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GOP Hopefuls Point Finger at Obama, Not Each Other
Republican candidates for president before a debate at the Sullivan Arena at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, on June 13, 2011. From left: Former Sen. Rick Santorum, …
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JP Morgan Records Largest Profit Ever, While Community Devastated by Its Predatory Lending Sheds 1,000 Workers
One of the many tragic stories of the Great Recession involves Jefferson County, Alabama. As Matt Taibbi explained in an article in Rolling Stone last year, mega bank JP …
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News in Brief: Gingrich Restarts Presidential Campaign, and More …
Gingrich Restarts Presidential Campaign
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FBI Agents Get Leeway to Push Privacy Bounds
Washington - The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or …
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Obama Weighs Scale of Afghanistan Withdrawal
Washington - The Obama administration opens an internal debate this week on the size of a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan amid growing doubts in Congress about the cost and …
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Ninety Percent of Petraeus’ “Taliban” Captures Were Civilians
A guard from Task Force Peacekeeper closes a gate at the detention facility in Parwan, Afghanistan, on September 22, 2010. (Photo: Adam Ferguson / The New York Times) …
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EXCLUSIVE: New Documents Claim Intelligence on Bin Laden, al-Qaeda Targets Withheld From Congress’ 9/11 Probe
Stencil graffiti of Osama bin Laden in Bucharest, Romania. (Photo: Bixentro / flickr) On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, just as he has done in years past, …
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Auditors Says Missing Money Meant for Iraq May Have Been Stolen
Washington - After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the George W. Bush administration flooded the conquered country with so much cash to pay for reconstruction and …
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Syrian Troops Retake Control of Rebellious Town in North
Cairo - Syria’s most trusted forces retook control of a rebellious northern Syrian town on Sunday, responding with tanks and helicopter gunships and crushing an alliance of mutinous soldiers …
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Obama’s Trip to Puerto Rico Breaks 50-Year Record
San, Juan, Puerto Rico - President Barack Obama will break a 50-year record Tuesday, when he becomes the first president since John F. Kennedy to come to San Juan …