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Photographer killed women with matching initials
Opening statements have been heard in the trial of a 79-year-old man charged with the decades-old killing of four women in northern California who had matching ...
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Gangster was heartbroken to hear Bulger worked for FBI
Bulger (83) was one of America's most-wanted fugitives for years until he was caught in 2011. He is charged in a racketeering indictment that accuses him of participating in 19 murders in the 1970s and 1980s.John Martorano was questioned about a string of murders he committed while he, Bulger and Stephen 'The Rifleman' Flemmi were members of the Winter Hill Gang."They were my ...
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Obama responds to NSA critcism
NSA leaker Ed Snowden answered questions in an online chat today and President Obama answered questions about Snowden and the NSA's programs in his first interview since the leak was exposed. MSNBC's Alex Wagner discusses with MSNBC.com's Richard Wolffe and The Huffington Post's Sam ...
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What Faith and Freedom confab says about Republicans
Republican Party chair Reince Priebus offers advice at the Faith & Freedom coalition convention while Governor Christie skips the event for a Clinton gathering. MSNBC's Alex Wagner discusses the state of the Republican Party makeover with MSNBC's Ryan Grim and the Washington Post's Nia-Malika ...
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Putin on the ring
Vladimir Putin, a Super Bowl ring, The New England Patriots and yet another international incident. MSNBC Executive Producer and VP Bill Wolff joins MSNBC's Alex ...
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House GOP follows states prioritizes war on women
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., member of the House Judiciary Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about the House Republican anti-abortion bill that echoes the extremist bills being pushed by state-level Republicans, and why House Republicans under John Boehner prioritize passing dead-end bills against rights for women in America instead of concentrating on the nation's more pressing ...
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Wisconsin GOP doesnt trust women not to lie about rape
Rachel Maddow plays powerful video of Wisconsin State Representative Many Wright's personal disclosure about having been raped by a cousin at 8-years-old but not having filed a police report - a circumstance Wisconsin Republicans are hoping to use as an excuse to block access to a legal abortion for the victim should such abuse result in pregnancy, because they believe women lie about rape ...
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McDonnell awash in scandal sees conservative credibility eroded
virginia republican politics is that this calamity at one small part of the scandal does involve a very, very cute dog. hi. she's 14. she's a shelti terrier mix and she is the first dog of the commonwealth ...
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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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SF Judge Considers Moving California Prisoners Over Valley Fever
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / AP) — An attorney representing inmates at two California state prisons told a federal judge on Monday that an airborne fungus occurring in the San Joaquin Valley presents the deadly threat of valley fever and that thousands should be transferred immediately. Warren George, of the Prison Law Office, said 18 inmates died in 2012 and January 2013 from complications ...
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6 Runs In 4th Inning Not Enough A’s Lose To Rangers
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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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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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RNW wins top honours at the New York International Radio and TV Festival
Radio Netherlands Worldwide won four major prizes at the 2013 New York International Radio and TV Festival, it was announced yesterday (Monday June 17). It won a gold medal and a Grand Prize Award for an interview entitled ...
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White House Threatens Veto as House Takes Up Farm Bill
The House is scheduled to begin debate on the farm bill on Tuesday with the knowledge that if the House version makes it through Congress and goes to the White House, President Obama's senior advisers will recommend that he veto it. The issue for the White House is a $20.5 billion cut over 10 years in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as SNAP or food stamps. The ...
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NYC woman faces suspect in her dads 1986 killing
An aspiring New York City actress has finally faced down the suspect she helped police capture in connection with her father's 1986 ...
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New York aims to require composting food scraps
NEW YORK -- Legions of New York City apartment dwellers will soon be asked -- and may eventually be forced -- to start collecting food scraps for composting, under Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s latest bid to make the city greener. After launching a test program recently in 3,500 Staten Island homes and some Manhattan apartment buildings, city officials said Monday they planned to expand it to ...
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Congress too frightened to allow Obama to close Guantanamo
Rachel Maddow explains away any justification for keeping the prison at Guantanamo Bay open other than the political cowardice of members of Congress who can only hope more inmates die at the prison so they can continue to avoid having to work out a rational ...
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American agents mined all email details including IP addresses and attachments Snowden says
(1 hr 5 mins ago) American intelligence technician Edward Snowden issued a defiant rebuke to his critics in Washington saying more leaks were on the way, declaring: ';Truth is coming and it cannot be stopped.'' The 29-year-old former contractor for the National Security Agency dismissed allegations he was a traitor or a Chinese agent, and insisted he had exposed a dangerous US ...
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Kardashians Star Scott Disick Goes American Psycho for Kanye Wests Yeezus
The "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" star parodies an infamous scene from the Christian Bale drama in a clip posted to the rapper's ...
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Accused Naked BART Acrobat Rearrested Faces Several Charges
allegedly harassed passengers while naked at the 16th Street BART station in an incident caught on video last month. The San Francisco District Attorney's office told KCBS that 24-year-old Yeiner Perez is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon on two counts of false imprisonment, four counts of battery and one count of sexual ...
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Ohio day-care operator allegedly gave kids medicine-laced pancakes
An Ohio day-care operator fed children in her care pancakes laced with medication to make them drowsy, authorities allege. Caterpillar Clubhouse owner Tammy E. Eppley, 37, of Westerville is charged with six counts of endangering children, The Columbus Dispatch reported Monday. Police allege Eppley mixed various medications and supplements, including melatonin and antihistamine allergy ...
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