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Saturday morning nutpick if this is post-racial America...
Marco Rubio on Thursday morning, saying he just can't understand why Big Bad Obama won't call for a DOJ investigation into the IRS: MARTHA MacCALLUM: If you really want to make a statement as ...
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N. Luzon fiesta maker to market former US military property
SAN FERNANDO CITY--In the past, a provincial fiesta was held based on the need to honor a Catholic saint's feast day. But then came the Baguio Flower Festival, or Panagbenga in 1995, which changed the rules by becoming the first secular fiesta, after Bacolod's popular Masskara, during the month of February. Occurring simultaneously in February is the Hot Air Balloon Fiesta, which has ...
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Kansas City museum raising cash to fly Connie
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -; The National Airline History Museum is trying to raise $3.2 million to restore its Lockheed Constellation propeller-driven aircraft and recreate multimillionaire aviator Howard Hughes' record-setting cross-country flight in the plane that transformed commercial air ...
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Ore. timber country ponders future with fewer logs
O'BRIEN, Ore. -; Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the trees within range of a team of horses and move the mill to a new stand when those trees ran ...
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FBI executes search warrant in ricin letter case
SPOKANE, Wash. -; The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are executing a search warrant Saturday in the case of two letters containing the deadly poison ricin that were intercepted this week at a post office in Washington ...
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QA Kree Harrison on Being American Idol Season 12 Runner-Up
champ. Still, the title of runner-up certainly isn’t anything to scoff at. The 23-year-old Texan, known for her country roots and pleasant personality, effortlessly sang songs by Patty Griffin, Rascal Flatts ...
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Obama administration reels from controversy
president obama and what democrats stand for. the problem, the base isn't wide enough. they need to bring more people in, and there is a question as to whether they go so aggressively, they impede their party in a way that makes it more appealing to more ...
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Soccer-Vilanova needs more cancer treatment in New York
At 16 years old, Jack Andraka is already a superstar in the field of science. Earlier this year, he won Intel's prestigious Gordon E. Moore Award, when he created a groundbreaking testing method that can detect pancreatic cancer in its earliest stages. His work is expected to save thousands of ...
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Watch Powerball Jackpot Spending $600 Million in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills is synonymous with wealth. Prestige and exclusivity. Some of -- -- thanks to the powerball. Tourists here to check out the lives of the rich and the famous are now thinking about ...
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Watch Search for Missing Woman in San Bernardino Mountains
The search for Karen Tillman took on increasing urgency with search and rescue crews looking for the 59 year old -- -- And on foot and on horseback. -- son Dan -- also joined the search effort ...
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Women sad angry over sale of nonprofit Ohio home
An insurance company has bought out a nonprofit home for struggling women in Cincinnati in a deal announced Monday, ending a bitter two-year court battle over the historic property in a picturesque downtown ...
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Heights transports you to New York neighborhood
May 18--BOSTON -- SpeakEasy Stage Company's "In the Heights" so convincingly envelops the audience in a corner of a not-so-long-ago Washington Heights neighborhood in New York City that it might take a minute to get your bearings when you leave Boston Center for the Arts and find yourself in the South End. The sense of elsewhere is due in part to Jenna McFarland Lord's scenic ...
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Exercise or religion Yoga is for everyone Column
But many scholars of yoga and religion say it is a non-sectarian practice. Millions of people of varying religious beliefs practice yoga and find that it enhances their spiritual life. Millions of others view it strictly as physical exercise and an aid to mindfulness.Most of them would be baffled at the notion that yoga has anything to do with religion. "People come to our studios to get ...
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Media not unscathed by weeks scandal frenzy
David Axelrod, former senior adviser to President Obama, now director of the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the Obama administration handles the stress of scandal (real or otherwise) and whether members of the Obama campaign and/or administration are exposed by new details of higher level awareness of the IRS identifying tea party ...
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Tea party hero Cuccinelli is Va. GOP gov nominee
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Virginia's activist conservative attorney general beloved by the tea party for his aggressive challenges to federal mandates has won the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination by ...
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Majority of number combos picked for Powerball pot
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Powerball is a game of numbers, and lottery officials say the majority of possible combinations have already been purchased ahead of Saturday night's near-historic $600 million ...
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Feds accuse two Sanford brothers of scam involving U.S. Army equipment
U.S. Army and plotted to rip off the government for military equipment, including armor-piecing ammunition, federal officials say.Husein Kermali, 37, and Sikandar Kermali, 33, are suspected of purchasing the power tools from a soldier stationed with the Army Active Guard Reserve in Orlando, Sebastian Stewart Oyegun II.In June, Oyegun signed a plea agreement admitting guilt to a count of theft of ...
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Native American actress proud to walk Cannes red carpet
Candice Glover, a soul singer from rural South Carolina, was named "American Idol", becoming the first female singer to win the television singing competition since ...
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First Rentals Native New York Style
Back to New York for Julio Gomez, 22, center, means an address not in his boyhood Bronx, but in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. For Harris Meyers, 21, left, it's the old parental abode in Gramercy Park. For Floy Salembier, 22, it's Peter Cooper Village, many blocks south of her childhood ...
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Yoshitomo Nara Exhibit Surveys His Unique Brand Of Kute Kulture In New York
On the surface, [Nara's works are] pretty damn cute. But Nara has stepped outside that world in a big way, " Byrne wrote in the catalogue essay for Nara's newest exhibition in New York. "The kids and dogs in his pictures and bronzes are defiant, angry, annoyed, and pissed off. They have rebelled against their roots, and their big eyes are cold." The exhibit, on view now ...
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American Idol Who is the shows greatest discovery
"American Idol." Now new victor Candice Glover can start competing with all the contestants who came before her. Her first single, "I Am Beautiful," suggests she is off to a strong start. And the blessing of Aretha Franklin, given on national television, should encourage any young singer. Who are the show's greatest winners? I'd ...
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American engineers death suicide or cyber-espionage
(CBS News) The death of an American computer engineer, Shane Todd, in Singapore has created quite a stir. His parents contend he was murdered, but authorities say it was suicide. The mystery seems to have links to the dark world of cyber-spying and could possibly involve China. Rick and Mary Todd traveled from Montana to Singapore to prove that their son was actually the victim of a web of ...
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Canada uneasy about oil-sands byproduct accumulation
A member of the Canadian Parliament said he wants an investigation with the United States into a three-story mound of coke piling up at a refinery in Ontario. The coke is a by-product of the refining of oil sands and has been piling up quickly at the Marathon refinery in Windsor along the Detroit River. "Here's a little bit of Alberta," said Brian Masse, one of Windsor's ...
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Parking fees at California state beaches heat up
In search of new revenue, the state parks system is eyeing parking fees for parts of the Northern California shoreline where none existed before. It's also mulling hiking rates at popular beaches south of Los Angeles during peak ...
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Native American tale Jimmy P comes to Cannes with international pedigree
CANNES, France - It took an international production starring a Puerto Rican and a Frenchman to bring the Native American tale "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian" to the big screen. The film, an English language one from French director Arnaud Desplechin, made its premiere Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival, where it's among 20 movies competing for the prestigious ...
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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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