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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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With Obama in the dark administration planned how to stage-manage news of IRS scandal
Acting IRS Commissioner Steve Miller testifies on Capitol Hill at a hearing on Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups, May 17, 2013 in Washington, ...
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Search for Okla. tornado survivors nearly complete
MOORE, Okla. (AP) Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of nine children. Scientists concluded the storm was a rare and extraordinarily powerful type of twister known as an EF5, ranking it at ...
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Xi-Obama meeting to chart future course of China-US ties
Chinese president to visit three Latin American nations and US As Chinese president Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Barack Obama is ready to meet for the first time after the leadership transition in both nations, analysts say the June 7-8 summit in the US state of California will chart the course of future development of China-US relations.They also believe that the meeting will show that ...
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Obama meets undocumented youth renews push for immigration overhaul
US President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday met with "Dreamers," undocumented youth who were brought to the country as children, renewing the push to overhaul the country's immigration system.Obama and Biden on Tuesday morning met with young immigrants who received deferred action as well as family members of undocumented immigrants in the Oval Office of the ...
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RVania Resident Taxed By New Mexico
English: A Class A motorhome with the slide-out extended (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Full time RVers have not applied for statehood - yet. I have not been able to come up with a good estimate of what the population of RVania would be. I have seen estimates of anywhere from 200,000 to 1,000,000. The latter would put five states behind RVania in population. I saw one estimate, a bit implausible, ...
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Relatives join search for Canadian missing in Australias Snowy Mountains
OTTAWA -- 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 ...
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Barack Obama the spectator president
The Barack Obama revealed to us in recent days is something rare in our history: a spectator president, clueless about what is going on in his own household, who reacts to revelations like some stunned ...
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Jury weighing Jodi Arias fate adjourns for day
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 PhoenixZ. Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander in his suburban Phoenix home in June 2008. (AP ...
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Mourners say Hofstra students death preventable
CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME -- In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rebello is shown. Police said Rebello, a junior at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., was shot and killed Friday, May 17, 2013, during a break-in near the college campus. (AP Photo/Sleepy Hollow High ...
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UN Poaching threatens central Africa peace
UNITED NATIONS -; The illegal trade in elephant ivory may constitute an important source of funding for armed groups, including the Lord's Resistance Army, threatening peace and security in central Africa, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report to the Security ...
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Leahy steps back on gay marriage issue
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, confers with the committee's ranking Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, May 20, 2013, as the committee assembles to work on a landmark immigration bill to secure the border and offer citizenship to millions. The panel is aiming to pass the legislation out of committee this ...
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2 more reports of anti-gay attacks in NYC
Members of the LGBT community and their supporters gather to speak out after a string a bias attacks, including the fatal shooting of 32-year old Mark Carson on Saturday, during a rally in New York's Greenwich Village, Monday, May 20, 2013. A spate of hate-fueled attacks on gay men in New York, including a killing last week on a busy street in one of Manhattan's most gay-friendly ...
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2 FBI agents who died remembered for valor
Two FBI agents who died while training off the Virginia Beach coast fell to their deaths when a helicopter had trouble during a "maritime counterterrorism exercise," an agency spokeswoman said Monday ...
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Guest Say no to a U.S.-Canada border-crossing fee
THE U.S. government has expressed interest in possibly instituting a new border-crossing fee at land borders. At this stage, the proposal is just a request by President Obama’s administration to study the effect of collecting a crossing fee for pedestrians and passenger vehicles along the Canadian and Mexican land borders. A fee would help recover the costs of upgrades on the northern and ...
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Journalists shouldnt be prosecuted for doing their jobs Obama
President Barack Obama does not want journalists prosecuted for doing their jobs, his spokesman said Tuesday, amid a furore over a Fox News reporter caught up in a Justice Department leak ...
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Russell Defining Canadas Olympic prospects
In Vancouver we had them for two days. We were afforded the undivided attention of the men and women who will go for gold while flying Canadian colours at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, now about nine months away. In Vancouver we had ...
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Plastic recycling fire in Windsor Ont. leads to state of emergency
A massive industrial fire at a plastic recycling facility in Windsor, Ont., has led the mayor to declare a state of emergency for an area of the city. Mayor Eddie Francis told residents in the city's west end to stay indoors, close their windows and not use air conditioning after a recycling facility caught fire mid-afternoon Tuesday. A Windsor Fire and Rescue spokesperson said that at ...
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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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