News Updates: 2:11 PM 12/17/2013

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Recent World News - 12.17.13

Judge Questions Legality of N.S.A. Phone Records - NYTimes.com

NSA Phone Spying 'Almost Certainly' Unconstitutional, Judge Says - WSJ.com

Surveillance - Cozy or Chilling? - NYTimes.com

Navy Secretary Expands Review of Supply Contracts - NYTimes.com

Deployment of Missiles Is Confirmed by Russia - NYTimes.com

U.S. Raises Concerns Over Russia's Baltic Missiles - WSJ.com

New Pipeline To Loosen Russia's Grip On Energy

U.S.-Germany Intelligence Partnership Falters Over Spying - NYTimes.com

Growth Spurt Creates Alarm Over the House of (Many) Lords - NYTimes.com

F.D.A. Questions Safety of Antibacterial Soaps - NYTimes.com

Glaxo Says It Will Stop Paying Doctors to Promote Drugs - NYTimes.com

A Look at Emperor Augustus and Roman Classical Style - NYTimes.com

Whole Roasted Fish With Mushrooms - Video - NYTimes.com

The Irony of Despair - NYTimes.com

Understanding Suicide - Mental Illness, Not Irony - NYTimes.com

EU Suspends Work With Kyiv

Baku Residents Protest Over Fuel, Food Costs

Turkmenistan Holds Elections Without Opposition

U.S. Convicts Viktor Bout Associate

Chechen Deputy Minister Threatens Executions For Militant Suspects

SEC Asks Ex-Goldman Trader to Pay More Than $1 Million - WSJ.com

Moody's Downgrades Venezuela, Warns of Economic Collapse

Putin, Yanukovych Meet in Moscow

Recent Events

A Disappearing Spy, and a Scandal at the C.I.A. - NYTimes.com

High prospects for Uruguay's legal marijuana business | Reuters

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Obama Changes Direction Of US Military Command, Fires 9th General In His Purge - Downtrend.com

President Obama Transforms Military In His Image By Firing 197 Officers - Investors.com

Top generals: Obama is ‘purging the military’

Recent Russia News

The Kremlin, the Press and the Protesters - A Case Study of Rule by Paranoia - NYTimes.com

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Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia’s Gatsby Master Spy

PR News - December 2013

Gov. Dismisses, Mocks U.S. Senate Leaders’ Rejection of a New “Commonwealth” Status | Puerto Rico Report

US Senate Leaders Caution Regarding New “Commonwealth” and Status Assembly Plan | Puerto Rico Report

US senators: Enhanced ELA not viable, hobbles efforts to solve status issue - Caribbean Business

DEA diligencia arrestos por narcotráfico en oeste de Puerto Rico

He gives his version of events - The New Day

Luis Sánchez Betances - El Nuevo Día

Legislative resolutions lie Tuller to send the report of Sanchez Betances and "his best friend" | Journal of Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico’s sinking economy needs help - The Washington Post

Puerto Rico’s problems stem from its territorial status - The Washington Post

Washington Examiner: Puerto Rico’s “Unnatural Status’ Hurts US Economy — American Principles Project

US Hegemony and Puerto Rico’s Economic Crisis | Global Research

Thinking Big - Caribbean Business

Government of Puerto Rico must tell the truth! - Caribbean Business

Snowden asks for political asylum in Brazil - The New Day

Dominican Republic Prosecutors Conclude Papal Nuncio Abused Boys | HispanicallySpeakingNews.com

Uruguay Becomes First Country To Legalize Marijuana | HispanicallySpeakingNews.com

Crime in Puerto Rico - Searches & Articles

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Serious crime rate down in PR in 2013 - Caribbean Business

REPORT: Violent Crime Rate Drops in Puerto Rico | HispanicallySpeakingNews.com

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Murder Rate and Fear Rise in Puerto Rico - NYTimes.com

Sentencing Law and Policy: Why are murder rates so high in Puerto Rico and might criminal law be to blame?

'Don't Give Up On Us': Puerto Ricans Wrestle With High Crime : NPR

Puerto Rico tackling fearful murder rate - 12/11/2012 | MiamiHerald.com

U.S. Targets High-Level Criminals In Puerto Rico Based On Lengthy Investigation | Fox News Latino

Puerto Rico: Murder rate, drug trafficking and statehood - Honolulu Crime | Examiner.com

Puerto Rico Crime

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