BY ALBERT AJI AND EDITH M. LEDERER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JULY 25, 2013 6:54 PM
DAMASCUS, Syria - The number of dead in Syria's civil war has passed 100,000, the U.N. chief said Thursday, calling for urgent talks on ending 2 1/2 years of violence even as President Bashar Assad's government blasted the United States as an unsuitable peace broker.
In the latest example of the relentless carnage, a car bomb killed at least 10 people and wounded 66 in a pro-regime, residential area…
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Responding to an ordinance proposed in a Colorado town that would encourage hunters to shoot down drones, the Federal Aviation Administration said Friday that anyone doing so could be prosecuted for endangering people and property.
By JOAN LOWY
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — People who fire guns at drones…
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The Microsoft logo is seen at their offices in Bucharest. (Bogdan Cristel, Reuters / March 20, 2013
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Did Big Pharma team up to kill B.C.’s drug safety watchdog?
The answer depends on who you ask
By Lori Culbert, Vancouver Sun July 13, 2013
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The Pentagon chief says his staff and that of his top brass will be trimmed by 20 percent in coming years.
By LARA JAKES
AP National Security Writer
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. —
The Pentagon chief says his staff and that of his top brass will be trimmed by 20 percent in coming years.
The…
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Published: July 16, 2013 Updated 5 hours ago
By TAMI ABDOLLAH — Associated Press
FILE - This Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 file photo, shows a sign in front of Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. The U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance…
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Published: July 16, 2013 Updated 7 hours ago
Olympian news services
Twinkies are back, but they may be a bit smaller than you remember.
The new boxes hitting shelves this week list the spongy yellow cakes as having 270 calories and a weight of 77 grams for two cakes, or 135 calories and 38.5 grams for…
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By BRAD SHANNON — Staff writer
Judge Christopher Wickham
OLYMPIAN FILE PHOTO
Backers of an initiative to close loopholes on background checks for gun buyers have won ballot title language more to their liking. Judge Christopher Wickham…
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Published: July 16, 2013
By Jeff Barnard — The Associated Press
The newly appointed administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration has been replaced with no explanation.
An email from a deputy secretary of energy to BPA employees on Monday said the acting…
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Tensions between Jackson County growers, GMO company peaked days before beet destruction
The clientele at Evo, an Ashland coffeehouse, take the matter of…
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Published: July 15, 2013 Updated 10 minutes ago
By JUAN ZAMORANO — Associated Press
The North Korean-flagged cargo ship Chong Chon Gang sits docked at the Manzanillo International container terminal on the coast of Colon City, Panama, Tuesday,…
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Published: June 29, 2013
By NANCY BENAC and ALICIA A. CALDWELL — Associated Press
WASHINGTON — It took 50 years for American attitudes about marijuana to zigzag from the paranoia of "Reefer Madness" to the excesses of Woodstock back to the hard line of "Just Say No."
The next 25 years took the nation from Bill Clinton, who famously "didn't inhale," to Barack Obama, who most emphatically did.
And now, in just a few short years, public opinion has moved so…
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Governor, Republicans claim talks going well, but no deal yet
MIKE BAKER | The Associated Press • Published June 25, 2013
Thousands of state workers received notifications Monday that they could be temporarily laid off starting next week, even as Gov. Jay Inslee expressed an upbeat tone about budget talks that could avert a government shutdown.
Inslee’s financial managers directed agencies to start sending notices because lawmakers have not been able to finalize…
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BY JEREMY PAWLOSKI | Staff writer • Published June 26, 2013
A former Joint Base Lewis-McChord employee accused of infiltrating an Olympia anti-war group has admitted he accessed an email listserv maintained by the group in 2007 for attorney-client communications, then forwarded the information to police, according to documents filed in federal court in Tacoma.
Attorneys state in a recent court filing that John Towery accessed the activists’ listserv because he was…
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The loss of one of its Stryker brigades and other cuts will bring Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s force level to 26,500 soldiers, according to U.S. Rep. Denny Heck, D-Olympia
By Hal Bernton
Seattle Times staff reporter
The Army will cut a Stryker Brigade at Joint Base Lewis-McChord as part of an upcoming change in its force structure, according to U.S. Rep. Denny Heck, D-Olympia, who was informed of the action Tuesday.
“With the Iraq war over and the war in Afghanistan…
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By Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas, Published: JUNE 24, 8:44 AM ET
Aeroflot flight 150, from Moscow to Havana, was packed with dozens of journalists who’d bought tickets to get a glimpse of, and maybe even an interview with, fleeing leaker Edward Snowden. But when the doors closed and the plane readied for takeoff, they made an unpleasant discovery: Snowden wasn’t on the plane.
There is, of course, only one explanation for Snowden’s absence: He never existed in the first…
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By Peter Symonds
25 June 2013
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who arrived in Moscow on Sunday from Hong Kong, appears to be still in Russia after reports that he failed to board a flight to Cuba on which he was booked on Monday.
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Ecuadorian foreign minister Richard Patiño confirmed at a press conference in Vietnam on Monday that his government…
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By Naomi Wolf
Global Research, June 15, 2013
I hate to do this but I feel obligated to share, as the story unfolds, my creeping concern that the NSA leaker is not who he purports to be, and that the motivations involved in the story may be more complex than they appear to be.
This is in no way to detract from the great courage of Glenn Greenwald in reporting the story, and the gutsiness of the Guardian in showcasing this kind of reporting, which is a service to America that US…
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Seven members of Washington’s congressional delegation are urging U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to assure that the federal government won’t penalize pot users and sellers “for activities legal under state law.”
By Kyung M. Song
Seattle Times Washington bureau
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