Whooping cranes face population drop amid higher deaths
World’s only naturally migrating flock saw about 21 percent die last year, double the normal rate, with an expected total decline around 20 birds from 270 after fall counts. Observer Tom Stehn cites habitat loss, drought, and reduced hatchling survival as threats to the endangered flock migrating from Canada to Texas via the central flyway.
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Kansas
Gadhafi Seeks Tent Camp Near New Jersey U N
Reports say Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi plans to pitch a tent in Englewood New Jersey near the United Nations site triggering outrage from U S lawmakers. Rep Steven Rothman urged the State Department and White House to confine his visit to New York City area during the General Assembly address.
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New York
Michael Bloomberg
Libya
Frank Lautenberg
Gaddafi
Deficit forecast balloons as Obama plan eyed
Washington officials warned deficits could top 9 trillion over the next decade as economic pain worsened, pushing the 10 year shortfall beyond earlier estimates. Orszag said this year's deficit nears 1.6 trillion, the highest on record, while health care plans remain central to curbing costs. The CBO noted the tax take fell sharply amid the recession and spending surged, most since 1952.
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White House
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Congressional Budget Office
Memo reveals harsh CIA interrogation techniques details
A CIA memo outlines step by step methods used to extract information from detainees including hooded naked confinement, slaps, head slam, light deprivation, prolonged wakefulness, water dousing, and confinement in a wooden box. The document dated December 30 2004 notes escalating coercive measures up to 180 hours awake and was released under FOIA.
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Cheney assails probe into CIA counterterrorism program
Former Vice President Dick Cheney criticized President Obama and the Justice Department after the expansion of John Durham�s inquiry into the CIA counterterrorism program. Cheney argued the administration risks national security, citing CIA interrogation summaries linking Bush policies to halting mass casualty plots by al Qaeda.
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