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Lewis Points Finger At ‘Rich White People’ For School Problems
CHICAGO (CBS) – A day before the first set of school closings was set to begin, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis had some harsh words about how the Chicago Public Schools are funded and managed, blaming much of the district's problems on racism. WBBM Newsradio’s Nancy Harty reports, at a luncheon on education reform, Lewis told members of the City Club that Chicago ...
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Polls Find Lisa Madigan’s Major Campaign Issue Is Her Dad
CHICAGO (STMW) – There's no question that Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is personally popular statewide. However, while more than half of voters have a good opinion of her, her powerful father, Speaker Michael Madigan, could definitely be a campaign issue. Support for Lisa Madigan's potential run for governor tumbles considerably when her father enters the picture, ...
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Notebook American men set lineup for World Championships
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- The American men finalized their lineup for Sunday's preliminary competition in the World Gymnastics Championships. National champion Paul Hamm, two-time Olympian Blaine Wilson and Jason Gatson will compete in all six events. Raj Bhavsar will only compete on parallel bars -- his favorite event -- because a back injury he sustained in March has flared up. ...
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Prostate Cancer Hits African American Men Especially Hard
MIAMI -- Marc Henderson, a 63-year-old African-American airport administrator here, isn’t afraid to ask his physician to do a blood test for Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA), a screening test for prostate cancer. "I’d rather know early on so that it can be treated, rather than sit around in denial until it’s too late," he said. "If it’s going to help catch ...
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U.S. not concerned about Chinas influence in L.America White House official
CARTAGENA, Colombia, April 14 (Xinhua) -- The United States is not concerned about China's growing influence in Latin America, a senior White House official said here Saturday."We're not concerned at all," Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor for strategic communications, said at a press briefing on the sidelines of the sixth Summit of the Americas."In fact, if ...
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World in Pictures June 19 2013 The Wanted in London and Madonna in New York
TODAY'S World in Pictures features photographs of Nathan Sykes, Tom Parker, Jay McGuiness, Max George and Siva Kaneswaran at the premiere of their reality E! TV series Wanted Life in London and Madonna at the world premiere of 'Madonna: The MDNA Tour' at the Paris Theatre in New ...
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Michael Hastings journalist who ended Gen. McChrystals career dies in fiery crash
Michael was a great, fearless journalist with an incredible instinct for the story, and a gift for finding ways to make his readers care about anything he covered from wars to ...
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How Alan Greenspan’s ‘tone’ moved gold and silver
Consider this another way to look at "irrational exuberance," that famous emotion cited by Alan Greenspan at the height of the dot-com ...
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Viettel to pump USD33m into Viettel America Company
According to various Vietnamese media reports, the country's prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung, has approved Viettel Group's plan to set up a new US-based offshoot, called Viettel America Company. The US subsidiary will have a market capitalisation of more ...
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Miami force decider in NBA finals
The Miami Heat forced an already absorbing NBA Finals to a deciding Game Seven after a thrilling 103-100 overtime victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday tied the series at 3-3. Miami trailed by 13 points in the third quarter but LeBron James, ditching his trademark headband, turned on the afterburners to spark a Heat fightback. San Antonio were not about to roll over under the weight of ...
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Police Paraplegic castrated at Philly facility man charged
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A 41-year-old man is being held on $5 million bail after police say he castrated a paraplegic during a dispute at an assisted living facility in Philadelphia.Authorities say Edgar Bonilla is charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and other counts in Monday night's attack inside the Inglis Apartments at Elmwood. Lt. John Walker says Bonilla was visiting a ...
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Nearly 14000 US Churches Signed on for My Hope America with Billy Graham
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association recently launched "Lose to Gain," its second half-hour video program installment of the My Hope America with Billy Graham campaign series. With less than five months remaining in the campaign, nearly 14,000 churches have registered in the project that culminates in an evangelistic video featuring portions of Billy Graham's preaching, ...
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Driver charged in death of soccer fan dribbling to Brazil
By Lauren Gambino, Associated Press The driver Oregon police say fatally struck a man trying to dribble a soccer ball 10,000 miles from Seattle to Brazil for the World Cup has been arrested. Scott Van Hiatt, of Neskowin, Ore., was arrested Monday on a charge of criminally negligent homicide, said Lincoln City Police Chief Keith Kilian. Richard Swanson, of Seattle, planned to dribble the ball for ...
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Disabled Ohio woman daughter allegedly held captive in horrid conditions
Jessica L. Hunt, Jordie L. Callahan and Daniel Brown were arrested on charges of enslaving a mentally disabled young mother and her daughter over a two-year period. Federal agents and Ashland police said on June 18, the trio forced the woman to do housework, threatened her and the girl with violence and fed their pets better than the ...
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Amanda Knox Ruling Cites Sex Game Theory
Italy's top criminal court has said its decision to order a retrial of Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend in the murder of Meredith Kercher was made because their acquittals contained shortcomings and contradictions. The Court of Cassation also said the possibility that Briton Miss Kercher was killed in a sex game that had got out of hand needs to be revisited. Knox and her Italian ...
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NSA surveillance is an attack on American citizens says Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky has praised the Guardian's revelations about the activities of the National Security Agency. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the ...
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Africa White House Briefing On Obamas Meetings At G8 Summit
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary June 17, 2013 PRESS BRIEFING BY PRESS SECRETARY JAY CARNEY AND DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR FOR STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS BEN RHODES ON PRESIDENT OBAMA'S MEETINGS AT THE G8 SUMMIT Killyhevlin Hotel Enniskillen, Northern Ireland 9:53 P.M. BST MR. CARNEY: Thank you for being here. Thank you for your patience. I know it's late, at ...
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White House says debt limit compromise possible
With less than one week towards a possible calamitous U.S. debt default deadline, the White House said on Wednesday that a debt limit compromise is essential and possible, adding fresh pressure to the stalemated debt ceiling negotiation process. In response to some analysts' studies that the nation could postpone for about a week after its borrowing authority expires on Tuesday due to new ...
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RPT-Outbreak of deadly piglet virus spreads to 13 U.S. states
Wed Jun 19, 2013 7:00am EDT By P.J. Huffstutter CHICAGO, June 18 (Reuters) - A swine virus deadly to young pigs, one never before seen in North America, is spreading rapidly across the United States and proving harder to control than previously believed. The virus now has spread to 13 states - with more than 100 positive cases to date - since it was first diagnosed in the United States last ...
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Rick Perry takes aim at New York
Rick Perry stars in an ad out Wednesday that coincides with his swing across the Northeast to lure jobs to Texas.The one-minute, campaign-style video - shared first with POLITICO - attacks New York, where the governor is spending the day, as a high-tax, high-regulation state. ...
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Brazil UnrestThe Brazilian government has deployed more national security force Latin America News
The Brazilian government will deploy National Public Security Force in five cities hosting the FIFA football tournament in an effort to contain the ongoing protests across the country. The announcement by the Brazilian Justice Ministry comes after a day of violent clashes between protesters and riot police. The ministry decided to deploy the joint federal police force on Wednesday in response ...
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Extreme Arizona wildfire burns 5000 acres in just 7 hours
By Henry Austin, NBC News contributor Hundreds of people were evacuated in Arizona on Tuesday after a wind-whipped wildfire spread across 5,000 acres in just seven hours.More than 300 firefighters, along with multiple helicopters and aircraft, moved in to tackle the "extreme" blaze which started in "remote, rugged terrain" on the east side of Granite Mountain near Prescott, ...
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Accused Cleveland kidnapper to appear at pre-trial hearing
CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A former Cleveland school-bus driver accused of holding three women captive in his home and torturing them for a decade is scheduled to appear in court for a pre-trial hearing on ...
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The Executioner under microscope in trial of accused U.S. mobster Bulger
BOSTON (Reuters) - Attorneys for accused mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger will seek on Wednesday to paint star witness John "The Executioner" Martorano as a heartless killer whose testimony cannot be trusted in the trial of one of Boston's most feared ...
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FBI search for Jimmy Hoffas body may last two more days
A federal investigator carries yellow crime tape at a field which investigators are prepared to dig up for the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa in Oakland Township, Michigan June 17, ...
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