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Suburban NY woman indicted on pot-growing charges
A woman from the ritzy New York City suburb of Scarsdale who is accused of raising thousands of marijuana plants was compared Tuesday to Colombian cocaine ...
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Michelle Obama joins Bono for lunch in Ireland
Michelle Obama and Bono at Finnegan's Pub. While President Obama was asking Northern Irish youth to make a "permanent peace," First Lady Michelle Obama, with Malia and Sasha, headed out to Finnegan's Pub in Dalkey, where she met up with Bono and his family.The arrival of the celebrities caused quite a stir with the locals.Chef Paul Finnegan said the two groups were ...
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Va. cabbie pursues charges after anti-Muslim rant
McLEAN, Va. -- For the second time in as many months, a Muslim civil rights group is pursuing criminal charges on behalf of a taxicab driver who was subjected to an anti-Islamic rant caught on tape.In the most recent case, an Ashburn, Va., woman unleashed a string of expletives and called 911 to report she was afraid for her life because she said her cabbie, Abdikar Aden of Alexandria, was ...
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Okla. executes inmate convicted of killing couple
McALESTER, Okla. -- Oklahoma executed a 36-year-old man on Tuesday for the October 2000 stabbing deaths of a couple on whose ranch he had worked.James Lewis DeRosa was killed by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. He was the second inmate the state executed this year.Prosecutors say DeRosa and an accomplice, 33-year-old John Eric Castleberry, went to Curtis and ...
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Maine governor says he wont talk to 3 newspapers
AUGUSTA, Maine -- A spokeswoman for Maine Gov. Paul LePage says the administration will no longer comment for stories published in three of Maine's daily newspapers.Adrienne Bennett told the Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/17Wn2Of ) on Tuesday the administration won't be talking to that publication, the Kennebec Journal and the Morning Sentinel. All are owned by MaineToday ...
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Is Obama a Berliner - By Benjamin Weinthal
Afghans take over, peace office opens: a ridiculous mouse? Syria aid M.I.A.; Iran's shady plans to go nuclear; Middies charged with rape; The services are "acting like children;" And a bit more. - by Gordon ...
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Obama no Cheney on surveillance
As President Obama addresses comparisons made between him and Vice President Cheney on spying issues, Maria Teresa Kumar and Jonathan Capehart join Rev. Sharpton to discuss their ...
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Obama to speak at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin
Five decades after John F. Kennedy visited the Brandenburg Gate, President Obama will address U.S.-Germany relations in the same historic location. The President recently wrapped up a trip to Northern Ireland where he attended the G-8 summit. NBC's Brian Williams ...
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House passes far-reaching anti-abortion bill
View Photo Associated Press/Carolyn Kaster - Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at House Judiciary Committee hearing to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify ...
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Sideshow Obama ‘birthers’ still exist
Jimmy Fallon found a way to connect Miss Utah's wacky answer at the Miss USA pageant to President Obama's approval ratings; South Carolina Republican Jeff Duncan tells radio host he still questions the president's "validity," proving that the birther movement is still alive and well in America; and a Congressman introduces his colleague from American Samoa, with a ...
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Canada to send peacekeeping troops to Haiti
A Canadian soldier carries supplies as troops arrive at a temporary medical centre in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in January 2010. A handful of Canadian troops are about to take part in peacekeeping operation in Haiti under the command of Brazilian ...
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Meet Canada’s underused poet laureate Vancouver-based Fred Wah bemoans lack of meaningful work
Canada's national poet has warned that the taxpayer-funded position risks becoming "homogenized and diluted" and expressed frustration that during his two-year term in Ottawa he's been asked to produce just one work -- a "mediocre" poem about Queen Elizabeth's diamond jubilee -- while many more serious, controversial subjects have escaped the official attention ...
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Memo to Stephen Harper in 2007 downplayed a Canadian casualty rate in Afghanistan up to 10 times higher than allies
A newly declassified memo that was sent to Prime Minister Stephen Harper during the height of the Afghanistan mission downplayed statistics showing Canadian troops were suffering significantly higher casualty rates than their allies. After a roadside bomb killed six Canadians in 2007, the prime minister was advised in a briefing note that 2% of Canadians serving in Afghanistan had been killed ...
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Yes We Scan Germans Protest at Checkpoint Charlie as Obama Arrives in Berlin
President Obama landed in Berlin this evening for his first official visit to the German capital, but his reception in the privacy-loving nation might have been warmer if not for the recent revelations about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs. A few dozen demonstrators gathered at Checkpoint Charlie, the Berlin Wall crossing that became a historic symbol of Cold War ...
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Obama hints Bernanke on way out
WASHINGTON -- President Obama suggested he might not renominate Ben Bernanke for a third term as chairman of the Federal Reserve, saying the central bank chief has stayed in the job longer than originally ...
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Brazil seeks to take advantage of desperate Mexico
FORTALEZA, Brazil - Brazil wants to use Mexico's desperation to its advantage when the teams meet in the Confederations Cup on Wednesday.While Brazil opened with a convincing win over Japan, Mexico lost to Italy and needs a good result against the hosts to keep alive its hopes of advancing in the World Cup warm-up tournament.Brazilian players are hoping the Mexicans come out attacking at ...
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Steelmaker AHMSA eyes shale gas opening in Mexico
By Allison Martell and David Alire Garcia NEW YORK/MEXICO CITY, June 18 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 6:59pm EDT NEW YORK/MEXICO CITY, June 18 (Reuters) - Mexico's top steelmaker is hoping to tap the country's ample shale gas reserves if an energy sector overhaul expected this year provides an opening, a senior executive with the company, Altos Hornos de Mexico (AHMSA), said on ...
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Video Obama seeks G8 support on Syria
President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other G-8 leaders attempted to speak with one voice on seeking a negotiated Syrian peace settlement, yet couldn't publicly agree on what this ...
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Rural lawmakers push for farm bill votes in House
WASHINGTON -; Farm-state lawmakers are scrambling to win bipartisan support for a five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill on the House floor this ...
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Senators to Obama Arming Syrian rebels not enough
WASHINGTON -; A bipartisan trio of key senators is demanding that President Barack Obama take more decisive action to stem the military advance by Syrian President Bashar Assad's ...
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Officials Man mauled by bear outside Wis. cabin
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says the man was attacked in his yard near Shell Lake on Monday night. DNR carnivore specialist David MacFarland says the man's dog apparently initiated contact with the ...
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What it takes to become an Army Ranger
There are many different requirements, standards and tests for the wide variety of Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine and commando units - ranging from infantry and combat engineer to pararescue and special ...
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IRS worker No political bias against tea party
WASHINGTON -; An Internal Revenue Service manager and self-described conservative Republican said the close scrutiny of tea party groups' tax forms originated in his Cincinnati IRS office and not in Washington, according to a full transcript of his interview by congressional investigators released ...
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Bus fare rise sees a million people protest on the streets of Brazil
When the Fifa president Sepp Blatter announced in 2007 that next year's World Cup would be staged in Brazil, he predicted it would have "a big social and cultural ...
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Readout of Meeting Between Secretary Chuck Hagel and Canadian Minister of National Defense Peter MacKay
Pentagon Press Secretary George Little provided the following readout: "Secretary Hagel hosted Canadian Minister of National Defense Peter MacKay today at the Pentagon for their second meeting here since Secretary Hagel took office earlier this spring. "The leaders discussed a wide range of topics related to their mutual interest in some of the world's ongoing security ...
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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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