By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKIPublished: January 11, 2010 TRENTON — The New Jersey Legislature approved a measure on Monday that would make the state the 14th in the nation, but one of the few on the East Coast, to legalize the use of marijuana to help patients with chronic illnesses.
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2010-01-11 19:17:30 [1]
By Mark Potter, Correspondent, NBC News MIAMI — In an out-of-the way warehouse district in southwest Miami-Dade county, FBI agent Brian Waterman and Julie Rivera, an agent with the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, approached a tiny medical supply company that they suspected was nothing more than a front for Medicare fraud.
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2010-01-11 14:46:54 [2]
By Ron BrynaertMonday, January 11th, 2010 — 2:40 pmOn his way out the door, retiring Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn) has some bad news for health reform advocates still cheering the late December Senate vote.”Health care reform is ‘hanging on by a thread,’ and one or two votes could determine the outcome of the heavily-debated bill, Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd told CNBC Monday,” the
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2010-01-11 14:14:29 [3]
La Procuradura General de la Repblica solicita la colaboracin de cualquier persona que pueda proporcionar informacin fidedigna sobre el paradero de estos individuos que permita su aprehensin.
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(photo: Hctor Beltrn Leyva)Monday, January 11, 2010By Samuel LoganMexican authorities arrested Carlos Beltran Leyva in Sinaloa on 30 December. He is the younger brother of the late Arturo Beltran Leyva, who was killed in a shootout with Mexican troops two weeks earlier, and the third Beltran Leyva brother to have been either killed or arrested since early 2008.With a fourth brother, Hector Beltran Leyva, still at large and considered the head of what re
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2010-01-11 08:26:54 [5]
MEXICAN INFORMATION AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATESMexico emphasis business and government services; negotiations with federal, state and local government agencies and officials, plus the private sector; lobbying and facilitation with government officials, regulatory agencies and elected representatives; problem resolution; socioeconomic and political research and analysis; country and political risk analysis; actionable intelligence; U.S.A. services for Latin American clients.
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2010-01-10 19:08:50 [6]
Observer.co.uk, Sunday 24 November 2002 12.07 GMTOnline document: the full text of Osama bin Laden’s “letter to the American people”, reported in today’s Observer. The letter first appeared on the internet in Arabic and has since been translated and circulated by Islamists in Britain.
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2010-01-09 12:28:53 [7]
1/9/09 (AP) LOS ANGELES (AP) A Los Angeles judge has ordered that 60 pounds of pot confiscated by the California Highway Patrol during an arrest be returned to the defendant.Superior Court Judge William Sterling on Friday ordered the marijuana returned to Saguro Doven. The 33-year-old’s attorneys successfully argued that he had the legal right to transport it under medical marijuana guidelines issued by state Attorney General Jerry Brown.Doven’s attorney says his client was
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2010-01-09 11:58:40 [8]
08 January 2010Photo: AP Afghan police secure the area near the new U.S. consulate building in Herat after rocket attackAfghan police say a rocket has hit a building housing the new U.S. consulate office in western Afghanistan.They say three rockets were fired at the building in the city of Herat Friday, but that only one struck it.
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2010-01-09 07:22:18 [9]
Yitzhak Benhorin Published: 01.08.10, 19:58 / Israel News WASHINGTON — On the eve of his visit to the Middle East, US special envoy George Mitchell threatened that his country would freeze its aid to Israel if the Jewish state failed to advance peace talks with the Palestinians and a two-state solution. Mitchell clarified in an interview to the PBS network that the United States would use incentives or sanctions against both sides.
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2010-01-08 18:51:54 [10]
By MICHELLE R. SMITH, Associated Press Writer 1/8/09NEWPORT, R.I. — The nation’s top military leader said Friday the United States has no plans to send troops into Yemen, and that country has made it clear it does not want U.S. ground forces there.In an address Friday to hundreds of students at the Naval War College in Newport, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, addressed issues raised by the Christmas Day attempt to bring down a Detroit-b
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2010-01-08 18:39:52 [11]
1/8/09WASHINGTON #8212; US astronomers have detected the second smallest exoplanet ever discovered with a mass just four times heavier than the Earth, adding to a growing number of low-mass planets dubbed “super-Earths.”"This is quite a remarkable discovery,” said Andrew Howard, an astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley.”It shows that we can push down and find smaller and smaller planets,” he said in a presentation at the 215th meeting
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2010-01-08 18:26:32 [12]
By Chris Nuttall in Las Vegas Published: January 7 2010 — App stores are coming to the television as developers and content providers move their software and services to the big screens of internet-connected TVs.Many TV sets on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week have an added Ethernet connection as the internet, along with 3D, becomes an integrated part of the viewing experience.(Photo: Samsu
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Fort Hood Intel Lapse Mirrors Detroit Case CBS NewsExclusive: FBI and Pentagon Missed Red Flag that Hasan Was E-mailing Qaeda Cleric, Who is also Linked to Abdulmutallab(CBS) Less than a month after major Nidal Hasan allegedly killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, the Pentagon’s top intelligence officer sent the White House a report detailing an earlier failure to connect the dots. It reads like a dress rehearsal for the Detroit bomber case, reports CBS New
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2010-01-08 01:46:56 [15]
RidleyReportJanuary 06, 2010Victimless crime trial triggers two ‘removals’ of justice system dissidents. Detals: http://forum.freekeene.com/index.php?…ron paul law enforcement court security officers Judge Andrew Napolitano lawyers prosecutors defense attorneys ridleyreport court candia
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2010-01-08 01:01:33 [16]
by JJ Hensley and Yvonne Wingett – Jan. 7, 2010 08:07 PMTwo high-ranking Maricopa County officials confirmed late Thursday that they will testify next week before a federal grand jury exploring allegations that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has abused power.County Manager David Smith and Assistant County Manager Sandi Wilson said they were preparing to testify before the grand jury on Wednesday.
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2010-01-07 22:58:53 [17]
By Daniel TencerThursday, January 7th, 2010 — 4:09 pmTwo guards working for Xe Services, the company formerly known as Blackwater, were arrested Thursday on murder charges following a shootout after a car accident in Afghanistan last year.If convicted, the two could face the death penalty.
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2010-01-07 22:29:33 [18]
By HENRY BREAN This sign outside the Shady Lady Ranch brothel advertises its usual fare — scantily clad women. In as little as two weeks, the owners of the brothel in northern Nye County plan to offer at least one male prostitute as well. Photo by Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
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2010-01-07 14:08:37 [19]
January 07, 2010The White House is scheduled to release a report today that details events leading to the attempted Christmas Day bombing a document one White House official called shocking. Does this concern you? Do you believe this report will prompt major changes in airline security? Is the Obama administration doing enough to prevent terror attacks?Category: News PoliticsTags: UPI terror report white house obama christmas day bomber airline security
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2010-01-07 13:46:00 [20]
By Lynne O’Donnell (AFP) 1/6/09The United Nations said civilian deaths in Afghanistan rose 10.8 percent in the first 10 months of 2009KABUL – Children are the biggest victims of the war in Afghanistan, with more than 1,050 people under 18 years old killed last year alone, according to an Afghan human rights watchdog.Taliban-linked militants caused around 64 percent of all violent child deaths last year, the Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) said in a report.
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2010-01-07 13:31:32 [21]
By Daniel TencerThursday, January 7th, 2010 — 2:32 pmThe controversy surrounding Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s role in the 2008 Wall Street bailouts was ramped up Thursday with the revelation of emails that show the New York Federal Reserve — then run by Geithner — pressured insurance giant AIG to withhold information about payments the company made to its creditors.
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2010-01-07 13:23:35 [22]
The new anti-whaling speedboat deployed by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society collides with a vessel in Japan’s whaling fleet.Video provided by Japan’s Institute for Cetacean Research. More on Dot Earth: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.comhttp://www.icrwhale.org/gpandsea.htmhttp://www.seashepherd.org Category: News PoliticsTags: whaling animal rights oceans japan environmentalism
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2010-01-06 19:30:55 [23]
This is a comet coming a little too close to the sun as see by the SOHO spacecraft on January 3, 2010. SOHO is a joint ESA/NASA project. Category: Science TechnologyTags: cometlascoc2 0110
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2010-01-05 00:02:35 [24]
By PETER BAKERPublished: January 4, 2010 The evening before he was sworn into office, Barack Obama stepped out of Blair House, the government residence where he was staying across from the White House, and climbed into an armored limousine for the ride to a bipartisan dinner. Joining him in the back seat were John Brennan, his new counterterrorism adviser, and two foreign-policy advisers, Denis McDonough and Mark Lippert. The three men with the president-elect were out of breath, having ru
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2010-01-04 23:34:24 [25]
Washington (CNN) — The man who led the federal government’s inquiry into the intelligence lapses leading up to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks said Sunday that the Obama administration is plagued by the same problems the Bush administration had more than eight years ago.Thomas Kean, the Republican who chaired the bipartisan 9/11 Commission, said Obama counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan had sounded “a bit defensive,” in an interview that had just aired on C
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2010-01-04 22:21:00 [26]
Monday, January 4th, 2010 — 7:11 pmShare on Facebook Stumble This! Threats to federal judges and prosecutors have jumped dramatically, according to a new government report issued Monday that found such threats more than doubled in the past six years.By coincidence, the report was issued shortly before a gunman walked into a federal building in Las Vegas and opened fire, killing a court security officer and seriously wounding a deputy U.S. marshal. The suspect was shot dead
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2010-01-04 22:08:18 [27]
By Lyndsey LaytonWashington Post Staff Writer Monday, January 4, 2010 Of the 84,000 chemicals in commercial use in the United States — from flame retardants in furniture to household cleaners — nearly 20 percent are secret, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, their names and physical properties guarded from consumers and virtually all public officials under a little-known federal provision
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Dec 31, 2009 6:42pm GMTMOSCOW (Reuters) – Police detained dozens of anti-Kremlin activists, including an 82-year-old Soviet dissident dressed as Santa Claus’ female helper, at a New Year’s Eve rally on Moscow’s main shopping street Thursday.Hundreds of riot police surrounded a Christmas tree in the centre of the city and arrested the opposition activists as they gathered to defend their right to peaceful protest.
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2010-01-04 05:40:35 [29]
(photo undated, Czech Justice Minister Daniela Kovarova)15 December 2009 Prague, Dec 14 – The Czech government Monday set the drug possession limits under which the possession of up to 1.5 grammes of heroin, up to one gramme of cocaine and up to two grammes of methamphetamine (pervitine) will not be punishable as of New Year.Czechs will also be able to legally possess up to 15 grammes of marijuana, according to the Justice Ministry’s proposal approved by the government Monday.
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