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The United States and Britain on Monday pledged to forge ahead with diplomatic efforts to end the civil war in Syria saying they had found common ground with Russia on how to proceed.
WASHINGTON (AFP) The United States and Britain stepped up pressure on Russia over Syria, but President Barack Obama warned old suspicions could trample new "common ground" on the crisis. Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron sought to build momentum behind a new US-Russia sponsored conference on Syria, now expected to take place in June, as they met at the White House. ...
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What Obama must say to black grads
>Editor's note: Paul Butler is a law professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of "Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice. "(CNN) -- "My brothers. "That is how President Obama should begin one of the most significant speeches of his presidency: the commencement address at Morehouse College this ...
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Obama’s Toxic Stew IRS Benghazi AP Scandals Stoke Fear of Government
There's a toxic stew right now in Washington: a White House whose credibility is completely gone; a federal government whose abuse of power against citizens, political opponents and the media is out of control; a policymaking apparatus that is defined by inaction and malfeasance; and an economy in which businesses have little confidence, and expansion is almost ...
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Suspect identified in fatal Hofstra home invasion
Last Sunday Andrea Rebello, a 21-year-old Hofstra University junior studying public relations, posted a recipe for how to prepare July 4-themed strawberries covered in sparkling sugars on her ...
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Obama Vows to Work with Britain on Syria
President Obama vowed Monday to work with Britain to pressure the Syrian government to end its bloody civil war, calling the violence there appalling. With Prime Minister David Cameron at his side, Obama said the two allies would work to strengthen moderate opposition against the hardline regime of President Bashar al-Assad. The two also discussed the Mideast peace process and a possible ...
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Email is proof Senate green-lighted expenses Brazeau says
Senator Patrick Brazeau says he will not pay back $48,000 in Senate expenses because he has evidence he was given the green light to claim the costs for his secondary residence in Ottawa. In an interview airing Saturday on CBC ...
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One fisherman dead two missing off N.B. coast
(Fotolia) One fisherman has been found dead and the search is on for two others after their boat hit a sandbar off the coast of New Brunswick Saturday. The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax said it received a distress call from the men at around 5:30 a.m. A spokesman said the dead man was found near the sandbar and the Canadian Coast Guard is looking for the other two men who were ...
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Father two young boys fighting for lives after blaze rips through Montreal home
STE-THERESE, Que. -- A father and his two boys, ages 10 and seven, were fighting for their lives Saturday after an early morning fire at a home north of Montreal. The family's mother and their three-year-old girl were also taken to hospital with serious injuries. Police said the family of five was found unconscious at the site of the fire -- an apartment in a four-unit building in ...
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America Ferrera Eyes TV Comeback On ABC
America Ferrera may return to ABC. The former "Ugly Betty" actress' telenovela project "Pedro & Maria" is in development at the broadcast network as a potential limited series. Originally developed at MTV three years ago, "Pedro & Maria" is a modern day twist on "Romeo and Juliet." The project is from executive producer Ben Silverman ...
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Barack Obama’s budget would cut $1 trillion from US deficit
Obama’s budget proposal, if enacted into law, would cut more than $1.1 trillion from the government’s projected deficits over the next 10 ...
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Report Obama Trims Afghan War Budget Request
The Reuters news agency quotes an unidentified White House aide as saying the president has decreased his request for funding the war in Afghanistan by 10 percent for the 2014 fiscal year budget. The report says the president reduced his original request from $88.5 billion to $79.4 billion. The White House issued a statement Friday saying the change was made to account for the drawdown of ...
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Obamas Morehouse visit shines spotlight on HBCUs
ATLANTA -- When President Barack Obama addresses graduates at Morehouse College on Sunday, he'll also be speaking to the broader community of historically black colleges and universities - a proud corner of higher education that has struggled more than most during the last few years of economic distress.The so-called HBCUs educate a hugely disproportionate share of low-income students, and ...
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Last-minute fortune seekers buy Powerball tickets
After weeks of rolling without a winner, the Powerball jackpot has once again ballooned in time for its Wednesday drawing, an estimated $360 million jackpot considered the third largest Powerball jackpot and the seventh largest jackpot in ...
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How IRS controversy could shape Obamas legacy
White House Reporter for the Washington Post David Nakamura, and Political Reporter for U.S. News and World Report Lauren Fox join MSNBC's Alex Witt to talk about the latest in politics. They begin with commenting on the IRS hearings and the questioning of outgoing IRS Commissioner Steve Miller. The reporters discuss the IRS controversy and its impact on the Obama administration's ...
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Canada’s own Colonel Cool How the CSA helped launch Chris Hadfield to stardom
Back in Sept. 2, 2010, it was announced that Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield would leave Earth’s atmosphere for a third time and make history as the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station. The Canadian Space Agency recognized the opportunity early on. Soon after the announcement, the agency and Col. Hadfield began dreaming up ways they could engage the Canadian ...
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Europe and the US should heed Latin America on drugs
drugs . There is a growing belief that the current punitive-based approach has failed. It has visited a savage level of violence on Latin America as narco cartels, moving cocaine and cannabis into the US, have butchered and bribed their way through the continent. The killing and corrupting of public officials - judges, police, politicians - threatened, and still threatens, to demolish the ...
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New York politician accused of serial sex harassment to resign
ALBANY, N.Y.-A New York assemblyman accused of sexually harassing young female staffers for years says he will resign before he's expelled from the Legislature. Assemblyman Vito Lopez informed leaders on Saturday he will resign effective Monday morning. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver had planned a rare expulsion proceeding against Lopez beginning Monday. Lopez was once a powerful Brooklyn ...
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Ex-Pa. officer once hailed as hero faces charges
PHILADELPHIA -- A former Philadelphia police officer once hailed as a hero and given a seat next to the first lady at a speech by President Obama has been arrested and charged with rape and other crimes.Authorities allege that former officer Richard DeCoatsworth left a party with two females early Thursday and took them to another location, where they allege that he produced a handgun and ...
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Will Americans New Boarding Process Work It Failed at Virgin America.
Give American Airlines credit for trying a new method to board passengers more quickly. Airlines constantly tinker with the boarding process, and this time American says it has found a way to cut an average of two minutes from the 40 minutes to 45 minutes that it takes to board a narrowbody aircraft. American narrow bodies take off about 3,000 times a day, so two minutes per flight is a lot of ...
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CBO Shows $1 Trillion Tax Hike in Obama Budget
An analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office shows that President Obama's 2014 budget proposal would reduce borrowing by $1.1 trillion by 2023 thorough increasing taxes by nearly the same ...
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Obama agenda marches on weathering tax targeting of conservative groups other controversies
WASHINGTON - Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political damage control by the administration and party leaders in Congress, and lack of evidence to date of wrongdoing close to the White House. "Absolutely not," Steven Miller, the recently resigned acting head of the ...
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Obama Goes Golfing After Week of Political Scandals
May 18, 2013 1:35pm WASHINGTON — President Obama — despite dealing with a trio of political scandals that flared up this week — squeezed in some time on the golf course today, and included a woman in his foursome for the first time this year. The president played golf at Andrews Air Force Base today with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, outgoing ...
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Dems Senate campaigns marked by internal battles
FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2012 file photo, Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga., stands with supporters as he waits to do a television interview at an election-night party in Augusta, Ga. Barrow and former Rep. Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin in South Dakota, two top-tier Democratic prospects, recently bypassed running for Senate seats in Georgia and South Dakota, decisions that highlighted both divisions within the ...
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Money tangle The IRS and its tea party tempest
Ousted IRS chief Steven Miller is sworn in on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Friday, May 17, 2013, prior to testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the extra scrutiny the IRS gave Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. (AP Photo/J. Scott ...
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Obama takes Cabinet secretaries out to play golf
Before he got into the vehicle, Obama looked up at the grey sky with an outstretched hand. A steady rain was falling by the time he arrived about a half hour ...
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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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