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A year after Obama grants young immigrants a respite from deportation, the debate continues
Last June, the Obama administration unveiled a special program that grants some young undocumented immigrants protection from deportation. A year later, that program remains in place and so does the controversey surrounding it. Under the program,...
Tags: Extradition, FBI, Immigration, DREAM Act, International Law
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Getting U.S. weapons to Syria rebels will take weeks
WASHINGTON — Delivering weapons and ammunition to beleaguered Syrian rebels will take weeks, White House officials acknowledged Friday as the administration's decision to supply arms set off a debate about how far, and how fast, President Obama's...
Tags: Vladimir Putin, Russia, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Bashar Assad, David Cameron
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U.S. says Syria used chemical weapons, will send arms to rebels
WASHINGTON — The White House declared Thursday that Syria had crossed a "red line" by using chemical weapons in that country's civil war, and in response, U.S. officials said, President Obama had authorized sending arms to some rebel groups. The...
Tags: Ban Ki-moon, Vladimir Putin, Lindsey O. Graham, Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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NSA leaker's girlfriend 'left lost at sea'
WAIPAHU, Hawaii — They don't make power couples like this very often: He is a self-proclaimed whistle-blower, the focus of international headlines and Obama administration ire. She apparently describes herself as a "world-traveling, pole-dancing...
Tags: Social Sciences, Japan, Edward Snowden, Entertainment, Culture
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When anti-gay bullying and free speech collide
As Congress revisits federal education policy, gay rights activists are pressing for the enactment of the Student Non-Discrimination Act of 2013, which would prohibit harassment of students in public schools “on the basis of actual or perceived...
Tags: International Military Interventions, Samuel A. Alito, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Health and Safety at School, Freedom of the Press
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As Syria humanitarian crisis grows, donors are in short supply
WASHINGTON — Facing a growing humanitarian crisis, Oxfam, the international relief agency, set a goal in January of raising $53 million to aid victims of Syria's brutal civil war. So far, Americans have contributed $150,000. Oxfam isn't alone....
Tags: Natural Disasters, Haiti Earthquake (2010), Woodrow Wilson, Oxfam America, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Syria's Assad crossed 'red line.' What's Obama's next move?
Rarely has a military escalation been so exquisitely gradual. President Obama has been calling for Syria’s President Bashar Assad to surrender power for almost two years. Last year, he proclaimed a “red line,” a prohibition against...
Tags: National Security Agency, John Kerry, John McCain, Vladimir Putin, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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NSA contract analyst says he leaked surveillance documents
WASHINGTON — Calling America's spying capabilities "horrifying," a 29-year-old former CIA employee revealed himself Sunday as the primary source of unauthorized disclosures of highly classified U.S. telephone and Internet surveillance systems that...
Tags: Mike J. Rogers, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Dianne Feinstein, Fort Meade (military base), U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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McManus: Obama's foreign policy reset
The appointment of Susan Rice as national security advisor sends an important signal about the kind of foreign policy President Obama wants to pursue for the remainder of his second term: activist, assertive, occasionally even pugnacious. With three years...
Tags: Arab Spring, Armed Conflicts, Vladimir Putin, International Military Interventions, Russia
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Obama presses cyber security issue in first talks with Xi
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. -- President Obama said late Friday that he pressed Chinese President Xi Jinping on the issue of cyber security during their initial discussions at a two-day summit and suggested they work together to prevent computer hacking, no...
Tags: Xi Jinping, White House, Peru, China, Barack Obama
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Afghanistan bombings kill 19, including 11 children
KABUL, Afghanistan — Two bomb blasts killed at least 19 people in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, including 11 children and two soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition, as Taliban militants continued a wave of violence as part of their spring offensive....
Tags: Motorvehicle Accidents, Explosions, Kabul (Afghanistan), Armed Conflicts, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Afghan bombings kill nine children, 10 others
KABUL, Afghanistan—Two bomb blasts killed at least 19 people, including nine schoolchildren, in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, as Afghan Taliban militants continued a wave of violence as part of their spring offensive. In one attack, a suicide...
Tags: Explosions, Motorvehicle Accidents, Kabul (Afghanistan), Armed Conflicts, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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