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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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The Two-Way
1:35 pm
Tue January 22, 2013

White House 'Welcomes' House Vote On Extending Debt Limit

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White House spokesman Jay Carney.
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President Obama "welcomes" the plan by House Republicans to vote Wednesday on a three-month extension of the nation's borrowing limit, White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters today, and "would not stand in the way of the bill becoming law." (The Hill)

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The Two-Way
1:33 pm
Tue January 22, 2013

Bolivian President Says Venezuela's Chávez Is Working Toward Return

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A man walks past a mural of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, on Jan. 11.
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Originally published on Tue January 22, 2013 6:54 pm

Bolivian President Evo Morales gave a positive status update on his ally Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

According to Bloomberg News, Morales said he was in communication with the ailing leader.

"I have good news that our brother comandante President Chavez is already in physiotherapy in order to return to his country," Morales is quoted as saying. "We hope to be alongside him at international events as we have always been."

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