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Poll Shows Controversies Havent Hurt Obama’s Approval Ratings
President Obama may have suffered one of the worst weeks of his presidency, but so far it seems the public isn’t letting the controversies that have engulfed the White House affect their view of the president. At the same time, ...
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Volcano outside Mexico City still rumbling spitting ash
MEXICO CITY - The Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City is still rumbling. Mexico's National Disaster Prevention Center says seismic activity shook the area early Sunday. And the 5,450-meter mountain also emitted gas, ash and glowing-hot rocks. The snow-capped volcano has been erupting periodically since 1994 and eruptions began strengthening about two weeks ...
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Search resumes for two missing fishermen off New Brunswick coast
TABUSINTAC, NEW BRUNSWICK — A recovery effort has resumed for two fishermen missing off New Brunswick’s northeast coast. RCMP Const. Scott Messier says five search and rescue teams began combing shores for the men, aged 35 and 32, at 7 a.m. today. Messier says an RCMP underwater recovery team is also searching the area where their fishing boat ...
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Obama Adviser Republicans Owe Rice an Apology on Benghazi
FILE - This June 7, 2012 file photo shows U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice listening during a news conference at the UN. Senior State Department officials pressed for changes in the talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used after the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya last September, expressing concerns that Congress might criticize the Obama administration for ...
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Metro-North Conn. train outage expected for days
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - The Metro-North commuter rail line says crews will spend days rebuilding 2,000 feet of track, overhead wires and signals damaged in a derailment and crash in ...
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Canadian PMs chief of staff resigns
Stephen Harper 's chief of staff over his involvement in a financial scandal in Parliament. The announcement came after reports Wright had written a $90,000 check to Sen. Mike Duffy for improperly claimed housing expenses, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. said. Duffy, who ...
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AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The president and CEO of The Associated Press says the government's seizure of AP journalists' phone records was "unconstitutional" and already has had a chilling effect on ...
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Star Trek sequel tops weekend box office in North America
Sun May 19, 2013 12:52pm EDT May 19 (Reuters) - Sci-fi movie "Star Trek Into Darkness" journeyed to the top of weekend box office charts as the latest voyage of the Starship Enterprise pulled in $70.6 million at U.S. and Canadian theaters. The new 3D installment in the "Star Trek" franchise knocked the mighty "Iron Man 3" to second place. The superhero sequel from Walt ...
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Obama exhorts good deeds by Morehouse graduates
FILE - In this Friday, May 17, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at Ellicott Dredges in Baltimore. President Barack Obama is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College on Sunday, May 19, 2013, the historically black, all-male institution that counts Martin Luther King Jr. among its alumni. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn ...
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Ryan Obamas second term shows arrogance
Rep. Paul Ryan said Sunday the IRS targeting of conservative groups "is arrogance of power, abuse of power, to the nth degree" and vowed the investigation into the misconduct will continue. "Look, people have no trust that their government is being impartial," the Wisconsin Republican said on "Fox News Sunday." "This is arrogance of power, abuse of power, to ...
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Somali reaction to al-Shabab sentences mixed
Two Minnesota women convicted of conspiring to send money to al-Shabab in Somalia were given prison sentences in federal court Thursday, ending a week of punishments tied to long-running investigations into recruiting and financing for the terrorist ...
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Mexico has faith in Asian-Pacific future
Mexico is in a great moment. Macroeconomic stability and a low debt rate are part of our strengths as one of the top 15 economies in the world. We are an economy with a broad social perspective fully inserted into international trade, with an exchange of goods and services that amounts more than $700 billion each year. We offer a secure and trustworthy environment for foreign investment. Our ...
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Obamas EPA Makes A Rad Decision
Gina McCarthy, President Barack Obama's nominee to head the EPA, was instrumental in the revision of the Protective Action Guide Manual for responding to radiological events. Photo credit: Mandel/Ngan/AFP Getty Images. The Obama Administration made a bold and correct scientific decision last month to allow risk-based decisions to guide responses to radiological events like a dirty bomb ...
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Obama rides high in US poll despite scandals
President BarackObamawas riding high in a new opinion poll released Sunday showing that 53 per cent of Americans approve of the way he's doing his job, despite a flurry of recent ...
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Obama not involved in tax scandal US
Barack Obama learned that the federal tax collection agency had targeted conservative groups only "when it came out in the news" while Republicans continued to press the administration for answers on Sunday. The Obama administration has also been forced on the defensive over its handling of last September's terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the US ambassador and ...
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Rand Paul Struggles To Tie Obama To IRS Scandal
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) went on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday to use the IRS scandal to attack the Obama administraiton, but flubbed a key part of his case: he couldn’t defend the claim that IRS was targeting conservative groups as part of a political strategy to help the White House. Paul, like most Republicans, has been spinning the scandal as an Obama Administration attack on ...
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Obama to discuss al Qaeda drones Guantanamo Bay in Thursday speech
ATLANTA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, under fire for security lapses at a U.S. mission in Libya, will in a speech on Thursday lay out his wide-ranging counter-terrorism policy, from the controversial use of drones to efforts to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, ...
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Britains Obama urges stronger economic ties with West Africa
ACCRA, Ghana - A rising star in Britain's Labour Party, described by some as the "British Barack Obama," Chuka Umunna urged the United Kingdom to more aggressively forge ties with West Africa's fast-growing economies. During a trade mission to West Africa last week that included a stop in his father's home country Nigeria, Umunna, a member of the British Parliament, ...
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Making mentally ill defendants ready for trial
mock trial involving people who have been deemed mentally incompetent to participate in a real one. In mental hospitals across the country, psychiatrists ...
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Charlotte remembers 1963 desegregation eat-in
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- In the spring of 1963, a prominent civil rights leader led dozens of protesters on a four-mile march from a predominantly African-American college campus to the center of Charlotte's downtown.At the rally, Dr. Reginald Hawkins warned city leaders that if something wasn't done to end segregation, future marches might not be so peacefulNearly two weeks later, civil ...
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Ads tout job grants program that doesnt yet exist
The Harper government is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars advertising a program that does not yet exist. Prime-time ads began airing this week during NHL playoff games -- currently the priciest advertising real estate on the dial -- that tout a new federal Canada Jobs Grant for training workers. The trouble is, the freshly announced program is at present little more than a concept ...
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Harper’s chief of staff Nigel Wright resigns after Mike Duffy $90000 cheque controversy
OTTAWA — The prime minister’s chief of staff announced his resignation early Sunday, saying he left his post in light of the controversy around his personal handling of Sen. Mike Duffy’s expense payments. Nigel Wright stepped down after a phone conversation with Stephen Harper, signalling a recognition that he — and not Duffy’s improper expense claims — had ...
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Canadian prime ministers top aide quits over expenses scandal
OTTAWA, May 19 (Reuters) - The top aide to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper abruptly resigned on Sunday over his role in an mounting expenses scandal which is threatening to undermine the Conservative ...
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KEPT IN DARK Aide Says Obama Learned Of IRS Scandal Via Media
President Barack Obama speaks on the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday May 15, 2013. Obama announced the resignation of Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, the top official at the IRS. (AP Photo/Susan ...
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White House insists Obama was not involved in IRS
WASHINGTON -; A top White House adviser insisted President Barack Obama learned the Internal Revenue Service had targeted tea party groups only "when it came out in the news" while Republicans continued to press the administration for answers on ...
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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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