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Obamas counterterrorism speech Most important of his presidency
Addressing an issue that has dogged his presidency and given ammunition to his critics, President Obama yesterday tackled head-on his administration's counterterrorism policy. Chairmen for Center of American Progress John Podesta joins the ...
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Why GOP wont stop trying to connect Obama to IRS
The GOP appears unwilling to abandon the idea that President Obama had a hand in the IRS' targeting of conservative groups. US Army vet Wes Moore, Politico's Maggie Haberman and Buzzfeed's Ben Smith join Alex Wagner to discuss. Former White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod also joins the ...
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Holder Should Demand Feds Get a Warrant to Read Our E-mail
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Exclusive New York claims more proof of bank mortgage abuses
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said there is mounting evidence that Bank of America Corp, Wells Fargo and Co and other banks violated the terms of a settlement designed to end mortgage servicing ...
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Watch WWII Vet Reunited With Dog Tags 69 Years Later
A jeweler -- tree branches is famous. Rolex watch. Irving and -- means Jewelers half that piece of jewelry he never thought he'd -- and I had no idea it was even lost exists. Because wasn't too long afterwards which I was wounded. And it's got to be -- hectic. -- with a corporal in the united states army he served from 1943 to 1946. During that time -- the station and free it. ...
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Los Gatos-Based Netflix Looking For Subscription Boom From ‘Arrested Development’
David Cross, left, and Portia de Rossi in a scene from ';Arrested Development,'; premiering May 26, 2013, on Netflix (credit: Sam ...
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Poll Hillary Clinton runs better in Iowa than Vice President Biden
A. Brown , assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute in Hamden, Conn., said the major difference between Clinton and Biden "is that she runs much better among independent voters, although Sen. Rand Paul runs better among that key group than either Democrat" in polling on the 2016 presidential race. Matched against Rubio, Clinton would get 48 percent of the vote ...
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Crystal Co. Exec Moves to Hub International in New York
Chicago-based broker Hub International's Northeast division hired Scott Konrad as senior vice president and not-for-profit business practice leader. Based in Hub's New York City office, Konrad will be responsible to build, brand, grow and lead a specialty practice serving the insurance, risk management, and employee benefit needs of nonprofit organizations throughout Connecticut, New ...
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U.S. State Department posts feedback on Keystone pipeline
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON | Fri May 24, 2013 2:27pm EDT WASHINGTON May 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department says it is taking the unusual step of releasing publicly the feedback it has received about a controversial pipeline project after an "unprecedented" response to its draft environmental report. The department said it had received more than 1.2 million comments ...
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Planemaker Embraer Sees American Closing Out US Regional Jet Cycle
SAO PAULO -- Embraer SA, the world's third-largest commercial jet maker, expects just one more big regional jet order as a result of its current U.S. sales campaign, Chief Executive Officer Frederico Curado said in an interview, after the Brazilian planemaker clinched three of four major deals since December. "After the American Airlines competition, the game is over for a ...
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Dem Gerry Connolly defends White House They’re ‘issues’ not ‘scandals’
Rep. Gerry Connolly said the media has no business using the word ';scandal'; to describe the ongoing challenges to truth that are beating down ...
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Ill. House approves guns plan opposed by governor
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -; Gun owners in the only state still banning concealed weapons would win that right under a plan approved by the Illinois House on Friday, but the governor and other powerful Democrats oppose the plan because it would wipe out local gun ordinances - including Chicago's ban on assault ...
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Illinois judge charged with heroin gun possession
ST. LOUIS -; A southwestern Illinois judge whose colleague died of a cocaine overdose while the two were on a hunting trip together has been charged with possession of heroin and ...
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Arizona investigating angry email sent lawmakers
A Republican member of the Arizona House who supports GOP Gov. Jan Brewer's push to expand Medicaid received an obscene and threatening voicemail at her office, a sign that the rancorous debate over embracing a signature component of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in the state is far from ...
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Suspect in killing of officer found dead in cell
A year and a half before the Boston Marathon bombing, the man Tamerlan Tsarnaev called his best friend died in a grisly crime: He was one of three men found nearly decapitated in an apartment, their throats slashed ear to ear, marijuana sprinkled over their ...
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Unusual condition seen before Conn. train wreck
Train service from New York to Boston was back on schedule Wednesday on one of the nation's oldest and most heavily traveled railways, five days after a derailment in Connecticut injured scores of commuters and damaged ...
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Feds pull plug on Paducah plant 1000 jobs lost
FRANKFORT, Ky. - The U.S. Department of Energy rejected a proposal Friday that would have extended operations at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant.The decision means some 1,100 employees will lose their jobs, drawing immediate reactions from Kentucky's top political leaders.U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear were among those who ...
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Brookfield Square adds Body Central Torrid and Glitter loses New York and Company
Women's apparel retailer New York and Company is closing its Brookfield Square mall store, and the space will be divided to accommodate two new stores. One side of the New York and Company space will filled by young women's retailer Body Central, while the other will house a relocated Champs shoe and sportswear store, Scott S. Oleson, manager of Brookfield Square, said Friday. Both ...
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Citi Bikes land in New York what to expect from the long-awaited scheme
New York in the early hours of Friday, greeted with a combination of curiosity, puzzlement, and not a little suspicion.Which is hardly surprising, as it's not been plain cycling so far. Residents of the West Village think the docking stations will destroy the area's historic character. In Brooklyn, treasured parking spots have been usurped. Tabloid columnists fear the city's ...
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Did Hillary Clinton Push Sale of Stinger Missiles to al-Qaeda in Benghazi
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attends the Libya contact group meeting in Istanbul. Two former U.S. diplomats are reporting that whistleblowers are getting ready to reveal information that might turn the simmering Benghazi scandal into an explosive fiasco for both former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and President Barack Obama.According to ...
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No Limits No Culture Portents of a Post-Christian America
While that leaves thirty-eight states that haven't redefined marriage, we shouldn't deceive ourselves. As Rod Dreher recently pointed out in "The American Conservative," historians will one day remember our time as "a cultural revolution."Now to students of history, that phrase "cultural revolution" brings to mind Mao's attempt to re-invent Chinese ...
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Exclusive NY attorney general says more evidence banks violated mortgage pact
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said there is mounting evidence that Bank of America Corp, Wells Fargo and Co and other banks violated the terms of a settlement designed to end mortgage servicing ...
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About New York Turning Lives Around and Saving Money Too
"I'd have them come around the store and order a sandwich or something, and stuff it in the sandwich when I wrapped it," Mr. Ramos said this week. "Or when I gave a book of matches. Be creative when giving it to them, instead of just being ...
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America Where the Poor Dont Get Holidays Off
The funny thing about national holidays in the United States is that they're not really national holidays. Unlike the rest of the developed world, we don't guarantee every worker paid time off. Not for summer vacations. Not for Christmas. Not for Memorial Day. So while most of us will be kicking back with beer and overcooked burgers this long weekend, many will still be on the clock ...
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Sandy who Jersey shore opens for summer seven months after storm
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, New Jersey (Reuters) - The New Jersey shore ushered in the unofficial start of summer on Friday, with businesses making last-minute preparations and officials declaring the resort towns ready for visitors seven months after Superstorm ...
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