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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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Prominent Canadians back petition to rename Victoria Day to honour aboriginals
A group of certain Canadian actors, writers and politicians is calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to change the name of Victoria Day. The group -- which includes author Margaret Atwood, Green Party leader Elizabeth May, and actor Gordon Pinsent -- has signed an online petition to rename this Monday's public holiday "Victoria and First Peoples Day." Peter Keleghan, an actor ...
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6 lost hikers rescued after cold night in Alberta wilderness
Area near Ware creek in Kananaskis Country. Photo courtesy Mike Koppang CALGARY -- Six lost hikers were rescued Sunday morning after a short stroll turned into an overnight stay in the Kananaskis Country wilderness. The group of friends from Black Diamond, Alta., were random camping along the Gorge Creek Trail and decided to go for a short walk about 11 a.m. Saturday, Kananaskis public safety ...
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Officer who shot NY student faced harrowing choice
NEW YORK (AP) -- The police officer who accidentally killed a Long Island college student along with an armed intruder faced the most harrowing decision of a law enforcement career: choosing the split-second moment when the risk is so high that you must act to save a life, says an expert in the ...
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The Caucus Obama Urges Morehouse Graduates to ‘Keep Setting an Example’
Martin Luther King Jr. , on Sunday to tell graduates, 50 years after Dr. King's landmark ';I Have a Dream'; speech in Washington, that "laws, hearts and minds have been changed to the point where someone who looks like you can serve as president of the United States." Wearing an academic robe in maroon and black, Mr. Obama paid tribute to Morehouse as the place where ...
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The Caucus White House Aide Calls Criticism of Obama ‘Offensive’
A senior White House adviser mounted a combative defense on Sunday against Republican lawmakers’ accusations of mismanagement, saying that the criticisms of President Obama’s actions and governing style were "offensive" and "absurd." The remarks came from Dan Pfeiffer, a member of the president's inner circle, as he made appearances on all five major network ...
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Skip college become a plumber NYC mayor says- Obama speaks at Morehouse College graduation
The heck with Harvard, says New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Most high school grads should learn a trade . . . like plumbing. Bloomberg -- he of the no-oversized sodas -- is now reportedly dispensing career advice via his weekly radio show. "The people who are going to have the biggest problem are college graduates who aren't rocket scientists, if you ...
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Google Americas third political party
(Credit: James Martin/CNET) Congress is a dog that won't go for a walk. We can tug at its leash as hard as we want, but it sits in the middle of the sidewalk, barking a defiant "no." It's not a purposeful no. It's just a refusal for the sake of it, couched in principle. Then along comes America's most ambitious politician. No, it's not Paul Ryan or ...
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Obama tells Morehouse graduates No time for excuses
In a commencement address on a rain-drenched Sunday at Morehouse College, President Obama drew on his own experience growing up as a black man in America to tell the graduates before him that there's "no time for excuses," saying that whatever difficulties they've had to slog through, "they pale in comparison to the hardships previous generations endured - and ...
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Obama No longer any room for excuses
President Obama on Sunday urged the graduates of historically black Morehouse College not to rely on "excuses" and to take responsibility for more than just themselves. "One of the things you’ve learned over the last four years is there’s no longer any room for excuses," he told the Atlanta college’s 500 male graduates, in a rare speech on what he sees as ...
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Rumsfeld Trust in Obama eroding
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Sunday the public’s trust in President Barack Obama is "being eroded" in the wake of the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. "Two things really concern me: One, you think of a manager, a leader, when something like that happens, you call people in, you sit them down and you let them know that you intend to find ...
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The top films at the North American box office
May 19 - Following are the top 10 movies at North American box offices for the three-day weekend starting May 17, led by "Star Trek Into Darkness" at No. 1, according to studio estimates compiled by Reuters. 1 (*) Star Trek Into Darkness.............$ 70.6 million 2 (1) Iron Man 3..........................$ 35.2 million 3 (2) The Great Gatsby....................$ 23.4 million ...
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Canadas Paul Henderson Danielle Goyette enter IIHF Hall of Fame
Paul Henderson, flanked by IIHF president Rene Fasel, left, and 1972 Soviet Union team goalkeeper Vladislav Tretiak, is inducted at the IIHF Hall of Fame at the world hockey championship in Stockholm Sweden, Sunday. (Jacques Boissinot/Canadian ...
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Group wants Victoria Day holiday to be renamed
Thousands of people witness a spectacular fireworks show to cap off the 11th annual Rotary Victoria Day Fireworks and Family Night on Saturday, May 18, 2013 at Del Crary Park in Peterborough, Ont. (Clifford Skarstedt/QMI AGENCY) A group of prominent Canadians is asking Prime Minister Stephen Harper to change the name of Canada’s national Victoria Day holiday to Victoria and First Peoples ...
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Scandals not hurting Obamas approval rating
The survey of 923 adults by CNN and the ORC International polling organization found that 45 per cent of respondents disapprove of Mr Obama's job performance.In early April, the same poll gave the president a 51 per cent approval rating, showing that Mr Obama is holding steady despite a brutal week in which the White House attempted to control damage from three simultaneous scandals which ...
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Obamas approval rating holds steady despite string of scandals
President Barack Obama's approval rating doesn't seem to have taken a hit from the trifecta of scandals confronting his administration, according to a new ...
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Hundreds of shipping containers with Canadian military supplies stuck in Afghanistan
Two Canadian soldiers walk into the Christmas Day sunset at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan on Friday, Dec. 25, 2009. (Colin Perkel / THE CANADIAN ...
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Poll Shows Controversies Havent Hurt Obama’s Approval Ratings
President Obama may have suffered one of the worst weeks of his presidency, but so far it seems the public isn’t letting the controversies that have engulfed the White House affect their view of the president. At the same time, ...
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Volcano outside Mexico City still rumbling spitting ash
MEXICO CITY - The Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City is still rumbling. Mexico's National Disaster Prevention Center says seismic activity shook the area early Sunday. And the 5,450-meter mountain also emitted gas, ash and glowing-hot rocks. The snow-capped volcano has been erupting periodically since 1994 and eruptions began strengthening about two weeks ...
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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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