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Washington Post, By Karen DeYoung & Peter Finn, May 22 The Obama administration acknowledged Wednesday that it has killed four Americans in overseas counterterrorism operations since 2009, the first time it has publicly taken responsibility for the deaths. Although the acknowledgment, contained in a letter from Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to Congress, does [...] |
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The small town of Greece, N.Y., could set a new precedent on the issue of religious expression. USA Today, By Richard Wolf, May 20 Washington — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether prayers can be offered at government meetings — a practice that’s been common in Congress and throughout the states for more [...] |
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Online project uncovers details of way in which CIA carried out kidnaps and secret detentions following September 11 attacks The Guardian, By Ian Cobain & James Ball, May 22 A groundbreaking research project has mapped the US government’s global kidnap and secret detention programme, shedding unprecedented light on one of the most controversial secret operations [...] |
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The Star-Ledger, By Christopher Baxter, May 28 Trenton, NJ — In a blow to clean energy advocates throughout the Northeast, Gov. Chris Christie said this morning that the state will pull out of the region’s “gimmicky” cap-and-trade program by the end of the year. During a Statehouse news conference, Christie acknowledged the effects humans are [...] |
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(Raw Story) -Venezuela on Sunday made a rare diplomatic overture to the United States, suggesting it could be time for better ties. “We are going to remain open to normalizing relations with the United States,” Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said on Televen television Sunday. “The first thing would be to resume diplomatic representation at the [...] |
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(The Guardian) – The EU decision to lift Syrian oil sanctions to aid the opposition has accelerated a scramble for control over wells and pipelines in rebel-held areas and helped consolidate the grip of jihadist groups over the country’s key resources. Jabhat al-Nusra, affiliated with al-Qaida and other extreme Islamist groups, control the majority of [...] |
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Review by Organisation of American States on illicit drugs ‘could mark beginning of the end’ of prohibition The Observer, By Jamie Doward, May 18 European governments and the Obama administration are this weekend studying a “gamechanging” report on global drugs policy that is being seen in some quarters as the beginning of the end for [...] |
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(AFP)- French President Francois Hollande will sign a gay marriage and adoption bill into law Saturday, after the Constitutional Council threw out a legal challenge by the right-wing opposition. |
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Obama administration took records in apparent effort to track down source who disclosed alleged Yemen terrorist plot story The Guardian, By Ewen MacAskill, May 13 Washington – The Obama administration has opened up a new front in its battle against media freedom by seizing phone records from the offices of the Associated Press news agency [...] |
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BBC, May 12 Pope Francis has proclaimed the first saints of his pontificate in a ceremony at the Vatican – a list which includes 800 victims of an atrocity carried out by Ottoman soldiers in 1480. They were beheaded in the southern Italian town of Otranto after refusing to convert to Islam. Their names are [...] |
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Washington Post, By Karen Tumulty, May 7 Mount Pleasant, SC — The conservative electorate of South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District voted Tuesday to resurrect the political career of disgraced former governor Mark Sanford (R) by returning him to his former House seat. Sanford’s special-election race against Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, 58, a businesswoman and first-time [...] |
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The Guardian, By Glenn Greenwald, May 4 The real capabilities and behavior of the US surveillance state are almost entirely unknown to the American public because, like most things of significance done by the US government, it operates behind an impenetrable wall of secrecy. But a seemingly spontaneous admission this week by a former FBI [...] |
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(Foreign Policy Magazine) – The foiled arrest that explains America’s failure in Afghanistan. Buried in the recent New York Times revelation that the CIA has been delivering bags of cash to Afghan President Hamid Karzai is a nugget of information that tells the whole story about just how self-defeating U.S. Afghanistan policy has been. [...] |
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(BBC) – Seven soldiers serving with Nato’s force in Afghanistan have been killed in two attacks, the alliance says. An Afghan soldier turned his weapon on coalition troops in the country’s west, killing two in the latest so-called insider attack. Earlier, a roadside bomb killed five US soldiers in the southern Kandahar province. The deaths [...] |
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Los Angeles Times, By Kate Mather, Catherine Saillant & Christine Mai-Duc, May 3 The Springs fire has scorched at least 18,000 acres between Pacific Coast Highway and the 101 Freeway, damage worsened by a harrowing about-face shift in winds that sent the fire roaring back to the north. The latest estimate from the Ventura [...] |
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