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Obama Morehouse College Visit Shines Spotlight On Historically Black Colleges And Universities
ATLANTA - When President Barack Obama addresses graduates at Morehouse College on Sunday, he'll also be speaking to the broader community of historically black colleges and universities – a proud corner of higher education that has struggled more than most during the last few years of economic distress. The so-called HBCUs educate a hugely disproportionate share of low-income ...
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Evidence emerges that Obama administration official knew of IRS targeting during 2012 campaign
(CBS News) WASHINGTON - There were new questions Saturday night concerning if anyone in the White House was aware of the IRS' targeting of conservative groups. Inspector General Russell George said he informed a deputy at the Treasury Department in June of 2012 about the probe into the IRS. The Treasury Department confirmed the timeline but said they did not know the details of the ...
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Michelle Obama Makes Light of Presidents Failures
(Mark Humphrey/AP Photo) Delivering her only speech at a high school graduation this year, first lady Michelle Obama joked about the failures her husband, President Obama, has encountered in life as she told a graduating class of high school seniors in Nashville, Tenn. today that in order to achieve success in life, they must first experience failure. ';When something doesn’t go your ...
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Michelle Obama gives graduation speech at Nashville HS
NASHVILLE (AP) - First lady Michelle Obama has some advice for some Tennessee high school graduates: strike your own path in college and life and work to overcome inevitable failures with determination and grit. Mrs. Obama spoke for 22-minutes to the Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet High School in Nashville in her only high school graduation speech this year. The first lady told the 170 ...
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Woman killed at Edmonton Food Bank fundraiser as Jeep demonstration goes disastrously wrong
EDMONTON -- A spectator has been killed after a Jeep demonstration at an Edmonton fundraising event went disastrously wrong. The event was called ';Jeeps Go Topless'; and was being held in the parking lot of a shopping centre to raise funds for the Edmonton Food Bank. "Obviously, a lot of people are very upset," Staff Sgt. Malcolm Allan told ...
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Barack Obama must act like a true leader | Observer editorial
It is always hard for an American president in the second term, but both his country and the world need Obama to show strength and courage and put scandal behind ...
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Federal report documents inmate sex abuse in US
In response to a federal court order, Gov. Jerry Brown pushed a novel approach through the Legislature two years ago to dramatically reduce California's prison ...
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Oxbow upsets Orb in Preakness
BALTIMORE – Oxbow has won the Preakness, ruining Orb's bid to capture the Triple Crown. Oxbow led from start to finish. It was the sixth Preakness victory for Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas and 15th Triple Crown win, the most in horse racing history. "I get paid to spoil dreams," Lukas said in an interview with NBC moments after the race. Orb finished fourth. The ...
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CHALLENGE FOR DEMSSenate Campaigns Marked By Internal Battles
Two top-tier Democratic prospects recently bypassed running for Senate seats in Georgia and South Dakota -- showing that Republicans aren't the only ones with internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections. The prospects' decisions also show divisions within the Democratic Party and its challenge of finding candidates whose ideologies line up with ...
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Are North Americans ready to spend
North Americans kept a recessionary mindset in the first quarter of 2013, but they cautiously opened their wallets and exhibited a desire to spend again. These are ...
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Canadian Press NewsAlert Oxbow wins the Preakness Stakes
Lisa Scotti, of Baltimore, reads hhere program before the sixth race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. The 138th Preakness Stakes horse race takes place Saturday. (AP Photo/Mike ...
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Doug Ford defends Rob Ford in crack video allegations
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, left, speaks in front of his brother Coun. Doug Ford at City Hall in Toronto on February 25, 2013. (DAVE ABEL/QMI ...
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Spectator dies after stunt goes wrong at Edmonton SUV event
A 20-year-old spectator is dead after a stunt went wrong at a show and shine event in Edmonton. (DAVID BLOOM/QMI Agency) ...
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Analysis Paul Godfrey firing disgraceful
Paul Godfrey speaks with the media about being fired as the head of the OLG in Toronto on May 16, 2013. (DAVE THOMAS/QMI Agency) TORONTO - ...
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B-list scandals begin to take the shine off Barack Obamas halo
Such, right now, is the unhappy situation of Barack Obama, assailed on three separate counts, all falling beneath the umbrella charge of over-mighty and deceitful government. The first relates to the death of four American officials in last September's attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The second concerns the secret seizure by the Justice Department of journalists' phone ...
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Alaska volcano shoots lava up hundreds of feet
Alaska's remote Pavlof Volcano has been shooting lava hundreds of feet into the air, but its ash plume is thinning and is no longer making it dangerous for airplanes to fly ...
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Hero Philly cop arrested charged with rape other crimes
A former Philadelphia police officer once hailed as a hero and given a seat next to the first lady at a speech by President Obama has been arrested and charged with rape and other crimes. Authorities allege that former officer Richard DeCoatsworth left a party with two females early Thursday and took them to another location, where they allege that he produced a handgun and "forced the two ...
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Senate expense claim scandal dampers Victoria Day festivities
Play video OTTAWA - Tory MPs may not be in the mood for fireworks and barbecues over the Victoria Day weekend, amid a Senate expense claim scandal that forced Senators Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin to leave the party caucus. "I'm getting calls from loyal Conservatives furious over the Senate," one MP told QMI Agency on condition of anonymity. "And I'm mad with rage, ...
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Can you know too much about your genes Jolie has turned a spotlight on genome testing but it may have risks
Brynne Stainsby had known for 15 years a simple blood test could determine whether she, like her father, carried a gene for Huntington’s Disease. A positive result would all but guarantee the Toronto chiropractor would get the devastating neuro-degenerative genetic disorder that often becomes noticeable in mid-adult life. She put it off, mostly out of youth. But in her mid 20s, she did ...
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McCartney Kicks Off North American Tour In Orlando
ORLANDO (CBSMiami/AP) -- Former Beatles star Paul McCartney’s North American tour kicks off Saturday night in Orlando, and if the elaborate production equipment involved is any indication, spectators are in for a quite the show. McCartney’s ';Out There'; tour requires31 trucks worth of equipment, including spectacular lasers and lighting, huge pyrotechnics, and ...
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Funeral held for mom son found dead in home
TRENTON, N.J. -; Funeral services have been held for the New Jersey woman and boy whose bodies were found in their home after a 37-hour hostage standoff last ...
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Impossible Choice Faces Americas First Climate Refugees
The 350 residents of Newtok, Alaska, will soon be the country's first "climate refugees." The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says their village is likely to be underwater in just four ...
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FBI searches Spokane apartment in ricin letter case
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- Authorities in hazardous materials suits are searching an apartment in downtown Spokane as they investigate the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin.FBI agents, Spokane police officers and U.S. Postal Inspection Service officials descended on the apartment Saturday morning.No arrests have been made. An FBI spokeswoman has not said ...
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Lawyer Confirms She Asked Planted Question That Broke IRS Scandal
The first revelation that the IRS was targeting Tea Party groups came in a planted question during a lawyers' conference earlier this month, the attorney who asked the question confirmed Saturday with Fox News. The inspector general report on the IRS targeting Tea Party groups and other conservative-leaning political organizations applying for tax-exempt status was complete, so the agency ...
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Witnesses Car drives into crowd at Virginia parade
DAMASCUS, Va. – Witnesses in southwestern Virginia said a car drove into a crowd at a parade Saturday and hurt several people, but the nature of their injuries wasn't immediately known. It happened around 2:30 p.m. during the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival, an annual celebration of the Appalachian Trail in Damascus, a small mountain town near the Tennessee state line about ...
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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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