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Obama defends drone strikes but says no cure-all

 May 23, 2013; Updated: 2:59 pm

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Thursday defended America's controversial drone attacks as legal, effective and a necessary linchpin in an evolving U.S. counterterrorism policy. But he acknowledged the targeted strikes are...

House subcommittee rejects any notion of BRAC in budget

 May 23, 2013; Updated: 11:41 am

The Readiness Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee has not only rejected the administration's request for base closings in 2015, it expressly forbade a new round.

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• Man linked to Boston bomb suspects is killed
• Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys
• Arias jury deadlocked but must continue
• 2 infants among 10 kids killed in Oklahoma tornado
• Memorial Day preparations
• Immigration overhaul advances

 

World News

2 more arrests in London attack investigation

 May 23, 2013; Updated: 2:52 pm

Brutal attack in London blamed on radical Islam

 May 23, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

London - Two men with butcher knives hacked another to death Wednesday near a London military barracks and one then went on video to explain the crime - shouting political statements, gesturing with bloodied hands and waving a meat...

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