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Peace Corps opens door for same-sex couples to serve together
The U.S. Peace Corps will begin accepting applications from same-sex couples who wish to serve overseas together for the first time next month, the agency announced Tuesday. The move follows a broader shift by the Obama administration toward publicly...
Tags: Peace Corps, Gays and Lesbians, John F. Kennedy
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Obama's 'Katrina moment'
It has been a rough week or so for the Obama administration. From Benghazi to the tapping of reporters' phones to the IRS admitting that it targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny, the press is in a frenzy, and many are questioning President...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Justice System, Lewis Libby, Woodrow Wilson, Barack Obama
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Could Biden benefit from scrutiny of Hillary Clinton's handling of Benghazi?
If former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hoped she could segue quietly into private life as she pondered a presidential bid in 2016, that fantasy has been abruptly harpooned in the resurrection of the political squabble over the terrorist attack on...
Tags: Andrew Cuomo, Barack Obama, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Martin O'Malley, Joe Biden
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The job market is bad enough; why add immigration reform?
Years ago it was unthinkable that smart, ambitious and college-educated young people would have trouble finding entry level work ("Slow start," May 12). Today, this youthful demographic has been simultaneously dumped on a shrinking employment market and...
Tags: Class Conflict, Immigration
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Cummings a disgrace in Benghazi hearings
The other day I sat down to watch some of the coverage of the Benghazi hearings and almost spit out my drink in utter dismay at the ignorance and incompetence of Rep. Elijah Cummings ("U.S. diplomat details attack in Benghazi," May 9). Now, mind you...
Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Elijah E. Cummings, U.S. Congress, Benghazi, Hillary Clinton
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Breathless over Benghazi: Republicans can't help overplaying their hand
Republicans could make an easy hit on the Obama administration by highlighting the State Department's apparent bureaucratic blundering during and after the deadly terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last fall, but they refuse to...
Tags: Mike Huckabee, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Barack Obama, Awards and Prizes, Entertainment Events
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Bad faith and Benghazi
"Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night and decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference -- at this point, what difference does it make?" That was how then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton famously...
Tags: White House, Al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, Christopher Stevens, Libya
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Benghazi: The Obama spin continues
"Bumps in the road." — President Barack Obama on the unrest in Libya and elsewhere in the Middle East that included the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, an information officer, and two Navy SEALS. "Crude and disgusting"… "an...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Islam, Barack Obama, Susan Rice
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Book donations honor woman killed in Afghanistan bombing
The Baltimore SunThe Books For Kids Day event has a touching twist this year: It's being dedicated to Anne Smedinghoff, the 25-year-old Johns Hopkins University alum who was killed in a bombing while delivering textbooks to school children in Afghanistan. Smedinghoff,...Tags: Anne Smedinghoff, Johns Hopkins University
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Benghazi deserves real review
Whether the House investigation into the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is a political witch hunt aimed at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her possible run for president in 2016, as Democrats allege, or a principled...
Tags: John Boehner, Barack Obama, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Elections, Libya
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Federal innovation a matter of perspective
The federal government has an innovation problem — or does it? The answer depends on whom you ask. Federal employees surveyed over the past three years have had a declining view of government innovation. But that doesn't mean Uncle Sam doesn't...Tags: Lyndon B. Johnson, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Public Employees, Space Programs, NASA
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Cardin should put Maryland ahead of Israel
I appreciated reading the commentary, "Don't let Israel discriminate," (April 30) This is a concern that has been long documented by the State Department and a new bill in Congress has been written to provide a "look the other way" response to these...
Tags: Benjamin L. Cardin, Israel, U.S. Congress
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