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Bill would honor Buffalo Soldiers role in parks
In the decades after the Civil War, the nation's first black Army regiments guarded Yosemite and Sequoia national parks against poaching and timber thefts, a role that in hindsight made them some of the United States' first park ...
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McCaskill Gives Early Endorsement to Hillary Clinton
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 2016. McCaskill, who was re-elected to a second term in 2012, said the group's work was critical if Clinton opts to run in 2016. "Hillary Clinton had to give up her political ...
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Bus price rise sees a million people protest on the streets of Brazil
When the Fifa president Sepp Blatter announced in 2007 that next year's World Cup would be staged in Brazil, he predicted it would have "a big social and cultural ...
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Sen. Sessions Gang of Eight immigration bill “nowhere close to what the American people really want.”
Andrea Tantaros radio show to express his reservations about the Gang of Eight immigration bill – which he said was ';nowhere close to what the American people really want'; – and have a little fun with his colleague, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL). Noting that Rubio has lately been expressing reservations about the border security provisions of the bill, but has been touting ...
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Americans View GOP Less Favorably Than Democratic Party
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans still rate the Republican Party less favorably than the Democratic Party, 39% vs. 46%. But both parties' ratings are down from November 2012. The Democrats' rating dropped more, from 51% just after President Barack Obama won re-election. Americans' ratings of the Democratic Party are now more on par with readings earlier in 2012, while their ratings ...
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Former New York City Councilman Pedro Gautier Espada Sentenced to Six Months’ Imprisonment
Earlier today, Pedro Gautier Espada was sentenced before Judge Frederic Block in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York, to six months’ imprisonment, to be followed by six months’ home confinement and one year of supervised release, for theft of federal funds from Bronx-based non-profit healthcare clinics, Soundview Healthcare Network ("Soundview") and for failing to ...
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White House Petition Calls for Ban of Creation Science Intelligent Design From Schools
The new holographic exhibit at the Creation Museum in Petersburg,, Kentucky. The exhibit was set up as part of the celebration of the five year anniversary of the Creation Museum's founding in ...
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CBO Immigration bill would decrease deficit by $197 billion over 10 years
By Carrie Dann, NBC News A new report from the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the immigration bill currently being debated in the Senate would increase the U.S. population by 10.4 million and would decrease federal budget deficits by $197 billion between 2014 and 2023.The much-anticipated report indicates that enacting the legislation would create new federal outlays of about $262 ...
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Cupp Abortion ‘robs other willing families’
The Cycle's S.E. Cupp gives her personal take on the abortion debate saying that the choice to abort a child robs other, willing families of the chance to be good ...
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FBI adds 500th name to its Most Wanted list.
Cycle hosts backspin on their favorite Most Wanted cases, specifically that of Boston's Whitey Bulger. In the list's 63 year history 469 of the fugitives have been apprehended or ...
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Defense Department plans integration of women in combat
Plans have begun to integrate women into more strenuous roles in the military, allowing women to transition into Navy SEAL training by 2016. The Cycle hosts spin on the story and what ramifications this brings about within the ...
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A city up in smoke The arson epidemic plaguing Detroit
middle class . in a city where population and wages are in decline and joblessness is high, it's led to more than 80,000 homes being abandoned and that has led to a rash of ...
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Senate considering amendments to immigration legislation
border fence that congress approved but never followed through on. while immigration appears to be the one policy proposal that actually has a chance in this divided congress, political pitfalls remain. a protest broke out during the markup of a house judiciary bill that would allow states to have their ...
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Ohio residents held disabled woman in slavery government charges
U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach (C) talks at a news conference alongside Stephen Anthony (L) of the FBI and Ashland City Police Lieutenant Joel Icenhour, about the arrest of three individuals accused of human trafficking in Ashland county, at the Justice Center in Cleveland, Ohio June 18, 2013. REUTERS/Aaron Josefczyk CLEVELAND - Three Ohio residents are accused of holding a cognitively disabled ...
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New Hampshire nears approval of medical marijuana law
By Jason McLure LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - New Hampshire is set to become the final state in New England to allow medical marijuana after negotiators from the Republican-controlled Senate and Democratic-controlled House agreed Tuesday on a bill backed by Governor Maggie Hassan. The law would allow up to four marijuana dispensaries to open as soon as 2015. Patients with cancer, HIV, ...
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Gravestone of late Mayor Koch had birth date wrong
A worker at the Trinity Cemetery in Manhattan noticed last week that the gravestone's inscription shaved 18 years off the mayor's life after a stonecutter transposed two digits in his birth year, a Trinity spokeswoman said on ...
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NewsWatch How to trade the Federal Reserve decision
The main question hanging over financial markets right now is when and how the Federal Open Market Committee may change its monetary policy in coming months. That's why Wednesday is shaping up to be a big markets day and MarketWatch reporters analyzed how various asset classes may react depending on the message the Fed sends to the financial ...
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Americas Teacher Training Programs Arent Good Enough
A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality finds "fundamental flaws and weaknesses" -- but critics have raised questions about its ...
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U.S. says surveillance thwarted NYSE attack Somali funding
(Reuters) WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday identified two of the more than 50 classified cases in which they say National Security Agency eavesdropping helped thwart terrorist plots including a planned attack on the New York Stock ...
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FBI releases new video of suspect in 2008 Times Square bombing
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal authorities announced a $65,000 reward on Tuesday in the unsolved 2008 case of the Times Square bomber who tried to destroy a military recruiting station before escaping on a ...
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Illinois pension fix headed to legislative conference committee
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Seeking to break a weeks-long impasse in efforts to fix the state's woefully underfunded pension system, Illinois will turn to a rarely used legislative conference committee in hopes of reaching a compromise solution, Governor Pat Quinn's office said on ...
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ICRC says opening its Guantanamo files would set dangerous precedent
The flag over a war crimes courtroom in Camp Justice at US Naval Base Guantanamo Bay in Cuba in this photo reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense on October 17, 2012, day three of pre-trial hearings for the five Guantanamo prisoners accused of orchestrating the ...
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Watch Grandma Grounds Glock Block Neighborhood Watch
Some residents in an Oregon neighborhood say they are armed and ready and they won't bother to call 911 anymore after some -- -- statue from her yard point Holloman decided. To get a concealed ...
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Watch Calif. Family Seeks Sons Killer to Forgive Her
These two trees are planted along maple -- drive in honor of the two teens killed right here twenty years ago. Well now one of the families who lost their son wants -- Garcia to know they forgive ...
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Watch Arizona Police Search Lake for Missing College Student
Search under way in Arizona for a nineteen year old woman missing after a night out drinking Adrian Salinas was headed to her boyfriend's house and -- -- but never made it. Her car was blown out ...
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