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Danger and separation from families changing job of U.S. diplomats
Family members of deceased State Department diplomat Anne Smedinghoff, (front row L-R) sister Regina, father Tom, and mother Mary Beth listen to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) speak at dedication ceremonies for new names inscribed on the American Foreign Service Association Memorial plaque in Washington May 3, ...
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Training push fails to halt military sexual assault crisis
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (L) and Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey hold a joint news conference at the Pentagon in Washington March 17, 2013. Hagel said on Friday the Pentagon will do everything necessary to ''fix'' the problem of sexual assault in the military after incidents in which those responsible for helping victims were accused of sex ...
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1 Winning Ticket Sold in Fla. on Powerball
A lottery official says 1 winning ticket has been sold in Florida for a record Powerball jackpot of more than $590 million. Terry Rich, a lottery official in Iowa, confirmed the ticket matching all six numbers was sold in Florida. Rich told The Associated Press by telephone that details were expected to be announced later by Florida lottery officials about the actual ticket ...
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Americans exit the housing crisis with new appreciation for renting
Six years of crisis have changed forever the way Americans think about housing. It's good news for rental housing and not so good news for the home ownership industry, according to a massive new study conducted by Hart Research for the MacArthur ...
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New York police kill hostage
Source: Facebook New York police have shot and killed a university student who was being held hostage in her home by an intruder. Andrea Rebello, 21, was shot once in the head when a police officer opened fire on the intruder who was holding Rebello in a headlock, the Associated Press reported. The intruder, 30-year-old Dalton Smith, was shot seven times and also died. Police said he had an ...
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Milone’s Long Skid Ends As A’s Beat Royals 2-1
OAKLAND (CBS/AP) — Brandon Moss hit a tiebreaking triple in the sixth inning to help Tommy Milone outduel Ervin Santana, and the Oakland Athletics beat the Kansas City Royals 2-1 on Saturday night. The A’s had just five hits and were held to two runs for the third consecutive game but made it hold up in front of a rare sellout crowd at the Oakland Coliseum. The A’s also beat ...
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Couture’s OT Goal Give Sharks 2-1 Win Over Kings
Dan Boyle #22, Patrick Marleau #12 and Logan Couture #39 of the San Jose Sharks celebrate with teammates after Boyle scored a goal against the Los Angeles Kings in the first period in Game Three of the Western Conference Semifinals during the 2013 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at HP Pavilion on May 18, 2013 in San Jose, California. (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty ...
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MLB Texas 7 Detroit 2
Elvis Andrus went 5-for-5 with two RBI for Texas Saturday in the Rangers' 7-2 victory over Detroit. Grimm (3-3) broke a personal three-start losing streak, yielding a pair of runs on seven hits over 6 2/3 innings. The right-hander walked one and struck out two. Andrus delivered an RBI triple in the second inning, igniting a three-run outburst, and added a run-scoring hit in the third ...
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ALADI Announces First Latin American Meeting on Commerce
Montevideo, May 19 (Prensa Latina) A first Latin American trade and investment meeting, ExpoAladi, will be held here next year, jointly announced the Uruguayan government and the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI). To promote this event and start a mutual cooperation, Aladi Secretary General, Carlos Alvarez, and the director of the Institute Uruguay XXI, Roberto Villamil signed an ...
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National American Miss Competition
WATERFORD - Two area teens soon will have the opportunity to step into the spotlight at an event that may prove to be the bright spot of a rough year. Sisters Cassidy, 14, and Baylee, 12, Cunningham, both of Waterford and students at Waterford Elementary School, received an invitation earlier this month to participate in the National American Miss competition at the state level June 28-30 in ...
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Feds call for East West Link business case
IF the Victorian government wants federal funding for the East West Link road, it needs to deliver its business case, the federal government says. Premier Denis Napthine says the Bolte Bridge crash, which halted Melbourne traffic on Friday and left a truck driver in hospital, highlighted the need for "more choices" for Victorian drivers. But Federal Infrastructure Minister Anthony ...
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Chatwood leads Rockies past Giants 10-2
Tyler Chatwood threw into the sixth inning and Wilin Rosario hit a two-run homer off Tim Lincecum in the Colorado Rockies' 10-2 rout of the San Francisco Giants on Saturday ...
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Winning numbers drawn in Powerball jackpot
View Photo Associated Press/Gregory Bull - Joe Fajardo poses holding his Powerball lottery ticket after buying it at a store Saturday, May 18, 2013, in the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego. With the majority ...
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I Followed What I Thought Was the Law.
More than four years after he choked back tears at his sentencing, O.J. Simpson addressed a Las Vegas court on Wednesday sounding cheerful and confident in his bid to a win a new trial. He bantered with bailiffs during breaks, making them laugh, and chuckled at himself at times during testimony when discussing his drinking at the time. Simpson, 65, was called to the stand on the third day ...
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Fremont Silicon Valley-Area Hub Becomes Factory Town
FREMONT (CBS/AP) — In a busy factory, machinists move sheets of aluminum roll in the back door to be molded, stamped, twisted and notched into high-tech electric cars that sell for more than $60,000 each. Down the road in another plant, crews slice solar cells, place them under glass sheets and create panels that ship by the boxful to Europe. Elsewhere in this town, industrial workshops ...
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Amgen Tour Of California Bicycles Vs. Cars
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS) — The Amgen tour of California rolls out of San Francisco to the finish line in Santa Rosa tomorrow. The route through lush wine country is popular year round. But not everyone’s happy about all the bicycle traffic. Close encounters with drivers are becoming common and incidents of road rage are on the rise. Gary Helfrick of the Bicycle Coalition keeps a database ...
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Boom in Luxury Towers Is Warping New York Real Estate Market
Only 10 floors have been completed in what is intended to be the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere ...
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1 of 2 fires north of LA contained
A pair of tamed but persistent wildfires still burned in the hills and mountains around Interstate 5 after a wild week of burning brush in the area north of Los ...
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Can Al-Jazeera win hearts and minds in America
The pan-Arab news giant is laying the groundwork for the launch ofAl-Jazeera America after its purchase of Current TV, a struggling US ...
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Two men charged with killing Malcolm Xs grandson
Murder probe underway after Malcolm X's grandson dies Two men arrested in the fatal beating of the grandson of US civil rights activist Malcolm X were sent to prison on Saturday to await trial, a Mexico City court spokesman said. David Hernandez and Manuel Perez, waiters at the Palace nightclub near Mexico City's popular Garibaldi Square, face charges of murder and robbery, the ...
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1 of 2 Fires North of LA Contained
A wildfire burning in the hills along Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles has been fully contained. Los Angeles County fire officials said the 712-acre blaze was fully contained late Saturday after it broke out Friday and briefly threatened an elementary school and about 20 ...
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Bomb Scare Prompts Evacuation After Amgen Tour Bike Race In Livermore
LIVERMORE (CBS SF) — Festivities surrounding the Amgen Tour of California Race were brought to a temporary halt by a bomb scare in downtown Livermore Saturday afternoon, according to a police spokeswoman. The multi-city bicycle race had already passed through town around 2:30 p.m. but many people remained on the scene when a suspicious cardboard box with a postmark from Southern ...
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Fractured rail focus of derailment probe
>Are you there? Stay safe and share your images with iReport.(CNN) -- Federal investigators ruled out foul play in a commuter train derailment in Bridgeport, Connecticut, that left more than 70 people injured and shut down service along the busy New York-to-New Haven corridor, officials said Saturday. National Transportation Safety Board investigators are now focusing on a broken rail as a ...
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Tea Party leader reacts to IRS scandal
tea party and other conservative groups for scrutiny, controversy is growing. lawmakers and others want to know if there was political motivation behind the agency's ...
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Educating girls in developing countries
girls out of school around the world and we can all doing? and play a small part to put her in the classroom and send her on a journey to follow her dreams and raise her community ...
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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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