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Insurers Use PR Playbook to Keep Us in the Dark About Health Insurance
If you wonder why the health insurance industry has to set up front groups and secretly funnel cash to industry-funded coalitions to influence public policy, take a look at …
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Detainee in Iraq Poses a Dilemma as US Exit Nears
Washington — As United States troops prepare to exit Iraq at the end of the month, the Obama administration is facing a significant dilemma over what to do with …
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Climate Deal Struck in Durban; Critics Say It Falls Short
Durban, South Africa - Two weeks of contentious United Nations talks over climate change concluded Sunday morning with an agreement by more than 190 nations to work toward a …
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Three Women’s Rights Leaders Accept Nobel Peace Prize
Paris - In a ceremony in Oslo that repeatedly invoked gender equality and the democratic strivings of the Arab Spring, the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was presented to three …
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Quality of Air? That’s as Murky as Western Sky
Denver - Oh say, can you see across the Grand Canyon? Not as well as you used to on some days. The question of how clean the …
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Euro Crisis Pits Germany and US in Tactical Fight
Berlin - Even as European leaders put together their latest response to the euro crisis last week, a German-American clash over how best to manage a vast financial crisis …
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Rally Defying Putin’s Party Draws Tens of Thousands
Moscow - Tens of thousands of Russians took to the streets in Moscow on Saturday shouting “Putin is a thief” and “Russia without Putin,” forcing the Kremlin to confront …
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Beyond Guantánamo, a Web of Prisons for Terrorism Inmates
Washington - It is the other Guantánamo, an archipelago of federal prisons that stretches across the country, hidden away on back roads. Today, it houses far more men convicted …
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Peru’s Top Indigenous Leader Says Industry, Traffickers Behind Shaman Slayings
Shaman Wilson showing plants used in preparing a 'pusanga' in Peru, September, 2009. (Photo: Howard G Charing) Iquitos, Peru - It's been more than one month since …
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Boston Police Pass on Evicting Occupy Protesters
Boston — Relieved protesters at Occupy Boston let out cheers and danced in the streets early Friday morning after learning that, despite an eviction notice, the police would not …