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Good Americans Mourn First the Millions America Slaughtered Then Mourn US Soldiers
(Article changed on May 26, 2013 at 13:02) (Article changed on May 26, 2013 at 12:58) This veteran is waiting for the year in which the Veterans For Peace, in its Memorial Day Press Release, states that Veterans mourn first, the lives America took in poor countries, both the civilian men, women and children and the patriots that fought our illegal and criminal invasions since 1945. Only then ...
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Experts Question Death Penalty In Cleveland Kidnapping Case
Experts say a death penalty case against a Cleveland man accused of kidnapping three women and forcing one of them into several miscarriages would be close to unheard of but not a legal impossibility. Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty has said he's weighing capital charges against Ariel Castro, who's accused of imprisoning the women in his house for a decade while beating and ...
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Americas Vets Returning Home To A Broken System
. Smith was deployed to Iraq twice between 2006 and 2010; he spent most of four years in combat. He now has an irregular heartbeat, and attributes it to one of the many IED blasts he went through. The irregular heartbeat, discovered during a routine training exercise, led to him being discharged last spring. Smith described an anxiety attack in March in which "things just [closed] in" ...
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American GIs not all squeaky clean–author
WASHINGTON--The image of American GI's who landed in Normandy in June 1944 has long been choreographed as one of handsome young men liberating an occupied country. A new book, however, paints a darker picture. Far removed from accounts of selfless derring-do, many US soldiers were viewed by the French as sex-obsessed thugs who had been promised an "erotic adventure"--a mission ...
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Colon Leads A’s To 11th Straight Win Over Astros
HOUSTON (AP) Bartolo Colon struck out a season-high nine in seven scoreless innings, and the Oakland Athletics completed a sweep of the Houston Astros with a 6-2 win ...
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Music Review New York Philharmonics Young Peoples Concert
About an hour before the New York ...
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Kentucky policeman shot and killed in apparent highway ambush
(Reuters) - A Kentucky policeman was shot and killed in an apparent ambush when he stopped to pick up debris on a highway exit ramp, the Courier-Journal newspaper said on ...
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Search Continues for Teen Missing in Texas Flood
The search intensified Sunday for a teenage boy believed to have been swept away by floodwaters as he tried to swim across a swollen creek near San Antonio, authorities said. Several search and rescue teams in inflatable boats were moving through the muddy water trying to find the teen in Schertz, where he was reported missing Saturday. He and a friend got caught in the swift waters of Cibolo ...
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Suspect in Colo. Kidnapping Arrested Boy Safe
Authorities have arrested a man accused of breaking into his estranged wife's home before blasting her with a stun gun and pepper spray and kidnapping their 3-year-old son. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation said Sunday afternoon that an Amber Alert for 3-year-old Luke Turner had been canceled, and the child is safe. The father was arrested at a motel in Brandon, Manitoba in Canada at ...
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AP PHOTOS Tony Kanaan Finally Wins Indy 500
Popular Brazilian Tony Kanaan ended years of heartbreak and won the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday on a day that saw a record 68 lead changes and a record average speed of 187.433 mph. It was also the coolest day in a decade at the speedway, but it didn't keep Kanaan from celebrating with the traditional celebration of milk after his victory. Carlos Munoz, a 21-year-old Colombian making his ...
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Colo. Man Wanted in Sons Kidnapping Arrested in Canada
Luke Turner, a missing 3-year-old Colorado boy, was found safe in Manitoba, Canada, today, as police arrested his father in connection with the alleged abduction. Monty Turner, 51, was arrested this afternoon at the Casablance Motor Lodge in Brandon, Manitoba, without incident, according to Cmdr. Jeffrey Satur of the Longmont, Colo., Police Department. Luke was placed in the care of Family ...
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Police Officer fatal shooting premeditated
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Kentucky State Police say the fatal shooting of a police officer was premeditated and are asking for the public's help in finding suspects. Authorities held a press conference Sunday to provide more details about the early Saturday morning shooting of 33-year-old Bardstown Officer Jason Ellis. State Police spokesman Norman Chaffins told The Associated Press that ...
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Officials Previous collisions on collapse bridge
The collapse of an interstate highway bridge in northern Washington state should be a wake-up call that prompts an expansive safety review, according to National Transportation Safety Board ...
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Teen could be third death from San Antonio flash floods police
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Rescue crews in a San Antonio suburb worked on Sunday to find a teenager believed to have drowned during a flash flood a day earlier, which could raise the storm's death toll to ...
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Skydiver falls to death after attempting multiple person manoeuvr over Southern California
LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. - Authorities say a 62-year-old skydiver has died after plummeting into a Southern California backyard. UT San Diego cites a preliminary investigation report that finds a group of skydivers were trying a multiple person manoeuvr over Riverside County on Saturday when one of them became entangled in a parachute. The man was unable to free himself and fell to the ground. ...
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APNewsBreak Temp Bridges Planned for Fallen I-5
Plans are underway to construct a pair of temporary steel bridges across the Skagit River in northern Washington state where a highway span collapsed into the water last week. The Associated Press has learned from an official who spoke on the condition of anonymity ahead of a formal announcement that the bridges will go up next to the original span and will allow limited travel over ...
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Watch Obama in Moore Oklahoma Americans Are Praying With You
-- -- -- -- Dresser -- rhetoric. Obviously -- a picture's worth a thousand words and what we're seeing here it gives you some sense of what. People more hands people Oklahoma have been dealing -- ...
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A look at select electric car makers sales trends
Better Place is the latest casualty in an electric vehicle market that has struggled to lure consumers who are skeptical of the short battery life, high price, and a lack of infrastructure that can require recharging stops of several hours on long trips. Here's a look at sales trends for select electric car ...
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Schumer proposes senators look at media protection
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Chuck Schumer is proposing legislation that would set additional rules for how leaks about government secrets are investigated. Schumer said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation" that when the government is going to ask a news organization to divulge information it first must go to a judge. He says that judge would "impose a balancing test" to ...
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American Al Jazeera Channel Shifs Focus to U.S. News
Qatar acquired Al Gore's Current TV in January, they said that Current would be replaced by Al Jazeera America, an international news channel with 60 percent new programming from the United States. The remaining 40 percent, they said, would come from Al Jazeera English, their existing English-language news channel in Doha, Qatar, that is already available in much of the rest of the ...
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Correction Angel Flight-Crash story
EPHRATAH, N.Y. -- In stories May 24 and May 25 about an Angel Flight crash in upstate New York, The Associated Press reported erroneously, based on information from the Fulton County Sheriff's Department, that the plane's two passengers were found dead Friday and authorities were searching for the pilot. The sheriff's department now says the bodies of one passenger and the pilot ...
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Obama urges Americans to step up tornado aid
President Barack Obama tries to comfort Plaza Towers Elementary School principal Amy Simpson as he views the devastation of the school Sunday, May 26, 2013, in Moore, Okla., caused by tornado and severe weather last ...
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1 Dead 10 Hurt in Car-Party Bus Crash in Calif.
One person is dead and 10 people were taken to hospitals after a crash early Sunday in the San Francisco Bay Area involving a car driven by a man police say had been drinking and a party bus, authorities said. In the 2 a.m. crash, a Honda coupe driven by a 43-year-old Oakland man appears to have slammed into the center divider of Highway 101, then came to a stop in the fast lanes facing ...
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Obama calls Oklahoma tornados toll hard to comprehend
MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - Standing by a pile of debris that once was an elementary school, U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday called the destruction last week's tornado wrought in Moore, Oklahoma, "hard to comprehend" and vowed to provide long-term federal help in ...
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How can the government define imminent threat
end of the day it's something the commander in chief has to decide, is this threat imminent enough? and i think the key thing in thames of the redefining of using drones is now it's no longer going to be sufficient that it affects a u.s. interest. it has to affect the safety of ...
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