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Obama Floats Above The Fray - For Now
GARY LANGER notes. Yet the national survey also finds no backlash against Barack Obama, at least at this point. His job approval rating is stable at 51 percent. Moreover, the partisan gap in views of his performance is its smallest since December 2011, and Obama has majority approval among men for the first time since December 2010. Both may reflect the effects of an improving economy: 56 ...
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CANADA STOCKS-TSX may open higher in catch up after long weekend
Tue May 21, 2013 8:56am EDT May 21 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index looked set to open slightly higher, catching up with gains in global equity markets following a Canadian long weekend, as investors cautiously awaited the release on Wednesday of minutes from the latest U.S. Federal Reserve meeting. TOP STORIES * British inflation fell twice as fast as expected last month, giving ...
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Police Remains found in woods likely missing Maine teen
Spokesman Steve McCausland says the body was found at about 9:30 p.m. Monday by the Maine Warden Service in an undisclosed wooded location. Recovery will begin at daylight ...
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EI board appointees made banned donations to Conservatives
Prime Minister Stephen Harper celebrates his election victory in 2011. A Canadian Press investigation found as many as one of every five chairpersons on the Employment Insurance Boards of Referees gave money to political parties. All but one of the dozens of donations went to Conservatives. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian ...
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Recovered remains of Pa. WWII veteran to be buried
FREEMANSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A military burial is scheduled Saturday in eastern Pennsylvania for a World War II soldier whose remains were recovered after more than 65 ...
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Obama Signs Oklahoma Disaster Declaration
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in Oklahoma as the state recovers from a massive tornado that ripped through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, killing dozens and flattening entire neighborhoods. Obama has ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts. Individuals and business owners affected by the disaster may apply for federal grants for ...
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Image of Pope Francis with faithful leads to suspicion he performed exorcism
VATICAN CITY – Is Pope Francis an exorcist? The question has been swirling ever since Francis laid his hands Sunday on the head of a young man after celebrating Mass in St. Peter's Square. The young man heaved deeply a half-dozen times, convulsed and shook, and then slumped in his wheelchair as Francis prayed over him. The television station of the Italian bishops' conference ...
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Who Singer Helps Save Lives
As the legendary front man of The Who, Roger Daltrey has been entertaining fans across the globe for decades - but his latest project goes beyond the music, and into the lives of some very special fans here in America: Cancer patients. "I've been supporting a charity called Teenage Cancer Trust, which was started by my doctor, who recognized, within our system of medical care, that ...
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Kenya fine with Obama snub
Kenya said Tuesday it was "fine" with US President Barack Obama avoiding the country on an Africa tour next month, rejecting reports it was due to upcoming crimes against humanity trials of its leaders.Obama will leave on a first African tour in late June, visiting Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa, but his itinerary bypasses Kenya, where his father was born."America, just like ...
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President Obama to speak on Oklahoma disaster after meeting with response team
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will be meeting with his disaster response team, including Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, on Tuesday before delivering a statement on the devastating tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday. Obama has declared a major disaster in Oklahoma, ordering federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts. The president also ...
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New Report Analyzes Seals Market in North America
Oil and Gas Investments and Improvements in the Electric Utility Infrastructure Sustain Growth This research service provides an analysis of the North American seals market. Market drivers and restraints are discussed, along with trends across the various end users, including oil and gas; power generation; mining; automotive; water and wastewater; food and beverage; and chemicals and ...
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Heartbreak after Oklahoma twister
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO, KOKH, KOKIMoore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- The enormity of what they saw caused many to pause, raw emotion welling up as they tried to put haunting images into words. Monday's ...
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American Voices On The Unwinding of Americas Values
trilogy -- follows the personal triumphs and failures of various individuals from across the United States. Others we meet along the way include Dean Price, the son of a tobacco farmer and an evangelist for a green economy in the rural South; Tammy Thomas, a Rust Belt factory worker trying to survive the financial collapse of Youngstown, Ohio; and Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire who ...
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Republicans Are Watching Their Rhetoric on Obama Scandals
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell took a measured tone reacting to the Obama administration's scandals in his appearance on "Meet the Press" ...
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Disabled NY newlyweds offered apartment
Michael Dorman of Fuquay-Varina, N.C., greeted President Barack Obama with a hearty swing of a handshake Friday at the White House as he received a Presidential Citizens Medal for his volunteer group’s work to renovate houses for disabled ...
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Intense rescue efforts as 91 feared dead in tornado-hit Oklahoma
A triage area is set up next to the IMAX theatre for people injured by a tornado that struck in Moore, Oklahoma May 20, 2013. A 2-mile-wide (3-km-wide) tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing at least 51 people while destroying entire tracts of homes, piling cars atop one another, and trapping two dozen school children beneath rubble. REUTERS/Gene Blevins ...
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Chrysler Hellcat In The Works
SRT CEO Ralph Gilles told FoxNews.com that an extreme version of the Challenger was in the works, but didn't offer specifics on what that might entail. "We get a lot of requests for the Challenger, not so much the Charger, and we've been looking at doing an ACR [American Club Racing] edition of that, eventually," he said. "So we'll see something along those lines ...
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How The Obama Gun Boom Pushed The Fortune Of Two Brothers To $1.2 Billion
Douglas C. Pizac/AP In March the National Rifle Association coordinated a demonstration against new gun legislation in Connecticut, the state where 26 children and staff were gunned down at an elementary school in December. Before boarding buses headed for the state capital, gun owners met up at a parking lot in nearby East Hartford-a parking lot owned by sporting goods ...
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Top Russian security official visits US ‘plays mailman’ for Obama and Putin
USA The head of Russia's National Security Council has arrived in the US on a two-day visit for top-level talks on key stumbling blocks in bilateral relations. He may also be carrying a response from President Putin to a letter President Obama sent in April. Among the US officials Nikolay Patrushev will meet during his trip is National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon, who brought ...
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Horwath to decide whether to back Ontario Liberal budget
(Nathan Denette/Canadian Press) Ontario voters may get some indication today from NDP Leader Andrea Horwath on whether the province is headed for a spring election. Horwath will hold a news conference, where she's expected to say if Premier Kathleen Wynne's response to her list of post-budget demands is enough to ensure the spending plan is passed. On Friday, Wynne agreed to the ...
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More tornadoes in forecast for central US Tuesday
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- More severe weather is in the forecast for parts of the central United States already reeling from powerful tornadoes this ...
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Obama Stops Championing Treaty That Gives the Blind Better Access to E-Books
Bert Heymans /Flickr The Obama administration went on record four years ago supporting a proposed international treaty to make books more accessible to the blind. But as world leaders prepare to gather in Morocco next month to finalize a deal ...
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1st Amendment Champion Hugo Black Rebukes Team Obama From the Grave
Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black used his concurring opinion in The New York Times Company vs. the United States (the Pentagon Papers case) to reflect on the 1st Amendment's guarantee of a free press, its inviolability, and the wrongheadedness of those who'd abridge it in the name of enhancing "security." The case was largely about prior restraint of publication, but his ...
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Marine holding umbrella for Obama is from Apopka
Two Marines held umbrellas for President Obama and the Turkish Prime Minister, during a news conference in the rain. Umbrella-holding is against Marine regulations, because it makes it harder to salute. Every now and then a photo of something relatively mundane takes on a life of its own. Such is the case for the picture of a frowning ...
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Obama schedule for Tuesday May 21
Joe Biden discuss the nation's immigration system with those directly affected by it Tuesday, the White House said. The daily schedule indicated Obama will: -- Receive, with Biden, the Presidential Daily Briefing in ...
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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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