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North Carolina governor signs law aimed at restarting executions
North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate, former Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory meets supporters outside Myers Park Traditional Elementary school during the U.S. presidential election in Charlotte, North Carolina November 6, ...
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CVSF American Legion baseball squad headed south in 2013
Due to several teams being dropped, the Allegheny West teams from 2012 have joined the Allegheny South. The 13-team league will feature two divisions. CVSF will compete in Division B with Carrick, Elizabeth Forward, South Allegheny, South Park and West ...
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US Senate nearing agreement on immigration deal tougher border security at issue
The House Judiciary Committee ranking Democrat, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, during the committee's hearing to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and ...
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10 Things to Know for Thursday
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Thursday: 1. BERNANKE SPEAKS, DOW DROPS His announcement that the Fed will likely end its extraordinary bond-buying program next year sends the Dow down more than 200 points. 2. JAMES GANDOLFINI, MAGNETIC 'SOPRANOS' STAR, DIES The actor, most famous for his role as the tormented ...
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Senate confirms White House aide Froman to be next trade representative
WASHINGTON -- Senior White House economic adviser Michael Froman has been confirmed by the Senate to be the next U.S. trade representative. The law school classmate of President Barack Obama takes over the post as the administration seeks to advance major trade deals with Pacific Rim and European nations. The Senate vote was 93-4 to confirm Froman to succeed Ron Kirk, the former Dallas mayor ...
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Ghitis A new age of protests
>Editor's note: Frida Ghitis is a world affairs columnist for The Miami Herald and World Politics Review. A former CNN producer and correspondent, she is the author of "The End of Revolution: A Changing World in the Age of Live Television. " Follow her on Twitter: @FridaGColumns.(CNN) -- Presidents, prime ministers and assorted rulers, consider that you have been warned: A massive protest can ...
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Couple in deck collapse sues Fla. sports bar
A couple has filed a lawsuit against a South Florida restaurant where a deck collapsed into Biscayne Bay last week during the fourth game of the NBA ...
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Iron Man 3 rakes in $400m in North America
"Iron Man 3" has grossed 400 million US dollars worth of tickets in North America since it debuted more than six weeks ago, distributor Walt Disney Pictures announced on Wednesday.The third installment on the iconic trilogy crossed the important threshold Tuesday, and is on track to gross 1.2 billion dollars from the global market. This has made the flick 5th highest grossing film of ...
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Opinion No such thing as safe level of nukes
>Editor's note: Ira Helfand is a past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility and co-president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Alan Robock is a distinguished professor of climate science at Rutgers University and a fellow of the American Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union and American Association for the Advancement of Science. He ...
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Judge Sides With U.S. In Manning Document Dispute
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Baltimore said Wednesday she’s satisfied for now with measures the military has taken to release documents related to Army Pfc. Bradley Manning’s court-martial in the Wikileaks case. Lawyers for the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights and other groups, including The Associated Press, have complained for more than a year that ...
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Feds unravel plot to build sell x-ray weapon in Upstate New York
USA An FBI investigation has uncovered a plot by a New York state engineer with ties to the Ku Klux Klan to construct a radiation particle weapon, with the intention to sell the device to either a southern branch of the KKK or Jewish groups. Federal investigators first began to investigate Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, when he allegedly approached an Albany-area synagogue and "asked to ...
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NSA cellphone records wont help Broward bank robbery suspect feds say
National Security Agency 's controversial program - that has secretly stored millions of U.S. phone records - could help his defense in a Broward bank robbery trial. Terrance Brown, ...
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Head of revived watchdog pledges open look at U.S. surveillance
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of a newly revived federal privacy oversight board pledged on Wednesday to be "as transparent and public as possible" as the board reviews recently exposed U.S. government secret surveillance ...
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US State Department Says Indonesia Failing to Protect Religious Minorities
Indonesian youths gather outside the church that was attacked by Muslim hardliners in Temanggung, Central Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Hundreds of Islamic hard-liners stormed a courthouse and set two churches on fire Tuesday in central Indonesia to protest what they considered a lenient sentence for a Christian convicted of blaspheming ...
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US Senate Approves Fix to Citizenship for Inter-Country Adoptees
The U.S. Senate approved an amendment Tuesday to the immigration reform bill that provides automatic citizenship to all persons who were born outside the United States and were adopted by U.S. citizens. The provision would fix a controversial law that has led to the deportation of adoptees who lived most of their lives in the United ...
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Feds we can’t give up cellular location data because NSA doesn’t collect it
new 21-page legal filing (PDF) for a separate Florida-based federal criminal case,the government seemed to indicatethat its routine collection of metadata by the National Security Agency does not include cell-site location information (CSLI). The dragnet of collected metadata referenced by the government was described in a recently-leaked FISC ...
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ConsumerWatch Car Owner Irked By ‘New Red’ Paint Job
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – Choosing a paint color based on a small swatch can lead to an unhappy surprise after the paint dries on a larger surface. Just ask car owner, Susie Quaglia. Back in April, the South Bay resident brought her 2010 Ford Focus to a local Maaco shop, to get it painted her favorite color, red. But not just any red. Quaglia said she wanted a bright shade, "like a ...
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Warriors Preparing For Draft As If Team Has Picks
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Golden State Warriors general manager Bob Myers has been busy taking flights across the country and overseas, meeting with players and agents and talking to other NBA executives ahead of next week's ...
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Planned SF Pride Week Concert By Michelle Shocked Canceled
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – A planned free concert during San Francisco Pride Week by singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked – who stunned a San Francisco nightclub audience with a homophobic rant in March – has been ...
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Turkish parade in New York is a show of power Turkish Minister
Turkey's EU Minister Egemen Bagis said Turkish parade was a cultural show of power NEW YORK - Turkey's EU Minister and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis said, " Turkish Day Parade is a signal of Turkey's power, a cultural show of power." Federation of Turkish American Associations (FTAA) organized the 32thTurkish Day Parade in New York.Addressing the crowd after the parade, ...
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Judge sides with US in Manning document dispute
A government lawyer said Monday the U.S. Army has released the vast majority of court records in Pfc. Bradley Manning's case and told a civilian judge the dispute over the records had become ...
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NC repeals law that allowed racial bias appeals
Sequestration, the symbolic and ridiculous budget cutting bill that was allowed to become law, has been lampooned by almost every responsible political analyst in the country. It appears the overriding reason that it was allowed to become law is that the Republicans in the House needed to do something to assure their constituents that spending was going to be cut after agreeing to accept the end ...
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NY Kodak will keep some operations in Rochester
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- New York state and Eastman Kodak Co. have reached a deal that will keep some of the troubled company's operations in Rochester and provide $49 million for environmental cleanup at the once bustling Eastman Business Park.Local media outlets report Wednesday that Kodak will keep advanced manufacturing and its research center at the 1,200-acre site and lease property there ...
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How Olympic cauldron fanned flames of fury at American design studio
Thomas Heatherwick's Olympic cauldron (left) and the concept the New York design studio Atopia submitted to Locog in 2007. Photograph: Getty ...
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New York Men Charged with Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to Terrorists
ALBANY, NY-The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of York announced that Glendon Scott Crawford, age 49, of Galway, New York; and Eric J. Feight, age 54, of Hudson, New York, have been arrested and charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. The arrests followed a lengthy investigation by the Albany FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force that began in April ...
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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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