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- Anti-incumbent fever scarcely in evidence
- Odd politics, presidential tradition: Bush is back
- What next for Romney? Undercut Obama, raise money
- Anti-incumbent fever scarcely in evidence
- Gov't expanding E. coli tests in meat
- US again imposes clean-energy tariffs on China
- Alberta to seek C$10 billion from tobacco industry
- Fla. candidate legally changes name to web address
- French court lifts gagging order on Strauss-Kahn
- Romney's campaign misspells "America" in new app
- U.S. military trainers trickle back into Pakistan
- Israel urges tougher action against Assad
- Obama calls Romney, congratulates him on GOP nod
- Odd politics, presidential tradition: Bush is back
- What next for Romney? Undercut Obama, raise money
- Split-finger or HGH? Trial debates Clemens career
- Colombian rebels free French reporter held for a month
- Illinois State Rep. Goes Berserk in Epic Rant
- In Greek suicide note: financial despair and political rage
- Court fight over Internet rules likely delayed to 2013
- Canadian Conservatives lose MP, retain majority
- U.S. hints at bypassing U.N. on Syria
- New Pakistani reason for jailing bin Laden case doctor
- US levies new sanctions on key Syrian bank
- Fox News video sharply critical of Obama
- Text, don't call when natural disaster strikes
- Spain cries for help: Is Berlin listening?
- New French government to review drone plans
- FACT CHECK: Oil stats belie tough enforcement talk
- Syrian diplomat in the U.S. defects over Houla killings
- Catcher bolsters Clemens' claim on B12 needles
- African Union to take Mali to U.N. Security Council: source
| Anti-incumbent fever scarcely in evidence Posted: 30 May 2012 03:22 PM PDT Anti-incumbent fever is scarcely in evidence in the 2012 congressional primaries, despite costly efforts by conservatives to remake the Republican Party and this week's defeat of a Texas Democrat ousted after eight terms in office. |
| Odd politics, presidential tradition: Bush is back Posted: 30 May 2012 02:48 PM PDT
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| What next for Romney? Undercut Obama, raise money Posted: 30 May 2012 02:47 PM PDT
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| Anti-incumbent fever scarcely in evidence Posted: 30 May 2012 03:22 PM PDT Anti-incumbent fever is scarcely in evidence in the 2012 congressional primaries, despite costly efforts by conservatives to remake the Republican Party and this week's defeat of a Texas Democrat ousted after eight terms in office. |
| Gov't expanding E. coli tests in meat Posted: 30 May 2012 03:18 PM PDT The government is expanding E. coli testing in some raw meat, a move expected to prevent more people from contracting the bacteria that can cause severe illness or death. |
| US again imposes clean-energy tariffs on China Posted: 30 May 2012 03:11 PM PDT The Obama administration moved Wednesday to impose stiff new tariffs on wind-energy towers made in China, the latest strike in an escalating trade war over clean energy. |
| Alberta to seek C$10 billion from tobacco industry Posted: 30 May 2012 03:07 PM PDT CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - The Canadian province of Alberta will file a lawsuit against tobacco manufacturers seeking C$10 billion ($9.7 billion) to recover healthcare costs from smoking-related illnesses, the province's government said on Wednesday. The government said in a statement it has retained Tobacco Recovery Partners LLP, a consortium of law firms, to file the suit on its behalf but did not specify when the filing will be made. Alberta will be the fifth Canadian province to file suit against the tobacco industry. ... |
| Fla. candidate legally changes name to web address Posted: 30 May 2012 03:07 PM PDT Florida is letting a congressional candidate put the name of his web address on the ballot. |
| French court lifts gagging order on Strauss-Kahn Posted: 30 May 2012 03:01 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - A French appeals court on Wednesday lifted a gagging order that prevented former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn from speaking to the media during a judicial investigation into his links with a suspected prostitution ring. Strauss-Kahn is under investigation in France to establish whether he knew he was dealing with prostitutes and pimps when he attended sex parties in northern France, Paris and Washington in 2010 and 2011 allegedly organized by business acquaintances. He denies knowing that the women at the parties were prostitutes or that there was any violence. ... |
| Romney's campaign misspells "America" in new app Posted: 30 May 2012 02:59 PM PDT
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| U.S. military trainers trickle back into Pakistan Posted: 30 May 2012 02:56 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has sent a handful of military trainers back into Pakistan in a sign the two nations may be able to achieve some low-level cooperation against militants despite a string of confrontations that have left Washington's relations with Islamabad in crisis. Fewer than 10 U.S. special operations soldiers have been sent to a training site near the border city of Peshawar, where they will instruct trainers from Pakistan's Frontier Corps in counter-insurgency warfare, a U.S. official said. ... |
| Israel urges tougher action against Assad Posted: 30 May 2012 02:53 PM PDT TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak called on Wednesday for tougher world action against Bashar al-Assad, saying he doubted the Syrian president "lost an hour's sleep" over the expulsion of his envoys from several capitals after the Houla massacre. "These events in Syria compel the world to take action, not just talk, but action. These are crimes against humanity and the international community must not stand on the sidelines," Barak said in a speech at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. ... |
| Obama calls Romney, congratulates him on GOP nod Posted: 30 May 2012 03:24 PM PDT President Barack Obama on Wednesday congratulated Mitt Romney on securing the Republican presidential nomination, a gesture coupled with a new line of attack on the GOP challenger that portrays his economic record while governor of Massachusetts as a failure. |
| Odd politics, presidential tradition: Bush is back Posted: 30 May 2012 02:48 PM PDT
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| What next for Romney? Undercut Obama, raise money Posted: 30 May 2012 02:47 PM PDT
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| Split-finger or HGH? Trial debates Clemens career Posted: 30 May 2012 02:36 PM PDT
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| Colombian rebels free French reporter held for a month Posted: 30 May 2012 02:34 PM PDT BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's FARC guerrillas freed French reporter Romeo Langlois on Wednesday, a month after taking him hostage in a firefight that showed the leftist group is still a menace despite a decade of military blows. Langlois, the rebels' highest-profile captive since French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, was taken hostage in the southern Caqueta region on April 28 after he was caught in crossfire between a Colombian military unit he was embedded with and heavily armed FARC rebels. ... |
| Illinois State Rep. Goes Berserk in Epic Rant Posted: 30 May 2012 02:33 PM PDT CHICAGO – Lawmakers around the country have gone on some impressive rants in recent years – Rep. Anthony Weiner's outrage over the 9-11 first responders' bill and Rep. Patrick Kennedy's fury over the war in Afghanistan spring to mind – but perhaps none can match... |
| In Greek suicide note: financial despair and political rage Posted: 30 May 2012 02:33 PM PDT ATHENS (Reuters) - The note in the pocket of a Greek pensioner who hanged himself from a tree in Athens on Wednesday reflected the despair caused by an economic crisis and the politicised rage of a nation being driven to the brink. Greece, which used to have one of the lowest suicide rates in the world, has seen a surge of people taking their own lives since it was plunged into the euro zone's worst economic crisis. Experts say the suicide rate probably doubled last year. ... |
| Court fight over Internet rules likely delayed to 2013 Posted: 30 May 2012 02:28 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The legal fight over the U.S. government's new Internet traffic rules will likely drag into next year, according to a proposed court schedule. The Federal Communications Commission in 2010 adopted "net neutrality" rules that forbid broadband providers from blocking access to lawful content, while leaving flexibility for providers to manage their networks. For example, while other rules block access to child pornography, the "net neutrality" rules do not allow blockage of material the provider may oppose for political or other reasons. ... |
| Canadian Conservatives lose MP, retain majority Posted: 30 May 2012 02:24 PM PDT OTTAWA (Reuters) - A parliamentarian from Canada's ruling Conservatives Party has quit his job to go into provincial politics, but the Conservatives retain their majority in the House of Commons. Lee Richardson, from the oil-rich province of Alberta, said he was leaving Parliament to take up a post as principal secretary to Alberta Premier Alison Redford. The Conservatives still retain a healthy majority in the House of Commons, with 164 seats out of 308. And as Richardson is from Conservative-heavy Alberta, his seat will likely be filled by another Conservative. ... |
| U.S. hints at bypassing U.N. on Syria Posted: 30 May 2012 02:24 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - If the U.N. Security Council does not take swift action to pressure Syria to end its 14-month assault on the opposition, member nations may have no choice but to consider acting outside the United Nations, the U.S. envoy to the world body said on Wednesday. Speaking to reporters after international mediator Kofi Annan's deputy, Jean-Marie Guehenno, gave the 15-nation council a bleak assessment of the impact of Annan's efforts to halt the violence in Syria, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said there were three ways the Syrian conflict could end. ... |
| New Pakistani reason for jailing bin Laden case doctor Posted: 30 May 2012 02:12 PM PDT PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - In another twist to a case that is straining Islamabad's ties with Washington, a Pakistani court says the doctor who helped the United States find Osama bin Laden was imprisoned for aiding militants and not for his links to the CIA. It is the third different explanation for the 33-year jail sentence handed to Dr. Shakil Afridi. Last week after his conviction by a court in the Khyber tribal region near the Afghan border, Pakistani officials said the decision was based on treason charges for aiding the CIA in its hunt for the al Qaeda chief. ... |
| US levies new sanctions on key Syrian bank Posted: 30 May 2012 02:12 PM PDT The Obama administration added new sanctions on a Syrian bank Wednesday as a top White House official said the U.S. wants to economically throttle the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad and cut off salaries of pro-government thugs blamed for the grisly massacre in Houla. |
| Fox News video sharply critical of Obama Posted: 30 May 2012 02:11 PM PDT Fox News Channel's morning show on Wednesday twice aired a nearly four-minute video that contrasted President Barack Obama's words with negative statistics about his administration in a format that looked similar to a campaign advertisement. |
| Text, don't call when natural disaster strikes Posted: 30 May 2012 02:11 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It is better to send text messages than to call when natural disasters strike and networks get congested, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday, also urging people to add battery-powered cell phone chargers to their storm emergency kits. Craig Fugate, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told reporters that forecasts for a "normal" Atlantic hurricane season should not keep those in potentially affected areas from getting ready for storms that could make landfall. "There is no forecast yet that says where they are going to hit or not hit. ... |
| Spain cries for help: Is Berlin listening? Posted: 30 May 2012 02:09 PM PDT
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| New French government to review drone plans Posted: 30 May 2012 02:02 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - France will go back to the drawing board in its plans to build military drones, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Wednesday, putting into doubt a joint Franco-British project to develop the next-generation drone. Speaking to reporters, the new minister appeared to be distancing the new government from a decision by former President Nicolas Sarkozy to push Dassault Aviation and Britain's BAE Systems' to build their own drone as part of a defense accord between the two countries. ... |
| FACT CHECK: Oil stats belie tough enforcement talk Posted: 30 May 2012 01:58 PM PDT
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| Syrian diplomat in the U.S. defects over Houla killings Posted: 30 May 2012 01:56 PM PDT (Reuters) - A senior Syrian diplomat in the United States defected on Wednesday, telling NPR his decision was motivated by the killings of more than 100 civilians in the Syrian town of Houla over the weekend. "You get to a point where your silence or your inaction becomes ethically and morally unacceptable," Hazem Chehabi, Syria's Honorary Consul General in California, told NPR's Morning Edition. ... |
| Catcher bolsters Clemens' claim on B12 needles Posted: 30 May 2012 01:53 PM PDT
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| African Union to take Mali to U.N. Security Council: source Posted: 30 May 2012 01:48 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - The African Union plans to refer the situation in Mali to the United Nations Security Council so that it can create a framework for tackling the worsening crisis there, a diplomatic source close to the AU president said on Wednesday. Mali, once regarded as a fine example of African democracy, collapsed into chaos after soldiers toppled the president in March, leaving a power vacuum in the north that enabled rebels to take control of nearly two-thirds of the country. ... |
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