New York City, NY – The snow storm sneaking up the Eastern Seaboard today has been threatening to bring blizzards as well as a foot of snow to cities in the New England area. The whether has become so nasty that a number of states in the South such as Maryland, North Carolina and...
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Paris, France – Thousand of passengers squandered their Christmas Eve couped-up in Europe’s second busiest airport, the Paris Charles De Gaulle (CDG). As mass amounts of snow falls and a shortage of the critical deicing fluid passengers have been stranded causing air travel to grind to halt across not just France, but almost all...
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Rome, Italy - There has been two package bombs that have exploded in the Italian capital city of Rome today. Police had been called to a third suspicious package at the Ukrainian Embassy which had not been opened due to word of the other two explosions. However, that package has now been confirmed to...
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Tokyo, Japan – The Car company Toyota is going to pay the United States federal government $32.4 million extra in penalties in a settlement deal. This is due to the fact that it defaulted in proper supervising of two product recalls. In April 2010 Toyota consented to shell out the absolute maximum penalty permitted...
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Washington D.C. - President Barack Obama has canceled his family vacation to Hawaii so he can stay behind to try and gain enough votes in the Senate for a major arms control treaty. The primary obstacles in his way are hesitant Republicans. Elevating the political pressure on the Republican party in order to acquire...
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Pyongyang, North Korea - North Korea turned away from its’ provocations that it would strike in opposition to South Korea’s military drills with the United States. The North also has supposedly presented concessions regarding its’ nuclear program which, to say the least, has put many world leaders on edge. These latest diplomatic developments could...
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Washington D.C. – An immigration law known as the “DREAM Act” which was to have given untold numbers of illegal immigrants a clean playing field in the struggle to get citizenship status went down the drain. Yesterday, the Senate delivered a very important knock back to Democrats as well as Hispanic advocates. Despite the...
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