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Looking Back, Moving Forward: 2011 Year in Review
From Egypt to Wisconsin, and from Wall Street to any town USA, 2011 was a year in which people raised their voices to call for justice. As we head …
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NYPD Leave Offenses Off the Books to Keep Crime Rates Down
Jill Korber walked into a drab police station in Queens in July to report that a passing bicyclist had groped her two days in a row. She left in …
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Obama Waits Before Asking for Increase in Debt Limit
Honolulu - President Obama agreed on Friday to delay a request to Congress to expand the government’s borrowing authority by $1.2 trillion, allowing lawmakers time to return from recess …
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Contractors’ Role Grows in Drone Missions, Worrying Some in the Military
Washington - After a U.S. airstrike mistakenly killed at least 15 Afghans in 2010, the Army officer investigating the accident was surprised to discover that an American civilian had …
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Large Protests Held in Syria to Prove Discontent to Monitors
Beirut, Lebanon - Despite a continuing government crackdown, hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets of several Syrian cities on Friday, as protesters seemed intent on showing visiting …
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Poll Finds “Progressive” is the Most Positively Viewed Political Label in America
A new poll from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press out yesterday shows that “progressive” is the most positively viewed political label in America, with …
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Rivals Say Maliki Leading Iraq to “Civil War“
Baghdad - Less than 24 hours after the US military withdrew the last of its occupation forces from Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered an arrest warrant for Vice-President …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Justice Department to Bring Charges Against BP Over 2010 Oil Spill, and More
TRANSCRIPT: Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
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Crackpot Anti-Islam Activists, “Serial Fabricators” and the Tale of Iran and 9/11
(Photo: Damon Winter / The New York Times) Behind a mysterious December 22 Associated Press story about “finding of fact” by a District judge in Manhattan Friday …
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Half of North Carolina Concealed Carry Permit Holders With Felony Convictions Keep Their Permit
North Carolina is one of the few states in the country with public records of who has a permit to carry a concealed firearm, so it provides a rare …