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Apple CEO Tim Cook rejects US senate report it used gimmicks to cut taxes
United States Apple chief Tim Cook has faced a grilling by US lawmakers on "sham" subsidiaries and "convoluted" strategies to shift profits offshore, but he has denied the company uses "gimmicks" to cut taxes.A high level US Senate committee investigating corporate offshore tax avoidance has accused Apple of shifting billions of dollars in profits to avoid paying ...
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After Taking Medical Bills Into Account One In Seven American Seniors Live In Poverty
Preliminary analyses of the 2010 U.S. Census indicated that less than one in ten American seniors live in poverty. But a new and more nuanced ';supplemental'; poverty metric ...
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Analysis New MLS Club Faces Challenge to Make Mark in New York
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With high-tech visa compromise immigration reform proponents win GOP ally
By Carrie Dann, Political Reporter, NBC News With a final committee vote on a comprehensive immigration reform bill finally in sight, proponents of immigration reform won the support of a key Republican panel member after hammering out a bipartisan compromise dealing with visas for high-skilled foreign workers.Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, long considered a Republican swing vote on the 18-member ...
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Sources challenge White House claim of all-hands-on-deck pursuit of Benghazi suspects
U.S. military sources serving in North Africa are challenging the latest White House claim that the administration is applying "all the resources" at its disposal to bring the Benghazi attackers to justice, charging instead that the Obama administration knows who is responsible but is not acting. "They have let it slip by because of politics, and now we've taken all ...
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Fox News poll Majority thinks White House knew about IRS actions
Voters are concerned about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups for unfair treatment, and over half think the White House either knew it was happening or -- worse yet -- was actually behind the operation. ...
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Miami-Dade lawmakers approve $1.6 billion sewer-lawsuit deal
(Reuters) - Florida's Miami-Dade County on Tuesday promised to spend $1.6 billion on fixes for its dilapidated, accident-prone sewer system in a deal meant to settle a lawsuit with federal and state environmental ...
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Peace Corps says same-sex couples can apply to serve together
(Reuters) - The Peace Corps said on Tuesday it will start accepting applications next month from same-sex couples who want to volunteer together as part of the overseas service ...
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Watch Hackers Experiment With White House We The People API
. If a petition gains enough signatures, the White House will pledge an official response. Since its launch, 200,000 petitions have been created, racking up 13 million signatures. In February, the White House opened the ...
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Mom squawks as 4 falcon chicks living on New York-New Jersey bridge are banded
Wildlife biologist Chris Nadareski, of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, examines one of four peregrine falcons he banded, at a nest at the east tower of the George Washington Bridge, over the Hudson River, in New York, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The chicks hatched three weeks ago on a girder six feet below the bridge's lower level. Their parents are among 20 pairs of ...
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Watch North Carolina Woman Accused of Poisoning Familys Cheese
-- North Carolina woman is charged with attempted murder all because her failing wouldn't share. 24 -- old -- Drake won -- some cheese when one of her family members did it feel like ...
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Watch Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin on Tornado Aftermath
This is a special report from ABC news. Look what I'm -- cuts or New York this ABC news digital special report -- -- -- taking an Oklahoma where the governor there is holding a news conference on ...
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Knicks Unsure About Stoudemire’s Role
Searching for ways to improve next season, the New York Knicks could use a reliable second scorer and dependable low-post option. They have no way of knowing if Stoudemire can provide either because of his ...
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Oakland Sacramento Sending Rescue Workers To Oklahoma Tornado Area
In this handout provided by the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Soldiers and Airmen with the Oklahoma Army National Guard and the Oklahoma Air National Guard along with firefighters participate in recovery efforts after a tornado moved through on May 20, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. (Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Kendall James/U.S. Department of Defense via Getty ...
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Minnesota Rep. Karen Clark to be honored at White House
Rep. Karen Clark, DFL-Minneapolis, left, and her partner, Jacquelyn Zita, wave to supporters as they leave the Minnesota House chambers in the State Capitol in St. Paul on Thursday, May 9, 2013, after the House approved a bill allowing same-sex couples to wed. (Pioneer Press: John Doman) A little more than a week after the bill she sponsored to legalize gay marriage was signed into law, state ...
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Texas nixes curriculum criticized as anti-American
Texas education officials are doing away with a controversial curriculum plan conservatives criticize as anti-American. The state's regional Education Service Centers will no longer use CSCOPE, a curriculum guideline provided to many small Texas school districts too small to employ curriculum development professionals of their own, the Houston Chronicle reported Tuesday. The lesson plans ...
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Bill Clinton urges Illinois lawmakers to take action on gay marriage
View results With less than two weeks to go before their springtime adjournment, Illinois lawmakers are being pressured over whether they will make their state the 13th to approve gay marriage.On Tuesday, former President Bill Clinton urged members of the Illinois House to vote for gay marriage as a way to strengthen the nation.';Our nation’s permanent mission is to form a ‘more ...
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MLS may be a minority league in America but has sizeable ambitions
Fifteen thousand football fans, many of them with complimentary tickets, many of them Hispanic, rattled around New Jersey's 80,000-seat Giants Stadium. They were watching the clunkily named New York/New Jersey Metro Stars play the Kansas City Wizards, two of just 10 teams in the inaugural Major League Soccer [MLS] season. It was July 1996, and the first attempt to establish a national, ...
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Conn. rail service to return to normal Wednesday
Metro North railroad employees use heavy equipment to repair tracks near Bridgeport, Conn., Monday, May 20, 2013. A train collision on Friday injured 72 people and disrupted rail service into New York City. (AP Photo/Mark ...
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Indian guest workers sue company in Miss. Texas
GULFPORT, Miss. -; Dozens of Indian guest workers are suing an Alabama-based marine and fabrication company, claiming it financially exploited them and forced them to live in squalid conditions after bringing them to work at Gulf Coast shipyards after Hurricane ...
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Correction Missing Mom-Utah story
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah -; In a story May 20 about the Susan Powell investigation, The Associated Press reported erroneously the day that Josh Powell committed suicide. It happened on Feb. 5, ...
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Gay Fla. teen charged for underage girlfriend
In this photo made available by the Hunt family, Kaitlyn Hunt and her father Steve in Vero Beach, Fla., Monday May 20, 2013. Kaitlyn, 18, was expelled from school for dating and having sex with her 14-year-old girlfriend, who was a fellow player on her basketball team. Hunt was arrested and charged with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a child 12 to 16 years. (AP Photo/Hunt ...
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Oklahoma twister a top-of-the-scale EF-5
MOORE, Okla. -; The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Moore, Okla., was a top-of-the-scale EF-5 twister with winds of at least 200 ...
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Protesters rally over IRS tea party scrutiny
Polly Beckham, of Ambler, Pa., holds a sign during a tea party rally protesting extra IRS scrutiny of their groups, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Philadelphia. Tea party groups and other groups are urging activists across the country to demonstrate at their local Internal Revenue Service offices. (AP Photo/Matt ...
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Bishop would-be pipe bomber gets 37 years
CHICAGO -; An Iowa letter carrier has been sentenced to 37 years in prison for sending dud pipe bombs with threatening letters signed "The ...
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