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Obamas National Security Speech Gets Mixed Reviews
President Obama's speech on national security was met with mixed reaction Friday. Mr. Obama took the opportunity to make a new push to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, a move many republicans disagree with. Senator Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., argued, "I have been one to advocate maintaining Guantanamo Bay and my reason is pretty simple, If we were to capture some of the ...
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Obama signals easing not end of drone strikes on Pakistan
President Barack Obama praised Pakistan’s sacrifices, although it was underlined by the subtle subtext of the state’s lack of will and capacity to meet the terrorism threat ...
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Obama sets out to clarify position on two thorny security issues
2008 when then candidate obama was talking about why we don't just kill suspected terrorists without trying to capture them first and interrogate them and find out if they did what we think they did. it is obvious, his mind has changed a bit on this. he has evolved on this issue and i think part of that is natural when you come into the presidency. there is a reality that you can't ...
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How does history put Obama’s drone decisions in context
president obama doing his best to clarify the administration's drone policy during a major speech in washington this week. he is not the first president to have to explain a controversial decision. he certainly won't be the last. how does history put those choices in ...
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Retired Vancouver police officer stabbed to death in Mexico
A retired West Vancouver police officer has been stabbed to death in Mexico, as two other Metro Vancouver families issue pleas for help to find relatives missing in the popular holiday destination.The body of a woman was discovered Wednesday morning at a home in Playa del Carmen, according to Mexican media reports. She was identified by friends on social media as 60-year-old Lynne Earle.Earle ...
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Former West Vancouver policewoman found murdered in her home on Mexico’s Mayan Riviera
The annual Cannes festival on the French Riviera is the grandest platform in the world for the highest ambitions of film, a place where the art form is worshipped with wild passion and adoring ...
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Veterans claims put pressure on Obama even as backlog dips
President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks about his administration's counter-terrorism policy at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, May 23, 2013. REUTERS/Larry ...
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New childhood photos of murder suspect Dellen Millard reveal a stand-out attention-seeking kid
The public's image of Dellen Millard, the first man arrested and charged in the slaying of Hamilton father Tim Bosma, is formed by what is becoming the iconic photo of the high-profile case, that of him sporting a Mohawk haircut dyed bright ...
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Bank of America and Wells Fargo agreed to end mortgage abuses then didnt
The logo for Wells Fargo bank is pictured in downtown Los Angeles, California July 17, 2012. REUTERS/Fred Prouser By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said there is mounting evidence that Bank of America Corp, Wells Fargo and Co and other banks violated the terms of a settlement designed to end mortgage servicing abuses. Schneiderman - who has said he ...
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Cave Paintings Found In Mexico 5000 Ancient Works Depict Humans Animals
The 4,926 paintings were found in Burgos , in the mountainous northeastern state of Tamaulipas, in Mexico, reports the BBC. The beautiful pictures, cataloged with the help of the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), were presented by researcher Martha Garca Snchez at the second meeting of Historic Archaeology, in Mexico City's National History ...
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Obama speaks at Naval Academy graduation
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – With a growing sexual assault epidemic staining the military, President Barack Obama urged U.S. Naval Academy graduates Friday to remember their honor depends on what they do when nobody is looking and said the crime has "no place in the greatest military on earth." The commander in chief congratulated the 1,047 midshipmen graduating at the Navy-Marine Corps ...
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Republican rips Obama for meeting with illegal immigrants icing out officer union
A top Republican lawmaker blasted President Obama after he held an Oval Office meeting this week with illegal immigrants, despite having ignored recent requests for a sit-down from the union representing immigration officers. "The fact that the president and the vice president are hosting illegal immigrants in the White House while constricting citizen tours and refusing to meet with ...
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Obama to Navy Grads Sexual Abuse Threatens Greatest Military on Earth
President Barack Obama spoke to 841 men and 206 women at the Naval Academy commissioning ceremony in Annapolis, Md., on Friday, telling them that sexual assault threatens the entire military and it should be ...
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Obamas new drone guidelines still leave critics with unanswered questions
FILE - In this May 23, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama talks about national security, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. The president left plenty of ambiguity in new policy guidelines that he says will restrict how and when the U.S. can launch targeted drone strikes, leaving himself vast power over how and when the weapons can be deployed. (AP Photo/Carolyn ...
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Video Obama honors victims of civil rights-era church bombing
President Obama signed a bill conferring the Congressional Gold Medal on four young black girls killed during a 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, saying that the tragedy and heartbreak of the bombing forced America to reexamine race relations and eventually helped bring about a "more just and equal and fair ...
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Video Michelle Obama gets her groove on with school kids
First lady Michelle Obama stopped by Savoy Elementary School in Washington, D.C. on Friday to share in some dancing fun with the kids and reinforce the importance of the arts and a good education. After visiting several classrooms, the first lady told an audience at the school that hard work is the key to success, reminding them, "No one is born ...
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Watch Obama forgets to salute while boarding Marine One
President Obama boarded Marine One to depart for the U.S. Naval Academy today but forgot to salute the marine standing by the helicopter, as presidents have traditionally done. After initially boarding the helicopter, Mr. Obama briefly disembarked to exchange a few words with the marine standing ...
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America’s Cup wanted to be like NASCAR — too much
America's Cup officials likened their upcoming San Francisco races to NASCAR on the water. And as it turned out, it is more like NASCAR than they might like. Just as the 2001 race-related death ...
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Watch President Obama Urges Naval Grads to Uphold Public Trust in Military
Well thank -- -- Governor O'Malley for your kind introduction. And the great support -- Maryland gives. This academy. Secretary of Mavis. -- greater. General Paxson. Thank you all -- -- incredible leadership of our extraordinary navy and Marine Corps team -- The vice admiral Miller. Thank you for their outstanding work that you do to captain Clark and all the faculty. And staff. To the moms ...
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Watch President Obama Promises More Oversight on Drone Strikes
This afternoon President Obama defended the most controversial aspect of America's national security strategy. Unmanned drone attacks he said they were legal expected and necessary to ...
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Chile slaps $16 million fine on Canada mine company
SANTIAGO (AFP) - Chile's environmental authorities slapped a $16.4 million fine Friday on Canadian mining company Barrick Gold for "serious" violations at its unfinished gold mine near the border with Argentina.Officials here said the fine was levied after a four-month investigation into practices by Nevada Mining Company SpA, a subsidiary of Barrick Gold, which is developing the ...
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Dayton vetoes Teach for Americas $1.5 million while signing higher-ed bill
Gov. Mark Dayton signed the higher-education funding bill Friday but vetoed $1.5 million in it for Teach for America. The national program that recruits and trains recent college graduates to teach for two years in disadvantaged schools has net assets of more than $350 million, Dayton wrote, so it's unclear why they need the money. Also, the organization was selected to receive the money ...
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Republican leaders press Obama to meet with border enforcement union
Barack Obama in a letter for failing to meet with unionized immigration and customs officers. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and ...
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Months into Obama term GOP seeks 2016 leader
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. is questioned by reporters in an elevator as he leaves a GOP policy meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) (J. Scott Applewhite) Seeking to raise money for the New Hampshire Republican Party, state chairwoman Jennifer Horn recently called the party's national boss, Reince Priebus, with a question: Could he ...
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UPDATE 2-Egyptian tycoon to buy MTS fiber network in new Canada push
Fri May 24, 2013 5:08pm EDT * MTS to sell Allstream business for C$520 mln * MTS shares jump more than 5 percent in Toronto * Deal could result in MTS becoming takeover target By Alastair Sharp and Euan Rocha TORONTO, May 24 (Reuters) - Manitoba Telecom Services Inc will sell its Allstream fiber optic network to a company controlled by telecom tycoon Naguib Sawiris for C$520 million (US$503 ...
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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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