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Senators agree to expansion of high-tech visas
WASHINGTON -; Officials say leading senators trying to resolve a key issue on immigration legislation have agreed to a compromise covering expansion of a high-tech visa ...
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Utah man brother suspects in wifes disappearance
This undated photo released by the West Valley City Police Department shows Susan Powell. Citing a lack of leads, a police agency said Monday that it is closing the active investigation of the disappearance of Susan Powell, a Utah mother whose now-dead husband was a prime suspect. The announcement came after police spent two days searching in rural Oregon last week for any trace of Powell's ...
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Obama pledges urgent aid to Oklahoma town
President Barack Obama, accompanied by, from left, Vice President Joe Biden, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and FEMA Deputy Administrator Richard Serino. talks about the Oklahoma tornado and severe weather, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez ...
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Jersey shore readies for 1st post-Sandy summer
"The Jersey shore is open for the summer and ready to receive our customers," Gov. Chris Christie said Monday at a ceremony reopening the newly rebuilt Lavallette boardwalk, three-quarters of which was destroyed by the storm. "This is going to be a really good ...
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Obama offers help for Oklahoma tornado victims
WASHINGTON -; President Barack Obama says he is instructing his disaster response team to get tornado victims in Oklahoma everything they need "right ...
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Benghazi witness points finger at Clinton on lapses in consulate security
The Hill May 21, 2013 The star witness in the Benghazi investigation said former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton personally ordered Ambassador Chris Stevens to set up a permanent post in the restive city and should have known about deteriorating security. The revelations from the second-ranking U.S. diplomat in Libya at the time come as the audit that cleared the former secretary of State ...
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McCaul Benghazi will haunt Clinton
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the House Homeland Security Committee chairman, predicted Monday night that the fallout from Benghazi will haunt Hillary Clinton if she runs for president.McCaul made the comment at the New York Meeting, a conservative confab of donors and candidates, at which former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour also spoke. It came as Republicans have been adamant that ...
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Chelsea Clinton to lead faith program
reported on Tuesday. Clinton has been an NYC assistant vice provost since 2010 and she did not formerly announce her role with the Institute, which an NYU official told The Daily News is part of its Center for Spiritual Life. As The Daily News noted, Clinton told Time Magazine in September that she is interested in studying religions – partly because her husband, banker Marc Mezvinsky, is ...
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Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford Congress Tweeted While America Burned
went before Congress and insisted that the Defense Department couldn't be more "comfortable" with AUMF, as it was written, and that not a word should be altered or amended for changed circumstances. The Pentagon was so comfortable, in fact, that its officials foresee using that resolution to continue its drone-powered ...
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Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia on the rise US State Department report
Ultra-orthodox Jews pray during Passover in Jerusalem on March 25, 2013 while a woman in Egypt used an Egyptian flag as a tradition Muslim face covering at a demonstration for International Women's Day in Cairo's Tahiri Square on March 8, 2013. A new report from the US State Department claims that anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are on the rise world wide. Anti-Semitism is on the rise ...
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White House Again Raises Possibility Of Closing Guantanamo
For the first time in years, the Obama administration appears to be focused on shuttering the Guantanamo Bay prison and - at a minimum -- has redoubled its efforts to reduce the number of people held there. The key, officials familiar with the administration's thinking say, may lie with 56 Yemeni detainees, a group of men who have been at the island facility for more than a decade though ...
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Moore Okla. mayor Donate to Red Cross Salvation Army
MSNBC's Chris Jansing talks with Moore, Okla. Mayor Glenn Lewis about the destruction from Monday's tornado and the search and recovery efforts currently taking ...
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Moore nurse Need for nurses right after tornado
MSNBC's Chris Jansing talks with Melody Hughes, a nurse from Moore, Okla. who was reunited with a dog named Toby. Hughes tells Jansing her home was destroyed by Monday's tornado, but she continues to help the residents in her ...
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Navy dolphins find rare torpedo buried in ocean floor
Two dolphins from the US Navy's Marine Mammal Program taking part in a training exercise discover a Howell Torpedo dating back to the late 1800s, buried in the ocean floor. Operation supervisors Braden Duryee and Chris Harris describe the ...
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3-legged dog wows the crowd at Frisbee competition
Meet the three-legged dog named Macie that wowed the crowd at a recent qualifying event for a national Frisbee dog competition in Colorado. KUSA's Todd Walker ...
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Storm chaser This is the largest tornado Ive ever seen
elementary school about a mile from here, searching, hoping to find some survivors. when you see the breadth of the devastation of this storm, it is in many ways not hard to understand because we have unbelievable video of what happened when the storm moved ...
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Residents give a hoot and save injured owl
Great horned owl recovers from a broken leg after being rescued by residents who called in the Omaha Fire Department to help. TODAY.com's Dara Brown ...
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Diver encounters rare whale shark off Florida coast
A 26-year-old Florida man was diving in the Gulf just miles off the coast of Naples when he spotted a whale shark, just seconds before jumping in the water. WBBH's Rick Ritter ...
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Game wardens search for person who shot eagle
Game commission officers search for a person in the shooting of a bald eagle after a group of ATV riders found the injured animal in a wooded area of Allegheny Township in Pennsylvania. WJAC's Maria Miller ...
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Chris Harrison to host Miss America Pageant
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" host Chris Harrison will again emcee the Miss America Pageant this September in Atlantic City, N.J.Harrison has hosted the telecast for the last four years.The Miss America Organization says he'll be joined by Lara Spencer of "Good Morning America." Spencer served as a judge for the 2012 pageant. ...
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IRS SCANDAL FALLOUT Officials Get Senate Grilling On Tea Party Targeting
The outgoing IRS commissioner expressed regret Tuesday for a decision to use a planted question to go public with the agency's practice of targeting conservative groups, calling the move "an incredibly bad idea." Steven Miller, appearing on the Hill for a second hearing in two weeks on the scandal, acknowledged that the agency was trying to get ahead of a damning ...
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Notre Dame Cathedral evacuated after man kills self
PARIS – Paris police say Notre Dame Cathedral has been evacuated after a man committed suicide in the 850-year-old monument and tourist site. A police official says officers closed the cathedral to the public after the incident Tuesday afternoon. The official could not confirm French media reports that the man had shot himself. Officials with the cathedral said only that it had been ...
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Base jumpers scary 1000-foot fall captured on video
A base jumper walked away with just minor scratches after his parachute opened backward, sending him falling 1,000 feet to the ground -- and the entire ordeal was caught on video. A camera attached to Matthew Gough's helmet recorded his fall from the edge of a cliff in Lake Garda, Italy. Gough, 25, jumped off the cliff and floated briefly before smashing into rocks, bouncing down the ...
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Rental Site Airbnb Illegal
Airbnb for offering travelers a host of cheap lodging alternatives, especially in big, expensive cities, consider this: Airbnd is now illegal in New York City. According ...
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Can IRS Handle ObamaCare
The recent turn of events with the Obama Administration and a lack of transparency are a significant red flag to the impending catastrophe of how the proposed changes under the Affordable Care Act could be the next ensuing disaster. 1. Is the IRS capable of fairly enforcing penalties? A major part of the Affordable Care Act is providing insurance for those who don't have it, or can't ...
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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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