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Wall Street Journal: Despite the heavy toll, the storm system that spawned the tornado wasn't unusual for this time of year, say meteorologists. The high death toll resulted from the twister's path through a commercial area including a hospital, a nursing home, a row of crowded restaurants and several large stores. The winds, while as high ...
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Foxnews There are places in Mexico where residents don’t know who the real police are. Shadowy kidnappers and men committing grisly crimes in broad daylight are often dressed in formal police or military gear, suggesting no difference between the good guys and the bad guys, between the drug cartels and the government trying to stop them. According to ...
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ABC The relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan -- already fragile following America's mission to kill Osama bin Laden and further strained by the release of a new cache of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables -- has been pushed to such an unprecedented low that, as one senior U.S. official put it, "we are communicating by fax." In ...
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Toledo Blade A Toledo couple will be sentenced to prison after pleading guilty in federal court Monday to charges that they conspired to smuggle money to a terrorist group in Lebanon. Hor Akl pleaded guilty to five counts pertaining to conspiracy and interstate commerce in support of terrorism. He could be sentenced to more than seven years ...
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Iraqi "terps" played a huge role in our success in Iraq. These men risked much to take a stand with the US Forces and help free their nation... they deserve better treatment than this.... LATimes Reporting from Washington— An administrative law judge has referred a U.S. insurance company for criminal investigation after the firm failed to ...
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(05-22) 19:18 PDT ALAMEDA -- The man who said the world was going to end appeared at his front door in Alameda a day later, very much alive but not so well. "It has been a really tough weekend," said Harold Camping, the 89-year-old fundamentalist radio preacher who convinced hundreds of his followers that the rapture ...
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Los Angeles Times: WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ordered California on Monday to release tens of thousands of its prisoners to relieve overcrowding, saying that "needless suffering and death" had resulted from putting too many inmates into facilities that cannot hold them in decent conditions. pp Multisource political news, world news, and entertainment news analysis by Newsy.com It is ...
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YourJewishNews What began as seamy gossip about an affair between a famous British soccer player and a reality TV star has quickly become another test over how far the rights to privacy and free speech extend online, where social media operate in countries with vastly different laws. The soccer player has been granted a so-called super-injunction, a ...
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Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Monday that Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan should run for president. The Virginia Republican, asked Monday if Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, should run, Cantor said “sure,” adding that Ryan shows “real leadership.” It’s a striking statement from the No. 2 House Republican, who is the highest-level lawmaker to call for Ryan to ...
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NY Post: President Obama's re-election campaign is trying to dig up dirt in the Garden State. Despite New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's repeated pronouncements that he will not seek the GOP presidential nomination, Obama operatives are compiling a dossier of what they call "opposition research" -- material that could be used to damage Christie if he changes ...
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City Pages: Tim Pawlenty's presidential campaign is Dead On Arrival, according to his hometown newspaper. The St. Paul Pioneer Press hilariously ran the announcement of T-Paw's presidential campaign on the Obituary page this morning. Any other day, it would have made the front page. But that's what he gets for making his big publicity push the day after ...
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The Hill: GOP Sen. Scott Brown (Mass.) said Monday he won't support Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) budget when it comes up for a vote in the Senate. Brown, a centrist who is running for reelection in 2012, said that Ryan's plan helped jumpstart a necessary debate, but that its Medicare reforms go too far. "While I applaud Ryan ...
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JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) - A massive tornado that tore a 6-mile path across southwestern Missouri killed at least 89 people as it slammed into the city of Joplin, ripping into a hospital, crushing cars like soda cans and leaving a forest of splintered tree trunks behind where entire neighborhoods once stood. Authorities warned that the death ...
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DFP Started in 2002, the registration was part of a broader program that required visitors from those countries to register at ports of entry and local immigration offices. It was sparked by the fact that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attackers were in the U.S. as visitors from Arab countries. The U.S. gets few visitors from North ...
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KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) – Pakistani commandos regained control of a naval base Monday from a team of Taliban militants who attacked then occupied the high-security facility for 18 hours -- an exceptionally audacious act of insurgent violence that dealt a humiliating blow to the military. The attackers -- who may have numbered no more than ...
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