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Powerful tornadoes strike in four central U.S. states
(Reuters) - A massive storm front swept north through the central United States on Sunday, hammering the region with fist-sized hail, blinding rain and tornadoes, including a half-mile wide twister that struck near Oklahoma City. News reports said at least one person had ...
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The 4 Big Ways That Insatiable Corporate Hunger for Profits Has Devastated American Life -- and the World Along with It
The damage caused by the relentless corporate drive for profits has become more clear in recent years. In the most important areas of American life, devastating changes have ...
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Open thread for night owls Austerity and debt wreck lives of working American families
"Living within one's means" is an appealing but oversimplified metaphor. Before the crisis, some families and nations did borrow to finance consumption--a good definition of living beyond one's means. But this borrowing was not the prime cause of the crisis. Today, far larger numbers of entirely prudent people find themselves with diminished means as a result of broader ...
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Video Greatest threat to Africas white lions American hunters
Very few white lions live in the wild today, but Linda Tucker is on a mission to change that. She left behind her life in Paris and founded the Global White Lion Protection Trust, dedicated to saving the African white ...
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Z on TV Mel Brooks an American Master and then some
You cannot understand American humor in the second half of the 20th Century without appreciating the crazed genius of Mel Brooks. And "American Masters" does an all-out appreciation at 9 p.m. Monday (May 20) on PBS. Here's a podcast of my preview from WYPR ...
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Cahill in top form in New York
Tim Cahill has continued his top form ahead of Australia's World Cup qualifiers in June with the winner in New York Red Bulls' 1-0 triumph over Los Angeles Galaxy.Cahill notched his fourth goal in five games in Major League Soccer to give the Red Bulls their fifth victory in six matches, keeping the New York-based side at the top of the Eastern Conference standings.In classic Cahill ...
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Central China woos Latin American investors
/enpproperty--> Central China's Henan province said on Saturday it will try to create a more amicable investment environment for Latin American countries, in a bid to further lure investors from the Caribbean adjacent region amid China's economic slowdown. "We will continue to open up fields including education, medical care, finance, aviation, and modern services to foreign ...
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Bay To Breakers Reveler Injured In Fall From Roof At SF House Party
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A man suffered life-threatening injuries in a fall from a roof during what appears to have been a Bay to Breakers house party Sunday afternoon, according to San Francisco police. The 3:30 p.m. incident on the 2000 block of Fell Street appears to be among the most serious reported during the race and subsequent celebrations. San Francisco police arrested 21 people ...
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Steel Tendons In New Bay Bridge Were Exposed To Salt Water
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — Thousands of steel tendons used to strengthen the skyway portion of the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge were exposed during construction to rainfall and salty bay mist, leading to corrosion concerns. The Sacramento Bee reports that California Department of Transportation engineers in 2006 discovered that the ducts containing the tendons ...
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Henry Galaxy were better than New York
New York Red Bulls striker Thierry Henry has conceded his team were lucky to defeat Los Angeles Galaxy 1-0 in Major League Soccer.Tim Cahill struck for New York in the first minute of second-half stoppage time on Sunday, stealing victory at the Red Bull Arena but Henry claimed after the match that the Galaxy 'were better'.Henry praised the Red Bulls for their ability to grind out wins ...
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Seizure of AP phone records on Capitol Hill raises concerns about separation of powers
View results News organizations are convinced that the Obama administration trampled on freedom of the press when the Justice Department seized Associated Press phone records in pursuit of a government source who leaked details of a thwarted terrorist plot last year.But some congressional analysts also are raising concerns that Justice violated the Constitution’s separation-of-powers ...
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Afrojack Calvin Harris Shake New York at Electric Daisy Carnival
It goes without saying that dance music festivals Stateside are finally catching up to their European counterparts – this year, each leg of the two-day Electric Daisy Carnival New York attracted 50,000 people, paltry compared to the sold-out 325,000 who will descend on Vegas when the main festival hits in late June. Even so, the vastness of the experience was impressive and, at times, ...
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Breaking Feds Disappear Adam Kokesh
Radio host Adam Kokesh was arrested Saturday in Philadelphia during a Smoke Down Prohibition rally. As witnessed in footage of the event filmed by fellow activists, Kokesh appears to have been arrested for the victimless crime of exercising his First Amendment right to free speech. The talk radio host recently garnered national attention when he announced a July 4th armed march on Washington ...
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US adviser on board of firm that sold anthrax drug
A 13-person commission is taking a year to analyze the ethical issues of whether children can participate in research to determine safe dosage levels of an anthrax ...
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Martin Luther Kings son inspired by peace rally
A son of the assassinated US civil rights leader Martin Luther King has witnessed Protestant and Catholic children light a peace flame and promise to build a better future ...
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American CIA mole Fogle leaves Russia
(52 mins ago) A US diplomat who wore a disguise and is accused by the Russians of being a CIA spy after they caught him allegedly trying to recruit agents last week left yesterday, Russian television reported. Ryan Fogle flew out of Moscow, Russia's NTV state television channel said, broadcasting pictures showing him at Sheremetyevo International Airport. Russia announced last week that ...
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Tornadoes Level Homes in Okla. Hit Other States
One of several tornadoes that touched down Sunday in Oklahoma turned homes in a trailer park near Oklahoma City into splinters and rubble and sent frightened residents along a 100-mile corridor scurrying for shelter. The tornadoes that touched down in Oklahoma, Kansas and Iowa were part of a massive, northeastward-moving storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota. At least four ...
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10 Things to Know for Monday
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday:1. OBAMA OFFERS STARK VIEW, AND ENCOURAGING WORDS, FOR BLACK GRADSAs an African-American man, he tells Morehouse's Class of '13, 'I might have been in prison. I might have been unemployed. I might not have been able to support a family. And that motivates me.' 2. AT ...
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Tornado levels homes in Oklahoma City trailer park
People survey damage from a tornado that hit Edmond, Okla., on Sunday, May 19, 2013. A powerful storm system rumbled through the Plains and upper Midwest on Sunday, spawning tornadoes that damaged roofs and structures near Oklahoma City and kicked up debris in Wichita, ...
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Star Trek Into Darkness tops box office in North America
J.J. Abrams' space epic sequel "Star Trek Into Darkness" opened to a 70.56-million-US-dollar three-day weekend, elbowing "Iron Man 3" out of the top place in the box office derby in North America.The debut is less than the 75.2 million dollar opening that director/producer Abrams' "Star Trek" debuted to four years ago, but strong enough to dethrone ...
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Fasting to end gun violence
gun violence continues to plague communities all over this country, while americans wait on leaders in washington and elsewhere to move forward ...
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At least one reported dead as tornadoes hammer Oklahoma Kansas and Iowa
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A tornado half a mile wide struck near Oklahoma City on Sunday, part of a massive storm front that hammered the central United States. News reports said at least one person had ...
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Steven Strauss Are Some Americans Too Powerful to Make Fun of
here . ) In the humorous spirit of let's query why Clinton would be treated so gently (when Colbert's skewered Weiner and others with far less serious transgressions): Does Clinton have pictures of Colbert doing something really odd with a household pet? Were Colbert's writers on vacation? Or are the Clintons simply too powerful for Colbert to "speak truth to power"? ...
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Potential Donors to Enroll America Grow Skittish
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Krauthammer White House should try telling the truth
The original CIA draft included four paragraphs on the involvement of al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists and on the dangerous security situation in Benghazi. These paragraphs were stricken after strenuous State Department objections mediated by the White House. All that was left was the fable of the spontaneous ...
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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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