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Activists urge Obama to speak out on Mexico's human rights record
MEXICO CITY -- Activists are attempting to spotlight human rights issues during President Obama's visit this week to Mexico, urging him to publicly condemn what they describe as Mexico’s abysmal record of torture, killings and forced...
Tags: Civil Rights, Human Rights Watch, U.S. Embassy, Mexico, Government
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McManus: Obama plays for time to avoid 'red line'
Barack Obama really, really does not want to get tangled up in Syria. For almost a year, Obama's secretaries of State — first Hillary Rodham Clinton, now John Kerry — have pressed the president for more aid to the insurgents who are fighting...Tags: United Nations, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Congress, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present )
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Donnelly bill addresses suicide in the military
U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Granger, has introduced his first bill as a member of the Senate. The Jacob Sexton Military Suicide Prevention Act would establish a pilot program in each of the military services and reserve components to integrate annual...Tags: Mental Health, Behavioral Conditions, Joe Donnelly, Suicide
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Jack Shea dies at 84; sitcom director, ex-Directors Guild chief
Jack Shea, a Hollywood veteran who directed popular sitcoms such as "The Jeffersons" and who, as president of the Directors Guild of America, forcefully argued for minority hiring and local production, has died. He was 84. Shea's death Sunday at a...
Tags: Fordham University, All in the Family (tv program) , Sherman Hemsley, Alzheimer's Disease, Game Shows
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Obama must find the best bad option in Syria
Having vowed that any use of chemical weapons by Syria would cross a U.S. "red line" and provoke a strong American response "with enormous consequences," President Barack Obama now finds himself under increasing pressure to act, following reports by U.S....Tags: Libya, United Nations, Bashar Assad, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present )
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Donnelly bill addresses suicide in the military
U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Granger, has introduced his first bill as a member of the Senate. The Jacob Sexton Military Suicide Prevention Act would establish a pilot program in each of the military services and reserve components to integrate annual...
Tags: Mental Health, Behavioral Conditions, Joe Donnelly, Suicide
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The Bush legacy
Clare Boothe Luce liked to say that "a great man is one sentence." Presidents, in particular. The most common "one sentence" for George W. Bush (whose legacy is being reassessed as his presidential library opens) is: "He kept us safe." Not quite right....Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Sports, U.S. Congress, NATO, Abraham Lincoln
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History may see Bush presidency in a different light
WASHINGTON - Clare Boothe Luce liked to say that "a great man is one sentence." Presidents, in particular. The most common "one sentence" for George W. Bush (whose legacy is being reassessed as his presidential library opens) is: "He kept us safe." Not...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Congress, Sports, NATO, Barack Obama
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Lake County Ladies Chorus marks 60th anniversary with LSSC performance
EUSTIS — Sixty years ago there were no cellphones, there was no email, and color television had just arrived on the scene. A lot has changed, but the Lake County Ladies Chorus is still going strong — this spring marks its 60th anniversary....
Tags: PTA, Entertainment, Television Industry, Music
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'Lone wolf' terrorists get what they want in global spotlight
If late bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev attacked the Boston Marathon with an aim to draw attention to Muslim suffering in Chechnya, his ancestral homeland, he succeeded. Or if, as alleged by some who knew him, he was angered by U.S. military...
Tags: Culture, Religious Conflicts, Sports, Jihad, Islam
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U.S. and Japan unveil plan for returning Okinawa land
The U.S. and Japan unveiled plans Friday for gradually returning some land on Okinawa now used by the American military, but still intend to relocate a U.S. Marine base elsewhere on the island, an idea fervently opposed by Okinawans. The island hosts...
Tags: Japan, Flu, Wars and Interventions, China, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Miranda rights silenced Boston bombing suspect
WASHINGTON — Federal agents had to end what they termed "an urgent public safety interview" with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev when a judge came to his hospital room, officials said Thursday, a disclosure that has renewed the...
Tags: Raymond W. Kelly, Sports, Prosecution, Government, U.S. Department of Justice
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Apr 29, 2013
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Apr 29, 2013
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Apr 28, 2013
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Apr 27, 2013
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Apr 26, 2013
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Apr 5, 2013
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Apr 25, 2013
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