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A filibuster fit for Joe McCarthy
WASHINGTON -- Chuck Hagel's confirmation as secretary of defense ended as it began -- with a smear. "Senator Hagel has accused Israel of quote 'playing games' and committing, quote, 'sickening slaughter,'" Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said before...
Tags: Hamas, Carl Levin, Barack Obama, Iran, Israel
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Rubio has dinner at the White House
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelBy William E. Gibson, Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, one of President Obama’s most persistent critics, joined him for dinner at the White House on Wednesday night to talk immigration, the budget and a wide range of other... -
Man charged with mailing ricin letter to judge in Washington state
ReutersOLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested a man charged with mailing a letter containing the deadly poison ricin to a U.S. district judge in Spokane, Washington, the FBI said. Investigators have no information to suggest...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Trials, Barack Obama, Judges
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Lawyer: Former ricin suspect's home is unlivable
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Attorneys for a Mississippi man who was briefly charged with sending ricin-laced letters to the president and others are encouraged after speaking with the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's office about repairing or replacing the man'...
Tags: Book, Justice System, Trials, Barack Obama, Government
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With new arrest, ricin case takes a strange turn
TUPELO, Miss. — Federal agents of all sorts invaded northeast Mississippi several days ago, on a mission: Find the man who sent a poison-laced letter to the president. But the United States government quickly found itself entangled, once again, in a...Tags: Sports, Justice System, Book, Abusive Behavior, Barack Obama
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Suspect in ricin-letter case ordered held without bail in Mississippi
A karate instructor appeared in federal court in Mississippi and was ordered held on a charge that he produced the poison ricin and sent it in letters to President Obama and others. Wearing an orange jumpsuit and with his hands shackled, James Everett...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Justice System, Trials, Punishment, Barack Obama
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Second Mississippi man investigated in ricin case
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — Law enforcement officials searched the home of a second Mississippi man in connection to ricin-laced letters sent to the president and a U.S. senator after charges were dropped without explanation against a man arrested in the...
Tags: Sports, Justice System, Trials, U.S. House of Representatives, Barack Obama
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Prosecutors drop charges against ricin suspect, filing confirms
Officials have dropped charges against the Elvis impersonator accused of mailing ricin-laced letters to President Obama, a U.S. senator and a Mississippi judge, according to a court filing Tuesday. Poisoning suspect Paul Kevin Curtis of Corinth, Miss.,...Tags: Sports, Bipolar Disorder, Trials, Barack Obama, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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FBI: No ricin found in home of Mississippi suspect
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Investigators haven't found any ricin in the house of Mississippi man accused of mailing poisoned letters to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a local judge, according to testimony Monday from an FBI agent. Agent...
Tags: Justice System, Trials, Barack Obama, Ricin Mail Attacks (2013, Mississippi), Behavioral Conditions
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Second man says home being searched in ricin case
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi man charged with sending poisoned letters to President Barack Obama and others was released from jail Tuesday without explanation, while FBI agents returned to another man's house where they'd previously searched...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Barack Obama, Paul Kevin Curtis, Judges
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No evidence of ricin at Mississippi suspect's home, FBI testifies
Paul Kevin Curtis dreamed of conspiracy and was convinced that the government was spying on him -- which it had been, at least a little, since 2007, in the sense that officials occasionally investigated him on suspicions that his anti-government ramblings...
Tags: Sports, Anthrax, Social Media, Trials, Barack Obama
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NAACP false alarm shows region on edge over security
NAACP employees were going through the mail Thursday at national headquarters in Baltimore when they found a strange-looking envelope. It bore no return address and had a Memphis, Tenn., postmark — just like letters to President Barack Obama and a...
Tags: Sports, Justice System, Barack Obama, Dick Wolf , Stranger Than Fiction
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