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Nearly 4,000 Post Offices Might Close
The financially beleaguered Postal Service announced Tuesday that it would consider closing more than 3,600 of its 32,000 post offices. Continuing efforts to reduce costs by shrinking …
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Boehner Debt Plan Cuts Too Little, Forcing Another Vote Delay
House Speaker John Boehner was rewriting his plan to cut federal spending and raise the debt ceiling Tuesday night after the Congressional Budget Office revealed that his bill wouldn't …
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British Panel Wants to Hear From Three Men Who Dispute Murdochs’ Testimony
Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, News Corporation, USA and Co-Chair, Annual Meeting 2009. (Photo: World Economic Forum) The chairman of the British parliamentary panel that …
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In Court, Suggestions of Hacking Beyond the News of the World
Front pages across Britain featured pictures of Rupert Murdoch apologizing for phone hacking at The News of the World. But further suggestions that the practice spread beyond his newspaper …
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Sen. Mike Lee: I Want America’s “House to Come Down” Unless Congress Votes to Rewrite Constitution
In an interview on MSNBC’s Hardball Monday evening, tenther Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) admitted that he is using the threat of a catastrophic default to extort the nation into …
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Murdoch Veterans Portray an Engaged Boss
It was the political scoop of the year, a damning, serialized exposé in The Daily Telegraph about how British politicians were abusing their parliamentary expense accounts to pay for …
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Glenn Greenwald: Norway Attacks Expose U.S. Media’s Double Standard on “Terrorism“
Numerous news outlets and commentators initially blamed the attacks in Norway on Islamic militants. Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper, The Sun, ran a front-page headline that read, "'Al-Qaeda' Massacre: Norway’s …
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Obama’s Latest Debt Ceiling Offer Is to the Right of Gang of Six and Simpson-Bowles – GOP Still Says No
As the Washington Monthly’s Steve Benen noted today, Democrats have bent over backwards to craft a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling, only to berebuffed at every turn …
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FAA in Partial Shutdown; Air Traffic Unaffected
Reporting from Washington - The Federal Aviation Administration was forced into a partial shutdown Monday after Congress failed to temporarily extend its funding. The agency was ordered to furlough …
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Emails Show White House Promotes Genetically Engineered Crops in Wildlife Refuges
Monsanto researchers in Stonington, Illinois, are working to develop new soybean varieties in this July 2006 file photo. According to PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch, "The White House is …