Defense
KERRY, IN AFRICA, PRESSES NIGERIA ON HUMAN RIGHTS
c.2013 New York Times News Service ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Making his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as secretary of state, John Kerry urged Nigeria on Saturday to uphold human rights as it steps up its fight against Islamic extremists. “One’s person’s atrocity does not excuse another’s,” Kerry said, when ...
Centralia mom gets 6 months for giving toddler pot
A Centralia mother has been sentenced to 6 months in jail for allowing her 22-month-old to smoke marijuana. KOMO-TV reports (http://is.gd/7uKIEh ) prosecutors used a cell phone video that appeared to show 24-year-old Rachelle Braaten's young son smoking from a bong. They do not believe the video uncovered in March ...
Community outreach key to Obama counterterror plan
Within hours of the Boston Marathon blasts, government officials and Boston Muslims called each other to offer assistance, calls that were the fruits of years of cultivating such relationships in an effort to ultimately prevent the very type of attack Boston experienced April 15. But the calls following the explosions ...
Corps takes flood study to St. James
St. James Parish residents are getting a look at an Army Corps of Engineers plan to reduce storm-surge risk from area lakes. Army Corps officials outlined a feasibility study focusing on risk-reduction possibilities this past week at a meeting with St. James residents. According to the Army Corps, the study ...
Key senators tightly control immigration debate
For all the soothing words she heard from fellow Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii never had a chance to win a relatively modest change to far-reaching immigration legislation. Instead, the hidden hand of the Gang of Eight reached out and rejected her attempt to ...
New England editorial roundup
The Nashua (N.H.) Telegraph, May 21, 2013 In recent years, the U.S. military has made a concerted effort to combat sexual assaults against women. The Army's "I Am Strong" sexual assault prevention program schools all new soldiers on 10 "sex rules" of proper behavior. Once a year, all members of ...
New England editorial roundup
The Rutland (Vt.) Herald, May 24, 2013 President Obama's hope to redeem America's standing as the standard bearer for human dignity has gone unfulfilled until now because of the realities of war abroad and the climate of fear at home. His speech May 23 about the war on terror was ...
KERRY, IN AFRICA, PRESSES NIGERIA ON HUMAN RIGHTS
c.2013 New York Times News Service ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Making his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as secretary of state, John Kerry urged Nigeria on Saturday to uphold human rights as it steps up its fight against Islamic extremists. “One’s person’s atrocity does not excuse another’s,” Kerry said, when ...
KERRY, IN AFRICA, PRESSES NIGERIA ON HUMAN RIGHTS
c.2013 New York Times News Service ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Making his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as secretary of state, John Kerry urged Nigeria on Saturday to uphold human rights as it steps up its fight against Islamic extremists. “One’s person’s atrocity does not excuse another’s,” Kerry said, when ...
U.S. SHIFT POSES RISK TO PAKISTAN
c.2013 New York Times News Service From multibillion-dollar military aid to stealthy and secretive drone strikes, Pakistan, perhaps even more than Afghanistan, has been the central focus of America’s 12-year war on Islamist militancy. Now, as President Barack Obama’s landmark policy speech on Thursday made clear, all of that is ...
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