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The Two-Way
2:40 pm
Tue January 22, 2013

Beyonce's National Anthem Was Pre-recorded, Marine Band Says

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Originally published on Wed January 23, 2013 2:02 pm

Update at 6:14 p.m. ET. Backing Off?

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Shots - Health News
2:39 pm
Tue January 22, 2013

Doctors Are Diagnosing More Kids With ADHD

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The increase in diagnoses could be due to better education of parents, and better access to health care, the researchers say.
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For at least a decade, many have assumed that too many fidgety kids have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and been medicated for it. But it's still been hard to get reliable information on just how many kids are getting diagnosed and whether it's justified. So researchers at Kaiser Permanente in California decided to look at the trend, using the best data they could get from kids who'd actually seen specialists.

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The Two-Way
2:14 pm
Tue January 22, 2013

Reports: Shots Fired At Houston Community College

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Originally published on Tue January 22, 2013 5:30 pm

Update at 5:19 p.m. ET. College Safe:

During a news briefing, Sheriff Maj. Armando Tello said that the Lone Star College campus is now safe.

Tello said three people were injured, after an altercation between two men led to a shooting. One of the individuals invovled in the altercation was a student at the college. Another one of those shot was a maintance worker caught in the cross fire.

Tello did not give any details as to the condition of the injured.

Classes will resume tomorrow.

Our Original Post Continues:

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It's All Politics
2:11 pm
Tue January 22, 2013

Stonewall? Explaining Obama's Historic Gay-Rights Reference

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The crowd faces off with police at the Stonewall Inn nightclub raid in the summer of 1969 in New York City.
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The Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village section of New York City was the site of the 1969 riot that sparked the gay-rights movement.
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Originally published on Wed January 23, 2013 1:13 pm

President Obama made history in his inaugural address when he mentioned Stonewall in the same breath as Selma, the Alabama town considered the birthplace of the black-rights movement, and Seneca Falls, the upstate New York site of the first women's-rights convention.

But Obama's reference was very likely lost on many in the generations that have come of age long after gay men resisted police harassment at the Stonewall Inn gay bar in New York City.

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World
2:05 pm
Tue January 22, 2013

Obama Overseas: Speak Loudly And Carry A Smaller Stick

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President Obama, pictured in August addressing U.S. service members at Fort Bliss, Texas, has signaled that he is inclined to avoid situations that are most likely to lead to major troop deployments.
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An unmanned U.S. Predator drone sat on the tarmac of Kandahar military airport in southern Afghanistan in 2010. Drone strikes have increased markedly on Obama's watch.
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Originally published on Tue January 22, 2013 2:58 pm

An era marked by war and attempts at nation building is coming to its end.

President Obama has made clear he has no interest in lengthy foreign entanglements that would require large commitments of troops and defense dollars.

"We, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war," Obama said in his inaugural address on Monday.

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