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Obama Tweaks U.S. Vision For Fight Against Terrorism
May 24, 2013 | NPR · President Obama discussed America's counter-terrorism strategy — including the use of drones and the prison at Guantanamo Bay — during an address at the National Defense University on Thursday. He rejected the idea that the country can fight an open-ended "global war on terror."
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Political Attacks Ramp Up In U.S. Senate Race In Mass.
May 24, 2013 | NPR · In Massachusetts, what's been a relatively lackluster campaign to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry is heating up. Veteran Democratic Rep. Ed Markey is running against Republican Gabriel Gomez, a businessman and former Navy SEAL. Gomez is a political newcomer.
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Documentary Introduces The Man Behind WikiLeaks
May 24, 2013 | NPR · David Greene talks to filmmaker Alex Gibney about the new documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks. In 2006, Julian Assange launched WikiLeaks and encouraged anyone in the world to pass on information that might expose government secrets.
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Job Searching While Black: What's Behind The Unemployment Gap?
May 25, 2013 | NPR · Income and wealth inequality is just about as American as baseball and apple pie. And although the economy has improved in the last few years, the unemployment rate for black Americans is about double that for whites.
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Week In News: Obama's Foreign Policy Pitch
May 25, 2013 | NPR · This past week, President Obama laid out the foreign policy objectives for the remainder of his time in office, a speech that included his wish to end not just the war in Afghanistan but the "war on terror." Weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden speaks with James Fallows, national correspondent with The Atlantic.
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Is the Espionage Act Outdated?
May 25, 2013 | NPR · Weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden speaks with Benjamin Wittes of the Brookings Institution about the Espionage Act. This Word War I-era legislation has been used more frequently in recent times to prosecute government employees who leak information to the press, but the limits set by the act are poorly defined for our modern age.
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Then The Curtain Opened: The Bracing Impact Of Stravinsky's 'Rite'
May 25, 2013 | NPR · The aggressively modern ballet premiered in Paris in 1913, and provoked a response just as striking as the music and dance.
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Political Takeaways: Headaches For The White House
May 19, 2013 | NPR · Controversies dominated this past week's political headlines, leaving the Obama White House on the defensive, trying to contain any lasting damage. Host Rachel Martin talks with NPR's Mara Liasson.
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In Blue-Leaning Connecticut, Tight Senate Race Has Democrat On Offense
Sep 28, 2012 — Former wrestling executive Linda McMahon, in her second attempt at becoming Connecticut's first female senator, is close in the polls. If McMahon defeats Democratic Rep. Chris Murphy, she'd also become the state's first GOP senator in decades.
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Favored In GOP Senate Primary, Linda McMahon Faces Critics Left And Right
Aug 13, 2012 — Former World Wrestling Entertainment executive Linda McMahon is making her second run for a U.S. Senate seat in Connecticut. Once again she is campaigning with primarily her own millions. And her opponents again say she can't separate herself from the controversial side of professional wrestling.
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Conn. Voters Can Wear Wrestling Garb To Polls: Judge
Oct 27, 2010 — A federal judge has ruled that wrestling fans can wear their WWE garb to the Connecticut polls. The decision was in response to a lawsuit by Vince McMahon, WWE founder, and was meant to support his wife, Linda, who's running for the U.S. Senate.
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Linda McMahon Hits Richard Blumenthal On Vietnam In Senate Race
Oct 4, 2010 — Linda McMahon questioned Richard Blumenthal's honesty, using his misstated Vietnam War record against him. In a new TV ad, she lets a question linger with her audience: if he would lie about Vietnam, what else would he lie about?
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Linda McMahon Has Richard Blumenthal In CT Headlock
Sep 28, 2010 — Republican Linda McMahon remains in a much closer than expected Connecticut race for U.S. Senate, trailing Democrat Richard Blumenthal by just three percentage points in the latest Quinnipiac University poll.
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Connecticut Senate: Rob Simmons (R-Real Vietnam Vet) Is Out
May 25, 2010 — Richard Blumenthal may still have a hard time making people forget about the flap over his military service.  But he is still the Democratic nominee for the Senate in Connecticut.  Rob Simmons, a Republican who was also running, is now out.
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Blumenthal Vietnam Press Conference: Remorseful, Or 'Clintonian?'
May 18, 2010 — Connecticut state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, a candidate for a Senate seat, strikes back at a New York Times story suggesting he lied about serving in Vietnam.
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