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Saudi with pressure cooker in baggage seeks bond
FILE - This Dec. 26, 2009, file photo shows jets outside Detroit Metropolitan airport in Romulus, Mich. Hussain Al Kwawahir, arrested Saturday at the airport after lying about why he was traveling with a pressure cooker, is set to be arraigned Monday, May 13, 2013, in federal court in Detroit. The Saudi man is accused of using a passport with missing pages and lying to Customs and Border ...
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White House More top aides knew about IRS probe
WASHINGTON - The White House acknowledged Monday that senior aides to President Barack Obama knew a month ago that the Internal Revenue Service had targeted conservative groups, expanding on previous administration statements about who in the White House knew about the inquiry and when they knew about it. Until now, the White House had said that only White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler had ...
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Zim to Boost Asia-South America Rates in Mid-June
will raise rates for all shipments on its trade from Asia to the east coast of South America, starting June 15.The increase will be $500 per 20-foot container and $1,000 per 40-foot container, the carrier said.Containerized exports from Far East Asia to South and Central ...
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New York Toys With Out Of State Partner
Broadway on the left of the Flatiron building and Fifth Avenue on the right. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Out of state investors in real estate partnerships in high tax states sometimes get nasty surprises, particularly if partnership management is not sensitive to their concerns. That appears to be what happened to Craig Olsheim based on a recent decision in ...
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American Airlines carry less board first
American Airlines has developed a new strategy to encourage faster boarding times. The airline’s new approach means passengers travelling with only a personal carry-on item will be able to board the aircraft first, Forbes reported. Boarding times have been rising steadily over the last few years due to a reduction in flights, which increases passenger numbers, causing extra charges ...
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Southwest Airlines Announces New Nonstop Service Between Houston Hobby And Ronald Reagan Washington National
Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) announced today that new service between Houston Hobby and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport will begin Aug. 4, 2013. The airline initially will operate one daily roundtrip flight between the two cities. To celebrate the new service, the carrier announced introductory $149 one-way fares between Houston and Washington, DC available today through May 24, ...
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White House hosts Thein Sein in symbolic gesture of support
/enpproperty--> Previously barred Myanmar leader to meet Obama and woo business Myanmar President Thein Sein on Monday becomes the first leader of his country to visit the White House in nearly half a century, in one of the most symbolic US gestures yet to support his reforms. In a scene that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago, the former general will meet with ...
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Oklahoma Congressman In Moore ‘it’s very very bad’
Rep. Tom Cole talks to Chris Matthews about the terrible devastation of the area outside of Oklahoma City and the strong people of Oklahoma, who are "sadly" getting good at recovering from these ...
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Neighborhood assesses tornado damage
People in one neighborhood search for missing residents and assess the damage of a massive tornado that ripped through southern Oklahoma City on Monday. (Video courtesy: David ...
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Roker Tornado damage resembles Joplin Mo.
NBC's Al Roker reports from Moore, Okla., where he says people are milling about, with shocked looks on their faces. They have not seen anything like this since the May 3, 1999 tornado that hit the ...
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Oklahoma tornado may be rated EF5 or higher
Preliminary ratings indicate the tornado has winds up to 200 mph, may end up to being an EF5 or higher on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. The Weather Channel's Mike Seidel ...
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Praying for the best in Oklahoma
A sixth grade teacher was described as "nothing short of a hero" for helping save students and bringing them to safety at a nearby church. The school was destroyed down to its foundation. Now rescuers are bringing in heavy equipment to remove debris and get to what is underneath. KFOR reporter Lance West reports from the scene for NBC's affiliate in Oklahoma ...
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Debris tossed thousands of feet
brian . is bad news is if you did not get the warning, the only safe place to be is under ground or completely out of the way. because you see these pictures, you see the destruction. from the air and from the ground, it's almost impossible to even tell what this was. i have been on the ground after tornadoes. it's hard to make sense of what was where and what is now -- it's ...
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Moore Mayor ‘There is devastation all around us’
Glen Lewis, the Mayor of Moore, Okla., speaks to NBC's Brian Williams about the catastrophic damage to his town. The city of Moore has lost a lot of buildings and homes and the mayor is working out of the emergency management office at the ...
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Moore residents await news of loved ones
Todd and Jennifer Tabor, residents of Moore, Okla., had to abandon their house and evacuate prior to the giant twister's arrival. Without cell phone service, they are unable to find out how their friends and family are ...
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Judge in NY stop and frisk trial mulls cameras for police
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The federal judge who will rule in a class-action lawsuit accusing New York City police of racial profiling in their "stop and frisk" crime-fighting tactic expressed interest in having police officers wear cameras as the trial concluded on ...
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Court orders prison to hand over files in Boston bomb case
Judge Marianne Bowler presides over the case of Robel Phillipos, the teenager accused of lying to FBI agents in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation, in court in Boston, Massachusetts in this May 6, 2013 court ...
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Monster tornado flattens suburb of Oklahoma City
MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - A huge tornado with winds of up to 200 miles per hour devastated the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, ripping up at least two elementary schools and a hospital and leaving a wake of tangled ...
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Parents turn to Internet to help daughter charged with sex with girl minor
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Thousands of people have protested against the prosecution of an 18-year-old Florida high school senior after her parents launched an Internet petition claiming she was charged with sex crimes only because her lover, a then 14-year-old schoolmate, was another ...
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Customs seizes elephant meat dead primate illegal animal skin purses in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Los Angeles have made some unusual seizures, including hundreds of handbags made from the skin of snakes, lizards and crocodiles in the baggage of a passenger from Nigeria. The agency says in a press release Monday that the illegal items -- which also included a tiny dead macaque primate from Indonesia and elephant meat from a ...
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Video Vine video shows devastation from OK tornado
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Video Oklahoma tornado leaves residents in state of shock
A tornado estimated to be a mile wide has obliterated part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. The tornado hit the city of Moore, where two schools were hit, along with a hospital and a movie theater. Anna Werner ...
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Massive Okla. tornado had windspeed up to 200 mph
The National Weather Service issued an initial finding that the tornado was an EF-4 on the enhanced Fujita scale, the second most-powerful type of twister. The storm seemed to blow neighborhoods apart instantly, scattering shards of wood and pieces of insulation across the scarred landscape. The same suburb was hit hard by a tornado in 1999. That storm had the highest winds ever recorded near ...
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Oklahoma governor We need lots of prayers tonight
SCOTT PELLEY: Mary Fallin is the Governor of Oklahoma; we spoke to her by telephone. Governor Fallin, what do you know so far? GOV. FALLIN: Well, we know we've had a massive tornado that has come through a major metropolitan area in Moore, Okla. It was a very wide tornado, a very strong tornado. It has damaged lots of neighborhoods, it's hit two schools that possibly had school ...
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Video Okla. governor on tornados destruction
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin spoke with Scott Pelley about the tornado that ripped through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, causing massive ...
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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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