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Is Obamas Berlin Call for Nuclear Weapons Reductions Realistic
President Barack Obama returned to Berlin for the first time since he became president in 2008 today, where he delivered a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate, which previously overlooked the Berlin Wall. His speech acknowledged not only how far the western world has come since the Cold War era, but also how far it has yet to ...
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Obama to tap executive powers to curb emissions blamed for global warming
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second term. Obama's energy and climate adviser, Heather Zichal, said Wednesday the plan would boost energy efficiency of appliances and buildings, expand renewable energy and use the ...
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Obama in Berlin the world’s big problems are global warming American nukes
President Obama couldn’t have been more out-of-touch if he’d delivered his Berlin speech on Mars, instead of to a shriveled German audience only a fraction the size of the one he addressed in 2008. He identified the absolutely non-existent ';climate change'; issue the ';global threat of our time,'; and according ...
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Brazil Sends Mexico Out Of Confederations Cup With 2 - 0 Defeat
By Sahara Reports With two goals, one at the beginning of the match and another in the waning seconds, Confederations Cup hosts Brazil maintained its leadership of the Group A table today, and may also have given Mexico, who have lost two matches, its boarding passes for its flight home. Emerging Brazilian star, Neymar, scored Brazil's first goal today, just as he did against Japan in ...
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Max Gartner longtime Alpine Canada official to leave post
Max Gartner lists his career highlights as the back-to-back world downhill titles captured by Canadian skiers John Kucera and Erik Guay. But there's also been drawbacks to being president and CEO of Alpine Canada -- with potentially more on the horizon. And on Wednesday, Gartner announced he was leaving Canada's national skiing organization after more than three decades. "An ...
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Video Obama toasts his German hosts
Toasting his German hosts in Berlin, President Obama said, "We are proud to join with millions of men and women throughout the world who hold the cause of freedom ...
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Obamas nuke deal wont make us safe
>Editor's note: Ira Helfand is a past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility and co-president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Alan Robock is a distinguished professor of climate science at Rutgers University and a fellow of the American Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union and American Association for the Advancement of Science. He ...
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Box Office Report Man of Steel Sails Past $150 Million in North America
The Superman tentpole, from Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures, scored the top June debut of all time in grossing $116.1 million. Including $12 million earned last Thursday night from special Walmart screenings, the pic ended Sunday with a total $128.7 million under its ...
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Former Miss America Called Street Walker by Local GOP Leader
Jun 19, 2013 5:43pm A former Miss America winner who is now a GOP candidate for Congress was called a string of profane names today, including ';street walker,'; ';love child'; and ';Miss Queen. '; Her attacker? A local Republican Party chairman in central Illinois. Erika Harold, the 2003 winner of the Miss America contest, announced two weeks ago that she ...
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Russia could stand in way of Obamas nuclear plan
By saying he intends to bargain with Russia over reductions in nuclear weapons, rather than make cuts on his own, President Barack Obama is asking for cooperation from a former Cold War foe that's in no mood to ...
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Canadian Olympic Committee in Sochi plotting strategy for 2014 Games
The Olympic rings are seen in front of the airport of Sochi, the host city for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, February 18, 2013. (KAI ...
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Video In Berlin Obama summons up spirit of Cold War
Speaking at Berlin's historic Brandenburg Gate, President Barack Obama summoned the spirit that won the Cold War to confront the challenges of a new century: terrorism, intolerance and the continued threat posed by nuclear arms. (June ...
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Father sentenced for binding kids outside Wal-Mart
LAWRENCE, Kan. -; A suburban Chicago man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison for binding and blindfolding two of his children a year ago in a Wal-Mart parking lot in eastern ...
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Obama making plans to tackle global warming
WASHINGTON -; President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second ...
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Neymar shines as Brazil account for Mexico
Neymar all but fired Brazil to the semi-finals of the Confederations Cup as they saw off the challenge of Mexico, 2-0, in the Group A clash at Estadio Castelao. Brazil won their opening match against Japan and the three points from tonight means they are in pole position to progress to the next stage, while in contrast, Mexico's cup ambitions look to be over after they also lost their ...
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At Least 150 Doctors Ask Obama to Visit Gitmo Prisoners
Washington, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) A total of 150 doctors from different countries signed an open letter written to US President Barack Obama for an authorization to visit the 130 hunger strikers in the prison of Guantanamo, Cuba. In the text, published in the specialized magazine Lancet, the doctors assured the prisoners have good reasons to distrust from the health personnel in the prison, ...
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The Chief Recipient of Government Welfare Corporate America
America has a massive national deficit of nearly $16.9 trillion; the government continues to spend money it doesn't have. What's the answer to this dilemma, what specifically needs to be done? Many of our esteemed politicians say that, to alleviate the condition, government welfare must be ended. So with that premise in mind let's examine the pros and cons of this ...
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OfficeMax Office Depot pit Ill. v. Fla. for HQ
In this Tuesday, June 18, 2013 photo, OfficeMax CEO Ravi Saligram, right, and Illinois Sen. Tom Cullerton, D-Villa Park, left, make their pitch asking the state of Illinois for tax breaks to keep the company's headquarters in-state after the office supply chain's merger with Office Depot Inc., during a Senate Executive Committee hearing at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, ...
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Mikulski backs oversight of military academies
Siding with the Pentagon's top brass, the Senate Armed Services Committee approved legislation Wednesday to keep commanders involved in deciding whether to prosecute sexual assault cases, rejecting an aggressive plan to stem sex-related crimes in the armed forces by overhauling the military justice ...
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Senators pressure Obama on no fly zone in Syria
WASHINGTON - Less than a week after the White House announced findings of chemical weapons use in Syria and the initiation of a policy that would allow the CIA to provide Syrian rebels with light weaponry and ammunition, President Barack Obama is answering critics who say that small arms are no longer enough to turn the direction of the war.In a letter from leading senators on foreign ...
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Neymar stars as Brazil sink Mexico
Brazil 's No10 wheeled off in celebration, and was quickly joined by his team-mates, the noiseinside the Estadio Castelao was deafening. The stage seemed set ...
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Obama on Syria – too little too late
WASHINGTON: For a measure of the snail’s pace of President Barack Obama’s decision-making on Syria, look at two dates: Aug. 18, 2011, and June 14, 2013. One marks the first of several calls for ...
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UPDATE 1-Storm Barry heads for Mexico Gulf coast oil installations
Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:02pm EDT MEXICO CITY, June 19 (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Barry, the second of the Atlantic Hurricane season, churned toward Mexico on Wednesday, threatening to bring heavy rains to key oil and power installations near the country's Gulf coast. The Minatitlan oil refinery of state oil monopoly Pemex and the Laguna Verde nuclear power plant, both in Veracruz state, are ...
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Mediation begins on Americas Cup rule changes
video America's Cup organisers have put some not-so-subtle pressure on the four syndicates, as they prepare to sort out their differences over the safety and rule changes that are essential to the regatta starting next month. Holders Oracle, and challengers Team New Zealand, Luna Rossa (Italy) and Artemis Racing (Sweden) have been unable to agree on the 37 recommendations made ...
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Assange Obama corrupted the presidency
WikiLeaks Exactly one year to the day after entering London's Ecuadorian Embassy, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lashed out at the Obama administration Wednesday over the White House's ongoing pursuit of leakers. Citing the prosecution of alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning and the recent case of Edward Snowden, Assange said President Barack Obama's relentless efforts ...
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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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