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  • New York tour operator cancels Bronx ghetto tours

    eTN - Friday 24th May, 2013

    NEW YORK, NY - A New York company offering tours of Bronx neighborhoods has shut down after officials objected to its advertising that claimed to give visitors "a ride through a real New York City 'ghetto'," according to a statement from Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. The tour's controversial description states that when thinking of the Bronx, people envision ...

  • Watch Bridge Collapses in Washington State

    ABC News - Friday 24th May, 2013

    This is a live picture from a helicopter our sister station KO MO. And Seattle Washington this is about two hours north of Seattle portion of the bridge on I five -- -- -- -- root river. Collapse ...

  • Delays Revealed In Rescuing Longshoreman At Port Of Oakland

    CBS 5 - Friday 24th May, 2013

    OAKLAND (KPIX 5) — Nearly a week after a longshoreman’s body was found inside his sunken pickup at the Port of Oakland, authorities reveal there were numerous delays in the efforts to rescue him. The longshoreman was in his truck when ...

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  • 2 full-time rangers added to patrol Capitol Hill Pioneer Square parks

    The Seattle Times - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    Three violent assaults at Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill this month have prompted the city to add two full-time park rangers, who will patrol there and at Occidental Square in Pioneer Square. Additionally, Seattle police will step up summer-emphasis patrols to ensure public safety as warm weather and long days draw more people to the city’s parks. "The rangers are a force ...

  • Protester finds sympathetic ear in President on Guantanamo drones

    MSNBC - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    Rachel Maddow reports on the message of Code Pink and President Obama's reaction to having his major counterterrorism speech interrupted by one of its ...

  • Obama to take on GOP anew over Guantanamo closure

    MSNBC - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    Rachel Maddow reports on how much political will there was for closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, including from leading Republicans like President Bush and then-presidential candidate John McCain, and how that all disappeared once Barack Obama became ...

  • The Republican ‘ignorance-fueled war’ on the IRS

    MSNBC - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    Republicans continue their ignorance-fueled war on the IRS. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell discusses the real IRS scandal with MSNBC's Chris Hayes and Alex ...

  • Obama ‘America does not take strikes to punish individuals’

    MSNBC - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    america does not take strikes when we have the ability to capture individual terrorists. our preference is always to detain, interrogate and ...

  • Sen. Ted Cruz vs. The Republican Party

    MSNBC - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    On the Senate floor, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz announced that he doesn't trust Republicans. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell discusses this new era of in-fighting with fellow MSNBC host, Steve ...

  • Man survives kidnap ordeal in New York

    IOL - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    Police have rescued a businessman from a New York City warehouse where he had been held captive for a month by kidnappers who demanded a $3-million ransom from his family in ...

  • Part of Washington state freeway span collapses into river dispatcher

    Reuters - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    (Reuters) - Part of a freeway bridge over the Skagit River in Washington state collapsed on Thursday, sending vehicles falling into the water below, an emergency dispatcher ...

  • Boy Scouts of America Lifts Ban on Gay Youth 61 Percent Voted for Resolution

    Christian Post - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    May 23, 2013 7:04 pm After a contentious challenge to their membership policy, 1,400 delegates of the 103-year-old Boy Scouts of America youth organization voted overwhelmingly to adopt an amendment that effectively lifts the ban on homosexual youth in the organization on Thursday.The ban on gay adult scout leaders will remain.Sixty-one percent of the delegates voted in favor of the resolution ...

  • How young American fell victim to drone strike

    The Seattle Times - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    Jude Kenan Mohammad, who was born in Florida and raised in Raleigh, N.C., is the least known of the four U.S. citizens whom the Obama administration acknowledged it had killed in drone attacks overseas since ...

  • Boehner Committee Can Decide Whether to Subpoena Communications Between IRS and White House

    CNS News - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    - Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he will let the House Ways and Means Committee determine whether to subpoena crucial documents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the White House that would reveal what the administration knew about the agency's targeting of conservative groups. The ...

  • Bloomberg accused of threatening to destroy New Yorks taxi industry

    RT - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    USA New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has found himself at the center of unwanted media attention after allegedly unleashing a profanity-laced tirade against the CEO of a large taxi fleet company over his opposition to the city's "Taxi of Tomorrow" plan. The altercation, which is said to have occurred last Thursday during a basketball game at Madison Square Garden's private ...

  • Obama drone policy strikes balance Our view

    USA Today - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    A Navy drone launches off the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush off the coast of Virginia. It will help develop other unmanned, carrier-based ...

  • Drones weaken USAs moral might Opposing view

    USA Today - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    There are more effective ways of winning hearts and minds and creating livelihoods worth living, not sacrificing. Armed drones, at first blush, are a boon to America's military toolkit, as President Obama reinforced in his counterterrorism speech on Thursday. Drones, in the short run at least, could mean fewer U.S. troops deployed and fewer American lives lost. OUR ...

  • Boy Scouts march half-step forward Our view

    USA Today - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    Thursday's vote might well make it easier to fight prejudice in a new generation of Scouts. Sometimes progress comes in unsatisfying increments. That was true Thursday, when the Boy Scouts of America approved a half-measure that will allow openly gay Scouts into the organization for the first time, effective Jan. 1. Cheers should surely be muted because the Scouts couldn't bring ...

  • National men’s team prop Andrew Tiedemann returns to Edmonton for Saturday test against Americans at Ellerslie Rugby Park

    Edmonton Journal - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    EDMONTON - Andrew Tiedemann's sport of choice doesn't provide many homecomings, so when Rugby Canada's national men's squad comes to Edmonton, the St. Albert native is all too happy to make the most of it.The Canadians will kick off a busy summer of competition this Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Ellerslie Rugby Park when they host the United States in the opener of the five-team ...

  • 2 Dead in Drugstore Shootings in Tennessee

    ABC News - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    An East Tennessee pharmacy owner and a customer have been killed during a robbery that left a pharmacy tech and another employee wounded. District Attorney Jimmy Dunn said a former police officer in Bean Station was taken into custody shortly after the shooting and robbery Thursday at the Down Home Pharmacy. Dunn said the former officer, 37-year-old Jason B. Holt, took "a large ...

  • Obama gives robust defense of targeted killing program

    MSNBC - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    the president made no defense of the other three american citizens who have been killed including abd al awlaki, the 16-year-old of anwar awlaki. despite claims from previous administration officials to the contrary. ...

  • Why Obama gave this counterterrorism speech now

    MSNBC - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    Chris Hayes talks with Democratic Congressman Keith Ellison, Spencer Ackerman of Wired Magazine, and The Huffington Post's Howard Fineman about the President Obama's speech and what it means for policy going ...

  • Obama acknowledges protester is worth paying attention to

    MSNBC - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    During a major speech on counterterrorism, touching on drones and Guantanamo Bay, President Obama was heckled by a protester with a history of interrupting speeches in both the Bush and the Obama ...

  • President Obama makes case for end of the war on terror

    MSNBC - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    Chris Hayes highlights the president's big policy speech on drone strikes, closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, and ending the war on terror. He's joined by Congressman Keith Ellison, Democrat of ...

  • Obama in heated exchanges with Code Pink anti-war protester

    Reuters - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    1 of 2. Protester Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the Code Pink activist group, interrupts U.S. President Barack Obama as he speaks about his administration's counter-terrorism policy at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, May 23, ...

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