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Palestinian Search for U.N. Membership Puts U.S. in Bind
Jerusalem - Palestinian leaders will ask the U.N. Security Council for full United Nations membership, Palestinian officials said Tuesday, despite a U.S. vow to veto the move and fears …
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GOP Gains House Seat Vacated by Weiner
A little-known Republican businessman from Queens, channeling voter discontent with President Obama into an upset, won election to Congress on Tuesday from the heavily Democratic district in New York …
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Stimulus Tax Cuts Did Spur Growth and Create Jobs
Washington - There is a serious debate over the impact of President Obama’s stimulus. Stanford Economics Professor John Taylor, who served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International …
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In Suburb, Battle Goes Public on Bullying Gay Students
Anoka, Minnesota - This sprawling suburban school system, much of it within Michele Bachmann’s Congressional district, is caught in the eye of one of the country’s hottest culture wars …
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Militants Launch Attack on US Embassy in Kabul
Kabul, Afghanistan - Insurgents launched a complex assault against the American Embassy and the nearby NATO headquarters on Tuesday, pelting the heavily guarded compounds with rockets in an attack …
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US Poverty Rate, One in Six at Highest Level in Years
Washington — The portion of Americans living in poverty last year rose to the highest level since 1993, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, fresh evidence that the sluggish economic …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: United States ONLY G-20 Nation Where New Workers Have Less Education Than Retiring Workers, and More
TRANSCRIPT Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
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Growing Up Muslim in a Post-9/11 World
San Francisco - For Muslim and Sikh youth growing into adolescence in the past decade, 9/11 has either been a menacing specter or just a perceived threat. But either …
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Older Hispanics Unable to Recover from Recession
Florida - Alberto Tarud would like to treat your lawn for pests, notarize your will or provide security at your office. Really, he’d like any kind of …
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Green Jobs: A Promise Unfulfilled
Washington, D.C. - When Barack Obama was running for president, he promised to spend $150 billion over the next decade on renewable energy technologies, an investment that would lead …