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Metro-North Conn. train outage expected for days
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - The Metro-North commuter rail line says crews will spend days rebuilding 2,000 feet of track, overhead wires and signals damaged in a derailment and crash in ...
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Bay To Breakers Runners Take To The Streets Of San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Thousands of racers, runners and strolling, costumed scene-makers spread across San Francisco Sunday morning in the 102nd Bay to Breakers footrace. Elite runners led the pack and crossed the finish line on Ocean Beach long before many of the estimated 30,000 participants managed to get over the starting line on Howard ...
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Swedish Princess Madeleine American fiance attend pre-nuptial service
The Swedish royal family attended church Sunday in Stockholm's Royal Chapel for a traditional public announcement of Princess Madeleine's upcoming wedding. Princess Madeleine is scheduled to marry Christopher O'Neill, an American who has declined Swedish citizenship and will remain a U.S. citizen after the wedding -- and therefore will not hold a position of responsibility in the ...
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AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The president and CEO of The Associated Press says the government's seizure of AP journalists' phone records was "unconstitutional" and already has had a chilling effect on ...
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Star Trek sequel tops weekend box office in North America
Sun May 19, 2013 12:52pm EDT May 19 (Reuters) - Sci-fi movie "Star Trek Into Darkness" journeyed to the top of weekend box office charts as the latest voyage of the Starship Enterprise pulled in $70.6 million at U.S. and Canadian theaters. The new 3D installment in the "Star Trek" franchise knocked the mighty "Iron Man 3" to second place. The superhero sequel from Walt ...
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NY frisk judge calls criticism below-the-belt
NEW YORK -; The federal judge overseeing the stop-and-frisk trial that has put New York Police Department officers in the spotlight says she knows she's not the government's favorite ...
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Coast Guard to take testimony on Shell grounding
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -; Circumstances surrounding the grounding of a Royal Dutch Shell PLC drill barge off a remote Alaska island will be explored in a public hearing in ...
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Somali reaction to al-Shabab sentences mixed
Two Minnesota women convicted of conspiring to send money to al-Shabab in Somalia were given prison sentences in federal court Thursday, ending a week of punishments tied to long-running investigations into recruiting and financing for the terrorist ...
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Pfeiffer ‘What happened in Benghazi was a tragedy’
White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer vows the administration will take preventive steps to keep another Benghazi-like incident from happening, and accuses Republicans of trying to "make political hay" over the ...
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Was Congress misinformed on IRS developments
White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer reviews footage from last year of an IRS spokesman testifying to Congress that there was no targeting within the ...
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MTP Take Two with Fmr. Defense Sec. Donald Rumsfeld
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld joins David Gregory to discuss his new book, "Rumsfeld's Rules," as well as the biggest issues facing the country's military and foreign policy ...
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McConnell on Benghazi Administration ‘made up a tale’
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky accuses the administration of spinning a yarn to cover up the true events that unfolded in ...
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McConnell Justice Dept.’s AP probe ‘needs to happen’
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky says national security leaks that threaten Americans can sometimes justify government surveillance ...
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Pfeiffer ‘Fierce advocacy’ for the press
intelligence officers , our military at risk. but, two, we have to do it in a way in a balances freedom of press, which is why the president called on congress to pass the ...
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Video Pfeiffer Partisan fishing expeditions wont distract White House
White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer defends administration's handling of recent controversies, says "partisan fishing expeditions" won't distract the White House from pushing President Obama's policy ...
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Making mentally ill defendants ready for trial
mock trial involving people who have been deemed mentally incompetent to participate in a real one. In mental hospitals across the country, psychiatrists ...
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Las Vegas Dubais brash cousin in the American desert
Las Vegas and Dubai. From the Bellagio fountain, bright lights and top-notch hotels, Vegas is a top destination for not only pleasure, but business as well, playing host to some of the biggest conferences and conventions in the world. As well as having thematic parallels, the cities overlap economically. The Nevada city's economy was hit hard by the recession and it lost out to cheaper ...
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American Peter Uihlein wins Madeira Islands Open for 1st career title
SANTO ANTONIO DA SERRA, Portugal - American Peter Uihlein won the Madeira Islands Open by two strokes after shooting a 4-under 68 on Sunday for his first career title in his 16th European Tour event. Uihlein birdied four of his last eight holes for a 15-under total of 273 at the Clube de Golf do Santo da Serra course. It was his third top-10 finish from seven European Tour events this season. ...
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Charlotte remembers 1963 desegregation eat-in
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- In the spring of 1963, a prominent civil rights leader led dozens of protesters on a four-mile march from a predominantly African-American college campus to the center of Charlotte's downtown.At the rally, Dr. Reginald Hawkins warned city leaders that if something wasn't done to end segregation, future marches might not be so peacefulNearly two weeks later, civil ...
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Damaged trains being removed from wreck site
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Commuter trains damaged in a crash in Connecticut were being removed Sunday in the first step to making repairs and restoring service, the agency that runs Metro-North ...
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Chinese Fall For Over-The-Top American Weddings
Two things can be said about the wealthy Chinese these days. It seems they no longer know what to do with their money. If they're not buying up empty apartment buildings, they're buying Ferrettis and dining with the Prince of Monaco. Another thing...they are in love with U.S. brands and Made for TV U.S. lifestyles. If they're not buying up LA and Orange County Barbie Dream ...
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Asian-American Pentecostal Theologian on Transnational Character of Evangelicalism Racialization in the Church
Editor's Note: This is the second part of a four-part series based on the new book, "Aliens in the Promised Land: Why Minority Leadership Is Overlooked in White Christian Churches and Institutions." The Christian Post series looks at racism and multi-ethnicity in the church from the perspective of African-American, Hispanic and Asian-American Christian leaders. Part One, an ...
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Rumsfeld speaks on military sexual assaults
i want to ask you about a very disturbing subject within the military that you've worked over for so long and that is sexual assaults in the military. some of the reported accounts when you were secretary and reported and estimates, a much larger number and the alarming rise ...
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CNN poll shows big impact of issues on Americans
you. there's some news this morning, a new cnn poll that has the president's approval ratings in pretty good territory but also a view there is not an overreaction on the gop, whether on ...
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Camp demands answer to why officials didn’t blow whistle
it is tough stuff. americans are targeted for their beliefs and it went on for years. officials at the treasury knew about this a year ago, officials at ...
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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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