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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, Heads of State, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Laws, U.S. Congress
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Sequester reveals military excess
If there is anything positive to come out of sequestration, maybe it will motivate us to take a good long look at what we spend on our military. Sixty percent of the 2013 discretionary budget proposed by President Barack Obama goes to the military...
Tags: Military Equipment, Russia, Weaponry, Barack Obama, U.S. Navy
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Cardin stands up for rights
This month's passage of a new U.S.-Russia trade law has done more than showcase Senator Ben Cardin's dedication to international human rights. By sending the shock to the Kremlin — that the U.S. values prosecuting rights abusers as much as it...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Russia, European Parliament, Barack Obama, White House
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Obama returns to arms control -- just in time
President Barack Obama's call during the State of the Union address to reduce the threat of nuclear war could not have been more timely. The day before the president spoke, North Korea tested a primitive nuclear device, and the following day reports...
Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Russia, Entertainment Events, Pakistan, Iran
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A football win, a basketball firing, K-pop and Schwarzkopf
The Baltimore SunWhy is “Trouble Maker,” a K-pop song that's been around for a year, suddenly getting worldwide Twitter love? I blame end-of-year lists and an upcoming awards ceremony. On a less global scale, residents along the East Coast continue to be...Tags: Avery Johnson, Los Angeles Times, Washington, DC, U.S. Congress, New Year's Day
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Families worry about possible Russian adoption ban
To Heather and Aaron Whaley, they're already parents to a 4-year-old girl living in a Russian orphanage off the Sea of Japan. The Frederick couple have never met the child, but they've given her a name — Addie. They've hung pictures of her in a...
Tags: Family, Russia, Clarksville, Political Corruption, Adoption
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Assad's last stand
Syria's 20-month-long civil war appears to be approaching a tipping point as fighting around Damascus intensifies amid signs that President Bashar Assad's grip on power may be weakening. As the final phase in the long conflict apparently draws nearer, the...
Tags: Russia, NATO, The New York Times, Wars and Interventions, Libya
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Senate approves Cardin human rights bill
WASHINGTON -- Human rights legislation crafted by Sen. Ben Cardin and targeted at abuses in Russia sailed through the U.S. Senate on a bipartisan vote Thursday and will now be signed by President Obama. The provision requires the State Department to...Tags: U.S. Senate, Russia, NATO, U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of State
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Senate expected to back Cardin human rights measure despite White House concerns
— Legislation by Sen. Ben Cardin to pressure Russia on human rights abuses is expected to win approval in Congress Thursday despite concerns that it will hurt already tenuous U.S. relations with the Kremlin. The proposal — which requires the...
Tags: U.S. Senate, NATO, Republican Party, Human Rights Watch, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp
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Russia's adoption ban misguided
We adopted two Russian children, a 7-month-old girl in 1998 and three years later a 10-month-old boy. In addition, we have an older biological daughter. We chose Russia because we wanted to adopt an infant who shared our European heritage. The adoption...
Tags: Russia, Family, Adoption, Abusive Behavior
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Gorbachev, railing against capitalism, sounds a lot like Obama
Less than a week before the U.S. election, former president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev berated America and all but endorsed the sitting president and fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner at an event I attended in Houston. Speaking last Thursday from a...
Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Mitt Romney, Russia, Entertainment Events, Elections
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Obama has failed the nation
I grew up in a Democratic home. My Dad was always very aware of what was happening in government. We have copies of letters Dad wrote to the politicians of his day and the responses he received. Dad kept a chart on the fridge of all the local, state and...Tags: Bankruptcy, Abortion Issue, Christopher Stevens, Dmitry Medvedev, Abortion
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