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News in Brief: Yemen on the Brink of War, and More
Yemen on the Brink of War
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Eric Cantor Promises Oil Speculators That Republicans Will Block Financial Regulations
Video recorded by Campus Progress staff writer and ThinkProgress Blog Fellow Micah Uetricht. Yesterday morning, House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) visited the Chicago headquarters of …
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After Two Months, No End in Sight to Libyan Air Campaign
Washington - On March 19, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's army had quashed weeks of anti-government protests and was poised for an all-out assault on Benghazi, the opposition's stronghold, when …
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Middle-Class Warriors Storm JP Morgan Chase Meeting in Ohio
Robin Hoods cross the moat surrounding JPMorgan Chase building. (Photo: National Peoples Action) Hundreds of protesters greeted JP Morgan Chase bank shareholders at their annual meeting in …
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Why Did US Medical Personnel Remove High-Value Detainee Abu Zubaydah’s Eye?
This picture of Abu Zubaydah was included in his classified Guantanamo Detainee Assessment Brief released last month by WikiLeaks. Shortly after he was captured in March 2002 …
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With Quest to Cool Fuel Rods Stumbling, US Sees “Weeks of Struggle“
Tokyo - Amid widening alarm in the United States and elsewhere about Japan’s nuclear crisis, military fire trucks began spraying cooling water on spent fuel rods at the country’s …
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News in Brief: Tensions Between Pakistan, US Heighten Following Air Raid, and More
Tensions Between Pakistan, US Heighten Following Air Raid According to NPR, Pakistan is furious with the United States following "what it called an airspace violation after NATO …
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Scientists Cast Doubt on TSA Tests of Full-Body Scanners
The Transportation Security Administration says its full-body X-ray scanners are safe and that radiation from a scan is equivalent to what's received in about two minutes of flying. The …
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Economic Statistics Explode Fantasies About Immigration
Several surveys about immigrants show that the French economy gets more out of immigrants than immigrants themselves receive. They might even have “absorbed” the social shock of the crisis.
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New York Investigates Banks’ Role in Financial Crisis
The New York attorney general has requested information and documents in recent weeks from three major Wall Street banks about their mortgage securities operations during the credit boom, indicating …