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Billionaire under fire after suggesting motherhood destroys ambition
Paul Tudor Jones is one of the world's savviest investors, but the hedge fund billionaire and philanthropist is trying to explain comments about motherhood and high finance that are getting a lot of attention for all the wrong reasons. NBC's Andrea Mitchell ...
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Second state of recovery begins for Moore Oklahoma
Former State Sen. Andrew Rice, D-Okla., talks about the current state of Moore, Oklahoma, and says people are slowing starting to get into the "second stage of recovery" and are trying to determine where to seek help and how to ...
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Keeping vigil at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Among the most revered posts in the army is that of the soldiers who guard the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. Just a handful of soldiers have earned the honor of keeping vigil, and it's a watch that has remained unbroken since 1926. TODAY's Erica Hill ...
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Jersey Shore reopens ‘I didn’t want the storm to beat me’
The force of Superstorm Sandy washed away the pier and destroyed Jersey Shore's iconic rollercoaster. In the last few weeks, the push to rebuild has reached a frenzy for mainstays around the boardwalk, with residents and shopkeepers saying that reopening is the next step in the healing process. NBC's Michelle Franzen ...
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How Americas 2-Tiered Education System Is Perpetuating Inequality
Seven years later,Amherst president emeritus Anthony Marx arguesclaims the program has worked brilliantly, just as his administration had expected. Broadening its search for transfers to the roughly one million students who graduate from community college every year, "we could find amazing jewels that no one else is looking for," he told an audience at a panel hosted by The Century ...
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Sexual assault is a scourge on U.S. military Hagel says
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel takes part in a news conference on efforts to eliminate VA claims backlogs, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, May 22, ...
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Court bans detention practices by Ariz. sheriff against Latinos
Joe Arpaio 's handling of people of Latino descent amounts to racial and ethnic profiling. Judge Murray Stone, ruling in suits filed by some of the profiled people, banned some of the sheriff's operation procedures, CNN reported Saturday. The court said many of Arpaio's practices violated Fourth Amendment guarantees against unreasonable search and seizure, and 14th Amendment ...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Haynes Johnson dies
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Haynes Johnson has died in Bethesda, Md., of a heart attack, his wife said. He was 81. The former Washington Post journalist, who won acclaim for his coverage of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, died Friday at Suburban Hospital, his wife, District of Columbia Court of Appeals Judge Kathryn Oberly, said. Johnson began his career as a ...
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Psy to perform in Indonesia South Korean diplomatic celebration
South Korean pop star Psy will perform in Indonesia at a concert celebrating diplomatic ties between the two countries, his management agency said Saturday. The performance -- which will not be staged as a solo concert -- will mark Psy's first visit to Indonesia, the Jakarta Globe reported. The "Gangnam Style" singer will perform July 6 at the Gelora Bung Karno Sports Complex in ...
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W.Va. town transfixed by teen girls murder plot
One evening last Labor Day weekend, 15-year-old Audrie Pott walked up the driveway of a classmate's home alongside other teenagers. She'd told her parents she was spending the night with a friend. The friend claimed she was sleeping at Audrie's. Instead, the girls were having a party. A classic teenage ...
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Tornado upon them quick choices decided fate
After living nearly 20 years in their one-story brick home, Sherry and Larry Wells finally won the lottery - for a state rebate on a home storm shelter, that is. A contractor finished installing the concrete bunker beneath the slab of their garage in early May. About three weeks later, the shelter saved their lives when a tornado that killed 24 people tore through their ...
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Hagel Cadets must stamp out sex assault scourge
By LOLITA C. BALDORAssociated Press WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point Saturday that they must stamp out the scourge of sexual assault in the military. Speaking a day after President Barack Obama delivered a similar edict to U.S. Naval Academy graduates, Hagel's message comes amid a series of widespread incidents of ...
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Key senators tightly control immigration debate
View Photo Associated Press/Jacquelyn Martin, File - FILE - In this March 18, 2013, file photo, Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, holds a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee about immigrant women and immigration ...
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Army sexual assault survivor speaks out
"The culture is too steeped with this type of behavior," said Bridgette McCoy, who is a survivor of sexual assault and a former Army specialist. McCoy offered suggestions for how the military can create real change in order to prevent further sexual assaults. TODAY's Erica Hill ...
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Oklahoma tornado 911 calls offer glimpse into chaos
The calls from Moore, Oklahoma, offer a glimpse of the experiences of the tornado victims in the minutes after the storm struck. "We've got a daycare full of babies," one caller said. "We got a daycare that just got cremated." NBC's Ron Mott ...
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Oversize truck is to blame in bridge collapse
The Skagit River Bridge was listed as "functionally obsolete" by the Federal Highway Administration last year, which meant it was structurally sound, but had an outdated design. The bridge did not hold up, however, when an oversize truck crashed into it, collapsing the bridge and sending cars into the water. NBC's Ayman ...
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Snow possible for unofficial start of summer
Memorial Day weekend is supposed to mark the beginning of barbecues and sunbathing, but some parts of the country are expecting chilly winter weather, with up to six inches of snow possible in the Northeast. TODAY's Dylan Dreyer ...
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Two freight trains collide in Missouri seven injured
(Reuters) - Two freight trains collided at a rail intersection in southeastern Missouri on Saturday, injuring seven people, igniting a fire and triggering the collapse of an overpass under which they were traveling, a county sheriff's dispatcher ...
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Rescuers look for pilot in deadly NY Angel Flight
EPHRATAH, N.Y. -- Rescuers are searching for the pilot of a volunteer Angel Flight that crashed in upstate New York, killing two passengers.A dispatcher for the Fulton County Sheriff's Department says divers went to a large pond Saturday morning where the bulk of the plane was found submerged in Ephratah (ee-FRAY'-tah), west of Albany. Investigators are also combing nearby woods.The ...
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Deadly Angel Flight crash in upstate New York
EPHRATAH, N.Y. The crash of a volunteer Angel Flight in upstate New York that killed at least two people is under investigation, and the search for the missing pilot is ongoing, authorities said. Fulton County Sheriff Thomas Lorey said the flight's two passengers were found dead near where the twin-engine plane crashed in a wooded area in Ephratah, about an hour west of Albany. He said the ...
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Video The man who sounded the alarm in Moore Okla.
Chief forecaster David Andra for the National Weather Service in Norman, Okla., was tracking the storm as it approached Moore, Okla. -- where his daughter's family lives. Andra sent the warning for people to get to shelter. Mark Strassman shares his ...
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Feds Adam Savader is granted bond in Michigan cyberstalking case
LI crime and police reports A 21-year-old Great Neck man has been released after a month in custody on cyberstalking charges filed in Detroit.Adam Savader is charged with cyberstalking and extortion through the Internet. He's accused of threatening to release nude photos of young women unless they sent some to him. Many are college students who know him.Savader was arrested in New York in ...
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Hagel to address West Pointers amid sex scandals
Charges that an Army sergeant secretly photographed and videotaped women at West Point are part of a military-wide pattern of sexual misconduct, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said ...
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Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto who caused controversy for Japan sex slaves comments apologises for saying US military should visit brothels
One of Japan's leading politicans has apoligised for suggesting US servicemen should visit brothels in his prefecture - but stopped short of apologising for saying that wartime sex slaves were a necessary ...
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The House I Live In director Eugene Jarecki on Americas war on drugs - video interview
Documentary film-maker Eugene Jarecki, who has won two Grand Jury Prizes for Documentary at Sundance Film Festival, speaks to John Mulholland about his attempts to reform drug laws in the US. His ...
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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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