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Clinton, testifying on Benghazi attack, says U.S. beefing up embassy security
Associated PressSecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered fiery rejoinders Wednesday to Republican critics of the Obama administration’s handling of the deadly attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi, facing off with lawmakers who included potential 2016...Tags: John McCain, Ron Johnson, Muammar Gaddafi, Justice System, Barack Obama
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Praise, skepticism as Cuba eases travel rules
For the first time since the height of the Cold War more than half a century ago, Cuba is giving its people the freedom to leave the country without government permission, scrapping the detested exit visa that kept many from traveling outside the...
Tags: Migration, Havana (Cuba), Personal Data Collection, Little Havana, Revolutions
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Obama to ease Cuba travel restrictions
President Barack Obama plans to loosen Cuban travel policy to allow students and church groups to go to the communist country, the administration announced Friday. Students seeking academic credit and churches traveling for religious purposes will be...Tags: Barack Obama, Raul Castro, Travel, Communist Party of China, Human Rights
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U.S. condemns 'appalling' violence in Libya
Associated PressThe Obama administration on Tuesday condemned "appalling" violence in Libya, where security forces unleashed a bloody crackdown on protesters demanding the ouster of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi. "This violence is completely unacceptable," Secretary...Tags: Foreign Aid, John McCain, Demonstration, Muammar Gaddafi, Massachusetts
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Bill seeks to give Holocaust survivors priority for in-home care, services
More than a thousand South Florida seniors are waiting for in-home services, like home-delivered meals and personal care aides, that are financed through the federal Older Americans Act. But Holocaust survivors could get priority when slots become open in...
Tags: Long Term Care, Mental Health, U.S. Congress, Budget Control Act of 2011, HIV
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Let 'em spell it out: Congress has gone acronym crazy
The Times on Thursday editorialized in favor of a bill in Congress that would call on states to review laws that criminalize conduct by people infected by HIV. While the bill itself may be worthy, its title is an example of an obnoxious trend. Our...
Tags: Oakland (Orange, Florida), DREAM Act, Verizon Communications, Laws, HIV
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Get rid of those outdated HIV laws
A bipartisan bill introduced in the House calls for a review of state laws that criminalize behavior by people with HIV, including many laws that seem anachronistic or inappropriate given what has been learned during the last three decades about the...
Tags: Oakland (Orange, Florida), Vaginal Discharge, Justice System, AIDS, Barbara Lee
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Helping Holocaust survivors
Holocaust survivors, including many of the estimated 15,000 survivors in South Florida, would receive much needed social services through legislation introduced last week in the U.S. Congress. Identical legislation was introduced in the U.S. Senate. The...Tags: U.S. Congress, Social Services, Palm Beach County, Weston (Broward, Florida), Ted Deutch
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Political calculus keeps Cuba on U.S. list of terror sponsors
Cuba’s communist leadership was quick to send condolences to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings and to reiterate to Washington that it “rejects and condemns unequivocally all acts of terrorism.” Once a key supplier of arms and...
Tags: Terrorism, Fidel Castro, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Water Pollution
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Rapper Jay-Z rejects criticism of his Cuba trip with Beyoncé -- and so does Broward commissioner
Sun SentinelRapper and entertainment industry mogul Jay-Z responded Thursday with a forceful rejection of the criticism he’s received from South Florida politicians over his visit to Cuba last week with his wife Beyoncé. And the couple received support from a...Tags: People (magazine), Havana (Cuba), Stacy Ritter, Miami-Dade County, Barack Obama
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Diaz-Balart 'outraged' over Obama administration response to concerns over Beyoncé Jay-Z Cuba trip
Sun SentinelU.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, a Miami Republican who represents part of South Broward, says he's "outraged by the vague response" from President Barack Obama's Treasury Department to the concerns he raised over "the apparent tourist activities" of...Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Prisons, Republican Party, Arts and Culture
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Wasserman Schultz joins those questioning Beyoncé and Jay-Z Cuba trip
Sun SentinelU.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Weston said Tuesday she’d like to know more about the recent Cuba visit by mega-entertainers Beyoncé and Jay-Z. Wasserman Schultz is chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee and the entertainment couple...Tags: People (magazine), Miami-Dade County, Barack Obama, U.S. Department of the Treasury, The New York Times
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