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Reuters - Top News, 24.04.13 06:05 UTC

Italy president set to announce choice for prime minister

By Philip Pullella ROME | Wed Apr 24, 2013 1:47am EDT ROME (Reuters) - Italy's president Giorgio Napolitano is set to announce on Wednesday his choice of prime minister to form a new government and ...

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Seattle Times, 24.04.13 04:00 UTC

Without light rail, new span across Columbia is history, Oregon governor says

The fate of the Interstate 5 bridge between Vancouver and Portland appears to largely rest on whether Washington state agrees to put up $450 million as its share of the cost. The GOP-controlled majority in the state Senate has said it will reject any bridge proposal containing light rail.

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Seattle Times, 24.04.13 03:02 UTC

Nevada lawmaker s surprise during gay-marriage debate: I m gay

State Sen. Kelvin Atkinson, a Democrat from North Las Vegas, told his Senate colleagues that he is gay during discussion of a measure to repeal a state ban on gay marriage.

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Seattle Times, 24.04.13 00:00 UTC

Gov. Inslee signs underage alcohol tasting bill

Gov. Jay Inslee has signed into law a measure to allow 18-year-olds to taste - and spit out - alcohol in certain classroom settings.

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Los Angeles Daily News, 23.04.13 23:59 UTC

President is right to be careful with 'terrorism': Letters to the Editor for Thursday, April 25, 2013

According to Krauthammer, terrorism is any attack on civilians for political purposes. I also recall this word was a catalyst to ramp up fear in the minds of the American people to justify a need to ...

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Wired, 23.04.13 23:12 UTC

Yemeni Tells Senators About 'Fear and Terror' Caused by U.S. Drones

Farea al-Muslimi, center, told a Senate Judiciary committee today about a recent lethal drone strike in his Yemeni village. Photo: Spencer Ackerman/Wired For the first time, the Senate heard from ...

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NPR, 23.04.13 22:49 UTC

Plenty Of Finger Pointing As Budget Cuts Delay First Flights

Blame shifting was in high gear Tuesday on Capitol Hill and at the White House as the first air traffic delays tied to the furloughs of Federal Aviation Administration controllers began to get ...

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Seattle Times, 23.04.13 21:11 UTC

GOP report faults State Dept. on Libya security

An interim report by House Republicans faults the State Department and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for security deficiencies at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, prior to last September's deadly terrorist attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

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NPR, 23.04.13 21:10 UTC

Online Retailers Take Opposite Sides On Sales Tax Bill

More online retailers would have to collect sales tax under a bill making its way through the U.S. Senate this week. The measure won strong bipartisan backing on a procedural vote Monday, and ...

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Seattle Times, 23.04.13 20:33 UTC

Senior Democrat presses administration on drones

The Senate's second-ranking Democrat is pressing the Obama administration to explicitly spell out its justification for using drones for targeted killings.

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