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Bay Roberts couple win $2M on scratch ticket
Wayne and Mary Hiltz of Bay Roberts are the latest lotto millionaires in Newfoundland and Labrador. Wayne Hiltz bought a $20 winning scratch ticket Thursday afternoon at Powell's Supermarket, after finding out that his usual brand of cigarettes was out of stock. Soon after, grocery manager Sylvia Rose recalled, a surprised Hiltz came back to confirm that he had just hit the $2-million ...
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Senate set to debate expense audits amid greater scrutiny
The Senate will debate reports tonight about the living and travel claims of three senators who have all been ordered to repay inappropriately claimed money. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian ...
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Girl 11 at wheel in deadly accident
B.C. teen busted doing 100 km/h over the limit VANCOUVER -- An 11-year-old girl was behind the wheel when a 12-year-old girl -- a passenger -- was killed in a crash in northern B.C., police say. The Jeep turned on its side as the driver lost control, according to police in Mackenzie, about 950 km north of Vancouver. A 41-year-old man was in the car supervising at the time of the accident. The ...
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‘When the going gets tough the tough go to Peru’ NDP slams PM for trip in middle of Senate scandal
OTTAWA -- The fact that Prime Minister Stephen Harper wasn’t in question period Tuesday did little to deflect the opposition attack over the Senate expense scandal. Earlier in the day, Harper held a rare public caucus speech to tell Canadians he was ';not happy'; about the controversy, which saw his chief of staff resign Sunday. ';I’m very upset about the conduct we ...
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FiveThirtyEight Is the Economy Saving Obama’s Approval Ratings
Political coverage over the last week has focused on a series of stories that reflect negatively on the executive branch -- but President Obama’s approval ratings have held steady. As of Monday, Mr. Obama’s Gallup approval rating was 49 percent -- the same as it was, on average, in April. Mr. Obama’s Rasmussen Reports approval rating was 48 percent, not much changed from an ...
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Obama Addresses LGBT Community During Morehouse College Graduation
at Georgia's Morehouse College was inclusive. The Atlanta-based historically black private college is exclusively for men, but Obama spontaneously ...
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Fox News poll Obama ratings dip voters say government out of control
After a week of revelations about government spying on reporters and the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservatives, most voters feel "like the federal government has gotten out of control and is threatening the basic civil liberties of Americans." At the same ...
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Jon Karl demands answers on why President Obama didnt retroactively stop IRS targeting
ABC's Jonathan Karl moves past "fake but accurate"-gate and demands answers from White House Press Secretary Jay Carney about why President Obama didn't stop the IRS from targeting of conservative 501(c)(4) ...
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Carlos Slim to sell stake in Philip Morris Mexico
Grupo Carso company is selling its stake in Philip Morris's Mexico unit to the US tobacco giant for $700 million, the firms said Tuesday. Grupo Carso holds a 20 percent stake in Philip Morris Mexico (PMM) and the companies expect to complete the transaction by September 30, ending a three-decade partnership between Slim and the maker of Marlboro cigarettes. Philip Morris holds almost ...
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Same-sex couples inch toward sharing benefits in Mexico City
Same-sex couples are a step closer to being able to share social security benefits after one government agency changed its policy in May 2013. Same-sex marriage has been legal for three years in Mexico City. But delays in Congress to revise the social security laws continue to leave spouses without access to each other's ...
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Soldiers flood western Mexico to protect towns
COALCOMAN, Mexico (AP) -- Mexico's top security officials promised Tuesday that a new federal offensive to rescue towns besieged by the Knights Templar drug cartel in western Michoacan state would stay "until there is security and peace for all state ...
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EMERGING MARKETS-Mexico stocks near 8-month low as Brazil leaps
MEXICO CITY, May 21 (Reuters) - Mexican stocks slumped on Tuesday to a nearly eight-month low, while Brazilian stocks rose for the third successive session to hit a key resistance level. Mexican stocks have slumped 12 percent from a record high hit in January, hurt recently after weak first-quarter growth dampened the economic outlook for 2013. Brazil, meanwhile, has rebounded more than 6 ...
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CANADA STOCKS-TSX glides near 2-month high as major sectors rally
* TSX rises 129.38 points, or 1.03 percent, to 12,742.43 * Eight of the 10 main sectors advance * Gold shares rise 3.3 percent * RBC up 2.7 percent, ranks among market's most influential names By John Tilak TORONTO, May 21 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index jumped more than 1 percent to hit nearly a two-month high on Tuesday, fueled by gains in most major sectors and optimism ...
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Statement by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Meeting with Mexicoaposs Secretary of Agriculture
MEXICO CITY, May 17, 2013 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today issued the following statement following his meeting with Mexico's new Secretary of Agriculture, Enrique Martnez y Martnez: "I am pleased by the productive exchange with Secretary Martnez where we discussed and recognized the strong bilateral agricultural trade between our two countries. Mexico is an important ...
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MLS may be a minority league in America but has sizeable ambitions
Fifteen thousand football fans, many of them with complimentary tickets, many of them Hispanic, rattled around New Jersey's 80,000-seat Giants Stadium. They were watching the clunkily named New York/New Jersey Metro Stars play the Kansas City Wizards, two of just 10 teams in the inaugural Major League Soccer [MLS] season. It was July 1996, and the first attempt to establish a national, ...
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SolarWinds to buy Canadian company for $120M
SolarWinds Inc. has agreed to buy a Canadian software maker for $120 million. Austin-based SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI) last week agreed to acquire N-able Technologies International Inc., which develops remote monitoring and management and service automation software for managed service providers, according to a Tuesday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing doesnt ...
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Opinion President Obamas tour of Africa is in line with countrys foreign policy
Africa n heritage and doubt his commitment to Kenya and the continent. Others see it as a direct jab at the recently elected government of President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto. Certainly, many Kenyans expected him to visit his 'ancestral home' immediately after winning re-election last year. But those familiar with American politics and the workings of the US Department ...
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Conn. rail service to return to normal Wednesday
Metro North railroad employees use heavy equipment to repair tracks near Bridgeport, Conn., Monday, May 20, 2013. A train collision on Friday injured 72 people and disrupted rail service into New York City. (AP Photo/Mark ...
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Indian guest workers sue company in Miss. Texas
GULFPORT, Miss. -; Dozens of Indian guest workers are suing an Alabama-based marine and fabrication company, claiming it financially exploited them and forced them to live in squalid conditions after bringing them to work at Gulf Coast shipyards after Hurricane ...
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Correction Missing Mom-Utah story
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah -; In a story May 20 about the Susan Powell investigation, The Associated Press reported erroneously the day that Josh Powell committed suicide. It happened on Feb. 5, ...
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Gay Fla. teen charged for underage girlfriend
In this photo made available by the Hunt family, Kaitlyn Hunt and her father Steve in Vero Beach, Fla., Monday May 20, 2013. Kaitlyn, 18, was expelled from school for dating and having sex with her 14-year-old girlfriend, who was a fellow player on her basketball team. Hunt was arrested and charged with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a child 12 to 16 years. (AP Photo/Hunt ...
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Oklahoma twister a top-of-the-scale EF-5
MOORE, Okla. -; The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Moore, Okla., was a top-of-the-scale EF-5 twister with winds of at least 200 ...
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Protesters rally over IRS tea party scrutiny
Polly Beckham, of Ambler, Pa., holds a sign during a tea party rally protesting extra IRS scrutiny of their groups, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Philadelphia. Tea party groups and other groups are urging activists across the country to demonstrate at their local Internal Revenue Service offices. (AP Photo/Matt ...
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Bishop would-be pipe bomber gets 37 years
CHICAGO -; An Iowa letter carrier has been sentenced to 37 years in prison for sending dud pipe bombs with threatening letters signed "The ...
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Committee nears final vote on immigration bill
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, confers with the committee's ranking Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, May 20, 2013, as the committee assembles to work on a landmark immigration bill to secure the border and offer citizenship to millions. The panel is aiming to pass the legislation out of committee this ...
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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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