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Brent hovers near 10-week high Federal Reserve meeting in focus
Some investments can offer very attractive returns, but they also carry very high risks. Find out if you have the stomach for these high-risk, high-reward ...
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Gold slips on weak physical demand Federal Reserve meet eyed
Physical demand is falling off in India and China, the top two consumers of bullion, from peak levels seen after the historical sell-off in ...
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New York school bus workers denounce layoffs
As the last day of classes approaches, bus drivers and attendants across the New York City public school system will say goodbye to their students. It's a familiar ritual, often tinged with sadness, given the bonds built up over the previous 10 months. This year is different, however. For approximately 2,000 of the nearly 9,000 drivers and matrons, the goodbye is not for merely two months. ...
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Rask shuts out Chicago to give Bruins 2-1 edge
Zdeno Chara, left,of the Boston Bruins and Chicago’s Bryan Bickell are separated by officials late in Game 3 Monday in Boston. The Bruins won ...
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‘America The Great’ Maybe But These Five Graphs Beg To Differ
Although America has made a lot of progress on several important fronts and is considered to be a relatively advanced, progressive, and civilized nation, these shocking graphs paint a very different picture ...
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Former Chicago Alderman and Nebraska Executive Convicted Of Bribery www.privateofficer.com
A former Chicago alderman, the head of a $1 billion Nebraska-based prescription medication provider, and another man were convicted today of conspiracy to commit bribery of a fictitious public official to purportedly obtain business from the Los Angeles County hospital system after a two-week trial. A federal jury deliberated several hours today before returning guilty verdicts against all three ...
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Dead American researchers mother slams Singapore sham
The family of an American scientist found hanged in Singapore last year dismissed the island’s findings that he committed suicide as ';a sham and a cover-up'' for a murder. ';I am not surprised by the state's findings because the state refused to consider murder, they only investigated suicide,'' Mary Todd, mother of the late electronics engineer Shane ...
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American navy footballers face rape charges
(37 mins ago) Several football players at the US Naval Academy are due to face criminal charges in connection with the alleged rape of a female midshipman, officials said. The Naval Criminal Investigation Service said in a statement that a preliminary hearing, known in the military courts as Article 32 proceedings, has been scheduled. Authorities were expected to release details of the ...
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Feds Dig Up Field in Search for Jimmy Hoffas Remains
Federal authorities are digging up a field in suburban Detroit as they search for the remains of Jimmy Hoffa, potentially ending one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in American history, NBC 4 New York's I-Team has ...
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Insight FBI relies on secret U.S. surveillance law records show
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI has used secret evidence obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to prosecute at least 27 accused terrorists since 2007, according to a Reuters review of public ...
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Charitable giving grew in 2012 albeit modestly -report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Individual charitable giving in the United States grew almost 4 percent last year, while corporate donations rose at triple that rate, according to a report that shows donations by Americans to nonprofit groups mirroring the slow recovery of the larger ...
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Rookie teachers woefully unprepared report says
(Reuters) - The U.S. teacher training system is badly broken, turning out rookie educators who have little hands-on experience running classrooms and are quickly overwhelmed by the job, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Council on Teacher ...
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Miami faces the Heat to stay alive
MIAMI - The Miami Heat weren’t supposed to be in this situation. Not now, anyway.Coming home from Texas with their season on the line in 2011 was one thing. They were at the end of their first year together, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh still trying to figure it all out and clearly a long way from it.But this season they were the NBA’s best team, one that lost three games ...
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Watch Fox News Sued for Airing Mans Suicide on Live TV
The mother of three children who watch their father commit suicide in a -- first aired live on Fox News. It's suing the network -- -- kids suffer extreme emotional distress now. -- on -- -- was ...
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Outside View As Federal Reserve meets folks should trim spending
Federal Reserve is expected Wednesday to indicate when and how quickly it will pull back from its easy money policies. Americans can expect mortgage rates to climb, selling homes to get tougher and interest rates to increase on credit cards, auto purchases and home equity loans. The Fed has been purchasing $85 billion in mortgage-backed securities and longer term Treasury bonds. Economists call ...
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Weiner As American as political redemption
ILLUSTRATION: Matt Mahurin All the past we leave behind. So insisted Americas poet, Walt Whitman, a man who would not be encompassed by any one identity who refused to be constrained by birth, by place, by experience. Americans, following Whitman, have long celebrated their nation as a redemptive land, a place where the past leaves few traces, where people possess almost infinite capacity to ...
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Chrysler expected to formally refuse governments request to recall older Jeeps for fire risk
DETROIT -- Chrysler is expected to file papers Tuesday explaining its refusal to recall 2.7 million older Jeep SUVs. The U.S. government asked Chrysler earlier this month to recall Grand Cherokees and Libertys because the position of the fuel tank leaves it susceptible to rupture in a rear-end crash. The ruptured tank can spill gasoline, which can ignite if an ignition source is present. The ...
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Obama on NSA programs Americans not getting the complete story
Americans outraged by leaked information about two top-secret government surveillance programs are "not getting the complete story," President ...
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South Miami Pushing Back Against Panhandling
MIAMI (CBS4) - Panhandling and trespassing are the targets of possible new ordinances by the South Miami City Commission, Tuesday. The first of two new ordinances would make it illegal to panhandle, "by trick or fraud," or to help someone violate the ordinance and prohibit panhandling while trespassing. To go along with the first ordinance, CBS4 News partner ...
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Bill Clinton paid half million USD for speech in Israel
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton has been paid 500,000 U.S. dollars for a speech to be given at an event in honor of Israeli President Shimon Peres, sources confirmed to Xinhua Sunday. Clinton is scheduled to visit Israel on June 18 for the fifth annual Presidential Conference, to be attended by international political leaders, thinkers and artists. Clinton's 45-minute speech on ...
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Special Committee on Decolonization Approves Text Calling upon United States to Initiate Self-determination Process for Puerto Rico
Meeting to consider the question of Puerto Rico, the Special Committee on Decolonization called again upon the United States today to expedite a process that would allow Puerto Ricans to fully exercise their inalienable right to self-determination and ...
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Obama Iranian people want a different direction
WASHINGTON -; President Barack Obama says Iran's election of a relative moderate shows that the country's people "want to move in a different direction." But he says Tehran still needs to show the international community that it is not pursuing a nuclear ...
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NTSB stresses track safety after Conn. mans death
HARTFORD, Conn. -; The National Transportation Safety Board has issued an urgent safety recommendation after a railroad track foreman was struck and killed by a passenger train last month in ...
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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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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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