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Lawmakers hand Myanmar leader prisoner list
Thein Sein met Tuesday with members of the Senate and House on Capitol Hill, a day after he became the first Myanmar leader to visit the White House in five ...
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WikiLeaks prosecutor accepts GIs plea to 1 count
Wikileaks posted the cable in 2010 about a meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, summarizing U.S. Embassy discussions with Icelandic officials about the country's financial ...
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WikiLeaks prosecutor agrees to 1 lesser charge
FORT MEADE, Md. -; Prosecutors say they have agreed to charge the Army private who released more than 700,000 secret U.S. documents to the WikiLeaks site with a lesser offense on one of the 22 counts against ...
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Airbnb Stays Are Illegal In New York Court Rules
A search for places to stay in New York City via Airbnb returns plenty of results, despite the practice of short-term rentals being found to be illegal under city and state ...
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Xi to visit Latin America and the Caribbean
Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay state visits to Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica and Mexico from May 31 to June 6, the foreign ministry announced on Tuesday.Hong Lei, foreign ministry spokesperson, told a press briefing on Tuesday that they will be the first state visits to Latin America and the Caribbean by Xi.Hong said Xi's visit to Trinidad and Tobago will be the first visit to an ...
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Top White House officials kept tax probe from president
Top White House aides knew of a scandal over tax officials targeting conservative groups in April, but did not tell President Barack Obama, in a possible bid to insulate him from political damage.In a new twist to the drama, the White House revealed on Monday that knowledge over a report into the affair by a government watchdog was more widespread among top officials than previously ...
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Resisting the Tide of Secularism in America
So said First Things editor R.R. Reno in a speech delivered to a Hillsdale College leadership seminar this past February. In his address, Reno tracks the hostility that the Obama administration, the courts, and the ascendant "Nones" (those who, when asked in surveys to identify their religious affiliation, indicate "none") are exhibiting toward religious liberty in America. ...
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MLS expansion club New York FC set to join the league in 2015
called New York FC that is expected to join the league in 2015. The big news? The team will be owned by Manchester City (this was previously reported) AND the New York Yankees (this was not). City will be the majority owner while the Yankees will ';be an active member of the ownership group,'; according to a news release. Yankee Stadium, of course, is hosting a City-Chelsea friendly ...
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Chrysler CEO apologizes for Italian-American slur
Chrysler and Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne has apologized to the Italian-American One Voice Coalition for using a term offensive to Italian Americans during an interview during the North American International Auto Show last January in ...
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Protesters chant IRS has got to go in Cincinnati
Internal Revenue Service offices that handled group applications for tax-exempt status. IRS officials have acknowledged that some conservative groups received inappropriate attention and questioning. Tea party protests of the IRS also were planned in other cities across the country. Some recent IRS retirees in ...
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Judge agrees to delay in case of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev
By Pete Williams, NBC News justice correspondent The judge overseeing the government's prosecution of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving defendant in the Boston Marathon bombing case, has agreed to delay the next step in the case for roughly a month.A probable cause hearing had been scheduled for May 30, but federal prosecutors and lawyers for Tsarnaev asked Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler ...
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African American community Neglected by finance
Half of African Americans say their financial situations have improved from a year ago, compared to 33% of the general population, according to a Prudential report released Tuesday. The survey polled 1,153 people who identified as African American or black and a general sampling of 471 ...
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Judge rules Airbnb illegal in New York City
Bad news for Manhattanites who use Airbnb to rent out their apartments temporarily: New York City officials have ruled that the service violates an "illegal hotel" ...
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Emanuel Quinn snipe over regulating a Chicago casino
Pat Quinn, governor of Illinois, said he wants to address the state's pension crisis before any plans for a Chicago casino. In November, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Governor Pat Quinn appeared together and said they had resolved their differences over how to regulate a Chicago casino. But now those differences appear to have ruptured once again, according to a report by the Chicago Sun-Times. At ...
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Half Of America Wants To Impeach Obama According To Impeachable Polling Outfit
"It may be early in the process for members of Congress to start planning for impeachment of Barack Obama, but the American public is building a serious appetite for it," said Fritz Wenzel, of Wenzel Strategies, which did the telephone poll Thursday. It has a margin of error of 4.36 percent. "Half or nearly half of those surveyed said they believed Obama should be impeached for ...
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America has a fundamental problem with people who hate gay people | Sharon Stapel
mourn the brutal death of Mark Carson , a 32-year-old, shot and allegedly taunted with homophobic slurs by the shooter. The killing happened in Greenwich Village, one of the city's most famous gay friendly neighborhoods.In recent years, we at the New York City Anti-Violence Project have seen an increase in reports of anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer hate violence ...
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Video Obama to tornado survivors The country stands beside you
President Obama addressed the nation about the destructive tornado that struck Oklahoma and promised federal aid to help them rebuild their ...
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Video Rep. Tom Cole A very grim day for us
Rep. Tom Cole, who represents the city of Moore, Oklahoma, in Congress talks to Charlie Rose about the massive tornado that ripped through his ...
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Deadly second act 1999 Moore Okla. tornado vs. 2013s devastating storm
scene of destruction . The city was among the areas hit by the strongest tornado ever recorded 14 years ago. For an hour-and-a-half on May 3, 1999, the tornado carved a path of destruction. By the end of the day, 44 people were dead, including three children. The massive storm system unleashed a total of 76 tornadoes, including an EF-5 twister that swept through Moore. It registered ...
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Video Moore mayor Six neighborhoods now nothing but slabs
Glenn Lewis, the mayor of Moore, Okla., talks to Norah O'Donnell about how the city is coping in the wake of a massive tornado that devastated homes, five schools and a major ...
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Video How is the Red Cross responding to Oklahoma disaster
A older couple is taking shelter at the First Baptist Church in Oklahoma after they spent the night hiding in the bathtub, as the back of their home was ripped off by the hurricane. Elaine Quijano ...
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Video Eye Opener at 9 Massive tornado kills dozens in Okla.
A massive tornado in Moore, Okla., kills dozens, including children. Also, the National Guard has been called in to search for survivors. A look at what we've been covering on "CBS This ...
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Video First responders talk overnight search after Moore tornado
A older couple is taking shelter at the First Baptist Church in Oklahoma after they spent the night hiding in the bathtub, as the back of their home was ripped off by the hurricane. Elaine Quijano ...
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Video Frmr. Okla. gov Need to reconsider our shelter-in-place protocol
Glenn Lewis, the mayor of Moore, Okla., talks to Norah O'Donnell about how the city is coping in the wake of a massive tornado that devastated homes, five schools and a major ...
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Video Oklahoma Lt. Gov Were going to find survivors today
Oklahoma Lieutenant Gov. Todd Lamb speaks to Norah O'Donnell about the damage in the aftermath of a massive tornado, how residents are recovering, and how survivors should look for loved ...
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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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