Obama Leads Memorial Day Tribute in Washington
President Barack Obama marked Memorial Day by praising patriots who sacrificed for the nation and announcing that the Afghanistan war is nearing its end. He spoke at Arlington after visiting U S troops at Bagram, noting a continued small counterterrorism presence and urging stronger care for veterans and their families.
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Barack Obama
United States
Afghanistan
Obama
Bagram Air Field
Bagram
Arlington
U.S
Department of Veterans Affairs
Arizona
Veterans Affairs
Eric Shinseki
Arlington National Cemetery
Medicaid surge heightens costs for states under federal law
Across the United States states face rising Medi-Cal and Medicaid costs as the federal health care law expands eligibility. California projects an extra 1.2 billion dollars due to higher enrollments, with about 300000 more Californians now eligible. The law shifts costs to states for people previously eligible, while more than half of the new expansion is covered by the federal government until 2016.
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California
Rhode Island
Barack Obama
Jerry Brown
Richard Pan
California State Assembly
No sign of men missing in mudslide near Collbran Colorado
Rescue teams hunted for three men missing after a rain swollen ridge near Grand Mesa collapsed sending mud for miles. Clancy Nichols and his son Danny plus Wes Hawkins have been missing since Sunday with mud depths 20 to 30 feet at the edges and the entire ridge still unstable. The Mesa County Sheriff said digging continues amid cautious hope.
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Colo
Colorado
Clancy Nichols
Danny
Wes Hawkins
Grand Mesa
Mesa County
Stan Hilkey
Hilkey
Experts say mass killers are hard to predict
The pattern shows young loners with no criminal history becoming mass killers. Experts note isolation, rage, and deluded thinking mark many cases. Rodger's UCSB rampage followed a long online manifesto, but predicting who will turn violent remains unreliable and past violence is only a partial clue.
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Colorado
James Holmes
Sandy Hook
Adam Lanza
Filiot Rodger
James Garbarino
Loyola University Chicago
Rodger
University of California, Santa Barbara
Risdon Slate
Florida Southern College
UCSB
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