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Face-chewing victim continues recovery in Miami
A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack last year in Miami has learned to play guitar as he continues treatment for his ...
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Myanmar’s President Makes Historic Divisive Visit to White House
- Myanmar's President Thein Sein on Monday became the first leader of that country in almost a half-century to pay a call on the White House, a visit that has simultaneously highlighted a series of monumental changes seen in Myanmar in recent years as well as a reforms process that many are warning may have ...
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Committee nears final big immigration decisions
View Photo Associated Press/J. Scott Applewhite - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, confers with the committee's ranking Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Capitol Hill ...
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Conservative talkers grassroots groups push anti-immigration reform effort
By Carrie Dann, Political Reporter, NBC News Several prominent conservative media figures are backing a new effort by groups who oppose bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform, signaling growing willingness from conservative outlets to marshal their audiences against the bill.Signatories on a new open letter to Congress titled "The Wrong Way to Reform Immigration" include RedState ...
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Family of dead American condemns Singapore inquiry
(16 mins ago) The family of a US scientist found hanged in Singapore last year walked out of a coroner's inquiry into their son's death today, saying they had ';lost faith'' in the proceedings. ';The prosecution brings forth witnesses at the last minute and we have no chance to question it. Basically we actually have lost faith in the process,'' Rick ...
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Many children among 91 feared dead in tornado-hit Oklahoma
MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - At least 91 people, including 20 children, were feared killed when a 2 mile wide tornado tore through an Oklahoma City suburb, trapping victims beneath the rubble as one elementary school took a direct hit and another was ...
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MoyersWinship Corporate Greed Is Poisoning America — Literally
noted , "Inspections are virtually non-existent; regulatory agencies don't talk to each other; and there's no such thing as a buffer zone when it comes to constructing plants and storage facilities in populated areas." For years, the Fertilizer Institute, described as "the nation's leading lobbying organization of the chemical and agricultural industries," ...
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FBI Agents fell to deaths training off Va. coast during maritime counterterrorism exercise
NORFOLK, Va. - Two FBI agents who died while training off the Virginia Beach coast fell to their deaths when a helicopter had trouble during a "maritime counterterrorism exercise," an agency spokeswoman said Monday night. Special Agents Christopher Lorek and Stephen Shaw were killed when they fell into the water Friday. Both were members of the bureau's elite hostage rescue team, ...
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In an instant everythings gone
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO, KOKH, KOKI. Moore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Clinging to the hope of finding more survivors, rescue workers raced overnight scouring mountains of rubble where houses and ...
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Okla. mayor says city already at work on recovery
MOORE, Okla. -; Glenn Lewis was the mayor of Moore, Okla., when the strongest tornado on record whipped the city in 1999, and he says the most recent storm won't deter the community from ...
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Easier travel ahead for Conn. commuters
Metro North employees, in orange vests, help transfer westbound commuters at the transportation center in Bridgeport, Ct., to shuttle buses Monday, May 20, 2013. The commuters had arrived from New Haven by train and were being bused to Stamford, Ct., where rail service to New York was available. A train collision on Friday injured 72 people and disrupted rail service into New York City. (AP ...
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Killing of gay man in NYC draws protesters
Pedestrians pass a makeshift memorial for 32-year-old Mark Carson, Monday, May 20, 2013, in New York. Police said Elliot Morales yelled anti-gay slurs before shooting Carson point-blank in the face in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood long known as a bedrock of the gay rights movement. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin ...
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51 killed in Okla. tornado toll expected to rise
MOORE, Okla. -; The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office says the official death toll in the aftermath of a massive tornado that slammed the Oklahoma City area remains at 51 but is expected to ...
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Cathie Anderson Fungus killing coffee plantations in Mexico Central America
Coffee lovers probably won't hear much about la roya in the United States, but this fungal disease is decimating thousands of coffee farms across Mexico and Central America.Pete Rogers isn't the average American coffee lover. He travels to Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and other exotic locales to find and purchase green coffee beans for his family's company, Rogers ...
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At least 91 people dead in US tornado disaster
As the president ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts, the scale of the destruction and loss was brutally clear, with whole neighbourhoods reduced to piles of debris by the storm.The hardest hit area was the suburb of Moore, home to 55,000 people, where a primary school with children sheltering inside was razed.Rescuers managed to pull at least 30 of the estimated ...
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American was murdered in Singapore says pathologist
(17 mins ago) An American scientist found hanged in Singapore last year was murdered and his death made to look like a suicide as part of a conspiracy, a US pathologist told an inquiry today. Edward Adelstein, 75, a deputy medical examiner in Missouri, contradicted Singapore police findings that Shane Todd killed himself, but admitted his conclusions were based on pictures of the body and ...
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East Palo Alto Police Chief Declaring ‘Crime Emergency’
Sunday’s killing of a teenager , police Chief Ronald Davis is calling a ';crime emergency'; for the department, which will take effect on Tuesday. Declaring a ';crime emergency'; allows the department to cancel days off and make assignment changes as needed. It will more than double the number of patrol officers in the field during critical time periods, Capt. Carl ...
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GOP distrust of Obama fears of voter fraud fuel polarization
Post-election survey: Partisan polarization persists. U.S. President Barack Obama is sworn-in for a second term by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts during his public inauguration ceremony at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. on January 21, 2013. UPI/Rob ...
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Big jump in HIV among Navajo in New Mexico
A Navajo reservation near Gallup, N.M., had a 20 percent increase in HIV diagnoses in 2012 from 2011, a doctor says. Dr. Jonathan Iralu, an infectious disease specialist who runs an HIV clinic in Gallup, said he compiled the report for the federal Indian Health Service because he used to treat a small number of Navajo men with human immunodeficiency virus each year. However, the 47 new cases ...
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10th Annual Get Active America program
For this year's 10th Annual Get Active America! program, which runs throughout the month of May, The Corpus Christi Athletic Club is joining with the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) to help America become physically active and improve their diet. As part of Get Active America! The Corpus Christi Athletic Club will encourage its community to work towards ...
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Leaks turn to deluge for reeling White House
A few hours after that, we were told that everybody at the most senior levels of the White House knew about the report revealing the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service - everybody but the president, who maintains he learned about it from watching TV.By far the most damaging of the stories has to do with the assault on press freedom.In 2009, Fox News reporter James ...
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Feds also spied on Fox News reporter
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration’s snooping scandal mushroomed yesterday when it was revealed that the Justice Department seized a trove of information about Fox News correspondent James Rosen in an effort to aid a leak investigation - including tracking the reporter’s movements in and out of the State Department.The feds gained access to records of Rosen’s use of the ...
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The taxman’s targeting blame the White House
Whether the Obama administration could have stopped the IRS’ targeting of conservative groups.***Jonah Goldberg made an excellent point in "IRS Follows O’s Lead," (PostOpinion, May 17) when he said: "Imagine for a moment if black civil-rights organizations, gay groups or teachers unions were targeted by the IRS." The White House would have started a major ...
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Hathaway lawyer pleads case to keep her out of prison feds want her to serve 12-18 months
Detroit - Former Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway shouldn't spend a day in federal prison, her lawyer said Monday, despite admitting she orchestrated an elaborate two-year scheme to defraud her bank of $600,000 owed on a Grosse Pointe Park home. Defense lawyer Steve Fishman argued the loss was less than $70,000 and urged U.S. District Judge John Corbett O'Meara to keep ...
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IRS officials back on Capitol Hill hot seat over targeting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel will try on Tuesday to pry more details out of current and former officials of the Internal Revenue Service about the agency's targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny when they sought tax-exempt ...
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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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