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Vote on gay Scouts comes at emotional moment
Matthew Ray, 15, of North Richland Hills, Texas, holds signs near where the Boy Scouts of America are holding their annual meeting Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Grapevine, Texas. Delegates to the meeting are expected to address a proposal to allow gay scouts into the organization. (AP Photo/LM ...
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QA What is known about London attack
Police and forensic officers near the scene of an apparent attack which has left one man confirmed dead and two people injured near Woolwich barracks in London Wednesday, May, 22, 2013. British officials said one person has died and at least two people have been wounded in an attack in southeast London. Scotland Yard said officers responded to reports of an assault Wednesday afternoon in the ...
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$2B in Okla. tornado damage means hard recovery
An unidentified man tosses a board as residents sort through their tornado-ravaged homes Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Moore, Okla. Cleanup continues two days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening a wide swath of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie ...
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Oil falls below $94 as China manufacturing weakens
BANGKOK -; The price of oil fell below $94 per barrel Thursday after a private survey showed manufacturing activity in China falling to its lowest level in seven months, a sign that the recovery in the world's No. 2 economy is ...
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Between economy and trouble Obama approval steady
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama watch as singer-songwriter Carole King performs after being presented the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song during an East Room concert honoring King Wednesday, May 22, 2013, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn ...
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Nixon library hosts 40th reunion for Vietnam POWs
In 2007, I had the privilege of becoming the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. My job was to move Nixon’s presidential materials from the Washington, D.C. area, where they had been kept as federal property because of the Watergate investigation, to California, where Nixon’s friends and supporters had built a private library in 1990. My job involved ...
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Obama to push for transparency in face of threats
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen since 2009. The disclosure to Congress comes on the eve of a major national security speech by President Barack Obama in which he plans to pledge more transparency to Congress in his counterterrorism policy.It was already known that ...
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LeBron Heat dig deep to top Pacers in Game 1
(AP Photo/The Palm Beach Post, Allen Eyestone). Miami Heat forward LeBron James (6) scored in the last seconds of overtime to defeat the Indiana Pacers in Miami on Tuesday May 22, ...
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Tea party storm largely inside IRS _ so far
Three days of congressional hearings about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups have lawmakers looking for ways to widen an investigation that has so far been ...
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For Philadelphia bicyclist a cat is his co-pilot
By KATHY MATHESONAssociated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) - For bicyclist Rudi Saldia, you could say a cat is his co-pilot. Saldia often buzzes around Philadelphia with his year-old feline Mary Jane perched on his shoulder. Their urban adventures have turned heads on the street and garnered big hits on YouTube. The 26-year-old bike courier didn't intend to become Internet-famous. He originally ...
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House to vote on variable rate student loans
The Boy Scouts of America's national leadership will vote Thursday whether to allow openly gay Scouts in its ranks, a critical and emotionally charged moment for one of the nation's oldest youth ...
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Birth control coverage up for federal appeal
By The Associated Press The U.S. teen birth rate fell 25 percent over five years to a record low of 31 births per 1,000 teens ages 15 to 19, according to a report from the Centers for ...
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Ocean not all that separates US European fans
Imagine Derek Jeter leading the New York Yankees off the field because opposing fans were yelling racial slurs and throwing bananas at his team. Or a game between the Miami Heat and Chicago Bulls halted because of unrelenting race-baiting from the ...
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IMF head Lagarde in court in fraud probe
PARIS (AP) -- International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has appeared at a special Paris court to face questioning over a controversial arbitrage deal that she oversaw as French finance ...
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Alabama County Bankruptcy Workout a Test for Municipal Bondholders
Alabama’s Jefferson County will brief a federal judge on Thursday on its progress toward exiting from bankruptcy, as the county appears likely to become the first big U.S. local government to impose losses on bondholders since the 1930s. The case is seen as a testing ground for how bondholders fare when a local issuer breaks under excessive financial pressure. Jefferson County’s ...
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Youngest Okla. tornado victims remembered by kin
The Oklahoma medical examiner's office says it has positively identified all 24 people killed in the tornado that ripped through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, including 10 ...
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Japan stocks dive as benchmark bond yield spikes
BANGKOK (AP) -- Japanese stocks plummeted Thursday after a spike in government bond yields and unexpectedly weak Chinese manufacturing spooked investors sitting atop months of massive gains in share prices. The Nikkei 225 in Tokyo nosedived 7.3 percent to close at ...
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Japan bond yields jump following Fed comments
TOKYO -; Yields on 10-year Japanese government bonds briefly topped 1 percent for the first time in a year on Thursday, unnerving some investors at a time when Japan's already overburdened government finances are vulnerable to rises in interest rates. Japanese shares fell ...
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2011 jail breaks become political issue in Egypt
CAIRO -- It was one of the most perplexing events of Egypt's revolution: orchestrated attacks on prisons around the country that broke out more than 20,000 inmates while police were tied down with the massive popular protests that swept autocrat Hosni Mubarak from power.The prison breaks added to the chaos during the 18-day uprising in 2011, and the flood of criminals onto the streets ...
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Lenovo says quarterly profit up 90 percent
BEIJING - Computer maker Lenovo Group says its latest quarterly profit rose 90 percent as sales of smartphones and mobile computing technology expanded.Lenovo Group said Thursday it earned $127 million, or 1.22 cents per share, in the three months ending March 31. Revenue rose 4 percent over a year earlier to $7.8 billion.Lenovo ranks a close second behind Hewlett-Packard Co. as the biggest ...
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Urban renewal Big U.S. cities showing strong growth
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Urban renewal? New census estimates show that most of the nation's largest cities further enhanced their allure last year, posting ...
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Malaysian charged with sedition 2 more arrested
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysian authorities detained two anti-government figures and charged a student activist with sedition Thursday, raising political tensions after recent national elections triggered claims of ...
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Submerged structure stumps Israeli archaeologists
TIBERIAS, Israel (AP) -- The massive circular structure appears to be an archaeologists dream: a recently discovered antiquity that could reveal secrets of ancient life in the Middle East and is just waiting to be ...
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Alabama loses to LSU 3-0
HOOVER — Seventh-seeded Alabama lost to No. 2 seed LSU 3-0 in the second round of the Southeastern Conference baseball tournament ...
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Chechen immigrant shot to death while questioned in Boston probe
ORLANDO, fla. - A Chechen immigrant was shot to death by authorities early Wednesday after he turned violent while being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, officials said.Ibragim Todashev, 27, a mixed martial arts fighter, was gunned down at his Orlando townhouse during a meeting with an FBI agent and two Massachusetts state troopers, authorities said. The ...
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Alabama gets funds for public housing
With several million public housing units being maintained by local authorities in over 3000 communities across the United States, renovations and upgrades are a constant and expensive concern, for this reason the US Housing and Urban Development Department regularly injects capital into these agencies to fund such projects. This year, Alabama received a $71 million share of the $2.3 billion fund set aside for this purpose.
The US Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD) recently awarded the state of Alabama a grant of over $71 million to fund its expansion, improvement and maintenance programs across the range of public housing units managed by various state agencies. The funding from HUD was part of a greater $2.3 billion awarded to 3,131 local public housing authorities across the country. Read more
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