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Bill allows Newtown families to release records
HARTFORD, Conn. -; A bill crafted privately by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's office, Connecticut's top prosecutor and legislative leaders would require the written consent of family members of the Sandy Hook Elementary School victims before certain records concerning the shooting may be publicly ...
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Officials All accounted for after Okla. tornado
MOORE, Okla. -; Authorities have now accounted for the last six people - all of them adults - who were believed to still be missing after the massive tornado in an Oklahoma City ...
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Lois Lerners Brief And Awful Day On Capitol Hill
Lois Lerner, head of the IRS unit that decides whether to grant tax-exempt status to groups, leaves after being dismissed from a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on ...
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Lessons learned from Joplin
Two years after a tornado destroyed much of Joplin, Mo., the town has come back even stronger with changes to their infrastructures that are helping people stay safe. Now, nearly 80 percent of new homes include a safe room, and a new hospital will open in 2015 with windows able to withstand 250 mph winds. NBC's Erica Hill ...
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Honoring Carole and Carol
Singer-songwriter Carole King is receiving the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress and actress and comedian Carol Burnett will receive the 2013 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. NBC's Brian Williams ...
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Human rights group protests US drone killings
FILE- In this Aug. 16, 2007 file photo, Police Chief John Martin demonstrates a Taser in Brattleboro, Vt. In a report issued Wednesday, May 22, 2013 by Amnesty International, the London-based human rights group said it has tallied 540 Taser-related deaths in the United States since 2001. Tasers have been listed as a cause or contributory factor in more than 60 deaths, Amnesty said in its ...
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SEC accuses South Miami of defrauding bond investors in downtown parking garage deal
A South Miami parking-garage controversy that has sparked political clashes, malpractice lawsuits and firings reached a climax Wednesday, when the Securities and Exchange Commission accused city officials of defrauding bond investors about the downtown facility’s tax-exempt status.In a civil action, the SEC charged the city with misleading those investors about the tax-exempt eligibility ...
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3rd grader who loved to sing among tornado victims
I left the office in Oklahoma City as soon as I saw the tornado warnings on TV. I had photographed about a dozen twisters in the past decade, and knew that if I didn't get in my car before the funnel cloud hit, it would be too ...
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American Horror Big Bang Top Critics Choice
The critics have spoken: horror, geeks and HBO make for some good TV. The nominations for the third annual Critics' Choice Television Awards were announced Wednesday morning by the Broadcast Television Journalists Assn. -- and FX's "American Horror Story: Asylum" and CBS' "The Big Bang Theory" lead the list of nominees tied with six, while HBO tops the networks ...
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America Whats more harmful pot use or incarceration
A Seattle resident takes marijuana from a plastic bag shortly after a law legalizing the recreational use of marijuana took effect on Dec. 6, 2012 in Seattle. (Stephen Brashear/Getty ...
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House approves Keystone pipeline bill
WASHINGTON – House Republicans pushed through a bill Wednesday to bypass the president to speed approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. Democrats criticized the legislation as a blatant attempt to allow a foreign company to avoid environmental review. The bill was approved, 241-175, largely along party lines. Republicans said the measure was needed to ensure that ...
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Boy Scouts of America Denies Vote Tampering Allegations
The Boy Scouts of America will vote on whether to lift its 103-year-old bay on homosexuality on Thursday May 23, 2013. The high stakes showdown over whether or not Boy Scouts of America will lift its ban on gay youth began in Grapevine, Texas, on Wednesday as the organization dismissed recent allegations that the fix is in.Deron Smith, national spokesman for the BSA, called allegations of vote ...
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev involved in triple homicide sources say
The FBI's meeting with one of Tsarnaev's friends in Florida turned violent Wednesday when he lunged at an FBI agent with a knife and was shot and killed. Before the shooting, he admitted to playing a role in a triple murder in Waltham, Mass., in 2011, along with Tsarnaev. NBC's Pete Williams ...
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White House admits to killing four Americans with drones
legal defense for targeting al-alaki. holder wrote his targeting of americans including the attempted underwear bomber attack and the plot to hide bombs on cargo plans made him a legally justified target because he was an imminent threat, could not be captured and was a legitimate target under war. this comes on the eve of a speech in ...
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Outrage at Chicago school board decision to close 50 schools
In the biggest mass public school closing in U.S. history, the Chicago Board of Education is closing schools they say are under-used. NBC's Brian Williams ...
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Garcetti ‘Los Angeless success is critical for Americas success’
Los Angeles voters, in a record low turnout, have picked a new mayor. Democrat Eric Garcetti, a former city councilman, won the race for mayor of the nation's second most populous city. NBC's Miguel Almaguer spoke with the ...
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Senators seek justice for military sexual assault victims
In an exclusive special report, NBC's Maria Shriver speaks with three senators who are working to create legislation that will allow outside prosecutors to decide whether or not to take military sexual assault cases to trial rather than relying on military commanders to play that ...
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Vernon McGarity Medal of Honor recipient dies at 91
Vernon McGarity, who was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Harry S. Truman in 1945 for his heroic actions in World War II, died Tuesday in Tennessee. NBC's Brian Williams ...
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Rare plant in danger from logging at Boy Scout camp in California
Biologist Andrea Edwards inspects the native and protected Dudley's lousewort flower growing along the trails at Camp Pico Blanco in Big Sur on May ...
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Credit union vault saved 22 from tornado
The heavily reinforced vault that saved 22 lives is all that is left standing of what had been the Tinker Federal Credit Union, one of many places people managed to hide from the deadly tornado. On Wednesday, Moore, Okla., officials discussed the idea of making safe rooms mandatory for new homes. NBC's Lester Holt ...
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Bipartisan flogging for former IRS commissioner
Douglas Shulman insisted he was not responsible for the IRS' targeting of conservative groups, but apologized that it had happened under his watch. Lois Lerner, head of the IRS tax-exempt unit, also appeared before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, where she took the fifth. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell ...
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Accused Fort Hood shooter asks to fire lawyers represent self
Nidal Hasan, charged with killing 13 people and wounding 31 in a November 2009 shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, is pictured in an undated Bell County Sheriff's Office ...
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Victim Of Miami Cannibal Attack What He Looks Like Now
tore the flesh from Poppo’s face with his teeth and then turned on officers, who shot him to death. The grisly attack was the beginning of a string of weird incidents around the country last year, which set off much speculation about the dangers of synthetic marijuana. But during the mediastorm, we barely heard a thing about the victim, who came away from the gruesome event disfigured but ...
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Cannes Foursome Team Up for Chicago Crime Boss Film Hubris
Charles Gillibert, Scott Stuber, Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert are joining forces for the thriller, which will mark French director Olivier Assayas' first film shot in the United ...
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Tawdry tweet dogs Weiner’s campaign for New York City mayor
NEW YORK -- In running for mayor, Anthony Weiner is seeking to get past the tawdry-tweeter punch line that has dogged him since his congressional career imploded two years ago. And while he's facing an uphill sprint, his campaign could help his long-term prospects even if he loses, some experts ...
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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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