New clemency guidelines aim to ease drug offender sentences
The Justice Department outlined clemency guidelines to reexamine non-violent inmates with at least 10 years served who were sentenced under now-changing laws. Senator Grassley questions practical impact and calls for broader sentencing reforms, including harsher penalties for child pornography and terrorism.
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Ukraine says pro-Russia gunmen driven from town
Ukrainian officials claim government forces swept pro-Russia gunmen from a eastern Ukraine town. Sloviansk insurgents deny loss of control and threaten hostages including American journalist Simon Ostrovsky, while Moscow accuses Washington of orchestrating the crisis.
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Obama Starts Asia Trip With Message to China
President Obama opens a weeklong Asia tour with a pledge of U S commitment to Japan amid the Japan China dispute over the East China Sea. He tells The Yomiuri Shimbun that the isles are under Japan and covered by Article 5 of the U S Japan Security Treaty.
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Health study links marijuana use to cardiovascular risk
A five year French track system shows 1 979 patients treated for marijuana related health issues with nearly 2 percent facing heart attacks strokes or arrhythmia and limb circulation problems and about a quarter of those cases dying While U S case reports note young healthy patients with heart issues who are regular users doctors warn that this is not proof of causation but call for more data to assess cardiovascular effects of marijuana use.
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