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The rise of Golden Dawn raises concerns at US State Department
to the country's Parliament, according to the annual US State Department’s report on international religious freedom. The report characterises Golden Dawn as "a political party openly espousing anti-Semitism and racism and linked to violent attacks against individuals perceived to be immigrants." Some anti-Semitic and racist incidents were condemned by the Greek ...
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Op-Ed Contributor American Global Primacy and Presidential Vision
As we debate our role in the world today, it is worth asking how American global primacy came about in the last century. After all, George Washington celebrated our ...
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Watch Tornado Twists Through Okla.
Okla. Governor on Tornado: 'We're Resilient, Strong' Mary Fallin talks to George Stephanopoulos about the devastation from a 2-mile wide ...
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Police Remains found in woods likely missing Maine teen
Spokesman Steve McCausland says the body was found at about 9:30 p.m. Monday by the Maine Warden Service in an undisclosed wooded location. Recovery will begin at daylight ...
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Recovered remains of Pa. WWII veteran to be buried
FREEMANSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A military burial is scheduled Saturday in eastern Pennsylvania for a World War II soldier whose remains were recovered after more than 65 ...
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American Bridge Top Liberal SuperPAC Had Secret Ties To Bain Capital
A top liberal SuperPAC in the 2012 election had undisclosed financial ties to the private equity firm Bain Capital -- something that some people close to the group say interfered with its core mission of attacking Bain veteran Mitt Romney's business ...
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US Senate committee accuses Apple of large-scale tax avoidance
Washington - A US Senate committee accused Apple Inc of running a complex web of offshore business interests to avoid paying billions of dollars in income taxes, saying the technology giant was "among America's largest tax avoiders." The committee is to hold a hearing Tuesday to highlight Apple's tax avoidance strategies. Company chief Tim Cook was expected to testify. In ...
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Very Graphic Devastation at Okla. Elementary School
devastating tornado that tore through Moore, Okla., were from Plaza Towers Elementary School, which has gone from a search-and-rescue operation to a body-recovery effort, officials said. Monday's tornado tore a 12-mile path of destruction that has killed at least 51 people and destroyed Plaza Towers Elementary School and Briarwood Elementary School in Moore. For many families, Monday ...
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New Report Analyzes Seals Market in North America
Oil and Gas Investments and Improvements in the Electric Utility Infrastructure Sustain Growth This research service provides an analysis of the North American seals market. Market drivers and restraints are discussed, along with trends across the various end users, including oil and gas; power generation; mining; automotive; water and wastewater; food and beverage; and chemicals and ...
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Heartbreak after Oklahoma twister
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO, KOKH, KOKIMoore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- The enormity of what they saw caused many to pause, raw emotion welling up as they tried to put haunting images into words. Monday's ...
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American Voices On The Unwinding of Americas Values
trilogy -- follows the personal triumphs and failures of various individuals from across the United States. Others we meet along the way include Dean Price, the son of a tobacco farmer and an evangelist for a green economy in the rural South; Tammy Thomas, a Rust Belt factory worker trying to survive the financial collapse of Youngstown, Ohio; and Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire who ...
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Disabled NY newlyweds offered apartment
Michael Dorman of Fuquay-Varina, N.C., greeted President Barack Obama with a hearty swing of a handshake Friday at the White House as he received a Presidential Citizens Medal for his volunteer group’s work to renovate houses for disabled ...
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Court denies American basketball player’s bid for new investigation
Jamelle Cornley FILE PHOTO MANILA--A Quezon City court junked Tuesday a motion by American basketball player Jamelle Cornley, who is charged with thrashing a hotel and punching a policeman, for a reinvestigation and moved to another date Tuesday's scheduled arraignment. Judge Maria Gilda Pangilinan of the Quezon City Metropolitan Trial Court's Branch 31 dismissed an April 5 "very ...
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Intense rescue efforts as 91 feared dead in tornado-hit Oklahoma
A triage area is set up next to the IMAX theatre for people injured by a tornado that struck in Moore, Oklahoma May 20, 2013. A 2-mile-wide (3-km-wide) tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing at least 51 people while destroying entire tracts of homes, piling cars atop one another, and trapping two dozen school children beneath rubble. REUTERS/Gene Blevins ...
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Ex-IRS commissioner heads to Capitol Hill amid scandal
Washington - Lawmakers are getting their first chance to question the former head of the Internal Revenue Service, the man who ran the agency when agents were improperly targeting tea party groups. Some of the questions on Tuesday will be direct: What did you know, and when did you know it? They also want to know why former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman didn't tell Congress that agents ...
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More tornadoes in forecast for central US Tuesday
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- More severe weather is in the forecast for parts of the central United States already reeling from powerful tornadoes this ...
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Judge Skeptical of New York Police Stops’ Effectiveness
"A lot of people are being frisked or searched on suspicion of having a gun and nobody has a gun," Judge Scheindlin, of Federal District Court in Manhattan, said on Monday during closing arguments in the trial. "So the point is: the suspicion turns out to be wrong in most of the ...
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Convicted U.S. killer Arias would join tiny death row group
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Jodi Arias, convicted of brutally murdering her ex-boyfriend, is expected on Tuesday to address a jury in Arizona tasked with deciding whether she should join the small group of women sitting on death row in the United ...
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10 Things to Know for Today
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. OKLAHOMA TORNADO FLATTENS NEIGHBORHOODS, KILLS DOZENS At least 20 of the 51 victims of the storm were children caught in an elementary school in the eye of the storm, with a death toll expected to rise. 2. AP PHOTOGRAPHER: 'ALL I COULD SEE WAS DESTRUCTION' Sue Ogrocki ...
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High Crimes Half Of Americans Want Obama Impeached
asking Americans if they think President Obama should be impeached for the various scandals currently in the news - the specific targeting by the IRS of conservative groups and Obama enemies, the illegal wiretapping for personal gain of AP news journalists, and the cover-up of the events leading up to the death of four Americans in Benghazi ahead of the election last year. A stunning 50% of ...
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Joel Skousen Obama Creating A Third World America
May 21, 2013 Alex continues with author Joel Scousan discussing the ongoing globalist agenda to topple the American way of life and the Public’s necessity to prepare themselves for ...
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Explained How meteorologists class killer tornadoes on the Enhanced Fujita scale
Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing more than 91 people with winds up to 200 miles per hour, was given a preliminary ranking of EF4, the second most powerful category on the Enhanced Fujita ...
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Heat-related deaths to increase in New York City study
New York city may see deaths from heat rise by as many as 20 percent in the 2020s and 90 percent by the 2080s in a worst-case scenario, according to a study published in this week's journal Nature Climate Change. The study was done by Columbia University's Earth Institute and the Mailman School of Public Health. Higher winter temperatures may cut cold-related mortality, but net ...
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American Dreams in China trumps Iron Man 3 at box office
off the top of the Chinese box office charts in the week ending on Sunday.The film, which tells the story of a trio of entrepreneurs who establish an English language training service, has pulled in 108 million yuan (about $17.6 million) since its Friday debut, China Film News reported on ...
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Moscow Safer Than New York - Minister
NEW YORK, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - Russian police reforms have proved so successful that, in some areas, Moscow outperforms New York on safety, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev has boasted while on a visit to the United States. Kolokoltsev made the claims during a meeting in New York late on Monday with New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly."We have compared the crime ...
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