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Obama set to host leader from Myanmar at the White House
President Obama will become the first U.S. president in nearly 50 years to host a leader from Myanmar at the White House. And he may not mention the name "Burma." Alex Wagner discusses the historic meeting and the meaning behind the ...
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Snowe Americans must speak up demand bipartisanship
i was concerned that the polarization would be diminished. i think it's important for americans, to speak up, to become engaged in this process and demand and value bipartisanship. that's why i'm part of the bipartisan policy center. that's why we've launched ...
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Bipartisan immigration reform moves forward
immigration reform just might be possible. "the new york times" editorial board says congress is moving in the right direction. writing quote, the absence of drama was a sign of how far the reform effort has moved beyond demagoguey, every day of movement in the committee process is rebuke to the politics of defiant stalemate. the hearings continue this morning and the committee is ...
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Harper escapes to South America
More allegations of questionable accounting from Duffy as critics step up attack OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper darts off to South America Tuesday as his party and office attempt to put a lid on an explosive Senate firestorm at home. Harper will dodge the direct ire of opposition parties this week, which will demand answers after his chief of staff Nigel Wright resigned and Senators ...
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Anger as Barack Obama rewards Burmese President with White House visit despite recent claims of violence
Just eight months ago, Burma's President was still on a blacklist barring him from travelling to the United States. Now, the ugly past and anxieties about the future were set aside when Thein Sein was welcomed into the White House, becoming the first Burmese head of state to cross the threshold since Lyndon Johnson rolled out the red carpet for the military dictator Ne Win in ...
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Portion of Houston Channel shut for search Coast Guard
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Crude oil tanker ships were temporarily unable to reach the five Houston-area refineries on Monday after a seven-mile section of the Houston Ship Channel was shut by the U.S. Coast Guard for the search for a person who jumped or fell from a bridge over the ...
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College Student Disappears on Way Home for Summer
Pennsylvania State Police are looking for University of Rhode Island college student, Matthew Royer who went missing while driving back home to Skippack Township, Pa., May 16, 2013. Anyone with information is asked to contact PSP Skippack at ...
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San Jose Teen Bicyclist Killed In Crash On Way To School
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) – A teenager riding a bicycle on his way to school was killed in a collision with a vehicle Monday morning in San Jose, a police spokesman said. The bicyclist was a 16-year-old sophomore at Silver Creek High School. The collision was reported at 7:36 a.m. in the area of East Capitol Expressway and Silver Creek Road – near Silver Creek High School, San Jose police ...
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About The Bay 94-Year-Old Bay Area Journalist Defies Odds
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – A San Francisco newspaper reporter is still on the beat at an age when most of his colleagues are just plain beat, if alive at all. San Francisco Chronicle Science Editor David Perlman is 94 and chasing down stories 72 years after he first got into the business. He’s been at his current post for 6 decades – and counting. ';It’s being able to ...
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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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The Federal Reserve Ignores Its Own Role in the Financial Crisis
Since the financial meltdown in 2008, the Federal Reserve's range of powers have expanded, as have the kinds of financial institutions it monitors and regulates. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is now saying that the Fed's oversight has expanded beyond strictly financial institutions to wide swaths of the economy that might, in his words, provide evidence of "emerging ...
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Canadian and American believed kidnapped in Mexico report
Mexican media are reporting that a Canadian and an American have gone missing from the resort city of Puerto Vallarta.The online newspaper Noticias PV says Diego Hernandez, a Canadian martial arts instructor, and his friend Craig Silva vanished on May 8.The paper says Puerto Vallarta's director of public safety, Silvestre Chavez, didn't learn of the men's disappearance until five ...
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Retailer LL Bean keeping it in the family
FREEPORT, Maine -; L.L. Bean's grandson Leon Gorman is retiring as chairman after more than a half-century as chairman or CEO of the outdoors retailer, but the privately held company is keeping the position in the ...
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NY high school talks to its seniors about shooting
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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State Dept Reports of anti-Semitism increase
WASHINGTON -; The State Department has appointed a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism as a new report documents a global increase in incidents of anti-Semitism and Holocaust ...
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Feds again delay San Onofre nuke restart decision
LOS ANGELES -; Federal regulators have indefinitely delayed a decision on the proposed restart of the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant in California, raising new questions Monday about whether the twin reactors will produce electricity ...
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Atheists to put books next to Bibles in Ga. parks
ATLANTA -; A national atheist group says it will place its literature in cabins and lodges in Georgia's state parks after the governor's recent decision to allow Bibles in ...
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Senators require fingerprinting at 30 airports
WASHINGTON -; Foreigners leaving the country through any of the nation's 30 busiest airports would undergo mandatory fingerprinting under an amendment senators added Monday to a sweeping immigration ...
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Los Angeles jeweler pleads guilty in KPMG case
LOS ANGELES -; The owner of a Los Angeles jewelry store pleaded guilty Monday for his role in an insider-trading case involving a former senior partner at accounting firm ...
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Traumatic day Residents return
>Are you in the affected area? Send us your images and videos, but please stay safe. Granbury, Texas (CNN) -- Scores of people stood outside a north Texas church Saturday morning, waiting to be escorted to their neighborhood for the first time since tornadoes devastated it three days earlier. They weren't going to like what they were about to see, Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds told ...
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Vicious weather not over in Midwest
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. Shawnee, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Tornadoes destroyed homes and tossed trees around like toothpicks as powerful storms ripped through Oklahoma and the Midwest on Sunday and Monday. And the destructive weather, which killed at least two people, isn't ...
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Forbes Earnings Preview American Eagle Outfitters
before it reports its first quarter earnings on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Analysts are expecting American Eagle to come in with earnings of 17 cents per share, 15% less than a year ago when it reported earnings of 20 cents per share. Over the past three months, the consensus estimate has sagged from 25 cents. For the fiscal year, analysts are projecting earnings of $1.49 per share. After being ...
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Senate panel gives green light to test biometric exit program
By Carrie Dann, Political Reporter, NBC News Aiming to advance a sweeping immigration reform bill by week’s end, senators on the committee considering the legislation planned marathon sessions to complete its edits, including the approval Monday of a compromise measure to implement a test system for taking foreign visa holders’ fingerprints when they exit the United States. In an ...
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GOP doesn’t let a good controversy go to waste
Republicans are not letting a good controversy go to waste. The Huffington Post's Ryan Grim, NPR White House Correspondent Ari Shapiro, Nia-Malika Henderson from The Washington Post, and former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs join Alex Wagner to look at recent comments from Sen. Mitch McConnell and others on the IRS ...
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We wont screw it up Yahoo buys New York-based social network Tumblr for $1.1bn as chief executive Marissa Mayer rules out radical changes
The statement from Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer begins with a promise "not to screw it up", whilst assuring users that David Karp will remain CEO and that Yahoo! will "operate Tumblr independently".The deal went through for $1.1 billion (723 million) in cash, a sum justified by Tumblr's impressive numbers as one of the world's fastest growing social-media networks.The ...
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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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