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Joy-Ann Reids advice for how Pres. Obama should handle controversies
In this week's "Office Politics," MSNBC's Alex Witt sits down with Managing Editor of The Grio, Joy-Ann Reid. She talks about never-ending political campaigns as rationale for scrupulous pursuit of scandals. Joy discusses the controversial issues facing President Obama and whether or not it will negatively impact his second-term agenda. She recommends structural reform of the ...
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Obama tries again to nominate top lawyer on embattled labor relations board
President Obama is trying once again to get the Senate to sign off on his pick for top lawyer of the National Labor Relations Board. Obama is re-nominating the agency's Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon to serve as the top NLRB lawyer for a four-year term. Solomon is perhaps best known for signing off on an unfair labor practice complaint the agency filed against Boeing Co. in a ...
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NYPD street stop policys critics seek big changes
NEW YORK -; It once was an accepted tactic as old as policing itself and, according to the New York Police Department, a key to the city's dramatic drop in crime: patrol officers stopping young men on the street to see if they're up to no ...
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Thousands of bridges at risk of freak collapse
The collapse of an interstate highway bridge in Washington state brings new attention to the limits of the country’s infrastructure, especially older structures that were designed with little room for error and were never intended to carry the number of cars and trucks they see ...
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A Baseball Academy in a Talent-Poor Part of Mexico
SAN BARTOLO COYOTEPEC, Mexico ...
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Alumni all over Canada lament loss of Mount Royal theatre program
For Mount Royal University, it will be one less diploma program and fewer part-time instructors to pay.For Calgary's cultural community, it will create one gaping hole in a delicate ecosystem.And ...
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How Americas 2-Tiered Education System Is Perpetuating Inequality
Seven years later,Amherst president emeritus Anthony Marx arguesclaims the program has worked brilliantly, just as his administration had expected. Broadening its search for transfers to the roughly one million students who graduate from community college every year, "we could find amazing jewels that no one else is looking for," he told an audience at a panel hosted by The Century ...
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Barack Obamas drone rules leave unanswered questions
WASHINGTON-President Barack Obama left plenty of ambiguity in new policy guidelines that he says will restrict how and when the U.S. can launch targeted drone strikes, leaving himself significant power over how and when the weapons can be deployed. National security experts say it's imperative to leave some room in the guidelines, given the evolving fight against terrorism. But civil rights ...
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Military shrinks in size scope under Obama
By Tom Curry, National Affairs Writer, NBC News In two major speeches, President Obama sent strong signals this week about what he envisions for the military in a post-Sept. 11 era, a new path which can be described in a word: ...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Haynes Johnson dies
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Haynes Johnson has died in Bethesda, Md., of a heart attack, his wife said. He was 81. The former Washington Post journalist, who won acclaim for his coverage of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, died Friday at Suburban Hospital, his wife, District of Columbia Court of Appeals Judge Kathryn Oberly, said. Johnson began his career as a ...
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Psy to perform in Indonesia South Korean diplomatic celebration
South Korean pop star Psy will perform in Indonesia at a concert celebrating diplomatic ties between the two countries, his management agency said Saturday. The performance -- which will not be staged as a solo concert -- will mark Psy's first visit to Indonesia, the Jakarta Globe reported. The "Gangnam Style" singer will perform July 6 at the Gelora Bung Karno Sports Complex in ...
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Want to retire on the beach Mexico talks of liberalizing land sales
Supporters say the change could help Mexico compete with Central America for US retirees seeking spots in the sun. But could it hurt Mexican access to prime real ...
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Canadas indigenous peoples join forces call all Canadians to join Solidarity Spring
The sound of drums beating has just gotten a whole lot louder in Canada with the joining together of Idle No More and Defenders of The Land, a network of Indigenous Activists formed in 2008. Idle No More, a First Nations Indigenous movement that became an instant phenomenon in December 2012, was established by four First Nations women, Jessica Gordon, Sylvia McAdam, Sheelah McLean and Nina ...
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W.Va. town transfixed by teen girls murder plot
One evening last Labor Day weekend, 15-year-old Audrie Pott walked up the driveway of a classmate's home alongside other teenagers. She'd told her parents she was spending the night with a friend. The friend claimed she was sleeping at Audrie's. Instead, the girls were having a party. A classic teenage ...
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Tornado upon them quick choices decided fate
After living nearly 20 years in their one-story brick home, Sherry and Larry Wells finally won the lottery - for a state rebate on a home storm shelter, that is. A contractor finished installing the concrete bunker beneath the slab of their garage in early May. About three weeks later, the shelter saved their lives when a tornado that killed 24 people tore through their ...
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Community outreach key to Obama counterterror plan
FILE - In this April 26, 2013, file photo police officers stand by as Muslims leave the Islamic Society of Boston mosque in Cambridge, Mass., which was attended occasionally by Tamerlan Tsarnaev for Friday prayers, according to Islamic Society of Boston leaders. Within hours of the blasts at the Boston marathon, government officials and members of Bostons Muslim community called each other, ...
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Hagel Cadets must stamp out sex assault scourge
By LOLITA C. BALDORAssociated Press WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point Saturday that they must stamp out the scourge of sexual assault in the military. Speaking a day after President Barack Obama delivered a similar edict to U.S. Naval Academy graduates, Hagel's message comes amid a series of widespread incidents of ...
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Key senators tightly control immigration debate
View Photo Associated Press/Jacquelyn Martin, File - FILE - In this March 18, 2013, file photo, Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, holds a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee about immigrant women and immigration ...
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RBC Code of Conduct a welcome step Steelworkers
RBC denies it's replacing staff with foreign workers The United Steelworkers, Canada's largest union, congratulated the Royal Bank of Canada for promising not to hire foreign workers to replace Canadians and not to outsource jobs. RBC announced a Supplier Code of Conduct Friday, saying that "this principles-based Code sets out RBC's expectations of suppliers to ensure their ...
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Venting May 25 2013 ‘It’s too bad than 98 per cent of our Canadian senators make them all look bad.’
We’re giving away tickets to Taylor Swift's sold-out Edmonton show on Tuesday, June 25 — the first of two at Rexall Place. To enter, we want you to design a greeting card — using photos of Swift and/or some of her ...
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Rescuers look for pilot in deadly NY Angel Flight
EPHRATAH, N.Y. -- Rescuers are searching for the pilot of a volunteer Angel Flight that crashed in upstate New York, killing two passengers.A dispatcher for the Fulton County Sheriff's Department says divers went to a large pond Saturday morning where the bulk of the plane was found submerged in Ephratah (ee-FRAY'-tah), west of Albany. Investigators are also combing nearby woods.The ...
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Zookeeper at British wildlife park dies after being attacked by Sumatran tiger
LONDON - British police say a zookeeper who was injured in a tiger attack at an animal park has died. Police say the woman, 24-year-old Sarah McClay, was in the big cats' enclosure at South Lakes Wild Animal Park in Cumbria when she was mauled by the Sumatran tiger on Friday. The park's owner, David Gill, told the BBC that he did not know why McClay entered the tiger enclosure. He ...
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Obama sees terror threat reduced to pre-911 level
Obama is not claiming final victory over extremists who still seek to kill Americans and other Westerners. Instead, he is steering the United States away from what he calls an equally frightening threat: a country in a state of perpetual ...
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Hagel to address West Pointers amid sex scandals
Charges that an Army sergeant secretly photographed and videotaped women at West Point are part of a military-wide pattern of sexual misconduct, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said ...
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Ontario man lost in Australian mountains has strong survival skills
The sister of an Ontario man who disappeared in Australia's Snowy Mountains nearly two weeks ago says she remains hopeful he will be found, partly because of his training as a Canadian Forces reservist. Mandeep Srawn, sister of 25-year-old Prabhdeep Srawn, spoke to CBC News via Skype on Saturday morning, after rescue officials briefed her family on the latest developments in the search, as ...
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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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