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News FeedReuters - June 13, 2013
U.S. government investigators began an urgent search for Edward Snowden several days before the first media reports were published on the government's secret surveillance programs, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday....[view article]
My Way News - June 13, 2013
The United Nations' human rights office said Thursday that almost 93,000 people have been confirmed killed in the Syrian conflict, but the real number is likely to be far higher....[view article]
- June 13, 2013
More white people died in the U.S. last year than were born, a surprising slump coming more than a decade before the census predicts that the ranks of white Americans will drop with every passing year....[view article]
POLITICO.com - June 13, 2013
Dozens of lawmakers and aides are so afraid that their health insurance premiums will skyrocket next year thanks to Obamacare that they are thinking about retiring early or just quitting....[view article]
POLITICO.com - June 13, 2013
Bill Clinton told Sen. John McCain he agrees that President Barack Obama should act more forcefully to support anti-Assad rebels in Syria, saying the American public elects presidents and members of Congress "to see down the road" and "to win."...[view article]
OneNewsNow.com - June 13, 2013
The daughter of an imprisoned house church leader in China has issued an international plea because of her father's deteriorating health....[view article]
Denver Post - June 13, 2013
Wildfires in Black Forest near Colorado Springs, Royal Gorge Park and Rocky Mountain National Park are all burning as temperatures verging on triple digits and high winds hit Colorado....[view article]
Weekly Standard - June 13, 2013
At a Thursday press conference, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi condemned a bill that would prohibit abortions during the final four months of pregnancy with exceptions for when the life or physical health of the mother was at stake....[view article]
- June 13, 2013
Last week, I reported that in the midst of revelations about the National Security Agency's extensive top-secret surveillance operations to collect domestic phone records and internet communications, the Justice Department was fighting to keep secret a court opinion that determined that the government, on at least one occasion, had violated the spirit of federal surveillance laws and engaged in unconstitutional spying....[view article]
Washington Times - June 12, 2013
Sen. Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat, delivered a speech on the Senate floor in Spanish on Tuesday as he made his push for the chamber to pass his immigration bill....[view article]
My Way News - June 12, 2013
The former CIA employee who leaked top-secret information about U.S. surveillance programs said in a new interview in Hong Kong on Wednesday that he is not attempting to hide from justice here but hopes to use the city as a base to reveal wrongdoing....[view article]
WTOP News - June 12, 2013
The 26-page document in Arabic, recovered by The Associated Press in a building that had been occupied by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb in Timbuktu, strongly suggests the group now possesses the SA-7 surface-to-air missile, known to the Pentagon as the Grail, according to terrorism specialists....[view article]
The Washington Post - June 12, 2013
U.S. intelligence operatives covertly sabotaged a prominent al-Qaeda online magazine last month in an apparent attempt to sow confusion among the group’s followers, according to officials....[view article]
- June 12, 2013
The Obama administration will scrap age restrictions on the sale of emergency contraception pills, making the morning-after pill available to women and girls without a prescription....[view article]
CNN - June 12, 2013
The former NSA contractor who disappeared after he acknowledged leaking details about secret American surveillance programs will fight any effort to bring him back to the United States for prosecution, a Hong Kong newspaper reported Wednesday....[view article]
WorldNetDaily - June 12, 2013
The explosion of intelligence-gathering scandals is giving the left time to get its story straight, at least, on the IRS scandal....[view article]
CNN - June 12, 2013
U.S. intelligence agents have been hacking computer networks around the world for years, apparently targeting fat data pipes that push immense amounts of data around the Internet, NSA leaker Edward Snowden claimed Wednesday to the South China Morning Post newspaper....[view article]
AP - Associated Press - June 12, 2013
The House is girding for another wrenching debate on abortion after a House panel on Wednesday approved legislation that would ban almost all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy....[view article]
AP - Associated Press - June 12, 2013
The director of the National Security Agency says surveillance programs have disrupted or helped disrupt dozens of terrorist attacks....[view article]
- June 12, 2013
Nearly a third of the world's technically recoverable natural gas and 10 percent of its oil can be found in shale formations, according to a new report by the Energy Information Administration. Thanks to fracking and horizontal drilling, there's a bounty of oil and gas available to countries around the world ....[view article]
Wall Street Journal - June 12, 2013
THE U.S. NAVY WILL NO LONGER COMMUNICATE EXCLUSIVELY IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, but use lowercase letters....[view article]
Breitbart - June 12, 2013
On Wednesday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency reportedly sent a letter to Texas Governor Rick Perry to notify him that FEMA would not be providing federal emergency management aid for the West, Texas explosion that virtually destroyed the entire town. According to the Associated Press, the letter said that the explosion "is not of the severity and magnitude that warrants a major disaster declaration."...[view article]
- June 12, 2013
The rest of the world has found out that the U.S. government has been listening to their phone calls and watching what they do on the Internet and they do not like it one bit....[view article]
Guardian - June 11, 2013
President's reversal means emergency contraception drug will be available to women of all ages without a prescription....[view article]
Reuters - June 11, 2013
A Chinese manned spacecraft blasted off with three astronauts on board on Tuesday on a 15-day mission to an experimental space lab in the latest step towards the development of a space station....[view article]
CNS News - June 11, 2013
The IRS, currently in the midst of scandals involving the targeting of conservative groups and lavish taxpayer-funded conferences, is ordering surveillance equipment that includes hidden cameras in coffee trays, plants and clock radios....[view article]
Fox News - June 11, 2013
As if the government wasn't sneaky enough already! Zero Motorcycles has created a stealth motorcycle for use by U.S. Special Operations Forces: The MMX....[view article]
First Post - June 11, 2013
US Internet companies that want to resist government demands to hand over customer data for intelligence investigations have few legal options, due to the classified nature of such probes and a court review process shrouded in secrecy....[view article]
NBC News - June 11, 2013
The Supreme Court began to hand down rulings last Monday, and will continue to do so this month, issuing decisions on a variety of hot-button issues -- ranging from the 1965 Voting Rights Act to whether a company can patent a human gene....[view article]
MSNBC - June 11, 2013
Taliban fighters beheaded two boys, aged 10 and 16, as a warning to villagers not to cooperate with the Afghan government, local officials said....[view article]
ChristianPost.com - June 11, 2013
Recently retired NFL player Matt Birk who played center for the 2012 Super Bowl champs, the Baltimore Ravens, rejected the opportunity to join the team on the traditional champion's trip to the White House this week because of President Barack Obama's support for Planned Parenthood....[view article]
Wall Street Journal - June 11, 2013
When Americans expressed outrage last week over the seizure and surveillance of Verizon's client data by the National Security Agency, President Obama responded: "In the abstract, you can complain about Big Brother . . . but when you actually look at the details, I think we've struck the right balance."...[view article]
OneNewsNow.com - June 11, 2013
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said recently he has no intention of stepping down, but a former congressman insists it's just a matter of time -- just ... a ... matter ... of ... time....[view article]
Real Clear Politics - June 11, 2013
The contradictions at the heart of the Obama presidency are finally out in the open. As a result, a man who came into office hellbent on restoring faith in government is on the verge of inspiring a libertarian revival....[view article]
Gallup.com - June 11, 2013
In a Gallup tracking poll released Tuesday, former-President George W. Bush currently stands with a favorability rating of 49%, compared to 46% who see the 43rd president unfavorably. Meanwhile, another Gallup poll shows President Obama with only a 47% approval rating, with 44% disapproving....[view article]
Guardian - June 10, 2013
The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Snowden has been working at the National Security Agency for the last four years as an employee of various outside contractors, including Booz Allen and Dell....[view article]
CBSNews.com - June 10, 2013
CBS News has uncovered documents that show the State Department may have covered up allegations of illegal and inappropriate behavior within their ranks....[view article]
Family Research Council - June 10, 2013
Pray for our military personel. Religious faith expressions are under attack. Urge Pentagon to scrub plan to court-martial Christians.Honor the chaplains....[view article]
Breitbart - June 10, 2013
New Gallup poll, Hillary Clinton's favorability rating has tumbled 6 points, to 58%. Meanwhile, her unfavorable rating has jumped 8 points to 39%....[view article]
Real Clear Politics - June 10, 2013
"Let's be clear, Gregg, this is an administration and a presidency that is in crisis. You have three huge issues -- you have the NSA issue that broke this week, the phone records; you have three scandals with the IRS; the Justice Department; you also have an agenda that basically is dead in the water. This is a presidency that is effectively at a tipping point and...[view article]
CBSNews.com - June 6, 2013
U.S. border agents should continue to be allowed to search a traveler’s laptop, cellphone or other electronic device and keep copies of any data on them based on no more than a hunch, according to an internal Homeland Security Department study. It contends limiting such searches would prevent the U.S. from detecting child pornographers or terrorists and expose the government to lawsuits....[view article]
NBC News - June 6, 2013
President Barack Obama's signature health care reform law remains unpopular with the American public just months before it fully goes into effect, according to the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll....[view article]
Forbes.com - June 6, 2013
The National Security Agency has long justified its spying powers by arguing that its charter allows surveillance on those outside of the United States, while avoiding intrusions into the private communications of American citizens....[view article]
National Review Online - June 6, 2013
IRS employees say that it's impossible the targeting operation was confined to Cincinnati....[view article]
Washington Examiner - June 6, 2013
Yes! Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius must allow a dying 10 year-old girl to be placed on a waiting list for an adult lung transplant by waiving a rule that would keep her off the list because she’s under the age of 12, a federal judge ordered today, after Sebelius told Congress she would not do so....[view article]
AP - Associated Press - June 6, 2013
It may sound like an unlikely No. 1 best-seller for any country, but in Norway — one of the most secular nations in an increasingly godless Europe — the runaway popularity of the Bible has caught the country by surprise. The Scriptures, in a new Norwegian language version, even outpaced "Fifty Shades of Grey" to become Norway's best-selling book....[view article]
Breitbart - June 6, 2013
Well, if it is Thursday, there must be a new Obama scandal. But one thing is for damn sure, whatever that scandal is, you can bet the American mainstream media will be playing catch up and not carrying the glory of breaking a story about a major White House scandal....[view article]
The Hill - June 6, 2013
The House late Wednesday voted to stop the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from entering into new contracts to buy millions of rounds of ammunition until the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reports to Congress on the need for the ammo, and its cost....[view article]
OneNewsNow.com - June 6, 2013
The Obama administration on Thursday defended the National Security Agency's need to collect telephone records of U.S. citizens, calling such information "a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats."...[view article]
Washington Times - June 6, 2013
The House voted Thursday to overturn all of President Obama's non-deportation policies, in a vote freighted with meaning as Congress warily eyes a broader immigration debate later over the next few months....[view article]
Weekly Standard - June 6, 2013
Valerie Jarrett, a close adviser to Obama, said that Eric Holder is "definitely" not stepping down and that he'll be attorney general "for quite a while."...[view article]
Voice of the Martyrs - June 6, 2013
PAKISTAN: Taliban Kidnap Young Disciple of Christ Sources: God Reports, Assist News Service A 16-year-old Christian convert from Islam by the name of Aman Ullah was kidnapped by the Taliban on May 25th in Peshawar, the heart of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province. "We don't know which of the 32 different Taliban groups operating both in Afghanistan and Pakistan is responsible," says John Taimoor, founder of Crossbearers ministry. "My team, workers and disciples from Muslim backgrounds are facing pressures from many...[view article]
- June 5, 2013
Red-light camera hatred in Hawkeye State morphed into three-in-one privacy bill....[view article]
The Hill - June 5, 2013
A new poll finds a trio of controversies raising public concerns about the “honesty” of the Obama administration....[view article]
FT - Financial Times - June 5, 2013
The population of rural and small-town America contracted over the past two years for the first time on record as young people left to search out work in the cities and birth rates fell, according to official data....[view article]
POLITICO.com - June 5, 2013
The plight of a dying 10-year-old girl in urgent need of a lung transplant has been taken up by some GOP lawmakers, and it’s shining a light on what critics say is a questionable policy that puts children further down the waiting list....[view article]
- June 5, 2013
The U.S. will send anti-missile batteries and fighter jets to Jordan at the kingdom's request to boost defense capabilities in the face of an attack from neighboring Syria, Jordanian officials said Wednesday....[view article]
OneNewsNow.com - June 5, 2013
Southern Baptists are gearing up for their 2013 convention in Houston and will be dealing with Calvinism, which has been a topic of debate within that denomination for quite some time....[view article]
Huffington Post - June 4, 2013
A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for police to take a DNA swab from anyone they arrest for a serious crime, endorsing a practice now followed by more than half the states as well as the federal government....[view article]
WIRED.com - June 4, 2013
While humans have dreamed about going to Mars practically since it was discovered, an actual mission in the foreseeable future is finally starting to feel like a real possibility....[view article]
My Way News - June 4, 2013
Some of President Barack Obama's political appointees, including the Cabinet secretary for the Health and Human Services Department, are using secret government email accounts they say are necessary to prevent their inboxes from being overwhelmed with unwanted messages, according to a review by The Associated Press....[view article]
CBSNews.com - June 4, 2013
More than 100 people were arrested Monday at the largest demonstration yet of the North Carolina NAACP's weeks-long protest of the conservative policies of the Republican-led General Assembly....[view article]
The Washington Post - June 4, 2013
Last spring, Frank Turkaly tried to kill himself. A retiree in a Pittsburgh suburb living on disability checks, he was estranged from friends and family, mired in credit card debt and taking medication for depression, cholesterol, diabetes and high blood pressure....[view article]
Foreign Policy - June 4, 2013
A formerly obscure naval exercise involving China and the United States is coming under increased scrutiny ahead of President Barack Obama's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday....[view article]
- June 4, 2013
South Carolina this week could become the first state in the country to restrict the enactment of Obamacare since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld that law last year.
Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2013/06/03/2800482/obamacare-nullification-bill-on.html#storylink=cpy...[view article]
My Way News - June 4, 2013
Retired Staff Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford says he will never forget locking eyes with the [Islamic cult] gunman who entered a Fort Hood building Nov. 5, 2009, and then unleashed a burst of gunfire into a crowd of soldiers preparing for deployment....[view article]
Guardian - June 4, 2013
Banned search terms include 'today', 'tomorrow' and date references in attempt to quell protest. But we know what they did to these innocent victims! The truth will not be hidden....[view article]
AP - Associated Press - June 4, 2013
Already under siege, the IRS was cited by a government watchdog for a $4.1 million training conference featuring luxury rooms and free drinks, even as conservative figures told Congress Tuesday they had been abused for years while seeking tax-exempt status....[view article]
CBSNews.com - June 4, 2013
An abortion [or murder of innocent unborn children] battle could be brewing in Albany, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to propose a major change to abortion [murder of the unborn] laws in New York State....[view article]
- June 4, 2013
With improved security systems, vehicle theft has been dropping since 1998, and will be all but eliminated by 2030 with the Internet of Things. By 2020 over 50 billion devices will be connected to the Internet. By 2030, virtually every item of value will become traceable with tiny electronic sensors, known as smart dust, manufactured into them....[view article]
- June 4, 2013
A UN report on Syria said Tuesday there are "reasonable grounds" to believe that limited quantities of toxic chemicals have been used as weapons in at least four attacks in Syria's civil war, but said more evidence is needed to determine the precise chemical agents used or who used them.--CBC News...[view article]
Washington Examiner - June 4, 2013
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rebuffed an appeal from Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Pa., on behalf of a girl who needs a lung transplant but can't get one because of a federal regulation that prevents her from qualifying for a transplant....[view article]
- June 4, 2013
"This year, we celebrate LGBT [homosexual sin] Pride Month at a moment of great hope and progress, recognizing that more needs to be done. Support for LGBT [homosexual] equality is growing, led by a generation which understands that, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." [Scripture clearly peaks of homosexuality is a sin.]...[view article]
McClatchy - June 4, 2013
Israel's military fumed Monday over the discovery that the U.S. government had revealed details of a top-secret Israeli military installation in published bid requests....[view article]
- June 4, 2013
The deadly tornado that struck near Oklahoma City late last week had a record-breaking width of 2.6 miles and was the second top-of-the-scale EF5 twister to hit the area in less than two weeks, the National Weather Service reported Tuesday....[view article]
Real Clear Politics - June 4, 2013
The topic of killer robots was drawn back into the public sphere last week with the widely publicised call for a moratorium on the development and use of “lethal autonomous robotics” by a top UN human rights expert; and inevitably, this conjured up some familiar concerns....[view article]
France24.com - June 3, 2013
Al-Qaeda's military chief in Yemen warned Americans in an audio message posted online Sunday that the Boston bombings revealed a fragile security as he urged Muslim [cult members] to defend their [false] religion....[view article]
AP - Associated Press - June 3, 2013
The Internal Revenue Service, already under fire after officials disclosed that the agency targeted conservative groups, faces increased scrutiny because of an inspector general's report that it spent about $50 million to hold at least 220 conferences for employees between 2010 and 2012....[view article]
- June 3, 2013
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie can name a successor for Frank Lautenberg, who died at the age of 89 on Monday, becoming the 299th Senator to pass away in office. But it's yet another moment when what's good for Christie in 2013 might not be good for him in 2016. Christie, after all, is a Republican running a state that voted for President Obama by almost 18 points....[view article]
My Way News - June 3, 2013
A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday said police can routinely take DNA from people they arrest, equating a DNA cheek swab to other common jailhouse procedures like fingerprinting....[view article]
- June 3, 2013
In a final regulation issued Wednesday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) assumed that under Obamacare the cheapest health insurance plan available in 2016 for a family will cost $20,000 for the year....[view article]
- June 3, 2013
One was a former University of Kentucky basketball player who practiced in Leitchfield, Ky. Another had been commonwealth’s attorney in Kenton County....[view article]
AP - Associated Press - May 30, 2013
Saudi Arabia has reported that three more people have died from a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing the total number of deaths globally to 30....[view article]
National Journal - May 30, 2013
A bill waiting for Gov. Rick Perry's signature would set up even stricter protections for user data than current federal law....[view article]
- May 30, 2013
The government obtained "thousands and thousands" of phone records of Associated Press staffers according to CEO Gary Pruitt. Pruitt held a town hall meeting with AP staff and revealed that the phone records obtained by the DOJ included incoming and outgoing calls for the news organizations....[view article]
The Daily Caller - May 30, 2013
Publicly released records show that embattled former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman visited the White House at least 157 times during the Obama administration, more recorded visits than even the most trusted members of the president's Cabinet....[view article]
- May 30, 2013
Hasbro is one of those companies that most of us could never imagine as one of life's bad guys. The people at Hasbro make toys and children's entertainment, for crying out loud. Sure they've been behind some animated shows that were little more than extended commercials for the latest action figure, but Hasbro has never been high on the list of things parents need to worry about....[view article]
POLITICO.com - May 29, 2013
The Justice Department began contacting D.C. bureau chiefs of major print and broadcast news organizations yesterday to set up a meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss changes to the department’s guidelines for subpoenas to news organizations. A source close to Holder said that in retrospect, he regrets the breadth and wording of the investigation involving Fox’s James Rosen (which Holder approved), and recognizes that the subpoena for AP records (Holder had recused...[view article]
BBC - May 29, 2013
A suspected US drone has crashed in the southern Lower Shabelle region of Somalia, according to reports....[view article]
AP - Associated Press - May 29, 2013
Chinese hackers stole the blueprints of Australia's new spy agency headquarters years ago and the breach has been dealt with since then, an opposition lawmaker said Wednesday in the first confirmation of media reports....[view article]
OneNewsNow.com - May 29, 2013
Though one congresswoman says the best chance at repealing ObamaCare is after the 2014 election, opponents of the healthcare law don't have to sit and wait until then....[view article]
- May 29, 2013
Dr. Michael Ciampi took a step this spring that many of his fellow physicians would describe as radical....[view article]
The New York Times - May 29, 2013
At his first presidential campaign rally, Saeed Jalili on Friday welcomed the cheers of thousands of young men as he hauled himself onto the stage. His movements were hampered by a prosthetic leg, a badge of honor from his days as a young Revolutionary Guards member in Iran's great trench war with Iraq....[view article]
NBC News - May 29, 2013
Jay Sekulow, an attorney representing 27 conservative political advocacy organizations that applied to the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status, provided some of the letters to NBC News. He said the groups' contacts with the IRS prove that the practices went beyond a few "front line" employees in the Cincinnati office, as the IRS has maintained....[view article]
CBSNews.com - May 29, 2013
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday expressing "great concern" about the possibility that Holder lied under oath during his testimony earlier this month on the Justice Department's seizing of journalists' records, CBS News has learned....[view article]
BBC - May 29, 2013
Wow, it's beautiful. It is not only dealing with two-dimensionality, it's trying to create three dimensions, or four dimensions - giving you a notion that you are travelling across the surface of this image....[view article]
Fox News - May 29, 2013
Top Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee openly challenged Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday over his testimony two weeks ago in which he claimed to be unaware of any "potential prosecution" of the press, despite knowing about an investigation that targeted a Fox News reporter....[view article]
Guardian - May 28, 2013
As there are no UN sanctions against Libya, Russia can legally sell these missiles to the Syrian government. Sanctions on Syria have either been bilateral or EU sanctions, and therefore do not bind Russia....[view article]
RT.com - May 28, 2013
As the Islamic Republic of Iran prepares for presidential elections next month it is fielding a "massive" number of new long-range missile launchers, Iranian media reported on Sunday....[view article]
