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Obama opposes GOP bill on Keystone XL oil pipeline
WASHINGTON -; The White House says President Barack Obama opposes a House bill that would speed approval of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to ...
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Across America 2013 Solar Impulse Prepares For Flight From Phoenix To Dallas
Image Caption: Event week in Phoenix- Consulate of Switzerland Dinner - J. Brewer, Governor of the State of Arizona, and B. Piccard and A. Borschberg with the Clean Generation Flag. Credit: Solar Impulse |Merz| ...
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Obama Let journalists do their work
In the wake of reports that the Justice Department used the "potential criminal liability" of a Fox News reporter to get a search warrant for his e-mail, the White House said Tuesday that President Barack Obama would not support prosecutions of journalists over their work. "If you’re asking me whether the president believes that journalists should be prosecuted for doing ...
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W.H. defends keeping Obama in dark
White House senior staff did the right thing in not informing President Obama of the ongoing IRS investigation, press secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday. "It is the appropriate approach of counsel in this case," he said. Carney said Monday that White House counsel Kathy Ruemmler had judged it best for the president not to be told of the investigation ahead of the release of its ...
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Dont Hold Your Breath Waiting for Public Opinion to Turn Against Obama
seem somewhat surprising. But two veteran political pollsters, one from each party, say that Obama can expect to maintain his standing as long as there's no evidence that he was involved in the two big furors of the moment: the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups for extra scrutiny, and the Justice Department seizing Associated Press phone records as part of a leak ...
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Whole neighbourhoods gone as 24 confirmed dead in tornado-hit Oklahoma
It was a day after a massive tornado tore through a suburb of Oklahoma City, wiping out whole blocks of homes and killing at least 24 people.Nine children were among the dead, including seven who died at Plaza Towers Elementary School, which took a direct hit in the deadliest tornado to hit the United States in two ...
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Art dealer in forgeries scandal faces tax probe
Jonathan Stempel - 21 May 2013 FEDERAL prosecutors charged a New York art dealer with tax fraud in connection with the sale of paintings she claimed to be the works of celebrated abstract expressionists, but some of which the government said were ...
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Senate panel approves weapons for Syrian rebels- Israeli military chief issues stark warning on Syria
A Senate panel has voted to provide weapons to rebels battling the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The vote by the Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday marked the first time that lawmakers have backed the aggressive military step of arming vetted opposition forces. The vote was 15-3. The United Nations estimates that more than 70,000 people have been killed after more than two years ...
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Oscar Pistorius brother acquitted in road accident death
JOHANNESBURG – One Pistorius brother is free of charges -- acquitted Tuesday of culpable homicide in the death of a woman in a road accident. The famous younger brother, Olympian double-amputee Oscar Pistorius, still must face his day in court for shooting and killing his girlfriend. Carl Pistorius cried tears of relief Tuesday as a magistrate acquitted him of culpable homicide and ...
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AES supplies energy at Central America and the Caribbean’s most competitive prices
Santo Domingo.- The consolidated portfolio of energy generators that the power company AES manages offer the most competitive electricity prices in the local market as well as the Central America and Caribbean region. This was revealed by Marco De la Rosa, during breakfast the Energy Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAMDR), explaining that "AES sells a kilowatt hour of ...
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Obama offers comfort urges action after Oklahoma tornadoes
NBC's Kristen Welker talks about what President Obama is doing in the aftermath of the tornadoes that tore through Oklahoma on Monday, saying that sending money seems to be the main plea as of ...
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Tomgram Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford Congress Tweeted While America Burned
went before Congress and insisted that the Defense Department couldn't be more "comfortable" with AUMF, as it was written, and that not a word should be altered or amended for changed circumstances. The Pentagon was so comfortable, in fact, that its officials foresee using that resolution to continue its drone-powered ...
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Tories throw rebel backbencher a bone with support of sex-offender bill
OTTAWA -- The Conservative government appears to be throwing beleaguered rebel backbencher Mark Warawa a bone. Justice Minister Rob Nicholson Tuesday announced government support for the Langley, B.C., MP's private member's bill, which would impose a variety of restrictions on offenders released from prison under certain conditions. First introduced last month, Bill C-489 would ...
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Twelve-year-old killed as Jeep driven by girl 11 loses control on B.C. logging road
MACKENZIE, B.C. - Mounties are investigating after a 12-year-old girl died in a Jeep driven by an 11-year-old girl near Mackenzie, B.C. Police say the youngster behind the wheel was being supervised by a 41-year-old man when she lost control. The vehicle overturned on a logging road six kilometres from town, fatally injuring the passenger last Friday evening. RCMP Sgt. Sydney Lecky says the ...
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Liberal Senate leader hopes to call Harper’s office in contempt of Parliament force Wright to testify
OTTAWA -- The Liberals in the Senate are trying to trigger special parliamentary hearings in the hopes of forcing the Prime Minister’s former top aide and other Conservatives to testify. Liberal Senate leader James Cowan is expected to argue that Stephen Harper’s office violated the sacrosanct privileges of parliamentarians. Harper’s chief of staff Nigel Wright gave Sen. Mike ...
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The Senate reforms explained from the death of the ‘honour system’ to a new ‘smell test’ for housing claims
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper's message Tuesday that Conservative senators should quickly pass proposed reforms to the Senate's spending rules put the ball back in the red chamber's court. His remarks suggested the Tories would move quickly to have the reforms passed as early as Tuesday night, possibly using their Senate majority to try to push the changes through. ...
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Obama announces bipartisan election commission
Making good on one of his State of the Union promises, President Obama on Tuesday announced a presidential commission on election administration, a 10-person committee aimed at identifying "non-partisan" ways to make the voting process more efficient, according to a White House statement. "The right to vote is one of the most essential rights provided by the Constitution. As I ...
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Trial opens for Kiwi accused of Canadian murder
An ex pat New Zealander accused of murdering his wife has gone on trial in Canada. Former Napier city councillor Peter Beckett, 56, is standing trial at Salmon Arm Provincial Court for the murder of his wife Laura Letts-Beckett by allegedly pushing her off a fishing boat in 2010. The trial opened today in Canada [Tuesday local time] and is set down for five days. Mrs Letts-Beckett, 50, died two ...
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Prehistoric crocodiles ruled the roost in South America study finds
Modern alligators and crocodiles rarely share the same environments but that was not true of their prehistoric ancestors in South America, paleontologists say. From 9 million to 5 million years ago the deltas of the Amazonas and the Urumaco, a river on the Gulf of Venezuela that no longer exists, boasted an unparalleled abundance of extremely diverse, highly specialized species of crocodile, ...
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Obama against prosecuting reporters for doing their jobs White House
President Obama believes in the need for balance between national security concerns and the ability of reporters to work freely, White House has ...
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Key senator to let Myanmar sanctions bill lapse
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The top Senate Republican says he plans to let key sanctions legislation against Myanmar (mee-an-MAWR') lapse because of the country's progress toward ...
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CANADA STOCKS-TSX ends higher as major sectors rally data helps
TORONTO, May 21 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index jumped more than 1 percent on Tuesday, supported by gains in most major sectors and optimism following positive economic data from Europe. The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index unofficially closed up 129.38 points, or 1.03 percent, at 12,742.43. Eight of the 10 main sectors on the index were ...
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UPDATE 2-Bank of Canadas Carney says Europe needs big reforms
Tue May 21, 2013 3:58pm EDT * Bank of Canada chief says Europe should learn from Japan * Final speech before Carney leaves for Bank of England * Says tightening bias aimed in part at household debt * Says the considerable stimulus now in place is appropriate By Leila Lemghalef MONTREAL, May 21 (Reuters) - Europe could face a decade of stagnation unless it makes big reforms and it should heed the ...
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Arias asks jury to give her life in prison
Jodi Arias points to her family as a reason for the jury to give her a life in prison sentence instead of the death penalty on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander, 30, in his suburban Phoenix. (AP Photo/The Arizona ...
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No new funds needed for Okla. tornado recovery
An aerial view shows the Monday tornado's path through a residential area Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school. (AP Photo/Tony ...
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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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