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GOP congressman comes up with new theory for impeaching Obama
Representative Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, says President Barack Obama may face impeachment over his administration's response to the Benghazi attack. "They purposefully and willfully misled the American people, and that's unacceptable," Chaffetz tells me. "It's part of a pattern of deception." [...] "This is an administration embroiled in a ...
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Ohio University Band Gives Vatican Taste Of America
VATICAN CITY, May 10 (CNA/EWTN News) .- Priests and Vatican employees opened their office windows this afternoon to find out why they were hearing trumpets and drums, and in the piazza below them they discovered the University of Ohio marching band."We thought it would be a very epic way to perform, you know. And a lot of people came to watch us," 22-year-old trumpet player Jenna Smith ...
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Kerry visiting Mideast to advance struggling Syria plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry is heading back to the Mideast this week to press the case for peace talks between Syrian rebels and President Bashar Assad's regime amid increasing signs the new U.S. strategy to halt the war is being undermined by Russia.Kerry departs Monday for Oman. He then goes to Jordan, where he'll gather with America's closest European ...
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Obamas Meeting With IRS Union Leader Not a Smoking Gun
American Spectator is reporting that President Barack Obama met with the president of the IRS union a day before the tax agency began targeting tea party groups, citing a meeting between National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley and Obama on March 31, 2010 listed in ...
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Warm weather with cool breaks forecast for Canada this summer
Get ready to break out the sunscreen Canada, but don't worry about sizzling all season.Meteorologists at AccuWeather.com say the majority of Canadians can look forward to a more "typical" summer this year, when hot spells will be interspersed with cooler periods."The biggest takeaway from this forecast is it's not going to resemble last year's summer, which was the ...
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Search under way for missing Canadian man in Mexico report
Mexican media are reporting that a Canadian and an American have gone missing from the resort city of Puerto Vallarta.The online newspaper Noticias PV says Diego Hernandez, a Canadian martial arts instructor, and his friend Craig Silva vanished on May 8.The paper says Puerto Vallarta's director of public safety, Silvestre Chavez, didn't learn of the men's disappearance until five ...
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Angry mob pelts man thought to be sex attacker
DENVER -; Residents angry that police had not warned them about sex assaults took matters into their own hands, chasing down a man they thought was the attacker, pelting him with rocks and leaving him with a bloody face in ...
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Postponed US long-range missile test due Tuesday
WASHINGTON -; The Air Force says its test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, which Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had postponed in April because of tensions with North Korea, is now scheduled to happen on ...
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Military sex abuse has long-term impact for vets
FILE - In this July 18, 2012 file photo, Ruth Moore of Milbridge, Maine, who was raped twice while serving in the Navy, testifies before the Veterans Affairs subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs on Capitol Hill in Washington. More than 85,000 veterans were treated last year for mental health and substance abuse problems connected to military sexual trauma and another 4,000 ...
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Report says poor are moving to nations suburbs
LOS ANGELES -; More poor people live in the nation's suburbs than in urban cities because of affordable housing, service-sector jobs and the increased use of housing vouchers, according to a study released ...
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Tornado-hit states brace for more bad storms
Several tornadoes struck parts of the nation's midsection Sunday, concentrating damage in central Oklahoma and Wichita, Kan. Two people were killed near Shawnee, Okla., and at least 39 people throughout the state were injured, according to the state's emergency management director, Albert ...
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Senators work through changes to immigration bill
WASHINGTON -; Senators working on a wide-ranging immigration bill have agreed to tighten controls on the asylum system that allows people fleeing war or persecution to find refuge in the ...
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Ark. treasurer accused of taking cash from broker
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -; An affidavit filed Monday in federal court alleges that Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner repeatedly took cash payments, sometimes rolled up and hidden inside a pie box, from a broker who invested state ...
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Priebus Obama Creating ‘Atmosphere of Guerrilla Warfare’
National Review Online May 20, 2013 Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus accused President Obama of having "built up an atmosphere of guerrilla warfare" that created fertile ground for the scandals now roiling his administration. "This is the problem with this entire situation [with the AP], with the IRS, with Benghazi: you have all these situations -- all ...
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Obama administration spied on Fox News reporter James Rosen Report
Yahoo.com May 20, 2013 The Justice Department spied extensively on Fox News reporter James Rosen in 2010, collecting his telephone records, tracking his movements in and out of the State Department, and seizing two days of Rosen's personal ...
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NYC No racial motivation in stop-frisk tactic
By Colleen Long Associated Press NEW YORK - The federal civil rights challenge to the contentious New York Police Department tactic of stop, question and frisk is winding down after more than nine weeks of testimony from men who say they were wrongly stopped because of their race and police officials who believe the nation's largest force operates with integrity. City attorney Heidi ...
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5 Ways Obama Can Restore the Publics Trust and Rescue His Presidency
Swamped in controversies, President Obama and his slow-footed team are essentially telling the American public, "We're not crooked. We're ...
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Canadian PM’s top aide quits
The top aide to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper abruptly resigned on Sunday over his role in a mounting expenses scandal which is threatening to undermine the Conservative government.Nigel Wright, Harper's chief of staff, quit after secretly giving a $87,000 check in February to Mike Duffy, a member of the upper Senate chamber, to help him cover living expenses he had improperly ...
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Canadian missing for nearly two weeks in Mexico
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico -- Mexican media are reporting that a Canadian and an American have gone missing from the resort city of Puerto Vallarta. The online newspaper Noticias PV says Diego Hernandez, a Canadian martial arts instructor, and his friend Craig Silva vanished on May 8. The paper says Puerto Vallarta's director of public safety, Silvestre Chavez, didn't learn of the ...
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DOJs Pursuit of Fox News Journalist Deepens Outrage over Obamas War on Investigative Journalism
New revelations about the manner in which President Obama's Department of Justice has pursued journalists thought to have garnered government secrets is being called not just a "war on whistleblowers," but an assault on "investigative journalism ...
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Michelle Obama Tells Grads ‘I Could Take Up a Whole Afternoon Talking About’ Barack Obama’s Failures
First lady Michelle Obama in her commencement speech at a high school in Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday said she could "take up a whole afternoon talking about" President Barack Obama's failures. "And then there's this guy, Barack Obama, who lost - I could take up a whole afternoon talking about his failures, but - he lost his first race for Congress, and now he gets to ...
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Obamas Triplegate Its Like Saul Alinsky is Running the Country
With three full-blown scandals currently surrounding the Obama administration, there are too many "-gates" to name just one. There is the cover-up of the fatal Benghazi terrorist attack, the IRS targeting conservatives, and the Justice Department spying on members of the press. The level of corruption is so high right now; it is like Saul Alinsky is running the White ...
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Canadian Government Pursuing Aggressive Lobbying Push On Keystone XL
doubled its spending to promote the Keystone XL pipeline to $16.5 million, up from $9 million a year ago. This dramatic spending increase is a result of an increased lobbying effort the government is planning, which includes high-profile ad buys and dispatching a series of officials to reiterate talking points that the pipeline will increase U.S. energy security and provide us with thousands of ...
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US claims Chinese military is on new cyber offensive against America
USA Officials within the United States government say hackers from China have renewed their assault on US targets only three months after a highly-touted investigation linked the People's Liberation Army to a series of cyberattacks waged at American entities. According to the New York Times, computer security experts and US officials alike say the PLA's sophisticated cyber squadron ...
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Kerry challenges Congress on diplomats security
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State John Kerry challenged Congress on Monday to go beyond its investigations of embassy security and help ensure that U.S. embassies and consulates abroad have the resources they need for appropriate security. His comments come as the Republicans continue to press for answers about the Obama administration's handling of last year's deadly attack on the ...
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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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