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Obama Spying Programs Transparent
(Evan Vucci/AP Photo) President Obama said that two National Security Agency programs recently revealed through leaked secret documents were ';transparent'; and, in an interview with PBS’s Charlie Rose on Sunday, he dismissed concerns that the programs were vulnerable to abuse by government officials. ';It is transparent,'; Obama said in the interview, broadcast ...
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In Obama they trust much less these days
Edward Snowden stepped up his assault on government surveillance programs in a lengthy Internet chat, Mr. Obama was confronted with some of the worst poll numbers of his presidency. ...
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Special Committee on Decolonization Approves Text Calling upon United States to Initiate Self-determination Process for Puerto Rico
Meeting to consider the question of Puerto Rico, the Special Committee on Decolonization called again upon the United States today to expedite a process that would allow Puerto Ricans to fully exercise their inalienable right to self-determination and ...
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NTSB stresses track safety after Conn. mans death
HARTFORD, Conn. -; The National Transportation Safety Board has issued an urgent safety recommendation after a railroad track foreman was struck and killed by a passenger train last month in ...
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Obama Difference between spying and hacking
WASHINGTON -; President Barack Obama is drawing a distinction between China's alleged intellectual property theft and what he calls "standard fare" spying on other ...
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Obama defends Syria handling to skeptical public critical congressmen
By Michael O'Brien, Political Reporter, NBC News Earlier action by the United States to arm rebels seeking Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow would not have meaningfully slow the violence in that country’s ongoing civil war, President Barack Obama said in his first extensive comments about the situation in Syria.Obama defended his administration’s handling of the ...
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NYC woman faces suspect in her dads 1986 killing
An aspiring New York City actress has finally faced down the suspect she helped police capture in connection with her father's 1986 ...
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Obama NSA secret data gathering transparent
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview Monday, and called them transparent - even though they are authorized in secret."It is transparent," Obama told PBS's Charlie Rose in an interview to be broadcast Monday. "That's why we set up the FISA court," he added, referring to the ...
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Canadian soldiers leave for final mission in Afghanistan
Soldiers from CFB Edmonton line up to board an airplane, the last deployment of Canadian troops headed to Afghanistan, Monday, June 17, ...
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Michelle Obama visits national park
Barack Obama has defended top secret National Security Agency spying programmes as legal and transparent - even though they are authorised in ...
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Congress too frightened to allow Obama to close Guantanamo
Rachel Maddow explains away any justification for keeping the prison at Guantanamo Bay open other than the political cowardice of members of Congress who can only hope more inmates die at the prison so they can continue to avoid having to work out a rational ...
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Kraft Hockeyville 2013 to feature Jets Capitals
winner Stirling-Rawdon will finally get a long-awaited taste of NHL action. The league announced Monday the Ontario township will host a pre-season contest between the Winnipeg Jets and Washington Capitals on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013, after last ...
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Student with bullied past The Doorman graduates
Just six months ago, CBC introduced viewers to a student known mainly by his nickname, "The Doorman." That student, Josh Yandt, turned his bullied past into a positive force. Josh is now about to graduate from high school, so Ioanna Roumeliotis went back to London, Ont., to see how opening doors has opened up his world. ...
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Beloved fin whale goes missing stymying efforts to free her from dangerous crab trap
A beloved female fin whale entangled in a crab trap has gone missing, frustrating a bid to rescue her, say Parks Canada officials. Efforts have been underway since the whale was first reported to be in distress on June 6 inQuebec’s Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park. Park officials say she has cuts on her mouth and an injured tail. "The last time the whale was seen, she was leaving ...
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Town councillor arrested for allegedly trafficking cocaine in Alberta
A rookie town councillor in Irricana, Alta., has resigned after being arrested for allegedly possessing a large quantity of crack cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. Wayne Niblow, 36, had been an Irricana councillor for only five months; he was acclaimed in a by-election. Irricana, a town of about 1,100, is located less than an hour’s drive northeast of Calgary. Medicine Hat police ...
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Elections Canada witness blasts Tory MP for bullying tactics
A witness who is helping Elections Canada unravel a Conservative MP's 2008 campaign expenses says he has been publicly bullied, discredited and intimidated.Frank Hall, who ran an Ottawa-based polling firm that did work for Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro, has written to both the Speaker of the House of Commons and the Prime Minister, saying Mr. Del Mastro has abused the concept of ...
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Obama defends spying programmes
"It is transparent," the US President said in an interview. "That's why we set up the FISA court," he added, referring to the secret court set up by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that authorises two recently leaked programmes - one that gathers US phone records and another designed to track the use of US-based internet servers by foreigners with possible ...
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Canadian stock market higher ahead of Fed meeting
The Canadian stock market was higher Monday as optimism that the US Federal Reserve may not taper off its bond-buying stimulus program spurred big gains in energy and financial shares.The benchmark S&P/TSX Composite Index grew 101.54 points, or 0. 83 percent, to close at 12288.90, recovering some of its 1.5 percent loss last week, while the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index increased 1.86, ...
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Mr Xi in America
As China has risen, the US has grappled with the task of coming to terms with this constantly more prominent reality on the international scene. This has not been a smooth process, indeed it has been marked by many disagreements and considerable friction. From time to time, various negative features of China's emergence have been emphasised in the US and other Western countries, such as ...
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Korean Air Increases Frequency to Canada and China
Korean Air, South Korea’s flagship airline, has announced to increase frequency on its routes to Canada and China. From 20 June, the current five flights a week between Seoul/Incheon and Vancouver will be increased to daily flights, with flights to Toronto also increased to daily from 24 June. The flights between Seoul/Incheon and the Chinese destination Jinan will increase from four ...
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Obama defends Internet snooping program
President Barack Obama on Mondaysought toallay fears about secret US intelligence programs, rejecting comparisons withthe policies of his predecessors George W. Bush and Dick ...
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Gov. Rick Scott is back in the running for Worst Governor In America
Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed two bills into law on Friday. One eliminated paid sick leave in the state and the other put a ticking clock on executions. Chris Hayes talks with Martin McClain, a Capital Defense Attorney who represents inmates on death row, about the ramifications of these ...
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Putin Obama to have dinner at G-8 summit
Peter Alexander and David Nakamura talk with The Cycle hosts about the G-8 summit and the dinner between the president and Putin set for Monday ...
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Syria tops agenda as Obama meets Putin at G-8 in Northern Ireland
By F. Brinley Bruton, Staff Writer, NBC News President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart - on opposite sides of a civil war but using delicate language about a difference of opinion - said Monday that they shared an interest in stopping the bloodshed in Syria, as the White House planned to announce more than $300 million in a new humanitarian aid package to go to the war-torn country and ...
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Putin Obama remain far apart on Syria weapons
(25 mins ago) Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin aired divergent views on Syria, but pledged to at least try to keep alive an effort to hold a Geneva peace conference. The US and Russian presidents faced off on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, days after the White House signaled it would begin arming rebels battling President Bashar al-Assad, Moscow's top Arab ally, AFP ...
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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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