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U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear town meeting prayer case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Delving into the controversial relationship between government and religion, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether a town in New York could allow members of the public, who in practice were nearly all Christian clergy, to open meetings with a ...
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Jon Lester Red Sox fall in Chicago
CHICAGO - When Jon Lester took the mound tonight, he was trying to become the first Red Sox pitcher since 1973 to go at least 7-0 to start a season.But he also was facing his personal kryptonite.In his best and worst seasons, Lester struggles against the White Sox. Indeed, it has become as predictable as winter blizzards in Chicago. In nine previous starts against the White Sox entering the ...
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Former IRS chief faces bipartisan ire on Capitol Hill
IRS scandal gains traction and a bipartisan chorus on Capitol Hill demands more answers, the man who headed the agency at the time it was targeting conservative groups will be on the hot seat twice this ...
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Police close Susan Powell case offer new details
West Valley City Deputy Police Chief Mike Powell, center, makes remarks during a news conference, while West Valley City Mayor Mike Winder, right, and West Valley City Manager Wayne Pyle, left, look on Monday, May 20, 2013, in West Valley City, Utah. Citing a lack of leads, a police agency said Monday that it is closing the active investigation of the disappearance of Susan Powell, a Utah mother ...
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File Josh Powell had affair before wife vanished
West Valley City Deputy Police Chief Mike Powell, center, makes remarks during a news conference, while West Valley City Mayor Mike Winder, right, and West Valley City Manager Wayne Pyle, left, look on Monday, May 20, 2013, in West Valley City, Utah. Citing a lack of leads, a police agency said Monday that it is closing the active investigation of the disappearance of Susan Powell, a Utah mother ...
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Chinese president to visit three Latin American nations meet Obama in US
Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay state visits to Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica and Mexico from May 31 to June 6, and meet with US President Barack Obama in the United States on June 7-8, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang announced Tuesday.According to Qin, Xi's visits are at the invitation of President of Trinidad and Tobago Anthony Carmona, President of Costa Rica Laura ...
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Is no place safe New Yorks gay community unsettled by hate crimes
Photo credit: David Gatten of New York marches in a rally to honor Marc Carson. (Craig Ruttle) The string of savage hate crimes in New York City, culminating with the death of Marc Carson in Greenwich Village early Saturday morning, has New York's gay community reassessing its assumption of "safe places." Gay people come from all over the world to enjoy the non-judgmental ...
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Tornado Alleys violent weather history
Harold Brooks, NOAA research meteorologist with the national severe storms lab, talks with Rachel Maddow about the meteorological dynamics of Tornado Alley and what explains the concentration of tornado events in ...
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Six of the worst twisters in US history
An aerial view shows extensive damage to homes in the path of tornadoes in Tuscaloosa, Ala., April 28, 2011. Before Joplin came Tuscaloosa, an F4 tornado that killed 65 during a record-setting day when 200 twisters spun through the Southeast. The spring and summer of 2011 was one of the most active, deadly and destructive periods of tornadic activity in U.S. history. That year there were a ...
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Logistics of tornado disaster challenges response
tornado warning that's going so this is by no means over. we had the mile-wide tornado that you mentioned in moore and we have so many people responding off the street to help that ...
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Wait for news from schools heavy with anxiety
Jay Gray, NBC News correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow from outside the wreckage of what was Briarwood Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma before it was destroyed by a deadly tornado that cut a massive swath of destruction through the ...
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Preparing for bad news in Oklahoma
The storm peaked in the populated area of Moore, Okla., where the town is bracing for more bad news in the coming days. The Weather Channel's Brian Norcross ...
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Emergency responders rush all hands to tornado-stricken town
Janet Shamlian, NBC News national correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow live from Moore, Oklahoma about the conditions she sees as authorities are limiting the people being allowed into the town. Oklahoma Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb discusses the state of efforts by first responders to find as many people as possible as quickly as possible in the ...
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An agonizing wait for those returning to Moore
It is about an hour to travel two miles to reach the city of Moore now that traffic is so backed up. In addition, cell phones have been rendered useless by lack of signal. NBC's Janet Shamlian ...
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Rescue workers face sea of destruction in Oklahoma
David Massey, whose series of brief web videos shot in the immediate wake of the Moore, OK tornado spread rapidly across the Web, talks with Rachel Maddow about what he experienced on the scene. Sgt. Gary Knight of the Oklahoma City Policy Department discusses the state of the emergency response and the greatest challenges rescuers are ...
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Fox News Washington reporter who sought State Department leaks from Korean faces criminal rap
The US government is prosecuting a State Department expert on North Korea in an inquiry that appears to step into uncharted territory _ by declaring that a journalist is committing a crime in disclosing leaked information. It is the latest case of the Obama administration investigating classified information improperly disclosed to reporters, AP reports. During the investigation of State ...
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White House Defends Tracking Fox Reporter
court affidavit obtained by The Washington Post . Without naming Mr. Rosen, the document describes the reporter as "at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or ...
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A Mayoral Race of ‘Firsts’ for Los Angeles Voters
LOS ANGELES -- Voters in the nation's second-largest city will go to the polls Tuesday to elect a new mayor in an election that will inevitably result in a milestone: either the first woman or first Jew elected to the top city ...
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TARGET SPEAKS OUT Tea Party Founder Claims Feds Eyed Her for Years
Catherine Engelbrecht has been telling people for years she's been targeted and harassed by the federal government. Not many people listened. But her case is receiving new attention after her congressman, Republican Texas Rep. Kevin Brady, recounted her ordeal during a high-profile House committee hearing on the IRS practice of singling out conservative groups. He claimed she was ...
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Tornadoes in America The Oklahoma Disaster in Context
could probably lay claim to being the very center of Tornado Alley, an area roughly defined from north Texas to South Dakota, and west of the Mississippi river. On May 3, 1999, Moore was hit by one of the worst tornadoes on record. That storm's winds were indirectly measured at 302 miles per ...
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Broward women brought 143 Haitians to S. Fla. for fake jobs feds say
Haiti with false promises of steady paying jobs in construction or on farms, the hope of getting permanent residency and making a life in the U.S., they said.But when they arrived, they found the jobs didn't exist, and they were left to fend for themselves — the victims of a fraud perpetrated by two Broward women, prosecutors said.The plot was so audacious that one of the women, Jetta ...
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Pentagon to take over some CIA drone operations sources
A U.S. Marine, who is part of a military honor guard, takes his position before a welcoming ceremony for German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere, by U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, at the Pentagon in Washington April 30, ...
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The New York Times Reinvents the Boring Banner Ad
obscure piece on The New York Times’ website about Picasso repurposing his canvases by painting over older, abandoned projects was fascinating, at least insofar as stories about master artists and their recycling habits go. But let’s face it-it wasn’t exactly click ...
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Chicago Blackhawks vs Detroit Red Wings Live Stream Free Watch Online Stanley Cup Playoffs Hockey
May 20, 2013 7:24 pm The Chicago Blackhawks will take on the Detroit Red Wings in the Stanley Cup Playoffs Western Conference semifinal series Game 3 on Monday night, with the Red Wings hoping to build on their Game 2 win, which brought the series back to 1-1.The game is scheduled to start at 7.30 p.m. ET and can be watched online through free live stream (details ...
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Video Okla. tornado survivor finds dog buried alive under rubble
Barbara Garcia, a survivor of the massive tornado that struck an Oklahoma City suburb, found her dog buried alive under the rubble during her interview with CBS News' Anna ...
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