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  • Obama to reveal Guantanamo Bay plans drones strategy on Thursday

    President Barack Obama will be speaking on his administration's evolving counterterrorism policies on Thursday, a White House official has said. The official told POLITICO that the president will also be discussing the administration's controversial use of drones and renewed plans to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Obama will discuss the country's broad counterterrorism policy, ...

  • India-US Homeland Security dialogue to begin today

    The four-day India-US Homeland Security dialogue between Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and his American counterpart Janet Napolitano will begin here today. Threats from terror groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba and al-Qaeda, illicit financing and transnational crimes are high on their agenda. Both the sides are expected to take stock of the existing mechanisms such as the Joint Working Group on ...

  • Tornadoes tear through central US

    Tornadoes tore through three central American states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Iowa with baseball-sized hail and wind blasts ripping roofs off homes and turning trees to matchsticks, as severe weather swept the region. A large "violent and extremely dangerous" tornado was spotted Sunday night on the southwest side of Wichita, Kansas and a second confirmed one was seen near Edmond, Oklahoma, the ...

  • Alleged unmasked CIA agent leaves Russia

    Ryan Fogle, the man Russia's security services claimed to have captured last week as he tried to recruit a Russian to spy for the US, left Moscow Sunday, a media report said. Fogle checked in on a flight at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, NTV said. The Russian foreign ministry had earlier declared Fogle, a third secretary at the US Embassy in Moscow, persona non grata for "activity incompatible ...

  • Column Dustups have governments role in common

    There's a common thread running through a series of controversies dogging President Barack Obama: the federal government, and conflicting interpretations of what it is. The debate often is boiled down to this: Obama's notion of an activist, capable government that helps people vs. Republicans' impression of an intrusive, incompetent central body that hurts ...

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The Times of Harvey Milk [Blu-Ray]

The Times of Harvey Milk [Blu-Ray]

The Times of Harvey Milk begins in a moment of grief and shock: The very first images we see are from news cameras recording in almost uncomfortable close-up the face of Dianne Fienstein, then-president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, announcing that ... ...

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  • White House Damage Control Script Jeopardized By New Disclosures

    President Obama claims not to have been made aware of the IRS indiscretions until May 10th it seems the White House’s chief lawyer learned weeks ...

  • Proximity Of Fast Food Restaurants Has Impact On Body Mass Index Of Low Income African-Americans

    BMI ) than those who lived further away from fast food, according to researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and this association was particularly strong among those with a lower income. A new study published online in the American Journal of Public Health indicates higher BMI associates with residential proximity to a fast food restaurant, and among lower-income ...

  • Legislative showdown brewing over $2 million for Teach for America

    A $2 million pot of money to hire more teachers for the Clark County School District could be in danger -- with a contingent of Assembly Democrats apparently digging in their heels against the money. Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval wants to spend $2 million during the next two years to help the ...

  • Video Thief hit by bus after robbing woman in Colombia

    The CCTV footage shows the criminal slowly walking up to his victim and trying to snatch her bag.After a brief struggle, the man gets up with her phone and attempts to escape.Almost instantly, a bus pulls into the station and hits the man as he dashes out the door, knocking him over and dragging him underneath the bus.Incredibly, the woman who had just been mugged helps rescue him.After being ...

  • American drone strike kills two suspected al-Qaeda members in Yemen

    An unmanned drone carries out a touch go landing in the Atlantic (US Navy/AFP) Two al-Qaeda militants were killed in an American drone strike in central Yemen on Monday, AFP reported.The attack took place in ...

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