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Obama sketches more targeted anti-terror plan
Out with the "global war on terror." In with more narrowly targeted counterterrorism policies that persistently zero in on violent extremists at home and ...
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OKC police correct damage estimate to 12K homes
Monty Montgomery surveys the scene as he prepares to clean up a friend's tornado-ravaged home Thursday, May 23, 2013, in Moore, Okla. Cleanup continues three days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening a wide swath of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie ...
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GOP Ariz. rep. who supports Medicaid is threatened
PHOENIX -; A Republican member of the Arizona House says she received an obscene and threatening voicemail at her office because she supports Gov. Jan Brewer's push to expand ...
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Pilots in fatal Alaska crash on different signals
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -; The National Transportation Safety Board says the pilots involved in a midair collision in Alaska that killed a family of four apparently were communicating on different radio frequencies before the ...
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Obama defends US drone use
Obama said he would lift a personal moratorium on transferring Guantanamo Bay inmates to unstable Yemen and said he would appoint a new senior envoy to oversee transfers. ...
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TSX Ends Lower On Global Cues China Data - Canadian Commentary
markets after some weak manufacturing data out of China, and the U.S. Federal Reserve's stand on its monetary policy. Global markets roiled after Japan's Nikkei plunged to its lowest since the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the island nation about two years ago.Japan's Nikkei index plummeted 7.3 percent, attributed largely to a spike in 10-year government bond yields which ...
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Breaking Down Obamas New Blueprint For Fighting Terrorism
At the National Defense University in Washington on Thursday, President Obama outlined plans to limit the use of U.S. drone strikes, and pledged to shut down the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, ...
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Obama goes on defensive over drone strikes announces renewed push to close Guantanamo Bay
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Thursday defended America's controversial drone attacks as legal, effective and a necessary linchpin in an evolving U.S. counterterrorism policy. But he acknowledged the targeted strikes are no "cure-all" and said he is haunted by the civilians unintentionally killed.The president also announced a renewed push to close the Guantanamo Bay ...
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Obama Pledges To Be More Transparent About Drone Program
In a major speech on counterterrorism on Thursday, President Obama said the war on terror has changed and U.S. policy must be adjusted. He promised to be more forthcoming about the government's targeted killing program for terrorism suspects, and said he was open to talking to Congress about ways to review the use of weaponized drones. Carrie Johnson talks to Melissa Block about the ...
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Obama Details Plan To Pull Back From War On Terror
President Obama laid out his counterterrorism plans, including his policy on the use of drones, at a major speech at the National Defense University on ...
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Recent scandals could be Obamas Watergate
(MENAFN - Arab News)The trifecta of scandals - Benghazi, the IRS and snooping on journalists - that has broken upon the heads of the Obama administration is as bad as Watergate. No it isn't, says Bob Woodward, whose reputation was made by doggedly pursuing the source of a burglary of the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate Hotel. No it isn't, says Carl Bernstein, who ...
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Family of former Marine kidnapped in Mexico speaks out hope hes alive
The family of a former U.S. Marine is hoping he's still alive despite not having heard from him since he was kidnapped in Mexico. The whereabouts of Armando Torres, 27, who served in Iraq in 2009 as a mechanic fixing military vehicles, are still unknown. The FBI and Mexican authorities are investigating the case and a fellow Marine continues lobbying for congressional help. Torres' ...
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Bed Bugs Now Car Bugs
Even if you don't sleep in your car, you might have to worry about bedbugs coming along for the ride this summer. The little critters may not be in the headlines like they were a couple of years ago, ...
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Kid to McDs CEO No Tricks
McDonald's once again faced criticism that it's a purveyor of junk food that markets to children at its annual shareholder meeting Thursday. The world's biggest hamburger chain has been looking to keep up with changing tastes as people increasingly opt for foods they feel are fresh or healthy. Customers can now order egg whites in its breakfast sandwiches, for example. ...
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Officials Man killed by FBI implicated self in 2011 triple-murder
A Chechen immigrant who was shot to death Wednesday by authorities in Florida -- while being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects -- implicated himself in an unsolved 2011 triple murder, according to authorities. Ibragim Todashev, a 27-year-old mixed martial arts fighter, was fatally shot at his Orlando townhouse during a meeting with an FBI agent and two ...
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Obama Delineates Counterterrorism Policy
By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, May 23, 2013 President Barack Obama spoke today on U.S. counterterrorism policy and looked at how the United States can defend itself from terrorism, yet remain true to core beliefs. The president's speech at the National Defense University on Fort Lesley J. McNair here took a broad view of counterterrorism efforts. Obama ...
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Obama Vows to Close Guantanamo Detention Facility
By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, May 23, 2013 President Barack Obama today vowed to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying the prison has become a symbol of an America that flouts the law. Obama spoke at the National Defense University at Fort Lesley J. McNair here. His discussion on the Gitmo facility was part of a larger discussion on ...
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Anti-Drone Protester Worth Paying Attention To says Obama
Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the political activist group Code Pink, is removed by security after speaking out against President Barack Obama during his counterterrorism speech Thursday. (Photo: Kevin Dietsch ...
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Obama Calls for DOJ Review of Leak Investigations
In light of questions over the Justice Department seizing communications from reporters and editors at the Associated Press and Fox News, President Barack Obama announced Thursday that Attorney General Eric Holder would conduct a review of Justice Department investigations involving journalists. The review will involve Holder and Justice Department officials discussing matters with ...
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Obama Speaks On Drones and Counterterrorism
In a nationally televised speech Thursday President Obama talked about terrorism, drones, and our war with Alqaeda. It was his first major speech on counterterrorism in his second term. The president outlined how the administration's counterterrorism policy will adjust to new threats. "To do nothing would invite far more civilian casualties. Remember, the terrorist we are after target ...
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GOP Senator Obama Speech ‘Will Be Viewed By Terrorists As A Victory’
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA). (Credit: Politico) Obama’s major speech outlining the Administration’s counter-terrorism policy on Thursday marked a win for al-Qaeda, according to Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA). Chambliss’ comments referred to the president’s proposed changes to detention policy, which included asking the Department of Defense to find a place to conduct trials ...
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Obama defends drones renews pledge to close Gitmo in counterterror speech
NBC News' Kristen Welker reports on the president's counterterrorism speech, in which he reaffirmed his use of drones and reasserted wishes to close Guantanemo Bay; then Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer and Roger Cressey discuss "imminent threats" to U.S. national security and what the president's words mean for our foreign ...
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Canada Post campaigns against no flyers mailbox signs
Canada Post mail carriers deliver flyers and unaddressed mail for many companies and other organizations, a source of revenue for the postal corporation. ...
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84-year-old woman charged with trafficking cocaine marijuana in New Mexico
The Cloverdale Rodeo protester who filmed another woman in the throes of a racist rant before she was allegedly beaten up and then posted it on YouTube has done this sort of thing ...
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Inquiry hears of car bombing and safe bursting with cash kickbacks
Gilles Theberge testifies at the Charbonneau inquiry, May 23, 2013. (TVA SCREENSHOT) MONTREAL -- A car bombing and a safe bursting with cash kickbacks made for dramatic testimony at the Charbonneau commission on Thursday. Retired road-paving executive Gilles Theberge admitted to creating a cartel of firms that split contracts in the Montreal suburb of Laval in early 2000. He said bid-rigging ...
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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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