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Federal Reserve more optimistic about US economy keeps stimulus program unchanged
Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that it will maintain the pace of its bond-buying program to keep long-term interest rates at record lows. But it offered a more optimistic outlook for ...
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Texas Border Checkpoint Mostly Ensnares Americans For Drug Offenses
Fifteen miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, a sleepy Texas county with more square miles than people is home to a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint. But while the checkpoint is intended to snag immigration ...
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How Americans’ Return To The City Could Change Our Politics
(Credit: Flickr user Aimee Wenske) The demographic story of the last century was the rise of the suburbs. But are we finally moving into an era where the rise of the suburbs will stop and perhaps even reverse itself, leading to the city reasserting itself as America’s most important political unit? Between 1940 and 1950 the suburban share of the population increased from 15 percent to 23 ...
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Americans fatter than ever obesity officially called a disease
USA US obesity rates have reached a record high, and physicians have officially classified it as a "disease", which will likely change the way doctors and health insurance providers treat the 28.9 percent of American adults who are severely overweight. Obesity in the US has reached a new high, continuing a 15-year streak in which the rate increased annually. The Centers for ...
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As fires rage feds cut funding on prevention
federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place. A combination of government austerity and the ballooning cost of battling the ruinous fires has taken a bite out of federal efforts to remove the dead trees and flammable underbrush that clog Western forests. The ...
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Feds 2 plotted to build Hiroshima light switch weapon
By Jonathan Dienst, Pete Williams and Erin McClam, NBC News Two upstate New York men, one of them said to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan, plotted to build a truck-mounted, industrial-strength X-ray weapon to kill "enemies of Israel" by poisoning them with radiation, federal authorities said Wednesday.One of them boasted that he could build a "Hiroshima light switch" and that ...
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Did a missile bring down TWA Flight 800 off New York Former investigators urge probe reopened based on new evidence
Researchers say a vaccine for a sexually spread virus has cut infections in teen girls by half. This is the first evidence of how well the HPV vaccine works since it came on the market seven years ...
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Boston poised to begin condom giveaway in high schools
By Stephanie Simon (Reuters) - Students at all Boston public high schools may soon be able to obtain free condoms at the front office - as long as they sit through a few minutes of counseling about safe sex - under a policy due to be voted on Wednesday by the school board. Condoms are already available in 19 high schools with on-site health centers. The policy, up for a vote by the Boston ...
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Casino Referendum Planned by New York Leaders
ALBANY -- Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and legislative leaders have agreed to ask voters in November to amend the New York State Constitution to allow a significant expansion of casino ...
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Federal Reserve leaves interest rates alone and pledges to continue stimulus
Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged and reaffirmed its pledge to maintain its massive stimulus program amid further signs of a split in the central bank's committee and speculation that ...
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2 New York men tried to assemble X-ray weapon Feds say
Federal authorities have accused two upstate New York men of assembling a portable X-ray weapon they intended to use against opponents of Israel. Prosecutors say 49-year-old Glendon Scott Crawford, of Galway, and 54-year-old Eric J. Feight, of Hudson, have been charged with conspiracy to provide support to terrorists following a yearlong undercover investigation. Investigators say Crawford ...
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Theft of F-35 design data is helping U.S. adversaries Pentagon
Three F-35 Joint Strike Fighters (rear to front) AF-2, AF-3 and AF-4, can be seen flying over Edwards Air Force Base in this December 10, 2011 handout photo provided by Lockheed ...
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Watch Grandmother Unmasks Grandson Burglar
This Albuquerque grandmother loves her grandson more than anything loosing him is just really. The scaring me because I don't -- -- She says she's losing Thomas Parker to heroin addiction ...
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State Commission Restores Pay Cut For Governor Lawmakers
SACRAMENTO (CBS/AP) -The commission that sets the pay of California lawmakers and statewide elected officials such as the governor and attorney general has voted to restore a 5 percent pay cut it made to salaries last year as state employees faced furloughs. Wednesday’s vote was 5-1 in favor of restoring the wages to 2011 levels. Chairman Thomas Dalzell opted not to vote because a ...
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Federal Reserve foresees lower US unemployment and inflation this year and next
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve expects the U.S. unemployment rate to fall faster this year and next than it did in March. The Fed now predicts unemployment will fall to 7.2 percent or 7.3 percent at the end of 2013 from 7.6 percent now. It thinks the rate will be between 6.5 percent and 6.8 percent by the end of 2014, better than its previous projection of 6.7 percent to 7 percent. The 6.5 ...
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GOP targets high-speed rail transportation grants
WASHINGTON -; House Republicans are pushing to eliminate money for high-speed rail and a popular grant program for transportation ...
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Illinois father gets prison in child-binding case
LAWRENCE, Kan. -; A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for binding and blindfolding two of his children in a Wal-Mart parking lot in eastern ...
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Diverted United 787 passengers on way to Tokyo
SEATTLE -; Passengers from a United Airlines Denver-to-Tokyo flight that diverted to Seattle Tuesday when the Boeing 787 had an oil filter issue are on their way ...
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Man arrested after car on NYC sidewalk injures 8
A car damaged in an accident sits in the middle of the street in the East Village section of New York, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Fire authorities say eight people have been hurt, several of them seriously, after a car jumped a curb and slammed into a 24-hour grocery around 7 a.m. Wednesday. A witness says the driver lost control about a block away and plowed through everything on the sidewalk. ...
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Ford Flex styling is standout feature
The bold, boxy exterior of the Ford Flex is such a forceful statement, it can distract from the other notable features of this generously sized, six- to seven-passenger crossover ...
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Pruitt DOJ broke rules in phone records seizure
Gary Pruitt, president and chief executive officer of the Associated Press speaks at the National Press Club (NPC) in Washington, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Pruitt, addressed a luncheon at the NPC and spoke about how the Justice Department violated its own rules in subpoenaing AP phone records. (AP Photo/Charles ...
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VP Biden pays tribute to civil rights leader
From left, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and Vice President Joe Biden applaud during a ceremony to dedicate the statue of Frederick Douglass, seen behind them, Wednesday, June 19, 2013, in the Emancipation Hall of the United ...
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Fact sheet 2013 Ford Flex
The bold, boxy exterior of the Ford Flex is such a forceful statement, it can distract from the other notable features of this generously sized, six- to seven-passenger crossover ...
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Attorney Search for Hoffas remains too limited
The FBI saw enough merit in a reputed Mafia captain's tip to once again break out the digging equipment to search for the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, last seen alive before a lunch meeting with two mobsters nearly 40 years ...
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Text of the Federal Reserves statement Wednesday
WASHINGTON -- Here is the statement the Federal Reserve released Wednesday after its two-day policy meeting:Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in May suggests that economic activity has been expanding at a moderate pace. Labor market conditions have shown further improvement in recent months, on balance, but the unemployment rate remains elevated. Household ...
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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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