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Impact of Okla. tornado beyond mere cleanup
Kandi Scott salvages items from the rubble of her home, which she shared with her mother, until it was destroyed Monday when a tornado moved through Moore, Okla., Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds.(AP Photo/Brennan ...
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IRS official to take the 5th at House hearing
Cliff Toye, of Tabernacle, holds a sign as he stands with others outside Internal Revenue Service offices Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Cherry Hill, N.J., during a tea party rally protesting extra IRS scrutiny of conservative groups. The Internal Revenue Service gave extra scrutiny to tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. (AP Photo/Mel ...
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Obama and Morehouse The Bell Tolls
When I entered Morehouse College, in the late summer of 2004, I was told, quite literally, that there was a bell that tolled for me. Along with several hundred other freshmen, I had just moved onto campus, and was told that I was in the right place at the right moment in history. A school that took on the mission of educating African American men in 1867, just two years after the Civil War, ...
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Town rethinks plan to euthanize Canada geese
Photo credit: Mark Bellew | The Town of North Hempstead has entered into an agreement with the USDA to euthanize flocks of geese that are damaging town parks and other properties. (May 10, ...
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Scientists Dont drop federal wolf protections
Federal wildlife officials are postponing a much-anticipated decision on whether to lift protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 ...
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APNewsBreak Coast Guardsman admits desertion
HONOLULU -- A Coast Guard rescue swimmer whose disappearance led to a massive search in Hawaii pleaded guilty to desertion Tuesday, saying he left work one day, decided never to return and spent the next three months camping in the mountains of Oahu.Petty Officer 1st Class Russell Matthews pleaded guilty to desertion and wrongful use of marijuana during a special court-martial in Honolulu on ...
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Ark. treasurer resigns amid charges she took cash
Arkansas' state treasurer resigned Tuesday after being accused of taking at least $36,000 in cash - sometimes stashed in a pie box - from a broker who later came to manage a large share of the state's $3.3 billion investment ...
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Mexico-bound Surfers Eye dismantled
The Surfers Paradise Eye wheel is being dismantled and will be gone by next week. Pic: Scott Fletcher THE Surfers Paradise Eye has taken its last spin.The controversial attraction, plagued with problems for the past five years, will be pulled to pieces and shipped to Mexico after reportedly costing management $800,000 in the past year.Work began on dismantling the wheel atop the Surfers ...
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Editorial Americas duty to help Oklahoma
Photo credit: Mayita Mendez, 2002 On a memorable day 11 years ago, grateful Oklahomans donated a red and white rescue truck to the New York City Fire Department, purchased with money donated by schoolkids and adults. Called the Spirit of Oklahoma, the truck was the Sooner State's way of thanking the FDNY for its help in 1995 with search and recovery work after a terrorist bomb claimed 168 ...
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Italians ignore Americas Cup ban take to SF waters
video While America's Cup organisers continue their review of this month's fatal Artemis Racing tragedy, at least one of the challenging syndicates has flown in the face of requests to stay off the water. Last week, Golden Gate Yacht Club vice commodore Tom Ehman assured the sailing world that the event would proceed, despite the death of Briton Andrew "Bart" Simpson when ...
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Lightning more deadly than twisters in Canada Forecaster
Ontario teacher struck by lightning Tornadoes may scare you, but lightning is more likely to kill you - at least in Canada. More people die annually from lightning strikes - 80% of them from thunderstorms unaccompanied by official warnings - than from tornadoes, according to Dan Kulak, a meteorologist with Environment Canada. "Lightning is the major summer killer. More people die from ...
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Teen suicide may be contagious Study
(Shutterstock) OTTAWA - A new study from the University of Ottawa suggests suicide may be contagious among young people, especially when they hear stories of others killing themselves. "Suicide contagion - the idea that someone else’s suicide can influence your own suicidal thoughts and behaviours - does occur, especially among younger adolescents," according to the study, led ...
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Mall of America gets state tax break for planned massive expansion
Mall of America -- already big -- is poised to get a lot bigger. Legislators passed a $250 million tax break to jump-start a long-dormant Phase II expansion, approving it minutes before the session ended Monday, May 20. The $1.5 billion project would double the size of the Bloomington mega-mall, adding hotels, a waterpark, a performing arts center, office towers and hundreds of stores. Also on ...
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Arias asks jury for life term deliberations begin
View Photo Associated Press/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, Pool - Jodi Arias points to her family as a reason for the jury to give her a life in prison sentence instead of the death penalty on Tuesday, May ...
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My proposed title for a TV movie about current Canadian events ‘Is Everybody High’
Where to start after watching TV - the news and the fiction - over the last few days?First, perhaps - it's not really a scandal until there's a TV movie about it. Second - possible title for the movie about ongoing events in Canada is ...
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How two Canadian sisters became stars on ABC’s Nashville
can't get enough Stella. That would be Lennon Stella and Maisy Stella, the Canadian singing sister-act who've transcended the prime-time show on which they do not even star. A recent episode featured the precocious pair sweetly singing the ...
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Feds halt data cull for State Dept terror report
WASHINGTON -; The federal government has given the job of compiling statistics used by the State Department to analyze trends in global terrorism to an academic group, a move that may complicate accurate unclassified assessments of patterns of terrorist activity for years to ...
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Man pleads guilty in Picasso vandalism case
HOUSTON -; A man accused of vandalizing a 1929 Pablo Picasso painting in an act that was caught on cellphone video has pleaded guilty in exchange for a two-year prison ...
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Police Suspect in Iowa abduction killed himself
This photo provided by The Iowa Department of Public Safety shows Kathlynn Shepard, 15. Authorities said Tuesday, May 21, 2013, a man suspected of abducting Shepard and a 12-year-old girl from a bus stop in central Iowa has been found dead, but a search continues for Shepard. Authorities said the 12-year-old girl was able to escape and ran to a nearby rural residence for help. (AP Photo/Iowa ...
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Fort Jackson commander facing adultery charges
WASHINGTON -; The Army says the commanding general of Fort Jackson, S.C., has been suspended in connection with charges of adultery and involvement in a physical ...
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Senate votes to make small cut to food stamps
WASHINGTON -; The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a $400 million annual cut - or roughly a half of 1 percent - to the food stamp program as part of a major five-year farm ...
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Moniz LNG exports on hold until data reviewed
Dr. Ernest Moniz speaks after being sworn in as Energy Secretary, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, during a ceremony at the Energy Department in Washington. Moniz, 68, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, replaces Steven Chu, who served as energy secretary in President Barack Obama's first term. Moniz served as an energy undersecretary in the Clinton administration. (AP ...
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IRS chief knew tea party groups targeted in 2012
former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman testifies on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, before the Senate Finance Committee hearing on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) practice of targeting applicants for tax-exempt status based on political leanings. (AP Photo/Charles ...
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YieldBoost United States Steel From 1.1 To 5.8
NYSE: X ) looking to boost their income beyond the stock's 1.1% annualized dividend yield can sell the January 2015 covered call at the $27 strike and collect the premium based on the $1.49 bid, which annualizes to an additional 4.7% rate of return against the current stock price (at ...
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AES supplies energy at Central Americas and the Caribbean’s most competitive prices
Santo Domingo.- The consolidated portfolio of energy generators that the power company AES manages offer the most competitive electricity prices in the local market as well as the Central America and Caribbean region. This was revealed by Marco De la Rosa, during breakfast the Energy Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAMDR), explaining that "AES sells a kilowatt hour 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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