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Obama Difference between spying and hacking
WASHINGTON -; President Barack Obama is drawing a distinction between China's alleged intellectual property theft and what he calls "standard fare" spying on other ...
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Feds after council power grab Qld govt
Queensland says a referendum on whether local government should be recognised in the constitution must be reworded to prevent a "power grab" by Canberra.Queensland's Local Government Minister David Crisafulli says the current wording would let the federal government make funding to local councils dependent on whatever conditions it liked.The result would be "federal ...
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RNW wins top honours at the New York International Radio and TV Festival
Radio Netherlands Worldwide won four major prizes at the 2013 New York International Radio and TV Festival, it was announced yesterday (Monday June 17). It won a gold medal and a Grand Prize Award for an interview entitled ...
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White House Threatens Veto as House Takes Up Farm Bill
The House is scheduled to begin debate on the farm bill on Tuesday with the knowledge that if the House version makes it through Congress and goes to the White House, President Obama's senior advisers will recommend that he veto it. The issue for the White House is a $20.5 billion cut over 10 years in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as SNAP or food stamps. The ...
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NYC woman faces suspect in her dads 1986 killing
An aspiring New York City actress has finally faced down the suspect she helped police capture in connection with her father's 1986 ...
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New York aims to require composting food scraps
NEW YORK -- Legions of New York City apartment dwellers will soon be asked -- and may eventually be forced -- to start collecting food scraps for composting, under Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s latest bid to make the city greener. After launching a test program recently in 3,500 Staten Island homes and some Manhattan apartment buildings, city officials said Monday they planned to expand it to ...
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NASA names eight new astronaut trainees -- half of them women
NASA has picked eight Americans, a mix of scientists and military pilots, to begin training for future space missions that may one day launch them all the way to Mars. The new class includes four men and four women who will join the 49 active astronauts at the agency's astronaut corps at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.The new U.S. space travelers, which NASA unveiled Monday, could be ...
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American agents mined all email details including IP addresses and attachments Snowden says
(1 hr 5 mins ago) American intelligence technician Edward Snowden issued a defiant rebuke to his critics in Washington saying more leaks were on the way, declaring: ';Truth is coming and it cannot be stopped.'' The 29-year-old former contractor for the National Security Agency dismissed allegations he was a traitor or a Chinese agent, and insisted he had exposed a dangerous US ...
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Kardashians Star Scott Disick Goes American Psycho for Kanye Wests Yeezus
The "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" star parodies an infamous scene from the Christian Bale drama in a clip posted to the rapper's ...
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Video Statement from family of Minn. Man linked to Nazi atrocities
The family of a Minnesota man seeks a retraction from The Associated Press after it was reported that Michael Karkoc commanded a Nazi SS-led unit in World War II and lied about his wartime past when immigrating to the United States. Karkoc's son Andriy read their ...
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Phoenix filmmaker convicted in grenade launcher hoax
PHOENIX An Arizona man on trial for sending his 16-year-old nephew into a busy intersection last summer with a fake grenade launcher was convicted Monday of endangering the teen's life and carrying out a terrorism hoax. Jurors in Maricopa County Superior Court got the case Monday afternoon and deliberated two hours before finding 40-year-old filmmaker Michael David Turley guilty of ...
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Ohio day-care operator allegedly gave kids medicine-laced pancakes
An Ohio day-care operator fed children in her care pancakes laced with medication to make them drowsy, authorities allege. Caterpillar Clubhouse owner Tammy E. Eppley, 37, of Westerville is charged with six counts of endangering children, The Columbus Dispatch reported Monday. Police allege Eppley mixed various medications and supplements, including melatonin and antihistamine allergy ...
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MLB Detroit 5 Baltimore 1
Max Scherzer improved to 10-0 with six innings of one-run ball Monday and the Detroit Tigers hung a 5-1 defeat on Baltimore. Scherzer is unbeaten in 14 starts this season and racked up his third win in three appearances with the 113-pitch performance, during which he allowed seven hits and two walks while striking out 10. The right-hander, who has logged 116 strikeouts over 96 1/3 innings this ...
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Federal Reserves communication plan is backfiring
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks during a news conference in Washington, Wednesday, March 20, 2013, following the Federal Open Market Committee ...
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Hossa hurt Chicago and Boston tied 0-0 after 1st
Boston Bruins fans pass a large banner through the stands before Game 3 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals against the Chicago Blackhawks in Boston, Monday, June 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Elise ...
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First round of US-EU trade talks to begin in July White House
Negotiations on the transatlantic trade deal between the United States and European Union will begin next month, the White House said on Monday.The first round of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations will take place at the week of July 8 in Washington, D.C., under the leadership of the Office of the US Trade Representative, the White House said.The US and the EU ...
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New York manufacturing activity rises modestly in June
Manufacturing activity in the New York region improved modestly in June, according to a survey released Monday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.According to the Empire State Manufacturing Survey, the general business conditions index rose 9 points to 7.8 after dipping into negative territory in May.Roughly 29 percent of manufacturers reported that conditions had got better over the month, ...
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Bolivia slams US military aid to Syrian rebels
The Bolivian government on Monday criticized the United States for arming Syrian rebels, warning that the move would only intensify and prolong a conflict that has already killed tens of thousands in that country.Bolivia "rejects any intervention in the internal conflicts of any country in the world, such as supporting a domestic armed conflict with weapons, as is the case with Syria," ...
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Mr Xi in America
As China has risen, the US has grappled with the task of coming to terms with this constantly more prominent reality on the international scene. This has not been a smooth process, indeed it has been marked by many disagreements and considerable friction. From time to time, various negative features of China's emergence have been emphasised in the US and other Western countries, such as ...
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Gov. Rick Scott is back in the running for Worst Governor In America
Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed two bills into law on Friday. One eliminated paid sick leave in the state and the other put a ticking clock on executions. Chris Hayes talks with Martin McClain, a Capital Defense Attorney who represents inmates on death row, about the ramifications of these ...
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GM recalls more than 200000 SUVs
000 mid-size suvs because of a fire risk that is serious enough to advise people not to park them in the garage, but outside instead until the problem can be corrected. many are under ...
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Naval Academy football players to face sex assault charges
By Jim Miklaszewski, Courtney Kube and Andrew Rafferty, NBC News Three Naval Academy midshipmen will face charges for allegedly sexually assaulting a female midshipman last year, a U.S. military official told NBC News ...
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Peru farmers enraged at American Newmont gold mine
(33 mins ago) Thousands of farmers took to the streets in northern Peru against US mining behemoth Newmont, which plans to build a controversial US$4.8 billion gold and copper mine. The protesters marched toward El Perol lake, among the water sources they depend to drink and farm, fear could be ruined by the massive Conga project in Cajamarca department. ';We are more than 5,000 farmers ...
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Still no Hoffa after 1st day of latest search
OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- Federal agents revived the hunt for the remains of Jimmy Hoffa on Monday, digging around in a suburban Detroit field where a reputed Mafia captain says the Teamsters boss' body was ...
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Lawyer Cliff Sloan faces tough assignment Closing Guantanamo
The interior of an unoccupied communal cellblock is seen at Camp VI, a prison used to house detainees at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, March 5, ...
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California prison labor?
California has a famously large budget deficit, budget cuts are being made to a number of state programs and services, but what hasn’t been considered is the cost avoidance potential of the state’s over 40,000 minimum-security prisoner’s, many of whom are already saving the state money by providing labor in return for shorter sentences.
With California budget deficit expected to be somewhere between $12 billion or as high as $25 billion for 2010 alone, state legislators have been anxiously looking for ways to reduce state expenses, cutting budgets wherever possible, but already existing programs operated by the state may present an opportunity for cost-savings in the areas of construction, services and maintenance of buildings and amenities. Read more
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