• Robert W add a quote by Richard G. Scott July 5, 2012
    "Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself. I do not minimize how hard some of these events are. They can extend over a long period of time, but they should not be allowed to become the confining center of everything you do. The Lord inspired Lehi to declare the fundamental truth, “Men are, that they might have jo […]

FBI hunt for ex-Teamster boss Hoffa’s remains ends

Members of the FBI evidence response team look over an area being cleared in Oakland Township, Mich., Tuesday, June 18, 2013 where officials continue the search for the remains of Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared from a Detroit-area restaurant in 1975. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The FBI says it has found no sign of the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa and is ending a dig in suburban Detroit.



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UAE charges 30 suspects with plotting coup

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates broadened its crackdown on perceived threats and risked deepening its rift with Egypt on Wednesday with plans to bring 30 Egyptian and UAE suspects to trial for alleged coup plotting linked to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.
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Security risk clouds Libya’s tourism ambitions

(Blank Headline Received)By Marie-Louise Gumuchian SABRATHA, Libya (Reuters) – The ruins of a grandiose Roman theatre behind them, two foreigners taking pictures in the Libyan coastal city of Sabratha make a rare sight these days. The ancient Roman city used to attract more than 20,000 foreign visitors annually before the 2011 war that ousted Muammar Gaddafi. Now the temples and mosaics overlooking the turquoise waters of the Mediterranean are usually deserted. The two European visitors touring the UNESCO World Heritage site on this quiet day are geologists on a work trip to Libya. …



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Madonna premieres tour film, talks secret project

Madonna attends the world premiere of "Madonna: The MDNA Tour" at the Paris Theatre on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)NEW YORK (AP) — Madonna said there were days she was exhausted during her recent "MDNA" world tour, but she decided to press on.



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Family: Country singer Slim Whitman dies at age 90

CORRECTS DATE OF DEATH TO JUNE 19 - FILE - This undated file photo shows country singer Slim Whitman. Whitman died Wednesday, June 19, 2013 of heart failure in Florida. He was 90. Whitman's career began in the late 1940s, and his tenor falsetto and ebony mustache and sideburns became global trademarks. They were also an inspiration for countless jokes thanks to the ubiquitous 1980s and 1990s TV commercials that pitched his records. (AP Photo, file)MIAMI (AP) — Country singer Slim Whitman, the high-pitched yodeler who sold millions of records through ever-present TV ads in the 1980s and 1990s and whose song saved the world in the film comedy "Mars Attacks!," died Wednesday at a Florida hospital. He was 90.



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Obama renews calls for nuclear reductions

US President Barack Obama waves to spectators before he delivers a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate at Pariser Platz in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday June 19, 2013. At right stands German chancellor Angela Merkel. On the second day of his visit to Germany, Obama met with German President Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Angela Merkel before delivering a speech at Brandenburg Gate. Atop of the gate the Quadriga sculpture. ( AP Photo/Michael Kappeler,Pool)BERLIN (AP) — Issuing an appeal for a new citizen activism in the free world, President Barack Obama renewed his call Wednesday to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles and to confront climate change, a danger he called "the global threat of our time."



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FBI says it found no remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa in suburban Detroit

OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — FBI says it found no remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa in suburban Detroit.
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Qatar interested in Eurofighter, Rafale jets

By Brenda Goh, Praveen Menon and John Irish PARIS (Reuters) – Qatar is likely to launch an international tender to renew its fleet of ageing fighter jets soon and is interested in France’s Rafale, a French official said, while sources said it was also looking at the BAE Systems-backed Eurofighter Typhoon. Qatar said in 2011 it wanted to replace its fleet of 12 Mirage fighter jets, possibly buying 24 to 36 units. …
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Tropical depression heads toward Mexican coast

MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters say a tropical depression crossing Mexico’s Bay of Campeche is getting better organized and is expected to become a tropical storm before making landfall along Mexico’s Gulf Coast.
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‘Nightline’ anchor Moran heading to London for ABC

In this June 17, 2009 file photograph provided by ABC News, shows ABC News' Terry Moran, at the Treasury Department in Washington. ABC News said Wednesday, June 19, 2013 that ABC News “Nightline” anchor Terry Moran is getting a new posting as the London-based chief foreign correspondent for the network. ABC said Wednesday that Moran will head overseas late this summer. (AP Photo/ABC News, Randy Sager, File) NO SALES MANDATORY CREDIT: Randy Sager, ABC NewsNEW YORK (AP) — ABC News "Nightline" anchor Terry Moran is getting a new posting as the London-based chief foreign correspondent for the network.



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Former TWA Flight 800 investigators want new probe

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — There is a renewed effort to reopen the investigation that downed TWA Flight 800 off the coast of New York in 1996.
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Russia signals nuclear arms cuts will not come easy

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – Russia voiced concern on Wednesday about U.S. missile defenses and high-precision conventional weapons, signaling that nuclear arms cuts proposed by President Barack Obama are likely to face obstacles. In a speech in Berlin, Obama said he wanted to reduce U.S. deployed strategic nuclear weapons by one-third and would seek to negotiate cuts with Russia. The former Cold War foes possess the vast majority of the world’s nuclear weapons. …
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Obama wants to cut nuclear arms, seeks talks with Russia

U.S. President Obama embraces German Chancellor Merkel outside the Chancellery in BerlinBERLIN (Reuters) – President Barack Obama wants to reduce deployed nuclear weapons by up to a third and revive negotiations with Russia to "move beyond Cold War nuclear postures", he said in a speech on Wednesday in Berlin. "After a comprehensive review I have determined that we can ensure the security of America and our allies, and maintain a strong and credible strategic deterrent, while reducing our deployed strategic nuclear weapons by up to one third," he said. …



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Todashev’s body brought to Russia for burial

GROZNY, Russia (AP) — The father of a Russian man killed while being questioned about ties to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects says he has brought the body to Russia for burial.
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Air France-KLM orders 25 wide-body Airbus A350s

Visitors walk among planes displayed at the 50th Paris Air Show at Le Bourget airport, north of Paris, Wednesday June 19, 2013. Visible at foreground is a Bombardier Global 6000 jet.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)LE BOURGET, France (AP) — Air France-KLM ordered 25 Airbus A350 jets on Wednesday, saying the wide-body plane that flew for the first time last week will be central to its plan to expand long-haul flights after years of struggling against discount carriers in Europe.



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Capitol’s Frederick Douglass statue to be unveiled

WASHINGTON (AP) — The 19th-century orator and writer Frederick Douglass will once again stand tall in the U.S. Capitol.
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Investors look for answers on economy from Fed

In this Wednesday, May 22, 2013 photo, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Federal Reserve ends a policy meeting Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Investors have been nervously speculating that the Fed will soon scale back its economic stimulus and send interest rates up and stock prices down. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)WASHINGTON (AP) — Worry and speculation have consumed investors since Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke to Congress last month about the Federal Reserve's drive to keep long-term interest rates at record lows.



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Singapore Airlines orders 30 more Airbus A350s

PARIS (Reuters) – Singapore Airlines has placed a firm order for 30 Airbus A350-900 aircraft worth $8.6 billion at list prices, with options for 20 more of the jetliners. The airline could convert the options into larger A350-1000s under the terms of the deal, Airbus said at the Paris Airshow on Wednesday. The carrier now has 70 firm orders for the A350, Airbus added. (Reporting by Maria Sheahan; Editing by James Regan)
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Turkey’s ‘standing man’ to join ranks of icons?

FILE - This is a June 11, 1963 file photo of Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, burns himself to death on a Saigon street South Vietnam to protest alleged persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government. (AP Photo/Malcolm Browne, File)The image was stark: a silent, solitary figure standing in passive defiance to the Turkish prime minister's demand for protesters to clear Taksim Square in central Istanbul.



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Neighbors: Couple killed waited for order to leave

Firefighters line up to cross a field putting out hot spots in an area off Hodgen Road in the northern part of the burn area near Colorado Springs, Colo., Monday, June, 17, 2013. Rain helped firefighters douse Colorado's most destructive wildfire in state history, while a new wind-whipped blaze in California forced evacuations and threatened homes Monday near Yosemite National Park. (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, Carol Lawrence) MAGS OUTDENVER (AP) — Bob and Barbara Schmidt dashed to their home on a dirt road in a heavily wooded area northeast of Colorado Springs as smoke from what would become the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history filled the air.



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Turkey’s economy is vulnerable

By Hugo Dixon LONDON, June 17 (Reuters Breakingviews) – Tayyip Erdogan seems to like the concept of “choking” things. At the weekend, Turkey’s prime minister sent riot police into an Istanbul park with tear gas and water cannons to clear out the protesters. A week earlier, he had threatened to “choke” an alleged “high-interest-rate lobby” of speculators who wanted to push interest rates up and suffocate the economy. Erdogan’s harsh actions against protesters and harsh words against investors could backfire economically. …
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Best-selling author Vince Flynn dies at age 47

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Vince Flynn, a best-selling author of political thriller novels, has died at age 47 after a two-year battle with prostate cancer.
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Mozambique’s Renamo threatens to paralyse vital coal railway

(Blank Headline Received)By Marina Lopes MAPUTO (Reuters) – The Renamo opposition party, a former guerrilla organisation, threatened on Wednesday to paralyse the only railway line out of Mozambique's vast coalfields in an effort to hurt the government. Renamo information chief Jeronimo Malagueta told a news conference in Maputo that disruption of the Sena line connecting the northwest region of Tete to the Indian Ocean port of Beira would last "as long as it takes". Renamo would "paralyse the movement of trains", he added. …



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NBC News airing documentary on Valerie Harper

FILE - This May 16, 2012 file photo shows actress Valerie Harper at the Friars Club Roast of Betty White in New York. Harper has agreed to make a first-person account of her battle with terminal cancer for NBC News. The network said that Meredith Vieira will be host of the documentary, which will air in prime-time. No airdate was set. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Valerie Harper has agreed to give a first-person account of her battle with terminal cancer to NBC News.



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Taliban confirms talks with U.S. in Qatar on Thursday

DUBAI (Reuters) – The Taliban’s spokesman in Qatar said representatives of the Afghan insurgency would meet U.S. officials for preliminary peace talks on Thursday but no time had been set. The spokesman, Mohammed Naeem, told Reuters by telephone that no Afghan government officials would be at the meeting. A team of U.S. negotiators arrived in Qatar earlier on Wednesday and held a meeting with Afghan diplomats in the Qatari capital. U.S. …
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Somali Islamist rebels launch deadly attack on UN compound

(Blank Headline Received)By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Islamist militants carried out a deadly assault on a U.N. compound in the Somali capital on Wednesday, dealing a blow to fragile security gains that have allowed a slow return of foreign aid workers and diplomats. Interior Minister Abdikarim Hussein Guled said four foreign U.N. security staff and four local guards were killed in a drawn-out gunbattle that left seven insurgent fighters dead. A U.N. spokesman said casualty numbers were still being verified. …



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Obama renews call for nuclear reductions

President Barack Obama listens to French President Francois Hollande during the G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The final day of the G-8 summit of wealthy nations is ending with discussions on globe-trotting corporate tax dodgers, a lunch with leaders from Africa, and suspense over whether Russia and Western leaders can avoid diplomatic fireworks over their deadlock on Syria’s civil war. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)BERLIN (AP) — President Barack Obama is calling for a one-third reduction of the U.S. and Russia's nuclear stockpiles.



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Protests get support from Brazilian soccer players

A demonstrator holds up a Brazilian flag in front of a group of protestors gathered in the main plaza of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Some of the biggest demonstrations since the end of Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship have broke out across this continent-sized country, uniting multitudes frustrated by poor transportation, health services, education and security despite a heavy tax burden. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)FORTALEZA, Brazil (AP) — The historic wave of protests that has swept across Brazil in recent days has gained some important allies — the players of the Brazilian national football team.



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