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Obama nominates Senate aides to serve as SEC commissioners
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama nominated two U.S. Senate aides on Thursday to serve as members of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the agency tasked with policing Wall Street. Obama said Kara Stein, an aide to Rhode Island...Tags: Washington, DC, Elisse Walter, Barack Obama, Richard Shelby, Alabama Crimson Tide
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Venezuela prosecutor to open probe over leaked recording
ReutersCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's prosecutor's office said on Thursday it would open an investigation into in a recording the opposition says features a top government ally accusing the deputy head of the ruling Socialist Party of corruption and...Tags: Lawyers, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela
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Pentagon sees doubled cost for rocket launch program
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Thursday told Congress that a recent restructuring of its heavy rocket launch program to add 60 more launches and extend the schedule for a decade would more than double the program's projected cost to $70.7 billion....Tags: Space Programs, Wars and Interventions, Satellite Technology, U.S. Military, SpaceX
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Obama shifts U.S. from 'perpetual war-footing,' limits drone strikes
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday shifted the United States away from a "boundless global war on terror," restricting deadly drone strikes abroad and signaling that America's long struggle against al Qaeda will one day end. In a...Tags: U.S. Navy, Yemen, Satellite and Cable Service, Terrorism, Wars and Interventions
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Dollar recovers from two-week low versus yen, focus on Nikkei
ReutersTOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar recovered from two-week lows against the yen on Friday as a safety-bid for the Japanese currency ebbed after the Nikkei share average rebounded from the previous day's 7.3-percent plunge and Wall Street regained some stability...Tags: Market and Exchange, Government, Economy, Business and Finance, Economy, Boston Marathon
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Obama puts restrictions on drone program
WASHINGTON — Reining back the aggressive counter-terrorism strategy he has embraced for five years, President Obama declared clear, public restrictions for the first time on using unmanned aircraft to kill terrorists, a shift likely to significantly...
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Obama in heated exchanges with Code Pink anti-war protester
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The woman who interrupted President Barack Obama's speech on counterterrorism policy on Thursday is well-known around Washington as a perennial protester on national security issues. Medea Benjamin, a founder of anti-war women's...Tags: Washington, DC, Wars and Interventions, Barack Obama, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, International Military Interventions
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U.S.-based Japanese stock funds up $1.5 billion in record inflow streak: Lipper
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors in funds based in the United States poured $1.51 billion into Japanese stock funds in the latest week, marking the longest streak of weekly inflows into the funds on record, data from Thomson Reuters' Lipper service showed...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Thomson Corporation, Personal Finance, Central Bank, Finance
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Guantanamo prisoners tune in for Obama's speech on their fate
ReutersMIAMI (Reuters) - Among those tuning in to President Barack Obama's national security speech on Thursday were some prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, who rely on television broadcasts and newspapers for hints about their fate. "Detainees...Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Career and Workplace, Strikes, Prisons, Barack Obama
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Obama speech suggests possible expansion of drone killings
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON President Barack Obama on Thursday defended his administration's use of drone strikes to kill terrorists as effective, lawful and "heavily constrained," but he also appeared to be laying groundwork for an expansion of the controversial targeted...Tags: The Miami Herald, Government, Terrorism, Justice and Rights, Armed Conflicts
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IRS official at center of scandal put on leave
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lois Lerner, an Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the scandal over the agency's extra scrutiny of conservative groups, was put on administrative leave on Thursday after she refused to resign, a senator said....Tags: Washington, DC, Danny Werfel, Labor Legislation, Taxation, Tea Party Movement
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Repatriating detainees to Yemen key to closing Guantanamo
ReutersWASHINGTON/MIAMI (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's pledge on Thursday to lift a ban on transfers of detainees to Yemen from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, addresses one of the core obstacles to clearing out the detention camp. Of the 86 detainees...Tags: Government, Yemen, Wars and Interventions, Barack Obama, U.S. Department of State
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