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Promise 301: Drug courts are expanding, though not in federal system

Source: Politifact.com, Dec 6 2012, 2:10pm CST

"Currently, the Department of Justice makes grants available to state and local governments to establish drug courts. Barack Obama and Joe Biden will replicate these efforts within the federal criminal justice system by signing a la ...

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1 hour ago

Report: Obama Trims Afghan War Budget Request

Source: Humanitarian News  |   May 18 2013, 2:20pm CDT

U.S. President Barack Obama is trimming his funding request for the Afghan war. The Reuters news agency quotes an unidentified White House aide as saying the president has decreased his request for funding the war in Afghanistan by 10 percent f ...

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2 hours ago

Europe and the US should heed Latin America on drugs

Source: Guardian Unlimited  |   May 18 2013, 1:57pm CDT

It's time to engage with Latin America and pursue alternatives to the present policy You wouldn't know it from listening to UK officials but a game-changing debate is taking place in the Americas about the war on drugs. There is a growi ...

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23 weeks ago


Quote:
"We don't want these programs to have to compete with one another."


Source: Politifact.com

 

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5 hours ago

Barack Obama agenda seems to be weathering controversies

Source: Economic Times  |   May 18 2013, 11:02am CDT

WASHINGTON: Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political damage control by the administration and party leaders in Congress and lack of e ...

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9 hours ago

Obama Has Rarely Or Never Praised Whistleblowers

Source: The Huffington Post  |   May 18 2013, 6:37am CDT

NEW YORK -- In more than four years of office, President Barack Obama has frequently praised the idea of whistleblowing. He even signed the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act into law in 2012. But has he actually praised any whistleblowers by n ...

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10 hours ago

Obama talks jobs, says politics misplace focus

Source: AzFamily.com  |   May 18 2013, 6:07am CDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is calling attention to his economic proposals and efforts to expand the middle class. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says the U.S. should focus on attracting good jobs, educa ...

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14 hours ago

Cuts in funding threaten to make TB even more deadly worldwide

Source: Albuquerque Journal  |   May 18 2013, 2:01am CDT

In 2011, tuberculosis killed 1.4 million people worldwide, almost as many as died from HIV/AIDS. And death isn’t the only damage TB does. In many countries, families of poor victims find themselves thrust further into poverty. And infants and ...

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15 hours ago

Obama should OK Keystone pipeline, Tipton says at hearing

Source: Grand Junction Sentinel  |   May 18 2013, 1:05am CDT

When President Barack Obama announced Friday he was cutting red tape on federal construction projects, he was framed by heavy equipment owned by a man who testified Thursday in Congress that… I am a 7-day sub ...

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18 hours ago

Manmohan Singh to visit US on Barack Obama`s invitation

Source: Zee News  |   May 17 2013, 10:13pm CDT

New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to travel to Washington in a few months at the invitation of US President Barack Obama. Obama's invitation to Singh was delivered by US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns dur ...

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18 hours ago

Top News Photos of the Week

Source: NBC Dallas-Fort Worth  |   May 17 2013, 10:12pm CDT

Obama/Turkey: President Barack Obama looks to see if it is still raining as a Marine holds an umbrella for him during his joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, May 16, 2013, in the Rose ...

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