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Let 'em spell it out: Congress has gone acronym crazy
The Times on Thursday editorialized in favor of a bill in Congress that would call on states to review laws that criminalize conduct by people infected by HIV. While the bill itself may be worthy, its title is an example of an obnoxious trend. Our...
Tags: DREAM Act, Laws, Verizon Communications, Social Issues, Discrimination
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Get rid of those outdated HIV laws
A bipartisan bill introduced in the House calls for a review of state laws that criminalize behavior by people with HIV, including many laws that seem anachronistic or inappropriate given what has been learned during the last three decades about the...
Tags: Prosecution, AIDS, Justice System, Vaginal Discharge, Crime, Law and Justice
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Political calculus keeps Cuba on U.S. list of terror sponsors
Cuba’s communist leadership was quick to send condolences to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings and to reiterate to Washington that it “rejects and condemns unequivocally all acts of terrorism.” Once a key supplier of arms and...
Tags: Sports, Pakistan, Environmental Pollution, Terrorism, National Government
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Former Marine back in the U.S. after months in a Mexican prison
After spending months in a Mexican prison for attempting to carry his great-grandfather’s shotgun into the country, a former Marine has been released and is back in the United States. Jon Hammar, 27, a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,...
Tags: U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Congress, Bill Nelson, U.S. Department of State, Mexico
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Cuba lifts 'exit visa' requirement for its citizens
World NowMEXICO CITY -- The Cuban government announced Tuesday that it plans to rescind the requirement that its citizens obtain exit visas in order to travel abroad, generating hope on the island that a longstanding bureaucratic hindrance to their freedom of... -
Orlando Bosch dies at 84; Cuban militant acquitted of 1976 bombing of jet
Orlando Bosch, a prominent Cuban militant who was acquitted in Venezuela of the 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner, died Wednesday at a suburban Miami hospital. He was 84.
Bosch's wife, Adriana, said the exiled opponent of communist Cuba's Fidel Castro had...Tags: Terrorism, Air and Space Accidents, National Security, Havana (Cuba), Caribbean Islands
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Haiti devastation could speed immigration debate
Top of the TicketAs Haiti reels from a devastating earthquake that flattened buildings and left thousands of people trapped under rubble, three Republicans from Florida are calling on President Obama to do what President Bush never did -- grant temporary protected... -
The hypocrisy of American bluster toward Iran
By now there is little doubt that hypocrisy has become Washington's standing policy on foreign affairs. What is astounding is the lack of shame in such overt duplicity as Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's (R-Fla.) accusations in her Dec. 14 Times Op-Ed article...Tags: Jeb Bush, Terrorism, National Security, Taliban, U.S. Department of Justice
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Fair elections for Pakistan
Since 9/11, the United States has placed greater importance on backing a Pakistani leader who will fight Islamic terrorism than on encouraging democracy for that troubled nation. The result is a country that is no more democratic and is now dangerously...Tags: John McCain, George W. Bush, Pakistan, National Security, Benazir Bhutto
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Passport delays infuriate U.S. lawmakers
ReutersWashington Lawmakers criticized a senior State Department official for failing to anticipate a surge in demand for passports that has led to long delays for hundreds of thousands of Americans trying to travel abroad. "The U.S. passport system is broken,...Tags: Interior Policy, Laws, Travel, Trips and Vacations, National Government
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Deep freeze in US-Cuba relations could be thawing
The Miami HeraldThere have been signs on two fronts this week that the Obama administration is willing to work toward warmer relations with Cuba that have been all but frozen since Havana jailed a U.S. government subcontractor in 2009. Two days of talks between U.S. and...Tags: National Government, Human Rights, Punishment, The Miami Herald, Politics
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Some in Congress question aid to Egypt over NGO prison sentences
McClatchy Foreign StaffCAIRO An Egyptian court's decision to convict 43 democracy proponents along with a proposed Egyptian law that would restrict how nongovernmental organizations here operate has spurred a chorus of concern from European leaders, members of the U.S. Congress...Tags: National Government, Angela Merkel, Human Rights, Elections, Punishment
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