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Obama Nominates 2 Senate Aides for S.E.C. Posts
President Obama continued his shake-up of the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, naming two Senate aides to senior posts at the Wall Street regulatory agency. The nominees to the five-member agency are Kara M. Stein, a Democrat, and Michael Piwowar, a Republican. If confirmed by the Senate, they will succeed commissioners whose terms are set to ...
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Illusion of progress Obama speech offers little insight on closing Guantanamo
USA US President Barack Obama reiterated the same "empty promises" to close Guantanamo Bay prison camp during his speech Thursday, according to attorney David Remes. Remes, who represents 17 Gitmo detainees, told RT the speech gave Americans little insight. Obama's comments were the first of his second term regarding the controversial counter-terrorism measures employed by the ...
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Obama gives robust defense of targeted killing program
the president made no defense of the other three american citizens who have been killed including abd al awlaki, the 16-year-old of anwar awlaki. despite claims from previous administration officials to the contrary. ...
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Why Obama gave this counterterrorism speech now
Chris Hayes talks with Democratic Congressman Keith Ellison, Spencer Ackerman of Wired Magazine, and The Huffington Post's Howard Fineman about the President Obama's speech and what it means for policy going ...
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Obama acknowledges protester is worth paying attention to
During a major speech on counterterrorism, touching on drones and Guantanamo Bay, President Obama was heckled by a protester with a history of interrupting speeches in both the Bush and the Obama ...
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President Obama makes case for end of the war on terror
Chris Hayes highlights the president's big policy speech on drone strikes, closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, and ending the war on terror. He's joined by Congressman Keith Ellison, Democrat of ...
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Alleged Ford crack video seller not responding to calls
Gawker's editor reported last week that he had seen a video of Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine. He says an attempt to purchase the video may have hit a stumbling block. (Canadian Press ...
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Federal Court wont remove MPs over robocall allegations
Voters backed by the Council of Canadians challenged the 2011 election victories by Conservative MPs, clockwise from top-left, Kelly Block, John Duncan, Jay Aspin, Joyce Bateman, Joe Daniel, Lawrence Toet and Ryan Leef. The challenge against Daniel was dropped Oct. 23. The Federal Court says it won't throw six MPs out of seats over allegations of widespread vote suppression through ...
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Judge says there was election fraud in 2011 but cant say who did it
(QMI Agency) A Federal Court judge has ruled a crime was committed in the last general election but the case is still a whodunit. Judge Richard Mosley said voters in at least six ridings across the country were victims of electoral fraud during the 2011 general election, but he stopped short of naming the perpetrators of the fraud. The Council of Canadians had backed an effort by a handful of ...
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Christian Brothers settle with sex abuse victims for $16.5M
Hundreds of victims of sexual abuse by the Christian Brothers reached a financial settlement Thursday. The religious order agreed to pay $16.5 million to 400 claimants, including 90 from Canada, who say they were molested as children by members of the order. The Brothers ran the Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John's, N.L., for 84 years, until it announced 1989 it would shut down following ...
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Obama lays down rules for drone killings
(15 mins ago) US President Barack Obama laid out new guidelines for drone strikes abroad and launched a new bid to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, seeking to rein in a ';boundless'' US war on terror. In a major policy speech, Obama said the United States faced a new threat from ';diverse’’ terrorist franchises and the growing threat of homegrown radicals. ...
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Anti-war activist rattles Obama
(20 mins ago) An anti-war heckler repeatedly interrupted President Barack Obama in a major speech on reframing US counter-terrorism policy, prompting him to depart from his prepared remarks. ';The voice of that woman is worth paying attention to – obviously I don't agree with much of what she said,'' Obama said, after repeatedly asking the woman to sit down. ...
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Obama in heated exchanges with Code Pink anti-war protester
1 of 2. Protester Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the Code Pink activist group, interrupts U.S. President Barack Obama as he speaks about his administration's counter-terrorism policy at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, May 23, ...
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Obama Lifts Moratorium on Transfer of Some Detainees
Guantnamo Bay , Cuba, to Yemen and, in a surprise move, announced the creation of a new Pentagon position to spearhead the transfer of ...
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Obamas Domestic Drone Standard Is Now Tighter Than Rand Pauls
Reuters President Obama's speech at the National Defense University Thursday offered a nuanced defense of the U.S. drone program against Islamic militants in hard-to-reach areas of the world as the best of a bad set of military options for fighting those who want to kill American civilians. The drone program costs fewer American military and foreign civilian lives than would use of more ...
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Obama to tour Jersey Shore with Gov. Christie
Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., greets President Obama upon arriving in Atlantic City, N.J., on October 31, 2012 to visit areas hardest hit by the unprecedented cyclone ...
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Obama lifts ban on transfer of Guantanamo detainees to Yemen a step toward closing prison
President Barack Obama reacts to a CODEPINK founder Medea Benjamin as she shouts at him from the back of the auditorium as he talked about national security, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn ...
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Obama speech a retreat from terror fight
REPUBLICANS say President Barack Obama has capitulated to US enemies in a major counterterrorism speech, by renewing his call to close Guantanamo and retreating to a pre-9/11 mindset. Some of his critics on Capitol Hill were taken aback that Obama on Thursday argued that insurgents in Pakistan and Afghanistan were headed to defeat, and that he laid out new and potentially restrictive policies on ...
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UPDATE 2-Canadian businessman goes on trial in Cuba for corruption
Thu May 23, 2013 9:29pm EDT * Importer faces up to 12 years in prison * Trials of more foreign businessmen expected * Corruption arrests unprecedented in Cuba (Updates with end of trial's first day) By Marc Frank HAVANA, May 23 (Reuters) - A Cuban court on Thursday wrapped up the first day of testimony in the graft trial of a Canadian businessman whose prosecution is part of a corruption ...
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Condi John Doerr Obama join virtual immigration march
The March for Innovation website urges immigration reform advocates to lobby policymakers. If you've been on Twitter this week, you may have seen the hashtag #iMarch. You may have also seen it on newly acquired Tumblr, Facebook or a host of other social media channels. On May 22 and 23, a group of immigration reform advocates spearheaded by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg with backing ...
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Ancient cave paintings found in northeastern Mexico
A detail from a copy of the more than 17,000 year old Swimming Stags Frieze from the famed cave paintings of Lascaux is seen during a media preview on March 19, 2013 in Chicago. (Mira Oberman/AFP/Getty ...
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Mexico drug war rebooted
It's the general's hour again in Mexico as the new president deploys troops in Michoacan, where gangsters are facing off against vigilante ...
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Obama Frames Covert Drone War as Necessary Evil
President Barack Obama reacts as his speech is interrupted by CODEPINK founder Medea Benjamin, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez ...
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Obama Benghazi Terrorist Attack Was a ‘Localized’ Threat
President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (CNSNews.com) -- President Barack Obama said the terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, which killed four Americans including the U.S. ambassador, was a "localized" threat. "Today, the core of al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan is on the path to defeat," said Obama in a speech at Ft. ...
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Obama’s prom photos emerge
The two previously unpublished pictures were given to Time magazine by the girl who was escorted by Barak Obama's best friend. NBC's Ann Curry ...
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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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