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By Sandy Hausmanhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wmra/local-wmra-965647.mp3Rockingham, VA – With some environmentalists singing its…

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By Patricia Foremanhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wmra/local-wmra-969742.mp3Rockbridge County, VA – Patricia Foreman raises her…

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For Russian residents on the country's Pacific Coast, the capital of Moscow and the major cities thousands of miles away can feel less important than the dynamic Asian cities nearby.

President Obama asked Congress on Friday to give him the power to consolidate certain U.S. agencies. Doing that, he says, will reduce the number of federal jobs and make government more efficient. No president has had this kind of authority since Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.

The iPhone Marimba ringtone had not been written into Mahler's Ninth Symphony. But there it was, chirping from the front row of the audience. The conductor was so incensed, he cut off the performance and waited for the phone to stop.

On Friday, Warina Zaya Bahou becomes a U.S. citizen in Sterling Heights, Mich. She's an immigrant from Iran and was born in 1900. She will become the second-oldest person to be naturalized as an American.

Canada's environmental organizations are working hard to block a proposed oil pipeline to its west coast. But the country's conservative-led government is pointing to American support and accusing those groups of being lackeys of nefarious foreign interests.

Actor Timothy Olyphant stars in the FX series Justified as Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, a present-day lawman with Wild West instincts. Olyphant also starred in HBO's Deadwood as sheriff Seth Bullock.