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The iPhone app that helped save Algerian hostages in the desert
January 23, 2013 Make fun of iPhone 5s and their terrible maps all you want, but the next time you're in an Algerian hostage situation, running for your life 20 miles across the desert with almost no water and no real idea where to go, remember that Apple phone's native Compass app just ...
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Jill Kelley finally speaks about Petraeus, Broadwell, and blackmail
January 22, 2013 In her first interview since the bottom of the David Petreaus scandal fell out, the "other other woman" Jill Kelley told The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz that Paula Broadwell is one scary cyberbully; that those 30,000 e-mails with General John Allen were more like hundreds; and that she's sorta like ...
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President Obama stumbles over the oath of office again
January 21, 2013 In 2009 Chief Justice John Roberts flipped some very important words in President Obama's swearing-in. Four years later, it appears the two still haven't figured out how to do get this tradition quite right. Click here to read more on the big "oops" moment from The Atlantic Wire.
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U.S. Air Force swoops in on Algeria plant as terrorists demand hostage swap
January 18, 2013 The Algerian hostage situation is about as serious as its details are hazy, but as it enters its third day reports are emerging that the U.S. Air Force "is in the process of evacuating Americans and other individuals." Algerian state television reported this morning that Thursday's suspect mission by Algeria's ...
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Report: State believes Assad used chemical weapons on Syrian people
January 16, 2013 In a leak that could signal a crossing of President Obama's "red line" on the increasingly deadly conflict in Syria, the State Department has investigated and concluded that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his military forces used poison gas in a deadly attack on the city of Homs last month, ...
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is leaving the cabinet in March
January 16, 2013 President Obama has one more position to fill in his second-term cabinet. Following the departures of Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta, Timothy Geithner, and Hila Solis, sources in the administration have confirmed that his Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, will be leaving. "Salazar is expected to broadly announce his departure Wednesday. He ...
Video: North Korea shows Eric Schmidt it knows how to Google
January 9, 2013 As Bill Richardson and Eric Schmidt's excellent adventure to the Internet Black Hole known as North Korea carries on, the former New Mexico governor and Google chair visited some of the only people in the country who are allowed access to the Internet: the students at Kim Il Sung University. ...
FISA passes: Warrantless wiretapping will live on
December 28, 2012 In a move sure to upset privacy advocates across the country, and perhaps spark action from the Supreme Court, the Senate on Friday morning passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) by a vote of 73-23 and will send it to President Obama's desk for signature. FISA allows the government ...
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Obama to tap Kerry as secretary of State
December 21, 2012 President Obama will nominate Senator John Kerry to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State today, the Associated Press and The New York Times are reporting. The appointment had been expected since Ambassador Susan Rice withdrew her name from consideration last week amid Republican criticism, and reports that Kerry would ...
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Gun Buyback Programs Are Thriving Like Never Before After Newtown
December 19, 2012 It may be difficult to look at that many firearms at once after the Newtown shooting, but just think about it: They were all returned, in what's being called an instant gun-buyback boom, and in one of the most dangerous places in America. This weekend, a state-sponsored cash-for-guns program in ...
