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Apr 04 2017
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Report: Dozens of Civilians Killed in Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria
The U.K.-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports dozens of people have been killed, and more than 200 wounded, in a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town in Idlib Province in northwest Syria. The observatory reports at least 11 children under the age of eight were killed in the attack. Agence France-Presse is reporting that a few hours after the
Democracy Now!
Aug 09 2014
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Barack Obama on Iraq: ‘It’s going to take some months’
The U.S. military mission in Iraq could go on for months, President Barack Obama said Saturday, but a long-term solution involving the Iraqi government will take much longer. The president, who once referred to the Islamic State as a “JV team,” also acknowledged that the militants advanced more rapidly in Iraq than anyone predicted.
Politico
May 10 2015
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Tech Crowd Likes Rand Paul’s Stance Against NSA Data Collection. But Net Neutrality? Not So Much.
Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul sparked applause from a tech-heavy audience Saturday when he criticized the government’s bulk collection of data but drew a more tepid response for his opposition to so-called net neutrality.
Appearing at a tech start-up office space in the South of Mission district, Paul reiterated his stance against the National Security Agency
The Blaze
Mar 03 2020
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U.S. preps for a pandemic as coronavirus claims 6 lives in Washington state
The number of coronavirus cases continues to climb in the U.S. The new disease has killed six people in the country, four from one nursing home near Seattle and two others in the same county. The cluster of deaths at the nursing facility in King County highlights the serious threat the disease poses to the elderly and infirm. There were just over 100 cases in 15 states as of Tuesday morning,
CBS News (Online)
Dec 29 2013
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Federal health market surpasses 1 million signups
A December surge propelled health care sign-ups through the government's rehabilitated website past the 1 million mark, the Obama administration said Sunday, reflecting new vigor for the problem-plagued federal insurance exchange.
Of the more than 1.1 million people now enrolled, nearly 1 milli
CNSNews.com
Jan 16 2020
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Ukraine investigating whether ex-US ambassador was surveilled, after impeachment document dump
Ukraine’s government announced Thursday that police are investigating whether ousted U.S. ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was subject to illegal surveillance, in response to new documents released ahead of President Trump’s impeachment trial.
Those documents, released by Democratic lawmakers, showed Lev Parnas -- an associate of Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani -- communicating about the removal
Fox News Digital
Aug 22 2013
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Obama proposes deeper federal role in college funding
President Obama proposed a new bargain between the federal government and colleges on Thursday saying his administration will start rating schools on their value and by 2018 will begin doling out student aid partly based on how well they do at keeping costs down while providing a good education.
Washington Times
Jul 23 2015
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At Social Security office with a million-person backlog, there's a new chief
At the Social Security Administration, two Officials in charge of one of the government's worst backlogs-more than one million people awaiting a federal decision-About Disability Benefits Have Been shifted to other jobs.
Glenn Sklar Oversees Social Security's Office of Disability Adjudication and Review, a branch with WHO About 1,445 special Judges must choose if people who've applied
Washington Post
Oct 22 2012
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Uruguay's Legal Marijuana And Abortion Policies Demonstrate President Mujica's Politics
Uruguayans used to call their country the Switzerland of Latin America, but its faded grey capital seems a bit more like Amsterdam now that its congress has legalized abortion and is drawing up plans to sell government-grown marijuana.
Both measures would be unthinkable in many other countries. Cuba is the only other nation in the region that makes first-trimester abortions accessible
HuffPost
Jun 11 2013
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Poll: Majority say phone tracking is 'acceptable'
(CNN) -- As the government faces some backlash over its surveillance programs--details of which were leaked last week--a new poll shows Americans have changed little in their views of federal monitoring and more than half indicate theyre fine with one of the programs.
CNN Digital