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  Boy Scouts overturn ban on gay members

  Delegates to the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) Thursday (May 23) approved new membership guidelines which open the ranks of the organization to homosexual members. Young men who openly claim to be homosexual may now participate as Scouts. The decision, the BSA leadership said in a statement, was based on “growing

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  Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says

  Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a “possible co-conspirator” in violations of the Espionage Act and authorized seizure of his private emails, a law enforcement official told NBC News on Thursday. The disclosure of the attorney general’s role came as President Barack

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  IRS’s Lerner Had History of Harassment, Inappropriate Religious Inquiries at FEC

  Perhaps no other IRS official is more intimately associated with the tax agency’s growing scandal than Lois Lerner, director of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Division. Since admitting the IRS harassed hundreds of conservative and Tea Party groups for over two years, Lerner has been criticized for a number of untruths—including the revelation that she apparently

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  ‘A true warrior’: Soldier fought in Afghanistan before ‘horrific’ death at hands of London terrorists

  LONDON — Drummer Lee Rigby was a loving father who only ever wanted to be a soldier and “live life and enjoy himself”, his family said last night. The 25-year-old soldier, from Crumpsall, Manchester, was walking towards the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, south-east London, on Wednesday when he was run down by a car

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  Little Ice Age on the way? Snowfall in Montana in late May

  Widespread issues with telephone service across Montana Thursday are leading to NorthWestern Energy customers to experience delays and other issues in contacting customer service representatives about outages and other service issues. Cold and wet, and in some cases snowy weather, has led to heavy call volumes. NorthWestern asks customers to be patient when calling to

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  Pope Francis promises redemption for ‘good atheists’

  Pope Francis tells Christians the “Blood of Christ” promises redemption for everyone engaged in good works, including atheists. The leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics made his comments during the homily of his morning Mass on Wednesday, May 22. Francis said: The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the

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  Exclusive: Congressman Preps Bill to End Terror War Authority

  In the wake of President Obama’s big speech about restraining the war on terrorism, a member of the House intelligence committee is working on a bill to undo the basic authorities to wage it. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is preparing a piece of legislation that would “sunset” the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF),

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  Drone strikes: Barack Obama sets new rules for lethal force

  US president Barack Obama has defended the use of drones to kill suspected terrorists, but is imposing limits on how they are used in the future. In a rare public discussion of the country’s covert drone program, Mr Obama said targeting terrorists with unmanned aerial vehicles was a legal, effective and just military tactic. “Plots

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  US military fears taking on Assad’s troops in drawn-out Syrian war, says Bob Carr

  Senator Carr spoke with the refugees during a visit to their camp in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, on the border with Syria. The refugees urged Senator Carr to back military intervention to bring the civil war in Syria to an end. “Why doesn’t the outside world intervene to put an end to the killing in Syria?”

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  Rumsfeld: I Give Obama Administration an ‘F’ on Combating Radical Ideology

  Donald Rumsfeld said he gives the Obama administration an “F” on combating radical ideology because they have a policy of avoiding terms like “jihad” Thursday on CNN: DONALD RUMSFELD: The space that we occupied for example during the Cold War, where we competed against the ideas of communism, to my knowledge our government is

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  State Department Official Who Played Key Role in Editing Benghazi Talking Points Nominated for Assistant Secretary of State Position

  President Barack Obama has nominated Victoria Nuland, a State Department official who played a key role in editing the administration’s Benghazi talking points, to be then next assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, the White House announced in a press release on Thursday. It is was later discovered that the talking points

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  Syria: Assad regime is making gains and ‘planning a major push’

  Recent military victories have severed rebel supply and retreat routes, allowing the regime to plan a major push to to crush divided opposition forces, a senior British security source told The Daily Telegraph. “The Syrian opposition is doing badly and there is a risk of defeats, although Assad cannot ultimately win,” the source said.

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  Woolwich attack: 1,200 police on guard against revenge attacks against Muslim community

  An extra 1,200 police officers were deployed on the streets of London after an impromptu English Defence League protest descended into violence in Woolwich, south-east London, following Wednesday’s terrorist attack. In Braintree, Essex, a 43-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted arson after allegedly walking into a mosque carrying a knife and an incendiary

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  Central banks are stuck on a money printing treadmill

  Wednesday night’s panic in Tokyo, where the Nikkei dropped a stomach churning 7pc, kicking off a global chain-reaction that saw the FTSE fall 143.48 points, demonstrates just how difficult it is going to be for the world’s central banks to exit their loose money policies. It’s not even as if Ben Bernanke, chairman of the

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  Veteran fears ‘beginning of the end’ for Japan as bond market buckles

  Yields on 10-year Japanese bonds (JGBs) have doubled in a month and spiked dramatically to 1pc on Thursday, triggering a 7.3pc crash in the Nikkei stock index. It was the biggest one-day fall since the tsunami two years ago, comparable with wild moves seen at the height of the Asian crisis in 1998. The contagion

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  Four Signs That We’re Back in Dangerous Bubble Territory

  As the global equity and bond markets grind ever higher, abundant signs exist that we are once again living through an asset bubble – or rather a whole series of bubbles in a variety of markets. This makes this period quite interesting, but also quite dangerous. With equity and bond markets at or near all-time

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  Google Boss Fears ‘Digital Ethnic Cleansing’

  Two of Google’s most senior executives have used a lecture in London to press their belief in the transparency of the internet and warned of the dangers of “digital ethnic cleansing”. After two weeks spent fending off questions over the company’s tax affairs, executive chairman Eric Schmidt and director of Google ideas, Jared Cohen, devoted

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  IMF managing director Christine Lagarde in court over money to disgraced tycoon Bernard Tapie in 2008

  The IMF chief Christine Lagarde may be formally accused of fraud tomorrow at the end of a two day grilling by a special court in France. Ms Lagarde, 57, spent most of today answering questions in a private hearing about her role in a €403m compensation award to the disgraced tycoon, Bernard Tapie, while she

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  Sinkhole traps truck on Northwood Avenue in Palmer Township

  Another sinkhole opened up this morning on Northwood Avenue in Palmer Township, this one swallowing the front wheels of a Lowe’s delivery truck. The latest sinkhole is in the eastbound lane just outside a home at 2350 Northwood Ave. and is not far from previous sinkholes that opened recently. Roy White, executive director of the

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  BBC shows off ‘perceptive radio’ that can alter scripts

  A radio that is able to change a broadcast depending on where you are and what you are doing has been demonstrated by the BBC. The Perceptive Radio, produced by the corporation’s Future Media North Lab, is thought to be a world first. The team produced a computer-generated radio drama where the script altered depending

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