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Washington DC Plagued by Scandal and Bad News
The scandals suggest a systemic culture of cronyism and self-dealing in city government that threatens to overshadow the capital.
Being Young and Homeless in the US Could Get Even Worse
Hundreds of cities around the United States have laws advocates say unfairly target the homeless, including bans on sitting, lying, begging and placing objects on the sidewalk.
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Watsonville Teachers and Students Take on Methyl Iodide Pesticide
Pesticide drift means that whatever is used to kill pests also gets ingested by children and adults when it wafts through the air into their lungs or when it …
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Paterno Was Paid Off Even as Scandal Played Out
Mr. Paterno was to be paid $3 million at the end of the 2011 season if he agreed it would be his last.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Study Shows Two-Thirds of Americans Want the Government to Act on Climate Change, and More
In today's On the News segment:Â According to a new Washington Post/Stanford University poll, 6-in-10 Americans believe in climate change, and two-thirds of Americans think the government needs to do …
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States Have Enacted 39 New Abortion Restrictions This Year Alone
In the first half of 2012, states enacted 95 new provisions related to reproductive health and rights.
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Election Countdown 2012: Independent Voters More Sympathetic to Romney, and More
A day after reports that DNA found at an Occupy Wall Street-affiliated protest had been matched to an unsolved murder case, a law enforcement official said the link was …
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Verizon Wants the “Freedom” to Edit Your Internet
The telecom giant is suing to have the FCC's order thrown out, and one of their legal arguments is raising more than a few eyebrows.
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Connie Mack Chief of Staff Was Paid by Foreign Lobbying Interests, Anti-Chavez Groups
Groups dedicated to creating conflict between the Latin America left and the United States are likely cheering Macku2019s alarmism.
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March of the Unemployed Kicks Off Two Projects in Oakland
The aim is not another New Deal, but something beyond it: class abolition.