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Off the Charts S.P. Has More Than Doubled Under Obama
Through Friday, more than 52 months after he took office, the index was up 105 percent during his term in office, for a compound annual gain of 18 ...
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For Obama’s Global Vision Daunting Problems
President Obama , in one of the most significant speeches of his presidency on Thursday, did not simply declare an end to the post-9/11 era. He also offered a vision of America's role in the world that he hopes could be one of his lasting ...
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SAYS IT ALLObama Hosts Illegal Immigrants Snubs Union
A top Republican lawmaker blasted President Obama after he held an Oval Office meeting this week with illegal immigrants, despite having ignored recent requests for a sit-down from the union representing immigration officers. "The fact that the president and the vice president are hosting illegal immigrants in the White House while constricting citizen tours and refusing to meet with ...
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Steve King blames dirty wimp Ronald Reagan for Obamas eventual election
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said Thursday that President Obama would not be president if it weren't for the 1986 amnesty bill that Ronald Reagan signed into law. [...] In an effort to dissuade Republicans, King argued that the 1986 immigration bill that Reagan signed into law is estimated to have brought amnesty to three million illegal immigrants. He said conservative estimates show that, ...
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Video Obama urges honorable conduct on military grads
A U.S. Army missile unit at Fort Greely, Alaska is under investigation for allegations of sexual assault and fear of reprisals. On Friday, President Obama reminded graduating military cadets that they must uphold honorable conduct. Major Garrett ...
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Retired Vancouver police officer dead in Mexico recalled as friend animal lover
A retired Canadian police officer slain in Mexico is being remembered as a generous and loving woman who dedicated a lot of her time to helping animals.News reports in Mexico say Lynn Earle, 60, was found stabbed to death in her home in Playa del Carmen earlier this week.She retired from the West Vancouver Police Department in ...
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Parolee indicted in theft of Gold Rush jewelry box
OAKLAND, Calif. -; A parolee was indicted by a federal grand jury in the theft of a valuable Gold Rush-era jewelry box from the Oakland Museum of California, authorities said ...
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Whats Next for the U.S. Drone Campaign as Obama Tries to End a Decade of War
According to reports, U.S. drone attacks on militants in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere are conducted by both the CIA and the U.S. military, but will eventually be handled solely by the Defense Department. New York Times reporter Mark Mazzetti talks to Jeffrey Brown about the CIA's shifting role in the fight against ...
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Officials scale back search for abducted Iowa teen
FILE - This file photo provided by The Iowa Department of Public Safety shows Kathlynn Shepard, 15. Michael J. Klunder, who police believe abducted 15-year-old Kathlynn Shepard and her 12-year-old friend Monday, May 20, 2013, as they walked home from school, committed suicide after the younger girl escaped, but Kathlynn is still ...
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Obama implores Navy grads to end sexual assault
President Obama spoke to more than 1000 U.S. Naval Academy graduates in Annapolis, Md., Friday, calling for higher standards of conduct in the military. NBC's Kristen Welker ...
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Jindal Obamas big government thinking
>Editor's note: Bobby Jindal, a Republican, is governor of Louisiana.(CNN) -- The latest problems with the IRS witch hunt, the seizure of phone records from The Associated Press, the conflicting Benghazi stories and disastrous attempts to enforce Obamacare may all seem unrelated, but they are not. Each of these events is the direct byproduct of two central philosophies of the Obama ...
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Mexico far fewer people disappeared than feared - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois Missouri News Sports
By MARK STEVENSONAssociated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's top security official said Friday that far fewer people disappeared during Mexico's drug war than were feared when the government released a list of about 26,000 cases. Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said federal and state governments are working to weed out people who have been located. He noted that many of ...
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Arizona sheriffs office profiles Latinos federal judge rules
PHOENIX – A federal judge ruled Friday that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people. The 142-page decision by U.S. District Judge Murray Snow in Phoenix backs up allegations that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe ...
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Obamas Terror Fight Is Colored Gray Not Black And White
"You're either with us or you're with the terrorists," after Sept. 11 and much of that sprang from it. But if President Obama's newly recalibrated counterterrorism ...
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Political Scene Obama’s National-Security Speech
This week on the Political Scene podcast, Steve Coll and Dexter Filkins talk to Amy Davidson about the speech Obama gave on Thursday, during which he outlined a new direction for the country’s national-security and counterterrorism efforts, from drone strikes in Pakistan to the prison at Guantánamo ...
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I-5 bridge survivor I cant believe were alive
Dear Abby: In today's world, there are people who apparently cannot exist detached from their cellphones. In case you are wondering - yes, I do have one, but I use it only for emergencies, not idle ...
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Trucker bumps I-5 bridge sees tragedy behind him
The trucker was hauling a load of drilling equipment when his load bumped against the steel framework over an Interstate 5 bridge. He looked in his rearview mirror and watched in horror as the span collapsed into the water behind him. Two vehicles fell into the icy Skagit ...
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Obama turns page on Bush-Cheney ‘war on terror’
Chris Matthews rehashes President Obama's speech at the National Defense University with Mother Jones' David Corn and Iraq war veteran Patrick Murphy, calling the speech Obama's way of turning the page on the Bush-Cheney ...
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Obama reaffirms that free press is essential
classified information . but a free press is also essential for our democracy. that's who we are. and i'm troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill ...
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A win for Canada at the UN country keeps its only United Nations agency
MONTREAL - The spirits of Canadian politicians were soaring Friday with news that the country's only UN agency, the International Civil Aviation Organization, will not be flying the coop. Qatar had aggressively courted a move of the agency to Doha, going so far as saying diplomats were fed up with Montreal's bone-chilling winter weather. But Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said ...
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Rolling Stones get satisfaction from long association with Canada
FILE - This May 18, 2013 file photo shows Mick Jagger, center, and Keith Richards, of the Rolling Stones performing on the "50 & Counting" tour at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. Rolling Stones memorabilia will be displayed in a new exhibit, "Rolling Stones 50 Years of Satisfaction," at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. The exhibit opens on Friday, May ...
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UPDATE 2-Investors boost direct investment in Mexico cut stocks
Fri May 24, 2013 6:44pm EDT MEXICO CITY May 24 (Reuters) - A healthy boost in foreign direct investment in the first quarter underscored confidence in Latin America's No. 2 economy even as investment flows into the country's stocks and bonds moderated, central bank data showed on Friday. Foreign direct investment reached $4.99 billion in the first quarter after touching negative ...
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Last Brother From Mexicos Arellano Felix Cartel Pleads Guilty in U.S.
SAN DIEGO -- Former Mexican drug lord Eduardo Arellano Felix, the last of four brothers captured or killed in connection with a once-powerful Tijuana-based cartel depicted in the Oscar-winning film "Traffic," pleaded guilty to U.S. drug charges on ...
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How a Nova Scotia businessman has helped students from his hometown graduate debt-free for half a century
Gabe Routhier tells me it was "a while ago." But no matter how long ago it was, and it was actually 12 years ago, he will always remember, in great and graphic detail, his first day of classes at the Nova Scotia Community College in Halifax. He was 18, and a kid from Hubbards, an idyllic, seaside village about 40 minutes from the big city. He had never been away from home, or away ...
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Journalist and Author Haynes Johnson Dies at 81
Haynes Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who migrated from newspapers to television, books and teaching, died Friday. He was 81. The Washington Post reported he died at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda. In a statement to the Post newsroom, Managing Editor Kevin Merida said Johnson died of a heart attack. Johnson was awarded a Pulitzer in 1966 for reporting on the civil rights ...
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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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