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Boy Scouts of America Denies Vote Tampering Allegations
The Boy Scouts of America will vote on whether to lift its 103-year-old bay on homosexuality on Thursday May 23, 2013. The high stakes showdown over whether or not Boy Scouts of America will lift its ban on gay youth began in Grapevine, Texas, on Wednesday as the organization dismissed recent allegations that the fix is in.Deron Smith, national spokesman for the BSA, called allegations of vote ...
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Garcetti ‘Los Angeless success is critical for Americas success’
Los Angeles voters, in a record low turnout, have picked a new mayor. Democrat Eric Garcetti, a former city councilman, won the race for mayor of the nation's second most populous city. NBC's Miguel Almaguer spoke with the ...
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RCMP has toxic work environment Ex Mountie
RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson made an announcement concerning the RCMP at a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, June 20, 2012. (Chris Roussakis/QMI ...
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Thief stole purse from dead woman Cops
Toronto Police released this image of a suspect wanted in connection with the theft of a purse from a dead woman at a subway station. TORONTO -- Toronto Police believe they know the identity of a female who stole a dead woman's purse at a subway station during Wednesday morning's rush-hour. Police investigating the theft at College Station have a suspect "identified but not ...
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The Audacity of Eric Holders Letter Admitting Team Obama Killed 4 Americans
letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. In it, he acknowledges that the U.S. has killed four of its own citizens in drone strikes. Casual news consumers may find that confusing. Hasn't there already been an extremely public debate about the killing of American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki ...
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Artemis Crew Wants Safety Changes In America’s Cup Following Death
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS/KPIX 5) - An America's Cup racing boat crew member died and another was hurt when their catamaran overturned on San Francisco Bay Thursday afternoon during a practice run. A KPIX 5/KCBS reporter on the scene at the St. Francis Yacht Club said he saw the deceased sailor placed into a body bag after cardiopulmonary resuscitation efforts by paramedics ...
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Little Canada man was intrusive in videotaping medical call city argues
A 29-year-old man was "extremely intrusive" when he videotaped a medical call outside his apartment, an attorney for the city of Little Canada argued in court Wednesday. Andrew Joseph Henderson recorded the actions of a sheriff's deputy and an ambulance crew as they prepared to take a highly intoxicated man to the hospital the night of Oct. 30, 2012. "This was a medical ...
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New fleet of foot plant-eating dinosaur fossil found in Canada
Paleontologists say a fossil discovery of a small, speedy plant-eating dinosaur in Canada extends our knowledge of dinosaur ecosystems of millions of years ago. While dinosaurs are often thought of as large, fierce but slow-moving animals, the new specimen, the smallest plant-eating dinosaur species known from Canada, was a speedy runner, a team of Canadian and U.S. researchers report in the ...
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Take that Canada Immigration reform may be on its way
Canada's Minister ofCitizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Jason Kenny visited San Francisco last week on a tour promoting the country as a place for entrepreneurs. Here, he poses with the country's newCIC Start-Up Visa billboard. C anada may be lining Silicon Valley highways with billboards recruiting high-tech workers north, a move to promote its new Start-up Visa, take ...
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Obama nominee vows to work with Congress to fund transportation
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama explains that Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx (L) will be his nominee to replace Ray LaHood as U.S. Transportation Secretary in the East Room of the White ...
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Mont. man gets 3 years for guns in Calif. airport
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -; A federal judge has sentenced a Montana man to three years in prison for trying to board a flight in Sacramento, Calif., with four loaded ...
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Carney Criticism of IRS response legitimate
White House press secretary Jay Carney gestures as he speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. At the briefing Carney announced that President Obama will travel to Oklahoma to visit tornado affected communities. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn ...
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Pocket-dialing 911 leads to Fla. murder charge
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -; Authorities in South Florida say a man is charged with murder because he was overheard discussing the killing when his cellphone pocket-dialed ...
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Pentagon New record plan wont help vet backlog
WASHINGTON -; The Pentagon has decided to buy a new computerized health records system to be able to better share and merge its data with the Department of Veterans Affairs, but officials cautioned that it was part of a "long-term modernization" effort and would not help ease the backlog in VA disability ...
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LA mayor-elect says hell focus on economy
LOS ANGELES -; Los Angeles Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti says he's going to focus like a "laser beam" on the economy when he takes office July ...
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In Arias trial TV cameras never far behind
Convicted killer Jodi Arias speaks during an interview at the Maricopa County Estrella Jail on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Phoenix. Arias was convicted recently of killing her former boyfriend Travis Alexander in his suburban Phoenix home back in 2008, made a plea in court on Tuesday for life in prison, instead of execution, saying she can contribute to society if allowed to live. (AP Photo/Ross ...
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Text of atheist prayer given in Arizona House
An atheist lawmaker's daily prayer Tuesday at the Arizona House of Representatives led a fellow lawmaker to ask for a do-over the following ...
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Broke no laws IRS official says — then takes 5th
IRS official Lois Lerner is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, before the House Oversight Committee hearing to investigate the extra scrutiny IRS gave to Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. Lerner told the committee she did nothing wrong and then invoked her constitutional right to not answer lawmakers' questions. (AP ...
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Obama to Oklahoma Sunday
President Barack Obama will travel to the Oklahoma City area on Sunday, White House press secretary Jay Carney announced Wednesday. Obama will go "to see firsthand the response" to the tornadoes and storms that hit the region earlier this week, and will meet with families affected by the destruction. He will also meet with first responders and thank them for their work, Carney ...
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Think Obamas In Trouble That Depends On Your Party
At a news conference last week at the White House, President Obama answered questions on scandals involving the IRS and Justice Department. Public opinion about the scandals plaguing the Obama administration is decidedly mixed. Republicans believe that the trio of controversies -- concerning Benghazi, the IRS, and the Justice Department snooping on media phone records -- are evidence ...
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Immigration activists protest Sen. Marco Rubio after gay couples left out of reform bill
A far-reaching bill to remake the nation's immigration system is headed to the full Senate, where tough battles are brewing on gay marriage, border security and other contentious issues, with the outcome impossible to ...
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Study Ocoee most visited white-water river in United States
The Ocoee River in Polk County, Tenn.,has been recognized as the most popular white-water river in the country. According to a report released Wednesday, the Ocoee last year had a $43.8 million financial impact throughout the surrounding 30-county region — 14 counties in Tennessee, 13 in Georgia and three in North ...
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Canadian start-up hub thrives near Toronto
Twenty years ago, no one would have believed the Kitchener-Waterloo area would blossom into the most vibrant technology start-up community in Canada - the Silicon Valley of the ...
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Adrian Dix announces sweeping review of NDP’s B.C. election loss takes ‘full responsibility’
VANCOUVER -- The leader of British Columbia’s New Democrats plans to stay on as head of the Opposition while launching a sweeping review of his party’s failed election campaign. Adrian Dix said he takes "full responsibility" for last week’s election loss, and he promised to get to the bottom of what happened. "We didn’t win, and disappointment ...
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Americas frogs and toads disappearing fast study warns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Frogs, toads and salamanders have been in trouble for decades, but a new U.S. government study shows just how quickly many amphibians are disappearing from ponds and creeks across the United ...
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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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