| Pataki record: A Roosevelt Republican from N.Y.’s crime-crackdown years Posted: 28 May 2015 09:43 AM PDT  Amid a growing group of long-shot Republican presidential hopefuls that already includes a neurosurgeon, a deposed Silicon Valley CEO, and two failed contenders from presidential primaries past, few official or potential primary candidates have been as quickly dismissed as George Pataki.
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| Putin accuses US of meddling into FIFA affairs Posted: 28 May 2015 07:34 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States of meddling in the affairs of soccer's governing body and hinted that its corruption investigation is part of an attempt to take the 2018 World Cup away from his country.
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| Matt Bai: Hillary Clinton's not like the rest of us? Good! Posted:  The "out of touch" mantra has been a perennial line of attack in our campaigns for several decades, at least.
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| George Pataki announces 2016 presidential bid Posted: |
| FBI launches probe into theft of U.S. taxpayer information Posted: 28 May 2015 10:44 AM PDT  The FBI said on Thursday it had begun looking into the illegal access of the tax-return information of about 100,000 people disclosed by the Internal Revenue Service earlier this week. "The FBI has opened an investigation into the recently reported incident at the Internal Revenue Service and is working with our interagency partners to determine the nature and scope of this matter," a spokesman said. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said Tuesday cyber criminals had sought to gain access to personal tax information 200,000 times from February to May, and were successful in about half of those attempts.
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| Defense in Freddie Gray case seeks to move trial from Baltimore Posted: 28 May 2015 08:45 AM PDT  (Reuters) - Defense attorneys for six police officers facing criminal charges in the Freddie Gray case are seeking to have the trial moved from Baltimore, saying their clients cannot get a fair trial there, the Baltimore Sun reported on Thursday. The lawyers filed an 85-page document on Wednesday in Baltimore Circuit Court asking for a change of venue, arguing that a "presumption of prejudice" exists in the city, the newspaper said. Gray, a 25-year-old black man, was arrested April 12 and suffered a spinal injury in police custody.
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| U.S. President Obama visits family of journalist slain by ISIS Posted: 28 May 2015 10:47 AM PDT  U.S. President Barack Obama met on Thursday with the family of American journalist Steven Sotloff, who was beheaded last year by Islamic State militants. The White House said Obama met with Sotloff's parents Art and Shirley and his sister, Lauren, while he was in Florida for fundraising and a briefing on the upcoming hurricane season. "The president expressed his and the first lady's condolences for Steven's death," White House spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said.
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| U.S. military mistakenly ships live anthrax to labs in nine states Posted: 28 May 2015 08:29 AM PDT  By Phil Stewart and Sharon Begley WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. military mistakenly sent live anthrax bacteria to laboratories in nine U.S. states and a U.S. air base in South Korea, after apparently failing to properly inactivate the bacteria last year, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. The Pentagon said there was no known suspected infection or risk to the public. Twenty-two personnel at the base in South Korea were also given precautionary medical measures although none have shown sign of exposure, the U.S. military said.
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| Russia ‘reset’ architect to next president: Don’t try that again Posted:  Former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, a key architect of President Barack Obama's attempt to "reset" relations with Moscow...
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