Thursday, July 11, 2013

Voice of America: House Republicans Reject Push for Immigration Overhaul

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House Republicans Reject Push for Immigration Overhaul
Jul 11th 2013, 23:04, by webdesk@voanews.com (Cindy Saine)

House Republicans are rejecting the push by President Barack Obama and the Senate to pass comprehensive immigration reform that would provide legal status and a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million people living in the country illegally.  Republican leaders are advocating a step-by-step approach focusing first on border security and enforcement of immigration laws. Young Hispanic immigrants say Republicans will pay a price with Latino voters if they fail to pass substantial ...

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Voice of America: US House of Representatives Passes Farm Bill

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US House of Representatives Passes Farm Bill
Jul 11th 2013, 22:52, by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)

A $5 billion-per-year subsidy program for U.S. farmers is a step closer to ending. The House of Representatives has passed its version of the Farm Bill - 5-year, $100 billion legislation directing U.S. agriculture policy. It cuts a subsidy called direct payments, which farmers received regardless of need and even went to people who no longer farmed, said House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, a Republican from Oklahoma. "That thing that's caused such great angst - people getting ...

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Voice of America: US Public Split Over NSA Surveillance

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US Public Split Over NSA Surveillance
Jul 12th 2013, 00:46, by webdesk@voanews.com (Carolyn Presutti)

An Internet privacy group has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to look into the government's surveillance of phone records over the past seven years. Polls show Americans are divided over this issue.    The American public is split over whether the National Security Agency, or NSA, should continue phone and email surveillance to stop terrorists.   Some say the concerns are overblown; others maintain that what people do in the privacy of their homes and on the Internet should be ...

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Voice of America: US House of Representatives Passes Farm Bill

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US House of Representatives Passes Farm Bill
Jul 11th 2013, 22:52, by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)

A $5 billion-per-year subsidy program for U.S. farmers is a step closer to ending. The House of Representatives has passed its version of the Farm Bill - 5-year, $100 billion legislation directing U.S. agriculture policy. It cuts a subsidy called direct payments, which farmers received regardless of need and even went to people who no longer farmed, said House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, a Republican from Oklahoma. "That thing that's caused such great angst - people getting ...

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Voice of America: US Public Split Over NSA Surveillance

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US Public Split Over NSA Surveillance
Jul 12th 2013, 00:46, by webdesk@voanews.com (Carolyn Presutti)

An Internet privacy group has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to look into the government's surveillance of phone records over the past seven years. Polls show Americans are divided over this issue.    The American public is split over whether the National Security Agency, or NSA, should continue phone and email surveillance to stop terrorists.   Some say the concerns are overblown; others maintain that what people do in the privacy of their homes and on the Internet should be ...

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Voice of America: US Public Split Over NSA Surveillance

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US Public Split Over NSA Surveillance
Jul 12th 2013, 00:46, by webdesk@voanews.com (Carolyn Presutti)

An Internet privacy group has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to look into the government's surveillance of phone records over the past seven years. Polls show Americans are divided over this issue.    The American public is split over whether the National Security Agency, or NSA, should continue phone and email surveillance to stop terrorists.   Some say the concerns are overblown; others maintain that what people do in the privacy of their homes and on the Internet should be ...

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Voice of America: Singer Michael Jackson In Bad Shape Days Before Death

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Singer Michael Jackson In Bad Shape Days Before Death
Jul 11th 2013, 22:40, by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)

A week before his death, Michael Jackson was a shivering wreck. "I saw a Michael that frightened me, a Michael that was shivering and cold," a tearful Kenny Ortega told a Los Angeles court this week. He was testifying in the "wrongful-death" lawsuit filed by Katherine Jackson, Michael's mother, against her son's concert promoters, AEG Live. Katherine Jackson claims the promoters are responsible for the actions of the doctor who administered a powerful anesthetic that killed the late ...

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Voice of America: US Public Split Over NSA Surveillance

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US Public Split Over NSA Surveillance
Jul 12th 2013, 00:46, by webdesk@voanews.com (Carolyn Presutti)

An Internet privacy group has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to look into the government's surveillance of phone records over the past seven years. Polls show Americans are divided over this issue.    The American public is split over whether the National Security Agency, or NSA, should continue phone and email surveillance to stop terrorists.   Some say the concerns are overblown; others maintain that what people do in the privacy of their homes and on the Internet should be ...

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Voice of America: Singer Michael Jackson In Bad Shape Days Before Death

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Singer Michael Jackson In Bad Shape Days Before Death
Jul 11th 2013, 22:40, by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)

A week before his death, Michael Jackson was a shivering wreck. "I saw a Michael that frightened me, a Michael that was shivering and cold," a tearful Kenny Ortega told a Los Angeles court this week. He was testifying in the "wrongful-death" lawsuit filed by Katherine Jackson, Michael's mother, against her son's concert promoters, AEG Live. Katherine Jackson claims the promoters are responsible for the actions of the doctor who administered a powerful anesthetic that killed the late ...

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Voice of America: US Public Split Over NSA Surveillance

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US Public Split Over NSA Surveillance
Jul 12th 2013, 00:46, by webdesk@voanews.com (Carolyn Presutti)

An Internet privacy group has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to look into the government's surveillance of phone records over the past seven years. Polls show Americans are divided over this issue.    The American public is split over whether the National Security Agency, or NSA, should continue phone and email surveillance to stop terrorists.   Some say the concerns are overblown; others maintain that what people do in the privacy of their homes and on the Internet should be ...

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Voice of America: Singer Michael Jackson In Bad Shape Days Before Death

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Singer Michael Jackson In Bad Shape Days Before Death
Jul 11th 2013, 22:40, by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)

A week before his death, Michael Jackson was a shivering wreck. "I saw a Michael that frightened me, a Michael that was shivering and cold," a tearful Kenny Ortega told a Los Angeles court this week. He was testifying in the "wrongful-death" lawsuit filed by Katherine Jackson, Michael's mother, against her son's concert promoters, AEG Live. Katherine Jackson claims the promoters are responsible for the actions of the doctor who administered a powerful anesthetic that killed the late ...

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Voice of America: Singer Michael Jackson In Bad Shape Days Before Death

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Singer Michael Jackson In Bad Shape Days Before Death
Jul 11th 2013, 22:40, by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)

A week before his death, Michael Jackson was a shivering wreck. "I saw a Michael that frightened me, a Michael that was shivering and cold," a tearful Kenny Ortega told a Los Angeles court this week. He was testifying in the "wrongful-death" lawsuit filed by Katherine Jackson, Michael's mother, against her son's concert promoters, AEG Live. Katherine Jackson claims the promoters are responsible for the actions of the doctor who administered a powerful anesthetic that killed the late ...

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Voice of America: Singer Michael Jackson In Bad Shape Days Before Death

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Singer Michael Jackson In Bad Shape Days Before Death
Jul 11th 2013, 22:40, by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)

A week before his death, Michael Jackson was a shivering wreck. "I saw a Michael that frightened me, a Michael that was shivering and cold," a tearful Kenny Ortega told a Los Angeles court this week. He was testifying in the "wrongful-death" lawsuit filed by Katherine Jackson, Michael's mother, against her son's concert promoters, AEG Live. Katherine Jackson claims the promoters are responsible for the actions of the doctor who administered a powerful anesthetic that killed the late ...

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Voice of America: Quebec Premier Lashes Out at Rail Company After Inferno

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Quebec Premier Lashes Out at Rail Company After Inferno
Jul 11th 2013, 23:10, by webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)

Quebec Premier Pauline Marois lashed out on Thursday at the railway boss whose runaway train leveled the center of a tiny Quebec town, as residents came to grips with the reality that 50 of their neighbors were likely dead. "The behavior of the company and its president has been absolutely deplorable," Marois said of the executive, Ed Burkhardt, and the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, whose driverless train of tanker cars smashed into Lac Megantic early on Saturday and exploded in a ...

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Voice of America: Quebec Premier Lashes Out at Rail Company After Inferno

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Quebec Premier Lashes Out at Rail Company After Inferno
Jul 11th 2013, 23:10, by webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)

Quebec Premier Pauline Marois lashed out on Thursday at the railway boss whose runaway train leveled the center of a tiny Quebec town, as residents came to grips with the reality that 50 of their neighbors were likely dead. "The behavior of the company and its president has been absolutely deplorable," Marois said of the executive, Ed Burkhardt, and the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, whose driverless train of tanker cars smashed into Lac Megantic early on Saturday and exploded in a ...

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Voice of America: Quebec Premier Lashes Out at Rail Company After Inferno

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Quebec Premier Lashes Out at Rail Company After Inferno
Jul 11th 2013, 23:10, by webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)

Quebec Premier Pauline Marois lashed out on Thursday at the railway boss whose runaway train leveled the center of a tiny Quebec town, as residents came to grips with the reality that 50 of their neighbors were likely dead. "The behavior of the company and its president has been absolutely deplorable," Marois said of the executive, Ed Burkhardt, and the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, whose driverless train of tanker cars smashed into Lac Megantic early on Saturday and exploded in a ...

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Voice of America: Quebec Premier Lashes Out at Rail Company After Inferno

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Quebec Premier Lashes Out at Rail Company After Inferno
Jul 11th 2013, 23:10, by webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)

Quebec Premier Pauline Marois lashed out on Thursday at the railway boss whose runaway train leveled the center of a tiny Quebec town, as residents came to grips with the reality that 50 of their neighbors were likely dead. "The behavior of the company and its president has been absolutely deplorable," Marois said of the executive, Ed Burkhardt, and the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, whose driverless train of tanker cars smashed into Lac Megantic early on Saturday and exploded in a ...

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Voice of America: Kremlin Turns to Old Technology to Avoid Leaks

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Kremlin Turns to Old Technology to Avoid Leaks
Jul 11th 2013, 19:43, by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)

Russia's Federal Guard Service, or FSO, which is charged with protecting the country's highest government officials, including President Vladimir Putin, plans to buy electric typewriters to avoid leaks from computers. Russian media, including the pro-government daily newspaper Izvestia, report that the plan to purchase typewriters was prompted by the publication of secret documents by the WikiLeaks website and the activities of former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who ...

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Voice of America: 'Dreamers' Give Human Face to Immigration Reform

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'Dreamers' Give Human Face to Immigration Reform
Jul 11th 2013, 20:12, by webdesk@voanews.com (Brian Padden)

A network of young undocumented immigrants called "Dreamers" is playing a key role in advocating for immigration reform in the United States. Last year, President Barack Obama issued a directive giving many "Dreamers" semi-legal immigration status. They now are speaking out publicly, talking about the human toll of deportation policies and giving the reform movement a human face. As U.S. lawmakers consider immigration reform, Brazilian born Renata Teodora wants them to ...

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Voice of America: Quebec Premier Lashes Out at Rail Company After Inferno

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Quebec Premier Lashes Out at Rail Company After Inferno
Jul 11th 2013, 23:10, by webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)

Quebec Premier Pauline Marois lashed out on Thursday at the railway boss whose runaway train leveled the center of a tiny Quebec town, as residents came to grips with the reality that 50 of their neighbors were likely dead. "The behavior of the company and its president has been absolutely deplorable," Marois said of the executive, Ed Burkhardt, and the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, whose driverless train of tanker cars smashed into Lac Megantic early on Saturday and exploded in a ...

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