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US senators urge reforms in Bangladesh apparel industry
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Key senators on Thursday urged the Obama administration and U.S. retail companies to press for change in Bangladesh's apparel industry after an April building collapse killed more than 1,100 factory workers. At a hearing of the Senate...Tags: Clothing, Services and Shopping, Clothing, Accessories, and Shoes, U.S. Senate, Consumer Goods Industries
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Analysts: Susan Rice, Samantha Power unlikely to alter foreign policy
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON President Barack Obama's appointment Wednesday of two longtime loyalists to top national security positions is unlikely to result in major shifts in U.S. foreign policy, despite their records as advocates of military intervention to avert...Tags: Susan Rice, Jay Carney, Pakistan, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Barack Obama
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Benghazi, IRS: Son of Watergate?
Cal ThomasIn his defense of President Obama, Press Secretary Jay Carney is beginning to sound a lot like Ronald Zeigler, Richard Nixon's spokesman. Carney only has to use the word "inoperative," as Ziegler did when incriminating evidence surfaced that proved his...Tags: Susan Rice, Jay Carney, Internal Revenue Service, Taxation, Television Industry
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Cardin to meet with family of Russian lawyer
Sen. Ben Cardin is scheduled to meet Thursday with the family of a Russian lawyer whose death sparked an international outcry over human rights in that country, renewing focus on a controversy that has complicated U.S.-Russian relations at a sensitive...
Tags: Corruption, Jay Carney, Civil Rights, Science and Technology, Human Rights
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COLUMN: Inching closer to entanglement in Syria
The White House finally made it official last week: Yes, the civil war in Syria is a slippery slope, and yes, we’re on it. Nobody in the Obama administration actually used those words, of course. But if you paid attention to what officials said,...Tags: U.S. Navy, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Armed Forces, Weaponry, Central Intelligence Agency
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Georgian president visits Baltimore
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili visited Baltimore on Wednesday as part of a U.S. tour intended to build support for his country's bid to join NATO. Saakashvili visited the city to meet with Sen. Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat. He has also met with...Tags: John Kerry, NATO, Mikheil Saakashvili
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Chuck Hagel survives
After all the thunder and lightning signifying nothing but more Republican obstructionism, former Sen. Chuck Hagel has taken over at the Pentagon, vowing a realistic approach to America's military role in the world. Not surprisingly, he indicated he...
Tags: Republican Party, Chuck Hagel, George W. Bush, U.S. Department of Defense, Iraq
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North Korea hit by new UN sanctions
UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council responded swiftly to North Korea's latest nuclear test by punishing the reclusive regime Thursday with tough, new sanctions targeting its economy and leadership, despite Pyongyang's threat of a pre-emptive...Tags: South Korea, Susan Rice, Pyongyang (North Korea), Korean War (1950-1953), Weaponry
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Western intervention in Syria is long overdue (UPDATED)
American VoicesSyria is fast becoming the new Somalia -- a nation whose central government wields little control over the bulk of the country while feuding sects and gangs fight each other as well as the thoroughly discredited president, Bashar al-Assad. Meanwhile,...Tags: Weaponry, Lebanon, International Criminal Court, Human Rights, Bashar Assad
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Hillary Clinton leaves D.C. well-positioned for 2016
Many Republicans and some conservative Democratic legislators in Annapolis believe the Maryland General Assembly has become a proving ground for the presidential ambitions of Gov. Martin O'Malley. The governor's critics believe that by pushing issues...
Tags: Regional Authority, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, Benghazi, Primaries
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Bob Menendez, senator of the evening
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bob Menendez is embroiled in a prostitution scandal -- and it has little if anything to do with sex. The New Jersey Democrat has for three months been the target of voluminous allegations, all unconfirmed, that he hired prostitutes,...
Tags: Ethics, FBI, David Vitter, Dominican Republic, Religion and Belief
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Foreign Service welcomes Kerry to Foggy Bottom
In greeting new Secretary of State John Kerry, members of the Foreign Service were welcoming one of their own. They hope his arrival at Foggy Bottom will mark new understanding of — and support for — the work they do around the world....
Tags: Christopher Stevens, The Washington Post, John Kerry, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Senate
Jun 6, 2013
|Story| McClatchy-Tribune
Jun 5, 2013
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May 14, 2013
|Column| Tribune Media Services
Apr 17, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Apr 15, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
May 1, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 1, 2013
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Mar 8, 2013
|Story| Associated Press
Feb 28, 2013
|Column| Tribune Media Services
Jan 28, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Feb 12, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Feb 9, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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