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Maine governor moves out of office over TV dispute
AUGUSTA, Maine -; Maine's governor, who has gained attention in the past for telling the NAACP to "kiss my butt" and comparing the IRS to the Gestapo, has moved out of his office at the State House and says he'll work out of governor's mansion because of a dispute over a television ...
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Obama Outlines Counterterrorism Policy To Confront Shifting Threats
President Barack Obama delivered a highly-anticipated speech on his administration's evolving counterterrorism policies on Thursday, suggesting that the U.S. needs to move away from a "boundless global war on terror."More than a decade after the 9/11 attacks, Obama argued that the terrorist threat has shifted and evolved and said now is the time to ask hard questions about the ...
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Obama announces revised drone policy
US President Barack Obama outlined plans tonight to limit the use of US drone strikes against extremists abroad. He also took steps aimed at breaking a deadlock on closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison. In a major foreign policy speech, Mr Obama limited the scope of what his predecessor, George W Bush, had called a global war on terror after the 11 September 2001 attacks. "Our ...
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Obama wades back into debates over drones Gitmo
President Barack Obama on Thursday declared that America is "at a crossroads," as he urged the nation to wind down the war on terror, pledged to rein in controversial tactics like drone strikes, and announced renewed efforts to close the prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay."This war like all wars must end. That’s what history advises. That’s what our ...
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Obama troubled by DOJ probes
President Obama today said he is concerned that the recent leak investigations authorized by his attorney general could have a chilling effect on investigative journalism. "I am troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable," he said in a speech on national security policy on Thursday. The ...
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Obama condemns London killing
President Barack Obama condemned "in the strongest terms the appalling attack" that killed an off-duty British soldier in a London suburb. "There can be absolutely no justification for such acts, and our thoughts and prayers are with the family of the victim, the police and security services responding to this horrific act and the communities they serve, and the British ...
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Boards Of Canada Share New Video Song
Scottish brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin -- known almost exclusively as Boards of Canada -- have had the electronic music world ...
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Obama’s 20 Steps to Counterterrorism
In his first major counterterrorism address of his second term, President Obama outlined several steps that his administration will take to fight terrorism both at home and abroad. "From our use of drones to the detention of terrorist suspects, the decisions we are making now will define the type of nation and world that we leave to our children," Obama said at National Defense ...
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Obama administration targets reporters in crackdown on leaks
WASHINGTON - First, there was the news that the Justice Department had secretly seized telephone records of reporters at the Associated Press. A week later, reports that the department had investigated a Fox News reporter as a potential criminal for doing his job. Those actions – and possibly more – by President Barack Obama’s administration are part of an unprecedented ...
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Code Pink co-founder interrupts Obamas counterterrorism speech
"Code Pink" peace activists have heckled George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Sen. John McCain and Mitt Romney. Today, its co-founder Medea Benjamin interrupted President Barack Obama's counterterrorism speech several times before she was escorted out of National Defense University. Obama responded to Benjamin, "Part of free speech is you being able to speak but also you ...
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Obama to limit drones moves to shut Guantanamo
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama outlined plans on Thursday to limit the use of US drone strikes against extremists abroad and took steps aimed at breaking a deadlock on closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison.In a major foreign policy speech after two weeks of fending off domestic scandals, Obama limited the scope of what his predecessor, George W. Bush, had called a global war on ...
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Obama details drone policy in speech outlining counter-terrorism doctrine
President Barack Obama talks about his administration's counter-terrorism policy at the National Defense University in Washington. Photograph: Larry ...
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Three Defendants Plead Guilty to Participating in Ambush Murder and Attempted Murder of ICE Agents in Mexico
WASHINGTON-Julian Zapata Espinoza, also known as "Piolin," 32, pleaded guilty today to the murder of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Special Agent Jaime Zapata and the attempted murder of ICE Special Agent Victor Avila in Mexico. The court also unsealed today the guilty pleas of three other defendants on related murder, attempted murder, racketeering, and accessory ...
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Statement from Secretary Hagel on President Obamas Speech
The President today presented a comprehensive vision for how we will continue to protect the nation from terrorism, especially from al Qaeda and its affiliates, while remaining true to our values and laws. I have directed the Department of Defense to work closely with our interagency partners and allies to implement the President's guidance, including the efforts to close the detention ...
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Hagel Directs DOD to Implement Obamas Guidance
American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, May 23, 2013 Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has directed the Defense Department to implement the guidance President Barack Obama outlined in his national security speech delivered at the National Defense University here today, including efforts to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In a statement issued immediately after the ...
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Anti-Gitmo Protester Repeatedly Heckles Obama He Goes Back and Forth With Her
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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President Obamas statement on security
The Future of our Fight against Terrorism Remarks of President Barack Obama - As Prepared for Delivery National Defense University May 23, 2013 As Prepared for Delivery -- It's an honor to return to the National Defense University. Here, at Fort McNair, Americans have served in uniform since 1791- standing guard in the early days of the Republic, and contemplating the future of ...
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Obama sets guidelines for drone strikes
/enpproperty--> WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama on Thursday sought to define his administration's counterterrorism policies, announcing new guidelines codifying controversial drone strikes against militant targets, while renewing his pledge to close Guantanamo Bay military detention facility. Obama made the announcement during a major policy speech delivered at the National ...
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Obama heckled during speech on drones security leaks
President Obama issued a sweeping new policy statement regarding counterintelligence and America's war on terrorism Thursday at the National Defense ...
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Obama Guantanamo Policies Must Change
In a wide-ranging, impassioned speech to define US foreign policies on terror, President Barack Obama has called on Congress to change its policies on prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The president said he will lift a 2009 ban on transferring detainees from the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Yemen. Roughly 90 of the 166 detainees there are Yemeni. "These restrictions make no ...
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Obama Lays Out Plan To End The War Against Al Qaeda
President Obama delivered a wide ranging speech on Thursday, laying out his vision for countering terrorism in his second term, including announcements on the use of drones, the future closure of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, and the eventual end of the long war against al Qaeda. Most importantly, Obama announced that he intends to work closely with Congress to ';refine, and ...
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Watch President Obama Handle a Heckler During His Counterterrorism Speech
President Barack Obama speaks about his administration's drone and counterterrorism policies, as well as the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, at the National Defense University in Washington, DC, May 23, ...
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Obama reframes counterterrorism policy with new rules on drones
By Tom Curry, National Affairs Writer, NBC News In a major address Thursday President Barack Obama sought to reframe the nation’s counterterrorism strategy, saying, "Our systematic effort to dismantle terrorist organizations must continue. But this war, like all wars, must end. That's what history advises. That's what our democracy demands."He said in a speech at the ...
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Obama Preference is to capture suspects not use drone strikes
President Barack Obama expands on U.S. policy regarding unmanned aircraft strikes against suspected terrorists as he addresses the National Defense University ...
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Obama announces reframing of terrorism policy
By Tom Curry, National Affairs Writer, NBC News In a major address Thursday President Barack Obama sought to reframe the nation’s counterterrorism strategy, saying, "Our systematic effort to dismantle terrorist organizations must continue. But this war, like all wars, must end. That's what history advises. That's what our democracy demands."He said in a speech at 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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