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Rich Americans Scooping Up Irish Estates
John Malone is among a growing number of Americans returning to their Irish roots and scooping up mansions and castles after the worst real-estate crash in western ...
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Feds challenge ruling on morning-after pill access
NEW YORK – Department of Justice lawyers filed court papers Friday again asking a federal appeals court to delay lifting age restrictions and prescription requirements on an emergency contraceptive popularly known as the morning-after pill. The papers seek to delay implementation of a judge's April 5 ruling lifting restrictions on the drugs, including the medications sold under the ...
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NASA Head Envisions Bright Future For Ames Research Center In Mountain View
MOUNTAIN VIEW (KCBS) – The Ames Research Center will play an important role in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's future, despite sequestration cuts that have impacted some day to day operations recently, said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. Cutting edge technology such as 3D printers capable of creating almost anything needed for a space mission, and experiments ...
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Young’s 3-Run Homer Gives A’s Win Over Astros
Chris Young #25 of the Oakland Athletics watches the ball as he hits a three run home run in the ninth inning against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park on May 24, 2013 in Houston, Texas. (Bob Levey/Getty ...
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TJC’s Terry Laporte earn All-American honors
SCOTTSBORO, Ala. — The Tyler Junior College Apaches finished ninth in the NJCAA Division II National Golf Tournament after Friday’s final round at Goose Pond Colony Golf Course.The Apaches’ Tyler Terry and Conlan Laporte earned All-America honors.TJC’s Terry finished strong by taking ninth place. The sophomore from Hurst had a 72-hole score of even par 288 (73-72-70-73). ...
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Obamas drone speech welcomed in Pakistan YemenPresident Barack Obamas speech on the use of drones and the fate of Guantanamo prisoners was largely welcomed Friday in two key countries affected by the policies — Pakistan and Yemen.
Obama cast drone strikes against Islamic militants as crucial to US counterterrorism efforts but acknowledged in his landmark speech on Thursday that they are not a ...
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Cuba With Three Athletes in New York City
Havana, May 25 (Prensa Latina) Cuba will take part in the 3rd stage of the Diamond League in the city of New York with three athletes, as confirmed by Daniel Osorio, technical coach of the Cuban track and field team Friday. Olympic female pole vault jumper and runner-up Yarisley Silva is heading the Cuban trio, said Osorio to Radio Habana Cuba. The other athletes will be Orlando Ortega (110 ...
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Candice Glover It feels good to win ‘American Idol’
Did you have a favorite judge? I do know that I connect more with Randy because he’s been there the whole time that I was there in the three years. He’s seen me grow, and I definitely look forward to his opinion as well as Mariah Carey’s, because she’s been doing this forever, and she knows what it’s like. Nicki also knows what it’s like today. So I look up to ...
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2 dead after Angel Flight crashes in upstate New York official says
EPHRATAH, N.Y. – A small airplane operating as an Angel Flight has crashed in upstate New York, killing two passengers as investigators search for the pilot, who is missing. The Federal Aviation Administration says the flight originated in Massachusetts and crashed about a half-mile west of Caroga, N.Y., just after 5 p.m. Friday. Fulton County Sheriff Thomas Lorey said most of the Piper ...
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Payout to American Airlines CEO opposed
The Justice Department is objecting to a proposed $20 million severance payment for American Airlines CEO Tom Horton, saying it's bigger than allowed by bankruptcy ...
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PGE Calls $2.25 Billion Fine For San Bruno Blast Excessive
Firefighters sifted through rubble Friday at burned homes destroyed by a massive gas main explosion and fire in San Bruno. (Justin Sullivan/Getty ...
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Jury convicts former South Texas DA of corruption
BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- A federal jury in South Texas has convicted a former district attorney on corruption charges.Former Cameron County District Attorney Armando Villalobos (vee-yah-LOH'-bohs) was convicted Friday of racketeering, bribery, extortion and other charges. He was acquitted of two counts of extortion.Villalobos was accused of paying $10,700 to state District Judge Abel Limas to ...
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Teen in devastated Okla. town handing out hugs
MOORE, Okla. -- The people of the Oklahoma town where a deadly tornado struck could use just about everything - cleaning supplies, food, water, shelter.Thirteen-year-old Halle Carr thought residents of her hometown could also use a hug after the twister Monday that killed 24 people in Moore.Halle has been standing on a corner with a white sign that reads: "Need a hug? I am here!" And ...
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Dead Pa. babys dad believes in divine healing
FILE - This undated file photo combination provided by the Philadelphia Police Department shows Herbert and Catherine Schaible. At a bail hearing Friday, May 24, 2013, a Philadelphia judge ordered the couple, who believe in faith healing over medicine, be held without bail on third-degree murder charges in the April death of their 8-month-old son, Brandon. They previously had been convicted of ...
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Working Americans turn down pay raise to avoid ‘cliff effect’
NBC News' Lester Holt investigates a double bind for a growing number of Americans. Some hard-working people are grappling with an economic "cliff effect" where a pay raise can actually make them worse off while also costing taxpayers at the same ...
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Crack smoking video claim dogs Toronto mayor
Rachel Maddow reports on the bizarre story of the mayor of Toronto who denies smoking crack even as a purported video of him doing so is being shopped to media outlets, one of which, Gawker, is accepting public donations to raise the $200,000 asking ...
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Rare confirmation of Obama pick prompts Supreme Court talk
Rachel Maddow reports on the overwhelming approval by the Senate of Sri Srinivasan to the Washington, D.C. District Court judgeship, a potential sign that a nomination of Srinivasan for Supreme Court Justice would also pass the ...
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Social conservative extremists fill Virginia GOP slate
Mark Segraves, reporter for WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., talks with Rachel Maddow about the chances for success of the slate of extreme social conservatives being run for state office by Republicans in ...
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US failure to maintain infrastructure betrays national legacy
Congressman Rick Larsen, who represents the district where the Skagit River Bridge collapsed and is member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about the need for America to make a greater investment in its ...
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Foolhardy budget cuts cripple government operations
Rachel Maddow reports on large portions of the federal government shutting down for the day because sequestration has starved them of funds on which to function, leaving many vital jobs left ...
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Unmanned freedom American style
All achievements of modern science and U.S. military technology are used to kill innocent civilians in other countries. Civilians are being murdered by programmed machines, unmanned aerial vehicles. Drones have neither mercy nor compassion, and do justice in the American way, leaving no chance to the innocent. In Yemen, Pakistan and other countries, 4,700 people fell victims of the U.S. drones, ...
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Activities Throughout Polk Commemorate Americas War Dead
FORT MEADE MEMORIAL EVENThosted by Fort Meade Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 11179, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at post headquarters, 29 Brown Ave. N., Fort Meade. SERGEANT MAJOR BBQ'S FUNDRAISER for the benefit of veterans' organizations will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in front of Tractor Supply, 6945 U.S. 98 N., Lakeland.Prices are $6 for a pulled pork sandwich with the fixings: baked beans ...
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State report I-5 bridge had gouges impact damage
Workers walk past the collapsed portion of the Interstate 5 bridge at the Skagit River Friday, May 24, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. A truck carrying an oversize load struck the four-lane bridge on the major thoroughfare between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River below Thursday evening. All three occupants suffered only minor injuries. (AP ...
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Suspects in Denver bar slayings plead not guilty
DENVER -; Three men accused of fatally stabbing five people at a Denver bar that authorities say was set on fire to cover up the killings have pleaded not ...
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New York fast-food workers protest Wendys in latest labor rights demo
USA Fast-food workers continued demonstrating for better conditions Friday, protesting a Wendy's shareholder meeting just one week after the New York Attorney General announced an investigation into claims of widespread wage theft in the industry. Two labor rights groups, Fast Food Forward and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, organized rallies Thursday and Friday outside the Sofitel ...
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