July 3, 2014 (San Diego's East County)-- ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• 5 things women need to know about the Hobby Lobby ruling (Time)
• U.S. increases security at overseas airports amid bomb concerns

• East Coast Braces for Damage (Time)

• Teen describes brutal journey into U.S. (ABC News)
• Obama to seek $2 billion to stem surge of  Central American immigrants (Chicago Tribune)
• Surprise! Red and blue districts often agree on government policy.
• Democrats: No bluff, Obama will go it alone on immigration (The Hill)
• Mitt Romney isn’t running. So who will GOP turn to?  (Washington Post)
• Warren, Booker are Dems secret weapons (The Hill)
• Land of the free? Not so much. Americans' sense of freedom drops, poll finds. (CS Monitor)
• Stepping Into The Fire: Veteran Advocates & Pols Sound Off On Obama's Choice To Lead Scandal-Plagued VA (Reno Blogspot by Jamie Reno)

WORLD

• ISIS declares creation of Middle Eastern caliphate (CBS News)
• U.S. sends 300 more troops to Iraq over security concerns (Reuters)
• U.K. Loses Big Vote On The Future Of Europe — Now What?
• Bodies of three kidnapped Israeli teens found in West Bank (JPost)
• Volley of Gaza mortar shells fired toward southern Israel (JPost)
• Huge Crowds Turn Out for Hong Kong Pro-Democracy March (NY Times)
• European Court of Human Rights upholds French law banning veil (Reuters)
• Norway Does A Ctrl+Alt+Delete On E-Voting Experiment (NPR)

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June 18, 2014 (San Diego's East County)-- ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

NATIONAL

• Sources: Benghazi terror suspect captured without a single shot fired (CNN)
• Federal court rules cellphone tracking data protected under Fourth Amendment (CS Monitor)
• US missile defense system unreliable in tests (Sacramento Bee)
• For The Win(e): U.S. Passes France As World's Top Wine Consumer
• Pew Poll: More Americans Are Political Purists (NPR)
• Two prominent Mormon activists threatened with excommunication (Reuters)
• Stay-At-Home Dads On The Rise, And Many Of Them Are Poor (NPR)
• Tornado obliterates Nebraska town, killing one and injuring 16  (Reuters)

INTERNATIONAL

Iraq

• Militants Reportedly Overrun Tikrit, As 500,000 Flee Mosul (NPR)
• Iraq's implosion could redraw Middle East boundaries (Reuters)
• In One Map, The Dramatic Rise Of ISIS In Iraq And Syria (NPR)
• ISIL gets rich in attack on Iraq's cities (Marketplace)
• Pentagon moves USS Mesa Verde nearer Iraq. What can it do? (CS Monitor)
• Al Qaeda Splinter Grabs U.S. Humvees, Sends Them to Syria (Reason)

Other countries

• Saudi Arabia jails 33 for up to 30 years on terrorism charges(Reuters)
• More than two dozen dead as Taliban assault Pakistan's main airport (Reuters)
• After Ukraine, U.S. trains more special forces in eastern Europe (Reuters) 
• Yeshiva Students Missing, Suspected Kidnapped by Terrorists (Israel National News)
• US Quietly Releases More Military Prisoners in Afghanistan (Israel National News)
• Russia Sent Tanks to Separatists in Ukraine, U.S. Says (NY Times)
• Russia cuts off gas to Ukraine as Kiev orders border secured (Reuters)
• Russian jet tangles with US spy plane over Pacific (CS Monitor)
• Nigeria rejects swap of Boko Haram prisoners for schoolgirls: UK Minister (Reuters)
• Unrest Breaks Out In Vietnam Over Island Dispute With China (NPR)
• Myanmar’s Persecuted Minority (NY Times)
• Are English schools being taken over by Islamic extremists? (CS Monitor)
• What negative interest rates mean for the Eurozone (Marketplace)
• Wall Of Ice Surrounding Fukushima Will Contain Radioactive Water (NPR)

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May 28, 2014 (San Diego’s East County)--ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Schumer: Obama will act on immigration reform if GOP doesn’t (The Hill)
• Deep problems at Veterans Affairs - Books-cooking is just a symptom (SD City Beat)
• Head of House Veterans Affairs Committee calls for Eric Shinseki’s resignation (Washington Post)
• Killing spree in college community brings back memories of similar crime 12 years ago(Fox News)
• Maya Angelou ‘the brightest light,’ says Obama  (BBC)

WORLD

• Obama lays out new approach to foreign policy in second term (Washington Post)
• Leaders agree to review EU agenda at Brussels summit (BBC)
• Chechen leader Kadyrov denies sending troops to Ukraine (BBC)
• Where's the Dream Act for Meriam Ibrahim? (Jewish World Review)
• Nigerian defense chief says abducted girls located (10 News)
• Battle at Donetsk airport; new Ukraine leader says no talks with 'terrorists'(Reuters)
• Flemish separatists are big winners in Belgian election  (Reuters)

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May 15, 2014 (San Diego’s East County)--ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S

• NASA spots worrisome Antarctic ice sheet melt that could add 4 to 12 feet to current sea levels (10 News)
• Net neutrality puts FCC at center of storm (Washington Post)
• Dems ready student loan push (The Hill)
• U.S. passenger jet nearly collided with drone in March: FAA  (Reuters)

WORLD

• Sewol ferry captain and 3 crew members face murder charges in South Korea  (CNN)
• EU court says people may remove unflattering links from Google (+video) (CS Monitor)
• France says Syria used chlorine in 14 recent attacks (Reuters)
• Separatists kill seven Ukraine soldiers in heaviest loss for Kiev forces (Reuters)
• Sudanese woman may face death for choosing Christianity over Islam (Reuters)
• Iraq Debates Law That Would Allow Men To Marry 9-Year-Old Girls (NPR)

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April 30, 2014 (San Diego’s East County)--ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Supreme Court appears wary of carte blanche for cellphone searches (CS Monitor)
•  Death toll rises as twisters rip across Mississippi, Alabama (CNN)
• Obamacare enrollment extended again (The Hill)
• What’s next for Obamacare ? The Hill)
• Clippers owner Donald Sterling banned for life by NBA (CBS)
  
  Clippers sponsors jump ship (CNN)
• ADL director responds to Kerry's reported 'apartheid’ remark (Jerusalem Post)
• U.S. investigating theft of doctors' tax refunds (Reuters)
• How A Public Corruption Scandal Became A Fight Over Free Speech (NPR)
• Texas family plagued with ailments gets $3 million in first of its kind fracking judgment (CNN)

WORLD

• Hungarians march against anti-Semitism after far-right poll gains (Reuters)
•  Megacities contend with sinking land (BBC)
• Tu-95 bombers: Brits scramble jets after Russian bombers approach  (CS Monitor)
• Russia Threatens Invasion Unless Ukraine Stops Stopping Separatists (Reason)
• Pacific Island Nation Sues U.S., Others For Violating Nuclear Treaty (NPR)
• Poppies replace tourists in Egypt's Sinai desert  (Christian Science Monitor)
• On Second Day Of Mass Trial, Egyptian Judge Sentences 683 To Death (NPR)

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April 17, 2014 (San Diego’s East County)--ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• IRS Chasing Children For Dead Parents' Debts (NPR)
• Three border officials face charges (SD Reader)
• A look at chances of getting audited by IRS (UT San Diego)
• Obama Administration Slapped With 'Muzzle Awards' for Threatening Free Expression (Reason)
• Senate report: Interrogation methods 'far worse' than CIA acknowledged (CS Monitor)
•  Three people killed in shootings at Jewish centers in Kansas (Reuters)

WORLD

• Water flows to Colorado River Delta  (U-T San Diego)
• Rwanda, the world's swiftest genocide (CS Monitor)
• (2 powerful earthquakes hit Solomon Islands (AP)
• A look at Ukraine's fast-growing Russian gas bill (UT San Diego)
• Can Russia's military fly without Ukraine's parts? (CS Monitor)

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April 3, 2014 (San Diego’s East County)--ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Fort Hood shooting spree: `Texans hearts are once again very heavy ‘(CNN)
• House panel subpoenas on wind power, eagle deaths (UT San Diego)
• Facing near certainty of rape, women illegally crossing border turn to birth control (RawStory)
• Yellowstone National Park rattled by largest earthquake in 34 years (Reuters)
•  Colorado River begins flooding Mexican delta (KPBS)
• Local partisans divide on Supreme Court ruling (UT San Diego)
• GM Bailout Claims the Legal Rights of Americans (Reason)
• Why do we make students sit still in class? (CNN)
• Facing the development of U.S. wind energy with a DOE map (ECO report)
• Fallen Marine's Dad Wants Peace At Fred Phelps' Funeral (Video) (KPBS)

WORLD

• Mexico finds 370 abandoned immigrant children (Reuters)
• Iraq electoral commission resigns en masse weeks before vote (Reuters)
• With $1B In Aid For Ukraine, Congress Puts Money Where Its Mouth Is (NPR)
• U.N. official says 'terrifying' level of hatred in Central African Republic (Reuters)
• ‘Black-clad army’ rallies for democracy in Taipei (Taipei Times)
• Obama ready to expand covert aid to Syrian opposition: report (Reuters)
• Exclusive: Russia threatened countries ahead of UN vote on Ukraine - envoys(Reuters)
• New Zealand tops social progress index, world's biggest economies trail (Thomson Reuters Foundation)

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March 13, 2014 (San Diego’s East County)--ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Judge dismisses FAA fine against small drone user  (UT San Diego)
• Stolen passports raise security concerns (Wall Street Journal)
• Judge's order preserves NSA surveillance records (Sacramento Bee)
• Snowden: Proposed NSA reforms vindicate my data leaks (Reuters)

WORLD

• Missing Malaysian jet may have disintegrated in mid-air: source (Reuters
• U.S. warns Russia not to annex Crimea (BBC)
• Arab League refuses to recognize Israel as Jewish state (Christian Science Monitor)
• Iraqi women protest against proposed Islamic law in Iraq (Reuters)
• Not like a fairy tale: Saudi princesses reportedly locked in castle by king for 13 years (Jerusalem Post)
• Save the Children describes healthcare disaster in Syria (Reuters)
• Israel: Seized rockets would put Jerusalem in Gaza's range (+video) (Christian Science Monitor)
• Saudi Arabia names Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group  (Christian Science Monitor)

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February 26, 2014 (San Diego’s East County ) --ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• IRS: Renewables Companies May Be Double-Dipping Federal Subsidies (KCET)
• Obama to propose shift in wildfire funding (New York Times)
• Obama to drop less generous retiree payments from budget (McClatchy News)
• Budget cuts to slash U.S. Army to smallest since before World War Two (Reuters)
• Native Americans prepare a “last stand” against Keystone XL (RawStory)
• Doctors' Offices Get Put On Hold Trying to Find Out Who's Insured (NPR)
• Supreme Court Opens Door To Easier Police Searches (NPR)
• Department of Homeland Security cancels national license-plate tracking plan (Washington Post)
• U.S. Government Will Back Loans For Nuclear Power (NPR)
• Nebraska court invalidates state's Keystone pipeline approval (Reuters)
• Ranking cities from Miami to Boston to Wichita on inequality (Marketplace.org)

WORLD

• Ukraine wants fugitive president to face Hague court (Reuters)
• Is Putin pushing for a crackdown in Ukraine?(CS Monitor)
• Uganda's anti-gay bill refocuses attention on US evangelical influence
• Exclusive: Iraq signs deal to buy arms, ammunition from Iran - documents (Reuters)
• Nigerian Islamists kill 59 pupils in boarding school attack (Reuters)
•  Turkish protesters denounce Internet restrictions (UT San Diego)
• Pakistani Taliban say government must embrace Islamic law (Reuters)
• Somalia's al Shabaab say attack meant to get president 'dead or alive' (Reuters)

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February 6, 2014 (San Diego’s East County ) --ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• To save lives, it's time for our cars to 'talk', US says. Are there risks? (CS Monitor)
• U.S. abortion rate falls to lowest level in 40 years (RawStory)
• U.S. safety agency says 22 million vehicles recalled in 2013  (Reuters)

WORLD

• Airlines warned on possible Olympics toothpaste bombs (USA Today)
• Volcanic ash smothers part of Indonesia, kills 15 (CNN)
• Should E.U. Police Be Given Darth Vader-Like Powers to Stop Cars Remotely? (Reason)
• More than 400 dead dolphins on north Peru coast (UT San Diego)

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January 23, 2014 (San Diego’s East County ) --ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Blogger gets same speech protections as traditional press: U.S. court  (Reuters)
• As CA’s drought deepens, a sense of dread grows (NY Times)
• Tech firms say Obama’s proposals fall short of expectations (Washington Post)
• . Obama bans spying on leaders of U.S. allies, scales back NSA program (Reuters)
• Civil Libertarians Respond to Obama's NSA Reforms - Meh! (Reason)
• NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep (The Guardian)
• Senator Feinstein encounter with drone surveillance (Politico)
• North Carolina ultrasound abortion law ruled illegal by judge (Reuters)
• U.S. states could turn to firing squads if execution drugs scarce (Reuters)
• U.S. seeks UNESCO World Heritage site status for Alamo, missions  (Reuters)
• U.S. Air Force hit with cheating scandal in nuke missile wing (Reuters)
• Horse slaughter blocked by federal law (U-T San Diego)
• U.S. judge rules against government in no-fly challenge (Reuters)
• Benghazi attack: Senate report slams State Department, intelligence agencies (+video) (CS Monitor)
•  Would a 'third party' protect your phone data better than the NSA? (CS Monitor)
• Who's enrolling for health insurance? Not the uninsured (APM Marketplace)

WORLD

• Not impossible: 3D printing arms for children of war (RawStory)
• Ukraine leader, defying West, signs laws against protests  (Reuters)
• Kiev protesters hold mirrors to police - literally - as new confrontation looms (CS Monitor)
• Thousands of Afghans face cold, hungry winter as aid goes missing (Reuters)
• How Rouhani triumphed: Iranian election could spell trouble for hard-liners (CS Monitor)
• Mexico vigilante leader wants cartel bosses dead, not captured (Reuters)
• Egypt's constitutional referendum: It's not about democracy any more. (+video) (CS Monitor)
• Israel shoots down Gaza rockets, responds with air strikes (Reuters)

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January 7, 2014 (San Diego’s East County ) --ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower (NY Times editorial)
• Pentagon cuts by third places where U.S. troops get danger pay (Reuters)
• Court Upholds Border Gadget Searches (Reason)
• Medicaid Expansion Boosted Emergency Room Visits In Oregon (Reuters)  
• Yes, Legal Pot Does Cost More Than Black-Market Pot (for Now at Least) (Reason)
• Senator Ron Johnson to sue over healthcare subsidy for Congress (Reuters)

WORLD

• Worst of climate change predictions are the most likely: new study (Common Dreams)
• Hezbollah Moving Long-Range Missiles From Syria to Lebanon (NY Times)
•  Greece takes over as EU president (Marketplace)
• Marine Crisis Team Evacuates American Embassy Staff From South Sudan (KPBS)
• Hundreds of Palestinians protest Kerry's visit in Ramallah (Jerusalem Post)
• Nine dead after attackers dressed as police enter Mexican prison (Reuters)

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December 19, 2013 (San Diego’s East County ) --ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

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• Arts and culture contribute more to U.S. economy than tourism (Marketplace.org)
• Veterans fight federal budget provision (WAVY TV)
• Judge rules polygamy protected under freedom of religion (ABC)
• US judge rules NSA data sweep an 'indiscriminate and arbitrary invasion' (CS Monitor)
• Navy expands sonar testing despite troubling signs (KPBS)
• Michigan passes ‘rape insurance’ bill (MSNBC)
• Obama “keep your plan” promise labeled lie of the year by Politifact (CBS)

WORLD

• China makes history with Jade Rabbit moon rover landing (Yahoo News)
• North Korea Kim’s uncle executed (The Nation)
• What does 74% youth unemployment feel like? (APM Marketplace)
• Amazing photos capture snow covering Middle East (UT San Diego)

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December 4, 2013 (San Diego’s East County ) --ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Health law business site delayed one year (UT San Diego)
• Boeing: 15 airlines warned over high-altitude ice (BBC)
• Reid, Democrats trigger ‘nuclear’ option, eliminate filibusters on most nominees (Washington Post)
• Reason Foundation Study Details Depths of Green Energy Crony Capitalism (Reason)
• Obama: Iran nuclear deal limits Iran ability to create nuclear weapons (CNN)
• Ford recalls 2013 Escape SUVs for seventh time (Reuters)
• Pot smokers arrested for DUI: A record high in Washington (CS Monitor)
• U.S. May Be Producing 50 Percent More Methane Than EPA Thinks (NPR)
• Judge Suspends Sentencing Of Would-Be Bomber After NSA Revelations(NPR)
• Intelligence committee heads: Terror threat rising  (AP)

 WORLD

• Pope Francis attacks ‘tyranny’ of unfettered capitalism,’idolatry of money’ (ABC news)
• Pope ramps up charity to be near poor, sick (USA Today)
•  Israel says kills three Qaeda-linked militants in West Bank (Reuters)
•  Egypt expels Turkish ambassador, Turkey retaliates (Reuters)
•  Tiananmen Square attack was 'jihadi operation,' claims Islamist group (CS Monitor)
•  Islamist rebels capture Syria's largest oilfield: activists (Reuters)
•  Adulterers may be stoned under new Afghan law, official says  (Reuters)
•  Iran says to continue building at Arak nuclear site despite deal
• Syrian refugee children are becoming the family breadwinners (CS Monitor)
• Dutch privacy watchdog says Google breaks data law (Reuters)
• North Korea says U.S. citizen Merrill E. Newman is a criminal, arrested for hostile acts (Reuters)

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November 14, 2013 (San Diego’s East County ) --ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Obama will allow insurance companies to extend current plans (Los Angeles Times)
• Home Ownership At Lowest Level In Nearly Two Decades (NPR)
• Custody battles rage over rape conceived kids (MSNBC)
• Invasion: 7,500 drones in U.S. airspace within 5 years, FAA warns (Washington Times)
• Welcome Back, Carter! Labor Participation Drops to 1978 Levels. (Reason)
• Philadelphians Elect First Whig Since 19th Century (NPR)
•  Navy scandal spans globe, climbs ranks (UT San Diego)

WORLD

• One of world’s strongest storms slams into Philippines (CBS)
• Philippine typhoon survivors beg for help as rescuers struggle (Reuters)
• Putin allies submit bill to punish separatism with prison (Reuters)
•  Survey Finds Anti-Semitism 'On The Rise' In Europe (NPR)
• Mexico frees 61 kidnap victims held near U.S. border (Reuters)
• Pakistani private schools ban Malala's book (UT San Diego)
• Public executions in North Korea? Report raises fear of new repression (+video) (CS Monitor)
• The Coming Betrayal of Israel (Jewish World View)
• Saudi rejects U.N. Security Council seat, opening way for Jordan (Reuters)
• China, Cuba, Russia, Saudi elected to top U.N. rights body (Reuters)

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