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Rights Groups Ask Obama To Pardon Snowden

Higher Ed
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden says he is not directly asking President Barack Obama for a presidential pardon, but is appreciative that a group of civil rights organizations are doing so on his behalf. Snowden spoke by...
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Associated Press

FEMA: Texas floods "a landmark event

Higher Ed
The director of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency on Monday called on the people of Texas and Louisiana to "be involved" as the states struggle with the devastating impact of Tropical Storm Harvey. Speaking at FEMA's...
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Curated Video

Snowden: "Comfortable with the decisions I made"

Higher Ed
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden says he is not directly asking President Barack Obama for a presidential pardon, but is appreciative that a group of civil rights organisations are doing so on his behalf. Snowden spoke by...
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Curated Video

USA: SANDY BERGER COMMENTS ON BALKAN STABILITY SUMMIT

Higher Ed
English/Nat As 60 nations gathered in Brussels on Wednesday to pledge aid for Kosovo, the White House said it wanted to make it clear there is also a recovery plan in mind for the larger Balkan region. U-S officials say their half (b)...
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Curated Video

US envoy meets Afghan president

Higher Ed
1. Wide of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and U.S. national security advisor Stephen Hadley talking at presidential palace 2. Mid of Karzai 3. Mid of Hadley 4. Afghan officials attending the meeting 5. US officials at the meeting 6....
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Curated Video

Iraqis voice mixed reactions to Obama meeting national security advisors

Higher Ed
1. Various of traffic in downtown central Baghdad 2. Various of people reading newspapers 3. Newspapers on display at newsstand 4. Close up of newspaper headline, reading: (Arabic) ''Obama starts his first day in the White House with...
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Curated Video

ASEAN foreign ministers discuss anti terrorism moves

Higher Ed
1. Wide of resort in Phuket where foreign ministers are meeting 2. Various of Thai foreign minister Surakiart Sathirathai welcoming foreign ministers at resort 3. Cutaway media 4. Various of Sathirathai welcoming foreign ministers 5. Pan...
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Curated Video

WRAP Confirmation hearing for Rice as Secretary of State

Higher Ed
POOL - Washington, DC January 18, 2005 1. Shots of Condoleezza Rice walking into Senate hearing room 2. Condoleezza Rice sitting down at witness table 3. Shots of Senate Foreign Relations committee members 4. Chairman Richard Lugar asks...
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Curated Video

Iraqis react to arrest of Al-Qaida in Iraq No 2

Higher Ed
1. Street scenes 2. Various of statue in Khahramana Square 3. Various of street scenes with policeman conducting traffic 4. Close of policeman 5. Various of man reading newspapers 6. Newspapers 7. Headline with photo of senior figure...
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Curated Video

UK: REACTION TO HORRIFIC BOMB ATTACKS IN KENYA & TANZANIA (2)

Higher Ed
Nairobi, Kenya, and London U-K - August 7, 1998 Nairobi, Kenya 1. Tilt from bomb damaged building to ambulance 2. Various of people in ruins of building looking for survivors London. U-K 3. Wide shot of Camille Tawil, correspondent at Al...
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President Barack Obama is replacing Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the top commander in Afghanistan after he made critical comments in a magazine article. Obama named Gen. David Petraeus to assume McChrystal's role.

Higher Ed
HEADLINE: Obama ousts McChrystal, Petraeus to take over CAPTION: President Barack Obama is replacing Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the top commander in Afghanistan after he made critical comments in a magazine article. Obama named Gen....
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Curated Video

National Border Patrol Council Endorses Trump

Higher Ed
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus064619Donald Trump is saying that border patrol agents have been told to allow immigrants into the United States illegally "so they can vote in the election."Trump spoke Friday as he received the...
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National Border Patrol Council Endorses Trump

Higher Ed
US Presidential candidate, Donald Trump on Friday received the endorsement of the 16,500-person National Border Patrol Council at Trump Tower in New York.Shortly after the endorsement, Trump met with nearly two dozen members of his...
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Associated Press

GOP witness rejects Trump conspiracy theories

Higher Ed
Former Ukraine envoy Kurt Volker says he felt a discussion of investigations was "inappropriate" in a July meeting between Ukrainian and U.S. officials at the White House.
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TED Talks

Richard Ledgett: The NSA responds to Edward Snowden's TED Talk

12th - Higher Ed
After a surprise appearance by Edward Snowden at TED2014, Chris Anderson said: "If the NSA wants to respond, please do." And yes, they did. Appearing by video, NSA deputy director Richard Ledgett answers Anderson's questions about the...
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TED Talks

Amory Lovins: A 40-year plan for energy

12th - Higher Ed
In this intimate talk filmed at TED's offices, energy innovator Amory Lovins shows how to get the US off oil and coal by 2050, $5 trillion cheaper, with no Act of Congress, led by business for profit. The key is integrating all four...
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TED Talks

Amory Lovins: Winning the oil endgame

12th - Higher Ed
In this energizing talk, Amory Lovins lays out his simple plan for weaning the US off oil and revitalizing the economy.
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TED Talks

Edward Snowden: Here's how we take back the Internet

12th - Higher Ed
Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, is not a partisan issue, but requires a fundamental rethink of the role of the internet in...
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TED-Ed

TED-ED: What is McCarthyism? And how did it happen? - Ellen Schrecker

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In the 1950s, as part of a campaign to expose suspected Communists, thousands of individuals were aggressively investigated and questioned before government panels. Named after its most notorious practitioner, the phenomenon known as...
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Wonderscape

Understanding the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

K - 5th
Delve into the Second Amendment, which grants citizens the right to bear arms. Understand the historical context that influenced the Founding Fathers to include this right, reflecting on the colonial era's militia system and the measures...
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Curated Video

The FBI

9th - Higher Ed
The Federal Bureau of Investigations is a fact-finding, crime-fighting national security machine. But how did it come about – and what do FBI agents actually do?
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Curated Video

Homeland Security and FBI chiefs brief Senate

Higher Ed
The US homeland security secretary on Tuesday said threats to the country had evolved, moving from "terrorist-directed" attacks to an environment that also included the threat of "terrorist-inspired attacks", in which individuals who...
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Curated Video

Witness denounces fictional Ukraine interference

Higher Ed
A former White House Russia analyst sternly warned Republican lawmakers in the impeachment probe Thursday to quit pushing a "fictional" narrative that Ukraine not Russia interfered in the 2016 election as they defend President Donald Trump.
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Curated Video

FBI, DHS: Homegrown Attacks an Increasing Threat

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FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus063927Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says terrorist threats have evolved, moving from terrorist-directed attacks "to a world that also includes the threat of terrorist-inspired attacks" in...