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Obama Turns Focus on Middle-Class Jobs
U.S. President Barack Obama says he is focusing on ways to help the American middle class make economic gains, to bring them in line with the economic recovery of big business. Obama said in his weekly address Saturday that he has been visiting cities across the country that are doing "interesting and creative" things to "re-ignite the engine" of middle class economic growth and make sure ...
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British travelers to face longest ever US immigration queues
Millions of British holidaymakers and business travellers heading for the United States this summer are facing longer queues than ever for their applications to be processed by immigration. Research by The Independent has revealed that budget cuts at US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have sharply increased airport queues, with the worst delays in Florida. The research revealed that ...
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US First Lady laments culture of African Americans aspiring to be baller or rapper
Michelle Obama urged graduates of Bowie State University to encourage more young African Americans to follow in their footsteps and focus on education. On Friday, she asked the graduates at commencement ceremonies held at the nearby University of Maryland, College Park, campus, just north of Washington to become an example of excellence to the next generation. The First Lady said that more ...
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Criminal probe sought against Indo-Canadian politician
A criminal investigation has been sought against an Indo-Canadian member of legislative assembly (MLA) of the ruling Progressive Conservatives party in the Canadian province of Alberta in a case of ethics violation. Leader of the opposition Wildrose party, Danielle Smith, has requested the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to conduct a criminal investigation into the actions of ...
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Obama speaks about fatherless childhood at stop in Baltimore
President Barack Obama has spoken of the importance of fathers to their sons on Friday after a young man he met at a community center in Baltimore mentioned wanting to provide for his sons. Obama, at the Center for Urban Families, which serves fathers and their families, said that one of the biggest challenges he faced growing up was growing without a father. According to Politico, a man ...
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America Ferrera graduates 10 years after starting college
Actress America Ferrera graduated from the University of Southern California, 10 years after beginning her International Relations course. "Graduation day! Congratulations to everyone in the Class of 2013!" she said Friday on Twitter. Ferrera tweeted the joy of her achievement this week: "At last it's happening! It's taken me 10 years, but I feel great." Born in Los Angeles of Honduran ...
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Manmohan Singh to visit U.S. later this year
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has accepted an invitation from President Barack Obama to visit the United States later this year. Singh was given Obama's invitation by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns during his recent visit to New Delhi. The Prime Minister's visit to Washington could be clubbed with his tour to New York when he travels there to attend the United Nations General ...
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Chinese ambassador urges U.S. to be truly neutral on Sino-Japanese territorial dispute
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Obama to nominate new U.S. commander in Republic of Korea
Beijing, May 18 (Xinhua-ANI): President Barack Obama intends to nominate Army Lt. Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti to succeed Army Gen. James Thurman as the commander of the U.S. Forces in Korea, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced on Friday at a Pentagon press conference. Scaparrotti currently serves as director of the Joint Staff in the Pentagon. Once he is nominated, the Senate must confirm him ...
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Berlusconis bunga bunga party girl danced while dressed as Obama
One of the girls at Silvio Berlusconi's "bunga bunga" parties danced while dressed up as Barack Obama, it has been revealed. Moroccan dancer Karima El Mahroug claimed that the ex-Italian PM plied women with cash and gifts at parties in his home near Milan in 2010, the Mirror reported. She said that the girls dressed in costumes and approached him in a sensual way as they danced. She was ...
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Obama A Big Hypocrite Ask Legal Schnauzer Roger Shuler
RS: In early January 2009, just a few days before he took office, President-Elect Obama said he intended to "look forward, as opposed to looking backwards" on apparent crimes under the Bush administration. As president, Obama seems to have followed through on that pledge because his Justice Department has failed to review political prosecutions such as the one involving former Governor ...
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Winning numbers drawn in Powerball jackpot
View Photo Associated Press/Gregory Bull - Joe Fajardo poses holding his Powerball lottery ticket after buying it at a store Saturday, May 18, 2013, in the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego. With the majority ...
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Three companies recall antipsychotic drug quetiapine Health Canada says
OTTAWA - Health Canada says three companies are voluntarily recalling all lots of the antipsychotic drug quetiapine. A Health Canada news release says it's due to potential contamination with the antibiotic product clindamycin during the manufacturing process. Health Canada says quetiapine is used in the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in adult patients. Health Canada ...
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Obama admits he’s a socialist
Buried in the 17th paragraph of one of those mewling New York Times pieces on the woes of Obama - can we start calling him Woe-bama yet? - appeared these two words: "going Bulworth."Obama himself, the Times explained, has been "longingly" telling his inner circle that what he’d really like to do is what Sen. Jay Bulworth, played by Warren Beatty in his 1998 movie ...
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Can Al-Jazeera win hearts and minds in America
The pan-Arab news giant is laying the groundwork for the launch ofAl-Jazeera America after its purchase of Current TV, a struggling US ...
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Obama takes Cabinet secretaries out to play golf - in the rain
Barack Obama took two Cabinet secretaries out for a round of golf - in the rain.The White House said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (seh-BEEL'-yuhs) and outgoing Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood joined the president on Saturday at Andrews Air Force Base. LaHood is running the Transportation Department until the Senate confirms Obama's choice of Charlotte, ...
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Fractured rail focus of derailment probe
>Are you there? Stay safe and share your images with iReport.(CNN) -- Federal investigators ruled out foul play in a commuter train derailment in Bridgeport, Connecticut, that left more than 70 people injured and shut down service along the busy New York-to-New Haven corridor, officials said Saturday. National Transportation Safety Board investigators are now focusing on a broken rail as a ...
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Mexico judge orders prison for suspects in killing
FILE - This undated file photo courtesy of the Shabazz family shows Malcolm Shabazz in an unknown location. Shabazz, the 28-year-old grandson of political activist Malcolm X, died in Mexico City on Thursday, May 9, 2013. Mexico City prosecutors said on May 13, 2013 that they have arrested two men in connection with the death of Shabazz, who died of blunt-force trauma injuries. A companion said ...
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Pandering To The Bankers Obama And The Housing Boondoggle
"Today, seven years after the real estate bubble burst, triggering the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and costing millions of responsible Americans their jobs and their homes, our housing market is healing. Sales are up. Foreclosures are down. Construction is expanding. And thanks to rising home prices over the past year, 1.7 million more families have been able to come up ...
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Obama has been the subject of uncomfortable comparisons
When The Office crew clocked out Thursday night, the workers had been at the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Co. for nine seasons, or about twice as long as the average job tenure for most Americans. But even as everyday workers tend to complain about their jobs and bosses and quickly jump ship for better opportunities, viewers have shown remarkable loyalty to TV programs about the ...
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Obama tries to do damage control
President Obama Saturday tried to change the subject and repair some of the damage from a week of bruising controversies that have enveloped his administration. NBC's Kristen Welker ...
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World science map grim for Latin America
The highly respected Nature Scientific Reports journal has just published a map of the world's leading science cities and it looks pretty bad for emerging countries: It shows the planet's Northern Hemisphere full of lights and the south almost solidly ...
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Obama vows accountability in IRS mess
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday weighed in on the row created by Internal Revenue Service ( IRS), vowing those responsible for targeting conservative political groups for extra scrutiny would be "held accountable." Obama made the comments during a White House press conference, saying "I've got not patience with it. I will not tolerate it, and we will make sure that we ...
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Why the Public Should Yawn Over Alleged Obama Scandals
The mostly media driven scandal talk involving President Obama has so far stirred barely a yawn among the public. There are good reasons. The four alleged scandals, Benghazi, the IRS, the AP leaks, and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius supposed shakedown of corporations to help implement the health care act don't come close to passing the smell test for a public ...
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Weekly Address Obama talks jobs says politics misplace focus
his weekly radio and Internet address , Obama says the U.S. should focus on attracting good jobs, educating workers and ensuring workers get paid a decent living. Obama has been pushing those priorities in recent visits to Baltimore and Austin, Texas. Obama says he'll make the case in more U.S. cities soon. Obama says politics in Washington often aren't focused on what Americans ...
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North America's unknown potential disaster
North America is facing a potential ecological disaster that most people are not even aware of, according to scientists who have been studying the little brown bat (or myotis bat), the most common species of bat in the United States and the wider North American continent.
This is because the bat is under attack by a killer fungus that grows on the bats’ wings during hibernation and causes them to lose body fat and wake early from their sleep, which causes them to eventually die. The fungal infection is said by researchers to be capable of killing off the bat within the next 16 years when their current population, which numbers up to several million, may fall to just 0.01% of present levels. Read more
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