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Obama: Sexual assault threatens trust in military

President Barack Obama reacts to CODEPINK founder Medea Benjamin as she shouts at him from the back of the auditorium during his speech about national security, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington.

With a growing sexual assault epidemic staining the military, President Barack Obama urged U.S. Naval Academy graduates Friday to remember their honor depends on what they do when nobody is looking and said the crime has "no place in the greatest... 26 minutes ago

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Obama speech suggests possible expansion of drone killings

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 killings.
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Md. suspect is son of Bush White House official

The son of a former aide to President George W. Bush is charged in Maryland with killing a man with a hatchet.

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IRS replaces official who revealed targeting

The Internal Revenue Service official who led the unit that targeted tea party groups and publicly disclosed the activity has been replaced, making her the third top IRS official moved aside since the episode was revealed two weeks ago.
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Rising judicial star Sri Srinivasan is playmaker with all the right legal moves

Sri Srinivasan scores big on every court. As a standout basketball guard for Lawrence High School in Kansas, class of 1985, Srinivasan could both dish and shoot. As an attorney, he’s argued more than 20 cases before the Supreme Court. And as a newly unanimously confirmed appellate judge, ...
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Spanish court opens tax probe into king's daughter

Princess Cristina, the daughter of Spain's King Juan Carlos, is under investigation for possible tax fraud and money laundering, the latest blow to the Spanish royal family's reputation.
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Kerry, Lavrov to meet in Paris

Secretary of State John Kerry will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov next week in Paris to discuss peace talks in Syria.
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Ruby says her sworn testimony was lies

The woman at the center of ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi's sex scandal has denied in court ever telling a former roommate that she had sex with the then-premier.
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Tea party vs. old guard in GOP Senate rift

A long-simmering feud between establishment Republicans and tea partyers broke into full view, with Sen. John McCain accusing younger colleagues of overplaying their hands and tempting Democrats to change Senate rules that protect the minority party.
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NOAA expects ‘above normal’ hurricane season

Expect another busy Atlantic hurricane season, government forecasters said Thursday.
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Foreign Service officer made millions in visa-for-money scam, feds charge

A State Department official “received several million dollars in bribes” from Vietnamese residents seeking visas, according to newly public court documents.