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Obama describes ‘shift’ in US-Myanmar relations
President Barack Obama hosts Myanmar President Thein Sein on Monday. The occasion marks the first time a president from Myanmar has visited the White House in over four ...
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Florida mom alleges anti-gay bias after daughter expelled arrested
By Daniel Arkin, Staff Writer, NBC News A teenage girl in Florida faces criminal charges for an alleged sexual relationship with a 15-year-old female student in a case the defendant’s family says stems from anti-gay prejudice.Kaitlyn Hunt, 18, has been charged with two felony counts of "lewd and lascivious battery of a child 12 to 16 years old" related to conduct with a minor she ...
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Delayed by war Class of 1943 finally holds senior prom
By Rehema Ellis and Andrew Rafferty, NBC News It took seven decades, but the Hillhouse High School Class of 1943 finally had its senior prom.Prom for the members of the Greatest Generation was cancelled 70 years ago when the young men in the Connecticut school - and across the country - were called on to go defend the United States during World War II. But as of last Sunday, the high school rite ...
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We wont screw it up Yahoo buys New York-based social network Tumblr for $1.1bn as chief executive Marissa Mayer rules out radical changes following negative reaction
The statement from Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer begins with a promise "not to screw it up", whilst assuring users that David Karp will remain CEO and that Yahoo! will "operate Tumblr independently".The deal went through for $1.1 billion (723 million) in cash, a sum justified by Tumblr's impressive numbers as one of the world's fastest growing social-media networks.The ...
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Omaha police exploring possible link in two double homicides
By Katie Schubert OMAHA (Reuters) - Investigators in Omaha are looking at whether the murders discovered last week of a doctor and his wife are connected to the unsolved 2008 murders of a young boy and his family's housekeeper, police said on Monday. Dr. Roger Brumback and his wife, Mary, both 65, were found murdered last Tuesday in their west Omaha home. Brumback was a professor at ...
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Feds Tracked Reporters Movements Personal E-Mail in Criminal Conspiracy Investigation
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has been in the hot seat over the Justice Department’s decision to sign off on a subpoena that helped the feds seize the phone records of AP ...
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Attention shifts to White House in IRS probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senior aides to President Barack Obama knew weeks ago about a watchdog report on the U.S. Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups, a spokesman said on Monday, shifting the focus to the White House in a fast-moving ...
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Tornado on the ground in Oklahoma City area
(Reuters) - A tornado was on the ground in the Oklahoma City metropolitan are on Monday, live television showed, and the National Weather Service warned of tornadoes in two counties of central ...
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87-Year-Old Accusing Trump Chicago Woman Playing Age Card
Jackie Goldberg, 87, is suing the business magnate in federal court under allegations that he ripped her off when he sold her two $1 million hotel condo units within downtown Chicago's Trump Tower. After the deal, Trump reneged on financial incentives promised to early investors.During a tirade in the lobby of the Dirksen Federal Court building on Wednesday, Trump touted that Goldberg was ...
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White House learned of IRS inquiry last month Issa informed in mid-2012
The chief White House lawyer, Kathryn Ruemmler, learned last month that a Treasury inspector general had concluded an audit of the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups, weeks before the matter became public, according to a senior White House ...
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Chicago runners to help Boston bombing victims
"Gloria Steinem once said, 'Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it,'" said Jothy Rosenberg, who lives near Boston and was diagnosed with bone cancer at 16 and had to have his right leg amputated. Three years later, doctors told Rosenberg the cancer had spread to his lung. After removing about 40 percent of his lungs, doctors ...
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Record Fla. Powerball winner cant remain anonymous
ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. It could be an anxious wait of up to two months for people in a small Florida city to find out who won the highest Powerball jackpot in history: an estimated $590.5 million. The lucky ticket was bought sometime Saturday or earlier at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, a city of about 13,000 people best known around the state for its brand of spring water with the same name. ...
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Video 787 Dreamliner lands at Chicagos Ohare
United Airlines is again flying the 787, four months after smoldering batteries forced the plane to be grounded worldwide. The incidents included an emergency landing of one plane, and a fire on ...
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Vermont governor signs assisted-suicide bill
MONTPELIER, Vt. Vermont is now the fourth state in the country that allows physician assisted suicide. The law, which allows physicians to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients, took effect Monday when it was signed by Gov. Peter ...
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San Francisco airport plans $4.1 billion in upgrades over 10 years
San Francisco's airport plans to spend $4.1 billion over the next decade to fund a major upgrade to its facilities. The expenditures will lead to the creation of more than 36,000 jobs, according to San Francisco ...
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Watch Ex-Cop Hailed as Hero Is Charged With Rape
-- retired Philadelphia cop whose heroism once earned him praise from Vice President Biden is now facing rape charges. 27 year old Richard Dick coats worth is accused of sexually assaulting two ...
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Watch Jodi Arias Judge Denies Attorneys Request to Withdraw
Jodi Arias Judge Denies Attorneys' Request to Withdraw Kirk Nurmi asked for a mistrial in the death penalty phase citing prosecutorial ...
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San Francisco Favored to Host 50th Super Bowl
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Florida governor signs budget but vetoes college tuition hike
By Bill Cotterell TALLAHASSEE | Mon May 20, 2013 4:24pm EDT TALLAHASSEE (Reuters) - Florida Governor Rick Scott signed the largest budget in his state's history on Monday while vetoing a college tuition increase and axing $368 million in projects he said did not meet his Republican criteria of job creation, education improvement and holding down the cost of government. Scott, who ...
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Chicago Teachers Union Overwhelmingly Re-Elects Karen Lewis’s CORE Caucus
Inspired by Vermont’s successful drive for universal healthcare, the Labor Campaign for Single-Payer is working with activists from Maine, California and Oregon to expand healthcare access. Micah Uetricht Internal union elections are unlikely to capture much attention, especially at a time when media coverage of labor borders on nonexistent. But the results of a recent election in the ...
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Feds NYU researchers took bribes from Chinese co.
NEW YORK -; Three researchers are charged with taking bribes from a Chinese government-supported institution in exchange for access to restricted research from a New York University ...
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Alaska unveils plan to assess gas oil in ANWR
JUNEAU, Alaska -; Alaska has unveiled a plan to determine the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's oil and gas potential, as the state looks to reinvigorate the debate over whether to drill on the refuge's coastal ...
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Education Department gives 3 more states waivers
WASHINGTON -; Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced on Monday that three more states would join the ranks of those given permission to ignore parts of the federal No Child Left Behind law in favor of their own school improvement ...
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Police Suspects mistakenly dial 911 during crime
FRESNO, Calif. -; Two California men were in custody on Monday after accidentally dialing 911 on a cellphone before breaking into a car, authorities ...
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Palestinians hold off on UN agency membership
UNITED NATIONS -; A top official says Palestinians have done all the legal work necessary to join 63 U.N. agencies, conventions and treaties, but haven't applied yet mainly to give the U.S. peace effort a chance to ...
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