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Gov. Christie Jersey Shore cast reopen NJ beaches
May 18, 2013: Angelina Zuzuro, 16, of Denville, takes photos near a sign in Seaside Heights, N.J.. The boardwalks are back, and so are most of the beaches, even if some are a little thinner this year. The smell of funnel cakes, french fries and pizza will mingle with the salt air, and the screech of seagulls will be heard. But so will the thwack of hammers repairing what can be fixed and the ...
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Doh Simpsons Get Theme Park
Do'h! America's favorite animated dysfunctional TV family is coming to Universal Orlando. The theme park announced Thursday that Springfield, home of "The Simpsons," is expanding to become a theme park-within-a-theme park based on the fictional town at the heart of the Matt Groening-created series. Fans of the longrunning Fox animated series --which has run for 24 seasons ...
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5 Most Efficient Cars
It's official: Cars really are getting more efficient. Not that there isn't a long way still to go, but virtually every month statistics emerge to suggest the average fuel efficiency of vehicles in the U.S. has gone up another few fractions of a percent. There are still winners and losers though, so we decided to think positive and look at the winners--just what are the most ...
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National Security Brief Obama Admin Looks To South Carolina For Gitmo Detainee Military Trials
told the Wall Street Journal that a leading candidate for military commissions — which are currently being held at Guantanamo — is the Naval Brig at Charleston, S.C. ';Charleston has been used to hold other terrorism suspects, and has been considered for other military terrorism trials in the past,'; the Journal notes. ';Still, officials said no formal decision has ...
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Seattle Bridge Collapse Another Sign That America’s Infrastructure Is In Bad Shape
an Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River in Seattle collapsed , sending two cars into the water and injuring three people. So far no fatalities have been reported. Authorities don't yet know what caused the collapse. Another bridge ...
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Obama softens US policy on drones
what was the importance -- talked about the president's drone poll sichlt it's a policy that's been controversial, though very popular with the public. how do you believe the president framed a drone debate moving ...
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Why Obamas speech was one of the best of his presidency
Must-Read Op-Eds: Mika Brzezinski reads from Charles Krauthammer's latest Washington Post column on the IRS' scrutiny of Tea Party groups. Brzezinski also reads from an NYT editorial on President Obama's Thursday speech on counterterrorism. MSNBC.com's Richard Wolffe also joins the conversation. Willie Geist also reports on the opening of the Jersey Shore for the Memorial Day ...
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Joe Oliver challenges Trudeaus west-east pipeline tone
Federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver is accusing Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau of trying to be on both sides of the west-east pipeline ...
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Canadian Hurricane Centre set to release 2013 forecast
High winds from Hurricane Igor toppled trees in St. John's in 2010. The Canadian Hurricane Centre is set to release its forecast for the 2013 hurricane season. (Paul Daly/Canadian ...
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Barack Obama seeks end to perpetual U.S. war on terror
WASHINGTON - Twelve years after the "war on terror" began, President Barack Obama wants to pull the United States back from some of the most controversial aspects of its global fight against Islamist militants. In a major policy speech on Thursday, Obama narrowed the scope of the targeted-killing drone campaign against al-Qaida and its allies and took steps toward closing the ...
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Mayor Rob Ford video sellers have disappeared Gawker
Online reaction to Mark Towhey's firing TORONTO - So where are the guys who are trying to sell the notorious alleged Mayor Rob Ford "crack smoking" video? And where is the most sought-after video in Toronto history itself? The guy trying to buy it for $200,000 would like to know. As of right now they, as well as it, have disappeared. "I haven't been in contact with ...
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CANADA STOCKS-TSX opens lower on stimulus pullback fears
TORONTO, May 24 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index opened lower on Friday, led by weaker financial and energy shares, as fears of an early end to the U.S. government bond-buying program offset data showing positive economic sentiment in Germany. The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index was down 33.62 points, or 0.27 percent, at 12,624.47 shortly after the ...
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Americas Top Colleges Have a Rich Kid Problem
, elite schools do a consistently poor job recruiting the intelligent but low-income high school students who could benefit most from a top-notch education. Part of their problem, as Josh ...
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Argue Like Americas Most Controversial Philosopher
Our annual guide to the businesses that matter most; the ones whose innovations are having an impact across their industries and our ...
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Obama U.S. is not at war with Islam
President Barack Obama delivers a speech on his administration's counterterrorism policy at the National Defense University located on Fort McNair in Washington, D.C., on May 23, 2013. UPI/Kristoffer ...
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Bushs war on terror over
>Editor's note: Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a director at the New America Foundation and the author of "Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden -- From 9/11 to Abbottabad," the basis for the HBO documentary "Manhunt" that will be shown on CNN at 9 p.m. today. Washington (CNN) -- In the past few weeks, we've seen a British soldier hacked to death with a meat cleaver on ...
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Jindal Obamas woes flow out of big government philosophy
>Editor's note: Bobby Jindal, a Republican, is governor of Louisiana.(CNN) -- The latest problems with the IRS witch hunt, the seizure of phone records from The Associated Press, the conflicting Benghazi stories and disastrous attempts to enforce Obamacare may all seem unrelated, but they are not. Each of these events is the direct byproduct of two central philosophies of the Obama ...
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When company owns human genes
>Editor's note: Gayle Sulik is a medical sociologist, founder of the Breast Cancer Consortium and author of "Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women's Health. " Follow her on Twitter: @pinkribbonblues(CNN) -- Angelina Jolie, when writing about her preventive double mastectomy, did not discuss how much her surgeries cost, but she did mention that many women would not be ...
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Could Weiner replace Bloomberg
To listen to the podcast, click on the Soundcloud audio player above. Or find it on iTunes. But back to Anthony Weiner: For those of you who missed it, in 2011 the former congressman texted pictures of his private parts to women, lied about it, had to resign. We all agreed his mayoral bid can't simply be dismissed as a ...
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Chatter Obama pledges to curtail drones
in a landmark policy speech , has defended the use of drones, arguing the United States is fighting a "just war" of self defense and countless lives have been saved by thwarting terror attacks. The US president also announced new guidelines, saying drone strikes would be used only when a threat was "continuing and imminent." In Pakistan, where hundreds have been killed by ...
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Red state Dems defect on Keystone pipeline
Two red state Democratic senators signaled support Thursday for legislation authorizing the Keystone XL pipeline opposed by President Barack Obama, Democratic Party leaders, and influential Democratic donors. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D- N.D., told the Washington Free Beacon in a statement that she will support legislation passed by the House on Wednesday to approve construction of the ...
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Is Britney Mentally Stable
Watch out Sin City - Britney Spears is headed your way. The pop star is slated to get down and dirty in Sin City night after night with her own Vegas show, following in the footsteps of musical greats such as Celine Dion, Cher and Bette Midler. Although an official announcement is yet to be made, Spears has confirmed that she is already sweating it out to get her body in tip-top shape for the ...
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House Items You Need to Clean
My Genius Idea: Shoe Rack for the Pantry When you see mold and mildew: Pour to 1 cup of bleach into the bottom of the dishwasher and run a full cycle. For stainless-steel interiors, use vinegar and baking soda. Clean: Once a ...
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Kutcher Its Not My Fault
It's not me, it's you. That was the message from actor and tech investor Ashton Kutcher, who was on hand at CTIA 2013 to discuss his views on the mobile industry and social networking. During the keynote, Kutcher was asked how he thought Twitter was monetizing the mobile market. The star of the upcoming film, "jOBS," said the media messed up the social ...
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Barack Obamas Scandals Confirm That Hes Not A CEO
(Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) Every CEO is a politician. Not every politician is a CEO. The current set of messes that President Obama faces makes the point. They are as much management failures as they are political/legal nightmares. There is a price for having no market-facing executive experience. Indeed, Mr. Obama's first cabinet had almost no private sector management ...
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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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