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NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The latest hopes are riding on a massive new skimmer to clean oil from near the spewing well in the Gulf of Mexico, while a local Louisiana parish's plan to block the slick has been rejected by federal officials. A 48-hour test of the Taiwanese vessel dubbed "A Whale" began Saturday and ...
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Benjamin Netanyahu, more American than Obama, at a 4th of July celebration in Israel New York Times: WASHINGTON — It was only one paragraph buried deep in the most plain-vanilla kind of diplomatic document, 40 pages of dry language committing 189 nations to a world free of nuclear weapons. But it has become the latest source of ...
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CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — A dozen Mexican states hold elections Sunday after a campaign marred by assassinations and other scandals that displayed drug cartels' power. The party that ruled Mexico for 71 years hoped to capitalize on frustrations over the bloodshed and gain momentum in its bid to regain the presidency in two years. The ...
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Gen. David Petraeus formally assumed command of the 130,000-strong international force in Afghanistan on Sunday, declaring "we are in this to win" despite rising casualties and growing skepticism about the nearly 9-year-old war. During a ceremony at NATO headquarters, Petraeus received two flags — one for the U.S. and the other for ...
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Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Washington —In every recession over the last three decades, it has been America's small businesses — those Lilliputian companies with fewer than 100 employees — that stepped forward, began hiring and pulled the country out of the mire. Not this time. Small firms are on the sidelines, and it's not just because of ...
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Politico: President Barack Obama and the Democrats head into the summer campaign season with the economy slowing, unemployment flirting with double-digits — and few options for a quick fix. Obama’s economic stimulus plan is winding down, right when Democrats need it most. And a big new jobs bill? Forget it. House Democrats had to battle this week just ...
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The Hill: Several House Democrats have asked the Obama administration to investigate claims that dozens of trailers contaminated with formaldehyde are being used to house oil spill clean-up crews along the Gulf of Mexico. The trailers were initially provided to victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA stopped distributing ...
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Politico: The story of Al Gore’s alleged unwanted sexual advances toward a Portland, Ore., masseuse, which had been simmering since the National Enquirer first published the allegations last week, broke into the mainstream news cycle Friday after the Portland police announced they would reopen their investigation. Anderson Cooper did a segment on the story on CNN Thursday ...
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PLYMOUTH, Vt. (AP) - In the Vermont hamlet where Calvin Coolidge was born, folks will celebrate his star-spangled birthday the way they always do. A Vermont National Guard contingent and a color guard will gather at noon on the village green and walk down to the Plymouth Notch Cemetery, where Coolidge is buried, trailed by hundreds ...
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The Independent: Thousands more jobs in key public services are now under threat after the Chancellor, George Osborne, last night issued a shock edict demanding spending cuts of up to 40 per cent across Whitehall – 15 percentage points more than threatened in his emergency Budget last month. The Chancellor has ordered cabinet ministers to plan for ...
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I watched this movie in my 7th grade history class. I love it.
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Pajamas Media: After the elections in 2008, Daily Kos, the largest liberal community blog out there, contracted pollster Research 2000 to conduct a large number of race-specific and “State of the Nation†polls. The results of Research 2000’s surveys have come under increasingly intense fire lately, and on July 1, Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas ...
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It already has. CNN: When signs of a severe economic downfall emerged more than two years ago, then-candidate Barack Obama was quick to point a finger at the man he hoped to replace. Seventeen months into his administration, the message is often the same, and Republicans say it's time for him to drop the Bush bashing and take ...
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Financial Times: The widespread mockery of Russian spies after this week’s arrests in the US has angered well-placed British intelligence experts, who believe it would be foolish to underestimate the espionage efforts of the heirs of the KGB. The global media has ridiculed the antics of the alleged Russian agents arrested by the FBI and portrayed them ...
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Washington Times: With Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele facing a barrage of calls to resign, North Dakota Republican Party Chairman Gary Emineth, a social conservative, told The Washington Times on Friday he is quitting his post to prepare a possible challenge of Mr. Steele after November's midterm elections. Also on Friday, prominent neoconservatives led by ...
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The Washington Examiner: by Michael Barone The invaluable Megan McArdle is back from her honeymoon and blogging up a storm over at The Atlantic. Her latest is on health insurance, in which she notes that one of the problems with the Massachusetts system and with Obamacare is that “it’s not enough to have a mandate; unless the ...
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