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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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Why we should care about the AP phone records
In this week's "Thought Bubble," MSNBC's Craig Melvin talks about the Justice Department's secret attainment of Associated Press phone ...
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Americans fail to find jobs as firms hire foreigners
Microsoft says it has such trouble filling its more than 3,000 vacancies for software developers and engineers, it expects to offer a third of those jobs to foreigners, the vast majority of them recruited off college ...
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World science map grim for Latin America
The highly respected Nature Scientific Reports journal has just published a map of the world's leading science cities and it looks pretty bad for emerging countries: It shows the planet's Northern Hemisphere full of lights and the south almost solidly ...
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American tyranny Government run amok
Government is bad for personal freedom. That argument is premised upon the truism that everything government does interferes with freedom because it either prohibits or compels. Everything it owns it has taken from others. Much of what it says is divorced from the truth. President Obama, like President George W. Bush, has argued that his first job is to keep America safe, and if he impairs ...
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Investigators examine fractured rail in Connecticut train crash
1 of 4. Passengers wait to be picked-up after two commuter trains collided in Bridgeport, Connecticut causing one to derail injuring numerous passengers, May 17, 2013. Some 20 to 25 people were injured on Friday in a train accident near Fairfield, Connecticut, a Fairfield Police spokesman said on ...
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Authorities Hofstra student killed by police
View Photo Associated Press/Sleepy Hollow High School - In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rubello is shown. Police said Rubello, a junior at Hofstra ...
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IRS scandal could be most damaging
war on terror . benghazi was a terrible security failure, but we knew that on day one and the more we learn about the aftermath, the less it looks like a scandal and more it looks like typical bureaucratic ...
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Paul McCartneys Out There Tour Heads To North America
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Paul McCartney is kicking off the North American leg of his "Out There" tour in Orlando. The massive production, which requires 31 trucks' worth of equipment, includes lasers, huge pyrotechnics, and state of the art video displays, according to the website of the former Beatles star. McCartney performed the show to a sold-out crowd of 55,000 people in Brazil ...
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Los Angeles mayoral race narrows latest opinion poll shows
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti speaks during an election night party at Avalon night club in Hollywood, California, March 5, ...
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Police commissioner calls fatal shooting in New York City an anti-gay hate crime
NEW YORK, N.Y. - A gunman used anti-gay slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man's face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd, a killing New York's police commissioner called a hate crime. Before opening fire early Saturday, the gunman confronted the victim and his companion in Greenwich Village and asked if they "want to die here," Police ...
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CHP Officer Crashes Into Car At Amgen Race In Brentwood
BRENTWOOD (CBS) — A California Highway Patrol officer crashed into a car during the Amgen Tour of California bike race, Saturday. It happened at the intersection of Marsh Creek Road near Deer Valley Road in Brentwood around 12:30 pm. on ...
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Americans Dream of Riches as Powerball Lottery Hits $600 Million
Saturday night's Powerball lottery jackpot climbed to an astronomical $600 million for a single winner, and may be even higher by the time the numbers are drawn. Winners must match five numbers picked from machines holding 59 white balls, and a special Powerball pulled from a machine filled with 35 red balls. Even if the chances of winning are tiny -- one in 175 million -- those ...
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Why repealing Obamacare is a horrible idea
we see this coming just like the titanic, we see the iceberg only it's not just in a midst. shortly in front of our eyes. we have time to turn back. so why not reveal that bill today. i wanted to bring that tower ...
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NHL Fines Sharks $100000 For GM’s Comments
SAN JOSE (CBS/AP) — The NHL fined the San Jose Sharks $100,000 on Saturday for general manager Doug Wilson’s comments criticizing the league for forward Raffi Torres’ suspension for the rest of the second round of the playoffs. The NHL said the fine was issued for violating a rule put in place earlier this year prohibiting formal team statements to the media during the 48-hour ...
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All Lanes Reopened After Motorcycle Crash On I-80 Near Albany
ALBANY (CBS SF) — All lanes were open on westbound Highway 80 near Albany after a crash reportedly left a motorcyclist injured, according to the California Highway Patrol. The collision involving a motorcycle and an SUV was reported around 2:40 p.m. on westbound Highway 80 near the Albany off-ramp, according to the ...
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Parking fees fight at Calif. state beaches heat up
A surfer carries his board at the San Clemente State Beach in San Clemente, Calif., Wednesday, May 15, 2013. In search of new revenue, the state parks system is eyeing new parking fees for parts of the Northern California shoreline or considering hiking rates to visit popular beaches south of Los Angeles during peak periods. (AP Photo/Jae C. ...
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Federal report documents inmate sex abuse in US
In response to a federal court order, Gov. Jerry Brown pushed a novel approach through the Legislature two years ago to dramatically reduce California's prison ...
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Are North Americans ready to spend
North Americans kept a recessionary mindset in the first quarter of 2013, but they cautiously opened their wallets and exhibited a desire to spend again. These are ...
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Republicans practice the politics of distraction
While Republicans focus on the latest series of "scandals" in Washington, they might be hoping we ignore the story they used to care about. Ed explains why deficit hawks have suddenly fallen silent on spending. Ed's joined by Mike Papantonio, Zerlina Maxwell and David Cay ...
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Congressman IRS hearing showed what a giant overreach the matter is
MSNBC's Alex Witt gauges House Ways and Means Committee member Rep. Lloyd Doggett's, D-Texas, reaction from the IRS hearing. He reveals what he learned from the meeting including answers that "showed what a giant overreach the matter is" and evidence that there was no corruption within President Obama's administration. Doggett highlights the specific political wrong that ...
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Ah Mr Fogle weve been expecting you The case of the hapless wig-wearing American diplomat expelled from Moscow is not as simple as it first seemed
In the long and sinuous history of international espionage, the one thing you can absolutely rely on is that very little is as it first appears. And so it is with Ryan Christopher Fogle, third secretary in the political department of the US Embassy in Moscow, comedy wig owner, and, apparently, a man who thinks it wise to hang around near park entrances at midnight with EUR100,000 (85,000) in ...
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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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