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• King: Next hearing is on radical Muslims in prison Mar 11, 2022 03:26 AM
  
  • WASHINGTON - The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee is pressing forward with his public examination of Muslim extremism in America, pointing to his first, tense hearing on the subject as a step toward desensitizing a taboo topic and rooting out terrorists on U.S. soil.
  • "There's an elephant in the room and nobody wants to talk about it.
  • Just holding the conversation, he said, advanced the fight against al-Qaida's efforts to recruit one-man terrorist cells from within American Muslim communities and to suppress any effort to report those activities to law enforcement officials.

  • Tsunami center widens warning to include Hawaii Mar 11, 2022 02:59 AM
    
    • HONOLULU - The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii has widened its tsunami warning to include Hawaii and the rest of the Pacific Ocean.
    • The warning issued Thursday at 9:31 p.m. HST follows a massive earthquake that has struck off the northeastern coast of Japan.
    • It says the estimated earliest arrive of the first tsunami wave is 2:59 a.m. HST Friday.

    • Major tsunami damage in N Japan after 8.9 quake Mar 11, 2022 02:09 AM
      
      • TOKYO - Japan was struck by a magnitude 8.9 earthquake off its northeastern coast Friday, unleashing a 13-foot (4-meter) tsunami that washed away cars and tore away buildings along the coast near the epicenter.
      • In various locations along Japan's coast, TV footage showed massive damage from the tsunami, with dozens of cars, boats and even buildings being carried along by waters.
      • A large ship swept away by the tsunami rammed directly into a breakwater in Kesennuma city in Miyagi prefecture, according to footage on public broadcaster NHK.

      • Major tsunami damage in northern Japan Mar 11, 2022 01:32 AM
        
        • TOKYO - Japanese television has shown major tsunami damage in northern Japan on Friday, following a magnitude-7.9 earthquake.
        • Public broadcaster NHK showed cars, trucks, houses and buildings being swept away by tsunami in Onahama city in Fukushima prefecture.
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        • Obama to bullying victims: I know what it's like Mar 11, 2022 01:22 AM
          
          • WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama smiled when he said his large ears and funny name once made him a target of school-yard harassment.
          • But he was all seriousness Thursday when he told a White House conference on bullying that torment and intimidation must not be tolerated.
          • Some 13 million students, about a third of all those attending school, are bullied every year, the White House said.

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