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Barack Obama under pressure as Guantanamo hunger strike passes 100th day
United States The hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay has passed the 100-day mark, with a lawyer for a dozen of the prisoners voicing concerns they will die in detention.The US military has confirmed that 103 of the camp's 166 inmates are now refusing food, and 30 of them are being ...
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Obama gets personal addressing grads
At his commencement address at Morehouse College, President Barack Obama tied Dr. Martin Luther King's journey to his own struggles, NBC's Lester Holt ...
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Under-fire Obama should drop the wistful petulant approach
"No Drama Obama is immersed in drama so over the top it could have been scripted by Shonda Rhimes and Karl Rove . . . The one-time messiah seems like a sad sack, trying to bounce back from a blistering array of sins that are not even his fault. He went to Baltimore on Friday to talk about jobs. But no one was listening." Photograph: Kristoffer Tripplaar-Pool/Getty ...
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Neil Reynolds an editor who refused to run with the pack dies at 86
Neil Reynolds made a career out of steering Canadian newspapers along uncharted courses, looking for stories with scant regard for the safe or predictable. He wanted storytelling, and got it, by letting reporters off the leash with a rare degree of freedom. Reynolds died of cancer in Ottawa on Sunday at the age of 72. Born in Kingston, Ont., Reynolds was a high-school dropout who became city ...
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Americas Cup Changes Are Sought After Death of Sailor
More than a week after the death of British sailor Andrew Simpson in a training accident, none of the four ...
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Weeklong traffic mess possible after CT derailment
Traffic in southwest Connecticut could be a mess for as much as a week until service is restored to the commuter rail line affected by a derailment that injured scores of passengers, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy warned ...
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Venezuela in rare diplomatic overture to America
CARACAS - Venezuela on Sunday made a rare diplomatic overture to the United States, suggesting it could be time for better ties."We are going to remain open to normalizing relations with the United States," Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said on Televen television Sunday."The first thing would be to resume diplomatic representation at the highest level," he said.The ...
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Count your blessings a religious America
An unforgettable scene in the kids movie Madagascar 2 has King Julian, "Lord of the Lemurs," reclining with his friends at the luxury end of a rickety old plane watching newsreels of aircraft crashes while the penguins dubiously take the controls.When Melman, the giraffe, walks to the front and pokes his head through the curtain dividing 'cattle class' from the elites, Julian ...
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The part of Obamas speech that struck Morehouse students most
Dr. John Silvanus Wilson Jr., president of Morehouse College, and new Morehouse graduate Leland Shelton, share their reactions to President Obama's commencement address there with MSNBC's Craig ...
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Rob Ford urged to address crack allegations
Mayor Rob Ford leaves his home Friday, May 17, 2013, amid allegations there is a video showing him smoking crack cocaine. (CRAIG ROBERTSON/QMI ...
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‘Subject to parliamentary approval’ Harper government buys prime-time ads to promote job grant program that may never exist
The Harper government is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars advertising a program that does not yet exist. Prime-time ads began airing this week during NHL playoff games – currently the priciest advertising real estate on the dial _ that tout a new federal Canada Jobs Grant for training workers. The trouble is, the freshly announced program is at present little more than a concept ...
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Officer who mistakenly shot Hofstra student faced harrowing choice expert says
The police officer who accidentally killed a Long Island college student along with an armed intruder faced perhaps the most harrowing decision of a law enforcement career: choosing the split-second moment when the risk is so high that you must act to save a ...
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Obama cultivating culture of cover-ups and intimidation Cornyn says
(CBS News) Fielding controversies ranging from the attack last Sept. 11 in Benghazi, Libya to the targeting scandal at the Internal Revenue Service, President Obama is cultivating "a culture of cover-ups and intimidation," Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Sunday on "Face the Nation." "It seems to be the answer of the administration, whenever they're caught doing ...
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Commuters warned of traffic mess for up to 1 week
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is warning commuters that a traffic mess awaits them in southwest Connecticut for as long as a week until service is restored to Metro-North following a derailment that injured scores of ...
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Obama Optimistic Despite Shortage of Common Sense in DC
May 19, 2013 6:23pm ATLANTA — President Obama said today he remains optimistic about the prospects for his second term agenda despite what he called a ';shortage of common sense'; in the nation’s capital. ';We’ve got good, common-sense solutions that we can implement right now. The bad news is, is that there’s a shortage of common sense in ...
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Obama to discuss counterterrorism strategy
National Defense University in Washington, the president will discuss "our broad counter-terrorism policy, including our military, diplomatic, intelligence and legal efforts," a White House official said. "He will review the state of the threats we face, particularly ...
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Obama to discuss Guantanamo closure
US President Barack Obama will this week reveal his plans for unmanned drones and Guantanamo Bay, the White House says. During a speech on Thursday at the National Defense University in Washington, the president will discuss "our broad counter-terrorism policy, including our military, diplomatic, intelligence and legal efforts," a White House official told AFP. "He will review the ...
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Tornadoes hit Kan. Okla. no injuries reported
A tornado from a large storm system moving cross the south has struck a Georgia town 60 miles north of Atlanta, according to CNN. A least one death has been reported in the state. High winds also are raking Tennessee, where a man died after a tree fell into his home, according to ...
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Bodies of missing lobster fishermen found off N.B. coast
Two more bodies were found Sunday near a sunken lobster boat that went down after hitting a sandbar in rough water. Three crewmen were missing after the boat hit a sandbar about 5:30 a.m. Saturday and took on water. Hours later, the body of a 23-year-old man was recovered on the shoreline near where the boat sank. A 35-year-old man and a 32-year-old man remained missing but were located about ...
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Obama mourns shortage of common sense in Washington
President Obama lamented a "shortage of common sense in Washington" during a speech at a Democratic fundraiser on Sunday afternoon, telling the group of donors in attendance that the "sky is the limit" for America - if only Washington could get its act in order. Mr. Obama arrived at the fundraiser after delivering a commencement speech at Morehouse College in Atlanta, where ...
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Splash reports jump in food sales in North America
MANILA, Philippines--Splash Corp., a listed personal care products manufacturer, said buyers in North America snapped up its Barrio Fiesta-branded condiments business although overall food sales still ended with modest gains. In a statement, Splash said first-quarter sales of the Barrio Fiesta condiments brand grew 1 percent to P22.37 million. Overall food sales, which included Moondish Foods ...
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Officer shot in Marathon showdown wants to work
Police shot a teenager and arrested another suspect while investigating a car theft inside a rental car return area at Jacksonville International Airport in ...
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Obama Adviser Offers Defiant Defense to Trio of Scandals
WASHINGTON – A top White House adviser staked out a defiant defense Sunday on a series of scandals that have hit the Obama administration, going so far as to say it was an "irrelevant" fact where the president was the night of the Benghazi terror attacks and again using the term to describe the IRS scandal. The senior aide also said the Obama administration wouldn't ...
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Adviser on White House scandals Partisan fishing expeditions wont distract Obama
(CBS News) "Partisan fishing expeditions" - like the amplifying clamor around news that the Internal Revenue Service targeted for excessive review conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status - White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said Sunday on "Face the Nation," won't "distract" President Obama from doing his job. Pfieffer did admit, however, the the ...
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Associated Press CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional
In this Sunday, May 19, 2013, photo provided by CBS News, Gary Pruitt, the President and CEO of the Associated Press, discusses the leak investigation that led to his reporters' phone records being subpoenaed by the Justice Department on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington. Pruitt says DoJ's seizure of AP journalists' phone records was ...
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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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