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Mysterious respiratory illness kills 2 in southeast Alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A mysterious respiratory illness has left five people hospitalized and two dead in southeast Alabama, state health officials said Tuesday. Seven people have been admitted to hospitals with a fever, cough and shortness of breath in recent weeks, Alabama Department of Public Health spokeswoman Mary McIntyre said in a statement. Two of the seven have died. The Alabama ...
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Warriors Honored By San Francisco Mayor Curry Given Key To City
Klay Thompson #11 of the Golden State Warriors celebrates a three-point shot with Stephen Curry #30 and Jarrett Jack #2 against the San Antonio Spurs during Game Two of the Western Conference Semifinals of the 2013 NBA Playoffs at AT&T Center on May 8, 2013 in San Antonio. (Ronald Martinez/Getty ...
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Malcolm Xs grandson buried in NY
Mourners are gathering at the Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California in Oakland to remember Malcolm X's grandson, Malcolm ...
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Busy time for news beyond tornado tragedy
Rachel Maddow recaps the major headlines that have gone largely unnoticed by the news media as attention has been focused on the tornado disaster in Moore, ...
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White House Memo A Sleeper Scandal Awakens Post-Election
For a White House typically equipped with well-honed political radar designed to sniff out and derail conservative conspiracy theories about Mr. Obama, the potentially damaging events at the I.R.S. seemed to pass with little ...
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Straily Cespedes Lead A’s Past Rangers
Starting pitcher Dan Straily #67 of the Oakland Athletics throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington on May 21, 2013 in Arlington, Texas. (Brandon Wade/Getty ...
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Giants’ Affeldt Grows To Love Open-Minded Bay Area
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) When Jeremy Affeldt came to the Bay Area as an opposing player, he refused to leave his hotel room aside from going to and from the ballpark. He was admittedly ...
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Mall of America nets up to $250 million in tax breaks
Bloomington behemoth to double its size with more stores, movie theaters, hotels, and maybe a water park. To help ensure the project moves forward, up to $250 million in tax breaks were approved this week by the Minnesota Legislature. In recent years, the megamall’s pleas for public subsidies have failed. This year, lawmakers supported a controversial new funding mechanism that draws ...
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Safety Board ATF blocking plant blast probe
Investigators working in the remnants of an exploded Texas fertilizer plant sifted by hand through untold kernels of corn, moved tons of debris and conducted more than 400 interviews, while searching for the missing piece to solve what many officials compared to an extraordinary ...
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28 killed in American-owned Freeport mine in Indonesia
(45 mins ago) Rescuers have recovered seven more bodies from a collapsed American-owned mine tunnel in eastern Indonesia, its US operator said, taking the accident's final toll to 28. The rescue team ';recovered and identified the last of the remains of the buried workers early this morning'', the Indonesian subsidiary of US-based Freeport-McMoRan said in a statement. ...
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American general turfed over adultery
(47 mins ago) An American general was suspended as commander of an army training center following allegations of adultery and a physical altercation. Brigadier General Bryan Roberts was suspended as commanding general of the US Army training center at Fort Jackson, South Carolina ';due to allegations of misconduct,'' army spokesman Harvey Perritt said. ';The allegations ...
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Family of California woman killed by U.S. Border Patrol files suit
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - The family of a San Diego woman killed in an encounter with the U.S. Border Patrol filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit on Tuesday alleging a plainclothes agent used excessive force when he opened fire on the woman as she tried to flee in a ...
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US Senate Committee Approves Immigration Reform Bill
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a massive immigration reform bill, voting to send it to the entire Senate for debate. Tuesday evening's vote was 13 to five. It came after one of the bill's eight sponsors, Democrat Patrick Leahy, withdrew an amendment that would have given same-sex couples the same legal protections in immigration questions as heterosexual ...
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10 Things to Know for Wednesday
Apple CEO Tim Cook adjusts his glasses as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent subcommittee on Investigations hearing to examine the methods employed by multinational corporations to shift profits offshore and how such activities are affected by the Internal Revenue Code. Lawmakers want to know ...
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APNewsBreak Coast Guard deserter to be confined
HONOLULU -; A military judge has ruled that a Coast Guard rescue swimmer who admitted he deserted his job in Hawaii to camp out in the mountains of Oahu for three months will be confined for more than 6 months and discharged with bad ...
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Details of the Senate immigration bill
-Within six months of enactment of the bill, the Homeland Security Department must develop a border security plan to achieve those goals, including the use of drones, additional agents and other approaches; and develop a plan to identify where more fencing is ...
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Search for Okla. tornado survivors nearly complete
MOORE, Okla. (AP) Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of nine children. Scientists concluded the storm was a rare and extraordinarily powerful type of twister known as an EF5, ranking it at ...
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Xis Latin American tour to enhance cooperation spokesman
Chinese president to visit three Latin American nations and US China will take the opportunity of President Xi Jinping's upcoming visits to three Latin American nations to further increase political trust and consolidate friendship with them, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday.Hong Lei's comments at a press briefing came after Qin Gang, also a Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...
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U.S. Trust Study Finds Wealthy Americans Underinvested And Unprepared
2013 Insights on Wealth and Worth report on Tuesday. The nation's oldest trust company, under the wing of Bank of America since 2007, surveyed 711 wealthy American adults over the age of 18 with investable assets north of $3 million on a variety of wealth-related topics. The results revealed a significant amount of dissonance in this cohort, which U.S. Trust has labeled "high net worth ...
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New Poll Results Shows GOP Has Lost Favor Among Record Breaking Percentage Of Americans
The Republican Party’s net favorability ratings are down 8 points in the past two months. The amount of respondents viewing the GOP favorably fell from 38 percent to 35 percent, while the number of people who view the party unfavorably climbed five points, up from 54 percent in ...
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US Senate panel approves immigration overhaul bill
Senate Judiciary Committee on a solid bipartisan vote Tuesday night after supporters somberly sidestepped a controversy over the rights of gay spouses. The 13-5 vote cleared the way for an epic showdown on the Senate floor on the measure, which is one of President Barack Obama's top domestic priorities yet also gives the Republican Party a chance to recast itself as more appealing to ...
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After tornado whats next for Moore Okla. Our view
Monday's tornado wasn't even the strongest to hit this same suburban community. The pictures make you wonder how anyone lived through the monster tornado that devastated an Oklahoma City suburb on Monday. Neighborhoods scraped to the foundations. ...
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Twister leaves tragedies miracles Other views
"Every Okie accepts that atmospheric instability is a part of our legacy." The Oklahoman,Oklahoma City, editorial: "Now come the sad stories, the heartrending deaths of young and old, the miracles and the survivals, as the black funnel wraps itself in grief. Now come the recovery, the selfless deeds, the sacrificial giving and the comforting words. This is a time when patience is ...
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Immigration bill clears hurdle with 13-5 approval by Senate committee
By Carrie Dann, NBC News A sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's immigration system cleared its first major hurdle late Tuesday night, with the 18-member committee charged with completing a first round of legislative edits voting to advance the amended bill to the full Senate. The vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee was 13-5. Three Republicans - Sens. Jeff Flake of Arizona, Lindsey ...
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Anarchist jailed for not testifying over 2008 New York blast
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A self-described anarchist from Brooklyn who refused to testify before a federal grand jury thought to be investigating a 2008 bomb explosion in New York's Times Square was sent to jail on Tuesday after being found in civil ...
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