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                    [Title] => Senate rejects more gun background checks after CA attack
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A polarized Senate voted Thursday against expanding background checks for more gun purchases, rejecting the proposal a day after the latest U.S. mass shooting left 14 people dead in California.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-03 17:19:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1111945 [AuthorName] => Alan Fram [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20151204/congress-guns-washington.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1524704 [Title] => Visa Waiver Program [Summary] =>

It was and still is with great shock, horror and sadness as we see on TV the news and images covering the terror attacks in Paris.

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-21 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1416939 [Title] => Senators: More US special ops troops may be needed in Yemen [Summary] =>

Two influential senators are calling on President Barack Obama to send more US ground troops to hotspots around the Middle East.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-26 02:41:58 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1401860 [Title] => CIA chief challenges US Senate torture report [Summary] =>

CIA Director John Brennan struck back at a U.S. Senate report that accused the agency of torturing terror detainees, acknowledging that "abhorrent" tactics were used but defending the overall interrogation program for saving lives after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-12 09:14:59 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20141211/CIA-torture-report.jpg ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1366764 [Title] => Obama to lay out plan vs Islamic State group [Summary] =>

President Barack Obama will begin laying out a strategy this week to defeat Islamic State militants in the Middle East, meeting with congressional leaders Tuesday and giving a speech to the American people on Wednesday, the eve of the 13th anniversary of the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

[DatePublished] => 2014-09-08 10:45:30 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1248123 [AuthorName] => Darlene Superville [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1289902 [Title] => Technology firms urge changes to US spying [Summary] =>

A coalition of the nation's leading technology firms joined an international protest Tuesday against the US government's spying programs, urging more limits on collections of Americans' electronic data and greater oversight and transparency about the secret operations.

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A chief element of President Barack Obama's attempt to overhaul US surveillance will not work, leaders of Congress' intelligence committees said Sunday, pushing back against the idea that the government should cede control of how Americans' phone records are stored.

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-21 05:24:33 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1461190 [AuthorName] => Libby Quaid [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1251876 [Title] => US Senate panel OKs some limits on surveillance [Summary] =>

Leaders of a Senate panel that oversees U.S. intelligence issues said Thursday it has approved a plan to scale back how many American telephone records the National Security Agency can sweep up. But critics of U.S. surveillance programs and privacy rights experts said the bill does little, if anything, to end the daily collection of millions of records that has spurred widespread demands for reform.

[DatePublished] => 2013-11-01 08:35:12 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1447904 [AuthorName] => Lara Jakes [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1250744 [Title] => US mulls end to spying on world leaders -AP source [Summary] =>

The Obama administration is considering ending spying on allied heads of state, a senior administration official said, as the White House grappled with the fallout from revelations that the U.S. has eavesdropped on German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-29 11:10:53 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1432809 [AuthorName] => Julie Pace and Kimberly Dozier [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/3305/wb8f.jpg ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1186851 [Title] => US Senate panel releases alleged videos of Syria chemical attack [Summary] =>

A US Senate panel Saturday released 13 videos showing the victims of the alleged chemical attack near Damascus on Aug. 21, although there is no independent verification of the videos' authenticity.

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