Articles focusing on politics

Starbucks asks customers to sign petition to end shutdown

The petition will be available at all Starbucks’ 11,000 U.S. locations to sign beginning Friday. By MAE ANDERSON Article Reprint NEW YORK — Starbucks, the  world’s biggest coffee chain, said Thursday that it will ask

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In Crackdown Response, U.S. Temporarily Freezes Some Military Aid to Egypt

By MICHAEL R. GORDON and MARK LANDLER Article Reprint WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Wednesday announced a modest and temporary freeze on military assistance to Egypt, even as American officials emphasized their desire to

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Could ‘Iron Man’ Suits Be Heading To The Military?

www.inquisitr.com Article Reprint Iron Man suits could be heading to the military for wartime use. The video  above shows how the suit would supposedly fit, and the practical application of  such a thing.

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Higgs boson work leads to one Nobel Prize. Could there be another?

Two physicists won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for their theories 50 years ago on the Brout-Englert-Higgs field and its particle, the Higgs boson, which scientists reported discovering last year. By Pete Spotts Article

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Defying government shutdown, national park visitors play ‘catch me if you can’

    Some Americans are challenging government shutdown national park closures by leaping over barricades or tossing cones aside in acts they call civil disobedience, but which some authorities call just breaking the law. By  Patrik

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Why North Korean tweets are off-limits in the South

Under the National Security Act, South Koreans can be sentenced for everything from re-tweeting North Korea’s official Twitter account to reading northern propaganda. By Peter Ford Article Reprint ,(Seoul, Korea) On the 28th floor of

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Italy Migrant Death Toll Rises to 274

By OLEG CETINIC Article Reprint Italian divers on Tuesday recovered the bodies of more migrants from the wreck of a smugglers’ ship that sank off the tiny island of Lampedusa, raising the death toll to

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Argentines Worry After Leader’s Skull Surgery

By MICHAEL WARREN Article Reprint Doctors siphoned blood from beneath the skull of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on Tuesday, relieving pressure on her brain two months after she suffered an unexplained head injury. Buenos Aires

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