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Bestselling books the week of 5/19/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Test your Gangnam style?
Pop music sensation Psy has taught his signature horsey dance to everyone from the UN’s Ban Ki-moon to Britney Spears. But how much do you know about the artist?
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Playing the IRS card: Six presidents who used the IRS to bash political foes
Since the advent of the federal income tax about a century ago, several presidents – or their zealous underlings – have directed the IRS to use its formidable police powers to harass or punish enemies, political rivals, and administration critics. Here are six infamous episodes.
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IRS 101: Seven questions about the tea party scandal
How the tables have turned: The Internal Revenue Service is the one under the microscope now, as revelations emerged Friday that the agency wrongly targeted conservative groups seeking nonprofit status. Here’s an accounting of what has happened, along with the ramifications.
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Bestselling books the week of 5/12/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Rand Paul for president? Why else is he in Iowa? (+video)
US Sen. Rand Paul is making a splash in Iowa this weekend, and he'll soon visit New Hampshire and South Carolina. Can the libertarian-tinged maverick Republican successfully run for president?
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North Dakota death rate is highest in nation. Why?
North Dakota death rate: There were 44 worker deaths in North Dakota in 2011, for a rate of 12.4 deaths per 100,000 workers. Half of North Dakota's worker deaths since 2010 have been in oil and gas occupations, according to the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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Energy Voices Algeria after terrorist attack: Don't count on security promises
Algerian moves to increase security after a terrorist attack on a natural gas facility in January don't address the underlying security threat of doing business there. Energy and other companies must beware of the destabilizing rivalries among Algerian leaders, who use extremist groups for their own ends.
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US unveils Arctic strategy, but is it keeping pace with other countries?
The National Strategy for the Arctic Region focuses on security, environment, and international cooperation. But with retreating sea ice creating opportunity as well as potential conflict, the US is seen as lagging.
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Stocks climb for third straight week
Stocks rose Friday to close three straight weeks of gains on Wall Street. A sharp increase in small-company stocks is also a sign that investors are more willing to take on risk.
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Team Obama edits to Benghazi talking points: the smoking gun?
The White House refused to concede on Friday that the administration's edits to a set of 'talking points' about deadly attacks on a US compound in Benghazi, Libya, were more than cosmetic. That is debatable.
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As Pakistan goes to the polls, many see a key milestone
This is the first time in Pakistan's 66 years that a democratic government has been able to complete its tenure without being toppled by the military. But change is slow, say analysts.
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Meet the Nokia Lumia 928. (Psst, it's a lot like the Lumia 920.)
But the Nokia Lumia 928 is exclusive to Verizon Wireless in the US, whereas the Lumia 920 was exclusive to AT&T.
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Of elections and extremes: Pakistan's Pamela Anderson takes on a mullah
The parliamentary race between pinup-film-star-turned-politician Musarrat Shaheen and a man described as a powerful, Taliban-tied cleric highlights the dual nature of Pakistan.
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Olive Press Fashionable – and thrifty – amid fire in southern Israel
Liat Azran had two goals when she opened a hip secondhand clothing store in Sderot, which bears the brunt of rocket fire from Gaza: helping heal the town and encouraging sound financial judgement.
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American moms: What makes a mom in the US? Take our quiz
Mother's Day began on May 10, 1908, as the project of Anna Jarvis. Observed only in Grafton, W. Va., and Philadelphia at first, Ms. Jarvis asked Congress to set aside a day to honor mothers. It took four years, but finally in 1914, little over a month before Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Mother's Day proclamation on May 14. What made a mom then is certainly different than what makes a mom now. In the pursuit of understanding who our mothers are in America today — their age, their marital status, how many babies they have — take our quiz and expand your understanding of the American Mom.
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How do you get $45 million from ATMs? Cyberthieves did it in 12 hours.
Most of a New York City 'casher' crew is under arrest, suspected of stealing $2.8 million from ATMs as part of a global cyberscheme that netted $45 million from tampered debit card accounts.
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Energy Voices Struggling at home, US coal finds markets overseas
Coal companies in the US have been unable to compete with natural gas at home, Alic writes, but overseas this coal market is getting hotter by the minute.
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Japanese yen plunges to four-year low. G7 unlikely to act.
Japanese yen's plunge vs. the dollar makes its exports cheaper and its companies more competitive. G7 finance ministers will focus on the Japanese yen at talks in the UK this weekend.
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Tax VOX Health cost growth slows. Time to rethink budget debate?
If future medical costs continue to grow at their current low rate the federal budget will be in much better shape than most analysts thought, Gleckman writes. The slowdown in health spending growth is sure to drive the fiscal debate in some important and perhaps unexpected ways.
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Kenyan official seeks ally in UN to drop criminal charges against new president
Kenya's UN ambassador says the crimes against humanity indictments of the country's president and his deputy are flawed. Can his move influence the International Criminal Court?
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Chapter & Verse FDR vs. Lindbergh: Lynne Olson discusses America's debate over WWII
'Those Angry Days' examines the battle over whether America should enter the international conflict.
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In Israel, Women of the Wall hit raw nerve over religious clout in state life (+video)
Today, Israel's Women of the Wall went to the Western Wall to pray for the first time since a court said they could worship there without fear of arrest. But they met plenty of opposition.
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Decoder Wire Why does Prince Harry make Washington swoon? (+video)
Prince Harry, making a visit to the US, interrupted a congressional hearing without attending it. Even Michelle Obama sounded a tad breathless announcing his appearance at a White House Mother’s Day tea.
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USA Update Online blueprint for 3D gun violates export law, US says. Too late now. (+video)
Cody Wilson removes from his website instructions for a functional 3-D gun, or 'wiki weapon project,' at State Department behest. US lawmakers, meanwhile, propose an updated ban on undetectable firearms.
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New York's One World Trade Center is topped off with spire
On Friday, workers completed the job of assembling the spire, which houses a broadcast attenna, atop the new building. One World Trade Center is now 1,776 feet high.
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Global News Blog US balks as Russia prepares to deliver missiles to Syria (+video)
Israel says Russia is preparing to deliver anti-aircraft missiles and launchers to the Assad regime, which the US warns will further destabilize a troubled region.
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Immigration reform too late to fix one big problem, studies say
Immigration reform aims to fix a migrant worker system that all sides say is broken. But demographic and economic trends in Mexico mean the era of cheap migrant labor flooding American fields is nearing an end, two studies say.
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Sister Megan Rice, 83-year-old nun, convicted after nuclear protest
Sister Megan Rice, 83, Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed were convicted Wednesday of interfering with national security and damaging federal property during last year's incursion of the the Y-12 National Security Complex.
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Chapter & Verse 'The Great Gatsby': Why is it so hard to adapt for the big screen?
Noir guru Alan Rode ponders the challenges of filming the masterpiece.
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