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Spies and sex. It was just too tempting to resist.
“The former host of 'Erotica Night' at a Baltimore bookstore will be the first-ever female No. 2 official at the CIA,” Ben Jacobs and Avi Zenilman begin in their piece at the Daily Beast on the youthful reading habits of Avril Danica Haines....
Tags: White House, National Enquirer, Central Intelligence Agency
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Reddit Meetup: Can users turn online connections into real ones?
What do President Obama, Morgan Freeman, NSA document-leaker Edward Snowden and some guy who goes by the name “probably hitting on you” have in common? They all know what time "the narwhal bacons." Specifically, they know "the narwhal...
Tags: Occupy Wall Street, Microsoft Corporation, Reddit Inc., Edward Snowden, Journalism
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5 reasons Democrats struggle to win Florida elections
With new party leadership, an advantage in voter registration, and a vulnerable Republican governor seeking re-election, Florida Democrats should be in a strong position, but the outlook isn't all that dazzling. Even though they outnumber Republicans in...
Tags: Alex Sink, Palm Beach County, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, U.S. Congress, Government
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CBS cuts Obama audio from 'Under the Dome'
President Obama has been left on the cutting room floor of CBS' new summer series "Under the Dome." An audio clip of the president that was in the first hour of the series that CBS sent to critics earlier this month will be cut from the episode that...Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Stephen King, White House, CBS Corp., Television
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Arming Syria's rebels
Having determined that the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad has used chemical weapons against his opponents in the country's bloody two-year civil war, the Obama administration is now reportedly preparing to send lethal military aid to rebel...Tags: Rebellions, U.S. Military, Military Equipment, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions
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Obama authorizes military support of Syrian rebels
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has authorized sending weapons to Syrian rebels for the first time, U.S. officials said Thursday, after the White House disclosed that the United States has conclusive evidence President Bashar Assad's government used...Tags: Rebellions, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Washington, DC, White House, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Review: "Roberts Court" by Marcia Coyle
At his confirmation hearings for the position of chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John G. Roberts Jr. parried skeptics with a reassuring metaphor: "Judges are like umpires," he testified. "Umpires don't make the rules, they apply them. The role of...
Tags: Antonin Scalia, Justice System, John G. Roberts, Jr., Elections, U.S. Supreme Court
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Can Florida Democrats make real gains in 2014?
It's going to be tough. There's no way the party can win enough seats in the Florida Legislature to shift the balance of power in either of the two chambers. Redistricting settled that issue sometime back. Grabbing one of the Florida Cabinet...Tags: Rick Scott, Pam Bondi, Elections, Nan H Rich, Parties and Movements
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Laying odds on immigration bill's future
The immigration debate that began this week in the Senate looms as the most consequential in years - for the country's growing Hispanic population and both major political parties. The bill's fate could have more effect on future presidential and...Tags: George W. Bush, Ted Cruz, U.S. Congress, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Social Issues
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Jeffrey Goldberg: Obama's plan to arm Syrian rebels falls short
Here are five observations, most of them depressing, about the Syrian civil war, formulated in light of the announcement by the White House that President Bashar al-Assad's regime has, in fact, used chemical weapons and that, in response, the U.S. will...Tags: Nuclear Policy, Bill Clinton, Massacres, White House, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Obama meets with Chicago youths, fathers at White House
Tribune reporterWASHINGTON — Continuing the first family’s outreach to Chicago teens, President Barack Obama today welcomed 14 students and five chaperons from Chicago’s Hyde Park Academy High School to be among his guests at an informal luncheon in the...Tags: Washington, DC, White House, Travel, Denis R. McDonough, Students
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Too much comfort in secret-keeping
Los Angeles TimesPresident Obama's response to the troubling news of indiscriminate government collection of communication information was meant to be reassuring: The NSA is operating under supervision by all three branches of government, he assured us. Even if this were...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, U.S. Congress, The New York Times, Justice System
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