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President Obama is stingy with his pardon powers
Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder gave Washington a preview of how the last few months of the Obama administration are going to look, and they're going to be ...
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Obama’s ratings might be buoyed by pick up in US economy
Tim Cook’s congressional debut, following an appearance at Obama’s State of the Union address in Feb, shows the iPhone maker can no longer afford to keep the low profile in ...
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Conn. rail service returning to normal
Metro North employees, in orange vests, help transfer westbound commuters at the transportation center in Bridgeport, Ct., to buses Monday, May 20, 2012, after a train collision on Friday injured 72 people and disrupted rail service into New York City. The commuters had arrived from New Haven by train and were being bused to Stamford, Ct., where rail service to New York was available. (AP ...
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Arias speaks out about case in jailhouse interview
Convicted killer Jodi Arias speaks during an interview at the Maricopa County Estrella Jail on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Phoenix. Arias was convicted recently of killing her former boyfriend Travis Alexander in his suburban Phoenix home back in 2008, made a plea in court on Tuesday for life in prison, instead of execution, saying she can contribute to society if allowed to live. (AP Photo/Ross ...
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Parents face tough choice when tornadoes bear down
MOORE, Okla. -- With an ominous storm approaching, the Moore Public School District flashed a text alert to parents: "We are currently holding all students until the current storm danger is over. Students are being released to parents only at this time."Parents had a gut-wrenching choice, and only a few minutes to make it. Trust the safety of the seemingly solid school buildings and ...
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Okla. residents come home to pick up the pieces
MOORE, Okla. - Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of nine children.Scientists concluded the storm was a rare and extraordinarily powerful type of twister known as an EF5, ranking it at the top ...
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Kenya unfazed by Obama’s ‘snub’
Nairobi - Kenya said on Tuesday it was ';fine'; with United States President Barack Obama avoiding the country on an Africa tour next month, rejecting reports it was due to upcoming crimes against humanity trials of its ...
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Caitlin McBride in Oklahoma I feel as if I am on a different planet
Oklahoma City may not traditionally be known as the tourism epicentre of the US, but today, the capital of the Sooner State is quite literally, filled to the brim.Nearly every room in the city is sold out, flights are fully booked and those keen to either return to their native state or simply visit will have their patience tested as they attempt to travel to a post-tornado state.I was lucky to ...
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Two arrested after looting in Moore Oklahoma
Teacher's assistant Amber Ford takes a photo of first grade teacher Sheri Bittle after finding items inside Bittle's classroom at Briarwood Elementary School after the building was destroyed by yesterday's tornado on May 21, 2013 in Moore, ...
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Oklahoma picks up the pieces after tornado
Curtis Cook recovers his high school football photo from the rubble of his family's house after a powerful tornado ripped through the area destroying his ...
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Europe Needs Big Reforms Bank of Canadas Carney
Europe could face a decade of stagnation unless it makes big reforms and should heed the lessons of Japan, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said on Tuesday as he highlighted Japan's bold moves to bolster growth.In his final speech as Canadian central bank chief before taking over the Bank of England on July 1, Carney said Europe's recessionary economy is being held back by fiscal ...
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Officials say Benghazi suspects under surveillance
Five men are under round-the-clock U.S. surveillance in Libya, wanted for questioning in the attack last year on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, ...
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GOP lawmakers Oklahoma tornado aid must be offset
As Moore, Okla., residents came to terms with the tornado tragedy, Washington Republicans said extra storm aid would have to be offset by budget cuts elsewhere. Gov. Mary Fallin said she was left speechless after taking an aerial tour of the violent tornado's path and inspecting the damage by car and on foot. "There's just sticks and bricks, basically," she said in the ...
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Garcetti holds slim lead as LA picks new mayor
File-This file combo shows a Feb. 20, 2013 file photo of Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti speaking to media in Los Angeles, left, and undated image provided by the Wendy Greuel Campaign of mayoral candidate Greuel meeting with voters. Despite the high stakes, the race has been a mostly low-drama affair between two government regulars. In a city known to yawn at local politics, turnout ...
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Xi-Obama meeting crucial in Sino-US ties
will be a seminal event in Sino-US relations as well as in the relations of the world, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said on Tuesday. "I am very encouraged by the announcement that the two presidents will meet, and especially by the agenda that has been announced," Kissinger said in a speech delivered at a forum entitled "US-China Economic Relations in the Next ...
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Up to 30 hurt in crash in northwest Ohio
Bowling Green was closed for a couple hours following Tuesday night's crash, but has since been reopened. Initial reports indicated that the passengers of the two vehicles were taken to local hospitals but were not badly hurt. Toledo News Now reports that a Toyota Camry was rear-ended by a bus transporting employees of ...
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Oklahoma tornado latest Rescue effort nears an end after President Obama pledges support for as long as it takes to rebuild the suburb of Moore
The search by emergency workers for survivors in the wreckage left by the huge tornado that ripped through an Oklahoma suburb is coming to an end, according to ...
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Conservatives demand Thomas Mulcair ‘come clean’ on 1994 bribe probe
OTTAWA -- Federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says he was contacted by the provincial police anti-corruption squad in Quebec to discuss a suspected 17-year-old bribe offered to him. Mulcair says he never reached out to the police himself because he had no proof a bribe was actually being offered at a 1994 meeting with the now-controversial ex-mayor of Laval, Que. Mulcair, who back then was a ...
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U.S. Myanmar sign trade framework agreement
Thein Sein . The agreement will create "a platform for ongoing dialogue and cooperation on trade and investment issues between the two governments," the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said on its website. It was signed Tuesday in Washington by acting U.S. Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis and Myanmar's Deputy Commerce Minister Pwint San. The agreement calls for ...
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Canada NDP suffers debacle in British Columbia election
Opinion polls and media pundits notwithstanding, the trade union-backed New Democratic Party (NDP) suffered a debacle in the May 14 British Columbia election, failing to unseat an unpopular twelve year-old Liberal government.The Liberals, who have held office in Canada's third-most populous province since 2001, will use their fourth successive majority government to intensify big ...
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Chinas President to Visit Mexico
Mexico, May 22 (Prensa Latina) President of the Popular Republic of China, Xi Jinping, will visit Mexico from June 4 to 6, informed the Foreign Affairs Secretary. According to the statement, the Chinese head of state will have a private meeting with Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto, and another with the official commissions of both countries. The agenda includes his participation in ...
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Human toll amid scenes of utter devastation in Oklahoma
22 May 2013 Rescue workers were still frantically searching through rubble for people trapped in homes, schools, and offices flattened by the two-mile-wide tornado that devastated an Oklahoma town, killing at least 24 people - including at least nine children. Above, teachers who were themselves injured in the tornado, carry children from the ruins of Briarwood Primary School. Emergency ...
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Rescuers hunt for survivors as town counts cost of deadly twister
Jon Swaine - 22 May 2013 Rescue workers from four states were last night searching through rubble for more survivors of the vicious tornado that devastated ...
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Parents walked for miles not knowing if theyd find their children dead or alive
Philip Sherwell Moore, Oklahoma - 22 May 2013 WITH faces bruised and bloodied, parents, teachers and children staggered from the wreckage of their suburban school ...
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One word was on most lips and all front pages tornado was a monster
It passed with an "incredible, thundering roar". It was a thing of terror, something beastly and murderous that gobbled up everything in its rotating maw and then moved on, hungry for more.Those who have lived through tornadoes often speak of this most mesmerising of meteorological phenomena in animal terms. As the number of dead continued to rise yesterday, the local newspapers used ...
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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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