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Tweet Two years later, in mid-2011, a mysterious construction project began to emerge in the Saudi desert, an elongated compound with a ribbon of concrete running parallel to the ridgelines of the surrounding dunes. CIA drones were about to enter the skies over Yemen after all. The change was driven by a number of factors, [...]
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Tweet WEST POINT, N.Y. – Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Saturday that they must stamp out the “scourge” of sexual assault in the military. A day after President Barack Obama delivered a similar edict to U.S. Naval Academy graduates, Hagel’s message comes amid a series of widespread [...]
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Tweet Labor unions that have solidly backed President Obama are splitting with him over ObamaCare — with one calling for the “repeal or complete reform” of the president’s signature health-care law. Union leaders argue insurance costs for millions of workers will increase under the president’s health-care plan so they might have to drop their existing [...]
Continue Reading Unions, the reliable Democratic supporters, split from president on ObamaCare
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Tweet Even before the F.B.I. conducted 550 interviews of officials and seized the phone records of Associated Press reporters in a leak investigation connected to a 2012 article about a Yemen bomb plot, agents had sought the same reporters’ sources for two other articles about terrorism. Read the whole story at The New York Times [...]
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Tweet From The Colorado Independent’s Susan Greene. When Gov. John Hickenlooper this week blocked the execution of Nathan Dunlap, he called for a statewide conversation about the death penalty. His decision to reprieve the Chuck E. Cheese’s murderer came weeks after Colorado lawmakers killed a bill to abolish capital punishment on grounds that the topic [...]
Continue Reading ACLU Still Pushing For Secret Nathan Dunlap Execution Documents
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Tweet New Delhi, May 25: The mystery surrounding the somersault by Sharad Pawar’s party on the demand for BCCI chief N. Srinivasan’s resignation reflects a deep unease in political circles over the unfolding cricket scandal. Nationalist Congress Party spokesman D.P. Tripathi had gone public on Friday calling on Srinivasan to step down after the IPL [...]
Continue Reading Politics on slippery wicket
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Tweet Alberto Pizzoli / AFP – Getty Images Beppe Grillo, leader of the Five-Star Movement, salutes supporters during a rally in central Rome on April 21, 2013. ANCONA, Italy – Beppe Grillo, one of Italy’s most famous comedians, once said: “One Italian is a Latin lover, two are a mess, three make up four political [...]
Continue Reading Comic shakes up Italy politics
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Tweet A little context is warranted. There are more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations in this country, a number that reliably grows by more than 50,000 each year. It’s an incredibly important sector of our economy—not just because it represents more than $1.5 trillion in annual revenues and close to 15 percent of the American [...]
Continue Reading The IRS Had the Right Idea
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Tweet Post Contributor Badge This commenter is a Washington Post contributor. Post contributors aren’t staff, but may write articles or columns. In some cases, contributors are sources or experts quoted in a story. More about badges | Request a badge Article source: http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636655/s/2c67d10b/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cpolitics0Cjudge0Erules0Ethat0Eariz0Esheriffs0Eoffice0Eprofiles0Elatinos0C20A130C0A50C250C89d547f0A0Ec5820E11e20E914f0Ea7aba60A512a70Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ipolitics/story01.htm Tags: ap, Election, google, huffington, national, Political, politics, washington post, yahoo
Continue Reading Judge rules that Ariz. sheriff’s office profiles Latinos
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Tweet “I’ve been meaning to clean out the attic,” he said, lingering over a waterlogged, streaked photograph of his nephew and middle sister, who died of cancer. He placed it carefully in a blue plastic storage bin with other photos and crayon drawings by his grandchildren. In the tornado-stricken neighborhoods of Moore, residents are combing [...]
Continue Reading Tornado survivors heal as they dig
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