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Report Obama Trims Afghan War Budget Request
The Reuters news agency quotes an unidentified White House aide as saying the president has decreased his request for funding the war in Afghanistan by 10 percent for the 2014 fiscal year budget. The report says the president reduced his original request from $88.5 billion to $79.4 billion. The White House issued a statement Friday saying the change was made to account for the drawdown of ...
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Obamas Morehouse visit shines spotlight on HBCUs
ATLANTA -- When President Barack Obama addresses graduates at Morehouse College on Sunday, he'll also be speaking to the broader community of historically black colleges and universities - a proud corner of higher education that has struggled more than most during the last few years of economic distress.The so-called HBCUs educate a hugely disproportionate share of low-income students, and ...
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NY pol accused of serial sex harassment to resign
Investigative reports show Miami-Dade Schools cleared a former police chief of sexual harassment allegations, and portray for the first time his side of the ...
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Last-minute fortune seekers buy Powerball tickets
After weeks of rolling without a winner, the Powerball jackpot has once again ballooned in time for its Wednesday drawing, an estimated $360 million jackpot considered the third largest Powerball jackpot and the seventh largest jackpot in ...
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FBI searches apartment in ricin letter case
A letter addressed to President Obama containing a "suspicious substance" was intercepted on Tuesday at a remote Secret Service mail screening facility, the presidential protective agency ...
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US unaware of Russian missile shipments to Syria – State Department
USA Washington has distanced itself from US media speculation about alleged Russian sales of Yakhont missiles to the Syrian government. A US State Department spokesperson stated they have no "new" information of Russian missiles shipments to Damascus. According to State Department spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki, the alleged arms deliveries reported in a New York Times article on ...
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Will current scandals affect the 2014 midterms
Agenda killer? MSNBC Host Karen Finney and Former Press Secretary under George W. Bush, Tony Fratto, discuss President Obama's second term agenda. Both Finney and Fratto predict the outcomes of the 2014 election season and how the current scandals could influence the results. They both discuss the GOP's strategy on winning upcoming elections and halting President Obama's ...
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Russia-US relations strained amid spying scandal
The Cold War may have ended but, evidently, the spying did not. Peter Earnest, executive director of the International Spy Museum and former CIA agent, speaks with MSNBC's Alex Witt about the American allegedly arrested by Russian ...
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How IRS controversy could shape Obamas legacy
White House Reporter for the Washington Post David Nakamura, and Political Reporter for U.S. News and World Report Lauren Fox join MSNBC's Alex Witt to talk about the latest in politics. They begin with commenting on the IRS hearings and the questioning of outgoing IRS Commissioner Steve Miller. The reporters discuss the IRS controversy and its impact on the Obama administration's ...
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Europe and the US should heed Latin America on drugs
drugs . There is a growing belief that the current punitive-based approach has failed. It has visited a savage level of violence on Latin America as narco cartels, moving cocaine and cannabis into the US, have butchered and bribed their way through the continent. The killing and corrupting of public officials - judges, police, politicians - threatened, and still threatens, to demolish the ...
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Chicago commuter headache as L train line shut for five months
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago will shut down part of its "L" elevated rail system's busiest line for five months starting on Sunday, forcing thousands of commuters to seek other routes and creating the biggest such U.S. transit disruption in two ...
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2 Men Hurt In Separate Shootings In Oakland
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Two men were hospitalized in separate shootings in Oakland Friday, a police officer said. The first shooting was reported at about 3:55 p.m. in the area of Dowling Street and 83rd Avenue, Officer R. Bowden said. Responding officers found a man suffering from at least one gunshot wound, Bowden said. He was transported to a hospital and is in stable condition, she ...
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Police call fatal NYC shooting a hate crime
NEW YORK -; Police say a gunman used anti-gay slurs before fatally shooting a 32-year-old man in New York City's Greenwich (GREN'-ich) ...
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Ex-Pa. officer once hailed as hero faces charges
PHILADELPHIA -- A former Philadelphia police officer once hailed as a hero and given a seat next to the first lady at a speech by President Obama has been arrested and charged with rape and other crimes.Authorities allege that former officer Richard DeCoatsworth left a party with two females early Thursday and took them to another location, where they allege that he produced a handgun and ...
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Will Americans New Boarding Process Work It Failed at Virgin America.
Give American Airlines credit for trying a new method to board passengers more quickly. Airlines constantly tinker with the boarding process, and this time American says it has found a way to cut an average of two minutes from the 40 minutes to 45 minutes that it takes to board a narrowbody aircraft. American narrow bodies take off about 3,000 times a day, so two minutes per flight is a lot of ...
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Takeaways from the IRS hearings
White House Correspondent for The Hill, Amie Parnes, and Washington Post Reporter, Ed O'Keefe, join MSNBC's Alex Witt to discuss yesterday's heated IRS hearings and the role, if any, partisanship played in the ...
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Previewing Game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinals between the New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers
The Pacers are scoring 12 fewer points per 100 possessions with George Hill off the floor. (David E. Klutho/SI) On Saturday night, Indiana will have its second straight opportunity — after taking a 3-1 lead — to close out its series against New York and advance to the Eastern Conference finals. Yet this particular series has taken some interesting turns of late, which may afford the ...
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US Airways plane makes unusual belly landing at Newark airport
(Fotolia) NEWARK, N.J. - A US Airways flight made an emergency landing on its belly at Newark Liberty International Airport early on Saturday after the plane’s landing gear failed to deploy, but no one was injured, airline and government officials said. Piedmont Airlines flight 4560, operating for US Airways from Philadelphia with 34 passengers and three crew members, landed safely at 1 ...
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UAE Host UN High-Level Thematic Debate on Energy-Water Nexus in New York
WAM NEW YORK: May 18th, 2013 (WAM): The United Arab Emirates (UAE) partnered with the President of the 67th Session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly to host a high-level, thematic debate titled "Sustainable Development and Climate Change: Practical Solutions in the Energy-Water Nexus" on 16 May 2013 at the UN Headquarters in New York. Government leaders and a diverse ...
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UPDATE 1-Investigators seek cause of New York commuter train crash
Sat May 18, 2013 2:05pm EDT (Updates with car safety, ridership numbers) By Karen Brooks May 18 (Reuters) - Federal investigators on Saturday searched for the cause of a rush-hour train crash in Connecticut that injured dozens of people commuting home from New York City, three of them critically. More than 60 people were hospitalized Friday night after an eastbound commuter train derailed and ...
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US Military Officials Call Sex Abuse In Ranks Serious Problem
Top U.S. military officials have vowed to root out sexual abuse, a persistent problem in all branches of the armed forces. The victims of sexual battery, harassment and stalking are mostly female members of the military, but gay men and others also have reported assaults. In some cases, the perpetrators turned out to be officers tasked with preventing abuse. Sexual misconduct in the ranks ...
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Dems Senate campaigns marked by internal battles
FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2012 file photo, Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga., stands with supporters as he waits to do a television interview at an election-night party in Augusta, Ga. Barrow and former Rep. Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin in South Dakota, two top-tier Democratic prospects, recently bypassed running for Senate seats in Georgia and South Dakota, decisions that highlighted both divisions within the ...
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Money tangle The IRS and its tea party tempest
Ousted IRS chief Steven Miller is sworn in on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Friday, May 17, 2013, prior to testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the extra scrutiny the IRS gave Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. (AP Photo/J. Scott ...
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Boston police city to review bombings response
LOWELL, Mass. -; Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis says his department and Mayor Thomas Menino's office will conduct two separate investigations into the Boston Marathon bombings ...
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Feds launch probe into Connecticut train crash that injured dozens
Dozens were injured after two commuter trains collided near Fairfield, Conn., during the evening rush hour on May 17, 2013. (Rob Oliver via ...
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Idaho looks to eco-business for eventual recovery
Colorado has been leading the country in developing a sustainable, environmentally-friendly ‘green economy’ using $1 billion in federal grants over the last ten years or so, the efforts have paid off and now it seems that Idaho’s leadership may be looking to do something similar.
Using a $1.25 million federal grant the state of Idaho is investigating the extent of our green economy. Officials from the Idaho Department of Labor are in the process of interviewing around 5000 large and small employers and asking them, basically, how many ‘green’ jobs they’re currently got and what their growth potential is for the coming years. Read more
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