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The Top 10 Smartest Cities In North America
Some cities are adding high-tech infrastructure. Some are implementing revolutionary sustainability plans. Others are fostering innovative business and science developments. But which city combines these qualities and others to be the smartest city?
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Arctic Google Street view
Google launched a Street View map of one of Canada’s Arctic communities Wednesday, giving the world a detailed -- and digital -- look at part of the country’s vast and remote North.
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Woman Charged with Murder in NY Subway Shove Death
Prosecutors say a woman accused of pushing a man to his death in front of a New York subway train has been charged with murder as a hate crime.
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Canadian words, phrases or slang that most Americans wouldn’t understand
Toque, toboggan, toonie, two-four... and so many more!
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Avis buys Zipcar for 500 million
Car rental company Avis Budget Group Inc said it will buy Zipcar Inc for about $500 million in cash to enter the fast-growing U.S. car-sharing market.The offer of $12.25 per share is at a
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Alabama Department Of Homeland Security Releases Graphic Mass Shooting Preparedness Video
Run, hide, fight. A grim twist on the workplace training tape.
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Jim Flaherty reminds Canadians the penny’s days are numbered
Starting Feb. 4, the Royal Canadian Mint will stop distributing pennies and instead start collecting them from banks and other financial institutions
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Hillary Clinton released from hospital
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was discharged from a New York hospital on Wednesday, three days after she was admitted for treatment of a blood clot in a vein between her skull and brain, the State Department announced.
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McDonnell proposes eliminating Virginia's gas tax
State would become first in country to end gas tax; sales tax increase of 0.8 percent would pay for projects.
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Stranded killer whales break free from Hudson Bay ice
The dozen trapped orcas swam free after changing weather conditions cracked the sea ice in northern Canada.
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Aaron Swartz Died Innocent — Here Is the Evidence
I did not know Aaron Swartz, unless you count having copies of a person's entire digital life on your forensics server as knowing him. I did once meet his father, an intelligent and dedicated man who was clearly pouring his life into defending his son.
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Cuba opens the gates, hoping for a trickle, not a flood
Under a new policy that takes effect Monday, any Cuban with a valid passport will be able to leave the country.
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Watch This Army of 21 Snow Plows Team Up to Clear a Canadian Highway
You'd imagine that it would take quite a few plows to clear a snow-covered highway, but not quite this many. Keep count as they go through and you'll see a whole 21 plows in formation (and a couple of sand trucks) painstaking passing piles of grey road-sludge to the right.
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Can You Figure Out What This Odd Clump of Lights Is That’s Been Revealed By NASA Satellite Images?
Let's play a little game. Take a look below and see if anything stands out to you in this nighttime satellite picture from NASA.
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Mexican family living between a rock and a hard place
As a boy, farmer Benito Hernandez came across a cave in the remote arid region of Coahuila in Mexico, and decided that one day he would make it his home.
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Who's Hunting Who?
Thousands of police officers are frantically searching for a former Los Angeles cop before he can allegedly kill again.
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Meanwhile driving around in LA
It only makes sense.
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EU and US launch free-trade talks
The European Union and the US will begin formal talks on a free-trade agreement, paving the way for the biggest trade deal in history.
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World's Most Wanted Drug Kingpin Suspected Dead
Guatemalan authorities are mobilizing security forces to scour a remote, rural area where residents reported a gun battle between drug gangs and said one of the dead resembled Mexico's most-wanted drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. But officials stressed late Thursday that they had not yet found any bodies or even confirmed a shootout happened.
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'Marijuana cannon' used to fire drugs over US border seized in Mexico
Compressed-air gun mounted on truck could throw 13-kilo packets over fence into California.
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