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Moniz LNG exports on hold until data reviewed
Dr. Ernest Moniz speaks after being sworn in as Energy Secretary, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, during a ceremony at the Energy Department in Washington. Moniz, 68, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, replaces Steven Chu, who served as energy secretary in President Barack Obama's first term. Moniz served as an energy undersecretary in the Clinton administration. (AP ...
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IRS chief knew tea party groups targeted in 2012
former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman testifies on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, before the Senate Finance Committee hearing on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) practice of targeting applicants for tax-exempt status based on political leanings. (AP Photo/Charles ...
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Lawyer Feds investigating Susan Powell case
Chuck Cox, left, describes the search for his missing daughter as he stands with attorney Anne Bremner during a news conference Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Seattle. Bremner said Tuesday there's an ongoing federal investigation into Susan Powell's disappearance. She made the announcement at the Seattle news conference a day after local officials in Utah said they had closed their ...
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OAS Leader Inaugurates Symposium at Inter-American Defense College
May 21, 2013 The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today inaugurated the symposium "The Armed Forces and their Participation in Public Security and Development Assignments," to be held today and tomorrow at the Inter-American Defense College (IADC) in Washington, DC. The event, organized by the Inter-American Defense Board ...
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Ghosts of 1999 in wake of Oklahoma tornado
MSNBC host and Oklahoma native Milissa Rehberger, who covered the May 1999 storm that struck the same area, compares the two weather events - and speaks to the resiliency of the ...
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How children cope with the trauma of the Oklahoma tornado
Irwin Redlener, a pediatrician and director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University, joins Martin Bashir discusses the challenges of making children, like those in Oklahoma, feel safe ...
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Bashir Silenced by Mother Nature
Martin Bashir walks through the first two hours of the massive Oklahoma tornado - from the moment the funnel cloud appeared to the full breadth of devastation just two hours ...
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Red Cross takes on the Oklahoma devastation – and flood of support
Martin Bashir walks through the first two hours of the massive Oklahoma tornado - from the moment the funnel cloud appeared to the full breadth of devastation just two hours ...
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‘Zombie’ attack victim may spend rest of life in Miami-Dade nursing home
Ronald Poppo listens to Heat games through a portable radio, but he’ll never watch TV again. He’s relearning how to play guitar, but he has lost interest in reconnecting with his family. Poppo’s doctors offer to give him prosthetic eyes and rebuild his chewed-off nose, but he turns them down. “He’s blind, so he can’t see what he looks like now, and it ...
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Miami-Dade non-profit offers free hearing screenings this week
Audiologist Maria Ortiz gets ready to test 10-year-old Vincent Feola's hearing during the Hearing and Speech Center of Florida's open house Tuesday. The free hearings continue this week. (Vincent's hearing turned out just ...
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YieldBoost United States Steel From 1.1 To 5.8
NYSE: X ) looking to boost their income beyond the stock's 1.1% annualized dividend yield can sell the January 2015 covered call at the $27 strike and collect the premium based on the $1.49 bid, which annualizes to an additional 4.7% rate of return against the current stock price (at ...
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AES supplies energy at Central Americas and the Caribbean’s most competitive prices
Santo Domingo.- The consolidated portfolio of energy generators that the power company AES manages offer the most competitive electricity prices in the local market as well as the Central America and Caribbean region. This was revealed by Marco De la Rosa, during breakfast the Energy Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAMDR), explaining that "AES sells a kilowatt hour of ...
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Canada Targets Both U.S. And Europe In Effort To Get White House Approval For Tar Sands Pipeline
doubled its spending on advertising to promote the Keystone XL pipeline and the production of tar sands oil. The effort to sell the pipeline to the U.S. and the resultant tar sands oil to Europe comes in spite of increasing revelations about the destructiveness of tar sands oil. ...
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Manchester City and Yankees launch New York MLS team
United States Manchester City and the New York Yankees have formed a new Major League Soccer team to play in New York City from 2015.English Premier League club Manchester City, which is owned by Sheikh Mansour of Abu Dhabi, will be the majority partner with the Yankees, the biggest name in baseball, an "active member of the ownership group", MLS said.The new team will be called New ...
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Owners Award Super Bowl 50 To San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco 49ers take the field for introductions prior to the NFC Divisional Playoff Game against the Green Bay Packers at Candlestick Park on January 12, 2013 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Harry How/Getty ...
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After Taking Medical Bills Into Account One In Seven American Seniors Live In Poverty
Preliminary analyses of the 2010 U.S. Census indicated that less than one in ten American seniors live in poverty. But a new and more nuanced ';supplemental'; poverty metric ...
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Analysis New MLS Club Faces Challenge to Make Mark in New York
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9-year-old from Plaza Towers school among first tornado victims identified
By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC News A 9-year-old girl who was "always smiling" is among the first of the Oklahoma tornado victims to be identified.Third-grader Ja'Nae Hornsby was one of the students who perished when the twister demolished Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla. on Monday afternoon.Members of her grieving family gathered Tuesday at a Baptist church in ...
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Inhofe Getting relief funds for Oklahoma will be totally different from Hurricane Sandy
MSNBC's Chris Jansing asks Sen James Inhofe about his vote on the Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund, and whether it will be different with the Oklahoma ...
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Tornado survivor emerges from cellar to survey damage
Jason Leger simply states "the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away" after emerging from a storm cellar to survey the widespread damage caused by the deadly tornado that devastated parts of ...
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Oklahoma tornado upgraded to highest level with winds over 200 MPH
MSNBC's Thomas Roberts joins Martin Bashir to report on the latest assessment of the tornado that ripped through Moore, Oklahoma - and why it may be one of the most powerful ever to hit a ...
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Why Star Trek Made San Francisco the Headquarters for Its Futuristic Utopia
is a crowd-sourced digital magazine made in just 48 hours, chronicling how our conversations with our things are thoroughly changing our world. Learn more ...
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Chelsea Clinton Serves As Co-Founder Co-Chair Of NYU Multifaith Institute
Chelsea Clinton is serving as co-founder and co-chair of NYU's Of Many Institute. In this photo, Clinton speaks about service and youth engagement at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Neb., Friday, May 10, 2013, at a fundraising lunch for the nonprofit Girls Inc. organization. (AP Photo/Nati ...
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Sources challenge White House claim of all-hands-on-deck pursuit of Benghazi suspects
U.S. military sources serving in North Africa are challenging the latest White House claim that the administration is applying "all the resources" at its disposal to bring the Benghazi attackers to justice, charging instead that the Obama administration knows who is responsible but is not acting. "They have let it slip by because of politics, and now we've taken all ...
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Fox News poll Majority thinks White House knew about IRS actions
Voters are concerned about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups for unfair treatment, and over half think the White House either knew it was happening or -- worse yet -- was actually behind the operation. ...
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