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Crews Dig Through Night After Deadly Oklahoma Twister [PHOTOS]

Associated Press — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:53:42 +0000

A tornado packing 200 mile per hour winds leveled Moore, Oklahoma on Monday. At least 51 people were killed, and officials said the death toll was expected to rise.

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South Dakota Milk Production Rises

Associated Press — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:00:03 +0000

Milk production in South Dakota during January, February and March was up 0.6 percent from the first quarter of 2012.

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Secret Service: Suspicious Letter Mailed to Obama

Associated Press — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:56:36 +0000

The U.S. Secret Service has intercepted a letter addressed to President Barack Obama that contained a "suspicious substance."

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Official: Obama Proposes Cuts to Social Security

Associated Press — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:10:34 +0000

President Barack Obama's proposed budget will call for reductions in the growth of Social Security and other benefit programs while still insisting on more taxes from the wealthy in a renewed attempt to strike a broad deficit-cutting deal with Republicans, a senior administration official says.

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Spin Meter: In Budget Fight, Sky is Falling Again

Associated Press — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:34:16 +0000

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama and his officials are doing their best to drum up public concern over the shock wave of spending cuts that could strike the government in just days. So it's a good time to be alert for sky-is-falling hype.

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Open Letter to President Barack Obama On Leadership

Rick Knobe — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:49:32 +0000

You are the elected leader of our country. However, I am not sure your current leadership style will produce the results we need.

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Will The Government Let Sequestration Happen [VIDEO]

Dan Peters — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:03:37 +0000

There has been a lot of squawking about whether sequestration will happen. Dastardly federal government budget cuts that will be the end of the world as we know it according to some. Threats of rancid meat, national park closings and air tra

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Economic Jitters Compete with President Barack Obama Agenda

Associated Press — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:04:10 +0000

WASHINGTON - Just as President Barack Obama is pushing new initiatives on gun control and immigration, the gloomy old problem of a sluggish economy is elbowing its way back into prominence.

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Mind the Gap: Governor Daugaard Punts on Implementing 'Obamacare' Provisions

John Gossom — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:00:45 +0000

PIERRE - Governor Daugaard has joined a number of other Republican governors in refusing certain elements of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

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Is President Obama Fulfilling Martin Luther King Jr's Legacy?

John Gossom — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:49:52 +0000

The second inauguration of President Obama falling on the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday invites comparison between the two men. There is a sense in which Obama represents a fulfillment of MLK’s legacy, but not in way you might initially think.

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