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In Theory: Can Americans reconcile with Islam?
Q. A leading Islamic cleric has begun a tour of America urging American Muslims to help shape the religion’s relationship with the USA. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf says Muslims should depoliticize their faith and that they should aim to make Islam be...Tags: Awards and Prizes, World War II (1939-1945), Feisal Abdul Rauf, Education, Terrorism
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Residents weigh in on disaster preparedness
A small group of La Cañada Flintridge residents gathered Tuesday at City Hall to do their part in ensuring the city is prepared for earthquakes, fires, floods and other potential natural disasters. City officials are required by state and federal law...Tags: Safety of Citizens, Disasters, Transportation, Floods, Road Transportation
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Ruling OKs JPL background checks
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday to allow sweeping background checks of JPL scientists and other government contract workers, ruling that privacy rights do not prevent officials from digging into employees' medical, financial and...Tags: Health, U.S. Supreme Court, Antonin Scalia, Heads of State, Labor Legislation
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In Theory: Is America Islamophobic?
Last week's Time magazine cover story by Bobby Ghosh reported that "hate speech against Muslims and Islam is growing both more widespread and more heated," with protests against a mosque in lower Manhattan and the building of other mosques elsewhere not...Tags: Periodicals, Fox Broadcasting Company, Freedom of Religion, Crime, Law and Justice, Japan
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G8 leaders tout economic growth, fiscal responsibility
President Barack Obama and fellow leaders at the Group of Eight meeting he hosted Saturday put job creation and economic growth at the top of their to-do list. "(They) must be our top priority. A stable growing European economy is in everybody's best...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, G8, CNN (tv network), Labor Markets, Burma
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Federal judge blocks National Defense Authorization Act provision
In a stunning turnaround for an act of Congress, a judge ruled Wednesday that a counterterrorism provision of the National Defense Authorization Act, an annual defense appropriations bill, is unconstitutional. Federal district Judge Katherine B. Forrest...
Tags: Pentagon Papers Release (2011), Leon Panetta, Health, The New York Times, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Homeland Security official: Airport employees are potential terror risks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Commercial air travel is at risk from terrorists who quietly get jobs at airports so that they can attack from within sensitive areas, a senior Homeland Security Department official told lawmakers Wednesday. There has never been...
Tags: Grupo Bimbo, Bennie G Thompson, U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, Personal Data Collection, Criminals
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Newark airport security? Worker used fake ID for years, police say
NEW YORK -- Twenty years ago, a man named Jerry Thomas died in New York City -- murdered in Queens in a case that was never solved. Not long afterward, a man named Jerry Thomas began working at Newark's international airport. The second Jerry Thomas...
Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Grupo Bimbo, Queens (New York City), New York City, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
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Newark airport security worker pleads not guilty to ID theft
NEW YORK -- A longtime Newark Liberty International Airport security worker pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of stealing the identity of a man slain 20 years ago to conceal his illegal immigration status -- a case that has embarrassed an airport...
Tags: Trials, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Theft, Health, Tampa
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Balancing cybersecurity and privacy
From the assembly lines of Detroit to the steel mills of Pittsburgh to the oil fields of Houston, our country has been built by an entrepreneurial spirit and thirst for innovation. And despite our recent economic challenges, that spirit is alive and well....
Tags: Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), FBI, Tuberculosis, Vaccines, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger
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Dead Dog Among Security Breaches at Newark Airport
pix11.com | @murphypixA Department of Homeland Security report released Monday revealed TSA, the Transportation Security Administration, was not funneling enough information about security breaches at Newark Airport and five, other facilities to a national operations center....Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, FBI, Long Island, U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, Frank Lautenberg
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Biden: National security would "not be as strong" under Romney
Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday morning that American national security wouldn’t be as strong if Republican Mitt Romney were president, based on his recent assertion that Russia is the country’s “No. 1 geopolitical foe.”...
Tags: Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), The Holocaust (1934-1945), Pakistan, John McCain, Osama bin Laden
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