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Obama not involved in tax scandal US
Barack Obama learned that the federal tax collection agency had targeted conservative groups only "when it came out in the news" while Republicans continued to press the administration for answers on Sunday. The Obama administration has also been forced on the defensive over its handling of last September's terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the US ambassador and ...
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Rand Paul Struggles To Tie Obama To IRS Scandal
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) went on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday to use the IRS scandal to attack the Obama administraiton, but flubbed a key part of his case: he couldn’t defend the claim that IRS was targeting conservative groups as part of a political strategy to help the White House. Paul, like most Republicans, has been spinning the scandal as an Obama Administration attack on ...
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Obama to discuss al Qaeda drones Guantanamo Bay in Thursday speech
ATLANTA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, under fire for security lapses at a U.S. mission in Libya, will in a speech on Thursday lay out his wide-ranging counter-terrorism policy, from the controversial use of drones to efforts to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, ...
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Britains Obama urges stronger economic ties with West Africa
ACCRA, Ghana - A rising star in Britain's Labour Party, described by some as the "British Barack Obama," Chuka Umunna urged the United Kingdom to more aggressively forge ties with West Africa's fast-growing economies. During a trade mission to West Africa last week that included a stop in his father's home country Nigeria, Umunna, a member of the British Parliament, ...
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Making mentally ill defendants ready for trial
mock trial involving people who have been deemed mentally incompetent to participate in a real one. In mental hospitals across the country, psychiatrists ...
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Charlotte remembers 1963 desegregation eat-in
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- In the spring of 1963, a prominent civil rights leader led dozens of protesters on a four-mile march from a predominantly African-American college campus to the center of Charlotte's downtown.At the rally, Dr. Reginald Hawkins warned city leaders that if something wasn't done to end segregation, future marches might not be so peacefulNearly two weeks later, civil ...
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Ads tout job grants program that doesnt yet exist
The Harper government is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars advertising a program that does not yet exist. Prime-time ads began airing this week during NHL playoff games -- currently the priciest advertising real estate on the dial -- that tout a new federal Canada Jobs Grant for training workers. The trouble is, the freshly announced program is at present little more than a concept ...
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Harper’s chief of staff Nigel Wright resigns after Mike Duffy $90000 cheque controversy
OTTAWA — The prime minister’s chief of staff announced his resignation early Sunday, saying he left his post in light of the controversy around his personal handling of Sen. Mike Duffy’s expense payments. Nigel Wright stepped down after a phone conversation with Stephen Harper, signalling a recognition that he — and not Duffy’s improper expense claims — had ...
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Canadian prime ministers top aide quits over expenses scandal
OTTAWA, May 19 (Reuters) - The top aide to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper abruptly resigned on Sunday over his role in an mounting expenses scandal which is threatening to undermine the Conservative ...
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KEPT IN DARK Aide Says Obama Learned Of IRS Scandal Via Media
President Barack Obama speaks on the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday May 15, 2013. Obama announced the resignation of Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, the top official at the IRS. (AP Photo/Susan ...
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White House insists Obama was not involved in IRS
WASHINGTON -; A top White House adviser insisted President Barack Obama learned the Internal Revenue Service had targeted tea party groups only "when it came out in the news" while Republicans continued to press the administration for answers on ...
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Pfeiffer Obama to punish IRA misdeeds
White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer on Sunday said President Barack Obama and the new acting commissioner of the IRS will make sure "everyone who did anything wrong here is held accountable" in connection with the IRS investigation. "Here’s the real issue here, which is what happened there, whatever the motivation, is outrageous and inexcusable. So what we have to do ...
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Obama to speak on Guantanamo
President Obama plans to speak Thursday on his administration's evolving counterterrorism policies, a White House official told POLITICO, and will discuss administration's controversial use of drones and renewed plans to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Obama will "discuss our broad counterterrorism policy, including our military, diplomatic, intelligence and legal ...
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Hunt on for winner of lottery jackpot worth $590m
Terri Chick (L) and Chris Desmarais of the Multi-State Lottery Association prepare the balls used in the Powerball drawing at the Florida Lottery studio in Tallahassee May 18, 2013. They are using gloves to prevent the oil on their hands from contaminating the balls, which could change their ...
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Tea party looks to take advantage of moment
Des Moines, Iowa - Is the tea party getting its groove back? Shouts of vindication from around the country suggest the movement's leaders certainly think so. They say the IRS acknowledgement that it had targeted their groups for extra scrutiny - a claim that tea party activists had made for years - is helping pump new energy into the coalition. And they are trying to use that development, ...
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President Obama learned about IRS scandal via media senior adviser tells Fox News Sunday
President Barack Obama speaks on the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday May 15, 2013. Obama announced the resignation of Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, the top official at the IRS. (AP Photo/Susan ...
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Why Obama Can Should Close Guantanamo NOW
, we have been hearing, especially in the Twitterverse, that people think, because Obama promised to close Guantanamo, and says that Congress is not allowing him to do that, the main problem is with Congress. It is quite true that the U.S. Congress, both when the Republicans led it under Bush, and since the Democrats took over leadership in 2006, has a shameful record in advancing all ...
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Obama urged to make economy a bigger bolder topic
FILED In this Aug. 11, 2009, file photo Senior White House Adviser David Axelrod, right, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, left, leave the White House in Washington with President Barack Obama, not shown, en route to New Hampshire for a town hall meeting. Obama allies and former top aides are worried he has lost his voice on his central theme of economic opportunity, silenced by a ...
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9 still hospitalized after Connecticut train collision
>Were you there? Share your images with iReport.(CNN) -- Nine people remained in the hospital -- one in critical condition -- two days after a commuter train derailed and struck another train on one of the busiest tracks in the country, officials said Sunday. National Transportation Safety Board investigators looking at the accident, along the busy corridor from New York to New Haven, ...
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Harper chief of staff resigns amid Senate expense scandal
Nigel Wright, former chief of staff for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, appears as a witness at the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Nov. 2, 2010. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian ...
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Singer performs Star-Mangled Banner at hockey game in Canada
Halifax Mooseheads goaltender Zachary Fucale turns away a shot with the help of defenseman Austyn Hardie as Portland Winterhawks center Brendan Leipsic presses sduring the first period of a junior hockey Memorial Cup game Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Liam ...
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Two imprisoned in Mexico over killing Malcolm Xs grandson
In this undated composite image released by Mexico City's prosecutor's office (PGJDF) on Monday, May 13, 2013, Manuel Alejandro Perez de Jesus, 24, left, and David Hernandez Cruz, 24, stand for their mug shot after being arrested in Mexico ...
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Aide Obama learned about IRS from news accounts
President Barack Obama is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically black, all-male institution that counts Martin Luther King Jr. among its alumni. The ...
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Health Insurance in America Legalized Extortion
Included in yesterday's mail were two ominous envelopes, one addressed to me, the other to my wife. They were from our health insurance company. Being that this is mid-May, I knew what the contents of the envelopes would be: one-page letters informing us what our insurance premiums are going to run in the coming year. With sweaty palms and racing heart, I began operating on the ...
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For Obama no more Mr. Nice Media
>Editor's note: Howard Kurtz is the host of CNN's "Reliable Sources. "(CNN) -- The press has turned on President Obama with a vengeance. Suddenly, the White House briefing room is filled with confrontational questions. Suddenly, the news pages are ablaze with scandal, and the commentators -- even some of the president's usual defenders -- are bemoaning his ...
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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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