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B-list scandals begin to take the shine off Barack Obamas halo
Such, right now, is the unhappy situation of Barack Obama, assailed on three separate counts, all falling beneath the umbrella charge of over-mighty and deceitful government. The first relates to the death of four American officials in last September's attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The second concerns the secret seizure by the Justice Department of journalists' phone ...
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Alaska volcano shoots lava up hundreds of feet
Alaska's remote Pavlof Volcano has been shooting lava hundreds of feet into the air, but its ash plume is thinning and is no longer making it dangerous for airplanes to fly ...
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Hero Philly cop arrested charged with rape other crimes
A former Philadelphia police officer once hailed as a hero and given a seat next to the first lady at a speech by President Obama has been arrested and charged with rape and other crimes. Authorities allege that former officer Richard DeCoatsworth left a party with two females early Thursday and took them to another location, where they allege that he produced a handgun and "forced the two ...
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Senate expense claim scandal dampers Victoria Day festivities
Play video OTTAWA - Tory MPs may not be in the mood for fireworks and barbecues over the Victoria Day weekend, amid a Senate expense claim scandal that forced Senators Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin to leave the party caucus. "I'm getting calls from loyal Conservatives furious over the Senate," one MP told QMI Agency on condition of anonymity. "And I'm mad with rage, ...
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Can you know too much about your genes Jolie has turned a spotlight on genome testing but it may have risks
Brynne Stainsby had known for 15 years a simple blood test could determine whether she, like her father, carried a gene for Huntington’s Disease. A positive result would all but guarantee the Toronto chiropractor would get the devastating neuro-degenerative genetic disorder that often becomes noticeable in mid-adult life. She put it off, mostly out of youth. But in her mid 20s, she did ...
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McCartney Kicks Off North American Tour In Orlando
ORLANDO (CBSMiami/AP) -- Former Beatles star Paul McCartney’s North American tour kicks off Saturday night in Orlando, and if the elaborate production equipment involved is any indication, spectators are in for a quite the show. McCartney’s ';Out There'; tour requires31 trucks worth of equipment, including spectacular lasers and lighting, huge pyrotechnics, and ...
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Funeral held for mom son found dead in home
TRENTON, N.J. -; Funeral services have been held for the New Jersey woman and boy whose bodies were found in their home after a 37-hour hostage standoff last ...
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Impossible Choice Faces Americas First Climate Refugees
The 350 residents of Newtok, Alaska, will soon be the country's first "climate refugees." The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says their village is likely to be underwater in just four ...
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FBI searches Spokane apartment in ricin letter case
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- Authorities in hazardous materials suits are searching an apartment in downtown Spokane as they investigate the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin.FBI agents, Spokane police officers and U.S. Postal Inspection Service officials descended on the apartment Saturday morning.No arrests have been made. An FBI spokeswoman has not said ...
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Lawyer Confirms She Asked Planted Question That Broke IRS Scandal
The first revelation that the IRS was targeting Tea Party groups came in a planted question during a lawyers' conference earlier this month, the attorney who asked the question confirmed Saturday with Fox News. The inspector general report on the IRS targeting Tea Party groups and other conservative-leaning political organizations applying for tax-exempt status was complete, so the agency ...
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Witnesses Car drives into crowd at Virginia parade
DAMASCUS, Va. – Witnesses in southwestern Virginia said a car drove into a crowd at a parade Saturday and hurt several people, but the nature of their injuries wasn't immediately known. It happened around 2:30 p.m. during the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival, an annual celebration of the Appalachian Trail in Damascus, a small mountain town near the Tennessee state line about ...
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Obama administration queries group about content of prayers
Schock , a Republican from Illinois, asked departing IRS commissioner Steven Miller during a meeting of the House Ways and Means Committee about his agency's targeting a pro-life group in ...
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Cop honoured by Obama accused of rape
DeCoatsworth was invited to sit between First lady Michelle Obama and Joe Biden's wife Jill during the president's address to a joint session of Congress three years ago. Picture: AP/Ron ...
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First lady Michelle Obama to high school grads Live your dreams
First lady Michelle Obama, second from right, hands out diplomas at the graduation ceremony for Martin Luther King, Jr. Academic Magnet High School on Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Nashville, ...
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The United States and Britain on Monday pledged to forge ahead with diplomatic efforts to end the civil war in Syria saying they had found common ground with Russia on how to proceed.
WASHINGTON (AFP) The United States and Britain stepped up pressure on Russia over Syria, but President Barack Obama warned old suspicions could trample new "common ground" on the crisis. Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron sought to build momentum behind a new US-Russia sponsored conference on Syria, now expected to take place in June, as they met at the White House. ...
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What Obama must say to black grads
>Editor's note: Paul Butler is a law professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of "Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice. "(CNN) -- "My brothers. "That is how President Obama should begin one of the most significant speeches of his presidency: the commencement address at Morehouse College this ...
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Obama’s Toxic Stew IRS Benghazi AP Scandals Stoke Fear of Government
There's a toxic stew right now in Washington: a White House whose credibility is completely gone; a federal government whose abuse of power against citizens, political opponents and the media is out of control; a policymaking apparatus that is defined by inaction and malfeasance; and an economy in which businesses have little confidence, and expansion is almost ...
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Suspect identified in fatal Hofstra home invasion
Last Sunday Andrea Rebello, a 21-year-old Hofstra University junior studying public relations, posted a recipe for how to prepare July 4-themed strawberries covered in sparkling sugars on her ...
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Obama Vows to Work with Britain on Syria
President Obama vowed Monday to work with Britain to pressure the Syrian government to end its bloody civil war, calling the violence there appalling. With Prime Minister David Cameron at his side, Obama said the two allies would work to strengthen moderate opposition against the hardline regime of President Bashar al-Assad. The two also discussed the Mideast peace process and a possible ...
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Email is proof Senate green-lighted expenses Brazeau says
Senator Patrick Brazeau says he will not pay back $48,000 in Senate expenses because he has evidence he was given the green light to claim the costs for his secondary residence in Ottawa. In an interview airing Saturday on CBC ...
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One fisherman dead two missing off N.B. coast
(Fotolia) One fisherman has been found dead and the search is on for two others after their boat hit a sandbar off the coast of New Brunswick Saturday. The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax said it received a distress call from the men at around 5:30 a.m. A spokesman said the dead man was found near the sandbar and the Canadian Coast Guard is looking for the other two men who were ...
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Father two young boys fighting for lives after blaze rips through Montreal home
STE-THERESE, Que. -- A father and his two boys, ages 10 and seven, were fighting for their lives Saturday after an early morning fire at a home north of Montreal. The family's mother and their three-year-old girl were also taken to hospital with serious injuries. Police said the family of five was found unconscious at the site of the fire -- an apartment in a four-unit building in ...
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America Ferrera Eyes TV Comeback On ABC
America Ferrera may return to ABC. The former "Ugly Betty" actress' telenovela project "Pedro & Maria" is in development at the broadcast network as a potential limited series. Originally developed at MTV three years ago, "Pedro & Maria" is a modern day twist on "Romeo and Juliet." The project is from executive producer Ben Silverman ...
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Barack Obama’s budget would cut $1 trillion from US deficit
Obama’s budget proposal, if enacted into law, would cut more than $1.1 trillion from the government’s projected deficits over the next 10 ...
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Report Obama Trims Afghan War Budget Request
The Reuters news agency quotes an unidentified White House aide as saying the president has decreased his request for funding the war in Afghanistan by 10 percent for the 2014 fiscal year budget. The report says the president reduced his original request from $88.5 billion to $79.4 billion. The White House issued a statement Friday saying the change was made to account for the drawdown of ...
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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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