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Senate To Vote On Moving Ahead On Hagel Nod

In this Jan. 31, 2013, file photo, Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. A deeply divided Senate is moving toward a vote on President Barack Obama’s contentious choice of Chuck Hagel to head the Defense Department, with the former […]

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A deeply divided Senate is moving toward a vote on President Barack Obama's contentious choice of Chuck Hagel to head the Defense Department, with the former Republican senator on track to win confirmation after a protracted political fight. Twelve days after Republicans stalled the nomination, the Senate was slated to vote Tuesday on proceeding

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Free Online College Courses Is New Drive To Democratize Education

1st Lt. Ryan Kohrig (right), pay officer in charge at the disbursing office, Company A, Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, and a Webster University graduate student, works on his computer during a management class taught at the Base Education Center. More than 500 service members, families, Department of Defense civilians and […]

Frederick Reese
بواسطة Frederick Reese

(Mint Press) - Two major providers of free online college courses — California’s Mountain View Coursera and Massachusetts’ Cambridge edX — have announced an expansion of the universities that will contribute free courses to their services, including many from outside the United States. Coursera has announced that 29 universities and institutes

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Dennis Rodman Worms His Way Into North Korea

Flamboyant former NBA star Dennis Rodman, scratches his face upon arrival at Pyongyang Airport, North Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. The American known as “The Worm” arrived in Pyongyang, becoming an unlikely ambassador for sports diplomacy at a time of heightened tensions between the U.S. and North Korea. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon) Former NBA star […]

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Former NBA star Dennis Rodman brought his basketball skills Tuesday and flamboyant style — neon-bleached hair, tattoos, nose studs and all — to the isolated communist country with possibly the world's drabbest dress code: North Korea. Arriving in Pyongyang, the American athlete and showman known as "The Worm" became an unlikely ambassador for

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Syrian Missiles Kill At Least 141 In Aleppo

This citizen journalism image taken on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 and provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian man carrying a girl’s body in the aftermath of a strike by Syrian government, in the neighborhood of Jabal Bedro, in Aleppo, Syria. […]

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At least 141 people, half of them children, were killed when the Syrian military fired at least four missiles into the northern province of Aleppo last week, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. The international rights group said the strikes hit residential areas and called them an "escalation of unlawful attacks against Syria's civilian

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Occupy Caught In Entrapment Case Exposing Police Infiltration Of Nonviolent Groups

Occupy Austin protests at Austin’s City Hall on Oct. 6, 2011. (Photo/Jacob Villanueva, The Texas Tribune) (MintPress) – Six members of Occupy Austin pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges in a Houston court last week after more serious felony charges were dropped. Like others involved in the once robust protest movement, the six protesters succumbed to police […]

Martin Michaels
بواسطة Martin Michaels

(MintPress) - Six members of Occupy Austin pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges in a Houston court last week after more serious felony charges were dropped. Like others involved in the once robust protest movement, the six protesters succumbed to police entrapment when members of the Austin Police Department gave demonstrators “criminal

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Medical Marijuana Patients Caught Between Federal, State Laws At Border Checkpoints

This image provided by the Bay Area News Group shows cloned marijuana plants that are for sale at Harborside Health Center on Thursday, July 12, 2012 in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Aric Crabb, Bay Area News Group) (MintPress) – Since marijuana is not legal federally, even for medical reasons, medicinal users in states where the drug […]

Katie Rucke
بواسطة Katie Rucke

(MintPress) - Since marijuana is not legal federally, even for medical reasons, medicinal users in states where the drug is legal for medical use are finding themselves stuck between conflicting laws when crossing U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints on busy highways. Justin Sevey, 22, is a medical marijuana patient from New Mexico. He told a local

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