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Guatemala's top court annuls Rios Montt genocide conviction
ReutersGUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala's highest court on Monday overturned a genocide conviction against former dictator Efrain Rios Montt and reset his trial back to when a dispute broke out a month ago over who should hear the case. Rios Montt, 86,...Tags: International Court or Tribunal, Wars and Interventions, Massacres, International Law, Prisons
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Doyle McManus: Second-term scandal plague catches up to Obama
What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. All governments make mistakes, and all governments try to hide those mistakes. But the longer an administration is in office, the more...Tags: George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Doyle McManus, Iran, Republican Party
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John Dean: Obama's scandals are more like Harding's than Nixon's
During President Barack Obama's May 16 news conference, reporter Jeff Mason asked as part of his question: "And, more broadly, how do you feel about comparisons by some of your critics of this week's scandals to those that happened under the Nixon...
Tags: Susan Rice, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, Fox News Channel (tv network), Bob Woodward
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Diamond anniversary
Miami Beach's oldest Conservative synagogue recently celebrated its 75th anniversary with a gala that drew more than 300 people, including community leaders. Among the highlights of Temple Emanu-El's 75th Diamond Anniversary Gala were honoring its past...Tags: Bill Clinton, Dalai Lama, Ethics, Judaism, Human Interest
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COLUMN - It's not Watergate, it's Whitewater
Reuters(Nicholas Wapshott is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By Nicholas Wapshott May 21 (Reuters) - The trifecta of scandals - Benghazi, the IRS and snooping on journalists - that has broken upon the heads of the Obama administration is...Tags: Carl Bernstein, MSNBC (tv network), Iran, Republican Party, U.S. Congress
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Column: It's not Watergate, it's Whitewater
Reuters(Reuters) - The trifecta of scandals â Benghazi, the IRS and snooping on journalists â that has broken upon the heads of the Obama administration is as bad as Watergate. No it isn't, says Bob Woodward, whose reputation was made by doggedly pursuing...Tags: Carl Bernstein, Fox News Channel (tv network), MSNBC (tv network), Iran, U.S. Congress
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Chan Lowe: The Oklahoma tornadoes
Having spent nine years in Oklahoma, I found much about that state’s people to respect and admire—particularly their faith and their resiliency, which are intertwined in ways not understood by those who have never lived in the Bible Belt. They...
Tags: Primaries, Politics, James Inhofe, Elections, Tom Coburn
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Orlando area group packs thousands of meals for Oklahoma tornado victims
Working to the pulsing beat of dance music, dozens of volunteers filled thousands of small plastic bags with lentils, rice and dehydrated vegetables at the Feeding Children Everywhere warehouse in Longwood Tuesday night. When mixed with water, each...
Tags: Tornadoes, Campbell (Osceola, Florida), Banking, Judaism, Winter Springs
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Obama to meet with China's Xi in California June 7-8
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold their first meeting since Xi became president in March when they sit down for a June 7-8 summit in Rancho Mirage, California, the White House announced on Monday....Tags: China, White House, Barack Obama, Beijing (China), Xi Jinping
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Reducing the number needed for 'one too many'
St. Louis Post-DispatchThe following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Monday, May 20: When bundled with a host of other suggestions aimed at curbing drunk driving, the National Transportation Safety Board's proposal that state governments should reduce...Tags: Motorvehicle Accidents, Bill Clinton, Transportation Industry, National Transportation Safety Board, Highway Transportation
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Melissa Joan Hart says Kickstarter failure 'started out wrong'
Not every Kickstarter film-funding effort ends in multimillion-dollar success, a la actor-writer-director Zach Braff's recent campaign or that achieved by the cast and creators of the canceled CW show "Veronica Mars." Just ask actress Melissa Joan Hart,...
Tags: ABC Family (tv network), Celebrities, Kickstarter, Movies, The CW (tv network)
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EDITORIAL: Take 25 To Save Our Children
Times Record, Fort Smith, Ark.Twenty-five minutes. That's all we're asking. Take 25 minutes to help make our children safer. Saturday is National Missing Children's Day. It's not a holiday. Fireworks will not fill the sky; presents will not be exchanged; a turkey won't sit on...Tags: Arts and Culture, Etan Patz, Missing Persons, National Missing Children's Day, Manhattan (New York City)
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