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A classical Chinese garden adorns Washington DC
A classical Chinese garden will be installed at the US National Arboretum in Washington DC, in a joint collaboration between China and the United States. Featuring a series of open pavilions, a pond and traditional Chinese buildings with Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) style furnishings, the garden will showcase Chinese flora and landscaping, and will be open to the public. "Our ...
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Tales of the American dream
California-born artist Lenora Lee believes the most romantic story in the world is the one about her Chinese grandparents. "A discrimination law used to force my grandparents apart, husband in San Francisco, wife in China. It took them 10 years of waiting and struggle to be together," the 39-year-old dancer and choreographer tells China Daily at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. ...
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Wanda to launch $1b New York hotel project
Dalian Wanda Group Corp Ltd, one of China's largest property developers, plans to invest about $1 billion to build a five-star hotel in New York as its third major investment outside its home market, Wang Jianlin, chairman of Wanda said on Wednesday. Wang said that Wanda is negotiating with potential partners for ...
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Admitted father-and-son pimp duo acquitted of sex-trafficking charges
Vincent George Sr., right, and Vincent George Jr. sit in the courtroom before the start of closing arguments in New York, Thursday, June 6, 2013. Prostitutes in the sex-trafficking case that's winding down, say they and their pimps were one big happy family, enjoying a comfortable suburban life as "wife-in-laws" in Pennsylvania and commuting by night to work in Manhattan. Both men ...
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Julian Assange says WikiLeaks helping Snowden gain asylum
By Andrew Rafferty and Courtney Kube, NBC News WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday said members of his anti-secrecy website have been in contact with lawyers of alleged National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and are helping him seek asylum in Iceland.Speaking to reporters during a conference call on the one-year anniversary of his own asylum in the Ecuadoran embassy in London, ...
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North Carolina governor signs law aimed at restarting executions
North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate, former Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory meets supporters outside Myers Park Traditional Elementary school during the U.S. presidential election in Charlotte, North Carolina November 6, ...
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CVSF American Legion baseball squad headed south in 2013
Due to several teams being dropped, the Allegheny West teams from 2012 have joined the Allegheny South. The 13-team league will feature two divisions. CVSF will compete in Division B with Carrick, Elizabeth Forward, South Allegheny, South Park and West ...
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10 Things to Know for Thursday
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Thursday: 1. BERNANKE SPEAKS, DOW DROPS His announcement that the Fed will likely end its extraordinary bond-buying program next year sends the Dow down more than 200 points. 2. JAMES GANDOLFINI, MAGNETIC 'SOPRANOS' STAR, DIES The actor, most famous for his role as the tormented ...
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Time Warner Faces Suit After Taking Over Los Angeles Sports Market
Time Warner ...
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Senate confirms White House aide Froman to be next trade representative
WASHINGTON -- Senior White House economic adviser Michael Froman has been confirmed by the Senate to be the next U.S. trade representative. The law school classmate of President Barack Obama takes over the post as the administration seeks to advance major trade deals with Pacific Rim and European nations. The Senate vote was 93-4 to confirm Froman to succeed Ron Kirk, the former Dallas mayor ...
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Couple in deck collapse sues Fla. sports bar
A couple has filed a lawsuit against a South Florida restaurant where a deck collapsed into Biscayne Bay last week during the fourth game of the NBA ...
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Iron Man 3 rakes in $400m in North America
"Iron Man 3" has grossed 400 million US dollars worth of tickets in North America since it debuted more than six weeks ago, distributor Walt Disney Pictures announced on Wednesday.The third installment on the iconic trilogy crossed the important threshold Tuesday, and is on track to gross 1.2 billion dollars from the global market. This has made the flick 5th highest grossing film of ...
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NOT THE TIMEPols Question Obama Call To Cut Nuclear Arsenal
President Obama's pledge to cut the United States' nuclear arsenal by one-third is sending the wrong message to the global community, some Washington lawmakers said Wednesday. "Now is not the time to pursue further strategic nuclear force reductions," Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., said following Obama's speech in Berlin, Germany. Inhofe was among several lawmakers ...
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Body found near Patriots home was homicide victim
State police returned to the home of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez on Wednesday, two days after a body was found about a mile ...
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Judge Sides With U.S. In Manning Document Dispute
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Baltimore said Wednesday she’s satisfied for now with measures the military has taken to release documents related to Army Pfc. Bradley Manning’s court-martial in the Wikileaks case. Lawyers for the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights and other groups, including The Associated Press, have complained for more than a year that ...
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Feds unravel plot to build sell x-ray weapon in Upstate New York
USA An FBI investigation has uncovered a plot by a New York state engineer with ties to the Ku Klux Klan to construct a radiation particle weapon, with the intention to sell the device to either a southern branch of the KKK or Jewish groups. Federal investigators first began to investigate Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, when he allegedly approached an Albany-area synagogue and "asked to ...
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United Airlines 787 in latest setback
A month after Boeing's 787 Dreamliner returned to the skies after a four-month grounding, a United Airlines 787 flight from Denver to Tokyo has been diverted to Seattle due to an oil-filter ...
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Video Country music star Slim Whitman dies of heart failure
Slim Whitman died Wednesday from heart failure. The singer know for "Indian Love Call" and his trademark yodel was 90-years-old. He once said he hoped to be remembered for two things: a good voice, and a clean suit. Scott Pelley ...
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NSA cellphone records wont help Broward bank robbery suspect feds say
National Security Agency 's controversial program - that has secretly stored millions of U.S. phone records - could help his defense in a Broward bank robbery trial. Terrance Brown, ...
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Close Miami Heat game leads to battery riot charges
Miami Heat fan turned violent when the child's father stepped in and punched the other man in the face "until his thumbs were hurting," according to ...
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Head of revived watchdog pledges open look at U.S. surveillance
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of a newly revived federal privacy oversight board pledged on Wednesday to be "as transparent and public as possible" as the board reviews recently exposed U.S. government secret surveillance ...
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US State Department Says Indonesia Failing to Protect Religious Minorities
Indonesian youths gather outside the church that was attacked by Muslim hardliners in Temanggung, Central Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Hundreds of Islamic hard-liners stormed a courthouse and set two churches on fire Tuesday in central Indonesia to protest what they considered a lenient sentence for a Christian convicted of blaspheming ...
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Ron Hasse named publisher president of Los Angeles News Group
Ron Hasse, president and publisher of the Los Angeles News Group. (null) Ronald C. Hasse has been named publisher and president of the Los Angeles News Group, company officials announced ...
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Family of abolitionist Frederick Douglass continues his legacy
(CBS News) WASHINGTON - In commemoration of Juneteenth, the day in 1865 that the last of the slaves were declared free, a statue was unveiled at the Capitol's Emancipation Hall of the Fredrick Douglass. The great African-American speaker and writer escaped slavery as a young man and devoted his life to ending it, becoming an adviser to the man who did: Abraham Lincoln. No doubt the sight of ...
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Video Frederick Douglass Booker T. Washington descendent fights modern-day slavery
Being the descendent of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington could be intimidating for some, but Ken Morris' background inspired him to fight modern-day slavery. Jim Axelrod ...
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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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