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Is President Obama Wrong in Objecting to Whistle-Blower Protections?
Last week, President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013, which essentially scrapped whistle-blower protections. California Rep. Jackie Speier commented “the President’s objection to whistle-blower protections for private sector employees who expose waste, fraud, and abuse…
Obama re-elected as US president
President Barack Obama has won re-election to a second term in the White House, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
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Pauly Shore: I’d be a good president
Pauly Shore sits down in the CNN Red Chair to talk about sex, drugs and his new Showtime special, “Pauly-tics.”
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Ex-Penn St. president charged in Sandusky case
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Former Penn State President Graham B. Spanier was charged Thursday with hushing up child sex abuse complaints against Jerry Sandusky, making him the third school official to be accused of crimes in the alleged cover-up.
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Former Penn St. president Spanier charged
Former Penn State University president Graham Spanier has been charged Thursday in relation to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
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Tunisian president extends state of emergency
Three-months extension comes after salafists attack police station in the capital, injuring several.
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Ukrainian President Yanukovich’s party set to win poll
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich’s pro-business ruling party seems likely to win parliamentary elections on Sunday, but will face a re-energized opposition which has vowed to fight growing authoritarianism and corruption.
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Benin uncovers ‘plot to poison’ president
Niece, doctor and ex-minister arrested in conspiracy allegedly prompted by decision to end major business concessions.
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President forceful, Romney defensive
The candidates found plenty of room to agree on foreign policy, but their tone was anything but agreeable. FULL STORY
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UN envoy meets Syria president
International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi meets Syria’s President Assad to discuss a temporary ceasefire, amid reports of several people killed in a Damascus car bomb.
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S Africa president calls for end to unrest
Jacob Zuma asks striking workers to return to work and for chief executives to freeze any personal salary increases.
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Mauritania president shot by troops
Mauritania’s president was admitted to a French military hospital for treatment Sunday, hours after he took to his country’s airwaves to say troops had shot him by accident.
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Obama team promises more aggressive president in second debate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Campaign advisers to President Barack Obama promised on Sunday he would be more aggressive and energetic on Tuesday in his second debate against Republican challenger Mitt Romney after a passive, heavily criticized performance in their first showdown.…
Mauritania troops shoot president
Troops opened fire and shot Mauritania’s president on Saturday evening, leaving the West African nation’s leader “lightly injured,” state news reported.
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Mauritania president injured in shooting
President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz “lightly wounded” after military patrol accidentally opens fire on his convoy.
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Backers, critics of Egypt president clash in Cairo
CAIRO (AP) — Thousands of supporters and opponents of Egypt’s new Islamist president clashed in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday, hurling stones and concrete and swinging sticks at each other in the first such violence since Mohammed Morsi took office…
Egypt president removes prosecutor-general
Mohamed Morsi removes top prosecutor after Mubarak loyalists acquitted in “Camel Battle” case.
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Candidates Debate Domestic Policy
By Nicole Michels 10/7/12
President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney debated domestic policy Wednesday in the first of three presidential debates during an evening that seemed to focus more on style than substance at the University of Denver.
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Egypt’s president pardons protesters
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy said Monday that he would pardon protesters arrested or jailed during and after the uprising that led to the ouster of longtime strongman Hosni Mubarak.
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Egypt president pardons political prisoners
President pardons a number of political prisoners who were arrested during the revolution in 2011.
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