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Obama promises anew to transfer detainees out of Guantanamo
President Barack Obama announced plans Thursday that could lead to the release of detainees from Guantanamo Bay, and justified his administration’s use of drone strikes to kill terrorists abroad as effective, lawful and critical to national security.
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Kerry, Lavrov to meet in Paris
Secretary of State John Kerry will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov next week in Paris to discuss peace talks in Syria.
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Obama addressing Naval Academy graduates 2nd time
A day after laying out his counterterrorism vision, President Barack Obama is addressing future military leaders who could help carry it out in a speech to U.S. Naval Academy graduates.
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Obama speech suggests possible expansion of drone killings
President Barack Obama on Thursday defended his administration’s use of drone strikes to kill terrorists as effective, lawful and “heavily constrained,” but he also appeared to be laying groundwork for an expansion of the controversial targeted killings.
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Ruby says her sworn testimony was lies
The woman at the center of ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi's sex scandal has denied in court ever telling a former roommate that she had sex with the then-premier.
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Tea party vs. old guard in GOP Senate rift
A long-simmering feud between establishment Republicans and tea partyers broke into full view, with Sen. John McCain accusing younger colleagues of overplaying their hands and tempting Democrats to change Senate rules that protect the minority party.
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NOAA expects ‘above normal’ hurricane season
Expect another busy Atlantic hurricane season, government forecasters said Thursday.
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Foreign Service officer made millions in visa-for-money scam, feds charge
A State Department official “received several million dollars in bribes” from Vietnamese residents seeking visas, according to newly public court documents.
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Alaska Rep. Don Young, gone hunting in Africa, misses subcommittee oil hearing
When a key House of Representatives panel took up a bill this week that would require annual lease sales and streamline permitting in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, home state Rep. Don Young missed the session.
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Marijuana is drug most often linked to crime, study finds
Marijuana is the drug most often linked to crime in the United States, the U.S. drug czar said Thursday, dismissing calls for legalization as a “bumper-sticker approach” that should be avoided.
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Obama administration targets reporters in crackdown on leaks
First, there was the news that the Justice Department had secretly seized telephone records of reporters at the Associated Press. A week later, reports that the department had investigated a Fox News reporter as a potential criminal for doing his job.
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