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Official 2 dead after Angel Flight crashes in NY
Forty years have passed since Eastern Flight 401 slammed down in the Florida Everglades, yet no memorial has been raised to remember the 101 people who perished that ...
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Teen in devastated Okla. town handing out hugs
MOORE, Okla. -- The people of the Oklahoma town where a deadly tornado struck could use just about everything - cleaning supplies, food, water, shelter.Thirteen-year-old Halle Carr thought residents of her hometown could also use a hug after the twister Monday that killed 24 people in Moore.Halle has been standing on a corner with a white sign that reads: "Need a hug? I am here!" And ...
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Dead Pa. babys dad believes in divine healing
FILE - This undated file photo combination provided by the Philadelphia Police Department shows Herbert and Catherine Schaible. At a bail hearing Friday, May 24, 2013, a Philadelphia judge ordered the couple, who believe in faith healing over medicine, be held without bail on third-degree murder charges in the April death of their 8-month-old son, Brandon. They previously had been convicted of ...
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Obama worse than Nixon for press freedoms
WikiLeaks President Barack Obama is the biggest threat to press freedom, one of the hallmarks of a true democracy, the United States has seen since former President Nixon, according to attorney James Goodale, widely seen as "the father of reporters' privileges." Goodale is best known for using the First Amendment of the US Constitution to successfully defend the New York Times ...
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Rare confirmation of Obama pick prompts Supreme Court talk
Rachel Maddow reports on the overwhelming approval by the Senate of Sri Srinivasan to the Washington, D.C. District Court judgeship, a potential sign that a nomination of Srinivasan for Supreme Court Justice would also pass the ...
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Vicious dog severs Oshawa mans nose
Play video TORONTO - It hasn’t been a great start to the summer for a young Oshawa man, having had his nose chewed off by a vicious dog while protecting his girlfriend, and then thrown out of his apartment. It was last Saturday night, while kicking back on the front porch of the rooming house he lives in at 140 Brock St., that Jimmy Rogers, a 23-year-old unemployed construction worker, ...
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Rob Ford Dear Diary ‘Good Lord the citizens of this fine city must think me a halfwit’
I had just returned from a rollicking Victoria Day polo match when I received awful news that the "crack-ed cocaine" allegations against me continue unabated. I say it again; the only vapours I would ever dream of imbibing issue from the mouthpiece of my Calabash pipe --or perhaps a fine Cohiba. These spurious allegations are nothing but the libelous musings of a dangerous mob of ...
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Activities Throughout Polk Commemorate Americas War Dead
FORT MEADE MEMORIAL EVENThosted by Fort Meade Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 11179, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at post headquarters, 29 Brown Ave. N., Fort Meade. SERGEANT MAJOR BBQ'S FUNDRAISER for the benefit of veterans' organizations will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in front of Tractor Supply, 6945 U.S. 98 N., Lakeland.Prices are $6 for a pulled pork sandwich with the fixings: baked beans ...
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State report I-5 bridge had gouges impact damage
Workers walk past the collapsed portion of the Interstate 5 bridge at the Skagit River Friday, May 24, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. A truck carrying an oversize load struck the four-lane bridge on the major thoroughfare between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River below Thursday evening. All three occupants suffered only minor injuries. (AP ...
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Putins letter to Obama covers all hot issues Kremlin
Nearly all hot topics on Russia-US relations have been mentioned in a letter sent by President Vladimir Putin to his US counterpart Barack Obama, the Kremlin said Friday.According to presidential aide Yuri Ushakov, Putin stressed in his letter that Moscow's vision on issues concerning the missile defense, Syria, Iran and the Korean Peninsula differed from Washington's ...
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Rob Ford video questions linger after denial
Now that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has formally denied to allegations of crack cocaine use, it's just Ford's word versus his accusers', unless the video surfaces. "I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict," Ford told reporters Friday. "As for a video: I cannot comment on a video I've never seen or does not exist." The video purportedly shows him ...
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Dead tots parents storm out of court after alleged drunk driver gets bail
Sage Morin is comforted by a supporter as she holds a picture of her son Geo Mounsef outside the Law Courts, in Edmonton, Alta. on Friday May 24, 2013. Geo, 2, was killed after an SUV plowed into the patio at Ric's Grill, 14229 - 23 Ave., where he was sitting with his family May 19, 2013. Richard Suter was granted bail in the incident Friday. David Bloom/Edmonton Sun/QMI ...
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New book is a fuddle-duddle-seeking missile aimed at shattering the enduring Trudeau myth
Growing up on Montreal's West Island in the 1960s, Bob Plamondon was not immune to the Trudeaumania that swept the nation. "I remember in 1968 having kids going up and down the street, 10-year-old kids on their bicycles with signs behind them saying, 'Vote for Trudeau,' " he recounted this week. When he was old enough to vote in his first federal election in 1979, he ...
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Fluoride increasingly removed from water supply despite lack of evidence it is harmful
CALGARY -- Depending on who you ask, and when, fluoride is either one of the top public health initiatives of the 20th century, or a poison artificially injected into the water supply. Fluoridated water is endorsed by virtually every credible health organization in North America, including Health Canada, the Centre for Disease Control and numerous dental associations. Yet, in its 60-year ...
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World Briefing | The Americas Canada Mayor Denies Drug Allegations
After a week of avoiding journalists, Mayor Rob Ford of Toronto on Friday denied accusations that he smoked crack cocaine. "I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine," Mr. Ford, left, said as he read a statement during a brief news conference. He did not take questions. Last week Mr. Ford dismissed as ...
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Michelle Obamas Graduation Speech And 4 Other Things Were Into This Week
Every week, HuffPost Teen editors round up 5 things they're excited about -- from new video games, to books, to viral videos, to entertainment news. Check out this week's picks in the slideshow below, and email or ...
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Judge rules against Americas toughest sheriff in racial profiling lawsuit
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio violated the constitutional rights of Latino drivers in his crackdown on illegal immigration, a federal judge found on Friday, and ordered him to stop using race as a factor in law enforcement ...
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Montreal lifts boil-water advisory says tap water safe to drink
Montreal officials say a boil-water advisory has been lifted and residents can drink their tap water after tests showed the water safe to drink. The boil-water advisory, issued Wednesday when the city began receiving calls about discolored water in Montreal's Sud-Ouest distract, was the largest the city has ever experienced, covering a region with 1.3 million residents, Canadian ...
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Positive press picks up for San Diego with Mexico business ties
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner visited the economically-minded organization DEITAC's bi-monthly gathering in his first official visit to Tijuana as mayor in January. He was greeted by Tijuana's mayor Bustamante, and they both took questions on plans to better incorporate the shared border ...
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Brooks and Marcus Discuss Obamas National Security Address Disaster Spending
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus discuss the week's top political news with Judy Woodruff, including President Barack Obama's speech on refining the fight against terrorism, controversies at the IRS and the Justice Department and the devastating tornadoes in ...
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Key figures in racial profiling lawsuit in Ariz
PHOENIX -- Key figures in a lawsuit that alleges that an Arizona sheriff's office has racially profiled Latinos in its immigration patrols. A judge ruled Friday that Arpaio's office systematically racially profiles Latinos:ARPAIO: Sheriff Joe Arpaio has aggressively pursued local immigration enforcement. The sheriff has been accused of launching some immigration patrols based on ...
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Ohio kidnap case hero not endorsing free burgers
FILE - This May 6, 2013 file photo shows neighbor Charles Ramsey speaking to media near the home where missing women Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight were rescued in Cleveland. Ramsey, the man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive for a decade in an Ohio house will never have to pay for another burger in his hometown. Ramsey has been promised free ...
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Elite NYC school apologizes for past abuse
NEW YORK -- The Horace Mann School, one of New York City's most prestigious private schools, has apologized for more than three decades of sexual abuse perpetrated by some of its teachers and administrators, according to a letter posted on its website Friday."We sincerely apologize for the harm that was caused by the teachers and administrators who abused anyone during their years at ...
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Obama seeks end to constant war on terror
Demonstrators outside the gates of Fort McNair, where US President Barack Obama spoke at the National Defense University in Washington on Thursday. Kevin Lamarque / ...
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REUTERS SUMMIT-Mexicos telecoms law to rebuild industry brick by brick
Fri May 24, 2013 9:06pm EDT (For other news from Reuters Latin America Investment Summit, click here) By Dave Graham and Tomas Sarmiento MEXICO CITY May 24 (Reuters) - Mexico's new telecommunications law aims to break the hold of dominant players that have made the country's industry an anomaly on the global map and rebuild it "brick by brick," a senior government official said ...
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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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