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Syria

Is the U.S. military strategy doing more harm or good in the Middle East?

Editor's note: This article is part of our collaboration with Point Taken, a new program from WGBH that will next air on Tuesday, May 17 on PBS and online at pbs.org. The show features fact-based debate on major issues of the day, without the shouting.

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Good intentions mask bad government intervention

Good intentions are not the same thing as good results. Nowhere is this as clear, consistently, as in matters of government policies. Failed government policy is without question a bipartisan affair, but liberals and progressives tend to hide behind their intentions far more than conservative lawmakers do — and to resist

transgender

Transgender directive prompts a dozen states to sue

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas is leading a dozen states, including Maine, in suing the Obama administration over its directive to U.S. public schools to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms that match their self-selected gender identity. The lawsuit announced Wednesday also includes Oklahoma, Alabama, Wisconsin, West

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Obama’s Japan visit starts with apology – although not for Hiroshima

(CNSNews.com) – President Obama has said he will not offer an apology when visiting Hiroshima this week, but his trip to Japan began on an awkward note and expressions of regret, after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe opened a press appearance by sternly lecturing him over a murder allegedly perpetrated

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Obama in Vietnam: U.S. also ‘still striving to live up to our founding ideals’

(CNSNews.com) – In an address to the people of communist-ruled Vietnam on Tuesday, President Obama made a case for the importance of upholding human rights, prefacing it by saying that the United States, too, "is still striving to live up to our founding ideals." "No nation is

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Obama lifts decades-old arms ban in his 1st visit to Vietnam

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday lifted a half-century-old ban on selling arms to Vietnam, looking to bolster a government seen as a crucial, though flawed partner in a region that he has tried to place at the center of his foreign policy legacy. Obama announced

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Obama explains new OT rule for salaried workers

(CNSNews.com) – In his weekly address released Saturday, President Barack Obama explained a new federal regulation finalized this week by the Department of Labor that will required employers to pay overtime to salaried workers who make less than $47,500 per year. The federal-regulation-mandated overtime will kick in once the

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New OT rules force small businesses to make hard choices

NEW YORK (AP) — The government's new rules requiring overtime pay for millions of workers have small business owners facing some hard choices. The regulations being issued by the Labor Department Wednesday would double to $913 a week from $455 the threshold under which salaried workers must be paid