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Michael Hastings Wife Obliterates New York Times For Dismissive Obituary
Michael Hastings of Buzzfeed and Rolling Stone died Tuesday morning in a car crash. His wife has asked The New York Times to correct its obituary. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for The ...
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Lawmaker university spar over control of Chinese dissident in U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressman who has been blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng's main champion in Washington said people working for New York University have tried to keep him from meeting Chen, barging into a meeting on Capitol Hill and pulling Chen out on one ...
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Milone Allows 6 Runs A’s Lose To Rangers
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SF Supes Hope New Legislation Will End Fights Over Food Trucks
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- New legislation by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors aims to stop the on-going economic war between restaurants and mobile food trucks. Part of the measures also attempts to steer public school students away from food-truck dining. The three measures strike a balance between the growing popularity of mobile food trucks and the impact they have on brick and mortar ...
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Larry Magid Yahoo To Offer Inactive Email Addresses To Other Users
SUNNYVALE (KCBS) --Internet giant Yahoo is giving some users a chance to grab email addresses that were previously unavailable. The company announced that it is resetting accounts that have been inactive for more than a year and making those usernames available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Its good news for the people looking for a username that might be used by someone else, but it ...
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Redfoo’s US Open Qualifying Attempt Is Great for Tennis
Stefan Gordy is set to begin an earnest attempt to qualify for tennis' final major of the year: the U.S. Open.If you, like I was, don't think you are familiar with Gordy, yes you ...
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‘Big Brother’ To Return With Two New Twists
Big Brother '; is bringing two new twists when it returns next week for its 15th season. For the first time, CBS has announced, three houseguests will be up for eviction each week instead of the usual two. This process will be further explained during the season ...
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Federal Reserve boosts outlook as U.S. recovery picks up speed
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks on television, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. (Jin ...
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Americans Want Immigrants with Skills Just Not High-Tech Skills
A sizable plurality of Americans want the U.S. immigration system to favor immigrants with needed job skills, but they do not support increasing the number of guest workers for some of the industries most hungry for new employees, according to the latest United ...
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FBI uses drones in America director Mueller admits
FBI director Robert Mueller testifies at the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 19, 2013 in Washington, DC. Mueller confirmed that the FBI uses drones for domestic surveillance during the hearing on FBI oversight. (Alex Wong/AFP/Getty Images) While the FBI ...
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Roundup By Earning Split Dodgers Salvage Mattinglys New York Return
Chris Davis cleared the fences twice, giving him a major league-leading 26 homers, to help the Baltimore Orioles defeat the Tigers, 13-3, on Wednesday in Detroit. Davis hit a two-run homer in ...
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Minuteman U.S. border watch co-founder arrested on child sex charges
Chris Simcox, president of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, listens to a volunteer's radio transmission on the scout line 23 miles north of the U.S. and Mexican border in the Avra Valley during the organization's month long muster near Three Points, Arizona, March 31, 2007. Picture taken March 31, ...
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Kerry calls Karzai twice to smooth waters over Taliban talks
Hamid Karzai twice to try to mend fences over the U.S. outreach to the Taliban. The phone diplomacy occurred after Karzai said the Afghan government had suspended security talks with the United States in Kabul "in view of the contradiction between acts and the statements made by the United States of America in regard to the peace process." "The secretary spoke with President ...
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Federal Reserve policymaking group has power over economy through control of interest rates
The Federal Reserve's chief policymaking group, the Federal Open Market Committee, has vast power over the economy through its ability to set monetary policy. Here is a look at how the FOMC operates. Q: What is the FOMC's primary role? A: Its mission is to keep the economy, inflation and employment on a healthy track. When the economy weakens, Fed policymakers cut interest rates or ...
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Why are Americans afraid to wear Speedos
Every year I scan the beaches for men in Speedos and every year I am disappointed. The ridiculous board-shorts trend shows no sign of waning, writes Simon ...
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Edward Snowden vs. the Sovietization of America
didn't go to an Ivy League college presume to sit in judgment of his betters! Whatever their disagreements, politicians and talking heads of the left and the right agree: Snowden is a "traitor"! Their big problem, however, is that the American people think he did the right ...
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News Wrap Federal Reserve Paints Brighter Economic Picture
In other news Wednesday, the Federal Reserve estimated unemployment will fall a little faster than expected in 2013 and 2014. Also, the Internal Revenue Service is in the spotlight again, this time for its plans to pay bonuses to employees despite a White House directive to stop those payments under automatic spending ...
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The Federal Reserve maintains monetary stance interest rate rise after 2014 diminished downside risks
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) ended its two-day monetary policy meeting on Wednesday and agreed to keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged at a record low between 0.0% and 0.25%, while the FOMCs statements had not seen any ...
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New York KKK member designs death ray against enemies of Israel
A KKK member from upstate New York was arrested on Tuesday after he allegedly designed a "death ray" that is meant to kill Muslims and other "enemies of ...
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A classical Chinese garden adorns Washington DC
A classical Chinese garden will be installed at the US National Arboretum in Washington DC, in a joint collaboration between China and the United States. Featuring a series of open pavilions, a pond and traditional Chinese buildings with Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) style furnishings, the garden will showcase Chinese flora and landscaping, and will be open to the public. "Our ...
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Tales of the American dream
California-born artist Lenora Lee believes the most romantic story in the world is the one about her Chinese grandparents. "A discrimination law used to force my grandparents apart, husband in San Francisco, wife in China. It took them 10 years of waiting and struggle to be together," the 39-year-old dancer and choreographer tells China Daily at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. ...
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Wanda to launch $1b New York hotel project
Dalian Wanda Group Corp Ltd, one of China's largest property developers, plans to invest about $1 billion to build a five-star hotel in New York as its third major investment outside its home market, Wang Jianlin, chairman of Wanda said on Wednesday. Wang said that Wanda is negotiating with potential partners for ...
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Syria intervention still lacks strategy Our view
93,000 people have been killed in the country's still-metastasizing civil war. This week, President Obama -- gearing up for an unspecified new intervention ...
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Syria needs no move zone Other views
In this citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, anti-Syrian regime protesters gather in northern Syria on ...
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FBI admits drones spying on Americans
(18 mins ago) Unmanned drones are roaming American skies conducting surveillance on people in the United States, albeit in a ';very minimal way,'' the head of the FBI revealed to Congress yesterday. Federal Bureau of Investigation director Robert Mueller said his agency's use of a small number of aerial drones is relatively new, and that the bureau has only begun to draw up ...
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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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