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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: White House, Al-Qaeda, Libya, Christopher Stevens, Susan Rice
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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, Libya, Politics, Barack Obama, Republican Party
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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: Bill Richardson, Politics, Korean War (1950-1953), Kim Jong Il, Media Industry
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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: Susan Rice, Fishing, Politics, Barack Obama, 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: Criminals, Twitter, Inc., Philippines, Crime, Law and Justice, Media Industry
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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: Religion and Belief, Roman Catholicism, Christianity
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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: Television Industry, Entertainment, Drug Trafficking, Television, The Pentagon
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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: Libya, Politics, Zine el Abidine ben Ali, Cairo (Egypt), Muammar Gaddafi
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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: Interior Policy, Mexico, Politics, Personal Data Collection, Immigration
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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: Kabul (Afghanistan), Afghanistan, U.S. Embassy, Pakistan, U.S. Military
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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: Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Washington, DC
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State Department offers little help
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterAlthough Marla Theocharides has won custody of her children in an American court, she sees little hope that her now-ex-husband will be forced anytime soon to return the children to the country in which they were born. So far, the court in Cyprus has...Tags: Cyprus, Joe Donnelly, Richard Lugar, Dan Coats, Family
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