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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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Obama walks a fine line with Myanmar presidents landmark visit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will walk a fine line between fostering a U.S. ally in China's backyard and trying to defend human rights when the president of Myanmar becomes the first head of his country to visit the White House in 47 years on ...
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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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Suspect in NY bias shooting is charged with murder
Armando Morales can be a dangerous man, whichever side he’s on. Once Morales handled illicit business for the Fresno, Calif., Bulldogs street gang. Then his compelling testimony against a former cellmate secured the conviction of the man accused of killing Chandra Levy. Now the former gang-enforcer-turned-prison-snitch is back in the hot seat. What happens next might turn the Levy murder ...
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Would firing Eric Holder be beneficial for Obama admin
Republican Strategist Chip Saltsman and MSNBC contributor Jimmy Williams join MSNBC's Alex Witt for Sunday's Strategy Talk. Williams comments on President Obama's very personal Morehouse College graduation address and the progress of the president's second term agenda. Saltsman talks about the significance of White House Senior Advisor Dan Pfeiffer's appearance on all of ...
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Charlotte remembers historic1963 desegregation eat-in
View Photo Associated Press - In this May 16, 2013, photo, Abdulah Salim, Jr. hold the photograph of his father Dr. Reginald A. Hawkins who was a prominent Charlotte civil rights leader, in Silver Spring, Md. In the ...
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Obama aide chides Republicans for ‘fishing’ on IRS
White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said the Obama administration wouldn't cooperate in "partisan fishing expeditions" over targeting of tea-party groups by tax officials, raising the prospect of future battles with lawmakers over their ...
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Obama partisan battles in Washington holding back US economy
President Barack Obama told students at Morehouse College: 'My whole life, I've tried to be what my father wasn't for my mother and me.' Photograph: Erik S ...
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Mexico Creating Missing People Force To Focus On Those Who Have Disappeared
There are at least 26,121 people who went missing in the past six years in Mexico, according to President Enrique Pea Nieto's government, and now they are going to do something about it. Mexico's government says it will create a special investigative unit to search for the missing, heeding a request by relatives of the disappeared who have been on a hunger strike for nine ...
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Top Obama adviser stakes out defiant defense on IRS Benghazi AP 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 saying the Obama administration wouldn't cooperate in "partisan fishing expeditions" over IRS officials ...
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Video Obama Racism is no excuse for not excelling
As a young man, "Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down," said President Obama during a commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta, "but one of the things you've learned over the last four years is that there's no longer any room for ...
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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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