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51 killed in Okla. tornado toll expected to rise
MOORE, Okla. -; The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office says the official death toll in the aftermath of a massive tornado that slammed the Oklahoma City area remains at 51 but is expected to ...
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Obamas war on Fox News
The case of Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, the government adviser, and James Rosen, the chief Washington correspondent for Fox News, bears striking similarities to a sweeping leaks investigation disclosed last week in which federal investigators obtained records over two months of more than 20 telephone lines assigned to the Associated Press.At a time when President Obama’s administration is under ...
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Obama administration says reporter violated Espionage Act
In a startling expansion of the Obama Administration’s war on leaks, a federal agent sought and received a warrant in 2010 to search the email account of Fox News correspondent James Rosen on grounds that there was probable cause the reporter had violated the Espionage Act by soliciting classified information from a State Department official. This previously undisclosed development was ...
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No adults in charge at Obama Justice Department
· 5 hours ago The unfolding of the Obama Administration's aggressive attitude towards the media continues to reveal the same sorry themes as the other scandals erupting inside the Beltway. The first is partisanship. This weekend came news ...
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Obama flack touts media shield law Stop us before we attack the press again
The New Yorker has posted the documents online . It was all part of an investigation into a story Rosen did in 2009 about intelligence officials warning that North Korea was likely to respond to U.N. sanctions with more nuclear tests. Kim was one of 95 people who saw the intelligence report. For First Amendment advocates, the most chilling part of the court documents is the suggestion by ...
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Conspiracy revealed by Obama aides to keep him in the dark
this morning’s news . For argument’s sake, assume it’s all true — Obama knows zip zero zilch about malfeasance in his administration apart from what he ...
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Tax-exempt Obama Foundation IRS was quick to OK looks like a fraud
The ';charity'; run by President Barack Obama’s half-brother that was fast-tracked for IRS tax-exempt status is based at a Virginia UPS store, according to its website. The organization’s IRS filings list another Virginia address that is actually a drug rehab center where the foundation does not appear ever to have been based. The Barack H. Obama Foundation is run by ...
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Cathie Anderson Fungus killing coffee plantations in Mexico Central America
Coffee lovers probably won't hear much about la roya in the United States, but this fungal disease is decimating thousands of coffee farms across Mexico and Central America.Pete Rogers isn't the average American coffee lover. He travels to Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and other exotic locales to find and purchase green coffee beans for his family's company, Rogers ...
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At least 91 people dead in US tornado disaster
As the president ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts, the scale of the destruction and loss was brutally clear, with whole neighbourhoods reduced to piles of debris by the storm.The hardest hit area was the suburb of Moore, home to 55,000 people, where a primary school with children sheltering inside was razed.Rescuers managed to pull at least 30 of the estimated ...
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Lawyers can get prison records for bombing suspect
BOSTON – A judge approved a request Monday by Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's defense attorneys to receive records compiled on him in federal prison. U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler said in her order that prison officials should give attorneys the daily activity logs, suicide watch logs, psychology data files, photographs, commissary files they requested, and ...
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Canadians invited to weigh in on plan to build army of wind turbines off the shores of Juno Beach in France
For decades visitors to the D-Day beaches on the northwest coast of France have looked out at the English Channel, taking in the journey made by Allied troops that marked a turning point in the Second World War. The view from some of those sites -- including Juno Beach where 359 Canadians died -- could soon change if a plan succeeds to build an army of wind turbines some 10 kilometres ...
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Bed sharing raises risk of sudden infant death syndrome fivefold new study
Parents who share a bed with their baby are exposing it to a fivefold increase in the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, even without any other risk factor such as smoking or alcohol, according to a new study. The analysis of nearly 1500 sudden unexplained infant deaths in Europe and Australasia gives a firm epidemiological foundation to the common wisdom that co-sleeping is dangerous, ...
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GOP distrust of Obama fears of voter fraud fuel polarization
Post-election survey: Partisan polarization persists. U.S. President Barack Obama is sworn-in for a second term by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts during his public inauguration ceremony at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. on January 21, 2013. UPI/Rob ...
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Big jump in HIV among Navajo in New Mexico
A Navajo reservation near Gallup, N.M., had a 20 percent increase in HIV diagnoses in 2012 from 2011, a doctor says. Dr. Jonathan Iralu, an infectious disease specialist who runs an HIV clinic in Gallup, said he compiled the report for the federal Indian Health Service because he used to treat a small number of Navajo men with human immunodeficiency virus each year. However, the 47 new cases ...
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Aides kept Obama in dark about IRS report
WASHINGTON - White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April that an impending report was likely to say the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, President Barack Obama's spokesman disclosed Monday, expanding the circle of top officials who knew of the audit beyond those named earlier.But McDonough and the other advisers did not tell ...
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10th Annual Get Active America program
For this year's 10th Annual Get Active America! program, which runs throughout the month of May, The Corpus Christi Athletic Club is joining with the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) to help America become physically active and improve their diet. As part of Get Active America! The Corpus Christi Athletic Club will encourage its community to work towards ...
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Obama’s No. 1 aide knew of IRS targeting
WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service scandal yesterday reached all the way to the door of the Oval Office.President Obama’s chief of staff, Denis McDonough, and other top Obama aides got an early warning last month that the IRS was targeting conservative groups, White House spokesman Jay Carney revealed.McDonough is as close as you can get to Obama without touching the ...
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Obama discusses Syrian conflict with Italian PM
US President Barack Obama on Monday called Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta to discuss a range of issues including economy, security in North Africa and the Syrian conflict.The two leaders discussed bilateral cooperation in securing North Africa and addressing the 27-month conflict in Syria.The United States and Russia are working toward a peace conference in Geneva either this or next month ...
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Obama meets visiting Myanmar president
US President Barack Obama on Monday lauded Myanmar's efforts made over the past two years in holding elections and in solving the country's longstanding ethnic conflicts.Obama made the statement at a press conference following his talks with visiting Myanmar President Thein Sein at his Oval Office. Thein Sein was the first president of Myanmar to visit the White House in 47 years.Obama ...
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Obama aides knew of IRS audit say he wasnt told
Washington - White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April an impending report was likely to say the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, President Barack Obama's spokesman disclosed Monday, expanding the circle of top officials who knew of the audit beyond those named earlier. But McDonough and the other advisers did not tell ...
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The Impossibility of Being Barack Obama
commencement address at Morehouse when coming back to DC this weekend. I saw a clip of it again late last night and thought: this is another sample and reminder of Barack Obama's reserves of rhetorical strength. Like his other big, punctuating speeches (as I have discussed ...
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Oklahoma declared a disaster by Obama
President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in Oklahoma as the state recovers from a massive tornado that ripped through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, killing dozens and flattening entire ...
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Tanzania Tanzania Canada Sign Agreement to Promote Investment
Tanzania and Canada have signed a co-operation agreement designed to promote and create favourable investment conditions between the two countries, Tanzania's Daily News reported Thursday (May 16th). The pact, known as the foreign investment promotion and protection agreement, strengthens economic ties between Canada and Tanzania and promotes local and foreign investment. Minister of ...
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Obama to college graduates “No room for excuses”
US President Barack Obama delivered the commencement address Sunday at Morehouse College, an all-male historically black college that was the alma mater of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Obama's message was simple: young people, particularly African Americans, facing unemployment, skyrocketing student debt, and falling wages have no "room for excuses.""One of the things that all ...
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Canadian Prime Minister Travels to Peru and Colombia
Ottawa, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper travels to Peru and Colombia today as part of its strategy to strengthen relations with Latin America and the Caribbean in the complex global economic scenario. According to an official statement, Harper will review on Wednesday with Peruvian President Ollanta Humala, the current state of their business and discuss prospects ...
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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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