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Has NSA’s Phone Surveillance Ever Been Critical to Thwarting an Attack?

Has NSA’s Phone Surveillance Ever Been Critical To Thwarting An Attack?

That's the question that the bureau has declined to answer specifically. On Tuesday, the director of the FBI named one case.

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US To Cut Nuclear Arsenal By Third

President Obama's speech at the Brandenburg Gate occurred nearly 50 years after President Kennedy appeared there in defiance of the Berlin Wall.

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Fit For A Princess: Kim's $7 Million Luxury Princess Yacht
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Iran: Sixty Years After The 1953 CIA Coup That Toppled Democracy

Iran: Sixty Years After The 1953 CIA Coup That Toppled Democracy

Princess Kate Same As Young Women Who Get Pregnant To Receive Welfare Handouts: Union Chief

Princess Kate Same As Young Women Who Get Pregnant To Receive Welfare Handouts: Union Chief

G-8 Summit Highlights: Leaders Fail To Agree On Action Against Syrian Chemical Weapons Use; Consensus On Some Tax Evasion Measures

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House Panel Approves U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy's SAFE Act Immigration Bill, Which Makes Staying In The Country Unlawfully A Federal Crime

House Panel OKs Bill To Make Illegal Immigration A Federal Crime

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  • US State Department Says Talks To Resume With Cuba Over Mail And Migration In July

    US And Cuba To Restart Mail And Migration Talks

    The State Department cautions that the new round of talks "do not represent a significant change in U.S. policy towards Cuba."

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  • Swiss Parliament Kills US-Backed Bank and Tax Legislation

    Swiss Parliament Votes Down US Bank Data Bill

    The Swiss Parliament formally rejected a U.S.-led effort for more information on wealthy American clients of secretive Swiss banks.

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    Libya, Armed And Dangerous, Exports War On The Black Market

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  • Kim Jong Un Has A 7 Million Dollar Luxury Yacht [PHOTO]

    Fit For A Princess: Kim's $7 Million Luxury Princess Yacht

    Has Kim Jong Un been cruising around in a yacht?

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  • Iran: Sixty Years After The 1953 CIA Coup That Toppled Democracy

    Iran: Sixty Years After The 1953 CIA Coup That Toppled Democracy

    The CIA-engineered coup of 1953 that toppled a democratically elected government Iran and solidified the Shah continues to reverberate into the...

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  • US State Department Says Talks To Resume With Cuba Over Mail And Migration In July

    US And Cuba To Restart Mail And Migration Talks

    The State Department cautions that the new round of talks "do not represent a significant change in U.S. policy towards Cuba."

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  • Libya, Armed And Dangerous: Piles Of Weapons Fuel Illicit Exportation Of War

    Libya, Armed And Dangerous, Exports War On The Black Market

    Libya may have more weapons than the British army arsenal. What does that mean for Syria?

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  • Obama Administration Changes: Who Left, Where Did They Go And What's Next For Them?

    Where Are They Now? The Obama Administration Edition

    The Obama administration's staff has had its share of shake-ups. Here's who left and where they went.

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  • Turkish Riot Police Enter Taksim Square: Riot Police Clash With Protesters In Attempt To Break Up Protests [PHOTOS]

    Riot Police Attempt To Break Up Protests In Istanbul

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    Lighting Up The Future With Bioluminescence

  • Panama Canal May Be Overshadowed By Nicaragua's Plans To Build A Canal; Panama Says It Is Not Feasible

    Will Nicaragua’s New Canal Overshadow Panama’s?

  • It’s Vodafone Vs. Liberty Global In Multi-Billion-Euro Bid For German Cable TV Operator Kabel Deutschland

    Vodafone Faces Challenge In Bid For Germany’s Largest Cable TV Operator

  • Europeans And The Digital World: How European Commission Member Countries Use The Internet

    How Digitally Advanced Are Europeans?

  • McDonald's New Rice Menu Fails To Entice Chinese Customers

    McDonald's New Rice Menu Fails To Entice Chinese

  • One More Casualty: Syrian Conflict Dries Up Funds For Gaza Strip

    Syrian Conflict Dries Up Funds For Gaza Strip

  • Cheap International Flights For Africa? Fastjet Gains Rights To Offer Flights From Tanzania

    Fastjet Gains Rights To Offer International Flights In Africa

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    The Cheapest (And Priciest) Destinations This Summer

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