"Michelle Obama expressed sympathy for the schoolgirls, in a personal message on Twitter. 'Our prayers are with the missing Nigerian girls and their families. It's time to #BringBackOurGirls,' said the US First Lady on her @FLOTUS account, with a pic ...
Posted Thursday, May 8th 2014 at 11:08AM
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TOP STORY - "World powers join search for abducted Nigerian schoolgirls," by AFP's Aminu Abubakar: "World powers, including the United States and China, have joined in the search for the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram Islamists ... ...
Posted Thursday, May 8th 2014 at 10:38AM
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After more than five years of legal battles, the nation’s high court ruled today in favor of public prayers — including those “in Jesus’ name” — before government meetings.
“The Supreme Court has reaffirmed that the practice of pra ...
Posted Wednesday, May 7th 2014 at 2:07PM
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Republican-turned-Democrat Charlie Crist, the former Florida governor who is running for his old office against GOP Gov. Rick Scott, says the "big reason" why he left the Republican Party was because many were hostile to President Barack Obama becaus ...
Posted Wednesday, May 7th 2014 at 1:57PM
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Russia Pulls Its Troops From Ukraine Border, Putin Says President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said Wednesday that Russian troops had pulled back from Ukraine border, and he urged separatists in eastern Ukraine to postpone their May 11 referendum.
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Posted Wednesday, May 7th 2014 at 1:50PM
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"Americans are noticing changes all around them," the report says. "Summers are longer and hotter. ...
Rain comes in heavier downpours."
Richardson: Climate change is reality
Flooded rail lines, bigger and more frequent droughts, and a rash ...
Posted Tuesday, May 6th 2014 at 9:28AM
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(May 5, 2014) By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today
CHICAGO -- Lean people with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) had twice the mortality of their overweight and obese counterparts in a long-term international study.
Action Po ...
Posted Tuesday, May 6th 2014 at 9:14AM
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(02 May 2014) Karine Gombeau was visiting New York City recently when she encountered what appeared to be a homeless man sifting through garbage. She gave him her leftover pizza. As she explained later, "He was going through a bin, I had food with ...
Posted Tuesday, May 6th 2014 at 9:05AM
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BREAKING: After Rutgers students stage a sit-in to protest her selection as commencement speaker, Dr. Condoleezza Rice withdraws, saying in a statement: "Commencement should be a time of joyous celebration ... Rutgers' invitation to me to speak has b ...
Posted Saturday, May 3rd 2014 at 11:14AM
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