TotalPaas Dynamic Platform (TPlatform-2.5.0.0) http://www.delmarvoices.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:18:57 PDT Nine 7-Eleven store owners and managers who authorities say ran a “modern-day plantation system,” employing dozens of immigrant workers at New York and Virginia convenience stores, were just one thread in a vast human trafficking and forced labor web that stretches around the world and into American homes.Investigators filed indictments earlier this week against the eight men and one woman who wer...]]> http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/653378/s/2d861ea2/l/0Lusnews0Bnbcnews0N0C0Inews0C20A130C0A60C190C190A4210A30Emodern0Eday0Eslavery0Estate0Edept0Esays0Emillions0Eof0Ehuman0Etrafficking0Evictims0Ego0Eunidentified0Dlite/story01.htm Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:15:15 PDT e7ad99acc7283e528c0127deb3988012 Voice of America
The United States and the European Union believe Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons, but Tehran says its program is for peaceful, civilian purposes. The international community has been trying for years to persuade Iran to end its  ...]]> http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNEyqXJ_bHmoHdKxDpA1KMcNDHn0yw&url=http://www.voanews.com/content/iran-nuclear-arsenal-attack-israel/1685221.html Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:51:15 PDT 2083f27293b2ead56914806972ddcf89 Stocks accelerated their selloff in the final hour of trading on Wednesday to close over 200 points lower, after the Federal Reserve said it will maintain its bond-buying program, although Chairman Ben Bernanke hinted that the FOMC plans to moderate purchases later this year. "They don't tie themselves officially into anything but it's clearly what they're going to do," said Jim Paulsen, ch...]]> http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/653378/s/2d862a17/l/0L0Snbcnews0N0Cbusiness0Cstocks0Eskid0E20A0A0Epoints0Efed0Ehints0Estimulus0Eslowdown0E6C10A378915/story01.htm Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:42:25 PDT f2c9976460651e05be78c19cbe6db725 Forbes
This past Saturday, police forces lined up outside of Istanbul's Gezi Park, the center of a three week protest against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, gave warning, and moved in. In a matter of hours, the massive encampment set up by thousands of  ...]]> http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGdZ5K-Be2KXpNopUS2cdBOtiMJTQ&url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkantrowitz/2013/06/19/social-media-and-istanbuls-protests-four-things-you-need-to-know/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:42:11 PDT 4505856d2cb4160f89bf4a26087c2be5 Bloomberg
The U.S. worked to sustain plans for Afghan peace talks after President Hamid Karzai balked over the American role and the Taliban's move to open an office under the name it used when it controlled Afghanistan. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in phone  ...]]> http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNH_kUMFHTdkDFArt6py9v2eNgFNGQ&url=http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-19/kerry-woos-balking-karzai-on-planned-afghan-peace-talks.html Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:41:21 PDT eccaf382bd4e19fa7b2944871d35799a The new MERS virus, which has infected 64 people and killed 38 of them, is mostly spread in hospitals and it will take special care to prevent bigger outbreaks, experts reported on Wednesday.An investigation into the outbreak in Saudi Arabia showed 21 people were infected as patients who unknowingly went from one clinic to another, spreading the virus. It can spread quickly in the hospital if stri...]]> http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/653378/s/2d858806/l/0L0Snbcnews0N0Chealth0Cnew0Emiddle0Eeast0Evirus0Espread0Ehospitals0E6C10A378925/story01.htm Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:31:16 PDT 25e65ecbde1dcaf7a0d1e024302b7543 In this month’s issue of Vogue, Katy Perry reveals how she learned that her marriage to Russell Brand was over: via text message. That’s cold, but she's in good company, at least among these painfully awkward pop culture splits. Real or fictional, these breakups left us cringing.Carrie and Berger, 'Sex and the City'In one of the most famously embarrassing breakups in TV history, Berger (Ron Living...]]> http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/653378/s/2d856379/l/0L0Stoday0N0Centertainment0Cpost0Eits0Etext0Emessages0Epop0Ecultures0Eworst0Ebreakups0E6C10A3780A91/story01.htm Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:25:47 PDT de082bf147e02e0f8d39fe9edcaa4614 Until recently, the only crime that Cap’N Crunch could be accused of was cutting up the roofs of our mouths, despite his cereal’s delicious sweet corn taste. Now, an eagle-eyed cereal lover has found that Cap’N Crunch is not a captain at all, but a commander, according to the stripes on his uniform. Navy captains sport four stripes, while commanders have three—as the captain does—but many on the ...]]> http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/653378/s/2d856378/l/0L0Stoday0N0Cfood0Csay0Eit0Eaint0Eso0Ecapn0Ecrunch0Enot0Ereally0Ecaptain0E6C10A378921/story01.htm Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:25:47 PDT 0ce1360bef0407a0c152b35b142a1cd8 TIME
Since making her final, pre-delivery public appearance last Saturday, the Duchess of Cambridge has left everyone from monarchy-deprived Americans to Kate Middleton impersonators anxiously refreshing their twitter feeds to make sure they don't miss out on  ...]]> http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGHCEESwCeK1AJSvbeQ8kk1T3Iexg&url=http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/06/19/when-is-the-royal-baby-due/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:24:37 PDT d560c2e5544654eb939bdae463e716d8 Pakistan Daily Times
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan in currently hosting more than 1.6 million Afghan refugees and an estimated one million undocumented Afghans living in Pakistan in the largest protracted refugee crisis in the world. In connection with the World Refugees Day today  ...]]> http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNEIIAW19ssXuPqWYrlhYcMFcd1T3w&url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page%3D2013%255C06%255C20%255Cstory_20-6-2013_pg7_9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:19:55 PDT 56bf8a7d5582a22e26d6a1a1274b9617 USA TODAY
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Seven al-Qaida-linked militants on a suicide mission attacked the U.N. compound Wednesday with a truck bomb and then poured inside, killing at least 13 people before dying in the assault. At least three foreigners were slain  ...]]> http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNEPlvTroldEPAlKgcckPhlrocucwA&url=http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/06/19/somalia-attack/2439315/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:04:38 PDT a92347356caba41a0753d123585bb6b4 After supporters of the Senate immigration reform bill got a boost from a new report estimating that the bill would substantially decrease the federal budget deficit over the next two decades, conservative opponents of the legislation pushed back Wednesday, saying the legislation would fail to stop illegal immigration, decrease American wages and hurt the Republican Party.The nonpartisan Congressi...]]> http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/653378/s/2d852635/l/0Lfirstread0Bnbcnews0N0C0Inews0C20A130C0A60C190C190A430A750Eafter0Ecbo0Ereport0Egives0Ebackers0Ea0Eboost0Efoes0Eof0Eimmigration0Ebill0Epush0Eback0Dlite/story01.htm Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:58:02 PDT 734bf0771c77bc5ba668c6bb97bdf3c3 BBC News
Brazilian police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse some protesters in the city of Fortaleza, as unrest continues across the country. At least 30,000 people rallied in the north-eastern city ahead of the Confederations Cup game with Mexico.
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Julian Assange, founder and publisher of WikiLeaks, said his legal advisers have talked with lawyers for Edward Snowden to help arrange asylum in Iceland for the American contractor who leaked information on U.S. electronic surveillance methods to  ...]]> http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNG_ZuuRVOJqedBE_PjIIxdenMg00A&url=http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-19/assange-says-wikileaks-team-aiding-snowden-on-iceland.html Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:52:52 PDT b17d9ab39900e7e309ee3cae1c912681 KABUL, Afghanistan -- Secretary of State John Kerry assured Afghan President Hamid Karzai that the government of Qatar took down a sign board under the name of "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan," adding that the United States is committed to all its agreements with the Afghan government.The Taliban office "must not be treated as or represent itself as an embassy or other office representing the Afgh...]]> http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/653378/s/2d855c3d/l/0Lworldnews0Bnbcnews0N0C0Inews0C20A130C0A60C190C190A368620Ekerry0Ecalls0Eafghanistans0Ekarzai0Eto0Eease0Eanger0Eover0Etaliban0Eoffice0Dlite/story01.htm Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:52:29 PDT b63c28d84065aecfb2610cec7cde843f Struggling student loan debtors are being tricked into paying up to $1,600 in fees to private firms offering "debt relief" that they could get for free, according to a report issued Wednesday by the National Consumer Law Center.Student loan debt relief ads began crowding their way onto media in recent months. Consumers deep in credit card debt have heard the pitch for years, in seemingly incessant...]]> http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/653378/s/2d852432/l/0Lredtape0Bnbcnews0N0C0Inews0C20A130C0A60C190C190A4280A90Econsumer0Egroup0Esays0Estudent0Eloan0Edebt0Erelief0Efirms0Emisleading0Eborrowers0Dlite/story01.htm Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:46:57 PDT 5712df4f529e17e3d2185c463f6690b4 KABUL, Afghanistan -- Secretary of State John Kerry assured Afghan President Hamid Karzai that the government of Qatar took down a sign board under the name of "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan," adding that the United States is committed to all its agreements with the Afghan government.The Taliban office "must not be treated as or represent itself as an embassy or other office representing the Afgh...]]> http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/653378/s/2d801df7/l/0Lworldnews0Bnbcnews0N0C0Inews0C20A130C0A60C190C190A368620Eus0Etaliban0Epeace0Etalks0Ein0Edoubt0Eamid0Eafghan0Eanger0Eover0Eoffice0Eflag0Dlite/story01.htm Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:46:57 PDT a881a8f3916ccf448b90230fab78d06a Fans of extraterrestrial anomalies will have a field day with the billion-pixel view of the Curiosity rover's surroundings at a place called Rocknest on Mars. The 360-degree clickable panorama lets you zoom in on an eerie Martian "bird," a weird series of holes, or a shiny object sitting on the Red Planet's surface.Never mind that all these anomalies are perfectly explainable: It's a weird and won...]]> http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/653378/s/2d85222a/l/0Lcosmiclog0Bnbcnews0N0C0Inews0C20A130C0A60C190C190A420A540Eexplore0Ea0E130Ebillion0Epixel0Eview0Eof0Ethe0Ecuriosity0Erovers0Edigs0Eon0Emars0Dlite/story01.htm Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:35:53 PDT 4b270d0460f1f9ef217cc7a8511addc9 BBC News
North Korea has expressed willingness to restart long-stalled nuclear talks with international partners, China's foreign ministry has said. According to its website, North Korean officials said they wanted to "peacefully resolve the nuclear issue". The remarks  ...]]> http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFtRc2jgfTGAXNbmNhynJmv6I0T7g&url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22980078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:14:40 PDT 4294c036b6c353e87d129e8024c03eb1 A swine virus deadly to young pigs, one never before seen in North America, is spreading rapidly across the United States and proving harder to control than previously believed. The virus now has spread to 13 states - with more than 100 positive cases to date - since it was first diagnosed in the United States last month, said Montserrat Torremorell, the Allen D. Leman Chair in Swine Health and Pr...]]> http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/653378/s/2d855368/l/0L0Snbcnews0N0Cbusiness0Coutbreak0Edeadly0Epiglet0Evirus0Espreads0E130Estates0E6C10A3780A85/story01.htm Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:08:10 PDT dfd1bb56406c465736b1cd6878ef5338 MILAN, Italy - Fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were given a suspended 20-month jail sentence on Wednesday after being found guilty of hiding $1.3 billion in income from tax authorities.The suspended sentence, which one of their lawyers said they would appeal, means they will avoid prison as long as they commit no other crimes for five years.The conviction is the culmination of...]]> http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/653378/s/2d83482e/l/0Lworldnews0Bnbcnews0N0C0Inews0C20A130C0A60C190C190A410A50A0Efashion0Edesigners0Edolce0Eand0Egabbana0Eguilty0Eof0Etax0Eevasion0Ein0Eitaly0Dlite/story01.htm Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:51:37 PDT 04a276b802b32a571fb436191504c3e8 Prince William and Duchess Kate still aren’t revealing the gender of their first child – because they really don’t know, palace officials insisted Wednesday. New details about the highly anticipated birth of the new heir to the throne were disclosed by an official of St. James Palace. Duchess Kate, 31, is due in mid-July. The palace said she will deliver her baby in a private wing of St. Mary’s ho...]]> http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/653378/s/2d83cb15/l/0L0Stoday0N0Cnews0Cduchess0Ekate0Egive0Ebirth0Esame0Ehospital0Eprincess0Ediana0E6C10A378920A/story01.htm Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:51:36 PDT 82c93de6be597a494dd950714928a6b4 An argument ended grimly in California this week, with a father found in the driveway bleeding from stab wounds and his son nearby, his severed hands lying on the ground.Shasta County Sherriff’s deputies responded to a reported stabbing in Redding, Calif., on Monday afternoon to find the gruesome scene with “visible injuries” in the driveway, according to a news release.Both Gregory Dunn, 58, and ...]]> http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/653378/s/2d852a46/l/0Lusnews0Bnbcnews0N0C0Inews0C20A130C0A60C190C190A40A8130Eson0Eallegedly0Estabs0Efather0Ecuts0Eoff0Ehis0Eown0Ehands0Dlite/story01.htm Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:45:58 PDT 21749095deb222fa31d9a407e3644151 Two upstate New York men, one of them said to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan, plotted to build a truck-mounted, industrial-strength X-ray weapon to kill “enemies of Israel” by poisoning them with radiation, federal authorities said Wednesday.One of them boasted that he could build a “Hiroshima light switch” and that “everything with respiration would be dead by morning,” authorities said.Investig...]]> http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/653378/s/2d84df4d/l/0Lusnews0Bnbcnews0N0C0Inews0C20A130C0A60C190C190A424220Efeds0E20Eplotted0Eto0Ebuild0Ehiroshima0Elight0Eswitch0Eweapon0Dlite/story01.htm Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:07:07 PDT 9d4cb66a8fb23600c7a768f7f758e10d Google’s chief legal officer said Wednesday “we’re not in cahoots with the NSA” as the company stepped up its efforts to reassure customers that their gmail and Internet browsing history are safe from government prying."There is no free-for-all, no direct access, no indirect access, no back door, no drop box," said David Drummond, Google's top lawyer, in a live webchat with The Guardian newspaper...]]> http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/653378/s/2d8470f2/l/0Lopenchannel0Bnbcnews0N0C0Inews0C20A130C0A60C190C190A421950Egoogle0Ewere0Enot0Ein0Ecahoots0Ewith0Ethe0Ensa0Dlite/story01.htm Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:01:36 PDT a7e30432376197ff3ff5bb01d07d4330 The economy is growing, the labor market is improving and inflation is nothing to worry about. That's the Federal Reserve's widely-anticipated assessment of the economy, released Wednesday after a two-day meeting.The Fed said it would keep interest rates at historic lows near zero and that it would continue its bond buying program, known as quantitative easing, aimed at keeping the central bank's ...]]> http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/653378/s/2d84dc86/l/0L0Snbcnews0N0Cbusiness0Cfed0Ewill0Ekeep0Epedal0Emetal0Eeconomic0Estimulus0Enow0E6C10A381923/story01.htm Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:56:04 PDT 6e0960c48ea25bd9a21352926114e664 The economy is growing, the labor market is improving and inflation is nothing to worry about. That's the Federal Reserve's widely-anticipated assessment of the economy, released Wednesday after a two-day meeting.The Fed said it would keep interest rates at historic lows near zero and that it would continue its bond buying program, known as quantitative easing, aimed at keeping the central bank's ...]]> http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/653378/s/2d846bd6/l/0L0Snbcnews0N0Cbusiness0Cfed0Ewill0Ekeep0Epedal0Emetal0Eeconomic0Estimulus0E6C10A381923/story01.htm Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:39:40 PDT 5bf34c5eadeed45f9e6f1637310c6680 Country singer Slim Whitman, known for his yodeling skills and falsetto voice, died Wednesday of heart failure at age 90, his family said.Recent generations may know Whitman best from the musical hits collections he sold on television in the 1980s and the numerous jokes "Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson made at his expense. But he was a star long before that on two continents. His 1955 hit "Rose M...]]> http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/653378/s/2d836cb2/l/0L0Stoday0N0Centertainment0Csinger0Eyodeler0Eslim0Ewhitman0Edies0E90A0E6C10A3780A92/story01.htm Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:49:49 PDT e8da95859e69e805dde8d8be2f82b529 A missing elderly Kansas couple who set out on an eight-hour trip from Kansas to Illinois to visit family on Monday afternoon was found Wednesday afternoon in Mio, Mich., – about 400 miles from their original destination.“They took a wrong turn,” Garnett Police Chief Kevin Pekarek said.Vernon Hunt, 92, and his wife Goldie, 81, of Garnett, Kan. were reported missing by their son Jay Selanders Monda...]]> http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/653378/s/2d83b1b9/l/0Lusnews0Bnbcnews0N0C0Inews0C20A130C0A60C190C190A40A2850Emissing0Eelderly0Ekansas0Ecouple0Efound0Esafe0E40A0A0Emiles0Efrom0Edestination0Dlite/story01.htm Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:22:14 PDT a80896c9510572c7375ae800daa40ba8 MarketWatch
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Legendary Italian fashion designers Dolce & Gabbana have been sentenced to one year and eight months in jail for tax evasion, according to media reports. Domenico Dolce and Stafano Gabbana are accused of hiding millions  ...]]> http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNE-ssHtFoej68Wzf2ppqX9Yza-HxQ&url=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/dolce-gabbana-sentenced-to-jail-for-tax-evasion-2013-06-19?link%3DMW_latest_news Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:51:42 PDT 51a4c327754f8b9e0b2d80dc71363bc8