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NTSB stresses track safety after Conn. mans death
HARTFORD, Conn. -; The National Transportation Safety Board has issued an urgent safety recommendation after a railroad track foreman was struck and killed by a passenger train last month in ...
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Obama Difference between spying and hacking
WASHINGTON -; President Barack Obama is drawing a distinction between China's alleged intellectual property theft and what he calls "standard fare" spying on other ...
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Feds after council power grab Qld govt
Queensland says a referendum on whether local government should be recognised in the constitution must be reworded to prevent a "power grab" by Canberra.Queensland's Local Government Minister David Crisafulli says the current wording would let the federal government make funding to local councils dependent on whatever conditions it liked.The result would be "federal ...
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RNW wins top honours at the New York International Radio and TV Festival
Radio Netherlands Worldwide won four major prizes at the 2013 New York International Radio and TV Festival, it was announced yesterday (Monday June 17). It won a gold medal and a Grand Prize Award for an interview entitled ...
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White House Threatens Veto as House Takes Up Farm Bill
The House is scheduled to begin debate on the farm bill on Tuesday with the knowledge that if the House version makes it through Congress and goes to the White House, President Obama's senior advisers will recommend that he veto it. The issue for the White House is a $20.5 billion cut over 10 years in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as SNAP or food stamps. The ...
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NYC woman faces suspect in her dads 1986 killing
An aspiring New York City actress has finally faced down the suspect she helped police capture in connection with her father's 1986 ...
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New York aims to require composting food scraps
NEW YORK -- Legions of New York City apartment dwellers will soon be asked -- and may eventually be forced -- to start collecting food scraps for composting, under Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s latest bid to make the city greener. After launching a test program recently in 3,500 Staten Island homes and some Manhattan apartment buildings, city officials said Monday they planned to expand it to ...
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Congress too frightened to allow Obama to close Guantanamo
Rachel Maddow explains away any justification for keeping the prison at Guantanamo Bay open other than the political cowardice of members of Congress who can only hope more inmates die at the prison so they can continue to avoid having to work out a rational ...
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American agents mined all email details including IP addresses and attachments Snowden says
(1 hr 5 mins ago) American intelligence technician Edward Snowden issued a defiant rebuke to his critics in Washington saying more leaks were on the way, declaring: ';Truth is coming and it cannot be stopped.'' The 29-year-old former contractor for the National Security Agency dismissed allegations he was a traitor or a Chinese agent, and insisted he had exposed a dangerous US ...
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Kardashians Star Scott Disick Goes American Psycho for Kanye Wests Yeezus
The "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" star parodies an infamous scene from the Christian Bale drama in a clip posted to the rapper's ...
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Accused Naked BART Acrobat Rearrested Faces Several Charges
allegedly harassed passengers while naked at the 16th Street BART station in an incident caught on video last month. The San Francisco District Attorney's office told KCBS that 24-year-old Yeiner Perez is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon on two counts of false imprisonment, four counts of battery and one count of sexual ...
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Ohio day-care operator allegedly gave kids medicine-laced pancakes
An Ohio day-care operator fed children in her care pancakes laced with medication to make them drowsy, authorities allege. Caterpillar Clubhouse owner Tammy E. Eppley, 37, of Westerville is charged with six counts of endangering children, The Columbus Dispatch reported Monday. Police allege Eppley mixed various medications and supplements, including melatonin and antihistamine allergy ...
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MLB Detroit 5 Baltimore 1
Max Scherzer improved to 10-0 with six innings of one-run ball Monday and the Detroit Tigers hung a 5-1 defeat on Baltimore. Scherzer is unbeaten in 14 starts this season and racked up his third win in three appearances with the 113-pitch performance, during which he allowed seven hits and two walks while striking out 10. The right-hander, who has logged 116 strikeouts over 96 1/3 innings this ...
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Federal Reserves communication plan is backfiring
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks during a news conference in Washington, Wednesday, March 20, 2013, following the Federal Open Market Committee ...
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First round of US-EU trade talks to begin in July White House
Negotiations on the transatlantic trade deal between the United States and European Union will begin next month, the White House said on Monday.The first round of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations will take place at the week of July 8 in Washington, D.C., under the leadership of the Office of the US Trade Representative, the White House said.The US and the EU ...
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New York manufacturing activity rises modestly in June
Manufacturing activity in the New York region improved modestly in June, according to a survey released Monday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.According to the Empire State Manufacturing Survey, the general business conditions index rose 9 points to 7.8 after dipping into negative territory in May.Roughly 29 percent of manufacturers reported that conditions had got better over the month, ...
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Bolivia slams US military aid to Syrian rebels
The Bolivian government on Monday criticized the United States for arming Syrian rebels, warning that the move would only intensify and prolong a conflict that has already killed tens of thousands in that country.Bolivia "rejects any intervention in the internal conflicts of any country in the world, such as supporting a domestic armed conflict with weapons, as is the case with Syria," ...
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Slim majority of Americans do not want to arm Syrian rebels Gallup
A slim majority of Americans are against the White House's decision to arm Syrian rebels amid that country's brutal civil war, according to a Gallup poll released Monday.The survey comes just days after the White House announced Thursday evening the US would ramp up its involvement in Syria's civil war.In a conference call with reporters, White House officials announced a US ...
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Mr Xi in America
As China has risen, the US has grappled with the task of coming to terms with this constantly more prominent reality on the international scene. This has not been a smooth process, indeed it has been marked by many disagreements and considerable friction. From time to time, various negative features of China's emergence have been emphasised in the US and other Western countries, such as ...
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Supreme Court honors voting rights Our view
We have long supported the recommendation of a bipartisan panel. In recent years, too many states seem to have been more interested in imposing voter ID requirements than in making sure eligible voters weren't disenfranchised by them. The same may apply to citizenship tests. After Arizona voted in 2004 to require voters prove their citizenship, more than 30,000 people were turned away ...
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Iran diplomatic window rapidly closing Another view
Nuclear program is also popular among the regime's opponents. The results of Friday's election in Iran could have conceivably been worse for U.S. interests, but there is little reason to believe that the election of Hasan Rowhani, a relative moderate within Iran's theocratic system, should significantly change U.S. strategy toward Iran and its nuclear program. OUR ...
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Iran election delivers no nuclear answer Our view
However, his instinct for pragmatism could lead him to press Khamenei to stop the program short of the West's red line. It would be hard not to cheer the results of Iran's weekend presidential election, if only for the moment.The surprise winner, cleric Hasan Rowhani, is by all accounts the least extreme candidate voters could have picked, and "least extreme" is about as good ...
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The final four Huge Supreme Court case decisions due any day now
There are four huge cases pending before the Supreme Court, any one of which could have long lasting and wide ranging effects on millions of Americans. The fact that four could be released any day now is amazing.Chris Hayes and the All In panel give a rundown of what's at ...
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Thanks feminist movement for making Fathers Day better for dads
Chris Hayes gives thanks to the feminist movement for not only affecting the role of women in society, but for creating conditions in which fathers get to spend more time with their ...
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Hayes Political blow back from striking down Section 5 of Voting Rights Act would be massive
The experts weigh in on huge Supreme Court cases, like the one on Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, that are coming down the pike any day now. Chris Hayes is joined by Elise Boddie, Director of Litigation for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Kenji Yoshino from NYU School of Law, and Nan Aron from the Alliance for Justice to ...
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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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