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I-5 bridge collapse survivor You hold on
The sudden closure of westbound lanes on the bridge came after restricting heavy vehicles on the roadway caused supply problems in Key ...
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10 Things to Know for Friday
Top 10 items found during 2012 coastal cleanup The Ocean Conservancy, a Washington DC-based environmental organization, released its 2012 list of trash collected during its International Coastal Cleanup. More than 10 million pounds of debris was collected, with nearly 1.5 million pounds in California alone. The top items found during the ...
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CBS Up American Idol Down at End of Traditional TV Season
CBS strengthened its dominance over the television industry this year at the same time that the unprecedented reign of "American Idol" came to a ...
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Obama defends legal drone killings
President Barack Obama has defended America's controversial drone attacks as legal, effective and a necessary linchpin in an evolving US counter terrorism ...
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Irish storm chaser leads tornado recovery efforts
Oklahoma for the last two years, has even been taking part in search-and-rescue teams in the affected areas. He has made the Journey Church in Norman, just outside of Moore, an unofficial base camp, leading several other volunteers eager to do their bit in helping rebuild the community."For many of these people, all of their possessions are gone," he told the Irish ...
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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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Americas truth-seeking drone program
if you are interested in contributing. The events of September 11, 2001, serve as a painful reminder that the use unlawful use of force, as designated by the World Court for acts of terrorism, resulted in the costly loss of innocent life. Since Western leaders condemned such acts as wrong and unlawful, it is only logical that Western nations follow by example by avoiding (engaging in) ...
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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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Brewers team up on beer to help military families
RICHMOND, Va. — Craft breweries from around the country are teaming up to raise money for military families by selling a beer aged on baseball bats. The Hops for Heroes project began in 2011 as a collaboration between Center of the Universe Brewing Co. in suburban Richmond and Fremont Brewing Co. in Seattle. This year, the list also includes breweries in Florida, Pennsylvania, Missouri, ...
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Kerry Urgency needed in Mideast peace process
John Kerry said ahead of a second round of meetings Friday. "I am convinced, with great humility, that this moment is a critical one for the region and particularly for Israel, for Palestine and for Jordan," Kerry said before meeting with Israeli ...
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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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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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