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Obama talks with Oklahoma governor about tornado damage
As Kansas Citians clean up after Sunday nights severe storms, another ominous front is taking aim at the metropolitan area. The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch through 10 p.m. on Monday for Kansas City and much of the surrounding area. Thunderstorms are expected to roll in early Monday ...
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Zim to Boost Asia-South America Rates in Mid-June
will raise rates for all shipments on its trade from Asia to the east coast of South America, starting June 15.The increase will be $500 per 20-foot container and $1,000 per 40-foot container, the carrier said.Containerized exports from Far East Asia to South and Central ...
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Rare island fox rebounds on California islands
A rare and tiny island fox is on the verge of making a comeback from near-extinction in the Channel Islands, a rugged and wind-swept chain off Southern California, officials said ...
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Editorial Obama’s weak record on freedom of the press
The Obama administration’s galling record on press freedom requires a reset of the balance between journalists and national security ...
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Monarchists oppose Victoria Day name change
Victoria DayIt may be the birthday of Queen Victoria, but most of us know the May long weekend as the unofficial kick-off to summer. (File ...
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Obama to honour Sally Ride first US woman in space with posthumous Medal of Freedom
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will bestow the Medal of Freedom posthumously on Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space. Obama says Ride was a role model to young women and showed that achievement has no limits. He says Ride advocated for innovation in science, engineering and math. Ride rode on the space shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983. She died in July 2012 at 61 after ...
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Obama Chinas Xi plan 2 days of meetings in June in California
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping early next month in California. The White House says the meeting will be Obama's first with Xi since Xi became president. The two days of high-level sessions are scheduled for June 7-8 and come as the U.S. and China confront issues of cybersecurity and North Korea's nuclear ambitions. In a statement, ...
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Obama hosts Thein in symbolic White House visit
White House in nearly half a century, as Washington offers a strong symbolic gesture to back his reforms. In a scene that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago, the former general entered the White House and into talks with ...
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Grandson of Malcolm X killed in Mexico
US civil rights activist Malcolm X (1925-1965) speaks during a rally in Washington, circa 1963. Malcolm X was later assassinated. Malcolm Shabazz, his grandson, was killed Thursday, May 9, in ...
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Obama vows US support as Myanmar leader visits
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Monday told Myanmar's president during a long-awaited White House meeting that he appreciates the Asian leader's efforts to lead the country on its sometimes difficult path to democracy and assured him of U.S. ...
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Leading North American fund loaded with big boring dividend stocks
Video: Young investor needs to stop reacting to market swings Aston Hill Capital Growth, which has been run since late 2010 by manager Jeffrey Burchell of Aston Hill Asset Management Inc., has gained an annualized 18.4-per-cent return. It was formerly a closed-end fund called Tax Optimized Return Oriented Securities Trust whose assets were rolled into a mutual fund in mid-2011. Mr. Burchell, a ...
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Kids rescued from rubble at Okla. elementary
An Associated Press photographer saw several children being pulled out of what was left of the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., on Monday after a massive tornado hit the ...
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Vermont is 4th state to legalize assisted suicide
MONTPELIER, Vt. -; After years of debate, Vermont became the fourth state in the country Monday to allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medicine to terminally ill patients seeking to end their ...
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Customs seizes elephant meat dead primate in LA
LOS ANGELES -; U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Los Angeles have made some unusual seizures, including elephant meat, a dead primate and hundreds of handbags made from the skin of snakes, lizards and ...
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Kentucky teen dies with dog lead on neck
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -; Authorities say a Kentucky teenager known as a jokester was strangled by a dog lead he put around his neck while playing with friends at the start of summer ...
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Govt presses ahead on another leak case
WASHINGTON -; In another case of the Obama administration investigating classified information improperly disclosed to reporters, the government is prosecuting a State Department expert on North Korea in a probe that appears to step into uncharted territory - by declaring that a journalist is committing a crime in disclosing leaked ...
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RedMas opening offices in Chile and Mexico
RedMas, the digital advertising arm of the Cisneros Group, has opened offices in Chile and Mexico, the company announced Monday.The new offices are part of a $2 million expansion plan that soon will have RedMas offices in Brazil and Colombia. The offices join a network of subsidiaries that include offices in Argentina, Peru and Venezuela, along with the Miami office in the United States. The ...
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Twister season starts late but starts nonetheless
Twister season starts late, but starts nonetheless Deadly tornadoes that have raked communities in Middle America over the past week, including Monday's massive twister that carved a path of destruction through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, belie what had been a relatively quiet start of the 2013 tornado ...
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Thousands march in NY to protest gay mans killing
A spate of hate-fueled attacks on gay men in New York, including a killing in the heart of one of its most gay-friendly neighborhoods, is stirring up anxiety, disbelief and outrage heading into what is usually a time of gay pride ...
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Why President Obama Will Say Yes to Keystone
It's been a tough couple of weeks for the Obama administration. Whether it is lingering doubts about Benghazi or Fast and Furious, the IRS playing favorites for 18 months, the U.S. Marshal's Service losing a couple of terrorists, unanswered questions about the nominee to lead the EPA or the Department of Justice illegally seizing AP phone records, the White House has gone into full ...
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Did Obama and IRS Union Boss Talk Tea Party WH Won’t Say
President Barack Obama (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) - The head of the National Treasury Employee Union (NTEU), which represents employees of the Internal Revenue Service, met with President Barack Obama in the White House one day before the manager of the IRS's "Technical Unit" suggested establishing a "Sensitive Case Report" for the tax-exempt status applications of Tea ...
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Amtrak Commuter Rail Service To Resume In Conn. Wednesday
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (CBS/AP) -- Transit authorities say commuter rail service in Connecticut is expected to resume in full by rush hour Wednesday morning, five days after ...
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Canadian walrus that wowed Queen Victoria moves for first time in a century to star in art exhibit
The Horniman Walrus – shot by Manitoba game hunter J.H. Hubbard in the 1880s on the Hudson Bay shore — is being moved from the London museum for the first time in more than 110 ...
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CTS Australasia Exports to South America Plummet
Containerized export volume from Australasia/Oceania to South and Central America steeply declined in March 2013, according to data from Container Trades Statistics ...
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The Caucus Obama to Visit Sub-Saharan Africa in June
President Obama will make a weeklong trip to Africa this summer, the longest journey of his presidency so far to the continent of his father’s family, the White House announced on Monday. Mr. Obama will visit Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania from June 26 to July 3, the White House said. While he made a one-day stop in Ghana after visiting Russia and Italy in 2009, this will be his most ...
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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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