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WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama has a warning for Republicans who denounce the federal deficit but reject proposals to cut it. Obama tells CBS, "I'm going to call them on their bluff." The president promises to have "a bunch of ideas" for deficit reduction, but he didn't specify them in the broadcast interview. Many analysts say both ...
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – As the U.S. military prepares for the first war crimes trial under President Barack Obama, its most high-profile case against the planners of the Sept. 11 attacks is stuck in political and legal limbo. Canadian prisoner Omar Khadr, accused of killing an American soldier during a raid on an al-Qaida ...
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New York Times: WASHINGTON — As lunch was served in the Roosevelt Room of the White House one day last week, President Obama assured the nine Democratic members of Congress sitting around the table that he would do anything he could to help them survive their fall elections. Even, he said, if it meant staying ...
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News cameraman Alejandro Hernandez MEXICO CITY (AP) - Federal police rescued two kidnapped news cameramen in northern Mexico on Saturday, five days after they were seized by drug traffickers in a bid to get their employers to broadcast cartel messages. Local journalists in Mexico have long been under siege from drug traffickers, but Monday's kidnapping of journalists ...
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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) – Engineers readied a plan to permanently seal the ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well, despite delays to the process caused by debris left behind by a recent tropical storm. Research vessels were conducting seismic and acoustic tests at the site of the now-capped well "in order to ensure the integrity of ...
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Uribe BOGOTA (AFP) – Colombian President Alvaro Uribe denied Saturday that he planned to launch a military attack on neighboring Venezuela, denouncing President Hugo Chavez after Caracas ordered troops to the border. "Colombia has never thought of attacking the brotherly people of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, as its president has told his country in a clearly ...
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HAGERSTOWN, Md.( AP) -- An Army private charged with leaking classified material to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks had civilian help, a key figure in the case said Saturday. The development, first reported in the New York Times, suggests an expansion of the government's investigation into leaks including more than 76,900 secret Afghanistan war records posted on ...
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Fox News: As members of Congress head back to their districts for the August recess, they could be met by the same rowdy town halls that rocked the national healthcare debate last summer. But this summer, record-breaking government spending would fuel the voter uprising, conservatives say. "This is democracy's way of making a midcourse correction and providing checks ...
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BALTIMORE (AP) - Almost anyone who has faced a test or a deadline probably wished there was a smart pill to pop. New research suggests that this may eventually be possible. University of Maryland scientists have linked a brain compound called kynurenic acid to cognition, potentially opening the door to development of a drug that could aid ...
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Fox News: The 1,200 National Guard troops expected to arrive Sunday on the southwest border for reinforcement won't finish deploying until late September, federal officials say, stirring confusion and anger among Arizona lawmakers who thought the deadline was Aug. 1.
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