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Today John Bolton, former U.N. ambassador under George W. Bush, said that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's trip to Australia is "very important" and necessary, undercutting attacks from conservative news outlets such as Fox News and Drudge that Clinton is vacationing Australia rather than testifying in front of a congressional committee about the Benghazi attacks. [...]
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During a press conference today, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made it clear why he will oppose U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice becoming Secretary of State: the war in Iraq. During the press conference, Graham and fellow Republican senators John McCain and Kelly Ayotte called for a Select Committee to investigate the attack on [...]
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President Obama came out with guns blazing at today's news conference, his first since re-election, pushing back hard against Republican senators' disparaging remarks about U.N. ambassador Susan Rice, Washington's odds-on favorite to get the nod as America's next secretary of state.
The president may indeed be genuinely outraged that one of his reportedly closest advisors is taking heat for the Sept. 11 snafu in Benghazi -- a situation Rice had nothing to do with. He repeated the administration's claim that when Rice took to the airwaves on Sept. 16 to explain the events in Libya, she was merely working with what the intelligence community had given her. And as far as we know, that's precisely what happened. (Benghazi isn't really the reason senators are objecting to Rice anyway, but that's ...
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The United Nations published a report detailing its own failure to protect civilians during the final stages of Sri Lanka's civil war in 2009.
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With judicial nominations stalled by obstructionist Senate Republicans, and immigration and drug prosecutions skyrocketing, federal trial judges in states on the U.S.-Mexico border are facing criminal caseloads as much as 11.5 times the average, according to a new report. In New Mexico, judges faced an average of 7,020 cases per judge since 2006, compared to Washington, [...]
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President Obama has yet to nominate anyone to succeed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, but Republicans are already lining up in opposition to potential replacement U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, citing her complicity in the administration's alleged failures in responding to the attacks in Benghazi, Libya. On Wednesday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) promised to filibuster [...]
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Today during his White House press conference, President Obama scolded Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and other Republicans for attacking America's U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice regarding intelligence on the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi. McCain said today that he and his Republican allies would do anything they can to prevent Rice from becoming [...]
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For the first time, the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) explicitly described family planning as a "universal human right." In its annual report, the organization said that improved access to contraception and other methods of family planning could greatly improve the lives of women around the world: "Family planning has a positive multiplier effect on development," [...]
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On July 1, 2009, Major League Baseball's Florida Marlins were cruising toward a second-place finish in the National League's East division. The same day, county commissioners in Miami-Dade County finally approved a package that would give the team public funding for a new stadium -- $409 million in public bonds, to be precise -- ending [...]
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