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Sports Briefing | Tennis American Upsets Top Seed at Eastbourne
Jamie Hampton, an American qualifier, upset top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska, 7-6 (2), 6-2, in the first round at Eastbourne, England. ...
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Feds say Calif. hospice owes $112M for fake claims
Pacurar said internal audits had found that the organization sometimes requested, and received, Medicare's $172-per-day hospice reimbursement for patients who did not meet the government's technical requirement that hospice patients have six months or less to ...
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Wall Street opens higher boosted by New York manufacturing data
U.S. stocks opened broadly higher Monday, as investors awaited Wednesdays Fed policy meeting, with increasing confidence that the Fed wont start tapering in super-easy ...
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Wall Street close in green ahead of the Feds meeting tomorrow
U.S. stocks closed higher Tuesday after U.S. housing starts and consumer inflation rose below estimates last month as investors await the end of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting ...
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EU shares rose ahead of the Federal Reserve decision
The European Union saw its market opening and closing the day in green to actually rebound from their longest streak of weekly losses in 14 months as investors awaited this week’s Federal Reserve meeting for signs on the pace of stimulus ...
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McCaskill endorses Hillary Clinton presidential effort
Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, an early backer of Barack Obama in 2008, on Tuesday announced her backing of Ready for Hillary, a group encouraging the former secretary of state to run for president in ...
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KC terrorist supported plan to bomb New York Stock Exchange FBI tells Congress
Everyone knows someone who is habitually late. It’s a maddening trait to the unafflicted who see the problem as remarkably easy to fix: Start earlier. That’s how the Royals’ two new hitting coaches, George Brett and Pedro Grifol, diagnosed Eric Hosmer’s ...
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Cummings releases the IRS transcript
House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings did what Republican Chair Darrell Issa refused to do - he released the full transcript of the committee's six-hour interview with an IRS manager in Cincinnati where Tea Party applications for 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status were processed. MSNBC's Alex Wagner discusses with former Oversight Committee staff director Julian Epstein and ...
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Gitmo vs. food stamps GOP hypocrisy exposed
MSNBC's Alex Wagner digs into why House Republicans are okay with paying $900k per year for every GITMO prisoner, but want to cut food stamp funding for the poor. One Congressman justifies it by citing the ...
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NSA director Surveillance stopped 50 terrorist plots
The head of the NSA has now testified before the House Intelligence Committee on the NSA surveillance programs exposed by Edward Snowden. But have we learned anything new? Last Word guest host Alex Wagner is joined by MSNBC's Ari ...
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Will Boehner risk speakership on bill
House Speaker John Boehner says he won't bring the immigration bill to the floor without majority Republican support. MSNBC's Alex Wagner, E.J. Dionne, and Joy Reid discuss how Speaker Boehner will handle his Republican ...
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House passes most restrictive abortion bill in 10 years
Despite no chance of the bill becoming law, House Republicans pushed through a bill that would ban most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. MSNBC's Alex Wagner gets the reaction of Dr. Willie Parker who performs second-term abortions, and discusses the chipping away of Roe v. Wade in the states with Planned Parenthood's Cecile ...
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Call him what you like but dont mess with American Samoa
Rachel Maddow reports on the quiet dignity of Congressman Eni Faleomavaega, of American Samoa, who ignored the ridiculous mispronunciation of his name in an introduction by Rep. Kerry Bentivolio but made sure Bentivolio and everyone in the room was clear on "American ...
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Sister Helen Prejean on her influential activism against the death penalty
Sister Helen Prejean, anti-death penalty advocate and author of "Dead Man Walking," talks with Rachel Maddow on the 20th anniversary of the publication of "Dead Man Walking" about the impact of the book and movie, the "weird relationship" Americans have with the death penalty, and the challenge of getting people to a point of reflection on complicated ...
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Plan presented to wrest control of ATF director from gun lobby
Rachel Maddow reports on a proposal by Senator Dick Durban that would move the ATF under the FBI to undo a tactic devised by NRA-beholden Republicans to hold up the appointment of any leader to the ...
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GOP brings anti-science perspectives to war on women
Adele Stan, senior Washington correspondent for RH Reality Check, talks with Rachel Maddow about the extreme and sometimes bizarre Republican perspectives on the reproductive rights of American women and they influence they're having on actual legislative policy ...
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Massachusetts police search NFL players home in homicide probe report
New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez talks on a phone during media day for the NFL Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis January 31, ...
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Empire State Building gets left-field $2 billion offer to sell
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City real estate company offered to buy the Empire State Building for $2 billion, a written offer showed, significantly below the skyscraper's appraisal price and about three weeks after investors in the iconic building approved a plan to take the tower public in a real-estate investment ...
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California senators want more information on oil well acid jobs
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - California state legislators on Tuesday told regulators and oil industry lobbyists they wanted more information about the use of acid to increase flows in wells in a technique that is used more often in the state than the controversial fracking ...
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Journalist who brought down U.S. general is killed in Los Angeles car crash
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Journalist Michael Hastings, whose 2010 Rolling Stone magazine profile of the U.S. military chief in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, led to the general being relieved of command, died on Tuesday in a car wreck in Los Angeles, his employer ...
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American Airlines-US Air merger denounced as “merger of convenience” and anti-consumer
Washington, D.C. - The Aviation Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce, Science and Technology Committee at a hearing on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, will discuss issues regarding the proposed merger of US Airways and American Airlines. Once considered a slam dunk for approval, this merger is now facing questions about competition and its effect on consumers. "There are no benefits to this ...
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Acrobat Pleads Not Guilty To Naked Rampage At BART Station
stripping naked and harassing people while doing acrobatic moves at a BART station in San Francisco last month pleaded not guilty Tuesday to seven felony and misdemeanor charges. Yeiner Perez Garizabalo, 24, faces two felony counts of false imprisonment, four misdemeanor counts of battery on public transportation and one misdemeanor count of sexual battery for the May 10 incident at the 16th ...
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AL West-Leading A’s Defeat Darvish Rangers
Brandon Moss #37 of the Oakland Athletics run the bases after hitting a solo home run in the second inning against the Texas Rangers at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington on June 18, 2013 in Arlington, Texas. (Rick Yeatts/Getty ...
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Mich. woman ordered to trial on false rape report
PORT HURON, Mich. -; A Michigan woman accused of faking a sexual assault was ordered to stand trial on charges of making a false report of rape and tampering with evidence Tuesday after a doctor said her purported bruises faded after he wiped them with ...
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Americas looming helium disaster
Imagine that you sustain an injury, sending you to the hospital. The doctor orders an MRI. But the critical material that allows the MRI to operate - liquid helium - is not available. So you don’t receive your MRI and a proper diagnosis cannot be made. If Congress does not act on bipartisan legislation by Sept. 30, such a scenario is a very real possibility in the near future.On that date, ...
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