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Tribal members walk out of Keystone XL Pipeline meeting
RAPID CITY, S.D. - In a historic move, representatives from several Native American tribes united and walked out on a meeting with U.S. State Department officials Thursday, in regards to talks over the Keystone XL Pipeline. Supporters of the project say...
Tags: Keystone XL Pipeline, Indigenous People, Politics, Human Interest, U.S. Department of State
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BLM Montana and Dakotas oil and gas lease sale nets nearly $11.5 million
BILLINGS, Mont. - As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and gas lease auction today netted $11,433,090 in revenues from the...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Politics, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Petroleum Industry, Barack Obama
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Obama rejects criticism from Afghan government
BERLIN -- President Obama on Wednesday rejected criticism from Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s office that the U.S. had said one thing and done another while arranging informal peace talks with the insurgent Taliban movement. “We had...
Tags: Taliban, Kabul (Afghanistan), Hamid Karzai, Berlin (Germany), Politics
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Business groups say expanding Medicaid would save them money
Two business coalitions are urging Florida lawmakers to go into special session this year and accept the federal Medicaid expansion plan that the Legislature left on the table when the 2013 regular session ended in May. The Florida Health Care...
Tags: Orlando, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Politics, Medicaid, Government Health Care
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Op-Ed: Murkowski Voices Support for Same-Sex Marriage
Editor's note: The following opinion piece was submitted by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and has not been edited. It has been published in its entirety. Not too long ago, I had the honor of nominating an Alaskan family as “Angels in Adoption,...Tags: Religion and Belief, Belief and Faith, Family, Politics, Washington, DC
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CBO: Senate Immigration bill would help economy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sweeping immigration legislation moving toward a vote in the Senate would boost the economy and reduce federal deficits, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday, at the same time it would bestow legal status on an estimated...
Tags: White House, U.S. Senate, Justice and Rights, Washington, DC, National Security
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Afghan government exits security talks with U.S.
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Underscoring Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s reputation in Washington as a mercurial U.S. ally, the Karzai administration suspended security talks with the United States on Wednesday, apparently without warning, a day before U....
Tags: Taliban, Kabul (Afghanistan), Hamid Karzai, Doha (Qatar), Politics
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Obama renews calls for nuclear reductions
BERLIN (AP) — Issuing an appeal for a new citizen activism in the free world, President Barack Obama renewed his call Wednesday to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles and to confront climate change, a danger he called "the global threat of...
Tags: Politics, Moscow (Russia), Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Nuclear Policy, Vladimir Putin
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Zoppo Plans Race For Bristol Council
The Hartford CourantThe stakes in this year's local elections just rose a few notches: Former council member Ellen Zoppo is planning to run for a District 3 council seat. Zoppo, who largely has been out of city government since losing a hard-fought mayoral primary to Art...Tags: Politics, Local Elections, Elections, Government
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Muslims sue NYPD over monitoring of mosques, congregants
New York Muslims have filed a federal lawsuit against the New York Police Department over the department's surveillance of Muslims, which they called invasive and unconstitutional. The public debate over government surveillance has crescendoed over...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Religious Conflicts, Sports, Terrorism, Justice and Rights
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Rowhani victory in Iran: Cause for hope, not expectations
With the election of congenial pragmatist Hassan Rowhani as the next president, Iran has caught the world off-guard. Emigres, opposition figures and diplomats had written off Friday’s vote as a preordained elevation of another anti-Western hard-...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Saeed Jalili, Hasan Rowhani, Politics, Islam
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In Berlin, Obama calls for reductions in U.S., Russian nuclear arms
BERLIN -- President Obama on Wednesday announced plans to go beyond the reductions outlined in the New START treaty with Russia and said he would seek an additional one-third cut in the number of strategic nuclear warheads in the U.S. stockpile, if the...
Tags: Politics, Angela Merkel, Nuclear Policy, Weaponry, Nuclear Weapons
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