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(Photo: AP / Charles Dharapak)President Barack Obama urges banking reforms in the wake of JPMorgan's $2-billion loss
President Barack Obama speaks to world leaders during the first session of the G-8 Summit Saturday, May 19, 2012 at Camp David, Md....Full Story

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(Photo: AP / Henny Ray Abrams)Blind Chinese activist Chen arrives in United States
Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng arrives at Washington Square Village on the campus of New York University, Saturday, May 19, 2012, in New York....Full Story

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Virginia’s largest utility proposes solar-power buy-back incentive
| In its continuing public relations attempt at an about-face, Dominion Virginia Power submitted a PROPOSAL on Thursday seeking the State Corporation Commission’s approval to purchase solar-generated power from small business and residential ratepayers at 15 cents per...Full Story
The Current: Jack Abramoff on Lobbying Reform
This video is part of the student-produced web-based series "The Current: Navigating Our Values and Politics." The Current interviews Jack Abramoff, notorious lobbyist and author of Capitol Punishment, on his experience as a lobbyist in Washington. Credit: Geo...Full Story
Coney Island Polar Bear Club - 2012
The Coney Island Polar Bear Club makes their annual New Year's Day dive into the icy Atlantic Ocean - 2012. Credit: San Diego Zoo via Getty Images / Tammy Spratt The Coney Island Polar Bear Club makes their annual New Year's Day dive into the icy A...Full Story
Summer in the State: Southwest Ohio attractions
| Read about fun summer events in Columbus and around Ohio in the Summer Fun Guide. | The Dispatch for smart phones | The Dispatch app features breaking news, sports, weather, videos, movie times, gas prices, a flight tracker and much more. | Download apps for your:&nbs...Full Story
Day after historic IPO, Facebook's Zuckerberg weds
| By MARCUS WOHLSEN | Associated Press | SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - For Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, it was quite a week - from birthday, to IPO, to I DO. | A day after the historic Facebook stock offering, Zuckerberg on Saturday wed 27-year-old Priscilla Chan, h...Full Story
Chinese activist renews call to fight injustice
| By KAREN MATTHEWS | Associated Press | NEW YORK (AP) - A blind Chinese legal activist who escaped house arrest, endured a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle and a hurried daylong flight paused ever so briefly upon his arrival in New York City before taking up a famili...Full Story
Brian Doherty on Ron Paul's Revolution
"Ron Paul invented the notion of a populist, activist, modern movement thats transpartisan" says Reason's Brian Doherty Brian Doherty sat down with ReasonTV to talk about his new book and how Ron Paul has changed politics in America. Doherty wrote about t...Full Story
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Woman stabbed while shopping
The Examiner Read the article:  Another ‘random act’ of black-on-white violence Dave Gibson | Norfolk Crime Examiner RSSSubscribe Comments | Follow UsTwitter | Amazon game deals of the week slashes Gears of War 3 and more t.co/oYeRw03B 36 minutes ago | O...
Military mom, son set to graduate from college on the same day
Stars and Stripes | Ryan Thompson and his mother, Colette Mitchell Thompson, will graduate Sunday at the same time, miles apart. | Ryan, 27, will be walking the Lawn at the University of Virginia. His mother will be at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Va. | “I&...
Map reveals clues about Lost Colony's fate
San Francisco Chronicle | For centuries, the Tidewater coast of North Carolina has held one of early America's oldest secrets: the fate of more than 100 English colonists who vanished from their island outpost in the late 1500s. | Theories abound about what happened to the ...
Kristen Wiig gets an emotional sendoff from 'SNL'
MSNBC | By FRAZIER MOORE | AP Television Writer | NEW YORK (AP) - Kristen Wiig got a musical sendoff on the season finale of "Saturday Night Live" as the popular and versatile cast member made her exit after seven years. | In the show's final sketch, guest...
Woman battling cancer was fired TWICE for missing work while undergoing treatment
The Daily Mail | A woman with breast cancer has been fired from two jobs after missing work while she underwent treatment. | Connie Robinson, of Richard, Virginia, lost her job twice during the past three years during two separate battles with cancer. | Now the wom...
Woman battling cancer was fired TWICE as she underwent treatment
The Daily Mail | A woman with breast cancer has been fired from two jobs while she underwent treatment. | Connie Robinson, of Richard, Virginia, lost her job twice during the past three years during two separate battles with cancer. | Now the woman, who has complet...
Saturday's high school roundup: HRA takes state boys lacrosse crown
Daily Press | Here's a look at Saturday's game-by-game action in high schools: | http://highschoolsports.dailypress.com/2011/schedules/20120519/20120519 | As for the highlights: | Boys lacrosse: | The Hampton Roads Academy Navigators are state champions. | Tourn...
G-8 warns North Korea about further provocations
MSNBC | NEW YORK (AP) - The Group of Eight world leaders has warned North Korea that it faces more sanctions if it continues to threaten the stability of the region with provocative acts such as its failed long-range rocket launch in April. | The U.S., Can...
Cascading through Spring Titles
The Examiner They came from a tribe of 3,000 years ago for something awful and now the world must pay... Credit: Robert Liparulo/ Thomas Nelson Publishers They came from a tribe of 3,000 years ago for something awful and now the world must pay...The Betarrini sis...
Japan answers the the call on Chinese agression
The Examiner | As the standoff over Scarborough Shoal between China and the  Philippines continues, the Obama Administration remains AWOL, as does the so called 'main stream media'. | Though it is highly unlikley China would embark on a conquest of the entire Ph...
Brooklyn HS band’s trial by fire
New York Post Online | The show must go on. | A group of Brooklyn high-school students managed to compete in a Virginia music competition even after their bus burst into flames on I-95 and their instruments were destroyed, thanks to an amazing outpouring of generosity. |...
Another ‘random act’ of black-on-white violence
The Examiner | On Thursday, police in Dallas arrested Antowann Davis, 30, after he allegedly stabbed a woman inside the Target on Marsh Lane. | Davis removed a butcher knife from its packaging in the cutlery section and stabbed Martha Jones, 29, in the lower back...
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WWE Over the Limit 2012 online video preview
The Examiner Watch the WWE Over the Limit 2012 official video promo from YouTube. Credit: YouTube.com, WWE Read the article:  WWE Over the Limit 2012 live stream online and local viewing info Matt Couden | Roanoke Pro Wrestling Examiner RSSFollowSubscribe Co...
Buffett a believer in good old newspapers
Pittsburgh Tribune Review | Who would have thought we'd see Warren Buffett buying newspapers? | Imagine, that old business. | Traditionalists will recall (perhaps fondly) a medium of information that got stuffed in a curbside box or landed with a clunk on a doorstep, where th...
Jennifer Vanasco and Jennifer Hagel
The New York Times | Jennifer Layne Vanasco and Jennifer Marie Hagel were married Saturday at Trinity Lutheran Church of New York. The Rev. Heidi Neumark, the church’s pastor, performed the ceremony. Enlarge This Image Jane Lowers | Ms. Vanasco (left), 40, is a f...
Moraya Jackson and Christopher DeGeare
The New York Times | Enlarge This Image Serendipity photo | Moraya Seeger Jackson and Christopher Landis DeGeare were married Friday at the Scott County Courthouse in Shakopee, Minn. Judge Kevin W. Eide, of Minnesota’s First Judicial District, who presides in Cha...
Christiana Fiorilli and Tate Ellington
The New York Times | Christiana Danielle Fiorilli and James Tate Ellington were married Saturday evening at the Dixie Gin, an event space in Shreveport, La. The Rev. Jeffrey R. Jordan, a Presbyterian minister, officiated. Enlarge This Image Courtney Dellafiora | Mrs. F...
Emma Rosen, Noah Sugerman
The New York Times | Emma Nicole Rosen and Dr. Noah Tolmach Sugerman are to be married Sunday evening at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, Calif. Rabbi Scott G. Perlo is to officiate. Enlarge This Image Sam Lim Studio | The bride, 25, and bridegroom, 27, met ...
Former 'Eers, Butler & Flowers returned to Charleston for a good cause
MSNBC | It's always great to see a pair of former Mountaineers back in the Mountain State, especially if it's for a good cause. | On Saturday former WVU basketball stars, Da'Sean Butler and John Flowers were in Nitro at Collectibles Etc. signing autographs...
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