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Fast-moving wildfire threatens hundreds of homes near Yosemite
Posted 10:04 PM 6/18/2013 by Miguel Marquez and Greg Botelho - CNN
MARIPOSA, CA - More than 2,000 firefighters rushed Tuesday to save hundreds of homes near Yosemite National Park, which are threatened by a blaze alarming for its size, speed and the fact it's striking so early in California's wildfire season.
The (More)
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Tester: Corporations are not "people", introduces new amendment
Posted 4:12 PM 6/18/2013 by KPAX/KAJ Media Center
WASHINGTON D.C. - Senator Jon Tester today introduced a Constitutional Amendment clarifying that corporations are not "people."
Tester says he'd heeding the call of Montana voters, who voted overwhelmingly in November to direct Montana's Congressional delegation to amend the U.S. (More)...
Chrysler relents, agrees to recall 2.7 million Jeeps
Surveillance thwarted stock exchange bomb plot, officials say
Firefighters make progress on Colo. wildfire containment
6/17/2013
NASA selects more women astronauts
Posted 7:12 PM 6/17/2013 by CNN News Staff
NEW YORK -- NASA has selected another generation of astronauts to travel to new destinations in the solar system, including an asteroid and Mars, and for the first time in its history half of the new candidates are women.
Four out of the eight candidates are women, "making this the highest (More)
FedEx Chair added to list of Economic Summit speakers
GM recalling 194,000 SUVs
Cold-case murders of 4 females brought back to life by new images, DNA tests
Federal investigators called in as Colorado firefighters make progress
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Firefighters, aided by rain, make progress in battle against Colorado fire
Posted 9:57 AM 6/16/2013 by Greg Botelho and George Howell - CNN
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - The huge Black Forest Fire in east central Colorado is more than halfway contained, the federal official overseeing the fight said late Saturday.
The news came after hundreds of firefighters went on an offensive, with help from (More)
Omaha suffers rash of shootings in less than 1 hour; 3 dead
6/14/2013
Residents hope for best, brace for worst as wildfire sizzles near Colorado Springs
Posted 9:06 PM 6/14/2013 by Greg Botelho and George Howell - CNN
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - Dressed in yellow, he stands a foot off the deck of a Colorado Springs home, and a few feet from the woods.
Everywhere in front of him, there's fire.
Thankfully, the flames that climb about five feet up backyard trees (More)
2 critically hurt in explosion at Louisiana chemical plant
New grandparents flee with family; fire destroys home
Packed restaurant deck collapses into Florida bay
Colorado blaze leaves 2 dead as firefighters battle on
6/13/2013
"Pandora's Promise" asks us to rethink nuclear energy
Posted 9:28 PM 6/13/2013 by CBS News
"The nuclear industry is death," a protester at demonstration says in the opening of the documentary feature "Pandora's Promise." But filmmaker Robert Stone, with the backing of Impact Partners and CNN Films, is hoping to turn that idea on its head.
Opening in select cities Wednesday, the (More)
6/14/2013
6 months later: Newtown families are back in DC
Posted 9:56 PM 6/13/2013 by CBS News
Ahead of the six-month anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the families of the Newtown victims are reviving a push for Congress to take up gun control.
After lobbying members of Congress at their Washington offices on Tuesday and Wednesday (More)
