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The Durability Of Levis Woven Into Americas Fabric
Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: One hundred and forty years ago this month, a German immigrant named Levi Strauss patented the first pair of jeans ever made. During the California gold rush, Strauss traveled across the country to set up a West Coast branch of his family's dry ...
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How the Conn. train crash will affect commuters
Metro-North employees work at the site of Friday's train derailment in Bridgeport. Conn. on Sunday, May 19, 2013. Crews will spend days rebuilding 2,000 feet of track, overhead wires and signals following the collision between two trains Friday evening that injured 72 people, Metro-North President Howard Permut said Sunday. (AP Photo/The Connecticut Post,Brian A. Pounds ) MANDATORY ...
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Obama to speak on prison legality of drone program
President Barack Obama speaks during a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee event at the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, Sunday, May 19, 2013, in ...
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Trace volcano ash reaches small Alaska city
Alaska's remote Pavlof Volcano has been shooting lava hundreds of feet into the air, but its ash plume is thinning and is no longer making it dangerous for airplanes to fly ...
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Obama touts second term agenda in graduation speech
US President BarackObama, in a rousing speech to graduating college students on Sunday, touted his second term agenda, steering clear of scandals that have engulfed the White House in recent ...
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Scandals risk tainting Obamas second term
White House in recent days. After wavering initially, the US president has launched an all-out offensive to contain fallout from the trio of controversies. Senior Obama advisor Dan Pfeiffer, doing the rounds of weekly television talk shows, went into damage control mode on the scandals, including one related to alleged abuses by the ...
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Canadian military gear stranded in Afghanistan
Canadians soldiers load baggage at Kandahar airbase in 2011. Hundreds of shipping containers filled with military supplies remain stranded in Afghanistan. (Rafiq Maqbool/Associated ...
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Meet Ray Novak the PMs new chief of staff
: "Ray is really good, and trusted. He's quiet and handles lots of tough issues. And yes, he stays out of the limelight." -- Jason Lietaer, former head of the Conservative Resource ...
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Obama tries to bounce back after tough week
U.S. President Barack Obama adjusts his tie before receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the graduation ceremony of the class of 2013 at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia May 19, ...
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Obama Tells Grads I Might Have Been in Prison
(MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) ATLANTA — President Obama said today that he is motivated by the knowledge that ';but for the grace of God … I might have been in prison,'; in a commencement address at historically black Morehouse College, where he spoke frankly about race and young men’s responsibilities to 500 male graduates. In his second commencement address of ...
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Ryan Burden of Benghazi proof on Obama
U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., delivers remarks during the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., March 15, 2013. UPI/Kevin ...
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Cornyn Obama crafting coverups
Barack Obama is cultivating "a culture of cover-ups and intimidation" regarding recent political scandals. Appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation," Senate Minority ...
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US Official White House Was Unaware of IRS Misdeeds
President Barack Obama and White House Senior Advisor Dan Pfeiffer, right, react to a reporter's question as they leave the Treasury Department in Washington, Jan. 16, ...
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Yahoo reportedly to buy Tumblr for $1.1B in cash
Yahoo Inc.'s board has approved a deal to acquire blogging startup Tumblr, people familiar with the matter said Sunday. Yahoo has agreed to pay $1.1 billion in cash for the company, one of the people said. Tumblr would continue to operate largely as an independent business, the people said. It wasn't immediately clear whether Tumblr's board had also approved the deal. Spokesmen ...
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Asking $190 Million This Is Americas New Most Expensive Home For Sale
Wall Street residents that has earned it a nickname as the hedge fund capital of the country. Now the tony town will be known for something else: as the location of America's most expensive home for sale. Asking an astounding $190 million, Copper Beech Farm has come to market as one of Greenwich's last 'Great Estates,' a designation assigned by ...
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Hero Cop Rape Charge Richard DeCoatsworth Hero Invited to Sit With Michelle Obama Arrested
U.S. first lady Michelle Obama (bottom row, center) stands next to Leonard Abess jr (L), Dina Leach (2nd L), Ty'Sheoma Bethea (3rd L), a student from Dillon, SC; Richard G. DeCoatsworth (2nd R), a police officer from Philadelphia, PA; and Jill Biden (R), wife of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden as President Barack Obama gives his primetime address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill ...
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Lets go Bulworth... If Barack Obama wants to act like a cinema president which films should he copy
Thankfully only the later part of that plot seems to have inspired Obama. The New York Times' Peter Baker reported last week that Obama had spoken "longingly of 'going Bulworth'" and telling it like it is.As Baker's story and other Obama moments have proven, it's not the only Hollywood plot available to those in the West ...
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Prominent Canadians back petition to rename Victoria Day to honour aboriginals
A group of certain Canadian actors, writers and politicians is calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to change the name of Victoria Day. The group -- which includes author Margaret Atwood, Green Party leader Elizabeth May, and actor Gordon Pinsent -- has signed an online petition to rename this Monday's public holiday "Victoria and First Peoples Day." Peter Keleghan, an actor ...
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6 lost hikers rescued after cold night in Alberta wilderness
Area near Ware creek in Kananaskis Country. Photo courtesy Mike Koppang CALGARY -- Six lost hikers were rescued Sunday morning after a short stroll turned into an overnight stay in the Kananaskis Country wilderness. The group of friends from Black Diamond, Alta., were random camping along the Gorge Creek Trail and decided to go for a short walk about 11 a.m. Saturday, Kananaskis public safety ...
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Officer who shot NY student faced harrowing choice
NEW YORK (AP) -- The police officer who accidentally killed a Long Island college student along with an armed intruder faced 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 life, says an expert in the ...
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The Caucus Obama Urges Morehouse Graduates to ‘Keep Setting an Example’
Martin Luther King Jr. , on Sunday to tell graduates, 50 years after Dr. King's landmark ';I Have a Dream'; speech in Washington, that "laws, hearts and minds have been changed to the point where someone who looks like you can serve as president of the United States." Wearing an academic robe in maroon and black, Mr. Obama paid tribute to Morehouse as the place where ...
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The Caucus White House Aide Calls Criticism of Obama ‘Offensive’
A senior White House adviser mounted a combative defense on Sunday against Republican lawmakers’ accusations of mismanagement, saying that the criticisms of President Obama’s actions and governing style were "offensive" and "absurd." The remarks came from Dan Pfeiffer, a member of the president's inner circle, as he made appearances on all five major network ...
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FBI agents killed in training accident
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) - Two agents with the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team have been killed in a training accident off the coast of Virginia Beach. The accident happened on Friday afternoon during a training exercise involving at least one military helicopter, according to sources. The two FBI agents, whose identities have not been released, were based in Quantico, Va. and were in Hampton ...
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Skip college become a plumber NYC mayor says- Obama speaks at Morehouse College graduation
The heck with Harvard, says New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Most high school grads should learn a trade . . . like plumbing. Bloomberg -- he of the no-oversized sodas -- is now reportedly dispensing career advice via his weekly radio show. "The people who are going to have the biggest problem are college graduates who aren't rocket scientists, if you ...
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Google Americas third political party
(Credit: James Martin/CNET) Congress is a dog that won't go for a walk. We can tug at its leash as hard as we want, but it sits in the middle of the sidewalk, barking a defiant "no." It's not a purposeful no. It's just a refusal for the sake of it, couched in principle. Then along comes America's most ambitious politician. No, it's not Paul Ryan or ...
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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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