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Google wants to make public PRISM information
Google asked a special court in Washington Tuesday to let it make public information it's being forced to give to the government. Google is one of nine companies named in NSA documents as providing information to the top-secret PRISM program. The company is asking that U.S. officials give it more authority to describe the government's demands as it and other companies seek to reassure ...
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Obama Hollande hold private meeting after G8
Obama said. The two leaders had a private conversation after the Group of Eight meeting at the Lough Erne Resort in Northern Ireland. Obama, describing France as the "oldest ally" of the United States, said he and Hollande discussed a wide range of issues. On Afghanistan, they discussed the announcement that local authorities are now taking the lead on security. And they talked about ...
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Wizards Pre-Draft Workout Schedule Wednesday June 19
The Washington Wizards will conduct a pre-draft workout tomorrow - Wednesday, June 19th - at 10:30 am at Verizon Center. The following players are currently scheduled to participate in Wednesday's ...
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White House Petition Calls for Ban of Creation Science Intelligent Design From Schools
The new holographic exhibit at the Creation Museum in Petersburg,, Kentucky. The exhibit was set up as part of the celebration of the five year anniversary of the Creation Museum's founding in ...
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SEAL Team 6 could include women by 2016 under Pentagon plan
The Pentagon has said women will be able to compete for positions within Special Operations Forces like SEAL Team 6. The transition won't be simple, officials ...
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Woman Struck by Dump Truck in Northwest
According to officials, police were sent out to the intersection of 4th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW just after 2 p.m. The woman was conscious and breathing after the incident, but the major crash unit was ...
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UnitedHealth delays under Pentagon contract may hurt profits
The Pentagon will step in for the third time to combat medical-care delays under UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s $20.5 billion contract, as an analyst warned they risked hurting the company's earnings. The bottlenecks began after the nation's biggest health insurer took over the contract for coordinating medical services in April. The delays forced the Defense Department to temporarily ...
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Growing number think White House ordered IRS targeting poll says
The number of Americans who think the White House ordered the Internal Revenue Service to target conservative political groups is growing, a poll found. The CNN/ORC International survey, released Tuesday, found a majority of respondents think the controversy, related to enhanced IRS scrutiny of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, is very important to the nation. The number of people ...
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Days Of Rambo Are Over Pentagon Details Womens Move To Combat
Women in the U.S. military will be integrated into front-line combat units by 2016, the Pentagon says. Here, female Marine recruits stand in formation during pugil stick training in boot camp earlier this year at Parris Island, ...
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VIDEO Several Teens Get Into a Fight On Metro
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- A group of teens got into a fight on a Metro train and platform in Washington on Monday. The incident was all caught on tape at the Woodley Park Red Line Metro stop. The train operator called for Police who were on the scene within three minutes. They held the juveniles at the top of the escalator of the Metro stop for about five minutes but they were all released since ...
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Hagel Dedicates Pentagon Korean War Exhibit
By Terri Moon CronkAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, June 18, 2013 Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel today dedicated what he called a "magnificent" permanent display in the Pentagon to honor veterans of the Korean ...
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Flash Flooding Could Follow Heavy Rain
A more serious flash flood warning has been issued for parts of Prince George’s, Anne Arundel, Charles, Calvert, Orange, Greene and Madison counties, lasting until 4:30 or 5 ...
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Watch Biden Pushes White House Gun Control Priorities
Folks. It's good to see so many. So many faces I I'd hoped. We would have assembled. In this auditorium. Earlier. Although -- hope we were and a have assembled here. Couple months ago. Celebrating the first in the number of victories that we will have. In -- India. The congress. 44. Of our college it was a 45. Voted no. -- you rational simple straightforward. Extension of an existing ...
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No injuries reported in pre-dawn Louisiana gas line explosion fire
A pre-dawn blast at a natural gas line lit up the eastern Louisiana sky Tuesday, but no injuries or significant property damage were reported, officials said. The explosion occurred about 5:30 a.m. CDT south of Franklinton, the seat of Washington Parish, The (New Orleans) Time Picayune reported. The 30-inch line was quickly shut down and the fire extinguished, said Vicki Granado, a spokeswoman ...
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NASA issues challenge to find study all asteroids threats
NASA says it is instituting a "Grand Challenge," with the goal of finding all asteroid threats to human populations and deciding what to do about them. Complementing the recently announced mission to redirect an asteroid and send humans to study it, the initiative will use multidisciplinary collaborations and a variety of partnerships with other government agencies, international ...
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Senior US General Encouraged by News of Taliban Talks
PENTAGON -- The White House announced Tuesday that U.S. representatives will open direct talks with Taliban representatives in Doha, Qatar, within the next few days, aimed at finding a political solution to the Afghan war. The announcement is being welcomed by the commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, U.S. Marine General Joseph Dunford. General Dunford said his forces had no ...
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Pentagon Announces Progress in Opening Jobs to Women
By Karen ParrishAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, June 18, 2013 The services and U.S. Special Operations Command have completed plans to gradually open jobs to female service members that used to be closed to them, senior Pentagon officials announced today. Joined by senior service officials at a Pentagon news conference, Juliet Beyler, the Defense Department's director of ...
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Anglers gearing up for Eastern Washington summer salmon-bound runs
Anglers are champing at the bit for summer-salmon season, and are also watching the sockeye move up the Columbia in our direction. If you look at the dam counts you will see that the summer-run salmon are starting to hit Bonneville Dam at over 2,000 a day. It won't be long before they start showing up in the upper Columbia and should be here in great numbers when the season opens on July ...
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Biden White House has not given up on gun control
By Michael O'Brien , Political Reporter, NBC News The Obama administration will not drop its pursuit of tougher gun laws, Vice President Joe Biden vowed Tuesday, warning lawmakers who opposed earlier gun legislation of political hell to pay."The country has changed," Biden, the administration’s point person on gun control, said at an event at the White House. "You will ...
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Sleepwalking into Washingtons future | Jon Talton
. At the time, it was the nation’s fifth-largest city but the economy was so limited that the people most looked to for progress were all on the taxpayers’ payroll. One would have to go far down a list of ';most important'; people in Seattle to find a public servant, such is the depth, strength and diversity of this business community. Public servants don’t matter, ...
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Josh Duggar Moving to Washington to Join FRC Action
The Duggar family is famously known for the 19 children born to Jim Bob and Michelle. The Arkansas family is featured on the hit reality TV show "19 Kids and Counting" on ...
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Pentagon to Send Women to Dangerous Missions
Washington, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) Pentagon plans to send women to high risk combat missions aim at counteract a rise in sexual crimes en the United States (U.S.) Army. In the light of a special plan from de Defense Department, from 2015 women in the military can train and combat as Army Rangers, Delta Forces and even Navy SEALs. According to the entity, women will be deployed in special ...
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Suspicious Package Forced Evacuation Of CBS News Washington
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- Tweets from CBS News' Steve Chaggaris said employees evacuated the CBS News Washington bureau after a suspicious package was found. Police said the suspicious package was a black bag left at the entrance to CBS. A CBS New York employee told us that CBS sent out an email calling it a bomb scare. Chaggaris says police closed M Street between 20 and 21st street. He ...
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The White House’s Renewed Push On Gun Safety Starts Today
Vice President Joe Biden will deliver remarks today launching a renewed push on gun violence prevention. Biden will emphasize the significant progress made on nearly two dozen executive orders issued by President Obama, while reiterating that there is absolutely no substitute for congressional action. ';Passing common-sense gun safety legislation, including expanding background checks and ...
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The NSA Leaker Benghazi and Washingtons Security Scandals
We seem to be in a perpetual "scandal a month" mode in Washington. Especially our foreign observers must be wondering whether there is something in the water making our politicians behave so strangely. Sure, the Europeans have scandals too, but rarely do we see a string of them there like we have had here of ...
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