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Obama defends foreign policy from Republican criticism 
Reuters - 3 Hours ago
President Barack Obama on Wednesday staunchly defended his foreign policy record against Republican election-year criticism that he has overseen a decline in American power in the world. Addressing graduating     Add Comment

Obama team trumpets new polling on gay marriage 
Miami Herald - 3 Hours ago
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is touting new polls that show growing support for gay marriage following the president's public embrace of same-sex unions.
Obama team trumpets new polling on gayâ?¦ STLtoday.com
Obama team trumpets new polling on... KRLA 870
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Romney says Congress should wait to act on economy 
CBS News - 3 Hours ago
WASHINGTON Mitt Romney says that if elected Congress should wait until he takes office to block automatic spending cuts and to keep tax cuts from expiring.In an interview with Time magazine on Wednesday,     Add Comment

Presumptive GOP Nominee Mitt Romney to Address Nation's Latino Leadership at NALEO  
Reuters - 4 Hours ago
PR Newswire WASHINGTON, May 23, 2012 WASHINGTON, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) announced today that Governor Mitt Romney,     Add Comment
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>>   US social policy
The Search Agency Illustrates Where To Sew Your Social Sharing Buttons 
Reuters - 3 Hours ago
Infographic Details Best Social Sites for Referral Traffic, Reaching Men vs. Women, and More PR Newswire LOS ANGELES, May 23, 2012 LOS ANGELES, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Search Agency, a global
The Search Agency Illustrates Where To Sew Your Social Sharing Buttons PR Newswire Yahoo! Finance
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Compusearch to implement and host the U.S. Department of Labor's new Acquisition  
Yahoo! Finance - 3 Hours ago
/PRNewswire/ -- Compusearch "We are pleased to work with the U.S. Department of Labor DOL will replace its legacy acquisition system with Compusearch's PRISM, a fully-integrated, web-based, full acquisition     Add Comment

AME Church Bishop Hartford Brookins Dies at 86 
ABC News - 3 Hours ago
Hamel Hartford Brookins, a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church for 30 years and a longtime civil rights activist, has died in Los Angeles. He was 86. A church statement says Brookins died
H. Hartford Brookins, bishop of AME Church and civil rights activist, dies in Los  FOXNews.com
AME Church Bishop Hartford Brookins... KRLA 870
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Don't eliminate Census survey 
CNN - 4 Hours ago
Editor's note: Ilyse Hogue is the former director of political advocacy and communications for MoveOn.org. She has been a senior strategist to a number of Democratic and progressive groups, including     Add Comment
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>>   US political columnists
Arianna Finally Has Someone To Run The Huffington Post's Business (AOL) 
San Francisco Chronicle - 7 Hours ago
It took a while, but Arianna Huffington and AOL seem to have finally found someone to run the business side of things at the Huffington Post. The new publisher's name is Janet Balis, and she is being
Arianna Finally Has Someone To Run The Huffington Post's Business Yahoo! Finance
Arianna Finally Has Someone To Run The Huffington Post's Business Business Insider Yahoo! Finance
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America's uneasy 'browning' 
Chicago Tribune - 18 Hours ago
White babies are no longer a majority of new births, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. America is quietly "browning," it is said, like dinner rolls in a warm oven. Yet such change does not come about     Add Comment

The War on Contraception Enters the Courts 
American Prospect - 3 Hours ago
A new lawsuit has petitioners fighting for the right to impose their beliefs on others with taxpayer money. And the federal courts, increasingly filled with the fringes of the Republican Partyâ??might     Add Comment

Clinton as Veep Wouldn't Change the Election 
American Prospect - 3 Hours ago
Polls show Obama is doing just fine with women voters. Donate Email Print Send to Instapaper Polls remain essentially tied between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney as the campaign heads into the pre-convention     Add Comment
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>>   US security
Rep. King: CIA, Pentagon, too close to filmmakers 
CNBC - 3 Hours ago
WASHINGTON - A House committee chairman charged Wednesday that the CIA and Defense Department jeopardized national security by cooperating too closely with filmmakers producing a movie on the raid that     Add Comment

Counter Terror Expo US Inaugural Event a Success; Two Day Conference & Expo Drew  
Reuters - 3 Hours ago
Session on the Iranian-Hezbollah threat garnered most attention; Exhibition attracted top decision makers among counterterrorism community Counter Terror Expo US, the conference and expo serving our nationâ??s     Add Comment

Pakistan hands 33-year sentence to doctor who helped CIA track bin Laden 
Miami Herald - 4 Hours ago
ISLAMABAD -- The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA in the hunt for Osama bin Laden was sentenced to 33 years in prison for treason Wednesday, officials said, in a further blow to relations between Islamabad     Add Comment

Fitzgerald stepping down as US attorney in Chicago 
Fresno Bee - 3 Hours ago
_ CHICAGO Fitzgerald has overseen thousands of criminal prosecutions and high-profile cases, including against Illinois governors Rod Blagojevich and George Ryan, former Vice President Dick Cheney's top     Add Comment
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>>   Human rights
U.N. warns agrofuel growth may breach human rights 
Reuters - 4 Hours ago
Large-scale crop plantations are expanding at a rapid pace across southeast Asia, with multinational firms often benefiting the most at the expense of local communities and the environment, two U.N. rights     Add Comment

UK Bans Leaders Who Abuse Rights From Olympics 
ABC News - 7 Hours ago
Britain will ban leaders guilty of human rights abuses from traveling to Britain for the 2012 London Olympics. Jeremy Browne, the Foreign Office minister, told lawmakers on Wednesday that people linked
UK bans leaders who abuse human rights from Olympics Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Human rights panel finds Lewiston hospital discriminated against gynecologist 
TMC Net - 15 Hours ago
(Bangor Daily News - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- AUGUSTA, Maine -- A gynecologist was fired illegally because of her Crohn's disease, the Maine Human Rights Commission decided     Add Comment

Greek crisis: How to prevent a humanitarian disaster 
New Scientist - 4 Hours ago
Once you are registered, New Scientist will send you our weekly newsletter, as well as occasional relevant information via email from New Scientist about our content, services, products, events, offers     Add Comment
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>>   International development
World Bank says Europe, US might hurt Asian growthEast Asia's developing economies  
Jakarta Post - 10 Hours ago
East Asia's developing economies could face a shock from China's slowdown and need to boost domestic demand to offset weak exports due to a sluggish U.S. recovery and Europe's debt crisis, the World Bank     Add Comment

World Bank says Europe, US might hurt Asian growth East Asia's developing economies  
Jakarta Post - 15 Hours ago
Overall growth for East Asian economies should decline from last year's 8.2 percent to a still-robust 7.6 percent, the bank said. The group includes China, South Korea and Southeast Asia and excludes     Add Comment

East Asia developing countries to see 7.6 percent growth: World Bank 
SINA - 15 Hours ago
BEIJING, May 23 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank cut its economic growth forecast for developing countries in East Asia this year to 7.6 percent on Wednesday. It said that sluggish global demand and the slowing     Add Comment

RI accepts $3.5b loan â??in case of emergencyâ?? Indonesia has accepted a loan of  
Jakarta Post - 18 Hours ago
Rahmat Waluyanto said the rest of the money would come from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, the Australian government and the Asian Development Bank. "There hasn't been any official commitment     Add Comment
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>>   Afghanistan
Obama defends foreign policy from Republican criticism 
Reuters - 3 Hours ago
President Barack Obama on Wednesday staunchly defended his foreign policy record against Republican election-year criticism that he has overseen a decline in American power in the world. Addressing graduating     Add Comment

Afghan war book wins Orwell Prize 
BBC - 109 Minutes ago
A book about the death of a British officer in Afghanistan, once pulped by the Ministry of Defence, has won the Orwell Prize for political writing. Dead Men Risen, written by Toby Harnden and published     Add Comment

Obama lays out post-war vision, touts American exceptionalism in address 
Washington Post - 2 Hours ago
COLORADO SPRINGS President Obama sent 1,000 Air Force Academy cadets into active duty Wednesday by laying out his vision for a postwar America in which the United States leads beyond the battlefield and     Add Comment

Aid workers held in Afghanistan 
BBC - 13 Hours ago
Two foreign aid workers and three Afghan colleagues have been kidnapped in the country's north-eastern province of Badakhshan on Tuesday, officials say. They were abducted in while travelling on horseback     Add Comment
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>>   Iran
Iranians seek return of singer from Germany 
CBS News - 104 Minutes ago
TEHRAN, Iran Iran's official news agency says protesters in front of the German Embassy in Tehran are seeking return of an Iranian-born singer who went into hiding after receiving death threats.Singer     Add Comment

Report: Iran holds military maneuvers 
CBS News - 3 Hours ago
TEHRAN, Iran Iran's official news agency says Iran's military has wound up a one-day exercise in the center of the country.The Wednesday report by IRNA says Gen. Ahmad Reza Pourdastan, commander of Iran's
Report Iran holds military maneuvers Philippine Times
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Counter Terror Expo US Inaugural Event a Success; Two Day Conference & Expo Drew  
Reuters - 3 Hours ago
Session on the Iranian-Hezbollah threat garnered most attention; Exhibition attracted top decision makers among counterterrorism community Counter Terror Expo US, the conference and expo serving our nationâ??s     Add Comment

Syria kidnap triggers alarm over Lebanon 
Reuters - 3 Hours ago
The kidnap by Syrian gunmen of Lebanese Shi'ite pilgrims caused international allies and adversaries of President Bashar al-Assad to sound an alarm on Wednesday about a spread of sectarian violence across     Add Comment
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>>   Iraq
Obama defends foreign policy from Republican criticism 
Reuters - 3 Hours ago
President Barack Obama on Wednesday staunchly defended his foreign policy record against Republican election-year criticism that he has overseen a decline in American power in the world. Addressing graduating     Add Comment

World powers, Iran discuss detail of possible nuclear deal 
Reuters - 3 Hours ago
Iran and world powers exchanged unusually detailed proposals at talks in Baghdad on Wednesday in hopes of defusing a long, volatile standoff over suspicions Tehran's atomic energy program may be a disguised     Add Comment

WRAPUP 4-Powers, Iran discuss detail of possible nuclear deal 
CNBC - 3 Hours ago
(Adds Iranian media reporting Iranian package to powers) * Powers float new proposal to curb uranium enrichment * Two sides give positive signals as Baghdad talks begin * Iran says pressure is futile
Powers, Iran discuss detail of possible nuclear deal Firstpost.com
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World powers, Iran discuss possible nuclear deal 
Chicago Tribune - 4 Hours ago
_ BAGHDAD (Reuters) - World powers and Iran held unusually detailed talks on Wednesday about how it could show its nuclear work is not a disguised quest for atom bombs, in a Baghdad meeting aimed at halting     Add Comment
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