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Mysterious respiratory illness kills 2 in southeast Alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A mysterious respiratory illness has left five people hospitalized and two dead in southeast Alabama, state health officials said Tuesday. Seven people have been admitted to hospitals with a fever, cough and shortness of breath in recent weeks, Alabama Department of Public Health spokeswoman Mary McIntyre said in a statement. Two of the seven have died. The Alabama ...
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Obama Pushes to Accommodate Not Protect Freedom of the Press
Unconstitutional. Sweeping. Secretive. Abusive. Harassing. Gary Pruitt, the president and CEO of the Associated Press, used those words on CBS's Face the Nation to describe the Justice Department's seizure of two months of AP reporters' phone records in New York, Washington, and Hartford, Conn. As Attorney General Eric Holder said in an entirely different context, that's not ...
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Malcolm Xs grandson buried in NY
Mourners are gathering at the Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California in Oakland to remember Malcolm X's grandson, Malcolm ...
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Coast Guardsman who admits desertion to be confined
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. A military judge sentenced him to more than six months confinement and a bad conduct discharge. During a special court-martial in Honolulu, Petty ...
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Obama Xi set to build rapport at retreat
Chinese President Xi Jinping and United States President Barack Obama are set to hold their first-ever retreat next month in California, in an effort to build personal ties. The meeting, announced by both governments yesterday, is taking place earlier than expected, reflecting a mutual sense of urgency to tackle both global and bilateral issues dogging the Sino-US relationship, say observers. ...
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Oklahoma tornado Obama pledges federal government will get everything needed right away to victims
US president Barack Obama has promised that the federal government would get everything needed "right away" to victims of the devastating tornado that struck on Monday afternoon, killing at least 24 ...
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Search for missing Canadian continues in Australian mountains
Family members joined a frantic search Tuesday for a Canadian man with survival training missing for more than a week in Australia's Snowy Mountains region.Prabhdeep Srawn, of Brampton, Ont., hasn't been heard from since parking his rental car on May 13 in the village of Charlotte Pass in Kosciuszko National Park. For the last two years, the 25-year-old has been a law student at Bond ...
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Mall of America nets up to $250 million in tax breaks
Bloomington behemoth to double its size with more stores, movie theaters, hotels, and maybe a water park. To help ensure the project moves forward, up to $250 million in tax breaks were approved this week by the Minnesota Legislature. In recent years, the megamall’s pleas for public subsidies have failed. This year, lawmakers supported a controversial new funding mechanism that draws ...
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Safety Board ATF blocking plant blast probe
Investigators working in the remnants of an exploded Texas fertilizer plant sifted by hand through untold kernels of corn, moved tons of debris and conducted more than 400 interviews, while searching for the missing piece to solve what many officials compared to an extraordinary ...
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Chinese president extends condolences to Obama over massive tornado
Chinese president to visit three Latin American nations and US Chinese president Xi Jinping has extended condolences to his US counterpart Barack Obama for the casualties and losses caused by a massive tornado.In a message sent on Tuesday, Xi expressed his deep sympathy with the US government and people for the great life and property losses resulted from the powerful tornado.Chinese State ...
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Xi Obama to meet in California
Chinese 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 mature. The China-US summit, the first since Xi took office in March, will be held at ...
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Cops sought info from Mulcair about ex-Laval mayor meeting
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says he 'never saw cash,' and has no proof the ex-mayor of Laval, Que., Gilles Vaillancourt, offered him a bribe in 1994. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian ...
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Childrens mouths allegedly taped shut at N.S. school
An assistant instructor at a school in Bedford, N.S., is under investigation by police after allegedly taping shut the mouths of several students. The incident allegedly happened at Bedford South School on Thursday, May 16, during an after school program called Excel. One mother says her seven-year-old son was involved in the alleged incident. Her name is not being used to protect the identity ...
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Judge dismisses HD Mining court challenge by unions
(QMI Agency files) A Federal Court judge dismissed Tuesday a challenge by two unions to overturn temporary foreign worker permits granted to a China-backed mining company. Judge Russel Zinn ruled HD Mining properly applied for the 201 worker permits, according to the Labour Market Opinions process. The International Union of Operating Engineers Local 115 and BC Building Trades union said the ...
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Despite Stephen Harper’s rhetoric abolishing the Senate is practically impossible
When Prime Minister Stephen Harper told his caucus Tuesday that he ';did not get into politics to defend the Senate,'; and is keen for the Supreme Court of Canada ';to rule on options for abolishing the Senate completely,'; he elevated abolition from pipe dream to plausible ...
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Obama not going after reporters aide says
WASHINGTON -- President Obama told advisers this week that he is not interested in prosecuting reporters for soliciting information from government officials, White House press secretary Jay Carney said on ...
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Sara Bareilles Jason Collins to Headline LGBT Democratic Fundraiser with Michelle Obama
GLAAD Study Finds Record Number of LGBT Characters on Broadcast TV Tickets to the 5 p.m. event, which is being hosted by the LGBT Leadership Council, are scaled from $32,400 to $1,250 apiece. Bareilles is expected to perform her new song "Brave" (from the forthcoming ...
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Video Obama promises federal aid to help in tornado search-and-rescue
President Barack Obama told the people of Moore, Okla., that their country would be there for them for as long as it takes. More than 150 federal emergency personnel are in Oklahoma to help those in need. Major Garrett ...
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United States Will Be Urged to Allow Retaliation Against Cyberattacks
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U.S. tracked foreigners at the Canadian border in pilot project
Hundreds of thousands of foreigners passing into Canada from the United States have unwittingly taken part in a grand experiment by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to crack down on visitors who violate laws governing the length of their stay.Long demanded by lawmakers in Congress, it is considered a critical step to developing a coherent program to curb illegal immigration, as ...
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10 Things to Know for Wednesday
Apple CEO Tim Cook adjusts his glasses as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent subcommittee on Investigations hearing to examine the methods employed by multinational corporations to shift profits offshore and how such activities are affected by the Internal Revenue Code. Lawmakers want to know ...
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APNewsBreak Coast Guard deserter to be confined
HONOLULU -; A military judge has ruled that a Coast Guard rescue swimmer who admitted he deserted his job in Hawaii to camp out in the mountains of Oahu for three months will be confined for more than 6 months and discharged with bad ...
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Details of the Senate immigration bill
-Within six months of enactment of the bill, the Homeland Security Department must develop a border security plan to achieve those goals, including the use of drones, additional agents and other approaches; and develop a plan to identify where more fencing is ...
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Obama voices support for Senate immigration bill
WASHINGTON -; President Barack Obama says a far-reaching immigration overhaul approved by a Senate panel is largely consistent with his own ...
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Mikel opts out of Mexico friendly
An official of the Nigeria Football Federation told Supersport.com that Mikel had asked to be excused from the tune-up match in order to rest and take care of personal ...
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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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