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Obama cites Myanmar reforms during President Thein Seins visit
Thein Sein of Myanmar has shown leadership to move his country toward political and economic reforms. Obama spoke as he sat in the Oval Office with the Asian nation's president at his side. It was the first time a Myanmar leader has visited the White House in 47 years. Activists object to the invitation because of concerns over human rights in the country. But it marks a turnaround in ...
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Do Benghazi AP and IRS Scandals Reflect Obama’s Leadership Style
"Remember, a fish always rots from the head down," a colleague of mine would cackle loudly in his Baltimorean accent. He would do this every time he observed an organizational foul-up at the magazine where we worked decades ago. His voice began ringing in my head last week as we watched a trifecta of scandals wash over the West ...
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Obama Is Right to Target AP National Security Leaks
Daniel Gallington is the senior policy and program adviser at the George C. Marshall Institute in Arlington, Va. He served in senior national security policy positions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Department of Justice, and as bipartisan general counsel for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on ...
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Alaska unveils plan to assess gas oil in ANWR
JUNEAU, Alaska -; Alaska has unveiled a plan to determine the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's oil and gas potential, as the state looks to reinvigorate the debate over whether to drill on the refuge's coastal ...
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Education Department gives 3 more states waivers
WASHINGTON -; Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced on Monday that three more states would join the ranks of those given permission to ignore parts of the federal No Child Left Behind law in favor of their own school improvement ...
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Police Suspects mistakenly dial 911 during crime
FRESNO, Calif. -; Two California men were in custody on Monday after accidentally dialing 911 on a cellphone before breaking into a car, authorities ...
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Human Rights Groups Criticize Obamas Meeting With Burmese Leader
After months of praising Burma for its political reforms, President Obama welcomed the country's president to the White House for the first time in nearly 50 years. But human rights groups are not happy about the invitation. While the U.S. does not fully embrace the actions of the Burmese regime, calling for further reforms and cooperation between ethnic groups, Obama's meeting with ...
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Top White House Aides Informed of IRS Troubles but Didn’t Tell Obama
Top White House aides, including chief of staff Denis McDonough, were informed of the forthcoming report on the IRS' targeting of tea party group but decided not to inform President Obama in advance, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Monday. Previously, the White House had said that the White House counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler, had been told of the coming report from Treasury's ...
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3 charged in LA-area bank robbery
Five men accused of robbing bank customers were sentenced to life in prison for murder on Monday for killing the child of a pregnant woman who was chased down by motorcycle gunmen and shot twice as she begged for ...
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Milwaukee Pug Fest attracts 1700 dogs
The Milwaukee Bucks announced on Tuesday that center Samuel Dalembert will be suspended for one game without pay to a violation of team ...
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US government seeks input on cybersecurity in wake of Obamas Executive Order
The Politics of Cybersecurity President Obama takes the law into his own hands by signing a recent executive order on cybersecurity for critical infrastructure. Drew Amorosi examines the ...
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Obama Administration abuse of power goes beyond the IRS
to fall under the scrutiny of agencies beyond the IRS Tax Exempt Organizations unit. Look at Frank VanderSloot, a Romney donor targeted as one of several ';wealthy individuals with less-than-reputable records'; by the Obama 2012 campaign. Before that, he hadn’t faced an audit in the better part of 30 years, but suddenly he was looking at IRS audits of both his business and ...
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Smart to exaggerate terrorist 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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Obama to deliver speech on counterterrorism policy
President Barack Obama is expected to address such issues like the drone program, the U.S. prison program at Guantanamo Bay and possibly even the Justice Department's seizure of the telephone records of Associated Press journalists. A NewsNation panel ...
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D-Day beaches wind turbine proposal seeks Canadian comments
Canadian veterans walk on Juno Beach on June 6, 2004. The view from some of those sites could change if a plan to build wind turbines some 10 kilometres off the shore succeeds. (Tom Hanson/Canadian ...
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NDP wants RCMP inquiry into $90K payment to Duffy
The NDP is calling on the RCMP to investigate the actions of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, who resigned recently after news emerged of a secret $90,000 payment he made to Senator Mike Duffy in relation to the Senate expense scandal. NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus announced Monday that a letter had been sent to the commissioner of the RCMP, Robert ...
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Elijah Harpers body will lie in state at Manitoba legislature
Manitobans will get a chance to pay their respects to Elijah Harper at the provincial legislature, where his body will lie in state Monday afternoon. The former member of the legislative assembly and member of Parliament played a key role in defeating the Meech Lake accord. He died early Friday morning at the age of 64. According to a statement released by his family, Harper died in Ottawa ...
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NDP wants RCMP to probe Senate expense scandal
Mike Duffy scandal: New Democrats smell blood OTTAWA - The NDP has dialed 911 on the Senate expense scandal. Ontario MP Charlie Angus has written to the RCMP commissioner asking for an investigation into a $90,000 "secret cash payment" the prime minister's ex-chief of staff Nigel Wright gave to Sen. Mike Duffy to help him repay improperly claimed living expenses. "These ...
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Tim Bosma case More remains found on suspects farm
Bosma's widow: 'I am broken' More remains have been found on the property of a man accused in the death of Tim Bosma. According to local reports, forensic investigators discovered the remains at Dellen Millard's farm outside of Waterloo. It's not immediately clear if the remains are human or animal. ...
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Harper travelling to Colombia as ‘observer’ at Pacific Alliance trade meeting
OTTAWA -- The prime minister heads to South America this week to suss out membership in a new trading bloc he has been working to join for many years. The Pacific Alliance was formed by Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru in 2011 and Canada took a spot on the sidelines the next year, along with several other countries as observers. This week, alliance leaders will meet in Cali, Colombia, and be ...
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While Toronto gets perfect 25C weather for Victoria Day Gander Newfoundland digs itself out of record 54cm snowfall
GANDER, N.L. -- Newfoundland and Labrador is digging out of a spring storm that walloped parts of the province over the weekend with record-breaking snowfall amounts. Environment Canada says 54 centimetres of snow fell in Gander on Saturday and Sunday over a 20 hour period. Meteorologist Wanda Rideout says the total climbs to 66 centimetres if you include the snow that had already melted ...
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More Americans murdered in Mexico than any other country in the world
More Americans have been murdered in Mexico than in any other part of the world in the past decade. According to an Agence France Press analysis of U.S. State Department figures, at least 648 American citizens were murdered in Mexico between October 2002 and December 2012. This represents more than 40 percent of the almost 1,600 American victims worldwide over the same period. Three of the top ...
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Why Americas Falling Birth Rate Is Sensational News for the Pet Industry
Of course, pet spending also just seems to track pretty closely with disposable income. Two-paycheck households with no children have a lot more extra cash to throw around on premium dog chow and fancy kennels than most singles or young parents, after all. So for those out there who aren't particularly comfortable with Last's brand of cultural criticism, here's another way to ...
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Obama voices concern to Lebanon on Hezbollah role in Syria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama told his Lebanese counterpart on Monday he was concerned about Lebanese Hezbollah militants fighting in Syria to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the White House ...
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Obama renewed US support during call to Suleiman
U.S. President Barack Obama called Lebanon President Michel Suleiman on Monday to stress the need for the formation of a new government in Lebanon and holding the parliamentary elections on ...
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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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