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Rubio to push biometric system in U.S. Senate immigration bill
ReutersBy Caren Bohan and Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, who is considered crucial for the success of an immigration law overhaul, vowed on Tuesday to fight for a biometric system to track foreigners...Tags: U.S. Senate, Parties and Movements, Labor Legislation, Crime, Law and Justice, Illegal Immigrants
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Human Rights Watch alleges rebel atrocities in Syria
BEIRUT -- Gruesome video footage purportedly showing a Syrian rebel commander mutilating the corpse of a dead soldier while shouting sectarian insults has drawn condemnation from Human Rights Watch and focused renewed attention on battlefield atrocities...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Islam, Human Rights, International Court or Tribunal, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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COLUMN - Scrambling for the immigrant elite
Reuters(John Lloyd is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By John Lloyd May 14 (Reuters) - A new era has arrived in immigration. Many countries - the United States, the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands - have for decades taken in poor...Tags: U.S. Senate, Racism, Angela Merkel, Mexico, France
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Bidding for coffee with Apple's Tim Cook surpasses $605,000
Tim Cook is an expensive date. Last month, the Apple chief executive teamed up with CharityBuzz.com to auction off the right to a cup of coffee with him to raise money for the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. The value of the...
Tags: Auction Service, Verizon Communications, Computer Hardware, BlackBerry, Google Inc.
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U.S. says looking to revive vacant Guantanamo policy job -Holder
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. government intends to revive a vacant position coordinating policy for the military prison camp for foreign terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and is looking at candidates, Attorney General Eric Holder said...Tags: National Government, Washington, DC, Crime, Law and Justice, Government, Human Rights
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Blatter calls Roma racism fine inadequate
ReutersBERNE (Reuters) - FIFA president Sepp Blatter has criticised as inadequate a 50,000 euro ($64,850) fine handed to AS Roma for racist behaviour from their fans and said lessons had not been learned in Italian soccer. Blatter also said he would talk to the...Tags: Racism, Sports Organizations, Soccer, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights
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Israeli leader under fire for costly lifestyle, as government pushes budget cuts
Associated PressJERUSALEM (AP) — For years, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been saddled with an image of a cigar-smoking, cognac-drinking socialite. Now a new disclosure about his soaring spending on housekeeping, furniture, clothing and other...Tags: Photography and Video, Ehud Barak, National Government, Bill Clinton, Los Angeles International Airport
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Michigan House panel puts off debate on bill to cap FOIA fees at 10 cents per page
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan House committee has put off a debate on a bill that would restrict how much government agencies can charge for Freedom of Information Act requests. The House Oversight Committee was supposed to consider the bill...Tags: Freedom of Information Act, Freedom of Information Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights
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My Word: One step closer to freedom from fear
Years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed four fundamental freedoms that all people everywhere ought to enjoy: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. Of the four, freedom from fear is the most difficult...Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Freedom of the Press, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, Politics
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Key U.S. senator to fight for tracking system in immigration law
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, who is considered crucial to the passage of an immigration law overhaul, on Tuesday vowed to fight for a biometric system that would track foreigners entering and exiting the country after a...Tags: U.S. Senate, Parties and Movements, Labor Legislation, Patrick Leahy, Steve King
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Government secretly obtains phone records from journalists
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors secretly obtained telephone records from more than 20 lines belonging to the Associated Press and its journalists in an attempt to learn who leaked information on how the CIA thwarted an apparent terrorist plot...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Freedom of the Press, Lawyers, Jay Carney, Patrick Leahy
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The day the inspectors came
— We had been anticipating the inspection for a while. Such is the atmosphere in today's Russia that many nongovernmental organizations can expect the knock at the door at some point. When they finally came to us, the visit was tinged with farce...
Tags: Vladimir Putin, Russia, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, Human Rights
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