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Tim Tebow will now have time to celebrate International Dance Day
Feliz Día Internacional de la Danza! Welcome to your post-weekend trends report for April 29, 2013. As the international Twitter scene lights up with colorful pictures of people dancing all over the world, the East Coast is more focused on the release...
Tags: ESPN (tv network), Ice Hockey, Google Inc., Dwight Howard, Sports Illustrated
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Drone warfare becomes America's face to the world
It is certainly not be what he hoped or intended, but one of President Barack Obama's biggest legacies in foreign affairs may prove to be the proliferation of drones as tools of war, assassination and terror. Mr. Obama is not the first to use drones...
Tags: Al-Qaeda, Statue of Liberty, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, John Brennan
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Mikulski poised to become Senate committee chair
Behind-the-scenes jostling for committee chairmanships in the U.S. Senate has left Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski poised to take over the Senate Intelligence Committee — a move experts said Tuesday could bolster the role cybersecurity plays in...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Democratic Party, National Security Agency, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Republican Party
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A Washington poker game with $16 trillion in the pot
Every kid knows that falling off a cliff is never good, but what about a "fiscal cliff" — how would that feel? Americans may indeed find out, if Congress is unable to pass a budget plan prior to Jan. 1. So, what's at stake if such an event occurs?...
Tags: Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Democratic Party, Parties and Movements, Harry Reid, Business
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Cardin, Mikulski urge Obama to speed withdrawal from Afghanistan
The Baltimore SunSens. Benjamin L. Cardin and Barbara A. Mikulski urged President Barack Obama on Wednesday to speed the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan. The Maryland Democrats joined a group of 24 senators in declaring the mission in Afghanistan...Tags: Jeff Bingaman, Democratic Party, Al-Qaeda, Mike Lee, National Government
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Calif. bans spam, sets fines
Times Staff WriterSACRAMENTO — Gov. Gray Davis signed into law Tuesday a groundbreaking bill aimed at banning often offensive "spam" advertisements from the online mailboxes of millions of California computer users. The measure, by state Sen. Kevin Murray (D-...Tags: Culver City, Advertising, Ray Schultz, Bill Lockyer, Companies and Corporations
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Anthrax alert shuts House
Sun StaffWASHINGTON - Investigators said that they have "substantive leads" about the origins of the anthrax that was mailed to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and triggered a partial shutdown yesterday on Capitol Hill. Congressional leaders closed the House...Tags: FBI, ABC (tv network), House Building, Tom Brokaw, Bill Frist
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Pentagon wants to let you bet on terrorism
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - The Pentagon is looking at setting up a commodity market-style trading system in which investors would be able to bet on political or even terrorist events, such as whether terrorists could strike Israel with biological weapons. Defense...Tags: Vice (movie), Democratic Party, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Derivative Securities
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Terror futures market canceled
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - A Pentagon proposal to start a "futures" market that would have let thousands of investors wager on the likelihood of terrorist attacks or coups in the Middle East was canceled yesterday. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told...Tags: Vice (movie), Finance, Defense, Laws, DARPA
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With woman's feeding tube set for removal, a rush for legislation
Orlando SentinelWASHINGTON - Terri Schiavo's feeding tube will be removed today at 1 p.m. unless a House committee succeeds in a last-minute effort to issue subpoenas that would stop doctors from doing so. An extraordinary legislative maneuver announced early today...Tags: Easter, George W. Bush, Ethics, Bill Frist, Local Government
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Congressional panels look at reports of Iraqi weapons
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - As the House opened a bipartisan review of pre-war intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction yesterday, Senate Democrats and Republicans disagreed sharply over what kind of inquiry to conduct. Republicans say they are willing to...Tags: Democratic Party, Al-Qaeda, Pat Roberts, Republican Party, George W. Bush
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Column: Head-in-the-sand Congress
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., a former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is hopping mad. Sensenbrenner considers himself the father of the Patriot Act, the 2001 law that gave the federal government new powers to investigate potential...Tags: National Security Agency, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Saxby Chambliss, Laws, Barbara A. Mikulski
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