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  • Bull 1, Mexican matador: never again

    Bull 1, Mexican matador: never again
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  • Emails ?prove BP systematically put safety at risk?

    Emails ?prove BP systematically put safety at risk?
    Congressional investigators have published a series of internal BP memos which they say proves that the British company systematically and negligently put safety at risk on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in order to increase profits.

  • Uzbekistan closes borders to refugees

    Uzbekistan closes borders to refugees
    Uzbekistan last night closed its borders to refugees fleeing neighbouring Kyrgyzstan as the numbers killed in the ethnic violence spiralled and aid agencies reported fresh allegations of atrocities from the survivors.

  • Serbia closer to EU membership thanks to ?co-operation? over Ratko Mladic

    Serbia closer to EU membership thanks to ?co-operation? over Ratko Mladic
    Serbia took a significant step towards joining the EU after European foreign ministers relaxed demands for the alleged genocide fugitive Ratko Mladic to be arrested before allowing its membership application to proceed.

  • Russia poised to intervene as ethnic violence rages in Kyrgyzstan

    Russia poised to intervene as ethnic violence rages in Kyrgyzstan
    The Kremlin edged closer last night to military intervention in Kyrgyzstan as the number of people killed in ethnic violence spiralled and as many as 100,000 refugees flooded neighbouring Uzbekistan.

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  • U.S. reaches historic demographic tipping point

    U.S. reaches historic demographic tipping point
    Children born to Latino, Asian, African American and mixed-race parents now constitute a majority of all births, the Census Bureau reports.

    The United States has reached a historic tipping point, with children born to Latino, Asian, African American and mixed-race parents now constituting a majority of all births, the Census Bureau reported Thursday.


  • Catholics all a-Twitter about the role of nuns

    Catholics all a-Twitter about the role of nuns
    Social media provides a platform for reactions to last month's Vatican report criticizing U.S. religious as deviating from church doctrine.

    Sister Simone Campbell doesn't wear a habit.


  • Mississippi antiabortion activist's zeal born on church doorstep

    Mississippi antiabortion activist's zeal born on church doorstep
    Abandoned as a baby, C. Roy McMillan now devotes his life to fighting abortion at the state's last remaining clinic.

    JACKSON, Miss. — It was a Wednesday morning in front of the last abortion clinic in Mississippi. C. Roy McMillan was camped outside, as he almost always is.


  • Violence Against Women Act loses some safeguards in House vote

    Violence Against Women Act loses some safeguards in House vote
    The House passes a Republican-drafted bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act but remove some protections for immigrants.

    WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to strip away some protections for immigrants who are the victims of domestic violence.


  • UC regents discuss 6% tuition hike for next fall

    UC regents discuss 6% tuition hike for next fall
    They pledge to lobby hard to avoid the increase. The regents also approve the hiring of a new chancellor for UC San Diego at an annual salary of $411,084.

    University of California regents Wednesday discussed the possibility of a 6% tuition increase for next fall but pledged that they would lobby hard to avoid such a $732-per-student hike.


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  • Global leaders seek to corral Europe crisis

    Global leaders seek to corral Europe crisis
    The leaders of eight of the world's biggest economies meet this weekend outside Washington, seeking to keep Europe's debt crisis from spiraling out of control and jeopardizing fledgling recoveries in the U.S. and elsewhere.
  • More firefighters heading to Colorado

    More firefighters heading to Colorado
    More firefighters are on their way to a fire that has burned across more than 11 square miles in northern Colorado and is approaching a reservoir for the city of Greeley.
  • Wake planned Friday for Mary Richardson Kennedy

    Wake planned Friday for Mary Richardson Kennedy
    As someone who lived at the edge of the spotlight that shines on the Kennedys, Mary Richardson Kennedy had been there long enough to become a partner in their rituals of grief _ she was there when the clan buried Michael Kennedy, killed in a New Year's Eve skiing accident in 1997, and John F. Kennedy Jr., who died in a plane crash in 1999.
  • Evidence mixed for Zimmerman's self-defense claim

    Evidence mixed for Zimmerman's self-defense claim
    When George Zimmerman tries to convince a judge or a jury that he shot Trayvon Martin in self-defense, the evidence in the case appears to be a mixed bag.
  • Nurses' pre-NATO rally expected to draw thousands

    Nurses' pre-NATO rally expected to draw thousands
    Thousands of anti-NATO demonstrators are expected to converge at a downtown plaza Friday for a rally that promises to be a prelude to a much larger march Sunday, when world leaders begin two days of talks. Meanwhile, many office buildings will be shuttered after workers were told to stay home amid warnings about heightened security, snarled transportation and the possibility of unruly protests.
 
 
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  • President Obama starts with edge on inaugural Fix Electoral College map

    President Obama starts with edge on inaugural Fix Electoral College map

    President Obama carries a significant, but far from determinative, edge over former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in the race for 270 electoral votes this fall, according to the first detailed analysis of the map conducted by the Fix.

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  • ?A nation of Osteens and Obamas?

    ?A nation of Osteens and Obamas?

    If a foreign visitor --a modern-day Alexis De Tocqueville, let?s say -- wanted to understand the state of religion in America today, a good place to start would have been Nationals Park in Washington D.C. three weeks ago, where the megachurch pastor Joel Osteen preached to a sold-out house. Osteen?s bipartisan reach and global influence makes him one of the most plausible contemporary heirs to Billy Graham. But unlike Graham, his message tends to be doctrine-free and relentlessly upbeat, rarely mentioning sin and regularly suggesting that God wants nothing more than to shower worldly blessings on believers.

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  • In North Carolina after Amendment One, ?Let the wild rumpus start?

    In North Carolina after Amendment One, ?Let the wild rumpus start?

    ?And he sailed off through night and day

    and in and out of weeks

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  • Does Mona Eltahawy?s approach hurt women?

    Does Mona Eltahawy?s approach hurt women?

    Mona Eltahawy?s Foreign Policy cover story ?Why Do They Hate Us? triggered an avalanche of passionate responses. But few have addressed how her arguments impact indigenous Arab women?s rights activists or the article?s primary audience-- how American policy makers-- can best support the cause of gender justice in the Middle East.

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  • Andrew Sullivan on ?coming out? to God

    Andrew Sullivan on ?coming out? to God

    Andrew Sullivan made a splash this week with his Newsweek cover story calling President Obama ?the first gay president,? writing that:

    ?Barack Obama had to come out of a different closet [than gays]. He had to discover his black identity and then reconcile it with his white family, just as gays discover their homosexual identity and then have to reconcile it with their heterosexual family. The America he grew up in had no space for a boy like him: black yet enveloped by loving whiteness, estranged from a father he longed for (another common gay experience), hurtling between being a Barry and a Barack, needing an American racial identity as he grew older but chafing also against it and over-embracing it at times.
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  • 'Terminator 3' actor Nick Stahl missing in L.A.'s skid row

    'Terminator 3' actor Nick Stahl missing in L.A.'s skid row
    // ![CDATA[ // Los Angeles police are on the lookout for Nick Stahl, the actor who played John Connor in "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines," after he was reported missing by his wife. Stahl had been
  • The AC360 Weekly Buzz: Syrian refugees, Obama, Romney, Barbour's pardons, Trayvon

    The AC360 Weekly Buzz: Syrian refugees, Obama, Romney, Barbour's pardons, Trayvon
    What everyoneâ??s talking about: Anderson traveled to the Syria-Turkey border earlier this week to visit a refugee camp housing Syrians who fled across the border to escape the violence in their country.
  • More "minority" babies born in the U.S. than whites: Discuss

    More "minority" babies born in the U.S. than whites: Discuss
    Here's an interesting story and comment section conversation around a report that, for the first time, fewer white babies were born in the United States than "minority" babies -- a combination that encompasses
  • Baby Nader the dragon strolls through New York

    Baby Nader the dragon strolls through New York
    Keith Bedford / Reuters A maintenance man laughs at an actor dressed as "Baby Nadder" from the film "How To Train Your Dragon" making its way through pedestrians in New York City on May 17. Actors came
  • U.S. eases sanctions on Myanmar as reward for democratic reforms

    U.S. eases sanctions on Myanmar as reward for democratic reforms
    A girl carries her brother as people search for usable items at a junkyard near the Danyingone station in Yangon's suburbs recently. President Barack Obama on Thursday declared a new chapter in U.S. relations
 
 
 
 
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  • Zimmerman found with bloody nose

    Zimmerman found with bloody nose
    A Florida neighbourhood watch volunteer who shot an unarmed black teenager had a bloody nose and a cut on his head, according to police reports.
  • Float values Facebook at $104bn

    Float values Facebook at $104bn
    Facebook prices its shares at $38 each ahead of one of the most eagerly anticipated share flotations in recent stock market history.
  • Tributes to Donna Summer pour in

    Tributes to Donna Summer pour in
    The music industry pays tribute to Donna Summer, famous for disco hits like I Feel Love and Love To Love You Baby, after she dies aged 63.
  • White births now minority in US

    White births now minority in US
    Children from racial and ethnic minorities now account for more than half the births in the US, estimates from the latest census data say.
  • Kennedy wife 'died by hanging'

    Kennedy wife 'died by hanging'
    Mary Kennedy - the estranged wife of Robert F Kennedy Jr, nephew of John F Kennedy - died of asphyxiation due to hanging, authorities say.
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  • More minority babies than whites in U.S.: Census Bureau

    More minority babies than whites in U.S.: Census Bureau

    Newborn baby Makenzie is wheeled to a nursery after she was born at 10:25am at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in the Brooklyn borough of New YorkWASHINGTON (Reuters) - For the first time, there are more black, Hispanic and other minority babies being born in the United States than white babies, according to government data released on Thursday that confirm a long-growing trend. U.S. Census Bureau data show the United States is on its way to becoming "majority minority," with almost half of all young children currently from minority groups, including Hispanic, black and Asian. As of July 1, 2011, 50.4 percent of babies younger than age 1 were minorities or of more than one race, up from 49.5 percent in 2010, the data showed. ...


  • Parents of slain Chinese students sue California university

    Parents of slain Chinese students sue California university

    USC president C. L. Max Nikias bows before images of Chinese murder victims Ying Wu and Ming Qu before eulogizing the slain engineering students during a memorial service in the Shrine Auditorium in Los AngelesLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The parents of two Chinese graduate students slain near the University of Southern California last month have filed a wrongful death lawsuit accusing the school of misrepresenting the area as safe and failing to provide security patrols. The 15-page lawsuit filed on Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court comes just over a month after Ming Qu and Ying Wu, both 23, were fatally shot as they were sitting in a 2003 BMW car that had been double-parked. ...


  • Anti-war protesters march at Obama campaign headquarters

    Anti-war protesters march at Obama campaign headquarters

    A protester takes part in one of the demonstrations during the week ahead of the NATO meeting in ChicagoCHICAGO (Reuters) - A small group of anti-war demonstrators staged a peaceful "die in" on Thursday at President Barack Obama's election campaign headquarters in Chicago to demand an end to the war in Afghanistan and unmanned drone aircraft attacks overseas. Despite calling ahead, some of the roughly 50 protesters said they were unable to deliver a letter to the Obama campaign calling for the United States to leave NATO and its "violent mission of protecting the 1 percent in the global economy who represent 99 percent of corporate wealth in the world. ...


  • Trayvon evidence fails to answer who screamed for help

    Trayvon evidence fails to answer who screamed for help

    Handout photo of George Zimmerman's headORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - An FBI expert found crucial evidence in the Trayvon Martin case was inconclusive, saying it was impossible to tell if the voice screaming for help belonged to the black Florida teenager or his shooter George Zimmerman just before the neighborhood watch captain pulled the trigger. That detail came from a mass of evidence made public on Thursday in the case that sparked civil rights protests across the United States and debates over guns, self-defense laws and race relations in America. ...


  • Protests after Houston cop cleared of beating black teen

    Protests after Houston cop cleared of beating black teen
    HOUSTON (Reuters) - The day after an all-white jury acquitted a former Houston police officer for his role in the beating of a 15-year-old African American burglary suspect, community activists rallied a crowd of at least 200 people on the courthouse steps to protest. Andrew Blomberg was acquitted by a jury in Houston on Wednesday in the alleged beating and stomping of Chad Holley two years ago. Protesters carrying signs with slogans like, "No justice, no peace. ...
 
 
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  • Saudis Pressure U.S. to Stay Put

    Saudis Pressure U.S. to Stay Put
    What would happen if U.S. troops pulled out of Iraq? There are plenty of scenarios that could play out...
  • Have You Seen Me?

    Have You Seen Me?
    Recovery rate for missing children is up from 60 percent in 1990 to 96 percent today thanks to advances in technology.
  • Romney's Aspirations Take a Hit?

    Romney's Aspirations Take a Hit?
    Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's presidential aspirations may have just suffered a huge blow.
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  • Carcieri: We need more taxpayers, not more taxes

    Carcieri: We need more taxpayers, not more taxes

    (NECN: Providence, RI) - Outgoing Rhode Island Governor Don Carcieri delivered his final State of the State address Tuesday night. The major focus was on the economy. The state has one of the worst unemployment rates in the country, and Carcieri was pushing for job growth.

    Carcieri proposed a tax credit for companies that hire workers, and says the state budget will contain measures to spur lending to small firms and other forms of business-tax relief.

    The following is prepared text for Gov. Carcieri's address:

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  • Carcieri delivers final State of the State address in Rhode Island

    Carcieri delivers final State of the State address in Rhode Island

    (NECN: Providence, RI) - Outgoing Rhode Island Governor Don Carcieri delivered his final State of the State address Tuesday night. The major focus was on the economy. The state has one of the worst unemployment rates in the country, and Carcieri was pushing for job growth.

    Carcieri proposed a tax credit for companies that hire workers, and says the state budget will contain measures to spur lending to small firms and other forms of business-tax relief.

    The following are prepared remarks from Governor Carcieri:

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  • Broadside: Charlie Baker on pension reforms, police details

    Broadside: Charlie Baker on pension reforms, police details

    (NECN) - In the 2010 contest for Governor of Massachusetts, Governor Deval Patrick's approval rating is down, but he's still the man to beat. A Republican with State House experience and a flush campaign account is hoping to send patrick packing.

    Charlie Baker, former President and CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and candidate for Governor joins Jim Braude on Broadside. Baker has chosen Senate Minority leader Richard Tisei as his running mate.

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  • Broadside: Plouffe cycle

    Broadside: Plouffe cycle

    (NECN: Jim Braude) - President Obama is stumbling, and there is a new person to blame.

    You remember this guy, David Plouffe, the mastermind of President Obama's 2008 campaign victory.

    Well, as you know, he's back after getting a "S.O.S" call from the White House ... "Ship of State sinking fast."

    Here's my memo to Plouffe on three things he needs to fix real fast.

    First, either cancel your idea of a "spending freeze", or cancel the president's subscription to the New York Times.

    Did you read the latest from Paul Krugman?

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  • Parents sue psychiatric hospital over deaths of two children

    Parents sue psychiatric hospital over deaths of two children

    (NECN: Alysha Palumbo - Boston, MA) - It was story that shocked a community.

    Two years ago, 39-year-old Marcy Thibault was driving her five-year-old niece and four-year-old nephew to her Bellingham, Massachusetts home for a sleep over, when she stopped on 495 in Lowell and carried the two children out onto the highway, where they were hit and killed by cars.

    Attorney Andrew Meyers said, "Certainly the family would never have allowed their children to be in her care if they had any concept whatsoever that she could or would have a dangerous event that she had."

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  • Trade war fears over solar cells duties

    Trade war fears over solar cells duties
    Decision follows collapse in prices for solar components caused by global manufacturing overcapacity after aggressive expansion, particularly in China
  • US lawmakers seek Volcker rule clarification

    US lawmakers seek Volcker rule clarification
    The White House and Treasury Department are asked to publicly state their position on whether a particular form of trading should be allowed under the Volcker rule
  • Senate backs Fed nominees

    Senate backs Fed nominees
    The body confirmed two nominees for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, giving the panel a full seven members for the first time in six years
  • US urges allies to make Afghanistan pledges

    US urges allies to make Afghanistan pledges
    The Obama administration is engaged in last-minute arm-twisting to secure financial support for Kabul from other Nato members ahead of a weekend summit
  • US ban on investing in Myanmar lifted

    US ban on investing in Myanmar lifted
    The Obama administration has suspended a ban on investments by US companies in Myanmar, accelerating its economic engagement with the south-east Asia nation
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  • BART Wi-Fi still lags after 3 years

    BART Wi-Fi still lags after 3 years
    What's broken Issue: Spotty Wi-Fi service is not available everywhere on BART despite promises that it would be available by 2010. What's been done: Signals are up from the Oakland underground to Balboa Park, but that...

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  • Calif. courts fear the pinch from proposed cuts

    Calif. courts fear the pinch from proposed cuts
    San Francisco's courts have cut their staff by 31 percent since 2008. Eleven of the 63 civil courtrooms at 400 McAllister St. have been closed since October, when an emergency infusion of state funds averted a much...

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  • Protests as UC regents seek to avoid tuition hike

    Protests as UC regents seek to avoid tuition hike
    More than a dozen protesters in orange prison garb used theatrics Wednesday to show the University of California regents that students are being "sentenced to debt," even as UC's finance experts said they would try to...

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  • Oakland chief meets with slain suspect's parents

    Oakland chief meets with slain suspect's parents
    Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan held a private meeting this week with the parents of Alan Blueford, an 18-year-old high school student shot and killed by police after he allegedly pointed a gun at an officer. The...

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  • Watch for cyclists during 'Bike to Work Day'

    Watch for cyclists during 'Bike to Work Day'

    More commuters will be pedaling to work than usual Friday as part of "National Bike to Work Day."

  • Towing industry meets with city over price gouging

    Towing industry meets with city over price gouging
    Remember all the outrage over one man?s $800 towing bill on Capitol Hill? Mayor Mike McGinn sent letters to two state towing associations last month, informing them that the city planned to move forward with regulating rates on private impounds.  City Councilmember Nick Licata said he plans to introduce consumer protections in July. The industry responded. On Wednesday, representatives met with city officials to discuss Seattle?s proposal to regulate the towing industry and how much tow operators can charge. Dan Johnson, president of the Towing and Recovery Association of Washington, told seattlepi.com the industry is ready to collaborate with the city. Tow companies aren?t helped by the few bad actors [...]
  • Movie and a beer: Big changes for longtime Seattle theater

    Movie and a beer: Big changes for longtime Seattle theater

    A longtime University District movie theater has been sold to an upscale chain, which plans upgrades to seating and film presentation, wi-fi access and a rarity in Seattle -- alcoholic beverages and bistro food.

  • The conservationist as casino builder ? W. Ron Allen

    The conservationist as casino builder ? W. Ron Allen
    W. Ron Allen is not known for blowing smoke, although the air was fragrant the time in Vancouver, B.C., when Allen as president of the National Congress of American Indians celebrated a cooperation accord with Canada?s Aboriginal First Nations. Allen is the longtime chairman and CEO of the Jamestown S?Klallam Tribe on the Olympic Peninsula, known to U.S. 101 travelers for its Seven Cedars Casino plus a variety of tribal businesses and health facilities just east of Sequim. He was honored on Thursday by Forterra (formerly the Cascade Land Conservancy) with its Frank Pritchard Lifetime Achievement Award.  The honor goes with another not long ago, Indian Gaming Advocate of the [...]
  • Poachers steal 800-year-old cedar in Vancouver Island park

    Poachers steal 800-year-old cedar in Vancouver Island park
    Wood poachers have invaded a remote park on the west coast of Vancouver Island that is home to Canada?s tallest trees:  Their quarry was a giant cedar estimated to be 800 years old. ?I believe the poachers have access to heavy-duty equipment: Firewood salvagers in pickup trucks can?t handle trees of this size,? Torrance Coste of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee told the (Victoria) Times-Colonist. The Wilderness Committee used international pressure in the early 1990?s as it fought successfully to create the Carmanah-Walbran Provincial Park in two narrow coastal valleys draining into the Pacific Ocean. The park is home to the Carmanah Giant, a 314-foot-tall Sitka spruce that is Canada?s [...]