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NYC Mayor: Manhattan Man Arrested in Bomb Plot
The Associated PressMayor Michael Bloomberg says an al-Qaida sympathizer who plotted to bomb police and post offices in New York City has been arrested. Bloomberg announced Sunday the arrest of 27-year-old Jose Pimentel on numerous charges. Pimentel was arrested...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Explosions, Police Arrests, Michael Bloomberg, Emergency Incidents
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Fourth U.S. drone victim influenced by Sept. 11, war
WASHINGTON — In his early teens, Jude Kenan Mohammad was a familiar sight in his middle-class section of Raleigh, N.C., riding around on his bike to deliver groceries to elderly Muslim neighbors. But with an American mother and Pakistani father,...Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Religion and Belief, Afghanistan, Sports, Pakistan
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Obama puts restrictions on drone program
WASHINGTON — Reining back the aggressive counter-terrorism strategy he has embraced for five years, President Obama declared clear, public restrictions for the first time on using unmanned aircraft to kill terrorists, a shift likely to significantly...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Barack Obama, Yemen, Prisons, Armed Conflicts
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Defending the drone
President Barack Obama has taken a lot of heat over America's targeting of terrorists overseas with lethal drone strikes. Critics argue that the secret CIA-run program provokes political backlash in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, outweighing the value of...
Tags: Justice System, Barack Obama, Yemen, U.S. Congress, Dianne Feinstein
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Setting limits on drones
It's about time. President Barack Obama's announcement today of new limits on drone strikes and his renewed call to close the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay were badly overdue. The United States has lost much credibility overseas with...
Tags: Barack Obama, Prisons, Anwar al-Awlaki, Human Rights, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp
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At the Cannes Film Festival: A thumbs-up tribute for Ebert, a tired Lee withdraws from project
CANNES, France (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. CANNES GIVES EBERT THUMBS UP Film critics and festival-goers congregated on the Cannes beach to raise their thumbs to the late critic Roger...Tags: Golden Globe Awards, China, Cannes Film Festival, Hong Kong, Entertainment Events
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Obama restricts drone strikes overseas
WASHINGTON -- Under pressure from Congress and international allies, President Obama announced a change in what has been a central piece of his counter-terrorism strategy, saying he will place new restrictions on the targeting of terrorists with...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Armed Conflicts, Barack Obama, Yemen, George W. Bush
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Gunmen kill 7 Iraqi soldiers at checkpoints in central Iraq, officials say
Associated PressBAGHDAD (AP) — Gunmen killed at least seven soldiers in central Iraq on Thursday, officials said, in the latest episode of violence to hit the country in a particularly bloody month. The first skirmish took place in the early hours of Thursday when...Tags: Baghdad (Iraq), Armed Conflicts, Nouri Maliki, Shootings, Armed Forces
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Letters to the editor: Obesity, scandals, and McCartney
I am a retired physical-education teacher who worked with students from kindergarten through eighth grade. A majority of my students could not do one pull-up. I tried to be creative and make exercising fun, for which I had a fair amount of success. I am...Tags: Government, Lotteries, Lifestyle and Leisure, Amway, Weight
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Fourth American fatality by U.S. drones disclosed
WASHINGTON — As President Obama prepared to deliver a major speech on national security Thursday, his administration acknowledged for the first time that it had killed four U.S. citizens — one more than previously known — in drone...
Tags: Barack Obama, Yemen, John O. Brennan, Queens (New York City), National Security
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Is Obama Richard Nixon?
Despite what you may hear from some of his more fevered critics, President Barack Obama's recent scandal-quakes don't appear to fall anywhere near the level of Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal. But by another Nixonian yardstick, trying to muzzle on press...Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Justice System, Barack Obama, Pentagon Papers Release (2011), U.S. Department of State
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Officials say more evidence being gathered as Benghazi suspects remain under surveillance
AP Intelligence WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — Five men are under round-the-clock U.S. surveillance in Libya, wanted for questioning in the attack last year on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. The White House believes there is enough proof for a military force to...Tags: Police Arrests, Barack Obama, Religion and Belief, Muammar Gaddafi, Christopher Stevens
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