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Canada’s own Colonel Cool How the CSA helped launch Chris Hadfield to stardom
Back in Sept. 2, 2010, it was announced that Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield would leave Earth’s atmosphere for a third time and make history as the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station. The Canadian Space Agency recognized the opportunity early on. Soon after the announcement, the agency and Col. Hadfield began dreaming up ways they could engage the Canadian ...
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Europe and the US should heed Latin America on drugs
drugs . There is a growing belief that the current punitive-based approach has failed. It has visited a savage level of violence on Latin America as narco cartels, moving cocaine and cannabis into the US, have butchered and bribed their way through the continent. The killing and corrupting of public officials - judges, police, politicians - threatened, and still threatens, to demolish the ...
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New York politician accused of serial sex harassment to resign
ALBANY, N.Y.-A New York assemblyman accused of sexually harassing young female staffers for years says he will resign before he's expelled from the Legislature. Assemblyman Vito Lopez informed leaders on Saturday he will resign effective Monday morning. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver had planned a rare expulsion proceeding against Lopez beginning Monday. Lopez was once a powerful Brooklyn ...
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Ex-Pa. officer once hailed as hero faces charges
PHILADELPHIA -- A former Philadelphia police officer once hailed as a hero and given a seat next to the first lady at a speech by President Obama has been arrested and charged with rape and other crimes.Authorities allege that former officer Richard DeCoatsworth left a party with two females early Thursday and took them to another location, where they allege that he produced a handgun and ...
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Will Americans New Boarding Process Work It Failed at Virgin America.
Give American Airlines credit for trying a new method to board passengers more quickly. Airlines constantly tinker with the boarding process, and this time American says it has found a way to cut an average of two minutes from the 40 minutes to 45 minutes that it takes to board a narrowbody aircraft. American narrow bodies take off about 3,000 times a day, so two minutes per flight is a lot of ...
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CBO Shows $1 Trillion Tax Hike in Obama Budget
An analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office shows that President Obama's 2014 budget proposal would reduce borrowing by $1.1 trillion by 2023 thorough increasing taxes by nearly the same ...
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Obama agenda marches on weathering tax targeting of conservative groups other controversies
WASHINGTON - Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political damage control by the administration and party leaders in Congress, and lack of evidence to date of wrongdoing close to the White House. "Absolutely not," Steven Miller, the recently resigned acting head of the ...
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Obama Goes Golfing After Week of Political Scandals
May 18, 2013 1:35pm WASHINGTON — President Obama — despite dealing with a trio of political scandals that flared up this week — squeezed in some time on the golf course today, and included a woman in his foursome for the first time this year. The president played golf at Andrews Air Force Base today with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, outgoing ...
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Dems Senate campaigns marked by internal battles
FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2012 file photo, Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga., stands with supporters as he waits to do a television interview at an election-night party in Augusta, Ga. Barrow and former Rep. Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin in South Dakota, two top-tier Democratic prospects, recently bypassed running for Senate seats in Georgia and South Dakota, decisions that highlighted both divisions within the ...
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Money tangle The IRS and its tea party tempest
Ousted IRS chief Steven Miller is sworn in on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Friday, May 17, 2013, prior to testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the extra scrutiny the IRS gave Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. (AP Photo/J. Scott ...
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Obama takes Cabinet secretaries out to play golf
Before he got into the vehicle, Obama looked up at the grey sky with an outstretched hand. A steady rain was falling by the time he arrived about a half hour ...
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Pandas make public debut at Toronto Zoo
Da Mao, one of the Toronto Zoo's two new giant pandas, on display for the first time on May 16, 2013. (DAVE ABEL/QMI Agency) TORONTO - The pandas make their public debut at the Toronto Zoo Saturday. Join the Toronto Sun's Shawn Jeffords with live ...
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Cult of Hockey Which goaltender should start for Team Canada at the Sochi 2014 Olympics
Less than a year away from the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics, there is no clear consensus choice for the role of starter for Canada's Olympic team. The incumbent starter has been reduced to the backup role on his own team, the man he supplanted is in the twilight years of a legendary career, and the young third-stringer with a Stanley Cup ring has imploded in the playoffs in four ...
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Rescuers searching for missing fishermen after mayday off New Brunswick coast
TABUSINTAC NEW BRUNSWICK -- Three crew members of a fishing vessel are missing off New Brunswick’s northeast coast after issuing a distress call today. The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax says the fishing vessel was about four kilometres offshore of Tabusintac when it issued a mayday call at about 5:30 a.m. Spokesman Mike Bonin says the boat hit a sandbar in rough seas and ...
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Saturday morning nutpick if this is post-racial America...
Marco Rubio on Thursday morning, saying he just can't understand why Big Bad Obama won't call for a DOJ investigation into the IRS: MARTHA MacCALLUM: If you really want to make a statement as ...
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Michelle Obama to give commencement address in Nashville
Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet High seniors finally are filing into the Gentry Center after coming hours early for a very special graduation -- marked by a speech from First Lady Michelle Obama. "I feel like this is an honor and a privilege and it is because of all of our hard work. It's paying off," graduate Shanese Brown said. The students are going through airport-style ...
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Kansas City museum raising cash to fly Connie
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -; The National Airline History Museum is trying to raise $3.2 million to restore its Lockheed Constellation propeller-driven aircraft and recreate multimillionaire aviator Howard Hughes' record-setting cross-country flight in the plane that transformed commercial air ...
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Ore. timber country ponders future with fewer logs
O'BRIEN, Ore. -; Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the trees within range of a team of horses and move the mill to a new stand when those trees ran ...
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FBI executes search warrant in ricin letter case
SPOKANE, Wash. -; The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are executing a search warrant Saturday in the case of two letters containing the deadly poison ricin that were intercepted this week at a post office in Washington ...
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Obama Concerned over High Unemployment Rate in USA
Washington, May 18 (Prensa Latina) President Barack Obama admitted today unemployment is very high in the United States and, while companies boost their income, the labor market shows signs of overheating. During his weekly speech transmitted via radio and internet, Obama highlighted that many U.S. companies have reached income records, but the creation of jobs remains depressed. Obama announced ...
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Obama Says Middle-Class Wages Need to Grow
U.S. President Barack Obama said Saturday the U.S. economy needs to create more "good, middle-class jobs, and we need to do it faster." In his weekly radio and Internet address, the president repeated much of what he said during a visit to Baltimore Friday, when he toured a company "that's creating good jobs here at home by exporting digging equipment abroad." He ...
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5 Questions Congress Should Ask Obama Commerce Nominee Penny Pritzker
Members of Congress are infamous for not reading the bills they pass. But perhaps they--or their staff--should spend some time studying the 184-page ...
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Ohio Congressional Delegation to Obama Resolve Russian Adoption Ban With Putin
Every member of Ohio's delegation to the U.S. Congress, including Republicans and Democrats, both senators and Speaker of the House John Boehner ...
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Obama administration reels from controversy
president obama and what democrats stand for. the problem, the base isn't wide enough. they need to bring more people in, and there is a question as to whether they go so aggressively, they impede their party in a way that makes it more appealing to more ...
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Police not questioning Millard in other cases lawyer says
Dellen Millard, who was charged with first-degree murder in relation to the death of Hamilton man Tim Bosma, has not been questioned about any other cases, his lawyer says. On Friday, reports surfaced suggesting that Millard, 27, may be connected to the disappearance of a 23-year-old Toronto woman, and that authorities were continuing to investigate the death of Millard's father last ...
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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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