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Obama chooses Hagel for defense secretary, Brennan to head CIA
Associated PressDespite Republican misgivings, President Barack Obama announced Monday he will nominate former GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary, calling him “the leader our troops deserve.” He also chose White House counterterrorism...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Lobbying, Iraq War (2003-2011), John Brennan, Police Investigations
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Obama backs off hard lines in search of compromise
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just two weeks before the economy-threatening "fiscal cliff" is due to kick in, both President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner are making significant concessions to each other, backing off what had once been ironclad...
Tags: Government Health Care, Economic Indicator, Personal Income, Washington, DC, Barack Obama
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Accused WikiLeaker Manning says he was punished before trial
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is due back at Fort Meade this week, where lawyers for the alleged WikiLeaker plan to argue that he was punished at a military brig before his case had been heard — grounds, they say, to dismiss all charges against him. By...
Tags: Baghdad (Iraq), Bradley Manning, Trials, Litigation, Punishment
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City Lights: Brubeck played here right after 9/11
One day in my high school philosophy class, the teacher gave us a list of different methods of expression and asked us to determine which ones constituted language. Among those that ended up in the "no" stack was music, since, we decided, it worked on a...
Tags: Arts and Culture, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Dave Brubeck, Music, Arts
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Details of Senate bill averting 'fiscal cliff'
Highlights of a bill Congress passed Tuesday aimed at averting wide tax increases and budget cuts scheduled to take effect with the new year. The measure would raise taxes by about $600 billion over 10 years compared with tax policies that were due to...Tags: Government Health Care, Unemployment Benefits, Fiscal Cliff, Credit and Debt, Personal Income
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More holiday travel expected despite gas prices
More Marylanders will take holiday trips this year, and most will drive — even though gas prices are the highest they have ever been entering the holiday season, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic. "Gas prices do not appear to be deterring motorists...
Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Travel, University of Baltimore, Petroleum Industry, Trips and Vacations
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Sisseton to play doubleheader
The Sisseton basketball teams will play in the Sanford Pentagon Classic on Feb. 2 in Brandon. Here is the schedule: Centerville boys vs. Ellsworth (Minn.) at 1:30 p.m.; Sisseton girls vs. Southwest Christian (Minn.) at 3 p.m.; Sisseton boys vs. SWC... -
Semi-pro tryouts
The Tri-State Buffalos semi-professional football team will hold open tryouts, starting with registration at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, at the Sanford Power Field House in Sioux Falls located at 2215 West Pentagon Place. The Buffaloes from Minnesota, Iowa... -
Our dysfunction quagmire
WASHINGTON -- President Obama is set to begin his second term at a moment when the question is not what great things our nation can achieve but whether our government, in Obama's words, can "stop lurching from crisis to crisis to crisis." The jury is...
Tags: Government, National Government, Washington, DC, Barack Obama, Economy, Business and Finance
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Air Force set to blast off another secretive space drone
An experimental robotic space plane developed for the Air Force is slated to launch Tuesday from Cape Canaveral, fueling an ongoing mystery about its hush-hush payload and overall mission. Air Force officials offered few details about the mission....
Tags: Cape Canaveral, Military Equipment, Landforms, Technology, Rocketry
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