Congressional leaders agreed Thursday to extend the Patriot Act for another four years, about a week before the controversial law was set to expire. Congress is set to vote on the measure, passed in the wake of the September 11 attacks and long debated…

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“Substantive” changes are to be made to the controversial NHS bill for England which is going through parliament, Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin says.

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“Substantive” changes are to be made to the controversial NHS bill for England which is going through parliament, Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin says.

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NHS bill to ‘alter substantively’

In making his case this past week for the use of force in Libya, President Obama sought to assure the American people that this intervention is prudent and wise, and that it bears no resemblance to the controversial and costly war in Iraq. He even tried to preempt the comparison altogether, explaining why his administration will not attempt to overthrow Moammar Gaddafi by force: “To be blunt,” Obama said, “we went down that road in Iraq.”

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Will Libya become Obama’s Iraq?

After the controversial scrapping of the education maintenance allowance, a successor scheme is to be put forward.

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EMA replacement to be announced

Former Labour MP Phil Woolas will not face a criminal trial over his controversial 2010 election leaflets, the Crown Prosecution Service says.

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Prosecution of Woolas ruled out

Is the end nigh for Glenn Beck? Fox News executives are reportedly considering dropping the controversial talk-show host when his contract expires in December, a consideration prompted by a precipitous drop in ratings and fears that his outrageous…

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Fox News May Dump Beck

Wisconsin Democrats are refusing to return to the Capitol until Republican Governor Scott Walker revises his controversial anti-union bill, but Walker has rejected a compromise that would have made the measure, which will end collective-bargaining…

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Wisconsin Gov Rejects Compromise

The terror trial of Abu Bakar Ba’asyir, the controversial Muslim cleric accused of links to a militant training camp, is resuming in Indonesia.

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Indonesian terror trial resumes

The Irish pop star Bono is criticised in South Africa for apparently endorsing the controversial song Shoot the Boer.

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Anger at Bono’s Boer song remarks

The terror trial of Abu Bakar Ba’asyir, the controversial Muslim cleric accused of links to a militant training camp, is adjourned in Indonesia.

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Indonesian terror trial adjourned

At least we know when to cut our losses and move on. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has cancelled the controversial “virtual border fence,” deeming the high-cost and over-schedule program to be too ineffective to justify the $1 billion it…

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U.S. Cancels Virtual Border Fence

Margaret Thatcher was advised by Harold Macmillan to drop her controversial monetarist economic policies a year after she became prime minister.

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Thatcher ‘lectured by Macmillan’

Life and times of the controversial judge

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Obituary: James Pickles

British anti-terrorism police arrested twelve suspects aged 17 to 28 early Monday morning in England and Wales on suspicion of planning or instigating a terrorist attack. The group was arrested under the controversial Terrorism Act of 2000, which…

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