Archive for September, 2009
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White House Proposes Changes in Bill Protecting Reporters’ Confidentiality
The Obama administration sent to Congress sweeping revisions to a “media shield” bill that would weaken its protections against forcing reporters to testify.
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Several Afghan Strategies, None a Clear Choice
President Obama met with his cabinet and advisers to consider charting a new course in Afghanistan.
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Broken in U.S.A.
A crackdown that forces 1,800 taxpaying would-be Americans into joblessness in a dismal economy is a law-enforcement victory only in the bitterest, narrowest sense.
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Senate Passes Jet Money
WASHINGTON The Senate voted Wednesday to spend $2.5 billion on 10 military cargo jets that the Obama administration does not want.
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Wonderful Copenhagen
President Obama's trip to Denmark to lobby for Chicago's Olympic bid for the 2016 Games will last only a few hours, yet the opposition wants to complain.
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E.P.A. Moves to Curtail Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The Environmental Protection Agency plan, long anticipated and highly controversial, would regulate emissions from thousands of power plants.
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Tsunami smashes Pacific islands, over 100 feared dead
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A series of tsunamis smashed into the Pacific island nations of American and Western Samoa killing possibly more than 100 people, some washed out to sea, destroying villages and injuring hundreds, officials said on Wednesday.
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U.S. envoy in Cuba met with officials, citizens
HAVANA (Reuters) - A senior U.S. diplomat who participated in recent talks in Havana about resuming bilateral mail service with Cuba stayed around to meet with Cuban officials and other Cubans in the latest sign of thawing U.S.-Cuba relations.
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Fresh South Korea nuclear proposal “ridiculous”: North
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea Wednesday rejected a proposal by South Korea's president for a fresh deal to end its nuclear arms program in return for massive aid, which he has said was possibly Pyongyang's last chance at survival.
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Iran says to enter Geneva talks with good intentions
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran is entering talks with six world powers this week with good intentions, the Islamic Republic's chief nuclear negotiator said on Wednesday as he left Tehran for the one-day meeting in Geneva.
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RPT-U.S. climate control debate heats up in Senate
WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's drive to tackle global warming gets a boost on Wednesday, when Democrats in the U.S. Senate are expected to unveil a bill aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions over the next four decades.
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Michelle Obama arrives to back Chicago bid
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - American First Lady Michelle Obama arrived on Wednesday, the first of a succession of state dignitaries due in Copenhagen to promote four rival bids for the 2016 Summer Olympics ahead of Friday's IOC vote.
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