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Petraeus Resigns From CIA, Admits Affair
CIA Director David Petraeus ends a 37-year military and intelligence career.
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Direct Democracy: Results of Ballot Propositions Across the Country
There were 188 measures on the ballot in 38 states. Here is a round-up of the results.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Report Finds That Allowing the Bush Tax Cut for the Rich to Expire Will Have the Least Negative Effect on the Economy, and More
In today's On the News segment: The Congressional Budget Office released a report that found that allowing the Bush tax cut to expire for the very rich will have …
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Indian Country Looks Forward With Optimism After Record Turnout Beats Voter ID, Other Barriers
Minnesota's most heavily Native American precincts more decisively rejected a state constitutional amendment that would have required photo ID to vote than did precincts with fewer Native voters.
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Latif Autopsy Report Ready: Public Resolution to Gitmo Mystery Endures
Long-awaited answers to the mysterious death of man detained for more than a decade at Guantanamo may reside in an autopsy report that apparently won't be made public anytime …
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Move to Amend Wins Big at the Ballot Box: Americans Fed Up with Big Money and Undue Corporate Influence
From Massachusetts to Oregon, Colorado to Illinois and Wisconsin, and Ohio to California, citizens throughout the country voted overwhelmingly yesterday for their legislators to pass a constitutional amendment to …
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Kansas, Missouri Won’t Set Up Health Insurance Exchanges
States have less than a week to decide whether they will set up insurance exchange markets or whether the government will step in. Kansas, reluctantly, chose federal intervention.
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Millions of Voters Demand Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United
Voters from red Montana, to blue Massachusetts and purple Colorado all agreed on one thing: Citizens United must go.
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A Binder Full of 20 Women Senators
The 113th Congress will have 20 female senators, the most ever in US history.
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Sandy Sweeps Away New York City’s Only Day Laborer Center
Since the NYPDu2019s decision to deny entry to the area, workers have been forced to go back to street corners.