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Network newscasts expand Oklahoma tornado coverage
Channel Guide MagazineABC, CBS and NBC have announced that on the evening of Tuesday, May 21, they will be having expanded newscasts and/or news specials to further cover the devastating Oklahoma tornado that ripped through the Oklahoma City metropolitan area on Monday... -
Idiots on the loose
Has the administration gone completely off the rails in Washington? I write here of the IRS taking aim for "extra scrutiny" of tax-exempt status requests from Tea Party and Patriot groups and the outrageous Justice Department subpoena of telephone...Tags: News Media, USA Today, Justice System, Journalism, Internal Revenue Service
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Syria's government presses battle in key rebel city of Qusair
BEIRUT -- Renewed clashes were reported Monday in the strategic Syrian city of Qusair, where government forces pressed an offensive aimed at chasing rebels from the supply and logistics hub. There were conflicting accounts from the government and the...
Tags: Politics, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Wars and Interventions, Rebellions, Lebanon
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Past time for heads to roll in Washington
AUSTIN, Texas - The twin revelations of the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative political organizations and, now, that the U.S. Justice Department was spying on the Associated Press -- all in a few days -- mean this: It is time to air the...Tags: Justice System, Media Industry, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Syria launches major assault on strategic rebel stronghold
BEIRUT — Syrian forces launched a large-scale assault Sunday on the city of Qusair, a rebel stronghold near the Lebanese border, in the government's latest effort to push back opposition fighters from strategic areas of the country. The opposition...
Tags: Islam, National Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religion and Belief, Bashar Assad
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Jodi Arias to be subject of Lifetime movie 'Dirty Little Secret'
Well, that didn't take long. Barely a week after being found guilty of murder, Jodi Arias is the subject of a planned Lifetime movie. The story of Arias will be dramatized in "Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret," which has been scheduled for June 22. The...Tags: Arrested Development (tv program) , HLN (tv network), Tania Raymonde
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Aide to Japan's leader pays unannounced visit to North Korea
BEIJING -- A senior aide to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived Tuesday in North Korea, but neither country gave a reason for the unannounced visit that followed weeks of high tension in the region over the North's nuclear and missile tests....
Tags: Politics, Pyongyang (North Korea), Shinzo Abe, Kim Jong Il, North Korea
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AP case fuels complaints on Obama whistle-blower policies
The Justice Department's secret review of Associated Press telephone records gives advocates for federal employees one more reason to doubt the Obama administration's full commitment to protecting whistleblowers, particularly those in national security...Tags: News Media, The Associated Press, Labor Legislation, Justice System, Public Employees
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Obama administration assaults press freedom
In Washington, as in any seat of power, most acts of folly begin with hubris. Government leaders, elected or appointed, usually don't intend to do the wrong thing, to overstep or cause harm, but they become so convinced, so certain of their purpose,...Tags: The Associated Press, News Media, Pentagon Papers Release (2011), Vietnam War (1955-1975), Tea Party Movement
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Leonid Bershidsky: Accused U.S. spy's tools get a laugh from Russians
Two wigs, one blond, one dark. Three pairs of glasses. Two knives. Two envelopes containing 500 euro notes. One flashlight. One can of mace. One compass. One paper map of Moscow. One ancient Nokia phone. One letter in Russian, addressed "Dear friend."...Tags: Politics, Social Media, Barack Obama, Nokia Corp., Russia
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Already, some whistle-blowers have lost their nerve
Two weeks after the press partied hearty with President Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, the administration admitted that federal authorities had secretly combed through phone records for dozens of Associated Press...Tags: The Associated Press, News Media, Correspondents (music group), NPR, Justice System
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Our Take: Obama's bumble
Obama's bumble Barack Obama this week declared — well, through a spokesman — the president's belief in a free and unfettered press. His administration has a strange way of showing it. Obama's Department of Justice subpoenaed Associated...Tags: News Media, Politics, The Associated Press, Freedom of the Press, Justice System
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