House intel panel to probe secret CIA kill-team program
The House Intelligence Committee will investigate whether the CIA violated law by not promptly informing Congress about a secret program to deploy teams of killers targeting al Qaeda leaders. The inquiry also covers Bush era wiretapping, enhanced interrogations, videotape destruction, and the Peru plane incident.
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Otisfield Residents Fight to Save Local Mailbox
Otisfield Maine residents block a Postal Service removal of a single blue mailbox using a snowplow and backhoe with town officials vowing to chain themselves to the box if needed. Officials say the box handles only six pieces of mail daily and is being removed as mail volume falls nationwide.
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Miners Boycott Tennessee Tourism Over Mountaintop Removal
Angry Appalachian coal miners from Kentucky Ohio West Virginia and Virginia protest tariffs and tourism to Tennessee citing Sen Lamar Alexander s push to ban mountaintop removal mining Matt Horton leader of Citizens for Coal says about 5000 miners have joined a week old boycott aimed at pressuring Alexander to drop the bill Horton notes the campaign could expand to all 81000 U S coal miners while Alexander defends preserving Appalachia s mountaintops and tourism.
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Two-man US jet crash kills crew in Afghanistan
In Afghanistan a U S military F 15E fighter jet crashed about 3 15 a m local time killing two crew members Col Greg Julian said a second jet traveling with the downed aircraft saw no sign of enemy fire Militants are not known to have anti aircraft weapons to shoot down high flying jets.
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Obama urges Congress to press health care reform
President Obama told Congress not to lose heart and pressed for tougher cost cutting in the health care bills. House committees advanced parts of the bill amid GOP objections as conservative Democrats sought more reductions, while Pelosi floated a vote delay beyond August. He vowed reform would pass this year with broader coverage and slowed cost growth.
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Judgment Fights Palin Over Juneteenth Proclamation
Plaintiffs in a federal suit against Gov. Sarah Palin seek a court ruling that she violated state law by not issuing a proclamation for Juneteenth two years ago and request a retroactive proclamation for 2007. The suit notes the Alaska Legislature required the governor to honor the holiday marking the 1865 end of slavery.
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