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Okla. men get video of deadly tornado overhead
MOORE, Okla. -; Two 19-year-old Oklahoma men who took cover in a cellar during a deadly tornado were able to use their cellphones to get video of the twister as it passed over the ...
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Obama to visit tornado-hit area in Oklahoma
U.S. President Barack Obama will travel to the tornado-devastated area in the state of Oklahoma on Sunday and visit victims and communities there, the White House said on ...
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Peru Canada leaders agree to boost economic ties
Peruvian President Ollanta Humala and visiting Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Wednesday agreed to strengthen bilateral economic relations following ...
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Op-Ed Contributor The Forgotten Victims of Obamas Drone War
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan ...
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Gay men will be allowed to donate blood under new policy in Canada but only those who abstain from sex
We live in "the age of uncertainty," John Kenneth Galbraith told us. He was so certain of the new uncertainty in our lives that he published a provocative book and hosted a television series under ...
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Wind energy needs some help to grow says Canadian association
Alberta could green its image and add plenty of new turbines over the next few years with the right government incentives, the Canadian Wind Energy Association said in a report released ...
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Obama to lay out rationale for drone strikes in speech
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will lay out the rationale for U.S. drone strikes in a speech on Thursday, a White House official ...
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Obama to announce plans to lift ban on sending Guantanamo detainees to Yemen
President Obama will announce Thursday that the White House plans to lift the ban on sending detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Yemen, Fox News confirms, a move that could effectively resume efforts to close down the prison That effort, however, has been stymied because many countries don't want the detainees or are unwilling or unable to guarantee that once transferred, detainees who may ...
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Ex-Miss America May Face McConnell
not be running for U.S. Senate in Kentucky, but another possible candidate is thinking about taking on Mitch McConnell and she has some local star power of her own: Former Miss America Heather French Henry. French Henry, who was crowned Miss America in 2000 and is married to former Lt. Gov. Steve Henry, told ABC News she is being ';urged by a number of individuals in political ...
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The Canadian government’s delaying tactics involving native children are harmful and wrong
Nearly half of the 30,000 children in foster care in Canada are aboriginal, a horrifying figure first revealed by Statistics Canada's National Household Survey this month. In light of the magnitude of the problem and the vulnerability of the children, it's doubly horrifying to learn of the federal government's delaying tactics at a human-rights hearing into a complaint that Ottawa ...
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Vt gov signs novel law against false patent claims
MONTPELIER, Vt. -; Vermont's governor has signed the first-in-the-nation law aimed at protecting companies from so-called patent trolling - the practice of making deceptive claims of patent infringement in the hopes of collecting licensing or settlement ...
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Canada sets new aid for Peru linked to mining
LIMA, Peru -; Canada's prime minister has announced a new package of development aid for Peru that environmentalists are viewing warily because it is closely tied to Canadian mining investments in the South American ...
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Fort Hood suspect wants to represent himself
FORT WORTH, Texas -; The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood attack wants to represent himself at his upcoming murder trial, which means he could question the nearly three dozen soldiers he's accused of wounding in the shooting ...
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Dozens hurt when Indiana school buses crash
NORTH WEBSTER, Ind. -; A school bus slammed into the back of another bus, setting off a chain-reaction crash involving four buses in northern Indiana, leaving dozens of middle and high students with non-serious injuries and one driver seriously ...
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House passes GOP bill to speed pipeline approval
WASHINGTON -; House Republicans pushed through a bill Wednesday to bypass the president to speed approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. Democrats criticized the legislation as a blatant attempt to allow a foreign company to avoid environmental ...
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Arias jury deadlocks but must keep deliberating
Judge Sherry Stephens urges the jury to continue deliberating after the jury delivered a message that they are deadlocked on a penalty for Jodi Arias on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander. (AP Photo/The Arizona ...
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45 students hurt in chain-reaction Ind. bus crash
NORTH WEBSTER, Ind. -; Northern Indiana authorities say more than 45 middle and high school students were injured and a bus driver was seriously hurt in a chain-reaction crash involving four school ...
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Bill allows Newtown families to release records
HARTFORD, Conn. -; A bill crafted privately by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's office, Connecticut's top prosecutor and legislative leaders would require the written consent of family members of the Sandy Hook Elementary School victims before certain records concerning the shooting may be publicly ...
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Officials All accounted for after Okla. tornado
MOORE, Okla. -; Authorities have now accounted for the last six people - all of them adults - who were believed to still be missing after the massive tornado in an Oklahoma City ...
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America Whats more harmful pot use or incarceration
A Seattle resident takes marijuana from a plastic bag shortly after a law legalizing the recreational use of marijuana took effect on Dec. 6, 2012 in Seattle. (Stephen Brashear/Getty ...
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Obama to visit tornado-ravaged Moore Oklahoma on Sunday
People walk through a damaged area near the Moore Warren Theater after a powerful tornado ripped through the area on May 20, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. (Brett Deering/AFP/Getty ...
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Obama admits that drone strike killed Americans
Militant leader Tareq al-Dahab -- a brother-in-law of US-born jihadist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki who was killed in a US drone strike in September 2011. The Obama administration has disclosed that it deliberately attacked Awlaki. (-/AFP/Getty ...
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Freedomworks Stop Obama In SC Schools
Do you want to live in a society where children as young as four and five are being indoctrinated by the Obama agenda? If not, then we must stop the "Republican" education budget in South Carolina before it's too ...
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House approves Keystone pipeline bill
WASHINGTON – House Republicans pushed through a bill Wednesday to bypass the president to speed approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. Democrats criticized the legislation as a blatant attempt to allow a foreign company to avoid environmental review. The bill was approved, 241-175, largely along party lines. Republicans said the measure was needed to ensure that ...
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Obama Administration Admits Drone Attacks Killed 4 US Citizens
Jeremy Scahill: "Perhaps most disturbing about Holder's letter is that it leaves totally unexplained why the US has killed so many innocent non-American citizens in its strikes in Pakistan and ...
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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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