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GAO American-US Airways merger will reduce competition
The proposed merger between American Airlines and US Airways will result in the loss of one competitor in 1,665 pairings of flight destinations affecting 53 million passengers, a congressional watchdog told ...
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Report Taliban offers to swap American POW for five Gitmo detainees
By Matthew DeLuca, Staff Writer, NBC News A senior spokesman for the Afghan Taliban said the group is ready to hand over the only known American prisoner of war from the conflict in Afghanistan in exchange for five senior operatives held at Guantanamo Bay, the Associated Press reported Thursday.U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, 27, from Hailey, Idaho, has been held captive since 2009 after going ...
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Ople named hero in fight vs human trafficking by US State Department
Susan Ople, president of the Blas F. Ople Policy Center, received the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Hero Award from US Secretary of State John Kerry during formal rites in Washington DC. PHOTO FROM SUSAN OPLE * OPLE CENTER’S FB ACCOUNT MANILA, Philippines — After getting recognition from the United States government for her crusade against human trafficking on Thursday, former labor ...
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New American Whiskies to Know
nnIn 1964, the United States Congress designated bourbon as a distinctive American product and created Federal Standards of Identity, which include stipulations like the mash bill must include at least 51 percent corn, that it can be distilled to no more that 80 percent ABV and must be matured in new, charred white oak barrels (nope, you canu2019t reuse u2018em u2013 but you can sell them to ...
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Video CDC HPV study reveals infections in teen girls have dropped
In a new study on the HPV vaccine, the CDC said infections among teen girls have dropped by more than half. HPV is the most common sexually-transmitted disease in the U.S., and it can cause cervical cancer. Dr. Carol Brown, a gynecologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the study with the "CBS This Morning" ...
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American Medical Association classifying obesity as a disease may open up treatment options
recognized obesity as a disease , a decision that could change the way physicians and insurance companies deal with the condition. The move, announced on Tuesday, will open up a range of medical interventions for the prevention and treatment of obesity and changes the status of obesity from "a major public health problem" to a disease. ...
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Jodi Arias Case Heads Back to Court
Jodi Arias returns to court Thursday for the first time since the penalty phase of her case ended in mistrial last month as lawyers discuss plans for a new trial to decide the punishment for the convicted murderer. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder on May 8 in the June 2008 stabbing and shooting death of boyfriend Travis Alexander at his suburban Phoenix home. About two weeks ...
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Mexican-American scholar tells Del Mar College students that fight for equality is not over
Nadia Tamez-Robledo/Caller-Times Jose Angel Gutierrez, a founding member of La Raza Unida Party and political science professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, speaks Wednesday at Del Mar College. Jose Angel Gutierrez was a founding member of La Raza Unida ...
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Cops Neglected by family disabled man weighed 69 pounds at death
Susan Gensiak, 59, of Taylor, Pa., is accused of starving her 32-year-old son and brother to death. A 32-year-old Pennsylvania man with Down syndrome was so severely neglected by his family that his body was covered in scabies and he weighed just 69 pounds when he died, police said in charging his mother and two sisters with murder. Robert Gensiak had open sores down to the bone at the time of ...
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Search for Oklahoma valedictorian missing in Ecuador
August Reiger, 18, has been missing since Sunday, according to his father, Chris Reiger. The family was hiking on a mountain in Banos, Ecuador, when August walked ahead of the group and then mysteriously vanished. ...
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Critics seek to pump brakes on NYs Taxi of Tomorrow
New York City's iconic taxicab could become a thing of yesterday as the controversial "Taxi of Tomorrow" inches closer to reality -- and the rugged streets of Gotham. The Nissan NV200 utility van represents the city's first wholesale redesign of its cab fleet since days of the Checker cab and features a host of amenities, including increased legroom, sliding doors with entry ...
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Man gets 25 years in New York-to-Maine drug case
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A man described as a major player in a New York-to-Maine drug smuggling operation has been sentenced to 25 years in federal ...
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10 Things to Know for Today
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. TALIBAN OFFERS TO FREE US SOLDIER FOR GITMO DETAINEES The AP's Kathy Gannon reports the Afghan Taliban says U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl of Idaho, taken prisoner in 2009, is "in good condition." 2. MOURNING FOR ICONIC 'SOPRANOS' STAR GANDOLFINI The ...
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White House Climate change isnt partisan
Obama described climate change as one of the top threats to the international community in a wide-ranging speech Wednesday in Berlin. Obama's administration has been criticized by environmental groups for lacking a clear-cut climate policy. The president said Wednesday, however, it was time to act. "Our generation must move toward a global compact to confront a changing climate ...
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Feds take control of elk herd at Chesterfield military facility
The elk roam the grounds of Defense Supply Center Richmond, which was established after the Department of Defense bought the property from the Bellwood family in 1941. The Defense Logistics Agency says in a news release that the Army officer who negotiated the deal told the family the government would care for the 11 elk on the property. Since then, Defense Supply Center employees have supported ...
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EPIC RANT “They Take a Press Release from the Federal Reserve and They Think It Was Written by God”
SHTFPlan.com June 20, 2013 If there's one thing that individual investors can take away from Ben Bernanke's latest Fed update, it's that all confidence in the financial and economic systems of this country has been lost. Within seconds of Ben Bernanke suggesting the Fed would taper monetary expansion and reduce their activity stock markets tumbled. This proves one thing, and ...
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32 Facts That Show How Men Are Being Systematically Emasculated In America Today
Economic Collapse June 20, 2013 What is wrong with men in America? Why isn’t our country producing lots of strong, independent, hard working men of character like it once did? Well, many believe that it starts at a very young age. When compared with girls, boys in the United States get lower grades, they are much more likely to get into trouble at school and they are much more likely to ...
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Brazil RiotCheerfulness and football are no longer enough for Brazilians Latin America News
Brazil’s football players cheer on their semi-finals at the Confederations Cup, but the protesters outside the stadium in Fortaleza can not get impressed.The protests overshadow the long sports festival – and provide the player with a ...
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Charges dropped in Miami stand your ground case
MIAMI -- Miami-Dade County officials say they won't charge a 19-year-old in the fatal shooting of an unarmed burglar.Wednesday's announcement came after prosecutors concluded they couldn't prove Jordan Beswick's guilt under Florida's stand your ground self-defense law.Beswick faced second-degree murder charges in the January death of 22-year-old Bryan Antonio ...
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Potential Zimmerman jurors quizzed on guns biases- Meet the potential jurors in Zimmerman trial- Special Coverage ZIMMERMAN TRIAL
Attorneys in George Zimmerman's murder trial quizzed a group of 40 potential jurors asked to return for a second round of questioning about whether they had fired guns, made judgments based on how people dressed or had been members of neighborhood watch groups. Wednesday's jury selection proceedings began with Florida Judge Debra Nelson reading the charge against George Zimmerman to ...
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Trial of Whitey Bulger returns to evidence of murders
Reporters and television cameras are reflected in the glass doors as J.W. Carney, defense attorney for accused mob boss James ''Whitey'' Bulger, leaves the U.S. Federal Courthouse at the end of first day of Bulger's trial in Boston, Massachusetts June 12, ...
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Video Behind-the-scenes of TWA Flight 800 investigation
CBS News producer and author of "In the Blink of an Eye" Pat Milton discusses what went on during the investigation and the conspiracy theories surrounding the cause of the crash of TWA Flight ...
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3 arrests in fatal stabbing on Hollywoods Walk of Fame
LOS ANGELES Three panhandlers were arrested Wednesday in the fatal stabbing of a young woman who was taking photographs on Hollywood's star-lined "Walk of Fame," Los Angeles police said. Officers found the 23-year-old woman bleeding from multiple stab wounds near the busy intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Homicide detectives say ...
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Heir 89 Could Be Sent to Prison
An 89-year-old heir could end up in prison after a court date on his 11th-hour bid for a new trial in a case that shook New York society. Anthony Marshall is due in a Manhattan court Thursday. He was convicted in 2009 of plundering his mother's fortune by exploiting her mental decline. She was philanthropist and socialite Brooke Astor. He denies the charges. After Marshall lost ...
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Attorneys meet to discuss Jodi Arias case
Attorneys for Jodi Arias have asked an Arizona judge to delay until next year a retrial of the penalty phase in her case to allow the convicted murderer time to gather witnesses to testify on her ...
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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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