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Man pleads guilty in Picasso vandalism case
HOUSTON -; A man accused of vandalizing a 1929 Pablo Picasso painting in an act that was caught on cellphone video has pleaded guilty in exchange for a two-year prison ...
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Police Suspect in Iowa abduction killed himself
This photo provided by The Iowa Department of Public Safety shows Kathlynn Shepard, 15. Authorities said Tuesday, May 21, 2013, a man suspected of abducting Shepard and a 12-year-old girl from a bus stop in central Iowa has been found dead, but a search continues for Shepard. Authorities said the 12-year-old girl was able to escape and ran to a nearby rural residence for help. (AP Photo/Iowa ...
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Fort Jackson commander facing adultery charges
WASHINGTON -; The Army says the commanding general of Fort Jackson, S.C., has been suspended in connection with charges of adultery and involvement in a physical ...
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Senate votes to make small cut to food stamps
WASHINGTON -; The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a $400 million annual cut - or roughly a half of 1 percent - to the food stamp program as part of a major five-year farm ...
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Moniz LNG exports on hold until data reviewed
Dr. Ernest Moniz speaks after being sworn in as Energy Secretary, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, during a ceremony at the Energy Department in Washington. Moniz, 68, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, replaces Steven Chu, who served as energy secretary in President Barack Obama's first term. Moniz served as an energy undersecretary in the Clinton administration. (AP ...
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IRS chief knew tea party groups targeted in 2012
former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman testifies on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, before the Senate Finance Committee hearing on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) practice of targeting applicants for tax-exempt status based on political leanings. (AP Photo/Charles ...
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YieldBoost United States Steel From 1.1 To 5.8
NYSE: X ) looking to boost their income beyond the stock's 1.1% annualized dividend yield can sell the January 2015 covered call at the $27 strike and collect the premium based on the $1.49 bid, which annualizes to an additional 4.7% rate of return against the current stock price (at ...
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AES supplies energy at Central Americas and the Caribbean’s most competitive prices
Santo Domingo.- The consolidated portfolio of energy generators that the power company AES manages offer the most competitive electricity prices in the local market as well as the Central America and Caribbean region. This was revealed by Marco De la Rosa, during breakfast the Energy Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAMDR), explaining that "AES sells a kilowatt hour of ...
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Boyce Watkins Obama Lacks Moral Authority to Give No Excuses Speech at Morehouse
Dr. Boyce Watkins Popular black scholar and political commentator Dr. Boyce Watkins ripped into President Barack Obama on Monday for lacking what he believes is the moral authority to tell graduates at the prestigious historically black Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., that racism is no longer an excuse for failure in America.In ...
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Canada Targets Both U.S. And Europe In Effort To Get White House Approval For Tar Sands Pipeline
doubled its spending on advertising to promote the Keystone XL pipeline and the production of tar sands oil. The effort to sell the pipeline to the U.S. and the resultant tar sands oil to Europe comes in spite of increasing revelations about the destructiveness of tar sands oil. ...
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Gitmo Price Tag Jumps By $200M As Obama Renews Push For Closure
told Foreign Policy this week . ';No one thought [Gitmo] would be open this long, so they didn’t build any accommodations for the troops.'; That $200 million is on top of ...
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Canadas Ryder Hesjedal recovering from respiratory infection
Canadian Ryder Hesjedal, seen during an earlier Giro d'Italia stage in Italy, was seeking to become the first successful defending champ of the event in over two decades. (Fabio Ferrari/Associated ...
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Bay Roberts couple win $2M on scratch ticket
Wayne and Mary Hiltz of Bay Roberts are the latest lotto millionaires in Newfoundland and Labrador. Wayne Hiltz bought a $20 winning scratch ticket Thursday afternoon at Powell's Supermarket, after finding out that his usual brand of cigarettes was out of stock. Soon after, grocery manager Sylvia Rose recalled, a surprised Hiltz came back to confirm that he had just hit the $2-million ...
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Senate set to debate expense audits amid greater scrutiny
The Senate will debate reports tonight about the living and travel claims of three senators who have all been ordered to repay inappropriately claimed money. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian ...
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Vigilante mom charged for defending son say cops
Vigilante set up sting in Timmies MONTREAL - A Montreal woman paid the price after police said she took the law into her own hands when her son was allegedly attacked by a gang of assailants. Police have charged her with stabbing one of the alleged attackers. So far, she's the only one charged. As for why they didn't immediately charge other suspects, police said they were still ...
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Girl 11 at wheel in deadly accident
B.C. teen busted doing 100 km/h over the limit VANCOUVER -- An 11-year-old girl was behind the wheel when a 12-year-old girl -- a passenger -- was killed in a crash in northern B.C., police say. The Jeep turned on its side as the driver lost control, according to police in Mackenzie, about 950 km north of Vancouver. A 41-year-old man was in the car supervising at the time of the accident. The ...
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‘When the going gets tough the tough go to Peru’ NDP slams PM for trip in middle of Senate scandal
OTTAWA -- The fact that Prime Minister Stephen Harper wasn’t in question period Tuesday did little to deflect the opposition attack over the Senate expense scandal. Earlier in the day, Harper held a rare public caucus speech to tell Canadians he was ';not happy'; about the controversy, which saw his chief of staff resign Sunday. ';I’m very upset about the conduct we ...
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White House threatens veto of bill to bypass Obama on Keystone
By Ros Krasny WASHINGTON | Tue May 21, 2013 5:57pm EDT WASHINGTON May 21 (Reuters) - The White House has threatened to veto legislation pending in the U.S House of Representatives that could strip from President Barack Obama the authority to approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. The Republican-controlled House is expected on Wednesday to vote on, and almost certainly approve, ...
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FiveThirtyEight Is the Economy Saving Obama’s Approval Ratings
Political coverage over the last week has focused on a series of stories that reflect negatively on the executive branch -- but President Obama’s approval ratings have held steady. As of Monday, Mr. Obama’s Gallup approval rating was 49 percent -- the same as it was, on average, in April. Mr. Obama’s Rasmussen Reports approval rating was 48 percent, not much changed from an ...
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Obama Addresses LGBT Community During Morehouse College Graduation
at Georgia's Morehouse College was inclusive. The Atlanta-based historically black private college is exclusively for men, but Obama spontaneously ...
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Fox News poll Obama ratings dip voters say government out of control
After a week of revelations about government spying on reporters and the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservatives, most voters feel "like the federal government has gotten out of control and is threatening the basic civil liberties of Americans." At the same ...
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Jon Karl demands answers on why President Obama didnt retroactively stop IRS targeting
ABC's Jonathan Karl moves past "fake but accurate"-gate and demands answers from White House Press Secretary Jay Carney about why President Obama didn't stop the IRS from targeting of conservative 501(c)(4) ...
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Carlos Slim to sell stake in Philip Morris Mexico
Grupo Carso company is selling its stake in Philip Morris's Mexico unit to the US tobacco giant for $700 million, the firms said Tuesday. Grupo Carso holds a 20 percent stake in Philip Morris Mexico (PMM) and the companies expect to complete the transaction by September 30, ending a three-decade partnership between Slim and the maker of Marlboro cigarettes. Philip Morris holds almost ...
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Same-sex couples inch toward sharing benefits in Mexico City
Same-sex couples are a step closer to being able to share social security benefits after one government agency changed its policy in May 2013. Same-sex marriage has been legal for three years in Mexico City. But delays in Congress to revise the social security laws continue to leave spouses without access to each other's ...
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Soldiers flood western Mexico to protect towns
COALCOMAN, Mexico (AP) -- Mexico's top security officials promised Tuesday that a new federal offensive to rescue towns besieged by the Knights Templar drug cartel in western Michoacan state would stay "until there is security and peace for all state ...
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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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