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Obama orders review of guidelines for probing journalists
ReutersBy Jeff Mason WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Thursday he directed Attorney General Eric Holder to conduct a review of Department of Justice guidelines for investigations that involve journalists and report back by early...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Washington, DC, Politics, Lawyers, News Media
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Lawsuits seek more than U.S. acknowledgement of drone killings
ReutersBy David Ingram WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is facing demands in court to reveal more about the U.S. drone program, despite his speech addressing it on Thursday and his government's acknowledgement a day earlier that four...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, American Civil Liberties Union, Pakistan, Washington, DC, Politics
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Light Must Shine On Government Secrecy
The Hartford CourantMamie Till did the unspeakable almost 60 years ago. She opened the casket at her son Emmett's funeral so the world could see how this 14-year-old was shot, bludgeoned, mutilated and then drowned in Mississippi's Tallahatchie River with a cotton gin fan...Tags: Gun Control, Crime, Law and Justice, Executive Branch, Dannel P. Malloy , Politics
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Obama orders review of guidelines on investigating reporters
WASHINGTON — President Obama said Thursday he was troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may "chill" investigative journalism and said he had asked Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. to review Justice Department guidelines for going after...Tags: Espionage Act of 1917, Crime, Law and Justice, Washington, DC, Politics, Prosecution
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Preview: Blackhawks at Red Wings
ReutersAfter dispatching the eighth-seeded Minnesota Wild rather easily in the first round, the Chicago Blackhawks were expected to produce similar results against the Detroit Red Wings, who advanced after a hard-fought, seven-game battle with the Pacific...Tags: Drew Miller (ice hockey), St. Louis Blues, Marian Hossa, Duncan Keith, Detroit Red Wings
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"Promiscuous minds" gather for Britain's Hay Festival
ReutersBy Nigel Stephenson LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - Some of the biggest names in literature, science and politics will pitch up to a small British town over the next week for a clan gathering of the world's most "promiscuous minds". The 26th Hay Festival...Tags: Festive Events, Music, Eric Schmidt, United Kingdom, Carl Bernstein
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Malaysia charges student activist with sedition, arrests 3 other anti-government figures
Associated PressKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian authorities detained three anti-government figures, charged a student activist with sedition and seized hundreds of opposition newspapers Thursday, raising political tensions after recent national elections...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Crime, Law and Justice, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Politics, Prosecution
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Census: Detroit population remained above 700,000
DETROIT (AP) — New U.S. Census Bureau estimates say Detroit's population remained just above 700,000 last year. The figures show Detroit lost residents between 2011 and 2012, but the decline was at a slower pace than in previous years. Most of the...
Tags: Detroit Free Press, United States Census Bureau, Politics, The Detroit News
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Letters to the Editor for May 23
Supports prayer at graduation As the graduation of the Lincoln County High School Class of 2013 draws near, I would like to say that I support having prayer at the exercise. I have heard a great deal concerning the controversy. I don't think that...
Tags: Separation of Church and State, Teachers, Politics, Substance Abuse, Education
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Letters to the editor: Obesity, scandals, and McCartney
I am a retired physical-education teacher who worked with students from kindergarten through eighth grade. A majority of my students could not do one pull-up. I tried to be creative and make exercising fun, for which I had a fair amount of success. I am...Tags: Lotteries, Crime, Law and Justice, Internal Revenue Service, Amway, Ticketmaster
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COLUMN: The NLRB's school-door stand
WASHINGTON — Early in an opinion issued recently by a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Judge A. Raymond Randolph says: "Although the parties have not raised it, one issue needs to be...Tags: Employment, Crime, Law and Justice, Washington, DC, University of Alabama, Politics
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Is Obama Richard Nixon?
Despite what you may hear from some of his more fevered critics, President Barack Obama's recent scandal-quakes don't appear to fall anywhere near the level of Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal. But by another Nixonian yardstick, trying to muzzle on press...Tags: U.S. Department of State, U.S. Supreme Court, Espionage Act of 1917, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics
May 23, 2013
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May 22, 2013
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May 22, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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