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Coburn My bogus dilemma on aid
>Editor's note: Tom Coburn, a Republican, is a US senator from Oklahoma and the ranking member on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which oversees the Federal Emergency Management Agency.(CNN) -- Millions of Americans have been shocked by the devastation caused by the tornadoes in Oklahoma. Having toured the area, it's impossible to put the scope of the damage ...
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RI education board approves arming university cops
The proposal would leave it to URI officials to decide whether to arm the university's police force. Right now, Rhode Island is the only state that prohibits public higher education police officers from carrying ...
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Jurors deadlock on Jodi Arias penalty
Jodi Arias stands as the jury enters the courtroom on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Jodi Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, ...
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Parking deck collapses at Md. mall 1 killed
BETHESDA, Md. -; A parking garage partially collapsed Thursday outside a shopping mall in suburban Maryland, and officials said one construction worker died after being trapped under a concrete ...
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IRS replaces official in tea party controversy
In this May 22, 2013, photo, Lois Lerner listens on Capitol Hill in Washington. A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lerner has been replaced as director the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups. Danny Werfel, the agency's new acting commissioner, told IRS employees in an email Thursday, May 23, 2013, that he ...
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Three taxes fizzle for now
The Senate Appropriations Committee suspended consideration of the tax proposals amid its review of scores of bills to meet a legislative deadline. The levy on cigarettes could be heard later this year while the authors of the soda and oil severance taxes expect to have to wait until ...
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Warrant for rapper Tim Dog despite death reports
JACKSON, Miss. -- Lack of a death certificate or of a burial site and sparse obituary information led to talk in hip-hop circles that rapper Tim Dog, who owes thousands of dollars to women he was convicted of swindling, faked his own death in February.The 46-year-old, whose real name is Timothy Blair, is best known for a 1990s song "F-- Compton" that criticized West Coast ...
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Fossil area closed after 2 boys die in Minn. park
Authorities on Thursday recovered the body of a second child killed when a rockslide hit a group of fourth-graders in a St. Paul park a day earlier, and announced that the popular fossil-hunting area would be closed ...
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Invest In American Manufacturing Five Charts For Your Business Decision
Is manufacturing a good bet in America these days? The talk about reshoring, in which companies return to the United States those operations that they had previously located in a foreign country, is spurring renewed interest in factories here. Let's roll through five key points about the outlook for ...
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Report calls for diversification in Latin American economic ties
/enpproperty--> China should diversify its economic relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean and drop its previous model of relying more on trade, according to a "yellow book" by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences released on Thursday. Cooperation with the region would not only boost trade but also promote more investment and financial ties, said the Annual ...
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Scouting Community Fear Sex Politics of Gay Agenda Will Fracture Boy Scouts of America
May 23, 2013 3:21 pm GRAPEVINE, Texas – Opponents of the BSA's resolution to allow openly-gay membership in the scouts frequently speak about keeping sex and politics out of the scouts – an institution where young boys, many of whom grow up in fatherless homes, depend on mentors who can teach them how to become moral and upstanding citizens, according to Robert Schwarzwalder, ...
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Sharpton on his sleep schedule and why he supports the president
Rev. Sharpton answers viewers questions on how he maintains his active lifestyle, how to get in touch with Congress, and why he has the president's ...
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Obama refines counterterrorism strategy
Saying America has reached a "crossroads," President Obama laid out clearer, more narrow guidelines for deadly drone strikes. NBC's Peter Alexander ...
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Matthews Obama spoke authentically about protecting US
John Podesta from the Center for American Progress and Mother Jones' David Corn join Chris Matthews for a look at Obama's counterterrorism speech and the way the president handled the woman who kept calling him ...
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In deeply religious Oklahoma prayer brings solace after tornado
Justin Stephan (L) shows his son Timothy, 3, his tornado-destroyed home for the first time since the storm on 6th Avenue in Moore, Oklahoma May 23, ...
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Lawsuits seek more than U.S. acknowledgement of drone killings
U.S. President Barack Obama makes a point about his administration's counter-terrorism policy at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, May 23, ...
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Crabtree Starts Healing After Surgery Vows To Be Back
CBS Sports ) — Michael Crabtree is promising to be back. And San Francisco 49er fans are hoping that means back this season. Crabtree tore his Achilles tendon and underwent surgery ...
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Bill Would Protect California Reporters’ Phone Records
SACRAMENTO (CBS / AP) — State agencies would be required to give journalists five days’ notice before they issue subpoenas to a third-party company for telephone records under legislation announced Thursday by a state senator. Democratic state Sen. Ted Lieu, of Torrance, said he would seek the measure to give greater protection for newsgathering operations. He acted after it was ...
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Sharks Kings Series Heats Up With Diving Accusations
Goalkeeper Jonathan Quick #32 blocks a shot, defending the net against Tommy Wingels #57 of the San Jose Sharks in the second period in Game Three of the Western Conference Semifinals during the 2013 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at HP Pavilion on May 18, 2013 in San Jose. (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty ...
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Obama Repeatedly Heckled By Bay Area Activist During Security Speech
Medea Benjamin, an activist from the organization called Code Pink, shouts at U.S. President Barack Obama while he speaks at the National Defense University May 23, 2013 in Washington, DC. Obama used the speech to outline and justify his administration’s counterterrorism policy, including increased cooperation with Congress on matters of national security, added transparency regarding the ...
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Boy Scouts To Accept Gay Youth Following Moraga Teen’s Equality Battle
Members of Scouts for Equality hold a rally to call for equality and inclusion for gays in the Boy Scouts of America as part of the ‘Scouts for Equality Day of Action’ May 22, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty ...
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Alleged Gang Members Arrested After Richmond Shooting
RICHMOND (CBS SF) – Two alleged gang members were arrested Wednesday afternoon after two plainclothes Richmond detectives witnessed one of them firing a gun, a police spokeswoman said Thursday. The detectives were patrolling the streets looking for known gang members as part of the city's Ceasefire program when the shooting occurred at about 3:50 p.m., Detective Nicole Abetkov said. ...
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NYPD Merchant held for ransom tortured for month
NEW YORK -; A businessman was snatched from a New York City street in broad daylight, then held captive for more than a month in a warehouse where he was bound and burned with acid as he was held for a $3 million ransom his family back in Ecuador did not have, authorities ...
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Rep. Jo Bonner resigning to take Ala. college post
MOBILE, Ala. -; U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner says he is resigning from Congress effective in August to take a post with the University of Alabama ...
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Obama sees narrower terror threat defends drones
President Barack Obama continues to speaks about national security, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, as CODEPINK founder Medea Benjamin of Code Pink shouted at him from the back of the auditorium. (AP Photo/Carolyn ...
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