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Union of immigration enforcement officers to oppose Senate bill
By Carrie Dann, NBC News A union representing 12,000 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officers will publicly oppose the Senate Gang of Eight immigration plan Monday, giving critics of the overhaul effort additional political ammunition as they work to defeat legislation working its way through the Senate Judiciary Committee. In a release announcing the group's opposition to the ...
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Insight The road to a greener America is littered with road-kill
Apart from the relative success of Tesla Motors Inc in putting nearly 10,000 of its pricey luxury electric cars on the road, the electric vehicle sector has been among the biggest duds in clean ...
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The decomposition of American democracy
observed , "The AUMF, presented at the time as a temporary and limited measure of self-defense against those who committed acts over 12 years ago, is well on its way to being transformed into something akin to the Reichstag Fire Decree or the Enabling Act--an all-purpose pseudo-legal rationalization for police state measures and unfettered executive power for the indefinite ...
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Buffalo New York students and teachers face attack
Students and teachers in Buffalo, New York, are facing sharp cuts and school closings as part of the push by the new superintendent, Pamela Brown, to cut $50 million from the budget. Brown is seeking to implement her "reform" plan, which aims to close public schools, fire teachers and expand charter schools.On May 7, six of nine members of the Buffalo Board of Education were elected in ...
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AP chief rips feds’ ‘abuse’
WASHINGTON - The head of The Associated Press lashed out yesterday at the Justice Department’s seizure of the news agency’s phone records, saying it is already having a chilling effect on sources and is "unconstitutional."In his first television interview since the scandal broke, AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt called the seizure of thousands of reporter phone records by ...
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Tea party looks to seize on White House controversies
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., chairwoman of the Tea Party Caucus, center, speaks Thursday about the IRS targeting tea party groups. (Molly Riley / Associated ...
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White House Told in April That Audit of I.R.S. Completed
WASHINGTON -- The chief White House lawyer, Kathryn Ruemmler, learned last month that a Treasury inspector general had concluded an audit of ...
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Insight The fight for North Dakotas fracking-water market
WATFORD CITY, North Dakota (Reuters) - In towns across North Dakota, the wellhead of the North American energy boom, the locals have taken to quoting the adage: "Whiskey is for drinking, and water is for ...
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Analysis At margins of shale oil boom a tempered euphoria
HOUSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - For the past three years, the boom in the U.S. shale oil industry has outstripped all expectations. Production surged far faster than any forecasts; drillers raced to secure space in new pipelines to get their crude to ...
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Young Americans Strong at Indy Qualifying
On a day that lacked the usual drama, tension and rumors, all nine drivers who made attempts on the second and final day of Indy qualifications made it into the 33-car field, though nobody had it easier than the two young American drivers — Newgarden and Rahal. "I don't want to sound too confident, but I knew we would be fine," Newgarden said after delivering the day's ...
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Glitch in widely used polygraph can skew results
Several police departments across the country said they were not disturbed by the news of the LX4000 polygraph because they had not noticed inaccurate measurements. In South Florida, the use of the LX4000 is ...
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Polygraph worlds close ties spark accusations of favoritism
Police departments and federal agencies across the country are using a type of polygraph despite evidence of a technical problem that could label truthful people as liars or the guilty as innocent, McClatchy has found. As a result, innocent people might have been labeled criminal suspects, faced greater scrutiny while on probation or lost out on jobs. Or, just as alarming, spies and criminals ...
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FBI turns away many applicants who fail lie-detector tests
The problem with a model of lie-detector used by many police agencies and the federal government has been evident for years, but no fix has been ...
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One winner of record-breaking $590m jackpot
Tampa .The mystery winner overcame odds of about one in 175 million to select the winning numbers. They can either claim a one-off payout of $300m, or receive the whole prize in annual instalments over 30 years.The world's largest jackpot was a $656m Mega Millions jackpot in March ...
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Its swarmageddon billions of bugs to hit US east
Philip Sherwell New York - 20 May 2013 AMERICA'S east coast is bracing itself for "Swarmageddon" as hordes of flying insects emerge from ...
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Obama may be embroiled in scandals but hes definitely no Tricky Dicky
Obama administration.The collective weight of this scandalabra threatens to derail the president's ambitious legislative agenda, dragging him to premature lame-duck status. But however fervently Obama's critics might wish it, the trio of affairs does not represent outright criminality, nor promise to prompt a constitutional crisis.In fact, the ritualistic invocation has the opposite ...
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Hostage shot and killed in home by police officer
Andrea Rebello was shot once in the head by an officer who had responded to a report of an intruder at her New York house, police said yesterday.Intruder Dalton Smith pointed a gun at the officer while holding the 21-year-old in a ...
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Presidents aide insists he learned about affair from media
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to go after his political enemies.Regardless of when the president first learned of the investigations, the longtime Obama confidante said the president wanted to ensure such activities were not repeated."The activity was outrageous and inexcusable, and it was stopped and it needs to be fixed to ensure it never happens again," Mr Pfeiffer ...
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United to restart 787 flights on Monday
United Airlines is getting its 787s back in the air. The planes are returning after being grounded for four months by the federal government because of smoldering batteries on 787s owned by other airlines. The incidents included an emergency landing of one plane, and a fire on another. The incidents never caused any serious injuries. But the January grounding embarrassed Boeing, which makes ...
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Powerful tornadoes strike in four central U.S. states
(Reuters) - A massive storm front swept north through the central United States on Sunday, hammering the region with fist-sized hail, blinding rain and tornadoes, including a half-mile wide twister that struck near Oklahoma City. News reports said at least one person had ...
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The 4 Big Ways That Insatiable Corporate Hunger for Profits Has Devastated American Life -- and the World Along with It
The damage caused by the relentless corporate drive for profits has become more clear in recent years. In the most important areas of American life, devastating changes have ...
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Open thread for night owls Austerity and debt wreck lives of working American families
"Living within one's means" is an appealing but oversimplified metaphor. Before the crisis, some families and nations did borrow to finance consumption--a good definition of living beyond one's means. But this borrowing was not the prime cause of the crisis. Today, far larger numbers of entirely prudent people find themselves with diminished means as a result of broader ...
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Video Greatest threat to Africas white lions American hunters
Very few white lions live in the wild today, but Linda Tucker is on a mission to change that. She left behind her life in Paris and founded the Global White Lion Protection Trust, dedicated to saving the African white ...
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Z on TV Mel Brooks an American Master and then some
You cannot understand American humor in the second half of the 20th Century without appreciating the crazed genius of Mel Brooks. And "American Masters" does an all-out appreciation at 9 p.m. Monday (May 20) on PBS. Here's a podcast of my preview from WYPR ...
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Cahill in top form in New York
Tim Cahill has continued his top form ahead of Australia's World Cup qualifiers in June with the winner in New York Red Bulls' 1-0 triumph over Los Angeles Galaxy.Cahill notched his fourth goal in five games in Major League Soccer to give the Red Bulls their fifth victory in six matches, keeping the New York-based side at the top of the Eastern Conference standings.In classic Cahill ...
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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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