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Missouri senator joins effort urging Hillary Clinton to seek presidency
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has not committed to a run for president in 2016 but on Tuesday she picked up an endorsement from Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill,
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United States to meet Taliban to seek Afghan peace
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WASHINGTON/KABUL (Reuters) - The United States will meet the Taliban this week for talks aimed at achieving peace in Afghanistan, where the United States and the insurgents have fought a bloody and costly
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North Korea says surveillance leaks prove U.S. is kingpin of rights abuse
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea rushed to the defense of American civil liberties on Tuesday, saying revelations of mass surveillance operations showed the United States was the kingpin of rights abuse.Rights
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Bad Karma: How Fisker burned through $1.4 billion on a 'green' car www.reuters.com 53 TWEETS
DETROIT (Reuters) - Danish designer Henrik Fisker knows how to style a sexy car. Among his works is the BMW Z8, driven by James Bond in The World Is Not Enough, where the sleek roadster gets sliced in
www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/17/us-autos-fisker-specialreport-idUSBRE95G02L20130617
The FBI has used secret evidence obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to prosecute at least 27 accused terrorists since 2007 www.reuters.com 45 TWEETS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI has used secret evidence obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to prosecute at least 27 accused terrorists since 2007, according to a Reuters review of
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Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signs Medicaid expansion
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PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona's Republican Governor Jan Brewer signed a law on Monday to expand Medicaid, embracing a key part of Democratic President Barack Obama's healthcare plan in a hard-won policy
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China asks U.S. to explain Internet surveillance. Yea, China. www.reuters.com 10 TWEETS
BEIJING (Reuters) - China made its first substantive comments on Monday to reports of U.S. surveillance of the Internet, demanding that Washington explain its monitoring programs to the international community.Several
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China pressured U.S. university to make him leave, dissident says
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Chinese dissident who fled his home country to become a visiting scholar at New York University accused the school on Sunday of asking him to leave because of unrelenting pressure
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Hong Kong rally backs Snowden, denounces allegations of U.S. spying
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - A few hundred rights advocates and political activists marched through Hong Kong on Saturday to demand protection for Edward Snowden, who leaked revelations of U.S. electronic surveillance
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Paul Soros, shipping titan and older brother to George Soros, dies at 87
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Paul Soros, a shipping magnate, philanthropist and older brother of billionaire investor George Soros, died on Saturday at age 87, his son said.Paul Soros passed away at his New York
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Deadly Colorado wildfire now 65 percent contained: officials
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DENVER (Reuters) - Authorities battling the deadly wildfire outside Colorado's second-largest city said on Sunday that firefighters were getting the upper hand on the blaze that ranks as the state's most
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Paille scores in overtime as Bruins tie series
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(Reuters) - Dan Paille scored in overtime to lift the Boston Bruins to a 2-1 win over the Chicago Blackhawks in Game Two of the Stanley Cup Final on Saturday to level the best-of-seven series.It marked
www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/16/us-nhl-stanley-idUSBRE95F01720130616
Obama does not feel Americans' privacy violated: chief of staff www.reuters.com 223 TWEETS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama does not believe the recently disclosed top-secret National Security Agency surveillance of phone records and Internet data has violated Americans' privacy
www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/16/us-usa-security-idUSBRE95F00B20130616
Worker remains hospitalized after Louisiana plant explosion
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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - One worker remained hospitalized on Saturday following an explosion at a Donaldsonville, Louisiana, nitrogen production plant on Friday that killed one worker and injured seven.CF
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Microsoft got more than 6,000 U.S. data requests in second half 2012
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Friday that for the last six months of 2012 it received between 6,000 and 7,000 criminal and national security warrants, subpoenas and orders affecting between
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MLB suspends eight people over brawl
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eight people, including five players, were suspended while four others were fined for their part in Tuesday's bench-clearing brawl between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks,
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Microsoft got more than 6,000 U.S. data requests in second half 2012
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SEATTLE, June 14 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said onFriday that for the last six months of 2012 it received between6,000 and 7,000 criminal and national security warrants,subpoenas and orders affecting
www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/15/microsoft-disclosures-idUSL2N0ER01V20130615
Obama does not feel Americans' privacy violated -chief of staff
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WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama doesnot believe the recently disclosed top-secret National SecurityAgency surveillance of phone records and Internet data hasviolated Americans'
www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/16/usa-security-idUSL2N0ES05D20130616
