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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from International Business TimesThe U.S. and the United Nations condemned the resumption of hostilities between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip after the expiration of a three-day cease-fire agreement Friday. Four mortar shells hit the Israeli town of Eshkol, near t...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from International Business TimesPakistani troops opened fire Friday along the border in the northern Indian state of Kashmir in an alleged cease-fire violation, the Indian news agency Press Trust of India, or PTI, reported Saturday. “Pakistani troops opened unprovoked ...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsAs Baroness Warsi quits the Foreign Office, Sue Cameron explores why the plum diplomatic posts are still a male preserve
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsThe UK is to send a team of NHS medical experts to help people who have been injured because of the fighting in Gaza, Downing Street has said.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsThe former cabinet minister, Baroness Warsi, has accused the government of showing a "lack of support for international justice and accountability" over the situation in Gaza.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsBritain is to drop emergency aid for those under threat from militants in Iraq to support the US - but rules out military action.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsIt's about time we celebrated the English radical whose writings lit the fuse for American independence, says Melvyn Bragg
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from International Business TimesJames Brady, who was shot during a 1981 attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, lived with complications from a bullet wound for nearly three decades, until he died at 73 this week. On Friday, the former White House pres...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from International Business TimesAmerican planes have carried out a second airdrop of food and water to Iraqis trapped by the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, in the remote Sinjar mountains, the Associated Press reported .
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsBefore Mayor Bill de Blasio began his bid to win the 2016 convention he made sure he had the Clintons’ blessing, three people familiar with the discussions said.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from International Business TimesFollowing reports Friday morning by the Ukrainian government that Russian military vehicles had entered Ukraine this week , the American and British governments warned Russia that using humanitarian assistance as a pretension for sending...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Top StoriesPOLITICO Pro Report: The FCC to bring text-to-911 capability to services like Apple's iMessage.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Top StoriesObama made the decision after three major meetings with his national security advisers.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsInterviews with multiple officials in the Obama administration paint a portrait of a president forced by the unexpectedly rapid deterioration of security in Iraq to abandon his longstanding reluctance to use military force.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsThe president, addressing critics in both parties, asserted that the United States has a “strategic interest in pushing back” ISIS.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsFirefighters in England and Wales start a new period of strike action in a long-running pensions row with the government.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsWith Florida’s election schedule in disarray after a judge ruled the state’s congressional map unconstitutional, lawmakers on Friday approved redesigned districts.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsA federal judge rejected an effort to block a state law that opponents said will disproportionately hinder African-American voters.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Top StoriesThe hedge fund executive is among the headliners of an event for four female Senate candidates.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from International Business Times
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsThe state’s reliance on the New Mexico clinic is being disparaged by the law’s critics, who say that would be contrary to a recent abortion ruling in Mississippi.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostI had hoped that Wendy Davis, the Democratic candidate for governor in Texas, could rise above negative politics. Idealist that I am, I’ve believed that more and more women entering races could bring the focus back on the issues where it...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsAmerican warplanes launched airstrikes against Sunni militants in northern Iraq on Friday, destroying rebel positions around Erbil, the Kurdish capital.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsThe medical examiner’s ruling could allow prosecutors to pursue murder charges against John W. Hinckley Jr. in the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostFLORIDA Approval near on realigning districts Florida lawmakers are one step closer to approving a proposal that would make slight changes to seven congressional districts to comply with a court order. House and Senate committees on Frid...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsRepresentative Scott DesJarlais led State Senator Jim Tracy by 35 votes after their Republican primary on Thursday, in which more than 77,000 Tennesseans voted.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsThe PM's approach to further military action in Iraq
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostSeems kids aren’t much interested in working for the federal government these days, according to a recent poll, and the National Treasury Employees Union is fixin’ to do something about that. An Ipsos Public Affairs poll, commissioned by...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Top StoriesThe NCAA violated antitrust law by prohibiting colleges from giving athletes a share of the revenue.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsThe corporate mentor of Jonnie R. Williams Sr., a witness in the corruption case against former Gov. Bob McDonnell, said his protégé jeopardized the company trying to curry political favor.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Reuters: PoliticsRICHMOND Va. (Reuters) - The wife of former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell was known among staffers for hiding gifts in the executive mansion, an aide to the governor testified during the first couple's corruption trial on Friday.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Top StoriesAttorney General David Louie says the state did not anticipate any problems despite the storms.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from CBS News - PoliticsRepublican National Committee members cast a unanimous vote to begin 2016 preparations in the Ohio city
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from CBS News - PoliticsTennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander accepts victory in his Republican primary over state Rep. Joe Carr.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from International Business TimesTens of thousands of Central American children and families have streamed into the United States in recent years, and human rights advocates and the United Nations have called on the U.S. government to treat them as vulnerable refugees i...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from International Business TimesAlthough President Obama authorized airstrikes in Iraq to ensure the safety of American diplomats in Erbil, the U.S. military targeted two areas more than 30 miles southwest of the city. The reasoning behind the attacks could include mor...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from International Business TimesDisplaced people, who fled from the violence in the Iraqi province of Nineveh, arrive at Sulaimaniya in Kurdistan Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. Reuters/Stringer
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsThe Scottish government is to publish a report which, it says, highlights the environmental benefits of independence.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comI opposed Iraq 1 and as a Virginia resident told Senator Chuck Robb that I could never again cast a vote for him because of his support for that adventure. I vehemently opposed Iraq 2 as an overreaction to 9/11 based on flimsy evidence a...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Top StoriesBecause Walsh dropped out, it falls to the state central committee to pick a new nominee.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Top StoriesSens. Lindsey Graham, John McCain and Kelly Ayotte will make appearances.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comWhen Kenneth Jarecke photographed an Iraqi man burned alive, he thought it would change the way Americans saw the Gulf War. But the media wouldn’t run the picture.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Latest NewsData on 649,055 customers of an Irish betting house that the bookmaker said was stolen has been retrieved from a Canadian. A spokesman of the firm, Paddy Power, confirmed the incident Friday, but referred questions to an earlier statemen...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from International Business TimesUsers of an online forum popular with active and retired New York police have posted dozens of comments advocating a departmentwide work “slowdown” amid the first major police controversy of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s term. Some commenters w...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Top StoriesThe anonymous, satirical account @BicycleLobby is summoned to appear before a grand jury.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostMalala Yousafzai, the 17-year-old girls’ rights and education activist, who survived a 2012 assassination attempt by the Taliban, spoke about her fight for universal access to education during a Facebook Live chat Friday. Read full arti...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled North Carolina's election in November can be held under a new voting law approved by Republican lawmakers. The law is considered one of the toughest in the nation. U.S. District Court Judge ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comMemories of Watergate are fading among younger generations. Memories of the Iraq War may remain fresh as Americans assess further action. And opinions on immigration remain conflicted. This is HuffPollster for Friday, August 8, 2014. GEN...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Daily News - PoliticsThe death of former White House press secretary James Brady was ruled a homicide, according to the District of Columbia medical examiner. Brady, who took a bullet to the head during the 1981 assassination attempt on President Reagan, die...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comNAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Myanmar seeking to calm tensions in the South China Sea between China and its smaller neighbors. Amid concerns about recent provocative steps taken by China and others re...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentAug 8, 2014 | GAZA The 'Azedím Al Qassam Brigades', the armed wing of Hamas, said Thursday they will not accept an extension of the ceasefire negotiations remains a Palestinian delegation in Cairo with Israel unless that the const...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentThe Government will study whether it is necessary to close down Facebook following case of abuse involving the social website, said Communication and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek (pic) . He said his ministry was con...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentFederal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor (pic) said previously the ministry had set Aug 16 as the last date for the soup kitchens to operate. "There is now no problem for any non governmental organisations (NGOs...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentDominic Waghorn US Correspondent Five years ago I covered Operation Cast Lead, the precursor to Israel's recent offensive against Hamas in Gaza. This week I went back for the latest sequel and its aftermath. Some things were different, b...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Firstpost » PoliticsTracking live updates of the BJP National council where Amit Shah will be ratified as party president in front of 3000 party workers. The post National council Live: Only one victory in future, Bharat Mata ki Jai, says Shah appeared firs...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentAs the final days of campaigning drew to a close in Hawaii's dramatic primary races, a pair of hurricanes thrashed toward the islands. The storms posed considerable risk, but for Gov. Neil Abercrombie, they also represented an opportunit...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political News09 August 2014 BEIRUT: Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri returned to Lebanon Friday, ending what he called was "the harshest penalty in my life" - a three-year period of being forced to live abroad over security concerns. The Future Move...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political NewsFormer Prime Minister Saad Hariri's surprise return to Lebanon is "a very important" development that bolsters Sunni moderation in the face of a growing wave of jihadist extremism that is threatening the entire region, experts and analys...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political NewsPolitical and religious figures in Lebanon welcomed former Prime Minister Saad Hariri's surprise return Friday, expressing hope that the move would bestow new momentum to a country mired in political and security crises.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political News09 August 2014 Positive developments in Baghdad could have a ripple effect in Lebanon, where the presidential vacuum continues to worry political leaders. Iraq's Interim Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has signaled his willingness to step...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentThe 47-year-old Washington Street Community Center was in need of a face-lift, according to executive director Roberta Bloom...They will now be off-white. "We needed to be more neutral," she said. "We have a children's program, so it's e...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentAnass Kehlik for a second time, during a board meeting Thursday night. Kehlik was originally fired after he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of child abuse. Kehlik appealed the decision, and hearing officer Bruce Plotkin reinsta...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentAug 7, 2014 | Bogotá.- The president Juan Manuel Santos was sworn in for the second time as president of Colombia on Thursday amid a national and international expectations for the future of the peace process his government ahead ...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentWhen you wish to know or gain the benefits for you, you will have to really look for the options to enable the right choices for you. The right choice of picking is in your hands, you must really think...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentWhether your son or daughter is in college now, graduating soon or planning to enroll or return in the fall, an affordable, roomy, safe and fun used car might just be on the study list. We took a look and...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentMuttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Quaid, Altaf Hussain Saturday said that the police violence and torture on the workers of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) in different towns/cities of the province was beyond comprehension, Geo News reported. ...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentJodi-Ann Gilpin, Gleaner Writer The usually busy streets of downtown Kingston was almost brought to a standstill yesterday as persons turned out to pay their last respects to the former governor general of Jamaica, Sir Howard Cooke, who ...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentSmith says the Special Select Committee, which has been mandated to find a suitable means through which the late former Governor General Sir Howard Cooke will be recognised and remembered, is hard at work. Smith told the government news ...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentPhillip Panton yesterday described his assignment as driver of the gun carriage which transported the remains of former Governor General Sir Howard Cooke as "an honour and a great privilege". The 26-year veteran of the Jamaica Defence Fo...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentThinking of a federal judge, this image probably doesn't come to mind: A bearded, long-haired, former smoke jumper firefighter with an affinity for bolo ties, colorful vests and a 160-pound Rottweiler named Bailiff who accompanied him to...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Firstpost » PoliticsAAP on Friday attacked Congress for nominating former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and actress Rekha to Rajya Sabha. The post Congress nominated Sachin, Rekha to Rajya Sabha for political gains: AAP appeared first on Firstpost .
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsHONOLULU (AP) — As the final days of campaigning drew to a close in Hawaii's dramatic primary races, a pair of hurricanes thrashed toward the islands. The storms posed considerable risk, but for Gov. Neil Abercrombie, they also represent...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from World PoliticsAustralia has offered to help the United States provide humanitarian assistance to refugees in Iraq, the Prime Minister says. Tony Abbott says he spoke with US officials overnight to discuss what he calls "a humanitarian disaster potenti...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political NewsFirstly, one should make a distinction between "what the government seeks to do" and "what the government can do", and
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsHONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii election officials were scrambling Friday to set up polling stations ahead of the state's primary election, which officials determined will go ahead as planned despite rain and winds from Tropical Storm Iselle that...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Sky News Australia
A New Zealand politician has said he wants to follow Australia's lead and outlaw gangs -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Philly.com PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's new military strategy in Iraq amounts to trying to contain - not destroy - the Islamic militant group that now controls much of the country's northern region. That leaves open the questions of h...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsIRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The U.S. unleashed its first airstrikes in northern Iraq against militants of the Islamic State group Friday amid a worsening humanitarian crisis. The extremists took captive hundreds of women from a religious minority...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Sky News Australia
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Philly.com PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) - This week's death of former White House press secretary James Brady, who survived a gunshot wound to the head in a 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, has been ruled a homicide, District of Columbia p...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Firstpost » PoliticsGujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on Friday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. The post Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel ties rakhi on PM Modi’s wrist appeared first on Firstpost .
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Philly.com PoliticsThe incessant banging of a pile driver Thursday marked another day of construction in the replacement of the East Jefferson Street Bridge over Mantua Creek in Paulsboro - the setting of a notorious train accident nearly two years ago.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Philly.com PoliticsGov. Christie will travel to Mexico early next month on a trade mission intended to strengthen New Jersey's economic ties to the Latin American country, his office announced Thursday.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Firstpost » PoliticsThe 3000-member strong National Council is essentially meeting to ratify the elevation of Modi's protege Amit Shah to the post of BJP president. The post BJP national council today: All eyes on hero Modi, new president Amit Shah appeared...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsLOS ANGELES (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown reversed a parole board and denied on Friday the release of a former Charles Manson follower who served more than 43 years in prison. It was the third time a California governor denied the release of B...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political News* Obama says authorised air strikes to try to halt IS advance * U.S. planes drop relief supplies to Yazidi refugees * Sectarian violence across Iraq (Adds new drop of food and water) By Raheem Salman and Isabel Coles BAGHDAD/ARBIL, Iraq,...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Firstpost » PoliticsWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday alleged that the Narendra Modi government has hatched a conspiracy against West Bengal. The post Modi govt hatching conspiracy against West Bengal: Mamata Banerjee appeared first on Fi...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political NewsU.S. warplanes bombed Islamist fighters marching on Iraq's Kurdish capital on Friday after President Barack Obama said Washington must act to prevent "genocide".
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsSALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oracle Corp. has sued the state of Oregon in a fight over the state's health insurance exchange, saying government officials are using the technology company's software despite $23 million in disputed bills. Oracle's b...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsNEW DELHI (AP) — U.S. defense officials say American planes have conducted a second airdrop of food and water for thousands of refugees trapped in Iraq's Sinjar mountains. The chief spokesman for the Pentagon, Rear Adm. John Kirby, says ...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Firstpost » PoliticsFormer senior BJP leader and former cabinet minister Jaswant Singh was in coma and in "a highly critical" condition. The post Former defence minister Jaswant Singh ‘highly critical’, on life support system appeared first on F...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RedState
Image Credit: Gnostic Media 1 “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. 2 “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with ... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsPHOENIX (AP) — Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald visited a VA hospital Friday for the first time since taking over the embattled agency last month, meeting with veterans and health care providers and vowing to restore trust in t...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsNEW YORK (AP) — The city's top law enforcement official went on a media blitz Friday to deny that the chokehold death of a black suspect shows that police are singling out minorities in a crackdown on minor offenses and to insist that Ma...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from The Scotsman - Politics FeedHOLLYWOOD actor Brian Cox, one of the leading cultural voices in favour of Scottish independence, has spoken out against the prospect of Scotland having a separate state-funded broadcaster.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RIA NovostiBarack Obama should seek authorization from Congress before additional military action in Iraq, Representative Barbara Lee said. Democrat from California and leading co-sponsor of a House resolution approved in July calling on Obama to s...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from The Globe and Mail - Politics RSS feedOttawa hopes survey will show undersea Lomonosov Ridge is connected to the Canadian land mass
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RedState
This is not appropriate language for a Senator's office. The post Sen. Cory Booker’s unprofessional, and maybe even homophobic, campaign staff on display. appeared first on RedState . -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Philly.com PoliticsFORT BELVOIR, Va. (AP) - Tens of thousands of military veterans who have been enduring long waits for medical care should be able to turn to private doctors almost immediately under a law signed Thursday by President Barack Obama.
