Category Archives: Protection

Chevrolet Volt earns top gov’t safety rating

By doris | Published: June 4, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The Chevrolet Volt earned a top five-star rating in thee federal government’s new, tougher crash test rating system. Under the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s new rating system, all vehicles are given a single rating of one to five stars encompassing front and side impact safety as [...]

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Obama to sign bill approving $600 million for border security

By doris | Published: August 13, 2010

Full Story at  CNN.com Washington (CNN) — President Obama will sign a bill Friday that provides $600 million in emergency funding to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border. A day earlier, two senators — Democrats Charles Schumer of New York and Ben Cardin of Maryland — returned from their August recess to give the chamber’s approval [...]

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Arlington Cemetery scandals prompt dismissals

By doris | Published: June 16, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – A number of scandals at Arlington National Cemetery, including one in which a service member’s body was buried on top of another, cost the top two administrators their jobs, Pentagon officials said Thursday. Army Secretary John McHugh announced that Arlington National’s superintendent, John Metzler, would be relieved of his [...]

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Papers detail FBI, CIA struggle over detainees

By doris | Published: October 31, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – Newly released documents show the FBI interviewed a naked, chained terror suspect back in 2002 as the bureau struggled with the CIA over how to treat high-value prisoners. Details of the interrogation were contained in documents released late Friday as part of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits brought by [...]

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Ground broken on $3.4 billion Homeland Security complex

By doris | Published: September 10, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com The project will bring together more than 15,000 employees now scattered in 35 offices in the region, placing them on a 176-acre campus strewn with historic buildings in a long-neglected corner of Washington, five miles from the Capitol building. Department leaders hope the $3.4 billion consolidation will help the department fulfill [...]

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U.S. only foreign military remaining in Iraq

By doris | Published: August 2, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com BAGHDAD – The war in Iraq was truly an American-only effort Saturday after Britain and Australia, the last of the United States’ international partners, pulled out. Little attention was paid in Iraq to what effectively ended the so-called coalition of the willing, with the U.S. — as the leader of Multi-National [...]

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Study: U.S. lacks strategy to fight arms smuggling into Mexico

By doris | Published: June 19, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com In Mexico last year, drug violence was blamed for the deaths of 78 soldiers and more than 6,000 others. This year, the drug violence has claimed more than 2,900 lives, according to the newspaper El Universal. Much of the violence has affected the U.S.-Mexico border. Over the last five years, about [...]

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Supreme Court asked to weigh in on detainee photos

By doris | Published: May 30, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com Justice Department lawyers late Thursday told a federal appeals court in New York — the same one on which high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor sits — to hold off a ruling ordering release of the material, saying they plan to ask the justices to hear their case. The government said it [...]

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Clinton says U.S. no longer AWOL on climate change

By doris | Published: April 28, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com Clinton urged greater cooperation in advance of an international climate change conference to be held later this year. Climate change is “an environmental issue, a health issue, an economic issue, an energy issue and a security issue,” she said at the first preparatory session for the Major Economies Forum on Energy [...]

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Obama announces plan to lease federal waters for clean energy

By doris | Published: April 23, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com The president announced the initiative, to be administered by the Interior Department, while reiterating his pledge to push for a comprehensive energy plan that encourages the development of alternative fuel sources, cuts dependence on foreign oil, addresses climate change, and creates new jobs. Wind power can generate 20 percent of the [...]

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Clinton says releasing pirates sends ‘wrong signal’

By doris | Published: April 21, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com There is a need to coordinate better the reactions of all of the nations and organizations involved in policing the coastline off of Somalia,” Clinton said after a meeting with Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen. Her comments came after Dutch naval forces captured seven pirates Saturday but were forced to release [...]

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Obama signs bill protecting wilderness acreage

By doris | Published: March 31, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama signed legislation Monday setting aside more than 2 million acres as protected wilderness. Obama called the new law among the most important in decades “to protect, preserve and pass down our nation’s most treasured landscapes to future generations.” Also included in the legislation signed by Obama [...]

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