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White House congratulates EU on winning Nobel Peace Prize
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- The White House on Friday congratulated the European Union (EU) on winning the Nobel Peace Prize this year. "This award recognizes Europe's commitment to the principles of democracy, freedom and human rights, as well as its efforts to advance these values across the world," U.S. National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said in a White House ...
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US State Department not speaking in one voice with the White House
The State Department of the United States said Tuesday it never concluded that the consulate attack in Libya stemmed from protests over an American-made video ridiculing Islam, raising further questions about why the Obama administration used that explanation for more than a week after assailants killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. The revelation came as new documents ...
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U.S. calls on DPRK to release detained American
WASHINGTON, April 29 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. government on Monday called on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to release the detained American citizen. Describing welfare of U.S. citizens as a "critical and top priority" for his department, State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell called on the DPRK to release the detained American, identified by him as Kenneth ...
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DPRK urges American forces to withdraw from South Korea
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Friday urged American forces to withdraw from South Korea, the official news agency KCNA reported. Under the pretext of focusing on the DPRK as its No.1 target of attack, the United States' 67-year presence in South Korea is including "strategic mobile forces" to maintain its regional military hegemony, an unnamed Foreign ...
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White House says debt limit compromise possible
With less than one week towards a possible calamitous U.S. debt default deadline, the White House said on Wednesday that a debt limit compromise is essential and possible, adding fresh pressure to the stalemated debt ceiling negotiation process. In response to some analysts' studies that the nation could postpone for about a week after its borrowing authority expires on Tuesday due to new ...
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Burmese President to Visit White House
The former general will meet with President Barack Obama during a visit human rights organizations and some politicians say is premature because of anti-Muslim violence and continuing rights violations in Burma. Officials say the two countries are expected to use the visit to work out agreements that could lead to regular talks on boosting trade, labor standards and investment. On Sunday, ...
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Union of immigration enforcement officers to oppose Senate bill
By Carrie Dann, NBC News A union representing 12,000 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officers will publicly oppose the Senate Gang of Eight immigration plan Monday, giving critics of the overhaul effort additional political ammunition as they work to defeat legislation working its way through the Senate Judiciary Committee. In a release announcing the group's opposition to the ...
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Insight The road to a greener America is littered with road-kill
Apart from the relative success of Tesla Motors Inc in putting nearly 10,000 of its pricey luxury electric cars on the road, the electric vehicle sector has been among the biggest duds in clean ...
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The decomposition of American democracy
observed , "The AUMF, presented at the time as a temporary and limited measure of self-defense against those who committed acts over 12 years ago, is well on its way to being transformed into something akin to the Reichstag Fire Decree or the Enabling Act--an all-purpose pseudo-legal rationalization for police state measures and unfettered executive power for the indefinite ...
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Buffalo New York students and teachers face attack
Students and teachers in Buffalo, New York, are facing sharp cuts and school closings as part of the push by the new superintendent, Pamela Brown, to cut $50 million from the budget. Brown is seeking to implement her "reform" plan, which aims to close public schools, fire teachers and expand charter schools.On May 7, six of nine members of the Buffalo Board of Education were elected in ...
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AP chief rips feds’ ‘abuse’
WASHINGTON - The head of The Associated Press lashed out yesterday at the Justice Department’s seizure of the news agency’s phone records, saying it is already having a chilling effect on sources and is "unconstitutional."In his first television interview since the scandal broke, AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt called the seizure of thousands of reporter phone records by ...
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Tea party looks to seize on White House controversies
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., chairwoman of the Tea Party Caucus, center, speaks Thursday about the IRS targeting tea party groups. (Molly Riley / Associated ...
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White House Told in April That Audit of I.R.S. Completed
WASHINGTON -- The chief White House lawyer, Kathryn Ruemmler, learned last month that a Treasury inspector general had concluded an audit of ...
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Insight The fight for North Dakotas fracking-water market
WATFORD CITY, North Dakota (Reuters) - In towns across North Dakota, the wellhead of the North American energy boom, the locals have taken to quoting the adage: "Whiskey is for drinking, and water is for ...
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Analysis At margins of shale oil boom a tempered euphoria
HOUSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - For the past three years, the boom in the U.S. shale oil industry has outstripped all expectations. Production surged far faster than any forecasts; drillers raced to secure space in new pipelines to get their crude to ...
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Young Americans Strong at Indy Qualifying
On a day that lacked the usual drama, tension and rumors, all nine drivers who made attempts on the second and final day of Indy qualifications made it into the 33-car field, though nobody had it easier than the two young American drivers — Newgarden and Rahal. "I don't want to sound too confident, but I knew we would be fine," Newgarden said after delivering the day's ...
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Glitch in widely used polygraph can skew results
Several police departments across the country said they were not disturbed by the news of the LX4000 polygraph because they had not noticed inaccurate measurements. In South Florida, the use of the LX4000 is ...
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Polygraph worlds close ties spark accusations of favoritism
Police departments and federal agencies across the country are using a type of polygraph despite evidence of a technical problem that could label truthful people as liars or the guilty as innocent, McClatchy has found. As a result, innocent people might have been labeled criminal suspects, faced greater scrutiny while on probation or lost out on jobs. Or, just as alarming, spies and criminals ...
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FBI turns away many applicants who fail lie-detector tests
The problem with a model of lie-detector used by many police agencies and the federal government has been evident for years, but no fix has been ...
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One winner of record-breaking $590m jackpot
Tampa .The mystery winner overcame odds of about one in 175 million to select the winning numbers. They can either claim a one-off payout of $300m, or receive the whole prize in annual instalments over 30 years.The world's largest jackpot was a $656m Mega Millions jackpot in March ...
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Its swarmageddon billions of bugs to hit US east
Philip Sherwell New York - 20 May 2013 AMERICA'S east coast is bracing itself for "Swarmageddon" as hordes of flying insects emerge from ...
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Obama may be embroiled in scandals but hes definitely no Tricky Dicky
Obama administration.The collective weight of this scandalabra threatens to derail the president's ambitious legislative agenda, dragging him to premature lame-duck status. But however fervently Obama's critics might wish it, the trio of affairs does not represent outright criminality, nor promise to prompt a constitutional crisis.In fact, the ritualistic invocation has the opposite ...
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Hostage shot and killed in home by police officer
Andrea Rebello was shot once in the head by an officer who had responded to a report of an intruder at her New York house, police said yesterday.Intruder Dalton Smith pointed a gun at the officer while holding the 21-year-old in a ...
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Presidents aide insists he learned about affair from media
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to go after his political enemies.Regardless of when the president first learned of the investigations, the longtime Obama confidante said the president wanted to ensure such activities were not repeated."The activity was outrageous and inexcusable, and it was stopped and it needs to be fixed to ensure it never happens again," Mr Pfeiffer ...
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United to restart 787 flights on Monday
United Airlines is getting its 787s back in the air. The planes are returning after being grounded for four months by the federal government because of smoldering batteries on 787s owned by other airlines. The incidents included an emergency landing of one plane, and a fire on another. The incidents never caused any serious injuries. But the January grounding embarrassed Boeing, which makes ...
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Idaho looks to eco-business for eventual recovery
Colorado has been leading the country in developing a sustainable, environmentally-friendly ‘green economy’ using $1 billion in federal grants over the last ten years or so, the efforts have paid off and now it seems that Idaho’s leadership may be looking to do something similar.
Using a $1.25 million federal grant the state of Idaho is investigating the extent of our green economy. Officials from the Idaho Department of Labor are in the process of interviewing around 5000 large and small employers and asking them, basically, how many ‘green’ jobs they’re currently got and what their growth potential is for the coming years. Read more
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