Shallow 5.3 quake strikes southwest China: Xinhua

AFPApril 6, 2014, 12:01 am TWN

BEIJING — A shallow 5.3 quake struck southwest China Saturday, sending terrified residents running from their homes as dozens of houses collapsed and injuring at least 10 people, state media reported.
The tremor in Yunnan province, near the border with…
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Lawsuit Over American Drone Strikes Dismissed

A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed against the government by the families of three American citizens killed by U.S. drones in Yemen, saying senior officials cannot be held personally responsible for money damages for the act of conducting war.
The families of the three…
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Judge dismisses lawsuit over drone strikes

FILE – In this image taken from video and released by SITE Intelligence Group on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010, Anwar al-Awlaki speaks in a video message posted on radical websites. On Friday, April 4, 2014, U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer dismissed a lawsuit against Obama administration…
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‘Grammys’ event strikes Hill chord

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Hanson, Lady Antebellum, Booker T. Jones, Dionne Warwick and Los Lonely Boys joined members of Congress on Capitol Hill on Wednesday for the annual “Grammys on the Hill” day, which pairs pols up with performers for both a musical show and some good old-fashioned policy talks about intelle…
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Supreme Court strikes down aggregate campaign giving limits

The Supreme Court on Wednesday delivered another blow to already rickety limits on campaign contributions, ruling that caps on the total amount of money an individual can give to political campaigns, PACs and parties are unconstitutional.
In the 5-4 ruling, the court’s Republican-appointed j…
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Stephen Colbert Strikes Back at Asian Tweet Controversy: The Dark Forces …

Stephen Colbert Strikes Back at Asian Tweet Controversy: The Dark Forces …
Stephen Colbert triumphantly returned Monday night to answer critics who created the viral hashtag #CancelColbert over a controversial @ColbertReport tweet that took one of his jokes out of context. “…The interwebs …
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Magnitude-8.2 quake strikes northern Chile

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A powerful magnitude-8.2 earthquake struck off Chile’s northern coast Tuesday night, causing landslides and setting off a tsunami that forced an evacuation of coastal areas. There were no immediate reports of injuries or major damage, but buildings shook in nea…
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Obama says U.S. military strikes could not have stopped Syria misery

WASHINGTON Fri Mar 28, 2014 6:35pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States could not have stopped the humanitarian crisis in Syria with military strikes, President Barack Obama said in a television interview airing on Friday, and said U.S. troops had reached their…
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Judge Strikes Down Oklahoma Execution Law Over Secrecy

An Oklahoma judge voided the state’s execution law Wednesday, agreeing with inmates that a “veil of secrecy” preventing them from seeking information about the drugs used in lethal injections violated their rights under the state constitution.
Oklahoma is among the states that…
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Bomb strikes Libyan capital’s international airport

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