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  • With NRA it can be one strike and youre out

    As a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association with an “A+” rating for her voting record in the Tennessee House of Representatives, Debra Maggart never imagined that her political career would end this way.Maggart, who chaired the Republican caucus, killed an NRA-backed bill that would have permitted Tennesseans to keep firearms in their parked vehicles wherever they went – work, ...

  • Michigan town feels duped

    LEXINGTON, Mich. – Carol Connell remembers well the gift she gave Sara Ylen, a friend seemingly forced to bear too much misery. Ylen, a Michigan mother of two young boys, said she was battling cancer just a few years after a man was convicted of her rape.“It was a little box, a very ornate box, to hold a prayer. She needed God to look over her,” Connell said, recalling the 2008 lunch ...

  • Big groups avoid scrutiny

    Demonstrators supporting Americans for Prosperity rally to block Occupy Wall Street protesters last year. Critics say the IRS did not target big groups like Americans for ...

  • Turtles draw tourists to Trinidad

    Officials with the U.S.-based Sea Turtle Conservancy say Trinidad is now likely the world’s leading tourist destination for people to see ...

  • Level of outrage surprises IRS staff

    CINCINNATI – The fog of scandal hangs over a boxy, modernist, 10-story building that looks like a monument to paperwork. Every day, 2,000 employees go to work at various federal agencies in this John F. Kennedy-era structure, whose chief tenant is the Internal Revenue Service – which had just about the worst week an agency can have.People in determinations unit have been accused of ...


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National Treasure

National Treasure

The fact that National Treasure, a passably enjoyable adventure romp, becomes steadily more ludicrous as it goes on is actually part of its ill-gotten pleasure, because if you can get through the first couple of unbelievable plot twists and puzzle decipherings, then every ... ...

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  • Assad US must not interfere

    BEIRUT – Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won’t step down before elections and that the United States has no right to interfere in his country’s politics, raising doubts about a U.S-Russian effort to get Assad and his opponents to negotiate an end to the civil war.Assad’s comments to the Argentine newspaper Clarin were the first about his political ...

  • Broken rail studied in crash

    BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – The commuter train derailment and collision that left dozens injured outside New York City was not the result of foul play, officials said Saturday, but a fractured section of rail is being studied to determine if it is connected to the accident.National Transportation Safety Board member Earl Weener said Saturday the broken rail is of substantial interest to ...

  • Blasphemy cases on rise in Egypt

    CAIRO – The pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions to fourth-graders. A team of Islamist lawyers with long beards sang in unison, “All except the Prophet Muhammad.”The case against Dimyana Abdel-Nour in southern Egypt’s ancient city of Luxor began when parents of three of her pupils claimed that their ...

  • Parade car loses control 60 hurt

    DAMASCUS, Va. – About 50 to 60 people were injured Saturday when a driver described by witnesses as an elderly man drove his car into a group of hikers marching in a parade in a small Virginia mountain town.It happened around 2:10 p.m. during the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival, an annual celebration of the Appalachian Trail in Damascus, near the Tennessee state line about a ...

  • US Myanmar sanctions list far out of date

    TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Myanmar next Friday, the first Japanese prime minister to do so in 36 years, informed sources said ...

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