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Obama aide chides Republicans for ‘fishing’ on IRS
White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said the Obama administration wouldn't cooperate in "partisan fishing expeditions" over targeting of tea-party groups by tax officials, raising the prospect of future battles with lawmakers over their ...
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Obama partisan battles in Washington holding back US economy
President Barack Obama told students at Morehouse College: 'My whole life, I've tried to be what my father wasn't for my mother and me.' Photograph: Erik S ...
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Mexico Creating Missing People Force To Focus On Those Who Have Disappeared
There are at least 26,121 people who went missing in the past six years in Mexico, according to President Enrique Pea Nieto's government, and now they are going to do something about it. Mexico's government says it will create a special investigative unit to search for the missing, heeding a request by relatives of the disappeared who have been on a hunger strike for nine ...
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Top Obama adviser stakes out defiant defense on IRS Benghazi AP scandals
WASHINGTON – A top White House adviser staked out a defiant defense Sunday on a series of scandals that have hit the Obama administration, going so far as to say it was an "irrelevant fact" where the president was the night of the Benghazi terror attacks and saying the Obama administration wouldn't cooperate in "partisan fishing expeditions" over IRS officials ...
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Video Obama Racism is no excuse for not excelling
As a young man, "Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down," said President Obama during a commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta, "but one of the things you've learned over the last four years is that there's no longer any room for ...
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White House insists Obama was not involved in IRS learned about it from the news
In this Sunday, May 19, 2013, photo provided by CBS News White House senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer appears on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington. Pfeiffer was scheduled to appear on five Sunday news shows Sunday, where he stated no senior officials were involved in the decision to give tea party groups extra scrutiny by the ...
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UPDATE 1-Star Trek sequel tops weekend box office in North America
Sun May 19, 2013 4:25pm EDT By Lisa Richwine and Andrea Burzynski May 19 (Reuters) - "Star Trek Into Darkness," the newest installment in the classic intergalactic franchise, blasted to the top of movie box office charts with $70.6 million in weekend ticket sales at theaters in the United States and Canada. The new 3D voyage for Captain Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise ...
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Obama cheers on grads at black mens college
U.S. President Barack Obama prepares to receive an honorary degree after delivering the commencement address to graduating students at Morehouse College in Atlanta, May 19, 2013. UPI/David ...
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The Durability Of Levis Woven Into Americas Fabric
Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: One hundred and forty years ago this month, a German immigrant named Levi Strauss patented the first pair of jeans ever made. During the California gold rush, Strauss traveled across the country to set up a West Coast branch of his family's dry ...
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How the Conn. train crash will affect commuters
Metro-North employees work at the site of Friday's train derailment in Bridgeport. Conn. on Sunday, May 19, 2013. Crews will spend days rebuilding 2,000 feet of track, overhead wires and signals following the collision between two trains Friday evening that injured 72 people, Metro-North President Howard Permut said Sunday. (AP Photo/The Connecticut Post,Brian A. Pounds ) MANDATORY ...
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Obama to speak on prison legality of drone program
President Barack Obama speaks during a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee event at the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, Sunday, May 19, 2013, in ...
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Trace volcano ash reaches small Alaska city
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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Obama touts second term agenda in graduation speech
US President BarackObama, in a rousing speech to graduating college students on Sunday, touted his second term agenda, steering clear of scandals that have engulfed the White House in recent ...
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Scandals risk tainting Obamas second term
White House in recent days. After wavering initially, the US president has launched an all-out offensive to contain fallout from the trio of controversies. Senior Obama advisor Dan Pfeiffer, doing the rounds of weekly television talk shows, went into damage control mode on the scandals, including one related to alleged abuses by the ...
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Canadian military gear stranded in Afghanistan
Canadians soldiers load baggage at Kandahar airbase in 2011. Hundreds of shipping containers filled with military supplies remain stranded in Afghanistan. (Rafiq Maqbool/Associated ...
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Meet Ray Novak the PMs new chief of staff
: "Ray is really good, and trusted. He's quiet and handles lots of tough issues. And yes, he stays out of the limelight." -- Jason Lietaer, former head of the Conservative Resource ...
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Obama tries to bounce back after tough week
U.S. President Barack Obama adjusts his tie before receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the graduation ceremony of the class of 2013 at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia May 19, ...
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Obama Tells Grads I Might Have Been in Prison
(MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) ATLANTA — President Obama said today that he is motivated by the knowledge that ';but for the grace of God … I might have been in prison,'; in a commencement address at historically black Morehouse College, where he spoke frankly about race and young men’s responsibilities to 500 male graduates. In his second commencement address of ...
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Ryan Burden of Benghazi proof on Obama
U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., delivers remarks during the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., March 15, 2013. UPI/Kevin ...
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Cornyn Obama crafting coverups
Barack Obama is cultivating "a culture of cover-ups and intimidation" regarding recent political scandals. Appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation," Senate Minority ...
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US Official White House Was Unaware of IRS Misdeeds
President Barack Obama and White House Senior Advisor Dan Pfeiffer, right, react to a reporter's question as they leave the Treasury Department in Washington, Jan. 16, ...
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Yahoo reportedly to buy Tumblr for $1.1B in cash
Yahoo Inc.'s board has approved a deal to acquire blogging startup Tumblr, people familiar with the matter said Sunday. Yahoo has agreed to pay $1.1 billion in cash for the company, one of the people said. Tumblr would continue to operate largely as an independent business, the people said. It wasn't immediately clear whether Tumblr's board had also approved the deal. Spokesmen ...
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Asking $190 Million This Is Americas New Most Expensive Home For Sale
Wall Street residents that has earned it a nickname as the hedge fund capital of the country. Now the tony town will be known for something else: as the location of America's most expensive home for sale. Asking an astounding $190 million, Copper Beech Farm has come to market as one of Greenwich's last 'Great Estates,' a designation assigned by ...
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Hero Cop Rape Charge Richard DeCoatsworth Hero Invited to Sit With Michelle Obama Arrested
U.S. first lady Michelle Obama (bottom row, center) stands next to Leonard Abess jr (L), Dina Leach (2nd L), Ty'Sheoma Bethea (3rd L), a student from Dillon, SC; Richard G. DeCoatsworth (2nd R), a police officer from Philadelphia, PA; and Jill Biden (R), wife of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden as President Barack Obama gives his primetime address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill ...
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Lets go Bulworth... If Barack Obama wants to act like a cinema president which films should he copy
Thankfully only the later part of that plot seems to have inspired Obama. The New York Times' Peter Baker reported last week that Obama had spoken "longingly of 'going Bulworth'" and telling it like it is.As Baker's story and other Obama moments have proven, it's not the only Hollywood plot available to those in the West ...
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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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