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What produces a bigger economic boost America’s Cup or Super Bowl
What produces a bigger economic boost: sailing or football? The question takes on relevance in the Bay Area because San Francisco will host the America's Cup this July-September. And it appears likely that the NFL on Tuesday will pick Santa Clara to host Super Bowl L in 2016. It turns out that yacht racing may give the region more of an economic lift than football. The America's Cup ...
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More Obama aides knew IRS targeted conservative groups Obama not told
In this May 15, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. It might have seemed a no-win situation to the White House: either keep President Barack Obama in the dark about a looming investigation into political targeting by the Internal Revenue Service or blur legal lines by telling him about an independent ...
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Journalists criticize Obama administration say Fox News James Rosen targeted for basic reporting
New reports that the Department of Justice obtained access to Fox News reporter James Rosen's emails, among other things, have stoked outrage among ...
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Liga MX Wrap America Cruz Azul reach final
America and Cruz Azul moved into the Liga MX final with contrasting victories in their respective semi-final ties.Miguel Herrera's America secured a 2-1 win at home to Monterrey on Saturday, winning the tie 4-3 on aggregate.Raul Jimenez and Christian Benitez scored for the winners before Aldo de Nigris netted a late consolation at Estadio Azteca.The hosts needed until the 63rd minute to ...
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Might Obama fire Attorney General Eric Holder
Justice Department's pursuit of media leaks, which led to a subpoena of AP phone records, has GOP officials (and some Democrats) calling for the head of Attorney General Eric Holder. Here are three reasons Obama is not likely to ...
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Obama Chinas Xi to meet in June in California
China's newly appointed leader Xi Jinping attends a meeting with a panel of foreign experts'at the Great Hall of the People on December 5, 2012 in Beijing, China. (Ed Jones - Pool, Getty ...
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Study White Americans More Likely to See Obama as Angry Than Non-White Americans
White Americans are more likely to see anger in the facial expressions of President Obama than non-white Americans are, according to a study from the University of Arkansas that will be published in the journal Political Psychology in ...
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Police give details in Powell disappearance case
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah -; Citing a lack of leads, a police agency said Monday that it is closing the active investigation of the disappearance of Susan Powell, a Utah mother whose now-dead husband was a prime ...
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Myanmar leader vows justice over communal violence
WASHINGTON -; Myanmar President Thein Sein says that all perpetrators of inter-communal violence in the country will be brought to ...
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Sally Ride to get 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 ...
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AP License of La. explosives company suspended
JACKSON, Miss. -; Authorities have suspended the explosives licenses of a company accused of improperly storing millions of pounds of a military propellant in ...
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GOP leaders say impeachment talk premature
CONCORD, N.H. -; The Republican National Committee chairman and a leading conservative, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, urged caution Monday for Republican critics calling for President Barack Obama's impeachment, but would not rule out impeachment altogether as new details emerged about the White House's role in the developing scandal at the Internal Revenue ...
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Obama Chinese president to meet
President Obama will host Chinese President Xi Jinping in California next month, the White House said Monday. The two "will hold in depth discussions on a wide range of bilateral, regional and global issues," press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement. "They will review progress and challenges in U.S.-China relations over the past four years and discuss ways to enhance ...
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Massive tornado roars through Oklahoma City suburb
Residents whose homes were torn apart or blown away by a North Texas deadly tornado can soon return to retrieve what belongings may be left and start cleaning up, authorities said ...
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Questions linger in shooting of NY college student
The godfather of a New York college student accidentally killed by a police bullet says the officer should have negotiated instead of firing as an armed intruder held the young woman ...
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Obama Tell Italys Leader U.S. Wants to Help
The United States wants to help Europe beat its economic crisis while respecting budget discipline, US President Barack Obama said Monday in a telephone call with Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta. Both the European Union and the US were badly affected by the global financial crisis that started in 2008, but in the first quarter of 2013, the US economy grew at an annual rate of 1.8 per ...
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Curing Americas Fear of Commitment - By Marc Chretien
Not since the days of Charles de Gaulle has America spilled blood and treasure on a less grateful national leader than Afghan President Hamid Karzai. In a bid to be viewed as ideologically independent, Karzai has famously criticized the West, and the United States in particular, in apparent attempts to strengthen his political hand at ...
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President’s Approval Rating Up – America Not Buying GOP ‘Scandals’
manufactured scandals and ignoring the masses they purportedly are there to serve. Is not the media's job to ensure that our representative government represents us all and serve us all? Sadly it is no longer the case. Americans however seem to be growing up. The gullibility index may be abating. If the latest poll on President Obama is any indication, then Americans are keeping the ...
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EMERGING MARKETS-Mexico stocks fall to 6-month low Brazil up
MEXICO CITY, May 20 (Reuters) - Mexican stocks slumped to a six-month low on Monday, hurt by weaker than expected growth data last week that dampened the economic outlook for 2013, while Brazilian stocks rose. Mexican stocks have slumped about 11 percent from a record high hit in January, while Brazil has mounted a more than 5 percent recovery from a 9-month low it hit in late April. * The IPC ...
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Hezbollah in big Syria battle Obama concerned
AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas have fought their biggest battle yet for Syria's beleaguered president, prompting international alarm that the civil war may spread and an urgent call for restraint from the United ...
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Documentary about Obama home in limbo
President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks at the House Democratic Issues Conference in Lansdowne, Va., Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles ...
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White House Says It Didn’t Loop Obama In on I.R.S. Inquiry
WASHINGTON -- White House officials were first notified on April 16 about an investigation into Internal Revenue Service scrutiny of conservative groups and discussed its potential findings with the Treasury Department but never told President Obama, the White House said ...
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Obama to travel to Africa in late June
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, will travel to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania in late June and early July to reinforce U.S. ties with countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the White House said on ...
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Canadas Harper under cloud after chief of staff resigns
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is seen through a television camera scope while speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, May 16, ...
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CNN Poll Obama Still Trusted Despite Scandals But Republicans Not Overreacting
A nationwide poll has found that most Americans still have a favorable view of President Barack Obama despite the recent scandals surrounding the government, but most also agree that Republicans are reacting appropriately when it comes to raising concerns about the ...
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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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