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Skagit River bridge collapses in Washington people in river survive
An Interstate 5 bridge over a river north of Seattle collapsed Thursday evening, dumping vehicles and people into the water, the Washington State Patrol ...
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Bridge Collapse in Washington Cripples Highway Near Seattle
A section of a major interstate highway bridge in Washington state collapsed yesterday, sending two vehicles into the rushing waters of the Skagit River north of Seattle. Three people were rescued and no one is believed to have died, authorities said. The bridge carried both north- and south-bound lanes of Interstate 5, which runs the length of the U.S. West Coast from Mexico to Canada. ...
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Washington scandals intrude on Mass. Senate race
The controversies swirling around the Obama administration - from the IRS targeting of conservative groups to lingering questions about last year's terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya - are threatening to engulf Massachusetts' special U.S. Senate ...
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Deputy Defense Secretary Carter Industry needs profits and margins to be successful
Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter Lowest price will no longer rule the day in federal contracting at the Defense Department, as the latest iteration of its procurement strategy recognizes the need for industry to to make money, said Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter in a speech Thursday. In comments made at D.C.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, Carter was referring to ...
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Twitter links ads to TV programs
Linking promoted tweets with TV content would give Twitter a new way to tap into what remains the largest ad spending category television advertising. Taking advantage of the fact that large numbers of people love to tweet about television programs they are watching, Twitter Inc. is testing targeted ads linked to the TV ads its users likely see, according to the San Francisco Business Times. It ...
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Collapse Does Washington Bridge Expose the Crumbling of a Nation
As the nation continues to follow the slash and burn economic policies of the austerity hawks in Washington, will a dramatic bridge collapse in Washington state renew talk of America's eroding infrastructure?On Thursday night, a truck hit a support beam on Interstate-5 near Seattle and caused a complete section of the Skagit River Bridge to collapse, sending vehicles and their passengers ...
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Rolling Thunder Ready to Roar Into Town
ARLINGTON, VA - MAY 29: Thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts and military veterans mix in the Pentagon's parking lot before the start of "Rolling Thunder" rally May 29, 2011 in Arlington, Virginia. Although not an official guest, former U.S. Vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor Sarah Palin is expected to participate in today's motorcycle parade from the Pentagon to ...
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Videos Washington bridge collapse survivor You hold on
Zoom In this photo provided by Francisco Rodriguez, rescue workers form a human chain as they begin to remove a woman who reaches out from a smashed pickup truck that fell into the Skagit River after the collapse of the Interstate 5 bridgeThursday, May 23, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. (AP Photo/Francisco ...
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Pentagon lowers cost of F-35 program by 1.1 percent
The Pentagon has lowered the total cost of the F-35 program by 1.1 percent. The nation's most expensive defense program ever just got a little more affordable. The Pentagon has lowered the development and production cost projections of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter by 1.1 percent from $395.7 billion to $391.2 billion. Bloomberg reported that the reduction was attributable to lower labor ...
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Vincent Gray approves $24M for D.C. worker pay raises
D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray on Thursday signed a law increasing pay for about 23,000 city government employees, as well as a significant expansion of affordable housing programs, the Washington Examiner reported. The $24 million plan, which the D.C. Council unanimously approved on May 7, also includes money for employment programs and thousands of extra summer school ...
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The entire globe is a battlefield for Pentagon
War Forget it; the Global War on Terror (GWOT) is not becoming more "democratic" - or even transparent. US President Barack Obama now pledges to transfer the responsibility of the shadow 'Drone Wars' from the CIA to the Pentagon - so the US Congress is able to monitor ...
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Video Bridge linking Washington and Canada collapses
Authorities have said no one was killed, but three people were rescued and taken to hospital.The four-lane motorway bridge, which is over 50 years old, crosses the Skagit River near Mt Vernon on the Interstate 5, about halfway between Seattle and Vancouver.The cause of the collapse, which came at the beginning of one of the US's busiest holiday weekends, is still unknown. The state ...
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Ocean City Fishing Pier Reopens
The 489 foot pier was almost completely destroyed during Hurricane Sandy. A large section collapsed into the ocean, and the pilings that were left standing had to be ...
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Worse Than Watergate The Ultimate White House Scandal Matrix
. That's the refrain coming from the Obama administration's critics as it scrambles to tamp down a growing pile of scandals. "The Obama administration's cover-up of the September 11, 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack surpasses ...
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Westfield Montgomery mall parking garage partially collapses
A concrete section weighing more than 50,000 pounds collapsed in a parking garage at Westfield Montgomery mall in Bethesda on Thursday, killing one construction worker and seriously injuring another, The Washington Post reported. The injured worker was pinned for four hours and had to be rescued by a crew that used wood and steel beams to brace the collapsed area around him. The rescuers ...
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Obama schedule for Friday May 24
Obama speaks at the U.S. Naval Academy commencement in Annapolis, Md., Friday, the White House said. The daily schedule indicated Obama also will sign a bill designating the Congressional Gold Medal to commemorate the lives of the four girls killed in Birmingham, Ala., at the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing of ...
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Prince Georges court to hear lawsuit over University of Marylands exit from ACC
A $52 million Atlantic Coast Conference penalty against the University of Maryland for exiting the ACC in favor of the Big Ten Conference in 2014 is going to trial in Upper Marlboro, the Associated Press reported. To be heard in Prince George's County Circuit Court, the lawsuit, if decided in the ACC's favor, could wipe out most of the university's athletic ...
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Poor hit hardest by Washington budget cuts
As the sequester continues, the poor, sick and elderly are taking a deeper hit from federal spending cuts with less money going to programs like Meals on ...
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Suspect in Czech family killings arrested in Washington -police
PRAGUE (Reuters) - U.S. authorities have arrested a man wanted for murdering four members of a family in the Czech Republic, Czech police said on ...
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Six Metro Stations Closed for Memorial Day Weekend
On the Orange Line, the Vienna, Dunn Loring and West Falls Church stations will be closed. The Shady Grove and Rockville stations will be closed on the Red ...
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White House welcomes Burmese president as new ally in “pivot to Asia”
A meeting between US President Barack Obama and Burmese President Thein Sein in the Oval Office of the White House on Monday signalled Washington's embrace of the Burmese military-dominated government, as part of its efforts to strategically encircle China. Thein Sein is the first Burmese leader to be hosted in the White House since former junta leader General Ne Win's visit in 1966. ...
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Drivers escape death as Washington state bridge on route to Canada collapses
In this photo provided by Francisco Rodriguez, a rescue boat approaches the scene where a pickup truck and travel trailer, seen at left, and a car fell into the Skagit River after the collapse of the Interstate 5 bridge, May 23, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. (Francisco ...
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IRS official defies Washington
Lois Lerner isn’t leaving the IRS without a fight.The civil servant who has found herself at the center of the agency’s tea party-targeting scandal was placed on administrative leave Thursday. The move came a day after Lerner invoked her Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee ...
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95th anniversary of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic marked in Washington
Azerbaijani embassy in the United States has organized a reception in Washington to mark 95th anniversary of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. The event brought together high-ranking officials from the US presidential office, a number of Congress members, representatives of the US army, diplomatic missions accredited in the US including those belonging to Azerbaijan, Turkey and also Jewish ...
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In the Spotlight LeAnn Wilson Association for Career and Technical Education
LeAnn Wilson, Association for Career and Technical Education This week's edition of "In the Spotlight" features LeAnn Wilson, executive director of the Association for Career and Technical Education in Alexandria. Wilson was promoted from interim executive director. Want to be considered for a future "In the Spotlight" feature? Submit your announcements here or email ...
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