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Transcript: Rand Paul's filibuster of John Brennan's CIA nomination
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) delivered a nearly 13-hour filibuster Wednesday of John Brennan’s nomination to lead the CIA. Paul used his time on the floor to question the legality of the White House's policies on drone use, beginning at 11:47 a.m. EST and...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Islam, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Finance, Central Intelligence Agency
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Online, your private life is searchable
When Maya Rupert wrote an article frowning at several Southern states for officially celebrating Confederate History Month, Internet critics lined up to fire back.
But this time, they arrived with more than harsh words.
The 28-year-old Los Angeles...Tags: Personal Data Collection, Property, Computer Networking and Internet, Companies and Corporations, Watts
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Ron Kaye: Democracy wins a round
The setting was beautiful: a hill high above the intersection of the Santa Monica (10) and Long Beach (710) freeways, with panoramic views of downtown L.A. and much of the San Gabriel Valley, even on this dark and misty Thursday night. But the scene...Tags: Elections, Politics, Voting, Local Government, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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Kenyan presidential loser Raila Odinga contests result
NAIROBI, Kenya -- In a setback for Kenya’s efforts to cement its democracy, presidential contender Raila Odinga on Saturday refused to concede defeat in a close election he said was fraught with fraud and irregularities. But he called for calm and...
Tags: Kenya, Elections, Politics, Nairobi (Kenya), International Court or Tribunal
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U.S. must lead effort to end terrorism
PARIS -- Not too many years ago, on one of the top floors of New York's World Trade Center that is no more, I interviewed American diplomat John J. McCloy about the Black Tom explosion that also rocked New York Harbor and lower Manhattan 85 years ago....Tags: George W. Bush, Politics, FBI, Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Stephen Goldstein: We're supposed to be a democracy
According to legend, outside of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, at the end of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, a Mrs. Powel asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" Franklin answered, "A republic, if...Tags: Politics, Public Officials, C-SPAN (tv network), Government, U.S. Congress
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'Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism' looks at the president's moral evolution
The evolution of President Abraham Lincoln's thinking about emancipation is clearly marked out in his speeches and public documents. The evolution of his views about suffrage for black people is harder to trace. The two issues are intimately linked, and...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Reconstruction, Unions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Abraham Lincoln
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Al Gore, still energized
Al Gore hails from Tennessee, but when he comes to California next week, he'll be coming back to his spiritual home. In 2000, Californians gave him a double-digit lead — 1.3 million votes — over George W. Bush for president. His documentary,...
Tags: George W. Bush, Media Industry, An Inconvenient Truth (movie), Prices, Interior Policy
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Democracy activist arrives home after release by Vietnam
L.A. NOWAn American democracy activist accused of trying to overthrow the Vietnamese government returned home to Southern California on Wednesday night, more than nine months after he was first detained in Saigon. U.S. citizen Nguyen Quoc Quan was met by a...... -
In U.S. visit, Suu Kyi urges end to all economic sanctions
World NowWASHINGTON -- Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, began her first visit to the United States in four decades by urging Washington to begin lifting remaining economic sanctions, which she credited for helping pressure the... -
Myanmar activist Suu Kyi collecting honors, evaluations
World NowGlobal Focus: Few could have imagined six months ago that Aung San Suu Kyi, the voice of Myanmar's pro-democracy movement and symbol of its long repression, would be the toast of Washington as she belatedly collects honors and accolades given out during... -
Georgia President Saakashvili concedes election defeat
World NowMikheil Saakashvili, the pro-Western president of Georgia faced with increasing protests among his people, conceded defeat after preliminary election returns showed the opposition had won control of parliament and the right to name a powerful new prime...
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