That’s how many American citizens have been killed by U.S. drone strikes since 2009. Attorney General Eric Holder made the disclosure yesterday in a letter to Sen. Pat Leahy, a Vermont Democrat who leads the Senate Judiciary Committee. Drones are...
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Protestors against the use of drone strikes by the U.S. military hold a model of a drone aircraft during the "March On Wall Street South" rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, ahead of the Democratic National Convention, on September 2, 2012.
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Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, questions a witness during a Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing in Washington, D.C., on May 21, 2013. Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook defended his company's use of offshore tax shelters before U.S. senators who castigated the most-valuable technology company for avoiding $9 billion and more in payments.
Paul Echoes White House in Opposition to Arming Syrians
A small corner of hell may be freezing over. Sen. Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican and fierce Obama administration critic, today opposed a bill to provide arms to Syrian rebels with an argument that could have come straight from the...
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Central Intelligence Agency building in Langley, Virginia.
CIA Day at the Fair: 007 is Taken
The Central Intelligence Agency is better known for secrecy than it is for family fun. But tomorrow you will find spies amid the cotton candy, crafters and carnival rides at the annual McLean Day fair at Lewinsville Park, some three...
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A vehicle and the surround buildings burn after they were set on fire inside the U.S. consulate compound in Benghazi late on September 11, 2012.
Charge of the Obama Brigade: IRS, Benghazi, Reporters
President Barack Obama, addressing a live television audience from the White House, said the commissioner in charge of the IRS has been removed following the agency’s targeted scrutiny of conservative groups. “The misconduct uncovered is inexcuseable,” Obama said in a...
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Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and his fiancee, Maria Belen Chapur, at his primary election victory party.
Sanford Hiking Washington Trail Again – For Real
So it wasn’t that close after all. Why would it have been, in a congressional district that Republican Mitt Romney carried by 18 percentage points in November. Because: – The Republican candidate who won, former Gov. Mark Sanford, went off...
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FSA fighters clear a room in a newly conquered building along the front line of Sheikh Saeed a highly contested area of Aleppo, Syria, on March 18, 2013.
Obama: ‘Not Doing Nothing’ in Syria
President Barack Obama is remembering Iraq. And the world, he says, will remember what the U.S. did about Osama bin Laden and Muammar Qaddafi. All of this has to do with the “red line” — the use of chemical weapons...
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A T-shirt at a souvenir stand near the White House in Washington.
Republicans Cry Foul on Bin Laden Ad
Republican Gabriel Gomez, running for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts for the seat vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry, spent last year working for a Republican-leaning nonprofit that attacked President Barack Obama for taking too much credit for the...
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The Onion
Onion Twitter Password Changed To OnionMan77 — ‘That Ought To Do It'
Onion-Hacking: ‘Just the Beginning’
It’s one thing when the Associated Press gets hacked. But The Onion? The online purveyor of parody, like the esteemed global news service and other serious outlets, had its Twitter account hijacked by the Syrian Electronic...
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The fossil of the Tyrannosaurus bataar.
Border Patrolosaurus: Going Home
Who says the U.S. border is porous? The patrol stopped a Tyrannosaurus. And now they’re sending it home. In a repatriation ceremony on Monday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will hand off a “70 million-year-old nearly complete Tyrannosaurus Bataar...
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President Barack Obama and President Enrique Pena Nieto of Mexico share a toast prior to a working dinner at Los Pinos, Mexico City, Mexico, on May 2, 2013.
Travels with Obama: Casa Amarilla
One of the perks of working at the highest levels of the White House is the travel. President Barack Obama’s journey to Mexico this week carried him and his staff to the historic presidential palace in Mexico City, where the...
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