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Man shot by FBI linked Boston bomber to triple murder
Boston police believe were committed by Tamerlan Tsarnaev two years before he bombed the city's marathon.Todashev, a 27-year-old Chechen immigrant, reportedly admitted that he and Tsarnaev were responsible for the killings and began to write out a confession, the ...
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Oklahoma faces $2bn disaster damage bill
The tally is based on visual assessments of the extensive damage zone stretching more than 17 miles and the fact that the tornado was on the ground for 40 ...
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Abu Dhabi hires key role for New York franchise
Claudio Reyna, left, is the first key appointment for Manchester City's MLS franchise team, New York City Football Club. (Photo: Manchester City ...
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Obama on precarious legal ground in American deaths by US drone strikes
Jeremy Scahill, national security correspondent for The Nation and author of "Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield," talks with Rachel Maddow about the Obama administration's case for the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlawk and the legal questions surrounding the 'non-specific targeted' killing of his 16-year-old ...
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Groups look for next step in delicate immigration reform dance
By Carrie Dann, Political Reporter, NBC News After clearing the first hurdle in some of the most delicate legislative jockeying in recent memory, advocates of a comprehensive immigration reform bill are already looking to the next stage of the legislation’s progress as it heads toward a high-profile airing in the full Senate.While some groups aligned with Democrats failed to secure their ...
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‘We Can Blow Things Up’ America’s Power in the Middle East
In an article published May 15, 2013, American historical social scientist Immanuel Wallerstein wrote, "Nothing illustrates more the limitations of Western power than the internal controversy its elites are having in public about what the United States in particular and western European states should be doing about the civil war in Syria." Those limitations are palpable in both ...
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Walnut Creek High School Wrestler Dies From Brain Hemorrhage
WALNUT CREEK (CBS SF) — A student at a Walnut Creek high school died after an incident at a gym earlier this week, the school principal said. Amir Khakimov, who had been attending Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek for about a year and half after moving to Contra Costa County from Uzbekistan, was pronounced dead at the hospital on Tuesday night after suffering a grave head injury, ...
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Fewer Americans Identify as Economic Conservatives in 2013
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Forty-one percent of Americans now characterize their economic views as "conservative," or "very conservative," the lowest since President Barack Obama took office in 2009 and on par with where views were in May 2008. This year's downtick in the percentage of Americans identifying as economically conservative has been accompanied by an uptick in the ...
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Obama balances threats against Americans rights
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Forecasting the changing nature of threats against the U.S. for years to come, President Barack Obama says "America is at a crossroads." And so, too, is his presidency's counterterrorism policy, which has long struggled to balance protecting the nation from terror attacks while upholding Americans' ...
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Man held hostage for a month in New York
A businessman was snatched from a City street in broad daylight, then held captive for more than a month in a warehouse where he was bound and burned with acid while his kidnappers demanded a $3m ransom that his family ...
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Rhode Island education board approves arming university cops
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. – Police at the University of Rhode Island could soon be carrying firearms following a vote Thursday by state education officials to end Rhode Island's distinction as the only state to prohibit police on public campuses from carrying guns. The Rhode Island Board of Education voted 8-1 to allow leaders at the state's three institutions of higher education to ...
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Americas Corrupt Justice System Federal Private Prison Populations Grew by 784 in 10 Year Span
rose 18 percent , an increase largely reflected by the "drug war" and stringent sentencing guidelines, such as three strikes laws and mandatory minimum sentences. However, total private prison populations exploded fivefold during this same time period, with federal private prison populations rising by 784 percent (as seen in the chart below complied ...
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Wheelchair Lift out of Wis. Promises More Access
An elementary school principal has inspired the University of Wisconsin-Madison to create a new wheelchair lift that could help make more places wheelchair accessible. The invention process began three years ago when the principal at Emerson Elementary School in Madison, Karen Kepler, told a school donor her biggest wish was for her building to become accessible to everyone. All four ...
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Safe Room Mandates Remain Rare in Tornado States
After living nearly 20 years in their one-story brick home, Sherry and Larry Wells finally won the lottery -- for a state rebate on a home storm shelter, that is. A contractor finished installing the concrete bunker beneath the slab of their garage in early May. About three weeks later, the shelter saved their lives when a tornado that killed 24 people tore through their neighborhood. Should ...
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Quotations of the Day
"We have a ton of people now. It's just like buying a refrigerator or a stove for your house. You put in a storm shelter." -- Moore, Okla. community development director Elizabeth Jones. ——— "I was thinking that today could be my last day as a Boy Scout. Obviously, for gay Scouts like me, this vote is life-changing." -- Pascal Tessier, a ...
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BART To Relax Rush Hour Bicycle Ban For 5 Month Trial
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — BART’s board of directors voted to lift a ban on bikes aboard rush hour trains for five months Thursday night and may make the policy change permanent, according to the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. ';Today’s BART decision is a momentous occasion. For years people on both sides of the Bay have had to contort their lives simply because they needed to ...
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Hurricane center Beware of the storm surge
By JENNIFER KAYAssociated Press MIAMI (AP) - The National Hurricane Center is changing the way it talks about storm surge in hopes that emergency officials, the media and the public can better understand the dangerous phenomenon. Storm surge is the hurricane hazard that poses the greatest threat to life and property. It is the abnormal rise in sea water during a hurricane, and it can happen ...
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New York sheriffs voice opposition to strict gun law seek to join lawsuit
ALBANY, N.Y. – County sheriffs have asked to join the federal lawsuit challenging New York's tough new gun restrictions, calling some provisions vague and impossible to enforce fairly. The New York State Sheriffs' Association and five individual sheriffs are asking U.S. District Judge William Skretny to add their position to the record. They support gun rights advocates seeking ...
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3 Injured After Bridge Collapse Sends Cars Into Water
A portion of the Interstate 5 bridge is submerged after it collapsed into the Skagit River dumping vehicles and people into the water in Mount Vernon, Wash., Thursday, May 23, ...
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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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Martin Luther King unmoved by death threats - from the archive 24 May 1961
United States that the Negroes' leader in Montgomery, Alabama, during the present crisis is a scholarly Baptist minister whose hero is Mahatma Gandhi. He might well have been a black Huey Long or some such political boss of the kind who tries to hold hate-the-white demonstrations in Harlem (and - luckily again - finds little support there). That he is the ...
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Sharks On Brink Of Elimination Lose To Kings In Shutout
Jonathan Quick #32 of the Los Angeles Kings makes a save in front of T.J. Galiardi #21 of the San Jose Sharks during the first period in Game Five of the Western Conference Semifinals during the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs at Staples Center on May 23, 2013 in Los Angeles. (Harry How/Getty ...
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5.7 magnitude earthquake shakes Northern California
A preliminary 5.7 earthquake struck in Northern California on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The epicenter of the quake was centered 6 miles west northwest of Greenville, and 26 miles southwest of Susanville.Initial reports said the quake, which struck at 8:47 p.m., was a magnitude 5.9. A 5.7 magnitude quake is considered moderate, but has the potential to cause considerable ...
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5.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Northern California
GREENVILLE, Calif. – A magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit Northern California Thursday night that was widely felt across the region, but there were no reports of serious damage. The temblor struck at 8:47 p.m. and was centered near Greenville, about 25 miles southwest of Susanville in far northeastern California, said Rafael Abreu, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey's National ...
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August Wilson Center for African American Culture needs to play ball
The Downtown facility recently laid off half its staff and is behind on payments on a $7 million loan. Foundations that have been the center's lifeblood are skittish about providing more money because the center hasn't completed a required audit or submitted a recent business ...
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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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