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Pan Am roundup Americans add to medal haul
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) -- The U.S. women's softball team did as expected, riding a perfect game by Cat Osterman to their fifth straight Pan American Games gold medal, 4-0 over Canada on Thursday night. Osterman, a 20-year-old left-hander from Houston, struck out 14 batters in a game delayed almost four hours by weather and a lengthy elimination match before it. ...
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Prostate Cancer Hits African American Men Especially Hard
MIAMI -- Marc Henderson, a 63-year-old African-American airport administrator here, isn’t afraid to ask his physician to do a blood test for Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA), a screening test for prostate cancer. "I’d rather know early on so that it can be treated, rather than sit around in denial until it’s too late," he said. "If it’s going to help catch ...
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Fresh salvo WikiLeaks releases US military files
Julian Assange's WikiLeaks website on Thursday started publishing more than 100 US department of defence documents including the first prisoner treatment manual for Guantanamo Bay. The latest release by the anti-secrecy site comes as its founder Julian Assange, facing charges of rape and sexual assault in Sweden, remains holed up in the Ecuadoran embassy in London. Assange said the newly ...
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U.S. not concerned about Chinas influence in L.America White House official
CARTAGENA, Colombia, April 14 (Xinhua) -- The United States is not concerned about China's growing influence in Latin America, a senior White House official said here Saturday."We're not concerned at all," Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor for strategic communications, said at a press briefing on the sidelines of the sixth Summit of the Americas."In fact, if ...
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World in Pictures June 19 2013 The Wanted in London and Madonna in New York
TODAY'S World in Pictures features photographs of Nathan Sykes, Tom Parker, Jay McGuiness, Max George and Siva Kaneswaran at the premiere of their reality E! TV series Wanted Life in London and Madonna at the world premiere of 'Madonna: The MDNA Tour' at the Paris Theatre in New ...
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How Alan Greenspan’s ‘tone’ moved gold and silver
Consider this another way to look at "irrational exuberance," that famous emotion cited by Alan Greenspan at the height of the dot-com ...
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Viettel to pump USD33m into Viettel America Company
According to various Vietnamese media reports, the country's prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung, has approved Viettel Group's plan to set up a new US-based offshoot, called Viettel America Company. The US subsidiary will have a market capitalisation of more ...
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Video Man left in coma after liquid nitrogen poured into pool at party
According to reports, the party was hosted by drinks company Jagermeister - where they attempted to create a smoke effect by adding buckets of liquid nitrogen in the pool.Unfortunately the liquid nitrogen reacted dangerously with the chlorine, leaving partygoers fighting for a breath.The video footage shows a normal pool party that turned to horror, when people in the water started fainting and ...
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Police Paraplegic castrated at Philly facility man charged
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A 41-year-old man is being held on $5 million bail after police say he castrated a paraplegic during a dispute at an assisted living facility in Philadelphia.Authorities say Edgar Bonilla is charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and other counts in Monday night's attack inside the Inglis Apartments at Elmwood. Lt. John Walker says Bonilla was visiting a ...
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Nearly 14000 US Churches Signed on for My Hope America with Billy Graham
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association recently launched "Lose to Gain," its second half-hour video program installment of the My Hope America with Billy Graham campaign series. With less than five months remaining in the campaign, nearly 14,000 churches have registered in the project that culminates in an evangelistic video featuring portions of Billy Graham's preaching, ...
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Amanda Knox Ruling Cites Sex Game Theory
Italy's top criminal court has said its decision to order a retrial of Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend in the murder of Meredith Kercher was made because their acquittals contained shortcomings and contradictions. The Court of Cassation also said the possibility that Briton Miss Kercher was killed in a sex game that had got out of hand needs to be revisited. Knox and her Italian ...
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NSA surveillance is an attack on American citizens says Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky has praised the Guardian's revelations about the activities of the National Security Agency. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the ...
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Opinion Why U.S. now needs Germany more than ever
>Sudha David-Wilp is a senior program officer at the German Marshall Fund of the United States' Berlin office. She previously oversaw the Congressional Study Group on Germany, a program for lawmakers on Capitol Hill and in the Bundestag, in Washington DC. Follow her on Twitter. Berlin (CNN) -- US President John ...
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Africa White House Briefing On Obamas Meetings At G8 Summit
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary June 17, 2013 PRESS BRIEFING BY PRESS SECRETARY JAY CARNEY AND DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR FOR STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS BEN RHODES ON PRESIDENT OBAMA'S MEETINGS AT THE G8 SUMMIT Killyhevlin Hotel Enniskillen, Northern Ireland 9:53 P.M. BST MR. CARNEY: Thank you for being here. Thank you for your patience. I know it's late, at ...
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Hillary Clinton plays bailout card for Barack Obama
With her increasingly severe looks and drawn face, Hillary Clinton is fading fast from public eye. Few people think she will have it in her to run for the White House in 2016 when she will be 69, an age at which even Ronald Reagan's stamina for the job was questioned. Clinton's best chance was in 2012, when Barack Obama beat her to the nomination. Still, working on Abraham ...
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2012 New York Comic Con kicks off
Comic fans try latest video games during the 2012 New York Comic Con at Javits Center in New York, the United States, on Oct. 13, 2012. As the second largest comic book and pop culture gathering in the country, the four-day New York Comic features latest products like comic books, video games, toys, movies and television shows. (Xinhua/Wu ...
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White House congratulates EU on winning Nobel Peace Prize
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- The White House on Friday congratulated the European Union (EU) on winning the Nobel Peace Prize this year. "This award recognizes Europe's commitment to the principles of democracy, freedom and human rights, as well as its efforts to advance these values across the world," U.S. National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said in a White House ...
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US State Department not speaking in one voice with the White House
The State Department of the United States said Tuesday it never concluded that the consulate attack in Libya stemmed from protests over an American-made video ridiculing Islam, raising further questions about why the Obama administration used that explanation for more than a week after assailants killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. The revelation came as new documents ...
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DPRK urges American forces to withdraw from South Korea
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Friday urged American forces to withdraw from South Korea, the official news agency KCNA reported. Under the pretext of focusing on the DPRK as its No.1 target of attack, the United States' 67-year presence in South Korea is including "strategic mobile forces" to maintain its regional military hegemony, an unnamed Foreign ...
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White House says debt limit compromise possible
With less than one week towards a possible calamitous U.S. debt default deadline, the White House said on Wednesday that a debt limit compromise is essential and possible, adding fresh pressure to the stalemated debt ceiling negotiation process. In response to some analysts' studies that the nation could postpone for about a week after its borrowing authority expires on Tuesday due to new ...
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RPT-Outbreak of deadly piglet virus spreads to 13 U.S. states
Wed Jun 19, 2013 7:00am EDT By P.J. Huffstutter CHICAGO, June 18 (Reuters) - A swine virus deadly to young pigs, one never before seen in North America, is spreading rapidly across the United States and proving harder to control than previously believed. The virus now has spread to 13 states - with more than 100 positive cases to date - since it was first diagnosed in the United States last ...
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Rick Perry takes aim at New York
Rick Perry stars in an ad out Wednesday that coincides with his swing across the Northeast to lure jobs to Texas.The one-minute, campaign-style video - shared first with POLITICO - attacks New York, where the governor is spending the day, as a high-tax, high-regulation state. ...
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Brazil UnrestThe Brazilian government has deployed more national security force Latin America News
The Brazilian government will deploy National Public Security Force in five cities hosting the FIFA football tournament in an effort to contain the ongoing protests across the country. The announcement by the Brazilian Justice Ministry comes after a day of violent clashes between protesters and riot police. The ministry decided to deploy the joint federal police force on Wednesday in response ...
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10 Things to Know for Today
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:1. OBAMA TO PUSH NUCLEAR CUTSA senior administration official says Obama will propose reduce the U.S. and Russian stockpiles by up to one-third at a speech in Berlin. 2. TALIBAN STRIKE ON US TROOPS AFTER PEACE TALK AGREEMENTAfghanistan President Hamid Karzai also suspended talks with the ...
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Serena Williams caught in rape case controversy
Ohio , where two high school footballers were convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl at a party. One of those convicted was also handed an additional year's sentence for photographing the victim naked.The case divided the proud football community, with many rallying around the accused and blaming the victim as she had been drunk.In an interview ...
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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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