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• US ambassador in Morocco, a Minnesotan, sees no sign of unrest
  A Minneapolis-based attorney currently serving as the U.S. ambassador to Morocco said Wednesday that violent protests sparked by an anti-Islam Internet video produced in the United States have not reached the north African country.September 19, 2012
• A look at U.S. defense spending amid looming automatic cuts
  The presidential candidates have unique visions of the money that should be increased - or decreased - for our national defense. So how much does the U.S. spend on military and defense, and what areas deserve more focus?The Daily Circuit, September 18, 2012
• Uproar over video offers a warning about what happens when fundamentalism wins
  A tide pool may be like the ocean, but it would be a mistake to think it's the same thing.September 18, 2012
• Coptic Christians, Muslims denounce film, violence
  California Coptic Christian and Muslim leaders denounced an anti-Islamic movie that has sparked violence in the Middle East, as the filmmaker and his family left their suburban home and went into hiding.September 17, 2012
• Antietam, the 'lost dispatch,' and the bloodiest day in US history
  From as far away as Minnesota, Colorado and Ohio they came, more than 30 members of the Bloss and Mitchell families who converged on the hallowed Civil War fighting grounds of rural Maryland.September 17, 2012
• As new vets go online, VA and others follow
  Many men and women who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are gravitating to websites open only to them. But not all the changes are happening online: The VFW's oldest chapter, Post 1 in Denver, is reorganizing around the needs of the new veterans.September 16, 2012
• Ellison: Complex situation in Libya
  In the wake of the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., says Americans need to understand the complexities of the political situation in the north African country.September 16, 2012
• Did battle, and US future, hang on thread of fate?
  From as far away as Minnesota, Colorado and Ohio they came, more than 30 family members who converged on the hallowed Civil War fighting grounds of rural Maryland. One descendant said he wanted the younger generation to "understand the sacrifices that were made" at Antietam on Sept. 17, 1862, the single bloodiest day in U.S. history.September 15, 2012
• American students in North Africa wait and watch to see if conflict will spread
  An hour's travel away, the U.S. flag is burning.September 15, 2012
• Violence erupts at protests of anti-Muslim film
  Fury over an anti-Islam film spread across the Muslim world Friday, with deadly clashes near Western embassies in Tunisia and Sudan, an American fast-food restaurant set ablaze in Lebanon, and international peacekeepers attacked in the Sinai despite an appeal for calm from Egypt's Islamist president.September 14, 2012
• Obama honors return of Libya attack victims
  President Barack Obama has paid tribute to Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others killed in the assault on the U.S. compound in Libya, calling them patriots who served America's ideals -- and laid down their lives for others.September 14, 2012
• Embassies targeted as anti-film protests spread
  Angry protests over an anti-Islam film spread across the Middle East Friday, with demonstrators scaling the walls of U.S. embassies in Tunisia and Sudan and torching part of a German embassy.September 14, 2012
• The Week in Commentary
  A review of the week's commentaries and some of the comments they elicited.September 14, 2012
• US braces for more violence from anti-Muslim film
  The Obama administration was caught by surprise by the ferocity of the Sept. 11 attack against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the ambassador and three other Americans. Now it is bracing for another potential eruption of violent demonstrations in parts of the Muslim world.September 13, 2012
• Roundtable: How did conventions set up presidential race?
  We'll look at Gov. Mark Dayton's renewed call for taxes on the highest income earners, why there isn't a viable third party, and how the conventions set up the last 60 days of the presidential race.The Daily Circuit, September 13, 2012

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