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Global shares sink, following 7.3 percent drop in Japan's Nikkei
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - Share markets fell sharply on Thursday as investors piled back into safer assets, unnerved by the twin setbacks of unexpected weakness in China's economy and signals that the U.S. central bank may soon scale back its stimulus program....Tags: Intel Corp., Iran's Nuclear Program, Malaysia, Mexico, Israel
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Key IRS official refuses to testify
WASHINGTON — In a contentious climax Wednesday to a series of congressional hearings, Lois Lerner, a key IRS manager, invoked her right to not testify about the agency's targeting of conservative groups, igniting howls from Republicans and...
Tags: Solyndra LLC, Parties and Movements, Taxation, U.S. Congress, White House
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IRS officials aren't cooperating in probes at top or bottom
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Internal Revenue Service officials are not fully cooperating with efforts to learn who is responsible for targeting conservative groups, lawmakers learned Wednesday during the third and most tense, dramatic hearing on the scandal. First, the...Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Parties and Movements, U.S. Congress, Social Sciences, Barack Obama
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Jesus gives us his life
“He breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’”—John 20:22 Both of my children were delivered by Caesarean section, so I was not present in the operating room. But, according to my wife’s memory,...
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O.C. seeks right to bill for rescues of people deemed reckless
After spending $160,000 to rescue two hikers lost in a canyon — one of whom was later charged with drug possession — Orange County officials voted Tuesday to endorse a legislative proposal that would allow cities and counties to try to recover...
Tags: Drug Trafficking, Donald P. Wagner, Methamphetamine (drug), Prosecution
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Egypt tourist arrivals rise, not back to pre-revolt levels
ReutersCAIRO (Reuters) - The number of tourists visiting Egypt rose in the first four months of 2012, the cabinet said on Tuesday, but analysts say the sector is still suffering from the aftermath of the country's 2011 uprising. The revolt that ousted President...Tags: Political Dissent, Egypt, Revolutions, Hosni Mubarak
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Visions of 9/11, jailbreaks, accidents, unexplained answers, short-term girlfriends -- A sixth sense: These people say they have it. Do you?
Sun Journal, Lewiston, MaineWhen I was a boy of 8 or 9, I had a dream that I met a pretty girl on the beach. So powerful was this dream, I was still looking for that girl more than a decade later. I knew her name. I knew what she looked like. The dream had felt so authentic, I was...Tags: FBI, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Lloyd Waters: Remembering Sheila and Katherine Lyon
It was Good Friday in 1975. The Vietnam War was coming to an end, and I was going to school at Mount Saint Mary’s college in Emmittsburg during the day while working as a correction officer at the Maryland Correctional Institution at night. It...Tags: The Herald-Mail, Kensington, Montgomery County (Maryland), Good Friday, Frostburg State University
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Book review: Chapel Hill author's spicy novel appeals to Duran Duran fans
The News & ObserverWrite what you know, the saying goes. Chapel Hill author Karen Booth knows the music industry from having worked for record companies (including Mammoth Records during its 1990s heyday), and she knows about being a fan of '80s new-wave heartthrobs Duran...Tags: Authors, Music, Raleigh, Book
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The Island Packet (Hilton Head Island, S.C.) By David Lauderdale column
The Island Packet OnlineCandice Glover's win on "American Idol" Thursday brings to mind the day Marian Anderson came to Beaufort. It was Feb. 5, 1957, and stars were being imported to this small town to show Lowcountry African American children that they, too, could grow up to...Tags: Teachers, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), High Schools, Harlem Globetrotters, Family
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In the nick of time
Albert Lea Tribune, Minn.An Albert Lea boy most likely saved his grandma's life when he thought to call 911 after she fell outside their home on March 22. Jayden Dawes, 7, and his grandma, Sandy, 64, were walking up the steps to the front door when Sandy fell down three steps...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Heart Failure, Mayo Clinic, Heart Attack, Hypothermia
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High salt levels found in well after Ballston Beach breach
Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass.One property along the Upper Pamet River Valley has shown unusually high levels of sodium in well drinking water since the flooding from the early March breach at Ballston Beach on the Atlantic Ocean. The town has identified 85 properties along the...Tags: Atlantic Ocean
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