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Community outreach key to Obama counterterror plan

Within hours of the Boston Marathon blasts, government officials and Boston Muslims were calling one another to offer assistance, calls that were the fruits of years of cultivating such relationships in an effort to ultimately prevent the very type of attack Boston experienced April 15. But the calls following the ...

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Obama recasts threat from enemy fighters to path away from 'perpetual war', critics doubtful WASHINGTON (AP) — Some call it wishful thinking, but President Barack Obama has all but declared an end to the global war on terror. Obama is not claiming final victory over extremists who still seek to ...

Hagel: Cadets must stamp out sex assault scourge

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Saturday that they must stamp out the scourge of sexual assault in the military. A day after President Barack Obama delivered a similar edict to U.S. Naval Academy graduates, Hagel's message comes amid a series ...

Military sex assault victims victimized twice

Army Pvt. Anna Moore spotted the man approaching as she knelt on the hallway floor, scraping off a dingy layer of wax. He was a sergeant from another battery with no apparent reason for entering the empty third floor of her barracks. Why was he there, she wondered. "Look at ...

Deaths at Atlanta VA hospital prompt scrutiny

One patient with a history of substance abuse and suicidal thoughts was left alone in a waiting room inside the Atlanta VA Medical Center, where he obtained drugs from a hospital visitor and later died of an overdose. Another patient wandered the 26-acre campus for hours, picking up his prescriptions ...

President Barack Obama walks away from the podium after speaking at the commencement for the United States Naval Academy graduation ceremony in Annapolis, Md., Friday, May 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama's drone rules provide limits, ambiguity

President Barack Obama left plenty of ambiguity in new policy guidelines that he says will restrict how and when the U.S. can launch targeted drone strikes, leaving himself significant power over how and when the weapons can be deployed. National security experts say it's imperative to leave some room in ...

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrives for a graduation and commissioning ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy, Saturday, May 25, 2013, in West Point, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Hagel: Cadets must stamp out sex assault scourge

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Saturday that they must stamp out the scourge of sexual assault in the military. A day after President Barack Obama delivered a similar edict to U.S. Naval Academy graduates, Hagel's message comes amid a series ...

SWEEPING LEAK INQUIRIES REVEAL HOW WIDE A NET U.S. HAS CAST

c.2013 New York Times News Service WASHINGTON — Even before the FBI conducted 550 interviews of officials and seized the phone records of Associated Press reporters in a leak investigation connected to a 2012 article about a Yemen bomb plot, agents had sought the same reporters’ sources for two other ...

EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES

c.2013 New York Times News Service ‘A’ IS FOR AVOIDANCE Even before last week’s Senate hearing on Apple, it was clear that the aggressive use of tax havens and other tax avoidance tactics had become standard operating procedure for global American companies. Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard were the focus of a ...

SWEEPING LEAK INQUIRIES REVEAL HOW WIDE A NET U.S. HAS CAST

c.2013 New York Times News Service WASHINGTON — Even before the FBI conducted 550 interviews of officials and seized the phone records of Associated Press reporters in a leak investigation connected to a 2012 article about a Yemen bomb plot, agents had sought the same reporters’ sources for two other ...

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