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Obama stresses personal responsibility to Morehouse graduates
President Barack Obama on Sunday stressed the importance of personal responsibility and "what it means to be a man" in his commencement address at historically-black Morehouse College in ...
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From the Vortex to the Leviathan Canadas Wonderland opens for another season
Season pass holders (rear left) Evan White, 37, a steamfitter, Heather White, 33, an educational assistant, with (front left) Danny White, 3, and Jack White, 6, from Newmarket, pose for a portrait at Canada's Wonderland amusement park in Vaughan, Ont., May 11, 2013.(Philip Cheung For The Globe and ...
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Obama to Morehouse grads No excuses
President Barack Obama on Sunday stressed the importance of personal responsibility and "what it means to be a man" in his commencement address at historically-black Morehouse College in ...
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US adviser on board of firm that sold anthrax drug
A 13-person commission is taking a year to analyze the ethical issues of whether children can participate in research to determine safe dosage levels of an anthrax ...
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Cassette making on the way back for Canadian music company
Montreal-based Duplication – formerly Analogue Media Technology – received its first order for 10 cassettes in 1989. Nowadays, cassettes account for a quarter of its business, which involves producing merchandise on behalf of bands. It began making cassettes and vinyl records for band, then CDs and DVDs, then Blu-ray, and now cassettes are back as a focus. "We've ...
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Major tornadoes hit United States
National Weather Service described the tornado as "large, violent and extremely dangerous" and said it was moving north east at 30 mph.The tornadoes are part of a large storm system moving through the Plains and upper ...
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Asian women begin bid for Canada
Asia's long road to the FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015™ commences on Tuesday, with a record 16 sides featuring in the preliminaries for next March's 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup in Japan, which serves as the qualifier for the global ...
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Obama addresses Morehouse College commencement
President Barack Obama delivered the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically black, all-male institution in Atlanta in the U.S. state of Georgia., on ...
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Canadas Roseline Filion wins bronze in womens 10m tower
Roseline Filion of Laval, Que., won the bronze medal in the women's 10-metre tower Sunday to conclude the fifth stop on FINA diving World Series in Guadalajara, Mexico. It was a nice comeback for Filion after a self-described disappointing performance earlier this month at the Canada Cup FINA Grand Prix in Gatineau, Que. Huixia Liu of China took the gold with 401.05 points, her compatriot ...
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Petition looks to rename Victoria Day
An online petition supported by prominent Canadian artists, authors and celebrities proposes renaming Vicotira Day to give Canadians a chance to honour both the Crown and the indigenous peoples of Canada. (Tom Hanson/Canadian ...
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Remains found on murder suspect Millards Ontario farm
Police searching a farm belonging to Dellen Millard, charged with forcible confinement and theft over $5,000 in connection with the disappearance of Tim Bosma, are trying to determine if remains found on his property could be human. ...
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Tornadoes Level Homes in Okla. Hit Other States
One of several tornadoes that touched down Sunday in Oklahoma turned homes in a trailer park near Oklahoma City into splinters and rubble and sent frightened residents along a 100-mile corridor scurrying for shelter. The tornadoes that touched down in Oklahoma, Kansas and Iowa were part of a massive, northeastward-moving storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota. At least four ...
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Obama walks a fine line with Myanmars visit
U.S. President Barack Obama (L) waves to the press during his meeting with Myanmar's President Thein Sein in Yangon, November 19, 2012.(Photo:Agencies) U.S. President Barack Obama will walk a fine line between fostering a U.S. ally and trying to defend human rights when the president of Myanmar becomes the first head of his country to visit the White House in 47 years on Monday. Rights ...
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Obama to detail Guantanamo closure plan
US President Barack Obama will this week reveal his plans for unmanned drones and Guantanamo Bay, the White House says. During a speech on Thursday at the National Defense University in Washington, the president will discuss "our broad counter-terrorism policy, including our military, diplomatic, intelligence and legal efforts," a White House official told AFP. "He will review ...
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Star Trek Into Darkness tops box office in North America
J.J. Abrams' space epic sequel "Star Trek Into Darkness" opened to a 70.56-million-US-dollar three-day weekend, elbowing "Iron Man 3" out of the top place in the box office derby in North America.The debut is less than the 75.2 million dollar opening that director/producer Abrams' "Star Trek" debuted to four years ago, but strong enough to dethrone ...
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Obama administration cracking down on information leaks
The Obama administration has set in motion 6 criminal prosecutions related to information leaking, more than any previous administration. NBC's Michael Isikoff ...
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Saudi coronavirus work stymied at Canadian lab
The National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg is working with a sample of the new coronavirus that's causing clusters of infections abroad -- but can't share the material with other researchers across the country despite the public health urgency. It was a Dutch lab that sent a Saudi sample of the virus to Winnipeg, where scientists are looking ...
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Missing Coquitlam man feared kidnapped in Mexico
METRO VANCOUVER -- The family of a Coquitlam man who went missing in Mexico is desperately seeking information about what they now believe is a ...
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Canada PMs aide exits over US$90000 gift scandal
(23 mins ago) Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff stepped down yesterday over an expenses scandal that also forced the resignation of a conservative senator. Nigel Wright announced his resignation in a statement following revelations that he gave a US$90,000 gift to a senator to help repay improper housing expenses. The senator, Mike Duffy, resigned last week. Wright, ...
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Earl Ofari Hutchinson Why the Public Should Yawn Over Alleged Obama Scandals
The mostly media driven scandal talk involving President Obama has so far stirred barely a yawn among the public. There are good reasons. The four alleged scandals, Benghazi, the IRS, the AP leaks, and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius supposed shakedown of corporations to help implement the health care act don't come close to passing the smell test for a public fogging ...
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Potential Donors to Enroll America Grow Skittish
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Duck duck goose annual North American head count has begun
Murray Gillespie, a waterfowl biologist with Enviorment Canada and the Canadian Wildlife Service and his summer student Michele Chupik survey duck populations on a wetland east of Calgary on May 11, 2013. (Chris Bolin for The Globe and ...
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When employers duck responsibility for training Canada loses
The uproar over the federal government's temporary foreign worker program exposed a disturbing workplace undercurrent.Too many employers would rather import workers than train their own.Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce economist Benjamin Tal says he often talks to chief executive officers about the skills dilemma. And what he hears are sentiments such as: "I'm not in the ...
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Syria may be Obamas real headache
A trifecta of domestic headaches confronts President Obama these days. They’ve shaken his self-confidence, thrown his second-term agenda off track, and given Republicans seemingly endless opportunities to hammer him.And yet a fourth headache looms not at home; but abroad, a migraine really, potentially more painful than the ...
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Obama submits request to lower Afghan war funding to USD79.4b
(MENAFN) In order to lessen the US presence in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama lowered his funding request for the war in the country and other operations abroad to USD79.4 billion, reported Reuters.The new funding is 10 percent lower than the original request of USD88.5 billion to finance overseas contingency operations in fiscal 2014, which will start on October 1.According to National ...
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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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