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Leahy steps back on gay marriage issue
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, confers with the committee's ranking Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, May 20, 2013, as the committee assembles to work on a landmark immigration bill to secure the border and offer citizenship to millions. The panel is aiming to pass the legislation out of committee this ...
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2 more reports of anti-gay attacks in NYC
Members of the LGBT community and their supporters gather to speak out after a string a bias attacks, including the fatal shooting of 32-year old Mark Carson on Saturday, during a rally in New York's Greenwich Village, Monday, May 20, 2013. A spate of hate-fueled attacks on gay men in New York, including a killing last week on a busy street in one of Manhattan's most gay-friendly ...
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2 FBI agents who died remembered for valor
Two FBI agents who died while training off the Virginia Beach coast fell to their deaths when a helicopter had trouble during a "maritime counterterrorism exercise," an agency spokeswoman said Monday ...
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Guest Say no to a U.S.-Canada border-crossing fee
THE U.S. government has expressed interest in possibly instituting a new border-crossing fee at land borders. At this stage, the proposal is just a request by President Obama’s administration to study the effect of collecting a crossing fee for pedestrians and passenger vehicles along the Canadian and Mexican land borders. A fee would help recover the costs of upgrades on the northern and ...
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Xi Obama to meet in California
/enpproperty--> Leaders will hold two days of talks next month at estate retreat President Xi Jinping will meet US President Barack Obama in California next month on his way back from a trip to Latin America and the Caribbean. Analysts said the arrangements for their meeting, which is informal but will be held over two days, show that relations between the two countries are ...
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Journalists shouldnt be prosecuted for doing their jobs Obama
President Barack Obama does not want journalists prosecuted for doing their jobs, his spokesman said Tuesday, amid a furore over a Fox News reporter caught up in a Justice Department leak ...
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Russell Defining Canadas Olympic prospects
In Vancouver we had them for two days. We were afforded the undivided attention of the men and women who will go for gold while flying Canadian colours at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, now about nine months away. In Vancouver we had ...
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Plastic recycling fire in Windsor Ont. leads to state of emergency
A massive industrial fire at a plastic recycling facility in Windsor, Ont., has led the mayor to declare a state of emergency for an area of the city. Mayor Eddie Francis told residents in the city's west end to stay indoors, close their windows and not use air conditioning after a recycling facility caught fire mid-afternoon Tuesday. A Windsor Fire and Rescue spokesperson said that at ...
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London Ont. sex offender escapes again
Kenneth Froude. LONDON, Ont. - A sex offender who terrorized a London woman after breaking into her townhouse is on the loose again, police said. Repeat offender Kenneth Froude, 45, who serving a 19-month sentence for criminal harassment and breach of his supervision, has escaped from the halfway house at the Collins Bay Institution in Kingston, Ont., said Const. Brett Anderson said. In June ...
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Mountie claims she was dragged through manure sexually assaulted by colleagues
OTTAWA -- An RCMP Staff Sgt. has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against 13 former colleagues, claiming she was sexually assaulted, harassed and bullied during her time with the iconic Musical Ride more than 25 years ago. Caroline O'Farrell, 52, was subjected to numerous degrading incidents during her training and performances with the force's equestrian show in 1986 and 1987, ...
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Teens affected by ‘suicide contagion’ Canadian study finds
A new study says teens who had a schoolmate die by suicide are more likely to consider or attempt taking their own lives than those who haven't lost a peer to ...
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Jodi Arias asks for life term jury deliberates
PHOENIX (AP) -- Jodi Arias begged jurors Tuesday to give her life in prison, saying she "lacked perspective" when she told a local reporter in an interview that she preferred execution to spending the rest of her days in ...
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Senate panel approves sweeping immigration bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved legislation that would bring about the biggest changes in U.S. immigration policy in a generation, setting up a spirited debate in the full Senate next ...
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UPDATE 1-U.S. not respecting WTO ruling on meat labeling -Mexico
(Updates with agriculture minister's quotes) By Adriana Barrera MEXICO CITY, May 21 (Reuters) - The United States is not respecting a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling on meat labeling, Mexico's Agriculture Minister Enrique Martinez said on Tuesday, saying it was hurting local industry. The WTO ruled in late June last year that a U.S. program for labeling imported meat unfairly ...
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McKeon State didnt ask for help before Benghazi
WASHINGTON -; A senior House Republican says U.S. military forces weren't in a position to help those under attack at a U.S. diplomatic post in Libya because the State Department had failed to ask the Pentagon for help in securing the compound before the ...
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House GOP panel moves on deep budget cuts
WASHINGTON -; Republicans controlling the House pressed ahead Tuesday with slashing cuts to domestic programs far deeper the cuts departments like Education, Interior and State are facing under an already painful round of automatic ...
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Impact of Okla. tornado beyond mere cleanup
Kandi Scott salvages items from the rubble of her home, which she shared with her mother, until it was destroyed Monday when a tornado moved through Moore, Okla., Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds.(AP Photo/Brennan ...
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IRS official to take the 5th at House hearing
Cliff Toye, of Tabernacle, holds a sign as he stands with others outside Internal Revenue Service offices Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Cherry Hill, N.J., during a tea party rally protesting extra IRS scrutiny of conservative groups. The Internal Revenue Service gave extra scrutiny to tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. (AP Photo/Mel ...
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Obama and Morehouse The Bell Tolls
When I entered Morehouse College, in the late summer of 2004, I was told, quite literally, that there was a bell that tolled for me. Along with several hundred other freshmen, I had just moved onto campus, and was told that I was in the right place at the right moment in history. A school that took on the mission of educating African American men in 1867, just two years after the Civil War, ...
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Town rethinks plan to euthanize Canada geese
Photo credit: Mark Bellew | The Town of North Hempstead has entered into an agreement with the USDA to euthanize flocks of geese that are damaging town parks and other properties. (May 10, ...
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Scientists Dont drop federal wolf protections
Federal wildlife officials are postponing a much-anticipated decision on whether to lift protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 ...
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APNewsBreak Coast Guardsman admits desertion
HONOLULU -- A Coast Guard rescue swimmer whose disappearance led to a massive search in Hawaii pleaded guilty to desertion Tuesday, saying he left work one day, decided never to return and spent the next three months camping in the mountains of Oahu.Petty Officer 1st Class Russell Matthews pleaded guilty to desertion and wrongful use of marijuana during a special court-martial in Honolulu on ...
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Ark. treasurer resigns amid charges she took cash
Arkansas' state treasurer resigned Tuesday after being accused of taking at least $36,000 in cash - sometimes stashed in a pie box - from a broker who later came to manage a large share of the state's $3.3 billion investment ...
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Mexico-bound Surfers Eye dismantled
The Surfers Paradise Eye wheel is being dismantled and will be gone by next week. Pic: Scott Fletcher THE Surfers Paradise Eye has taken its last spin.The controversial attraction, plagued with problems for the past five years, will be pulled to pieces and shipped to Mexico after reportedly costing management $800,000 in the past year.Work began on dismantling the wheel atop the Surfers ...
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Editorial Americas duty to help Oklahoma
Photo credit: Mayita Mendez, 2002 On a memorable day 11 years ago, grateful Oklahomans donated a red and white rescue truck to the New York City Fire Department, purchased with money donated by schoolkids and adults. Called the Spirit of Oklahoma, the truck was the Sooner State's way of thanking the FDNY for its help in 1995 with search and recovery work after a terrorist bomb claimed 168 ...
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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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