Back taxes shadow Cabinet pick as U S trade representative nominee
Kirk owes about 10000 dollars in back taxes from earlier in the decade related to speaking fees and a donated television. He will pay the taxes and make charitable deductions, and the Senate Finance Committee disclosed on Monday. The report notes adjustments to deductions for season tickets and a donated TV.
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Obama releases Bush era terror memos and video records
The Obama administration released nine legal opinions and confirmed CIA destroyed 92 interrogation videos. Documents show post 9 11 actions that limited constitutional protections and discussed warrantless wiretaps. Critics argue harsh techniques amounted to abuses in the war on terror.
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Rescuers struggle as whales, dolphins stranded in Tasmania
Dozens of pilot whales and five bottlenose dolphins were stranded on Naracoopa Beach on King Island. Officials said rough seas and northeasterly winds hindered a rescue of a 10 foot adult pilot whale while 12 rescuers and up to 150 volunteers worked to refloat survivors and keep them alive.
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Supreme Court Upholds Prayer Ban On School Staff
The Supreme Court refused to hear Marcus Borden’s appeal, upholding a 2005 East Brunswick High School staff prayer ban. The decision maintains staff led prayers are not allowed, reinforcing limits on religious activity in schools.
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Guinea-Bissau leader killed after palace attack
President Joao Bernardo Vieira was assassinated at the palace in Bissau hours after the army chief was killed by a bomb. The military said the deaths were carried out by an isolated group and denied a coup, as parliament chief Raimundo Pereira and Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Jr. spoke on the national crisis. The country, long destabilized since 1980, vows state funerals for Vieira and the slain general.
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