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SC, Other States Moving to Switch Execution Drug
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Nearly two-thirds of the 16 states with active death chambers are switching to an alternative sedative for execution — even as the drug’s manufacturer argues against its use in capital punishment and some European countries push export bans for such drugs.
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Feds mine Facebook for info
DETROIT — Federal investigators in Detroit have taken the rare step of obtaining search warrants that give them access to Facebook accounts of suspected criminals.
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Execution Drug Shortage: States Scramble To Get Controversial Alternative, Ignore Warnings
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Nearly two-thirds of the 16 states with active death chambers are switching to an alternative sedative for execution – even as the drug’s manufacturer argues against its use in capital punishment and some European countries push export bans for such drugs.
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States move quickly to switch execution drug
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Nearly two-thirds of the 16 states with active death chambers are switching to an alternative sedative for execution – even as the drug’s manufacturer argues against its use in capital punishment and some European countries push export bans for such drugs.
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Africa: Assistant Secretary Carson At Senate Hearing On Africa
Testimony by Johnnie Carson, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on African Affairs on FY2012 Budget Request for U.S. Policies on Africa:
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Potential Civil Liberties Controversy Brewing at Western Albemarle
The Charlottesville-based Rutherford Institute is ready to step into a potential civil liberties controversy at Western Albemarle High School. A breathalyzer test is at the heart of a debate over a countywide policy, or lack thereof.
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Zimbabwe, then and now
By Christina Lamb AMONG the many dictators who must be watching the uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa with dismay is Robert Mugabe. The Zimbabwean President has been in power 31 years and despite recently turning 87 is pushing for another five year term. While other despots have responded to the revolutionary mood [...]
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Stern: Drug war futility
Since the criminal and disastrous presidency of Richard Nixon, the federal government has carried on his legacy of stupid decisions with remarkable acumen.
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Do domain seizures keep streaming sites down?
US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) has caused tremendous controversy over the past year by seizing domain names belonging to sites that allegedly infringe copyright or sell counterfeit goods. This all sounds rather pointless—the actual servers aren’t seized, and it’s a simple matter of registering a similar site name with a non-US domain name registrar—but ICE insists it works. We …
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Feds Go All In Against Online Poker Sites, Seize Domains, Issue Warrants
If you are an online poker player using PokerStars.com, you would have found the site had been seized Friday and a Department of Justice notice was there in place of your normal access page. While online gambling has been illegal in the United States for five years under the UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act) that prohibited online gambling sites to operate in the United States …
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Cash, checks, and elections
The 2011 Assembly election in Tamil Nadu stands out for several reasons, some of them heartening, others deeply disturbing.
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Call for vaccination compensation
The WA opposition has demanded vaccine compensation for families of harmed children.
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Profile: Nuhu Ribadu
Former anti-corruption boss known for his ruthless pursuit of the corrupt is Nigeria’s youngest presidential candidate.
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Gun shop told ATF sting was dangerous
Two guns found at the scene of an sting where an agent was killed were traced back to Glendale.
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Spending cuts will affect nearly every federal agency
Negotiators identify the specifics of the $38-billion budget deal that averted a government shutdown. The Pentagon will receive an extra $5 billion. Conservative Republicans say it doesn’t cut enough. The largest domestic spending cut in U.S. history will upend almost every federal agency and slash programs dealing with healthcare, transportation and education, but will give the Pentagon an …
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As smoke clears, Tories, Liberals react to pot ruling
Defendant elated over new-found freedom to use marijuana to control his symptoms
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Ottawa weighs appeal after Ontario judge rules against medical marijuana program
TORONTO – Ottawa is considering whether to appeal an Ontario court ruling that if left to stand could make the possession of marijuana legal in the province, officials said Wednesday.
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Pot laws ruled unconstitutional
An Ontario Superior Court judge has ruled that the federal medical marijuana program is unconstitutional, giving the government three months to fix the problem before pot is effectively legalized.
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Editorial: We still deserve privacy in the cloud
We Americans value our privacy. It’s enshrined in the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, with its guarantee that “[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants…
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Ortho-McNeil Neurologics Voluntarily Recalls Two Lots of TOPAMAX®
Ortho-McNeil Neurologics Division of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., today announced it is voluntarily recalling two lots of TOPAMAX® 100mg Tablets.  These two lots were shipped between 10/19/2010 and 12/28/2010 and distributed in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.  While the recall encompasses approximately 57,000 bottles of TOPAMAX®, the company believes there are fewer than 6,000 …
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Locals air worries on spill’s health effects
RACELAND — Andy LeBoeuf, an arborist from Gheens, believes his lingering sore throat, difficulty breathing and short-term memory loss can be traced back to his four months working out of Leeville for BP on his 24-foot skiff.
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Three killed, 34 ill in China milk scare
Three people died and 34 were left ill in northwestern China from food poisoning believed linked to tainted milk, the government said, in what is the country’s latest food safety scare.
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As election day (April 13) nears, the AIADMK’s Jayalalitha is getting feistier by the day, with defiant attacks on DMK chief M. Karunanidhi and his family. She called the latter “one of the richest in Asia”, prompting the Tamil Nadu CM to ask the Election Commission to rein her in.
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Feds defend Twitter dragnet on WikiLeaks supporters
Constitutional claims ‘baseless’ Federal prosecutors on Friday defended their attempts to access the Twitter records of three WikiLeaks supporters, arguing their claims that the dragnet violates their constitutional rights should be rejected.…
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Why wind power is a bargain
The only thing about wind turbines that is injurious to human health is putting another moratorium on them.
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Testimony of John Morton, Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on “Promoting Investment and Protecting …
Testimony of John Morton, Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet on “Promoting Investment and Protecting Commerce Online: Legitimate Sites v. Parasites, Part II”
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Cash for votes rains in Tamil Nadu, Rs.3.82 mn seized
It is not only freebies that are raining in Tamil Nadu ahead of the April 13 assembly elections, but also cash for votes – and a lot of it.
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Arizona task force patrols drug-smuggling corridor
Stretch of desert along Interstate 8 between Casa Grande and Gila Bend has become a focal point.
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Christian groups seek apology from Hisham
By Melissa Chi, The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, April 1 — A coalition of Christian groups today demanded an apology from Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein for telling Christians to “fair and reasonable” after having “insulted and ridiculed” them. Coalition of Malaysian Christians spokesman, Richard Klassen from Sabah, stressed that while Christians’ rights are protected under the …
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ANALYSIS: U.S. still lacks border strategy
ANALYSIS: WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government hasn’t come up with a comprehensive strategy to secure the U.S.-Mexico border , even as an all-out war between Mexico and its violent drug gangs has claimed 35,000 lives and pushed hundreds of thousands of immigrants into the United States. The U.S. …
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Analysis: US still lacks border strategy
share: digg facebook twitter WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government hasn’t come up with a comprehensive strategy to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, even as an all-out war between Mexico and its violent drug gangs has claimed 35,000 lives and pushed hundreds of thousands of immigrants into the United States. The U.S. government has spent nearly $4 billion on various approaches, including a $2.4 …
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Analysis: US still lacks border strategy
The federal government hasn’t come up with a comprehensive strategy to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, even as an all-out war between Mexico and its violent drug gangs has claimed 35,000 lives and pushed hundreds of…
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DEA cracking down on copycat drugs
The North Platte Telegraph Late last year the Drug Enforcement Agency launched a crackdown on synthetic marijuana products such as K2, and other manufacturers of what are commonly referred to as “copycat” drugs.
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Report faults Medicaid spending on brand-name drugs
Medicaid, the joint federal-state health program for the poor, spent $329 million extra in 2009 purchasing 20 brand-name drugs instead of available generic copies, according to an American Enterprise Institute report.
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Libya In 140 Characters
By now, most of the mainstream media has streamed into Libya, only to experience significant obstacles to covering Gadhafi’s war on his domestic rebels, which includes kidnapping, seizures of equipment and mock executions.
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Feds defund meth cleanup program, worrying states
Police and sheriff’s departments in some states ravaged by methamphetamine may have to scale back efforts to bust manufacturers because federal funds dedicated solely to cleaning up the toxic sites has dried up and departments won’t want to get stuck footing the bill, several law enforcement officials predict.
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NYT: Drug wars push deeper into Central America
Aggressive crackdowns on criminal organizations in Mexico and Colombia have brought powerful drug syndicates deeper into Central American countries incapable of combating them.
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Working Like a Dog
Midshipman Ari Schiff raises funds so wounded veterans can benefit from a warm heart and a cold nose Diana Beechener Twenty-one-year-old Ari Schiff knows the value of a dollar. In high school he earned 60,000 of them. Not for a new car or an expensive spring vacation. Schiff earned this small fortune so that America’s VetDogs could offer two assistance dogs to help disabled veterans …
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DEA cracking down on copycat drugs
The North Platte Telegraph Late last year the Drug Enforcement Agency launched a crackdown on synthetic marijuana products such as K2, and other manufacturers of what are commonly referred to as “copycat” drugs.
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Los Angeles DUI Lawyer says Senators Opposed to DUI Checkpoint Apps Should be more Concerned with the …
Senators petition Apple and Google to remove DUI checkpoint apps.
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Martha Rosenberg: Oh That? Deceptive Marketing Settlement Doesn’t Stop Seroquel Advertising
Google the word “depression” and the first search result you’ll get is for the antipsychotic Seroquel XR.
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MPs spend up while families struggle
THE aunty of a little Coastal girl who survived critical brain surgery says parents with sick children should be better compensated for all the travel and hidden costs by the State Government, which is itself under fire for MP travel cost blowouts.
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Obama’s trip seeks to engage with Latin America
A nuclear crisis in Japan, fighting in Libya, turmoil in the Mideast and the threat of a government shutdown at home. It’s a tough time for President Barack Obama to leave on a foreign trip — to Latin America.
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US law enforcement role in Mexico drug war surges
MEXICO CITY #8212; Arturo Beltran-Leyva, a notoriously cruel cartel boss and one of Mexico #8217;s most wanted criminals, threw a riotous Christmas party two years ago with Grammy-winning musicians, prostitutes, and lavish food and drinks.
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