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13 Americans Among Those Killed in Kabul Suicide Attack
Kabul, Afghanistan — At least 13 American soldiers were among more than 20 people killed when a Taliban suicide car bomber attacked an armored NATO shuttle bus in Kabul …
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Female Wal-Mart Employees File New Bias Case
(Photo: Spencer Tirey / The New York Times) Four months after the Supreme Court tossed out their national class action lawsuit, lawyers representing women who claimed that …
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Where Are the Women at Occupy Wall Street?
(Photo: Timothy Krause / Flickr) “Where my feminists at?” read a sign propped against a bench at the entrance to Zuccotti Park on Thursday night as a …
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North Carolina Considers Constitutionally Banning Same-Sex Marriage
Gay marriage is already illegal in North Carolina, but last month, the state's Republican-controlled legislature put a proposal to amend the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriage on a …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republicans Killed Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs, and More
Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
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Just Three Corporate Front Groups Spent 13 Times as Much as the Entire Labor Movement to Buy Judicial Elections
After the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision opened the floodgates to unlimited corporate money in American elections, the decision’s defenders claimed this wasn’t such a big deal because unions …
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TransCanada’s $100M Oil Spill Bond: True Value Debated as Neb. Pipeline Session Nears
Washington - TransCanada's offer to fund a $100 million performance bond if it fails to clean up a future oil spill in Nebraska's sensitive Sandhills might sound like a …
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UN Votes to End Foreign Intervention in Libya
The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on Thursday to end its authorization on Monday of the foreign military intervention in Libya, the legal basis for the NATO attacks …
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Occupy the Amazon: Brazilian Amazon Groups Invade Site of Dam Project
Buenos Aires - Waving bows and arrows and dressed in war paint, hundreds of members of indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon invaded the construction site of the Belo …
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Department of Justice Balks at Turning Over Guantanamo Detainee’s “Power-of-Attorney” Document to His Lawyers
(Illustration: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Attorneys for Abu Zubaydah say they have been trying to mount a meaningful defense for the “high-value” detainee, who has been in …