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US President Barack Obama, left, sits across the table from Chinese President Hu Jintao, right, during the start of their bilateral meeting in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March, 26, 2012. Sitting with them are members of both the US and Chinese delegations. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Financial struggles common among military families

Capt. Lucas Frokjer, officer in charge of the flightline for Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 463, reunites with his family after returning from a seven-month deployment with HMH-463. SEATTLE (AP) — Military families aren’t surprised when they hear about the financial struggles that Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, his wife and children faced at home. It’s part […]

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Capt. Lucas Frokjer, officer in charge of the flightline for Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 463, reunites with his family after returning from a seven-month deployment with HMH-463.

SEATTLE (AP) — Military families aren't surprised when they hear about the financial struggles that Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, his wife and children faced at home. It's part of their lives, too. They say money problems can never justify doing what the military says Bales did: kill 17 civilians in a nighttime shooting rampage through two Afghan

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NY Mohawk: Move toxic GM dump from tribal lands

Larry Thompson stands on his family’s land at Raquette Point on the Mohawks’ Akwesasne Reservation in northern New York, near the chain-link fence that separates it from the former General Motors landfill, in Massena, N.Y., on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. Residents of the Akwesasne reservation are not satisfied with Superfund cleanup plans that would leave […]

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Larry Thompson stands on his family’s land at Raquette Point on the Mohawks’ Akwesasne Reservation in northern New York, near the chain-link fence that separates it from the former General Motors landfill, in Massena, N.Y., on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. Residents of the Akwesasne reservation are not satisfied with Superfund cleanup plans that would leave the PCB-contaminated landfill in place, capped. (AP Photo/Michael Virtanen)

MASSENA, N.Y. (AP) — Larry Thompson sits high in his tractor cab and drives to a chain-link fence along his family property on the Mohawk Indians' Akwesasne Reservation, where they fished, grew vegetables and played as children. He points to a toxic landfill about 30 feet away, stretching toward the St. Lawrence River. "The whole hill," he says

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Bernanke says US job market weak despite gains

Ben Bernanke (Photo by Medill DC) WASHINGTON (AP) — Chairman Ben Bernanke says the U.S. job market remains weak despite three months of strong hiring and that the Federal Reserve’s existing policies will help boost growth. Further job gains will likely require more robust consumer and business demand, Bernanke said Monday during a speech at […]

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Ben Bernanke (Photo by Medill DC)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chairman Ben Bernanke says the U.S. job market remains weak despite three months of strong hiring and that the Federal Reserve's existing policies will help boost growth. Further job gains will likely require more robust consumer and business demand, Bernanke said Monday during a speech at the National Association for Business

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Israel to bar UN fact-finding team from entering

FILE- In this file photo taken Monday, Jan. 23, 2012 Jewish children play in the West Bank Jewish settlement outpost of Migron. Israel's Supreme Court rejected a compromise deal between the state and residents of Migron on Sunday, March 25, 2012, an agreement that would have prevented Israel from having to dismantle the settlement following […]

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FILE- In this file photo taken Monday, Jan. 23, 2012 Jewish children play in the West Bank Jewish settlement outpost of Migron. Israel's Supreme Court rejected a compromise deal between the state and residents of Migron on Sunday, March 25, 2012, an agreement that would have prevented Israel from having to dismantle the settlement following a Supreme Court ruling. The court ruled the outpost must be destroyed by August 2012. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel cut working relations with the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday and will bar a U.N. team from entering Israel or the West Bank for a planned investigation of Jewish settlements, the Foreign Ministry said. Israel accuses the council of having a pronounced anti-Israel bias because of what it says is its

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Obama to Russia: More flexibility after elections

US President Barack Obama, left, during a bilateral meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March, 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — President Barack Obama told Russia’s leader Monday that he would have more flexibility after the November election to deal with the contentious issue […]

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US President Barack Obama, left, during a bilateral meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March, 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — President Barack Obama told Russia's leader Monday that he would have more flexibility after the November election to deal with the contentious issue of missile defense, a candid assessment of political reality that was picked up by a microphone without either leader apparently knowing. Outgoing Russian President Dmitry

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New Counterterrorism tactics to retain Personal Info for 5 Years raise more questions

An Abandoned FBI Vehicle-Tracking Device (Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com) (NEW YORK) MintPress — Another day, another controversy over a national security issue. This time, the Obama administration has approved guidelines that allow counterterrorism officials to increase the amount of time they can keep information about an American resident even if the material doesn’t show the person has […]

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An Abandoned FBI Vehicle-Tracking Device (Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com)

(NEW YORK) MintPress — Another day, another controversy over a national security issue. This time, the Obama administration has approved guidelines that allow counterterrorism officials to increase the amount of time they can keep information about an American resident even if the material doesn’t show the person has any connection to

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