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Video Greatest threat to Africas white lions American hunters
Very few white lions live in the wild today, but Linda Tucker is on a mission to change that. She left behind her life in Paris and founded the Global White Lion Protection Trust, dedicated to saving the African white ...
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Z on TV Mel Brooks an American Master and then some
You cannot understand American humor in the second half of the 20th Century without appreciating the crazed genius of Mel Brooks. And "American Masters" does an all-out appreciation at 9 p.m. Monday (May 20) on PBS. Here's a podcast of my preview from WYPR ...
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Cahill in top form in New York
Tim Cahill has continued his top form ahead of Australia's World Cup qualifiers in June with the winner in New York Red Bulls' 1-0 triumph over Los Angeles Galaxy.Cahill notched his fourth goal in five games in Major League Soccer to give the Red Bulls their fifth victory in six matches, keeping the New York-based side at the top of the Eastern Conference standings.In classic Cahill ...
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ERBA Diagnostics Rooted in Mumbai growing in Miami
Business : ERBA and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and sell diagnostic test kits, automated medical testing equipment and a range of reagents and other chemical products used in medical research and commercial laboratories, hospitals and doctors’ offices. ERBA products are employed in tests and analyses related to autoimmune and infectious diseases, diabetes and blood ...
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Central China woos Latin American investors
/enpproperty--> Central China's Henan province said on Saturday it will try to create a more amicable investment environment for Latin American countries, in a bid to further lure investors from the Caribbean adjacent region amid China's economic slowdown. "We will continue to open up fields including education, medical care, finance, aviation, and modern services to foreign ...
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Obama stresses personal responsibility to Morehouse graduates
President Barack Obama on Sunday stressed the importance of personal responsibility and "what it means to be a man" in his commencement address at historically-black Morehouse College in ...
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Video Medgar Evers How his legacy shaped the civil rights movement
This June marks 50 years since civil rights leader Medgar Evers was gunned down outside his home in Jackson, Miss. Randall Pinkston reports on his ...
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Henry Galaxy were better than New York
New York Red Bulls striker Thierry Henry has conceded his team were lucky to defeat Los Angeles Galaxy 1-0 in Major League Soccer.Tim Cahill struck for New York in the first minute of second-half stoppage time on Sunday, stealing victory at the Red Bull Arena but Henry claimed after the match that the Galaxy 'were better'.Henry praised the Red Bulls for their ability to grind out wins ...
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Seizure of AP phone records on Capitol Hill raises concerns about separation of powers
View results News organizations are convinced that the Obama administration trampled on freedom of the press when the Justice Department seized Associated Press phone records in pursuit of a government source who leaked details of a thwarted terrorist plot last year.But some congressional analysts also are raising concerns that Justice violated the Constitution’s separation-of-powers ...
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Afrojack Calvin Harris Shake New York at Electric Daisy Carnival
It goes without saying that dance music festivals Stateside are finally catching up to their European counterparts – this year, each leg of the two-day Electric Daisy Carnival New York attracted 50,000 people, paltry compared to the sold-out 325,000 who will descend on Vegas when the main festival hits in late June. Even so, the vastness of the experience was impressive and, at times, ...
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Breaking Feds Disappear Adam Kokesh
Radio host Adam Kokesh was arrested Saturday in Philadelphia during a Smoke Down Prohibition rally. As witnessed in footage of the event filmed by fellow activists, Kokesh appears to have been arrested for the victimless crime of exercising his First Amendment right to free speech. The talk radio host recently garnered national attention when he announced a July 4th armed march on Washington ...
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US adviser on board of firm that sold anthrax drug
A 13-person commission is taking a year to analyze the ethical issues of whether children can participate in research to determine safe dosage levels of an anthrax ...
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Major tornadoes hit United States
National Weather Service described the tornado as "large, violent and extremely dangerous" and said it was moving north east at 30 mph.The tornadoes are part of a large storm system moving through the Plains and upper ...
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American CIA mole Fogle leaves Russia
(52 mins ago) A US diplomat who wore a disguise and is accused by the Russians of being a CIA spy after they caught him allegedly trying to recruit agents last week left yesterday, Russian television reported. Ryan Fogle flew out of Moscow, Russia's NTV state television channel said, broadcasting pictures showing him at Sheremetyevo International Airport. Russia announced last week that ...
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2 men arrested in killing of teen over iPad in Las Vegas
According to investigators, Marcos Arenas, 15, was walking down a street with an iPad on Thursday when a passenger got out of a vehicle and tried to steal the device from ...
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Tornadoes Level Homes in Okla. Hit Other States
One of several tornadoes that touched down Sunday in Oklahoma turned homes in a trailer park near Oklahoma City into splinters and rubble and sent frightened residents along a 100-mile corridor scurrying for shelter. The tornadoes that touched down in Oklahoma, Kansas and Iowa were part of a massive, northeastward-moving storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota. At least four ...
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Tornado levels homes in Oklahoma City trailer park
People survey damage from a tornado that hit Edmond, Okla., on Sunday, May 19, 2013. A powerful storm system rumbled through the Plains and upper Midwest on Sunday, spawning tornadoes that damaged roofs and structures near Oklahoma City and kicked up debris in Wichita, ...
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At least one reported dead as tornadoes hammer Oklahoma Kansas and Iowa
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A tornado half a mile wide struck near Oklahoma City on Sunday, part of a massive storm front that hammered the central United States. News reports said at least one person had ...
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Powerful thunderstorms rumble through hard-hit Midwest
EDMOND, Okla. A powerful storm system rumbled through the Plains and upper Midwest on Sunday, spawning tornadoes that damaged homes and buildings near Oklahoma City and put the Tulsa area on high-alert. There were no immediate reports of injuries caused by any of the tornadoes that touched down in Oklahoma and Kansas, including one that hit the Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond before moving ...
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10 Things to Know for Monday
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday: 1. OBAMA OFFERS STARK VIEW, AND ENCOURAGING WORDS, FOR BLACK GRADS As an African-American man, he tells Morehouse's Class of '13, 'I might have been in prison. I might have been unemployed. I might not have been able to support a family. And that motivates me.' 2. ...
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Potential Donors to Enroll America Grow Skittish
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Krauthammer White House should try telling the truth
The original CIA draft included four paragraphs on the involvement of al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists and on the dangerous security situation in Benghazi. These paragraphs were stricken after strenuous State Department objections mediated by the White House. All that was left was the fable of the spontaneous ...
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Duck duck goose annual North American head count has begun
Murray Gillespie, a waterfowl biologist with Enviorment Canada and the Canadian Wildlife Service and his summer student Michele Chupik survey duck populations on a wetland east of Calgary on May 11, 2013. (Chris Bolin for The Globe and ...
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Elite FBI agents killed in training accident off beach in Virginia
United States Two FBI agents from the elite Hostage Rescue Team have been killed in a training accident.The Federal Bureau of Investigation says they died off a beach in Virginia.US media reports say the accident involved a ...
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Investigation continues into train collision
connecticut . shocked passengers making their way to safety just moments after impact. nbc news has not authenticated the video. today crews separated more than a dozen rail cars at the collision site and heavily damaged train cars were moved. a slow tow to a nearby railyard. the ntsb is focusing on two sections of track with signs of possible fractures. they were sent to the agency's lab ...
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