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Asian stocks steadier, Nikkei bounces back
ReutersSYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian shares opened cautiously higher on Friday with Tokyo's Nikkei steadying from its biggest one-day drop in two years as investors breathed a sigh of relief when Wall Street cut losses on an upbeat outlook from Hewlett-Packard. As...Tags: UPS Inc., Wells Fargo & Co., Yahoo! Inc., Madrid (Spain), Explosions
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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: Georgetown, Solyndra LLC, U.S. Congress, Witnesses, Parties and Movements
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Performances worthy of an audit
WASHINGTON — They were the speak-no-evil and see-no-evil duo of the Internal Revenue Service. Lois Lerner, who runs the IRS office that targeted tea party and similar conservative groups for extra scrutiny, took the Fifth, when she appeared...Tags: Justice System, Stephen F. Lynch, Elijah E. Cummings, U.S. Congress, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
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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,...
Tags: Religion and Belief
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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. Department of the Treasury, ABC (tv network), Social Sciences, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, John Boehner
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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: Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice, Methamphetamine (drug), Drug Trafficking, Donald P. Wagner
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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: Revolutions, Political Dissent, Egypt, 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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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: Music, American Idol (tv program), Entertainment, Schools, Teaching and Learning
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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: Book, Entertainment, Music, Authors, Raleigh
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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: Good Friday, Frostburg State University, Kensington, The Herald-Mail, Montgomery County (Maryland)
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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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