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Zimmerman Sues NBC Over 911 Tape Editing

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by Upi - United Press International, Inc.

December 7, 2012

George Zimmerman, charged in Florida with shooting an unarmed black teenager, sued NBC Thursday, charging an edited 911 tape defamed him.

In a complaint filed in Seminole County in Florida, Zimmerman said the network edited the tape to make him appear racist, CNN reported. Two former reporters were also named as defendants. "NBC saw the death of Trayvon Martin not as a tragedy but as an opportunity to increase ratings, and so set about to create the myth that George Zimmerman was a racist and predatory villain," the complaint says.

Obama Jokes About Boehner's Birthday

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by Upi - United Press International, Inc.

November 16, 2012

President Barack Obama opened the White House meeting of congressional leaders by joking about House Speaker John Boehner's birthday.

Obama turned to Boehner Friday after thanking the House and Senate leaders for coming to the White House and the lights dimmed as he told the group there was "actually one other point that I wanted to make," Politico reported Friday. "My understanding is that tomorrow is Speaker Boehner's birthday. For those of you who want to wish him happy birthday, we're not going to embarrass him with a cake because we didn't know how many candles were needed," the president joked.

Upside-Down Flag Irks Neighbors

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by Upi - United Press International, Inc.

November 14, 2012

Residents of a Florida neighborhood are complaining about a U.S. flag being flown upside-down at a Palm Bay home.

Palm Bay residents Shirley and Thomas Moore said they were shocked to see the flag upside-down outside of a neighbor's home during the Veteran's Day weekend, Florida Today reported Wednesday. "We served for the right of people to express themselves," said Thomas Moore, 62, a Navy veteran. Moore said he disagreed with the gesture.

Election Site Exposes Personal Information

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by Upi - United Press International, Inc.

November 14, 2012

The Chicago Board of Elections has confirmed that the personal information of 1,200 people who applied to work Election Day was inadvertently exposed online.

Board spokesman James Allen said a mistake allowed a database containing applicants' names, addresses, driver license numbers and the last four digits of social security numbers to be accessed, the Chicago Tribune reported Wednesday. A computer security firm called Forensicon uncovered the breach while researching voting patterns on the website of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. The firm reported that the personal information of up to 1.7 million registered voters had been exposed.

Secession Petitions Crop Up With Obama Win

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by Upi - United Press International, Inc.

November 12, 2012

Online petitions in 16 states have cropped up in the wake of President Barack Obama's re-election, seeking to secede from the union, government officials said.

Using the Obama administration's own We the People website allowing Internet petitions to be lodged with the White House, people in 17 states have asked for permission to leave the union. Most cite the Declaration of Independence - which isn't a legal document - as their grounds. None of the petitions cite Obama's re-election explicitly as the reason for seeking secession, though none of the petitions existed before Tuesday when he was re-elected, the website Politico.com reported Monday.

Pentagon: Iran's Attack On Drone Hostile

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by Upi - United Press International, Inc.

November 12, 2012

A move by Iran to engage a U.S. drone near the Persian Gulf was "clearly" an act of aggression against U.S. interests, a top U.S. commander said.

Iran last week confirmed that it fired on "an unidentified plane" near its airspace the week before U.S. presidential elections. The plane in question was said to be an unmanned U.S. Predator drone. U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that U.S. military leaders considered the act hostile in nature.

Pentagon: No Politics In Drone-Attack Silence

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by Upi - United Press International, Inc.

November 9, 2012

Defense officials denied political motives in not reporting for a week that Iranian fighter planes shot at an unarmed U.S. drone five days before Election Day.

Pentagon spokesman George Little said the department's weeklong silence was a result of restrictions on the discussion of classified surveillance missions. He said the administration wanted to handle the incident privately, and issued a stern complaint to Iran through diplomatic channels. Washington and other world powers are preparing to hold a fourth round of negotiations with Tehran seeking to curb its disputed nuclear program. Those talks could take place as early as this month, U.S. and European officials say.

Dead Texas Liberal Wins State Senate Seat

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by Upi - United Press International, Inc.

November 7, 2012

In one of the more unusual races, the late Texas Democrat Mario Gallegos beat his Republican challenger for a state Senate seat.

Gallegos, who died last month, remained on Tuesday's ballot because he passed less than 74 days before the election and the liberal Hispanic easily won re-election to his Fort Worth-area seat posthumously. "He was always there for the community," longtime friend and retired firefighter Juan Hernandez told the Houston Chronicle.

U.S. College Students Favor Obama By 30%

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by Upi - United Press International, Inc.

November 6, 2012

A survey of 2,100 U.S. college students found President Barack Obama, a Democrat, favored by more than 30 percentage points over GOP nominee Mitt Romney.

Jennifer L. Lawless of the American University and director of the Women and Politics Institute and Richard L. Fox of Loyola Marymount University said an additional poll of 2,166 U.S. high school students ages of 13-17 favored Obama by 10 percentage points. There was no discernible gender gap among high school students overall. In swing states, though, female respondents were slightly more likely than male respondents to support Obama. The poll, conducted by American University-GfK Custom Research LLC, was conducted Sept. 27-Oct. 16.

Healthcare Law Prompts New Hiring Pattern

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by Upi - United Press International, Inc.

November 5, 2012

Several significant employers are saying they plan to reduce full-time staff to avoid having to comply with the new U.S. healthcare law.

The law itself could be in jeopardy, as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has said he would try to repeal the law known as Obamacare. President Barack Obama, on the other hand, would hold onto the law. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Pillar Hotels & Resorts, which includes 5,500 part-time workers on its payroll, is among those hiring more part-time workers. "The tendency is to say, 'Let me fill this position with a 40-hour-a-week employee.' I think we have to think different," said Chief Executive Officer Chris Russell.

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