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Politico: President Barack Obama issued new orders for the war in Afghanistan from the Oval Office Sunday night, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Monday. Obama finalized the orders during a meeting with advisers including Adm. Mike Mullen, Gens. James Cartwright and David Petraeus, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Immediately ...
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Politico: The House homeland security committee has summoned Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan and Tareq and Michaele Salahi to testify on last Tuesday's White House gate-crash, according to committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.). The invitees have yet to respond, according to a committee spokesman. “This is a time for answers, recognition of security deficiencies past and present, and ...
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GSTAAD, Switzerland (AP) - Workers plowed snow away from Roman Polanski's Alpine chalet on Monday, as Swiss authorities worked with the director's lawyers to meet the conditions of his $4.5 million bail and house arrest. The Swiss Justice Ministry wouldn't say when Polanski would be released from jail. Spokesman Folco Galli said there were still outstanding ...
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MAUMEE, Ohio (AP) - Police in northwest Ohio have arrested a man who they say swiped a Salvation Army red kettle full of donated money and pushed one of the charity's bell ringers to the ground. Police in Maumee (maw-MEE') say 44-year-old Shawn Krieger of Toledo grabbed the kettle Saturday evening outside a general store. When ...
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After a long weekend of sorting this out with PopModal, the series is being uploaded for release today. It turns out that the files were still too big for PopModal, but they referred me to Blip.tv were the upload is currently in progress. PoPModal is going to run the series as well, from ...
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Times Online: State troopers probing Tiger Woods’ mysterious car crash were today said to be applying for a search warrant allowing them to seize his hospital records. Florida Highway Patrol wants to establish whether the facial injuries for which Mr Woods was treated at Health Central Hospital in Ocoee, Florida, last Friday were consistent with his wife’s ...
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Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Washington - Hours after issuing orders to launch his new strategy in Afghanistan, President Obama this morning began calling world leaders to tell them of his decision and ask for their assistance. But Obama does not plan to disclose the number of new troops he will deploy to the war zone ...
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - The heavily indebted Dubai World is not guaranteed by the emirate's government, a top financial official from the city state said Monday, offering little direction to anxious investors on a day when the United Arab Emirates registered a record fall on the back of Dubai's debt mess. On the first ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Chelsea Clinton, the 29-year old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, has become engaged to her longtime boyfriend, investment banker Marc Mezvinsky. The couple sent an e-mail to friends Friday announcing the news. They said they were looking at a possible wedding next summer. Matt ...
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New York Times: WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to lay out a time frame for winding down the American involvement in the war in Afghanistan when he announces his decision this week to send more forces, senior administration officials said Sunday. Although the speech was still in draft form, the officials said the president wanted to use ...
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Times Online: White working class communities feel a justifiable sense of grievance and deserve additional assistance reserved for minorities groups, a Cabinet minister said today. John Denham, the Communities Secretary, said that government agencies and councils should give more priority to poor white communities who feel hard done by because of immigration and the recession. The move is ...
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Washington Post: President Obama has offered Pakistan an expanded strategic partnership, including additional military and economic cooperation, while warning with unusual bluntness that its use of insurgent groups to pursue policy goals "cannot continue." The offer, including an effort to help reduce tensions between Pakistan and India, was contained in a two-page letter delivered to President Asif ...
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Fox News: Environmentalism should be regarded on the same level with religion "as the only compelling, value-based narrative available to humanity," according to a paper written two years ago to influence the future strategy of the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), the world's would-be environmental watchdog. The purpose of the paper, put together after an unpublicized ...
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SEATTLE (AP) - A heavily armed SWAT team swarmed a Seattle home Monday where they thought they had cornered the suspect in the slaying of four police officers, only to find out that he was not in the house and still on the loose. The discovery added new urgency to a manhunt that began when the ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The 60 votes aren't there any more. With the Senate set to begin debate Monday on health care overhaul, the all-hands-on-deck Democratic coalition that allowed the bill to advance is fracturing already. Yet majority Democrats will need 60 votes again to finish. Some Democratic senators say they'll jump ship from the bill without tighter ...
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SEATTLE (AP) — A suspect in the slaying of four police officers who were gunned down in a suburban coffee shop was surrounded by police at a Seattle house early Monday, wounded and possibly dead, police said. Negotiators were trying to communicate with Maurice Clemmons, 37, using loudspeakers, explosions and even a robot to try ...
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Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has soured on a call from its top commander to double the size of the Afghan police and army, reflecting the White House's continued skepticism about the Afghan government even as the U.S. prepares a surge of troops into the country, people familiar with the matter say. At an ...
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Update: PopModal has graciously stepped in and offered to provide the Mt. Everest of bandwidth necessary to run the episodes immediately. I'm waiting for a return call from the gentleman in tech who is supposed to get us up and running. Alright, we've been deaing with this all night and we're gettin closer. We ...
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