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Canadian Government Pursuing Aggressive Lobbying Push On Keystone XL
doubled its spending to promote the Keystone XL pipeline to $16.5 million, up from $9 million a year ago. This dramatic spending increase is a result of an increased lobbying effort the government is planning, which includes high-profile ad buys and dispatching a series of officials to reiterate talking points that the pipeline will increase U.S. energy security and provide us with thousands of ...
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US claims Chinese military is on new cyber offensive against America
USA Officials within the United States government say hackers from China have renewed their assault on US targets only three months after a highly-touted investigation linked the People's Liberation Army to a series of cyberattacks waged at American entities. According to the New York Times, computer security experts and US officials alike say the PLA's sophisticated cyber squadron ...
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Small Florida town run on $49-million budget anxious to learn who among them won $590-million Powerball lottery
ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. — It could be an anxious wait of up to two months for people in a small Florida city to find out who won the highest Powerball jackpot in history: an estimated $590.5 million. The lucky ticket was bought sometime Saturday or earlier at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, a city of about 13,000 people best known around the state for its brand of spring water with the ...
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Search teams recover bodies of two missing New Brunswick fishermen
TABUSINTAC NEW BRUNSWICK — The bodies of two fishermen who went missing off the coast of northeastern New Brunswick have been recovered. RCMP Const. Scott Messier says the body of a 35-year-old man from Tabusintac and a 32-year-old man from Brantville were located around 4 p.m. today. Messier says the men were found near the area where their boat hit a sandbar in rough seas and started ...
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Obama Approval Rating Still Solid Despite Critics
Obama administration has yet faced. While congressional Republicans were still trying to turn the Benghaz attacks into a full-fledged scandal, two clearly real scandals have appeared seemingly out of nowhere in the past two weeks. One involves the IRS targeting the large influx of tax-exempt Tea Party-related groups for extra scrutiny. The ...
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The Tyra Banks Matriarchy A Scholars Take on Americas Next Top Model
The cast of America's Next Top Model's first cycle, which premiered on UPN on May 20, 2003. Ten years ago, on May 20, 2003, the first episode of America's Next Top Model aired on UPN. Over the course of its run, the dramatic Tyra Banks-hosted modeling competition--in which contestants try to out-fierce one another on the runway and in photo shoots to win a contract at the end of ...
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Avoid excuses man up Obama tells black graduates
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Sunday summoned the graduates of historically black Morehouse College to ';transform the way we think about manhood,'; urging the young men to avoid the temptation to make excuses and to take responsibility for their families and their communities. Delivering a commencement address at the all-male private liberal arts college in Atlanta, Obama ...
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Turkey’s Erdogan undone by Obama and Assad
STANFORD, CALIFORNIA - The car bombs that killed 51 people on May 11 in a town in southern Turkey are a reckoning for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He had made himself party to the fight over Syria and vowed that he would see the end of Bashar Assad’s rule. But Assad has hunkered down, and the Turkish leader who called on U.S. President Barack Obama last week faces a dilemma. In ...
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Video Canadian jazz singer botches U.S. national anthem
Canadian jazz singer Alexis Normand forgot the words to America's "Star Spangled Banner" before a hockey match, after attempting to learn it earlier that ...
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Panel Solicits Applicants For New Mexico Insurance Regulator
Former State Insurance Superintendent Chris Krahling has been named to a panel that will select New Mexico’s top insurance regulator. A nine-member committee will select the next superintendent of insurance, who starting in July will be in charge of an independent office regulating insurance rates and policies. The committee meets Tuesday in Albuquerque, and is accepting applications for ...
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Obama Isnt Nixon but Needs More Friends in Washington
President Obama survived a terrible week in Washington unscathed in the eyes of the American people. Out there in the rest of the world, his poll numbers are still ...
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Court wont get involved in Miss. redistricting
WASHINGTON -; The Supreme Court won't order new legislative elections in Mississippi over complaints about the timing of the state's ...
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Boston cardinal skips event over Irish PMs role
BOSTON -; Cardinal Sean O'Malley skipped Boston College's commencement Monday because of the involvement of Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who supports of a bill in his country that would allow ...
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Mexico stocks fall to 6-month low growth worries weigh
MEXICO CITY | Mon May 20, 2013 11:44am EDT MEXICO CITY May 20 (Reuters) - Mexican stocks fell to a six month low on Monday, hurt by concerns about slower than expected growth in Latin America's second biggest economy. The IPC stock index slumped 1.24 percent to trade at 41,286 points, its lowest since ...
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Obama Receives President of Myanmar at the White House
Washington, May 20 (Prensa Latina) U.S. President Barack Obama will receive his counterpart from Myanmar, Thein Sein, today at the White House, here on an official visit. Sein is the first Head of State from that Southeast Asian country to be hosted at the White House in 47 years, something which might be interpreted as international recognition for Naiyipido (capital of the nation), according ...
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Obama to host Myanmar leader
MYANMAR'S President Thein Sein will become the first leader of his country to visit the White House in nearly half a century, as Washington offers a strong symbolic gesture to back his reforms. In a scene that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago, the former general will meet President Barack Obama and later seek to woo US businesses that see a lucrative market in a nation that ...
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Hunt How Barack Obama can rescue his presidency from scandal
Photo credit: AP | President Barack Obama speaks on the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. (May 15, ...
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Financial Stocks Bank of America leads financials higher
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Financial stocks were up in early trades on Monday, continuing their winning streak ahead of Fed Chief Ben Bernanke's testimony to Congress on ...
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Mexicos Urbi defaults on interest payment
MEXICO CITY | Mon May 20, 2013 11:41am EDT MEXICO CITY May 20 (Reuters) - Mexico's third-largest homebuilder, Urbi Desarrollos, on Monday said it will not meet a $6.4 million interest payment due since last month. The company had previously sought a 30-day grace period to make the payment on its 2016 bonds, but that expired on May 19. Urbi, which is already facing lawsuits for ...
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CORRECTED-REUTERS SUMMIT-Mexico will see bank reform impact in 2-3 years Banortes Ortiz
Mon May 20, 2013 11:40am EDT (Corrects attribution of quote in 8th paragraph to President Enrique Pena Nieto Mexican, not Guillermo Ortiz) By Tomas Sarmiento and Krista Hughes MEXICO CITY May 20 (Reuters) - Mexico's banking reform will take two or three years to have an impact on credit and access to financial services, said the chairman of Mexico's largest locally-owned bank, Grupo ...
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Wal-Mart Fattens Up On Poor America With 25 Of U.S. Grocery Sales
in my May 1 blog , sits atop the mountain. But if limits on a family purse trump the desire for fancier and healthy organic and fresh farm items, what choices remain? For most Americans the answer is one of the greatest growth stories in capitalist history, a company whose growth metronomic remains solid in virtually all economic conditions. As they increasingly shop there, they contribute to ...
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Kerry vows better security at US diplomatic posts
By MATTHEW LEEAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State John Kerry is vowing that the Obama administration will spare no expense or effort to protect U.S. diplomats serving overseas. Speaking to State Department trainees on Monday, Kerry said he was fully committed to implementing and expanding on the recommendations of an independent review board that investigated the deadly Sept. ...
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The Gaggle Obamas continuing message to young black men
The Washington Post's Dan Balz, Nathan Gonzales from the Rothenberg Political Report and Politics in Stereo, and Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown join Chuck Todd to discuss President Obama's commencement speech at Morehouse College and the latest out of the IRS ...
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Obama administration responds to Republican critics
With a triple threat of controversies threatening to further erode the American public's confidence in the government and imperil the president's legislative agenda - the White House is aggressively hitting back at Republican critics. The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd ...
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Experts officials China has resumed hacking U.S. companies agencies
Computer security experts and U.S. officials say Chinese hackers have resumed attacks on companies and agencies they stole data from three months ago. A unit of China's People's Liberation Army had stopped computer intrusions in February after the administration of ...
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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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