May 18, 2013

National/World Headliness

GOP, Dems Challenge Holder Over Subpoenas To AP

Posted: 05/15/13 - Congressional Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday challenged Attorney General Eric Holder over the Justice Department's handling of the investigation of national security leaks and its failure to talk to The Associated Press before issuing subpoenas for the news service's telephone records. Read More

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Ousted IRS Chief: Errors Not Caused By Politics

Updated: 05/17/13 - The ousted chief of the Internal Revenue Service is telling Congress that his agency made errors in targeting conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, but he says the mistakes were not the result of partisan views. Read More

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NTSB Wants Drunk Driving Threshold Lowered To .05

Updated: 05/14/13 - A decade-old benchmark for determining when a driver is legally intoxicated -- the 0.08 blood-alcohol content rate -- should be lowered to 0.05, reducing the amount a motorist can drink before being presumed to be drunk, federal safety officials said Tuesday. Read More

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Russia Detains U.S. Diplomat Accused Of Spying

Posted: 05/14/13 - Russian officials say Ryan Fogle, a third secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, was carrying special technical equipment, disguises, written instructions and a large sum of money when he was detained overnight. Read More

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Government Obtains Wide AP Phone Records In Probe

Posted: 05/13/13 - The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. Read More

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Obama Tries To Swat Down 2 Swirling Controversies

Posted: 05/13/13 - President Barack Obama tried to swat down a pair of brewing controversies Monday, denouncing as "outrageous" the targeting of conservative political groups by the federal IRS but angrily denying any administration cover-up after last year's deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya. Read More

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Plans To Export U.S. Natural Gas Stir Debate

Posted: 05/12/13 - A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed export projects that could set off a renewed frenzy of fracking. Read More

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Newtown Panel: Tear Down Sandy Hook, Rebuild

Posted: 05/10/13 - Officials in Newtown, Conn. say the district should tear down the elementary school where 20 first-graders and six educators were shot to death in December and construct a new building on the property. Read More

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State Department Sought To Change Libya Talking Points

Posted: 05/10/13 - Political considerations influenced the talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly Sept. 11 assault in Benghazi, Libya, with State Department and other senior administration officials asking that references to terror groups and prior warnings be deleted, according to department emails. Read More

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