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Teachers’ Union To Wrap Up Three-Day Protest Of School Closings
CHICAGO (CBS) – City streets could be full of protesters again on Monday, as the Chicago Teachers Union wraps up a three-day march to voice opposition to plans to close more than 50 public schools. WBBM Newsradio’s Nancy Harty reports the union organized a three-day march through the city, as teachers, parents and students walked through the West and South Sides, to visit many of ...
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Target goes tech-hunting in San Francisco
Target Corp. has opened an office in San Francisco, where it plans to scout for tech talent to build its e-commerce and mobile technology efforts. Reuters reports that Target had hired David Newman to run its Technology Innovation Center, which will seek out other tech companies that can help Targets tech ventures, like speeding up its website or improve the shopping experience for ...
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Chicago to be Fifth Third Banks top market outpacing Cincinnati
Chicago is expected to overtake Cincinnati as Fifth Third Bancorp's top market, CEO Kevin Kabat said in a recent interview. Chicago is expected to overtake Cincinnati as Fifth Third Bancorp's top market, CEO Kevin Kabat said in a recent interview, according to a report by Columbus Business First citing Crain's Chicago Business. The Chicago/northern Indiana market accounts for about ...
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United Airlines to restart 787 flights on Monday
United Airlines is putting its Boeing 787 Dreamliners back in the air. The Federal Aviation Administration grounded Dreamliners in mid-January after separate incidents when on-board lithium-ion batteries overheated in Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways jets. The grounding forced United to delay planned international flights and hurt its first-quarter earnings by $11 million, the Associated ...
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More storms tornadoes expected in central United States
Mon May 20, 2013 7:47am EDT May 20 (Reuters) - Violent thunderstorms were forecast to hit the central United States on Monday, threatening to bring additional hail, heavy rain and tornadoes to the region stricken by a deadly twister during the weekend. The National Weather Service said severe storms would hit the Ozarks and the middle Mississippi Valley, with the greatest risk in northwest ...
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Tornadoes slam Plains Midwest 1 dead in Okla. violent weather expected today
SHAWNEE, Okla. -- Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled. When she returned, there was little left of the community she called ...
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Video Jon Stewart - the new Voice of America in China
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New York City shocked as anti-gay hate crimes come out of closet
USA As the Big Apple struggles to come to terms with the murder of a gay man in Greenwich Village on Saturday, an uncomfortable question emerges: Are Americans less tolerant of gay lifestyles than the recent spate of same-sex union legislation indicates? The brutal slaying marked the 22nd hate crime targeting gays in New York City this year, compared to 13 incidents at the same time last ...
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Monster machines fan out on U.S. farms facing slow sow
SHERIDAN, Illinois (Reuters) - With the U.S. spring planting season off to a historically slow start, an increasing number of farmers are counting on powerful tools to catch up: Monster machines that sow 36 rows of corn at once and feature high-tech innovations like computer-guided directional ...
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Breaking Amish Brave New World Cast Doesnt Know Anything About Washington DC
Breaking Amish: Brave New World ." When they reached Washington DC on their road trip to Florida, they were unimpressed with most of what they saw. Sabrina compared the White House to a dollhouse. "Really? The President of the United States lives in that?" she said. "Like, I've seen Amish houses that are bigger than that." After they were done bashing the white ...
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Video Watch Tornado touches down on Route 66
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5 Things to Know This Morning
3. Hot Air Balloon Crash Kills at Least 1 Two hot air balloons collided in mid-air during a sightseeing tour of volcanic rock formations in Turkey, causing one of them to crash to the ground, officials said. One Brazilian tourist was killed while 24 other people on board were injured. 4. Measles Surges in UK Years After Vaccine Scare More than a decade ago, British parents refused to ...
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3 banks nearly stop foreclosure sales after feds tweak restrictions
Three large banks have nearly halted their foreclosure sales while they make sure they are meeting revised standards on how troubled homeowners are to be treated. Wells Fargo & Co., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) have nearly halted foreclosure sales after federal regulators revised their orders on the how troubled borrowers were to be treated before losing their homes. The Los ...
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RPT-INSIGHT-The road to a greener America is littered with road-kill
Mon May 20, 2013 6:59am EDT By Nichola Groom LOS ANGELES May 20 (Reuters) - In October 2004, then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger rolled up to a pioneering fueling station at Los Angeles International Airport in a hydrogen-powered metallic blue Hummer loaned to him by General Motors Corp. The "California Hydrogen Highway," Schwarzenegger's vision to ensure that every ...
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Anheuser-Busch sued by New York distributor
McCraith Beverages, a beer and wine distributor in New York, is suing Anheuser-Busch for assigning new beers to a rival distributor. In the lawsuit, McCraith alleges it was granted exclusive distribution rights between 1994 and 2004 to distribute Rolling Rock, Stella Artois, Becks, Bass and other beers by Labatt USA, which was later bought by InBev USA, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. In ...
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American to let passengers with small carry-ons board early
American Airlines has introduced a new boarding process it says will speed the loading of passengers. Passengers with carry-on items that will fit under the seat in front of them will be allowed to board American Airlines flights early, according to a new process the Fort Worth-based airline has introduced. The new process will speed up boarding time by an average of two minutes per plane, ...
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HM mulling production in S. America Africa CEO
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Swedish fashion giant H&M is considering starting production in South America and Africa, chief executive Karl-Johan Persson told the Financial Times in an interview published on Monday."When that part of the world is growing, which it is, it becomes even more interesting to look at production in South America or Central America. So, we are exploring that opportunity ...
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Amalric plays a Frenchman in America in Jimmy P
In this photo taken Sunday, May 19, 2013, actor Mathieu Amalric poses for photographs following an interview with The Associated Press at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France. Amalric depicts a maverick academic counseling Benicio Del Toro's Native American war vet in "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian," director Arnaud Desplechin's Cannes ...
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Connecticut governor Roads could become parking lot after train crash
By Ian Johnston, Staff Writer, NBC News Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy warned that highways in the state’s southwest could turn into a giant "parking lot" at rush hour Monday if 30,000 commuters who normally take the train to New York City try to drive instead.Malloy said he expected the commute to be "extremely challenging" amid ongoing work to repair damage to the ...
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Obama administration cracks down on leaks
The Obama administration has set in motion 6 criminal prosecutions related to information leaking, more than any previous administration. NBC's Michael Isikoff ...
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Billionaires Now Own American Politics
leading to the first far-reaching restrictions on money in American politics, have you been so free to meddle. There is no limit to the amount of money you can give to elect your friends and allies to political office, to defeat those with whom you disagree, to shape or stunt or kill policy, and above all to influence the tone and content of political discussion in this ...
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Tornadoes tear through Plains at least 1 killed in Oklahoma 21 more injured
SHAWNEE, Okla. Tornadoes ravaged portions of central Oklahoma on Sunday, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open. "You can see where there's absolutely nothing, then there are places where you have mobile home frames on top of each other, debris piled up," Pottawatomie County Sheriff Mike Booth said after ...
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10 Things to Know for Today
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. GOP LOOKS TO CAPITALIZE ON OBAMA WOES Many Republicans would like to deny the president a victory in immigration reform, which is being considered by the Senate today. 2. FIERCE FIGHTING ON BORDER AS KERRY PRESSES FOR PEACE IN SYRIA Twenty-three fighters from the militant ...
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Washington DC presents Turkish Cultural month
The American Turkish Association of Washington, D.C. (ATA-DC) has announced that the Washington’s first annual Turkish Cultural Heritage Month will be celebrated throughout the month of September. Turkish Cultural Heritage Month has been officially recognized by Mayor Vincent Gray and Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley. The month will include a "Mobile Turkish Coffee Truck" ...
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San Francisco Travel Association Announces New Marketing Representation In Japan
The San Francisco Travel Association, in partnership with San Francisco International Airport (SFO), has retained AVIAREPS Marketing Garden Ltd. (AMG) as their new marketing representation office in Japan. San Francisco Travel and SFO first retained representation services in Japan in 1987, making San Francisco one of the first cities in the U.S. to have an office in Tokyo. In 2000, a ...
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