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Final round of Watergate tapes include Nixon's talks with aides, Brezhnev, Kissinger

(CNN) -- After he announced the resignations of four top officials in his administration in 1973, Richard Nixon swore he was done with talking about Watergate, according to the last batch of tapes released by the National Archives.


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Surveillance programs brought to public light by Edward Snowden leaks

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Obama administration on Wednesday declassified opinions from a secret court that oversees government surveillance showing the National Security Agency was broadly collecting domestic Internet communications of Americans and misrepresenting the scope of that effort to the court.


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Proposal advocates for a 'pay as you earn' system for the repayment of debt

(CNN) -- President Obama will be hitting the road Thursday and Friday for a campaign-style bus tour of New York and Pennsylvania.


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Hunt ignored court order to have no contact with former girlfriend

Judge Robert Pegg sent Kaitlyn Hunt, 19, to jail Tuesday, ordering her held on bond pending trial. The Florida teenager is awaiting trial on charges of having sex with a 14-year-old girl while she was 18.


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York said Filner touched her as they posed for a photo

Another woman has come forward to accuse San Diego Mayor Bob Filner of sexual harassment.
Businesswoman Dianne York told CNN that Filner put his hands on her buttocks during a photo opportunity that followed a meeting three months ago.


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Manning will get credit for time served and for abuse he was subjected to in custody

A military judge on Wednesday sentenced Manning to 35 years in prison -- less than the 60 years prosecutors sought, as well as the 90 years he could have received.


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Modest four percent raise in 2013 is still more than twice the rate of workers' wages

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Health insurance premiums rose a modest 4% in 2013, but that's still more than twice the rate of workers' wages.


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Judge tentatively plans to announce sentence Wednesday morning

FORT MEADE, Maryland (CNN) -- A military judge plans to announce Wednesday morning what sentence she'll give Pfc. Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army intelligence analyst who stands convicted of what prosecutors believe was the biggest leak of classified materials in Army history.


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The new changes will apply only to new cases

(CNN) -- When Stephanie Nodd walked out of prison two years ago, she found herself in a new world.


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Khalil Shreateh won't get a reward for reporting the flaw

Shreateh, who describes himself as an unemployed security researcher with a degree in information systems, said he found a hole in Facebook's systems that let him post to any user's page, including users not on his Friends list.


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