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Destruction of videotapes documented in CIA e-mail (AP)

Yahoo! News: Politics News — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:43:49 +0000

AP - Internal CIA e-mails show the former agency head, Porter Goss, agreed with a top aide's 2005 decision to destroy videotapes of the harsh interrogation of a terror suspect, a controversial action that remains the focus of an FBI investigation.

Obama, Medvedev sign treaty to cut nuclear arms (AP)

Yahoo! News: Politics News — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:08:30 +0000

AP - Reaching anew for peace, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday signed a treaty to shrink their nations' nuclear arsenals, the biggest such pact between the former Cold War foes in a generation.

US unveiling new, more restrictive nuclear policy (AP)

Yahoo! News: Politics News — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:27:53 +0000

AP - The Obama administration is unveiling a new nuclear weapons policy that seeks to narrow the circumstances under which the United States would use such weapons while preserving long-standing assurances of nuclear protection for allies, U.S. officials said.

AP INVESTIGATION: Details in CIA detainee’s death (AP)

Yahoo! News: Politics News — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:30:39 +0000

AP - More than seven years ago, a suspected Afghan militant was brought to a dimly lit CIA compound northeast of the airport in Kabul. The CIA called it the Salt Pit. Inmates knew it as the dark prison. Inside a chilly cell, the man was shackled and left half-naked. He was found dead, exposed to the cold, in the early hours of Nov. 20, 2002.

Democrats send Obama final health measure (AP)

Yahoo! News: Politics News — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:34:50 +0000

AP - Congressional Democrats sent the final piece of landmark health care legislation to President Barack Obama before heading home to face a skeptical — and sometimes even threatening — electorate.