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FOX NEWS POLL Most Think White House Knew About IRS Actions
Voters are concerned about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups for unfair treatment, and over half think the White House either knew it was happening or -- worse yet -- was actually behind the operation. ...
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Feds still investigating missing Mom case
May 21, 2013: Chuck Cox, left, describes the search for his missing daughter as he stands with attorney Anne Bremner during a news conference, in ...
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Oklahoma tornado brings back fear in recovering Joplin Missouri
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Less than three hours after a deadly twister on Monday flattened a swath of Moore, Oklahoma, tornado warning sirens sounded in Joplin, Missouri, 215 miles to the ...
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General suspended amid misconduct investigation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The commanding general at the U.S. Army Training Center at Fort Jackson in South Carolina was suspended from his position on Tuesday amid allegations of misconduct, including adultery and having a physical altercation, the military ...
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Texas House passes measure to prevent Medicaid expansion
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The Texas House passed a measure on Tuesday that would prevent the state from expanding its Medicaid program as outlined by President Barack Obama's healthcare reform ...
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Anti-Gay Attacks Reported in NYC
Hours after New Yorkers rallied in response to a spate of gay-bashing that's resulted in one death and fueled concern about hate crimes, there were two more reports of possible anti-gay attacks on Manhattan streets, authorities said Tuesday. In one, a 45-year-old man was attacked late Monday in the East Village by a drinking companion who yelled an anti-gay slur and knocked him ...
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Witness Claims Oakland Murder Defendant Admitted Killing Teen Girls
gunning down two teenage girls near Brookdale Park in East Oakland last November testified Tuesday that one of the defendants admitted to firing the deadly barrage of bullets. The witness, Albert Rich, said that defendant Diantay Powell made his admission a few days after 15-year-old Raquel Gerstel and 16-year-old Bobbie Sartain were shot multiple times in the 2600 block of Minna Avenue. The ...
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SF Officials Demand City Donate Money From Anti-Israel Bus Ads
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) – Several San Francisco supervisors want the city transit agency to donate revenue from an anti-Israel bus ad campaign to the city's Human Rights Commission after the agency did the same for an ad campaign that targeted Muslims. The city's Municipal Transportation Agency donated revenue made ...
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GameDay Don’t Count Out Another Vogelsong Comeback
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East Bay Man Missing Since Running Bay To Breakers
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – A 27-year-old Oakland man who was last seen finishing the Bay to Breakers race Sunday was reported missing Monday. Beau Rasmussen, 27, became separated from his friends around noon, and about eight hours later, his belongings were found by a passerby on Ocean Beach across from the Beach Chalet restaurant, said Stephanie Serbe, his friend and co-worker at San ...
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Mall of America gets state tax break for planned massive expansion
Mall of America -- already big -- is poised to get a lot bigger. Legislators passed a $250 million tax break to jump-start a long-dormant Phase II expansion, approving it minutes before the session ended Monday, May 20. The $1.5 billion project would double the size of the Bloomington mega-mall, adding hotels, a waterpark, a performing arts center, office towers and hundreds of stores. Also on ...
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Climate change could bring more heatwave deaths to New York City
Climate change will increase New York's heat wave deaths, pushing up the incidence of temperature-related deaths within decades, researchers say. Scientists at Columbia University in New York have matched daily temperature data for Manhattan with death rates between 1982 and 1999 to estimate how sensitive the city's residents are to temperatures, combing that with future forecasts of ...
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Granderson The courage of teachers
>Editor's note: LZ Granderson, who writes a weekly column for CNN.com, was named journalist of the year by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and was a 2011 Online Journalism Award finalist for commentary. He is a senior writer and columnist for ESPN the Magazine and ESPN.com. Follow him on Twitter @locs_n_laughs.(CNN) -- Each day more than 55 million students attend the ...
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US Congress grills ex-IRS boss on scandal
UNDER fierce questioning in the US Congress, the political appointee who headed the IRS during the tax agency's targeting of conservative groups has insisted he was not involved in the scandal. Senators on Tuesday grilled retired IRS boss Douglas Shulman about what he readily acknowledged was "inexcusable" behaviour by agents who, from 2010, singled out right-leaning groups for ...
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Bolivia lashes at Sean Penn over jailed American
Actor Sean Penn arrives at Warner Bros. Pictures' 'Gangster Squad' premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on January 7, 2013 in Hollywood, California. (Jason Merritt, Getty ...
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Texas Drops “Anti-American” CSCOPE Lessons Battle Continues
A highly controversial school curriculum used in much of Texas known as "CSCOPE," which came under relentless assault from activists and parents ...
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Feds halt data cull for State Dept terror report
WASHINGTON -; The federal government has given the job of compiling statistics used by the State Department to analyze trends in global terrorism to an academic group, a move that may complicate accurate unclassified assessments of patterns of terrorist activity for years to ...
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Man pleads guilty in Picasso vandalism case
HOUSTON -; A man accused of vandalizing a 1929 Pablo Picasso painting in an act that was caught on cellphone video has pleaded guilty in exchange for a two-year prison ...
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Police Suspect in Iowa abduction killed himself
This photo provided by The Iowa Department of Public Safety shows Kathlynn Shepard, 15. Authorities said Tuesday, May 21, 2013, a man suspected of abducting Shepard and a 12-year-old girl from a bus stop in central Iowa has been found dead, but a search continues for Shepard. Authorities said the 12-year-old girl was able to escape and ran to a nearby rural residence for help. (AP Photo/Iowa ...
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Fort Jackson commander facing adultery charges
WASHINGTON -; The Army says the commanding general of Fort Jackson, S.C., has been suspended in connection with charges of adultery and involvement in a physical ...
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Senate votes to make small cut to food stamps
WASHINGTON -; The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a $400 million annual cut - or roughly a half of 1 percent - to the food stamp program as part of a major five-year farm ...
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Moniz LNG exports on hold until data reviewed
Dr. Ernest Moniz speaks after being sworn in as Energy Secretary, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, during a ceremony at the Energy Department in Washington. Moniz, 68, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, replaces Steven Chu, who served as energy secretary in President Barack Obama's first term. Moniz served as an energy undersecretary in the Clinton administration. (AP ...
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IRS chief knew tea party groups targeted in 2012
former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman testifies on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, before the Senate Finance Committee hearing on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) practice of targeting applicants for tax-exempt status based on political leanings. (AP Photo/Charles ...
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Lawyer Feds investigating Susan Powell case
Chuck Cox, left, describes the search for his missing daughter as he stands with attorney Anne Bremner during a news conference Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Seattle. Bremner said Tuesday there's an ongoing federal investigation into Susan Powell's disappearance. She made the announcement at the Seattle news conference a day after local officials in Utah said they had closed their ...
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OAS Leader Inaugurates Symposium at Inter-American Defense College
May 21, 2013 The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today inaugurated the symposium "The Armed Forces and their Participation in Public Security and Development Assignments," to be held today and tomorrow at the Inter-American Defense College (IADC) in Washington, DC. The event, organized by the Inter-American Defense Board ...
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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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