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Op-Ed Contributor When America Stops Importing Energy
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White House Press Obama Aides Square Off
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is under considerable criticism for his failure to straightforwardly and fully answer questions at his daily briefings, which have frequently descended into testy exchanges with reporters. And Dan Pfeiffer, a senior White House adviser who helps to shape the president's message, is taking hits for his combative and dismissive approach to answering ...
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World How bad is Americas tornado
Dr Fujita's goal was to come up with a robust, quantitative scale for categorising both the intensity and the area of a given tornado, and deriving an after-the-fact estimate of the wind speeds present within ...
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Technip Wins Canada LNG Project
French oilfield services firm Technip announced Wednesday that it has been awarded a contract for an LNG project in Canada, along with Samsung and Huanqiu. The contract has been awarded by Pacific Northwest LNG and involves the front-end engineering design (FEED) and early detailed engineering services for an LNG project on Lelu Island, British Columbia. The project includes: Two six-million ...
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Highway patrol 29 hurt in Ohio bus car crash
A woman who fell asleep while driving after midnight Thursday plowed into a highway trooper’s patrol car that had its lights flashing at an Interstate 95 exit ramp, police ...
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Oklahoma tornado family pictured round the world identified
Oklahoma , which was hit by the EF5 tornado. The image was so powerful it was carried by multiple news organisations, featuring on the front page of this morning's Daily Telegraph.Steve Cobb can be seen carrying his ...
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Is South America’s latest strongman a woman
LIMA, Peru - High heels and mascara may be the last things that spring to mind when talking about Latin America’s pantheon of authoritarian strongmen. Yet for her opponents, the latest controversial move of Argentina’s immaculately made-up president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, has cemented her place in the region’s ...
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Man shot killed by FBI knew Boston bombing suspect friend says
DEVELOPING: A man who was fatally shot by an FBI agent late Tuesday in Florida knew one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, a friend of the victim said Wednesday. MyFoxOrlando.com reports that the unidentified agent encountered the man while conducting official duties, according to a statement by FBI Agent Dave Couvertier. A man at the scene who identified himself as a ...
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DOJ RECORDS GRAB Agency Seized Phone Records Tied to Fox News
Newly uncovered court documents show the Justice Department seized phone records associated with several Fox News lines as part of a leak investigation -- a revelation that comes as the White House Correspondents' Association spoke out against the administration's monitoring of reporters. Documents from October 2011 appear to show exchanges that match the specific locations of Fox ...
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Son Catch Star Was No Angel
In 2010 millions of viewers mourned the untimely death of Captain Phil Harris, the star of "Deadliest Catch" who died at age 53 of a stroke and heart failure. Now his two sons Josh and Jake Harris have written a biography of their dad. Even though Josh Harris told FOX 411 they adored their father, the pair don't paint a purely angelic portrait of him. His womanizing, hard drinking ...
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Tim Bosma public memorial set for today in Hamilton
Tim Bosma and his wife Sharlene, parents of a two-year-old daughter, celebrated their wedding at Carmen's Banquet Hall in Hamilton on Feb. 13, 2010. On Wednesday, the public will honour the Ancaster man in a public memorial at the same banquet hall. ...
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Slide Show The 10 most truly made-in-America cars
Domestic brands have the most American-made content in the U.S. according to a new index released by American University's Kogod School of Business. Professor Frank DuBois, a global supply chain management expert, led the analysis, which considered not only where each vehicle's parts were produced, but also the location of the manufacturer's headquarters and other details, all in ...
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Obama schedule for Wednesday May 22
Michelle Obama , a concert in the East Room honoring singer-songwriter Carole King, who will be awarded the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The concert is part of the "In Performance at the White House" series. Vice ...
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Canadas west coast readies for LNG exports
Malaysian energy company Petronas said it started work on a project that would facilitate liquefied natural gas exports from Canada's west coast. Technip announced it was awarded an engineering contract by Pacific NorthWest LNG Ltd. for a liquefied natural gas project slated for development on Lelu Island, British Columbia. The facility will have the capacity to process 6 million tons of ...
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Watergate No this is something uniquely Obama
President Barack Obama answers questions during his news conference at the White House on April 30, 2013. Mr. Obama said the U.S. doesn't know how chemical weapons were used in Syria or by ...
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Slowdown Nearly half of Canadian home owners eager to buy property
Undeterred by record-high housing prices and bolstered by low borrowing costs, nearly half of Canadian home owners plan to buy a property in the next five years, although intentions vary sharply from city to city, a poll released Wednesday has found.According to a Bank of Montreal survey, 45 per cent of Canadian home owners surveyed this spring are looking to buy a place in the next five years, ...
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Is America’s Economy Being Sovietized
The Tyranny Of Planned Economy The characteristics of a free market society defy the use of centralized planning. Adam Smith's original concept of free market trade stood as an antithesis to what was then referred to as "mercantilism," a select few "joint stock companies" (corporations) monopolizing production while using government ties to destroy any new competition. ...
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Homes next to Florida sinkhole to be demolished
A Florida man has been swallowed by a sinkhole that opened under his bedroom, according to CNN. The 36-year-old man vanished Thursday night under his home after his brother tried to rescue him from going under, the network reported. Authorities said the hole is about 100 feet wide and getting bigger. "When he got there, there was no bedroom left," Hillsborough County Fire ...
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Twister Parents face tough choice when tornadoes bear down
By DAVID A. LIEB,Associated Press MOORE, Okla. (AP) - With an ominous storm approaching, the Moore Public School District flashed a text alert to parents: "We are currently holding all students until the current storm danger is over. Students are being released to parents only at this time."Parents had a gut-wrenching choice, and only a few minutes to make it. Trust the safety of the ...
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Voices heard in Australian site where Canadian hiker went missing
TORONTO -- As the frantic search for a missing Canadian bushwalker continues in Australia's Snowy Mountains region, there are reports of "voices" being heard in the area. ...
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FBI agent fatally shoots man in Orlando
ORLANDO - The friend of a suspect shot by an FBI agent in Orlando Wednesday morning says agents were questioning the suspect about the Boston Marathon bombings, something the FBI has not confirmed, WFTV ...
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Video forensics How easy would it be to fake a Rob Ford video
Should the alleged video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford become public, a video forensic analysis could reveal whether or not the video is authentic. (Nathan Denette/Canadian ...
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Eritreans in Canada say consul still demands cash from them
There are calls to expel Eritrea's top diplomat in Canada because he presides over a system that's milking money from the Eritrean community in this country. Evidence obtained by CBC News suggests Consul Semere Ghebremariam O. Micael is again soliciting taxes despite a threat by Canada eight months ago not to renew his credentials if he kept at it. But one Eritrean in Toronto, who ...
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Sisters ejected from Pa. mall over cancer hats
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (AP) -- Three sisters say they were kicked out of a suburban Philadelphia mall after refusing to remove profanity-laden hats expressing their hatred of breast ...
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Cleveland kidnapping victims happy and safe
http://bit.ly/182K1Xz ) reports that attorneys who are representing Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight for free say the women are "happy and safe and continue to heal, a process that requires time 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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