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USA QUICKLY CRUMBLING?

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This is National Infrastructure Week in the US. Do you believe this ridiculous irony?

Derailment on the busiest rail corridor in America, deteriorating roads and highways, while bridges and ports are crumbling as a result of a severe lack of commitment and Congress not doing their jobs.

Transportation funding has been shortchanged for years and our growth investment continues to dwindle. A $478-billion funding measure to shore up our transportation infrastructure, which experts agree is in dire need of modernization.

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SOUTHERN PLAINS TORNADOES
Multiple injuries by twisters that made landfall Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and Nebraska damaging property.

UK VOTE UNDERWAY
Conservative and Labour Party leaders are wishing and hoping to win a majority of Parliament's 650 seats.

US SENATE'S BALM FOR IRAN
Congress may review and possibly reject a nuclear deal with Tehran if US Senate has its way with words.

MOURNING IN NEPAL
Dressing in white offering prayers, flowers and lighting incense is the Hindu ritual to memorialize quake deaths.

RESTLESS IN SEATTLE

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SAIGON FALLS

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The fall of Saigon

A North Vietnamese tank rolls through the gate of the Presidential Palace in Saigon,
April 30, 1975, signifying the fall of South Vietnam.

From The Associated Press

Colleagues,

Today is the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon - a signature event in the history of the United States and one of those events seared into our country's collective memory.

AC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND

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NY GOVERNOR CUOMO RELEASED THIS FOLLOWUP: " TRADE MISSION TO CUBA HELPS CONNECT NEW YORK BUSINESSES TO NEW OPPORTUNITIES

Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Infor, announce agreements for new business partnerships in Cuba

Governor meets with Cuba's First Vice President, Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment, and other officials to discuss new economic opportunities between New York and Cuba

EARTH DAY

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Earth Day’s 45th anniversary could be the most exciting year in environmental history. The year in which economic growth and sustainability join hands. It’s our turn to lead. So our world leaders can follow by example.

The first one was held on April 22, 1970 in America.

An estimated 20 million people took part in rallies across the US for the first Earth Day.

It is credited as the beginning of the modern environmental movement.

The event was founded by former US senator Gaylord Nelson, after seeing the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California.

NEWS QUICKIE

DOZENS TO BE BURIED BUT HUNDREDS HAVE PERISHED
EU emergency meeting on the burgeoning crisis as migrants flee conflict and poverty in unprecedented waves.

TERRORISM PROBE YIELDS ARRESTS
Six arrested for traveling or trying to travel to Syria or Somalia to fight with militants.

CHINA INVESTS IN PAKISTAN
PRC leader Xi Jinping announces $46 billion investment projects for energy and infrastructure development.

BOSTON MARATHON TIME
The Boston Marathon is a world-class sporting event for fitness, for fundraising, and for freedom.

ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS

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8.4 BILLION MOUTHS TO FEED

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The United Nations estimates that the world will have a population of 8.4 billion by 2030. These statistics were released during the 48th session of the UN Commission on Population and Development that opened in NYC on Monday.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon said the international community is going to forge a set of sustainable development goals and they will be influenced by the profound demographic shifts which take place in current world, especially those related to youth, the elderly, urbanization and migration.

GLOBAL AIR POLLUTION

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Epidemiological studies have consistently shown an association between particulate air pollution and not only it exacerbates illness in people with respiratory disease but also rises in the numbers of deaths from cardiovascular and respiratory disease among older adults.

Everyone on earth knows that air pollution is hazardous to health. The effects of air pollution is having a devastating impact on our health and the environment. Here are interesting ways to analyze how air pollution is gradually causing so many deaths worldwide.

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IRRESPONSIBLE JOURNALISM
A magazine's colossal journalism meltdown, along with a a terribly flawed piece of reporting the news.

JUSTICE IN BOSTON
Murder trials wrapping up for Aaron Hernandez and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev may begin jury deliberations this week.

BASKETBALL: FINAL TWO
College playoff B vs B is scheduled for all to see. The Badgers are playing The Blue Devils, who've beaten them once.

OIL PRICES ARE RISING
A 3 percent increase as demand in Asia picked up. A barrel of oil gained $1.44, to $50.53, in futures trading.

WEST COAST DROUGHT

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NYCrumbling

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While constant building tragedies used to be rare in The Big Apple, NYC aging infrastructure will increasingly be responsible for disasters, disruptions and deficits. Officials mow estimate that billions are needed. So why has so little been accomplished?

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