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DOCUMENTS: White House releases trove of Benghazi emails
WASHINGTON (AP) — Then CIA-Director David Petraeus objected to the final talking points the Obama administration used after the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, because he wanted to see more details revealed to the...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Susan Rice, John O. Brennan, FBI
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GOP ready to push Benghazi case into 2014, beyond
WASHINGTON (AP) — Steady drips of information about a horrific night in Libya are fueling Republican arguments and ads designed to fire up the conservative base and undercut the Democrats' early favorite for president in 2016. Strategists in...Tags: Susan Rice, Terrorism, Politics, Operation Fast and Furious, Islam
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Analysis: Why Google NKorea visit irks US
WASHINGTON (AP) — Google chief Eric Schmidt's plan to visit North Korea has put the Obama administration in the awkward position of opposing a champion of Internet freedom engaging with one of the most intensely censored countries. But the Obama...
Tags: Kim Jong Un, Park Geun-hye, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Politics, Eric Schmidt
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Kerry stays quiet as Cabinet speculation swirls
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John Kerry is angling to be the nation's top diplomat by being, well, diplomatic. The longtime Democratic lawmaker from Massachusetts has largely stayed quiet while President Barack Obama considers him for the next secretary...
Tags: John Edwards, Susan Rice, Talk Shows (genre), Democratic Party, Scott P. Brown
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Facebook used to kidnap, traffic Indonesian girls
DEPOK, Indonesia (AP) — When a 14-year-old girl received a Facebook friend request from an older man she didn't know, she accepted it out of curiosity. It's a click she will forever regret, leading to a brutal story that has repeated itself as...
Tags: Kidnapping, Media Industry, Twitter, Inc., Sexual Assault, Philippines
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Sister frustrated by response to missing priest
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The sister of a Roman Catholic priest from Indianapolis missing in Greece says she is frustrated by the way the State Department reacted to her brother's disappearance, saying a U.S. embassy official in Athens asked if her...Tags: Roman Catholicism, Christianity, Religion and Belief
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Ind. police dogs to be featured in reality show
DENVER, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana police dog training facility and three of the state's police departments will star in a new National Geographic reality television show that will begin airing in January. Vohne Liche Kennels owner Ken Licklider told...Tags: The Pentagon, Television, Drug Trafficking, Peru, Television Industry
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Arab Spring, American summer: Foreign students visit Michiana, tell their stories
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterSOUTH BEND -- Menna, 20, paid no attention to politics until the Egyptian revolution started on Jan. 25, 2011. "We never imagined the president would be overthrown," said the young medical student, who lives in Sohag, a city about 240 miles from Cairo,...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Health, Tripoli (Libya), Career and Workplace, Separation of Church and State
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Indiana teen stuck in Mexico gets visa to graduate HS
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An attorney says a star student at a central Indiana high school who was stuck in Mexico over an immigration technicality is returning home in time for her graduation. Indianapolis attorney Sarah Moshe (MOW'-shuh) says 18-year-...Tags: Personal Data Collection, Interior Policy, Immigration, Politics, Mexico
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Dog injured in Afghanistan finds new life in Indiana
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — A white, mixed-breed dog utters a warning bark at a beige SUV as it pulls up alongside a barn on Mount Gilead Road, a few miles east of Bloomington. The van stops, and a 30-year-old man climbs out. "Hey, buddy," the man...
Tags: Afghanistan, U.S. Military, Pakistan, U.S. Embassy, Kabul (Afghanistan)
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Clinton embraces 'Texts From Hillary' web parody
WASHINGTON (AP) — LOL. Hillary Clinton has a tech-savvy sense of humor and she wants you to know it. The secretary of state is firmly embracing an Internet parody that purports to show her texting various politicians and celebrities, shooting...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Washington, DC, Barack Obama, Joe Biden
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U.S. State Department offers radiation antedote to workers in Japan
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is offering potassium iodide to its staff in Japan as a precaution against a possible radiation release from the tsunami ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In a travel warning released early...Tags: Travel Alerts, Japan, Career and Workplace, Washington, DC, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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