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US To Remove 9,000 Marines From Okinawa

In this Dec. 17, 2009 file photo, a military transport plane takes off from Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan. About 9,000 U.S. Marines stationed on the Japanese island of Okinawa will be moved to the U.S. territory of Guam and other locations in the Asia-Pacific, including Hawaii, under a U.S.-Japan agreement […]

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In this Dec. 17, 2009 file photo, a military transport plane takes off from Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan. About 9,000 U.S. Marines stationed on the Japanese island of Okinawa will be moved to the U.S. territory of Guam and other locations in the Asia-Pacific, including Hawaii, under a U.S.-Japan agreement announced Thursday, April 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — About 9,000 U.S. Marines stationed on the Japanese island of Okinawa will be moved to the U.S. territory of Guam and other locations in the Asia-Pacific, including Hawaii, under a U.S.-Japan agreement announced Thursday. The move is part of a broader arrangement designed to tamp down tensions in the U.S.-Japan defense alliance

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House Vote Sets Up Senate Cybersecurity Showdown

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks during his weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) WASHINGTON (AP) — The House’s solid bipartisan vote for a cybersecurity bill sends a message to the Senate: Now it’s your turn to act. Ignoring a White House veto threat, the […]

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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks during his weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House's solid bipartisan vote for a cybersecurity bill sends a message to the Senate: Now it's your turn to act. Ignoring a White House veto threat, the House approved the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which would encourage companies and the federal government to share information collected on the Internet

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US Growth Slowed To 2.2 Percent In First Quarter

In this April 24, 2012, file photo, women and girls carry purchases on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, Calif. The Commerce Department said Friday, April 27, 2012, that the economy expanded at an annual rate of 2.2 percent in the January-March quarter, compared with a 3 percent gain in the final quarter of […]

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In this April 24, 2012, file photo, women and girls carry purchases on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, Calif. The Commerce Department said Friday, April 27, 2012, that the economy expanded at an annual rate of 2.2 percent in the January-March quarter, compared with a 3 percent gain in the final quarter of 2011. Consumers spent at the fastest pace in more than a year. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew more slowly in the first three months of this year. Governments spent less, and businesses cut back on investment. But consumers spent at the fastest pace in more than a year. The result suggests that the economy will continue to expand, slowly but steadily. The Commerce Department estimated Friday that

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Eight Years After Battles, Iraqi Children Still Paying The Price Of War

Four-year-old Alla Saleem, who suffers from a tumor in her eye, lies on her bed as she waits for medication Monday, January 15, 2001, at the Gazwan Children's Hospital in the southern Iraq town of Basra, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) from the border with Kuwait. Iraqi authorities claim that about 300 tons of bombs […]

Lisa Barron
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NEW YORK (MintPress)—The war in Iraq may have ended with the final pullout of American troops on December 15, 2011, but for many of the people who remain there, the wounds suffered during the conflict, both emotionally and physically, will never go away. Especially in the city of Fallujah, some 40 miles west of the capital, Baghdad, which had

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California Death Penalty Ban On November Ballot

Ronnie Sandoval, left, Lorrain Taylor, comfort each other as they hold photos of their slain children, and a news conference where they joined others in supporting a Novemer 2012 ballot intiative to end the death penalty, held in Sacramento, Calif. Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. Sandoval's son, Arthur Carmona, was murdered in Santa Ana in 2008 […]

Martin Michaels
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Ronnie Sandoval, left, Lorrain Taylor, comfort each other as they hold photos of their slain children, and a news conference where they joined others in supporting a Novemer 2012 ballot intiative to end the death penalty, held in Sacramento, Calif. Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. Sandoval's son, Arthur Carmona, was murdered in Santa Ana in 2008 and Taylor's twin sons with gunned down together in Oakland in 2000. Both mothers spoke against the death penalty and support the initiative that would replace capital punishment with life prison terms. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

(Mint Press)— The SAFE California Act, a citizen led ballot initiative that has gathered more than the minimum 500,000 petition signatures needed to be placed on the ballot, could abolish the death penalty in California this November making it the sixth state since 2007 to end capital punishment. If successful, the proposed California act could

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Republicans Claim Women’s Violence Bill Exploits Politics Over Concern

  In this April 18, 2012 file photo, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Republicans determined to show women voters that they have their interests at heart on Wednesday announced plans to renew the Violence Against Women Act, the federal government's main domestic violence program. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, […]

Trisha Marczak
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In this April 18, 2012 file photo, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Republicans determined to show women voters that they have their interests at heart on Wednesday announced plans to renew the Violence Against Women Act, the federal government's main domestic violence program. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

  (MintPress)-In the midst of a heated campaign battle over which party appeals more to female voters, Republicans are blaming Democrats for playing politics with alterations in the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) that extend extra domestic violence and assault protections to Native Americans, immigrants and those involved in

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