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Reports: Obama To Limit Drones, Urge Action On Guantanamo
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An American flag flying over Camp VI, where detainees are housed at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay. Comment?
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Company ends 'ghetto gawking' tours through the Bronx following residents' complaints
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NEW YORK - A company that promised sightseer tours to the Bronx that included a New York City "ghetto" has stopped the bus rides under protest from an outraged neighborhood. Comment?
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Anthony Weiner: Voters shouldn't forget scandal
Anthony Weiner began his campaign for New York City mayor in earnest Thursday, shaking hands with voters in Harlem and doing a radio interview to make his case for a political comeback. Comment?
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Incoming BBC news director on journalism gender gap: "We can do better"
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Incoming news director at the BBC James Harding knows there's a dearth of women broadcasters featured on the network, and he intends to address that gap in his new position, according to a recent interview. Comment?
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Glenn Beck: CNN interview with atheist tornado survivor was a setup
Glenn Beck believes that a CNN producer who "doesn't like Christians" and is "sympathetic to the atheist plight" orchestrated Wolf Blitzer's interview with Oklahoma tornado survivor and atheist Rebecca Vitsmun because it was a "really bizarre" and "not natural." He knows the interview was a setup because he is an expert who has been doing this ... (more) Comment?
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Progressive Democrat Criticizes 'Obamagate' Post
I can always count on certain Right Wing political operatives to step out and do their best to spin a picture of disaster when it is politically expedient. Comment?
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UPDATE 1-Obama may limit drone use, discuss Guantanamo in major speech
President Barack Obama will vow on Thursday to be more open to the public about the U.S. fight against terrorism and may lay out limits for the use of lethal drones abroad while sketching a vision for closing the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Comment?
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Panel rejects Pentagon's request for base closings
The Obama administration wants another round. But the House Armed Services readiness subcommittee passed a bill Thursday to block any base closings in the U.S. Republican Robert Wittman of Virginia is the subcommittee chairman. Comment?
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Dayton vetoes projects from Minn. Legacy bill
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Gov. Mark Dayton has line-item vetoed to strike two provisions from a bill that distributes sales-tax money by way of state grants for the outdoors, parks and trails and arts and cultural programs. Comment?
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Obama to address drones, Gitmo in security speech
President Barack Obama is set to at least partially bring out into the open some of the U.S.-directed drone program, a key component of counterterrorism strategy, as he outlines the contours of the continuing threat to American security. Comment?
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4 US citizens killed by drones since 2011
But he said Awlaki's 16-year-old son as well as two other individuals were "not specifically targeted by the US". The disclosure comes as President Barack Obama prepares to make a speech on counter-terrorism and the drone programme on Thursday. Comment?
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Storm took town's youngest as it swept through
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2012 photo provided by the his family, 8-year-old tornado victim Kyle Davis poses for a photo while attending an Oklahoma University football game at Owen Field, in Norman, Okla. Comment?
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Prickly IRS leaders Lerner, Shulman need to do more than feel bad
Ousted IRS Chief Steve Miller, left, and former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman are sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, prior to testifying before the Senate Finance Committee hearing on the Internal Revenue Service practice of targeting applicants for tax-exempt status based on political leanings. Comment?
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Hartley retires from SD Highway Patrol
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PIERRE, S.D. Major Randy Hartley is retiring after 25 years with the South Dakota Highway Patrol, Col. Comment?
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Legislators want Delta Queen back in Cincinnati
Ohio's U.S. senators and Cincinnati's House members have introduced legislation allowing the Delta Queen to go on overnight trips with passengers on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Comment?
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Pakistan arrested American who was killed by drone
An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday. Comment?
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Parents frustrated with Singapore inquest in son's death
The parents of an American software engineer found dead in his Singapore apartment last year left the city-state Thursday before the end of a coroner's inquest, saying they had lost faith in the process. Comment?
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MN United spent $2 million on gay marriage lobby
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The group behind the push to legalize gay marriage in Minnesota spent more than $2 million on its Capitol lobbying efforts, according to figures obtained by the Associated Press . Comment?
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Birth control coverage up for federal appeal
In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill. Comment?
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Mathematician Makes Prime Breakthrough
Yitang Zhang is a largely unknown mathematician who has struggled to find an academic job after he got his PhD, working at a Subway sandwich shop before getting a gig as a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire. Comment?
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