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Jury in Jodi Arias trial resumes deliberations
Jodi Arias stands as the jury enters the courtroom on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Jodi Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, ...
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$2B in Okla. tornado damage means hard recovery
An unidentified man tosses a board as residents sort through their tornado-ravaged homes Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Moore, Okla. Cleanup continues two days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening a wide swath of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie ...
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Bronx ghetto tours stop amid residents outrage
A young man runs under an elevated section of subway tracks in The Bronx borough of New York, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. A company that offered tourist treks to the Bronx "ghetto" has shut down under scathing criticism from neighborhood leaders offended by the tours that took mostly European and Australian tourists past food-pantry lines and "pickpocket" park. But other New ...
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With Weiner NYC mayor race takes on new dynamic
FILE - In this June 16, 2011 file photo, Anthony Weiner speaks at a news conference in New York. The Democratic ex-congressman who resigned over raunchy tweets said late Tuesday, May 21, 2013, that he's in the New York City mayoral race. Although the field is crowded for September's primary, Weiner is arriving with some significant advantages, including a $4.8 million campaign war ...
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Between economy and trouble Obama approval steady
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama watch as singer-songwriter Carole King performs after being presented the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song during an East Room concert honoring King Wednesday, May 22, 2013, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn ...
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Winners of the 79th National Headliner Awards
Two charter airplanes carrying the "Today" show anchor team and their crew from Hawaii to Yellowstone National Park were diverted in the air to Oklahoma for coverage Tuesday of the catastrophic tornado outside of Oklahoma ...
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Obama to push for transparency in face of threats
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen since 2009. The disclosure to Congress comes on the eve of a major national security speech by President Barack Obama in which he plans to pledge more transparency to Congress in his counterterrorism policy.It was already known that ...
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Inception Media Group Purchases North American Rights to Trevor Noah African American from Levity Entertainment Group
Inception Media Group, a diversified media company specializing in the production, acquisition and distribution of entertainment content, announced it has acquired North American rights from Levity Entertainment Group (LEG) to distribute African American, a live stand-up performance from Trevor Noah, a South African comedian. According to a release, Noah was discovered by LEG while touring South ...
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Mystery in Sea of Galilee
The massive circular structure appears to be an archaeologists dream: a recently discovered antiquity that could reveal secrets of ancient life in the Middle East and is just waiting to be excavated. It's thousands of years old -- a conical, manmade behemoth weighing hundreds of tons, practically begging to be explored. The problem is -- it's at the bottom of the biblical Sea of ...
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Obama to reset US terror war in key speech
Barack Obama will renew his failed vow to close Guantanamo Bay and argue his drone war is legal and just Thursday, in a speech reframing US anti-terror policy that will shape his presidential ...
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Tea party storm largely inside IRS _ so far
Three days of congressional hearings about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups have lawmakers looking for ways to widen an investigation that has so far been ...
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Switching from scandals Obama speech to focus on drones and Guantanamo
President Barack Obama will seek to draw attention away from a series of domestic scandals with a speech on Thursday that defends the U.S. use of drones abroad and lays out a vision for closing the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.After nearly two weeks of controversies about his handling of attacks that killed four Americans in Libya, IRS scrutiny of conservative groups, and government ...
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Quebecers polled on ‘problem’ of religious accommodations as PQ delays introduction of Charter of Secularism
The Parti Quebecois government, already involved in a political battle to toughen the province’s language law, has placed another emotionally charged identity issue on the back burner. The government has delayed its plan to set limits on religious accommodations until the fall and even begun referring to it in less contentious terms. The PQ campaigned last year on a promise to introduce ...
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America’s Newest Public Enemy No1 The Humble Pressure Cooker
When I went to the United States for the first time, long before 9/11, I wondered if immigration officials would harass me, a single young man from a turbulent part of the world. I didn't have to worry. Customs officials and their formidable sniffing dogs were much more interested in middle-aged Indian women. They rifled through the contents of the bursting-at-the-seams suitcase of a lady ...
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President Obama to survey tornado damage on Sunday
US President Barack Obama will visit the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Sunday, to meet the survivors of Monday's devastating tornado. The massive twister killed 24 people and destroyed 13,000 homes. After three days of combing through the wreckage, officials now say that all residents have been accounted ...
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Facts about the Boy Scouts of America
Boy Scouts carry U.S. flags up Congress Avenue towards the Texas Capitol during the annual Boy Scouts Parade and Report to State, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, in Austin, ...
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UPDATE 1-Caixabank may sell 10 pct of Mexicos Inbursa
Thu May 23, 2013 3:31am EDT MADRID May 23 (Reuters) - Spain's Caixabank said on Thursday it was considering selling around 10 percent of Mexico's Grupo Financiero Inbursa, worth $1.6 billion, to reduce its stake by half. Spain's biggest domestic lender has close business ties with tycoon Carlos Slim who controls Grupo Financiero Inbursa, Mexico's sixth-largest bank by ...
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How much news has the Obama administration suppressed
On the heels of news that the Obama administration Department of Justice was spying on reporters at the Associated Press, Monday brought the startling disclosure by the Washington Post that the DOJ had ...
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A new front in the Obama war on journalists
noted earlier today , the government's treatment of Fox News reporter James Rosen betrayed the Obama administration's unhinged obsession with targeting journalists. But as troubling as that is, the problem goes deeper than the attempt by the Department of Justice to eviscerate the First Amendment. The news that one of the reporters who had been aggressively covering the Benghazi ...
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Liberal columnist after meeting Obama Heads should roll at IRS
(Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg) "She has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation but under the circumstances she has no choice but to take this course," her lawyer, William Taylor III, wrote in a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa. Taylor went on to ask that Lerner be excused from appearing, as given the circumstances, it would ';have no purpose other than to embarrass or burden ...
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Iron ore copper gold potash to drive Canadian 2013 exports--EDC
Iron ore shipments, strong copper production and a 20% increase in Ontario's gold output are expected to give a huge boost to Canada's exports, advises Canada's export credit ...
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Ohio rape investigation grand jury resumes work
COLUMBUS, Ohio - An eastern Ohio grand jury is resuming its examination of whether other laws were broken in the case of a 16-year-old girl raped by two high school football players.The panel in Steubenville was scheduled to start up Thursday after a three-week break while investigators went back to analyzing evidence and interviewing witnesses.The grand jury had met just three days before the ...
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Survival stories of Oklahoma
Debris is scattered around damaged playground equipment outside the Plaza Towers elementary school, where seven children died in a tornado, in Moore, ...
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Mexico Germany vow to promote tourism
Mexico and Germany pledged on Wednesday to promote bilateral tourism, air connectivity and the flow of visitors, Mexico's Ministry of Tourism said in a ...
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Senators Alfredsson on defeating Penguins Probably not
The Ottawa Senators will have to prolong their season in enemy territory after a disappointing 7-3 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 4, and their captain struggled to see the series ending in his team's ...
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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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