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Team Obama’s endless Syria bungling
Since his inauguration, President Obama’s gullibility about Syria’s brutal dictatorship and its ally Russia’s Middle East objectives has injured America’s stakes in the region. In the third year of Syria’s bloody, grinding civil war, Assad remains in power, contrary to near-universal predictions in the West, and Moscow is still running rings around Washington.Obama ...
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How quick thinking saved family from almost certain death
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Bid to tighten Americas Cup safety
23 May 2013 Sailing experts have made 37 recommendations they say will increase safety in the America's Cup, following the death of British Olympic sailing champion Andrew ...
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It takes more than a tornado to crush spirit of small town
Caitlin McBride - 23 May 2013 I remember once, when I was a child growing up in New York, gathering in my basement with my mother and sister after our neighbourhood was placed under a tornado ...
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Little pals died hand in hand
Antonia Lee Candelaria and Emily Conatzer, inseparable nine-year-old best friends, died hand-in-hand in the rubble.And Janae Hornsby (9), described by her father as "sunshine on rainy day", was also among the seven pupils killed when Plaza Towers elementary school in ...
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Gun rights advocates file lawsuit over Conn. gun law
April 10, 2013: A rack of AR-15 rifles stand to be individually packaged as workers move a pallet of rifles for shipment at the Stag Arms company in New Britain, ...
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Doctors save Ohio boy by printing an airway tube- Polish man gets face transplant 3 weeks after injury
In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day. It's the latest advance from the booming field of regenerative medicine, making body parts in the lab. In the case of Kaiba Gionfriddo, doctors didn't have a moment to spare. Because of a birth defect, the ...
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Obama offers big shift on drones terror policy
The Obama administration formally acknowledged for the first time that it had killed four U.S. citizens in drone strikes outside the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, saying its actions were justified by the danger to the United ...
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Gov. Fallin on Obama’s visit ‘We hope it brings encouragement’
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin talks to MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell about President Obama's upcoming visit and the road to recovery in Moore, Oklahoma after the massive tornado that left at least 24 ...
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Wait time and primary care reforms stalled
Shortening wait times for hip and knee replacements, increasing electronic health records and starting a national pharmacare strategy are stalled, according to a new progress report. The Health Council of Canada releases its report on health care renewal in Saskatoon on ...
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford sacked as football coach
Rob Ford coaches the Don Bosco football team. (CRAIG ROBERTSON/Toronto Sun files) Players on the Don Bosco Eagles football team are backing now ex-coach Mayor Rob Ford, who was dumped Wednesday by the Toronto Catholic District School Board. A statement from the TCDSB Wednesday says Ford was notified of the boardâs decision to âpursue a different directionâ with a ...
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Too-Big-To-Jail Dogs Obamas Justice Department As Government Documents Raise Questions
The U.S. Department of Justice appears to have neither conducted nor received any analyses that would show whether criminal charges against large financial institutions would harm the economy, potentially undermining a key DOJ argument for why the world's biggest banks have escaped indictment. Testimony by a top Justice official and fresh documents made public on Wednesday during ...
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Obama Drones Speech To Lay Out Rationale Reiterate Guantanamo Bay Prison Closure Pledge
WASHINGTON, May 22 (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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Hillary Clinton accepts humanitarian award in NYC
FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2013 file photo, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton laughs as she gives a speech during a ceremony honoring her at the Pentagon in Washington. Clinton was honored with the 2013 Helen Keller Humanitarian Award from Helen Keller International in New York on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, ...
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Fire Marshals Office Panel had blast site access
AUSTIN, Texas -; The State Fire Marshal's Office says a federal safety panel's investigators had access to the site of a Texas fertilizer plant blast that killed 15 people and injured about 200 ...
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Troubled Past Aside Obama Wants Putin As Ally
Dmitry Medvedev , now the country's Prime Minister, discussed a "reset" of relations, the Cold War's Punch & Judy have been more like frenemies than friends. Obama reaffirmed on Wednesday his desire to strengthen the beleaguered bilateral relationship with Russia during talks with ...
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2013 North American Effie Effectiveness Index Reveals The Most Effective Advertisers
2013 Most Effective Advertisers In North America What defines the most effective advertisers in North America? They embrace the full breadth of media and creative available to them. That's reflected in the 2013 North American Effie Effectiveness Index, ...
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US tornado survivors begin rebuilding their lives President Obama to meet them on Sunday
Oklahoma City suburb rolled up their sleeves Wednesday under a blazing sun and got down to the long, hard task of rebuilding their lives. Local authorities in Moore deemed it safe for everyone who lived within the 17-mile (27-kilometer) long disaster zone to return to their homes, or what little remained of their homes, to collect whatever belongings they could. Twenty-four people died when the ...
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Patrushev Delivered Putin Reply to Obama – Russian Embassy
letter from President Vladimir Putin to US President Barack Obama, the Russian Embassy in the United States said. The letter is a response to ...
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Boxes of cash seized in Mexico corruption probe
MEXICO CITY -; Mexican authorities say they have seized five boxes filled with cash as part of an investigation into alleged embezzlement by a former governor of southern Tabasco ...
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Tornado touched down in Kawartha Lakes Environment Canada confirms
Environment Canada says it has confirmed that a tornado touched down Tuesday in the Kawartha Lakes region of Central Ontario.Meteorologist Peter Kimbell says damage to a house and barn helped officials who examined the area Wednesday afternoon confirm the tornado.Mr. Kimbell says it was an EF-2 tornado, with winds of between 180 and 200 kilometres an hour. The EF scale rates tornadoes from zero ...
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Safety recommendations released for Americas Cup
SAN FRANCISCO -; A group of sailing experts has released 37 recommendations they say will increase safety in the America's Cup, which is set to take place on the wind-raked San Francisco Bay this ...
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Obama honors Carole King at White House concert
President Barack Obama presents the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song during an East Room concert honoring singer-songwriter Carole King, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, at the White House in Washington. King is the first woman to receive the award. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn ...
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Audits detail side jobs for state managers
SACRAMENTO -; Hundreds of state government managers who were supposed to be working on salary also took lower-level jobs in the same class and facility, padding their pay with hourly wages, a series of state audits has ...
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Americas Cup makes changes to improve safety following death
By Noel Randewich and Jonathan Weber SAN FRANCISCO | Wed May 22, 2013 10:22pm EDT SAN FRANCISCO May 22 (Reuters) - America's Cup organizers said on Wednesday that they have made rule changes to improve safety in the upcoming regatta after a fatal training accident on San Francisco Bay earlier this month. As a result of investigations into the death of a sailor when an ultra-fast ...
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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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