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White House scandals could Obama lose his mojo
A tsunami of scandals threatens to distract Barack Obama from his second-term agenda as U.S. media and Republicans turn up the heat on the embattled U.S. president. "The recent rash of scandals does complicate the life of the administration. It takes them off-message and distracts from the broader narrative of an improving economy,"Darrell West, a senior fellow at the Washington-based ...
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Feds to investigate Conn. train crash
>Are you there? Stay safe and share your images with iReport.(CNN) -- Federal transportation investigators will work to determine what caused two passenger trains to collide during rush hour in Connecticut, sending dozens to the hospital. Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board will be at the site of the crash this morning, the agency said. The two Metro-North passenger ...
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IRS scandal a reminder of how I learned about The Chicago Way
The Internal Revenue Service scandal now devouring the Obama administration - the outrageous use of the federal taxing authority to target tea party and other conservatives - certainly makes for meaty partisan politics. But this scandal is about more than partisanship. It's bigger than whether the Republicans win or the Democrats lose. It's even bigger than President Barack Obama. ...
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Weed law in Chicago sends native plant gardeners to court
Recent columns "If my award-winning garden got a ticket for weeds," Cummings said one sunny day last week, standing in the small yard outside her West Town three-flat, "how safe is any garden?" This question has nagged at her so hard and so long that she has now set out to reform Chicago's weed ordinance. But let's back up. Last fall, as my ...
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Chicago Teachers Union re-elects Karen Lewis
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis was re-elected for another three-year term, according to unofficial results released by the ...
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Chicago States board reprieves universitys president
Chicago State University President Wayne Watson talks with attendees after an executive meeting was called at the C.S.U. board meeting in ...
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Video Unraveling the lies of Jodi Arias
Jodi deserves the DP she deserves no mercy she has no redeeming qualities. She premeditated the slaughter of Travis and an overkill only because if she could not have him then in her mind neither would anyone else. She has no ...
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Video Anti-violence group aims to heal community
CeaseFire is an anti-violence community group made up of some former gang members. The group's director, Bob Jackson, says the goal is to heal the wounds between the community and gangs. "Even gang members are looking for intervention ...
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MLB Colorado 10 San Francisco 9
Jordan Pacheco hit a grand slam homer and drove in five runs Friday, giving Colorado enough of a cushion to pull out a 10-9 win over San Francisco. Pacheco's home run came during a five-run fifth and he also drove in a run with a ground out in the second. Colorado took a 10-4 led through six innings and fought off a Giants' rally that ran out of steam ...
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Chicago Teachers Union files lawsuit alleging school closings are racist
With the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Board of Education scheduled to cast a final vote to approve the closure of 54 schools on May 22, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has filed a pair of federal lawsuits, with the ostensible aim of either delaying or halting the closures. In reality, the lawsuits are an attempt to divert widespread anger at the closures into an impotent court battle, where it ...
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Federal judge rejects lawsuit opposing Washington DC school closures
A proposed injunction to halt the closure of one in ten public schools in the District of Columbia has been denied in federal court. The injunction, part of a lawsuit filed in March by community groups and parents affected by the closures, was intended to halt the closures of the schools announced at the beginning of the year by DC education chancellor Kaya Henderson. The complaint had ...
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France to buy American drones for Mali operation
War Two of America's medium-altitude Reaper drones will be sold to France as backup for the country's operations against Islamist rebels in Mali. The news comes from the 'Air et Cosmos' specialist magazine, which reported online that a deal had been reached between France and the United States for the sale of two non-armed MQ-9 units. The French air force had already ...
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Discover Haiti Miami Donna Karan Showcases Haitian Artisans At Little Haiti Cultural Center
Fashion designer Donna Karan walks through the art gallery during her visit to Little Haiti at the Discover Haiti Exhibition in Miami, Friday, May 17, 2013. Karan is among the designers and celebrities who have advocated for Haitian artisans since a catastrophic earthquake shook the Caribbean country in 2010. (AP Photo/Alan ...
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Watch New York Mega Millions Drawing
Across America. Evening America I'm Brian hooker it's Friday may seventeenth the night mega million jackpot -- an estimated in the ninety million dollars. Our first quite well tonight. 43 and a ...
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Watch 60 Injured in Connecticut Train Collision
So far sixty people -- several critically injured and one of those patients extremely critical here's what happened in the eastbound train derailed. And then hit -- passing westbound train ...
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Liga MX Wrap Monterrey share spoils with America
Aldo de Nigris has scored a crucial equaliser for Monterrey to salvage a 2-2 draw against America in their Liga MX semi-final first leg.Ecuadorian striker Christian Benitez struck two vital away goals for America to put the visitors ahead in the second half at Monterrey's Estadio Tecnologico but the hosts recovered soon after through de Nigris to stay alive in the two-legged ...
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Ingalls President We are Americas Shipyard
PASCAGOULA, MS (WLOX) - "We are America's Shipyard." Ingalls Shipbuilding delivered that message at keel laying ceremony for a United States Coast Guard security cutter on Friday. Ingalls officials took the opportunity to let the world know the Pascagoula shipyard is ready go up against any competition. Charlene Benoit is proud a Coast Guard cutter will carry the legacy of her ...
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Commuter trains collide in Connecticut injuring up to 60 people
Reuters © Passengers wait to be picked-up after two commuter trains collided in Bridgeport, Connecticut causing one to derail injuring numerous passengers, May 17, 2013. REUTERS/ Michelle ...
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Plea offer in Delaware waterboarding case
DOVER, Del. -- A woman who lived with a Delaware pediatrician accused of waterboarding her 11-year-old daughter has agreed to plead guilty to child endangerment charges and testify against him.In accepting a plea offer from prosecutors, Pauline Morse agreed Friday to plead guilty to three misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of a child and to cooperate with prosecutors and testify ...
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Domestic violence victim’s 911 call ignored says family
Deanna Cook called 911 on the day she was allegedly killed by her ex-husband. Despite pleading for her life on the call, it took 50 minutes for police to arrive. The family says her death exposes a larger problem - a broken emergency response system that fails to take domestic violence seriously, especially in minority neighborhoods. Kate Snow ...
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Dallas 911 operator breaks silence on Deanna Cook case
Tonyita Hopkins breaks her silence on answering the chilling 911 call in which Deanna Cook is heard pleading for her life. Hopkins describes a 911 call center that was short-staffed and overwhelmed and reveals her surprising personal history that draws parallels to Cook. Kate Snow ...
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Video Extra Meeting Jodi Arias
"48 Hours" producer Jonathan Leach discusses meeting Jodi Arias after her arrest in 2008, and his impressions of Arias during her first television ...
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Your Chicago Student Activists At Reilly Elementary School
(CBS) - What do you do when you’re a seventh-grader and you want a nicer, safer park near your school, a place for the neighborhood kids to go? Why, you embark upon a letter-writing campaign, naturally, to convince adults that it's a good idea. CBS 2's Rob Johnson reports. Reilly Elementary School seventh-graders Jessica Llangari, Christian Urena and Victor Francisco sent a ...
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Conn. commuter trains collide 60 go to hospitals
FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday's evening rush hour, sending 60 people to the hospital, including five critically injured and one very critically injured, Gov. Dannel Malloy said. There were no reports of ...
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Stop Persecution Solemn Peaceful Protest in New York
Falun Dafa practitioners protest peacefully in front of the Chinese Consulate General in New York on May 17, calling for an end to the persecution of the practice in China. (Edward Dai/The Epoch ...
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Memorial Bridge is falling down, falling down
The Memorial Bridge linking New Hampshire and Maine is a historical landmark, its been there for over 80 years, but the bridge is old and in this age of recession, expensive repair work versus more valuable replacement may soon see the structure razed and replaced.
The Memorial Bridge that links Portsmouth in New Hampshire to Kittery in Maine is ageing. The through truss lift bridge is over 80 years old and has begun to feel its age in recent years, on the 16th of October, 2009 state authorities issued an emergency closure of the bridge due to essential repairs that were needed and its weight limit has steadily been reduced over the last year or so. Read more
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