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IRS official who took the 5th placed on leave
Insisting that she's "done nothing wrong," Lois Lerner, the IRS official in charge of the division that targeted conservative nonprofit groups for additional scrutiny of their applications for tax-exempt status, invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a congressional ...
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Cops Utah teen arrested in death of his 2 brothers
istockphoto (AP) WEST POINT, Utah -- A teenager was arrested Thursday in the deaths of his two younger brothers, ages 4 and 10, at the family home in a Utah subdivision of new homes and tidy lawns, police said. Davis County Sheriff Todd Richardson said authorities believe the boys died from knife wounds. It appears the 15-year-old boy acted alone, he said. "As result of the emerging ...
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IMF chief faces more questioning over payout
IMF chief Christine Lagarde faces another day of questioning after being grilled for hours by French prosecutors who are deciding if she should be charged over a state payout to a disgraced tycoon during her time as finance minister. Lagarde has ...
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Boy Scouts to Admit Openly Gay Youths as Members
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Osmaniye Governor said the pilot was killed in plane crash in Amanoslar region…
OSMANIYE - Governor Celalettin Cerrah of southern Osmaniye province said pilot of F-16/C military plane, which crashed in Amanoslar region, died.Cerrah told AA that search and rescue teams have found the body of the pilot after his plane crashed near Caksir plateau.Pilot's body was brought in Osmaniye, said Cerrah.Earlier in the day, General Staff said radio contact was lost with an F-16 ...
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Senators Call for Lois Lerner to Be Fired
We are writing to urge you to suspend immediately Lois Lerner from her office as Director of the Office of Exempt Organizations at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). We believe that Ms. Lerner failed to disclose crucial information concerning the IRS's inappropriate targeting of some conservative 501(c)(4) organizations during the course of a Subcommittee investigation into how the IRS ...
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Benghazi Investigation Deepens Lawmakers Seek Interviews of 13 Officials Involved
As the investigation into the Obama administration's handling of the attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi intensifies, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are seeking to conduct transcribed interviews with thirteen top State Department officials in the coming weeks in order to learn more. Those named in the letter include a wide range of current and former State Department personnel, from senior ...
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Former Goldman banker settles SEC pay-to-play charges
investment banker has agreed to a five-year securities industry ban and a record fine to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges that he broke rules against influence peddling to win bond underwriting business in Massachusetts.Without admitting or denying wrongdoing, Neil Morrison, 38, accepted what the SEC said was the first industry ban for violating "pay-to-play" ...
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Asif Ali Zardari likely will lose Pakistan’s presidency – and immunity from prosecution
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s president, Asif Ali Zardari, will certainly lose his job in September – and like his predecessor, retired Gen. Pervez Musharraf, he’s likely to face criminal charges under the government of newly elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Zardari has lived with the virtual inevitability of facing charges of corruption since 2009, when Pakistan’s ...
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PM IAEA reports shows Iran’s expanding its nuclear program
Following release of IAEA report, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tells British Foreign Minister William Hague economic, diplomatic pressure has failed to stop Iran, presenting the "biggest challenge of our ...
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Obama tackles drones Guantanamo in reset of war on terror
President Barack Obama Thursday laid out new guidelines for drone strikes and launched a new bid to close Guantanamo Bay, warning that a "perpetual" US war on terror would be ...
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Police make 2 new arrests in London soldier killing
British police investigating the brutal murder of a soldier by suspected Islamists in London said on Thursday they had arrested two alleged ...
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Oklahoma Tornado Young Survivors Begin To Heal
Children from two schools destroyed by the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma have been reunited with their classmates and teachers as other schools welcomed them with special events. Large banners at the entrance to Wayland Bonds Elementary welcomed pupils from Briarwood - which was all but flattened by Monday's ferocious twister. On what would have been the last day of term, the event was a ...
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Google faces new federal antitrust probe source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators are in the early stages of an antitrust probe into whether Google Inc, which dominates web display advertising, has broken antitrust law in how it handles some ad sales, a source told Reuters on ...
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Obama limits U.S. drone strikes in shift from constant war footing
1 of 3. An X-47B pilot-less drone combat aircraft is launched for the first time off an aircraft carrier, the USS George H. W. Bush, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia, May 14, ...
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Code Pink anti-war protester shouts at Obama during national security speech
President Barack Obama pauses while talking about national security, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. Declaring America at a "crossroads" in the fight against terrorism, the president revealed clearer guidelines for the use of deadly drone strikes, including more control by the U.S. military, while leaving key details of the ...
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First funeral held for young Oklahoma tornado victim
OKLAHOMA CITY Friends and family are attended the funeral services for a 9-year-old girl killed by Monday's tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb. Thursday's funeral for Antonia Candelaria was the first since the storm that killed 24 people. Ten of the victims were ...
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Tornado damage numbers significantly downgraded
Lightning strikes during a thunderstorm as tornado survivors search for salvageable belongings at their devastated home May 23, 2013, in Moore, ...
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The Donald prevails in fraud suit
CHICAGO An 87-year-old grandmother took on billionaire Donald Trump. And on Thursday she lost. Jurors sided with the real estate mogul-turned-TV showman in a weeklong civil trial focused on Jacqueline Goldberg's claim that Trump cheated her in a condo bait-and-switch scheme. The federal jury in Chicago returned with a finding in Trump's favor. Goldberg, of Evanston, had sought various ...
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Watch Director Alex Gibney on Wikileaks Assange and Manning
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney talks to CBSNews.com about his latest documentary, "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks," which recounts the rise and fall of Julian Assange, and the saga of Army SPC. Bradley Manning, who is facing trial for leaking classified material that cast a critical light on actions by the U.S. government and ...
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We Steal Secrets Alex Gibney and the war on WikiLeaks
(CBS News) "When I started this story I thought it was about a leaking 'machine,' and about the United States' surveillance machine," said filmmaker Alex Gibney about his latest documentary, "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks." "But it turns out that all that surveillance and all that electronic drop-box leaking, it pales in comparison to the ...
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Obama U.S. at a crossroads in terrorism fight
Updated: 4:03 p.m. ETIn a sweeping speech addressing the nation's counterterrorism strategy, President Obama on Thursday unveiled new restrictions on the nation's controversial targeted killing policy, and - despite repeated interruptions from a heckler -- officially outlined plans to restart transfers of Guantanamo Bay prisoners to third countries. During an hour-long speech at the ...
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Obama defends drone strikes says they arent cure-all
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Thursday defended America's controversial drone attacks as legal, effective and a necessary linchpin in an evolving U.S. counterterrorism policy. But he acknowledged the targeted strikes are no "cure-all" and said he is haunted by the civilians unintentionally ...
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Obama to Heckler Part of Free Speech Is ... You Listening
"Ma'am, let me finish. Let me finish ma'am," said Obama. "This is part of free speech is you being able to speak but also you listening. And me being able to speak. All ...
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Swedens riots raise questions about inequality
Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture. So many people were shocked when scores of youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze during rioting in several largely immigrant areas near Stockholm this week. Few dispute that the violence was probably touched off by the fatal police shooting of an elderly man who had locked himself in an ...
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Osaka sees first InterContinental hotel built
Osaka is a major travel destination within Japan and the wider Asian region for business travelers and leisure tourists alike. The city is an economic powerhouse and part of the backbone of the Japanese economy. It makes sense for InterContinental to finally open a hotel here then.
Osaka is the second command center of the Japanese economy after Tokyo, with a daytime and nighttime population that reflects the massive draw of the city as an economic powerhouse. Read more
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