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How was the Mike Duffy report whitewashed
Questions are swirling around Parliament Hill about how and why an original Senate committee report on Mike Duffy's expenses was changed to a final version that omitted conclusions about his primary residence. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian ...
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Trudeau raises environmental questions over pipeline
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says a proposed west-east pipeline project will not go forward unless it addresses key environmental concerns. Calgary-based TransCanada Corp. is in the process of lining up potential producers who would use the proposed pipeline, which would run from Alberta to New Brunswick. The federal Liberal leader told the CBC's Information Morning Fredericton on ...
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Major storm knocks out power to thousands in Ontario for second time in two days
OTTAWA -- Power has been restored in some areas around Ottawa after thousands of people were left without electricity following a night of thunderstorms. More than 2,600 Hydro One customers to the west of Ottawa lost power due to Wednesday night’s storms. Areas affected at the peak of the outage included Almonte, Clayton Lake, Mississippi Mills and ...
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Second man facing first-degree murder charge in death of Tim Bosma as 1500 mourners gather to remember Hamilton father
More than 1,500 mourners were leaving a Hamilton hall at the end of an emotional public funeral for Tim Bosma Wednesday when the mood was lifted, just a little, by news that a second man was arrested in his shocking murder ...
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Corporate Americas hoarding more and more cash even as the economy improves
The cash is piling up at home in part as companies such as General Electric Co. and chemical maker PPG Industries Inc. sell assets and Caterpillar Inc. cuts capital spending. Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and chief executive officer of General Electric Co. Any lament that U.S. executives are sitting on cash at their companies instead of investing in plants and equipment may be about to get louder. ...
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Politics Weekly podcast Woolwich attacks tax avoidance and Obamas second term
Nick Cohen, Max Wind-Cowie and Hugh Muir discuss the political response to the terrorist incident in Woolwich, David Cameron's crisis of leadership, and the moral case against tax avoidance. Plus Ewen MacAskill examines the faltering start to Barack Obama's second ...
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Obama struggles to redefine the war on terror | Simon Tisdall
Barack Obama has conjured the prospect of an eventual end to the perpetual, largely covert, global "war on terror" launched by his predecessor, George W Bush, in response to the 9/11 attacks.But while promising greater transparency on counter-terrorism, the closure of the Guantnamo gulag and restrictions on targeted assassinations ...
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Michelle Obama to Vacation in Martha’s Vineyard With Daughters RUMOR
Obama administration. With house Republicans still attempting to turn the Benghazi attacks into a full-fledged scandal, two real scandals have popped up in recent weeks. One involves the IRS targeting new tax-exempt groups aligned politically with the Tea Party movement for extra scrutiny. The other involves the Justice Department seizing months of phone records from Associated Press reporters ...
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The only thing Boehner cant imagine is that Obama isnt guilty. Of something.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said in an interview aired late Wednesday that it's "inconceivable" someone didn't inform President Obama about the IRS's targeting of conservative groups. "It's pretty inconceivable to me that the president wouldn't know," Boehner said in an interview with Fox News Channel's Greta van ...
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Boehner calls out Obama administrations arrogance of power
Marred by three contentious issues, the Obama administration has demonstrated their "arrogance of power," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Wednesday. "I believe that those of us in public office have a responsibility to be humble, to make sure that we represent the will of the people who sent us there, that we're honest with them," Boehner said in an interview ...
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Canada businessman involved in Cuba corruption probe apparently on trial 2 years after arrest
HAVANA - The trial of a Canadian businessman caught up in a corruption probe in Cuba is apparently under way nearly two years after he was detained. Sarkis Yacoubian was president of import company Tri-Star Caribbean, which was shuttered in July 2011. He was seen entering a courthouse in Havana on Thursday morning after arriving in a black sedan with tinted windows. Canadian Ambassador Matthew ...
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President Obama to address drones Gitmo in security speech
In this May 21, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. The U.S. will refocus its attention on homegrown terror threats against Americans, President Barack Obama will say in a Thursday speech that is forecast as skimpy on any new sweeping policies. The move reflects the global fragmentation of al-Qaida's top leaders as the ...
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Media take gloves off with Obama
>Editor's note: Howard Kurtz is the host of CNN's "Reliable Sources. "(CNN) -- The press has turned on President Obama with a vengeance. Suddenly, the White House briefing room is filled with confrontational questions. Suddenly, the news pages are ablaze with scandal, and the commentators -- even some of the president's usual defenders -- are bemoaning his ...
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Exaggerate terror threats
>Editor's note: Bruce Schneier is a security technologist and author of "Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Survive. " (CNN) -- Terrorism causes fear, and we overreact to that fear. Our brains aren't very good at probability and risk analysis. We tend to exaggerate spectacular, strange and rare events, and downplay ordinary, familiar and common ...
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Born in Mexico Lopez learns English graduates
Feeling frustrated and unwelcome, Nain Lopez wanted to leave Decatur after state lawmakers passed one of the toughest illegal-immigration laws in the nation in ...
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Condolence Telegram to Victims of Tragic Explosion in Ecatepec Mexico
VATICAN CITY, May 08, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Here is the translation of a telegram sent by Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, sent on behalf of the Holy Father to the victims of the gas tanker explosion that occurred in Ecatepec, Mexico.* * *His Excellency Most Reverend Oscar Roberto Dominguez Couttolenc, MGBishop of EcatepecThe Holy Father was saddened to receive news of the ...
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Pope Sends Condolences to Victims of Gas Tanker Explosion in Mexico
22 Victims Dead in Ecatepec in Tragic High AccidentBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY, May 08, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Pope Francis sent his condolences to the victims of the tragic gas tanker explosion that occurred yesterday in Ecatepec, Mexico yesterday. The message was sent by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican Secretary of State, on behalf of the Holy Father.The accident occurred yesterday ...
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CANADA STOCKS-Stimulus rollback fears TD trigger TSX slump
* TSX down 102.12 points, or 0.80 percent, at 12,650.38 * Energy producers off 1.3 percent * TD falls 1 percent after results By John Tilak TORONTO, May 23 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index stumbled on Thursday, with every major sector in the red on concerns about a quicker-than-expected end to the U.S. Federal Reserve's stimulus program and sluggish economic data from China and ...
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Drone Attacks Accidentally Killed Americans Obama Administration Reveals
Holder confirmed that Anwar al-Awlaki, whose death in a September 2011 drone strike in Yemen was already widely known, was targeted for death by the U.S. government. Al-Awlaki, the administration determined, was a "continuing and imminent threat" who could not feasibly be captured. The attorney general disclosed that al-Awlaki's death was planned more than a year before a ...
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Fewer drones less Guantanamo Obama starts to heed his critics
Later Thursday, in a major speech on current U.S. counter-terrorism policy, President Barrack Obama will take concrete steps to try to reverse the impression that he has continued, rather than halted, some of the more controversial policies launched by his predecessor in waging the global 'war on ...
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Two ex-Revenue Canada auditors face charges in tax-evasion scheme
Two former federal fiscal bureaucrats face charges on allegations that they received hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in a Montreal-based tax-evasion scheme that deprived the government of $4.5-million in tax revenue.Also being charged is Francesco Fiorino, 54, a chartered accountant who had been charged last year on allegations that he conspired with two construction bosses to evade ...
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Search continues for Canadian hiker missing in Australia for more than one week
Kosciuszko National Park is seen in this undated handout photo. The Canberra Times reports that an air search for Prabhdeep Srawn is focusing on a specific location within the Kosciuszko National Park, about 350 kilometres southwest of Sydney. Srawn, a 25-year-old Brampton, Ont., man hasn't been heard from since parking his rental car May 13 in the village of Charlotte Pass. (Westpac Life ...
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Ex-teacher due in federal court in child porn case
WASHINGTON -; A former elementary school teacher who was on the FBI's list of most wanted fugitives is due in federal court on a child pornography ...
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Congress clears bill on lying about medals
The Stolen Valor Act cleared the Senate Wednesday and the House earlier this week. The act makes it a crime to lie about military medals, if the purpose is to benefit from the ...
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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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