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Colorado killers reprieve sharply criticized
Religious leaders from Colorado, from left, Dr. Jim Ryan, Colorado Council of Churches, Dean Peter Eaton, St. John's Cathedral, Rabbi Steven Foster and Catholic Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila listen as Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announces at a news conference at the Capitol in Denver on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, that he was granting a temporary reprieve to Nathan Dunlap from his death ...
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Jury in Jodi Arias trial resumes deliberations
Jodi Arias stands as the jury enters the courtroom on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Jodi Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, ...
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$2B in Okla. tornado damage means hard recovery
An unidentified man tosses a board as residents sort through their tornado-ravaged homes Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Moore, Okla. Cleanup continues two days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening a wide swath of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie ...
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Oil falls below $94 as China manufacturing weakens
BANGKOK -; The price of oil fell below $94 per barrel Thursday after a private survey showed manufacturing activity in China falling to its lowest level in seven months, a sign that the recovery in the world's No. 2 economy is ...
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Bronx ghetto tours stop amid residents outrage
A young man runs under an elevated section of subway tracks in The Bronx borough of New York, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. A company that offered tourist treks to the Bronx "ghetto" has shut down under scathing criticism from neighborhood leaders offended by the tours that took mostly European and Australian tourists past food-pantry lines and "pickpocket" park. But other New ...
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With Weiner NYC mayor race takes on new dynamic
FILE - In this June 16, 2011 file photo, Anthony Weiner speaks at a news conference in New York. The Democratic ex-congressman who resigned over raunchy tweets said late Tuesday, May 21, 2013, that he's in the New York City mayoral race. Although the field is crowded for September's primary, Weiner is arriving with some significant advantages, including a $4.8 million campaign war ...
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Nixon library hosts 40th reunion for Vietnam POWs
In 2007, I had the privilege of becoming the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. My job was to move Nixon’s presidential materials from the Washington, D.C. area, where they had been kept as federal property because of the Watergate investigation, to California, where Nixon’s friends and supporters had built a private library in 1990. My job involved ...
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Winners of the 79th National Headliner Awards
Two charter airplanes carrying the "Today" show anchor team and their crew from Hawaii to Yellowstone National Park were diverted in the air to Oklahoma for coverage Tuesday of the catastrophic tornado outside of Oklahoma ...
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Inception Media Group Purchases North American Rights to Trevor Noah African American from Levity Entertainment Group
Inception Media Group, a diversified media company specializing in the production, acquisition and distribution of entertainment content, announced it has acquired North American rights from Levity Entertainment Group (LEG) to distribute African American, a live stand-up performance from Trevor Noah, a South African comedian. According to a release, Noah was discovered by LEG while touring South ...
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Mystery in Sea of Galilee
The massive circular structure appears to be an archaeologists dream: a recently discovered antiquity that could reveal secrets of ancient life in the Middle East and is just waiting to be excavated. It's thousands of years old -- a conical, manmade behemoth weighing hundreds of tons, practically begging to be explored. The problem is -- it's at the bottom of the biblical Sea of ...
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LeBron James delivers winner as Miami Heat beat Pacers
Miami Heat's LeBron James (L) drives on Indiana Pacers' Lance Stephenson during Game 1 of their NBA Eastern Conference final basketball playoff in Miami, Florida May 22, ...
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Tea party storm largely inside IRS _ so far
Three days of congressional hearings about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups have lawmakers looking for ways to widen an investigation that has so far been ...
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LeBron layup at buzzer give Miami Heat 103-102 Game 1 overtime win
LeBron James . In the end he almost stole Game 1 of the Eastern conference final. Almost. "I grabbed him after the game and told him to quickly forget about the last play," Indiana coach Frank Vogel said of his conversation with George after the Pacers' 103-102 overtime loss at the buzzer to James and the defending champion Heat. "He's a third-year player and ...
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America’s Newest Public Enemy No1 The Humble Pressure Cooker
When I went to the United States for the first time, long before 9/11, I wondered if immigration officials would harass me, a single young man from a turbulent part of the world. I didn't have to worry. Customs officials and their formidable sniffing dogs were much more interested in middle-aged Indian women. They rifled through the contents of the bursting-at-the-seams suitcase of a lady ...
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Facts about the Boy Scouts of America
Boy Scouts carry U.S. flags up Congress Avenue towards the Texas Capitol during the annual Boy Scouts Parade and Report to State, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, in Austin, ...
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Dead Boston bombing suspect said involved in triple murder
Boston Marathon bombing suspect is now tied to a triple murder, officials said after an alleged accomplice was gunned down by an agent questioning him. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was fingered by Ibragim Todashev in Orlando, Fla., in a 2011 Waltham, Mass., murder in which three people had their throats slashed, federal law enforcement officials told several news outlets. Todashev also implicated himself ...
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Ohio rape investigation grand jury resumes work
COLUMBUS, Ohio - An eastern Ohio grand jury is resuming its examination of whether other laws were broken in the case of a 16-year-old girl raped by two high school football players.The panel in Steubenville was scheduled to start up Thursday after a three-week break while investigators went back to analyzing evidence and interviewing witnesses.The grand jury had met just three days before the ...
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U.S. may arm rebels if diplomacy fails Kerry says
John Kerry said. "In the event that we can't find that way forward, in the event that the Assad regime is unwilling to negotiate in good faith, we will also talk about our continued support and growing support for the opposition in order to permit them to continue to fight for the freedom of their country," Kerry said in Amman, Jordan, before a Friends of Syria meeting with key ...
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Man charged with mailing ricin letter to judge in Washington state
OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested a man charged with mailing a letter containing the deadly poison ricin to a U.S. district judge in Spokane, Washington, the FBI ...
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Tour boat crew rescues woman who plunged into Chicago River
A woman who is believed to have jumped into the Chicago River downtown for a swim was quickly rescued by the crew of a tour boat — in the middle of their annual Coast Guard inspection, officials said.The woman went into the Chicago River near Michigan Avenue about 11 a.m., and the crew of Chicago's Fair Lady saw her and called emergency crews on a marine radio channel, Chicago Fire ...
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Parents ask why some Okla.schools lack tornado shelters
(CBS News) MOORE, Okla. - The mayor of Oklahoma City said Wednesday as many as 13,000 homes were damaged or destroyed in Monday's tornado, and 33,000 people have been affected. The mayor says the damage could total $2 billion. The state medical examiner said there were 24 deaths. Two were infants: four months old and seven months ...
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Optimism and American Dream surviving pragmatism survey shows
Robert McDaniel in his backyard in West Valley City, Utah. McDaniel is assistant superintendent of the Murray School District in Murray, Utah and was featured in another story about the American Dream in ...
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Pickup Crashes Into San Francisco’s Outer Mission Driver Flees
Authorities said a truck crashed into this home near Florentine and Morse in San Francisco’s Outer Mission neighborhood on May 22, 2013. ...
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Video Weiner launches bid to become New York mayor
In running for mayor, Anthony Weiner is seeking to get past the tawdry-tweeter punch line that has dogged him since his congressional career imploded two years ...
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Is The American Red Cross Evil For Paying Their CEO $500k A Year Watch Before Answering
CEO compensation ? Of course we don’t want our money going to an organization that isn’t going to apply as much of it as possible to providing relief. The American Red Cross pays the ...
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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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