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Jun 14 2012
News
Romney, Obama: When Wooing Female Voters, Check Marital Status First
What do women want, electorally speaking?
We know that women, like men, are "not some monolithic bloc," to quote the current occupant of the White House.
But as a group they are reliably influential voters, more risk-averse than men, and  pollsters tell us  generally more likely than the opposite sex to vote for Democrats, oppose the use of military force and
NPR (Online News)Aug 30 2014
News
Just to keep things interesting, Russian planes keep flying into Finnish airspace
This is a photograph of an AN-27 Russian military transport aircraft. Which wouldn't be so extraordinary, except that the air force of Finland says they took the photo while the Russian plane was in Finnish airspace. Even that wouldn't necessarily be so extraordinary, except the Finns say it was "the third event of its kind within a one-week period." And even that you might write off as just
VoxJan 15 2020
News
NSA alerted Microsoft to major Windows security flaw
The National Security Agency recently alerted Microsoft to a major flaw in its Windows operating system that could let hackers pose as legitimate software companies, agency officials said on Tuesday.
Microsoft (MSFT) issued a software update on Tuesday to fix the vulnerability, as part of its normal schedule for releasing software patches.
News of the vulnerability and patch were
CNN (Online News)Sep 14 2023
Headline Roundup
McCarthy Spars with GOP Reps Threatening to Oust Him From Speakership
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) challenged far-right Freedom Caucus members to attempt to oust him from the speakership Thursday morning.
Details: In a closed-door House Republican meeting Thursday morning, McCarty addressed continued threats from the right flank of the house to remove him from the speakership. Per the agreement McCarthy made when he won the speakership in January
HuffPost The Hill Washington ExaminerMay 01 2019
News
Guaido faces test with call for 'largest march' in Venezuela history
Opposition leader Juan Guaido faced a key test of support on Wednesday after calling for the “largest march” in Venezuela’s history to try to dislodge President Nicolas Maduro, even as the military has so far resisted calls to help remove him.
Guaido on Tuesday urged the armed forces to support his effort to oust Maduro and appeared outside an air force base with dozens of National
ReutersMar 20 2018
Opinion
Stand Up to Putin
President Putin’s landslide victory in Russia’s presidential election was achieved against the lackluster competition of a group of mediocre candidates from which the sole serious opponent had been excluded; amid plausible allegations that his security services had tried to poison two Russians in England by the use of a chemical nerve agent banned under international law; and with the
National Review (News)Nov 04 2019
News
Trump Ups Attempt to Discredit Whistleblower
President Donald Trump sent out a flurry of tweets on Monday morning in his continued attempt to discredit the whistleblower behind the complaint that led to the House’s impeachment inquiry.
“The Whistleblower gave false information & dealt with corrupt politician Schiff,” Trump wrote. “He must be brought forward to testify. Written answers not acceptable! Where is the 2nd
Newsmax (News)Mar 03 2015
News
Petraeus Reaches Plea Deal Over Giving Classified Data to Lover
David H. Petraeus, the best-known military commander of his generation, has reached a plea deal with the Justice Department and admitted providing his highly classified journals to a mistress when he was the director of the C.I.A.
Mr. Petraeus has agreed to plead guilty to one count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material, a misdemeanor. He is eligible for up to one
New York Times (News)Oct 02 2012
Opinion
The Bowles-Simpson Act Chairmen Mark Deficit Reduction Plan
Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, co-chairs of President Obamas Deficit Commission, have released a “Chairmens Mark, a broad plan to reduce the federal deficit by cutting spending and raising taxes. The plan includes various options that would impose different changes on the tax side of the fiscal equation. The first option, “The Zero Plan, would, among other things, pare away most tax
Brookings InstitutionAug 18 2014
News
This map is very bad news for Vladimir Putin
With Russia escalating its military involvement in eastern Ukraine to its highest levels yet, reportedly sending as many as 1,200 troops plus 30 tanks across the border to bolster its separatist rebel proxies, it's worth looking at one way that Russia has paid for its Ukraine aggression: global opinion toward Russia is plummeting.
You can see how rapidly world opinion is turning against
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