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Why Do These Koch Industries Neighbors Have Cancer?
Our ongoing Koch Brothers Exposed video investigation has discovered something so tragic it will haunt Charles and David Koch for years to come. Is a Koch Industries …
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Senate Falls Short of Votes to Take Up Obama’s Big Jobs Bill
Washington - The Democrat-led Senate effectively killed President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan Tuesday as the White House and Democratic lawmakers talked of breaking the president’s plan into …
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Violence and Bloodshed in Egypt: An Eyewitness Account
Islamist holds up cross and leads crowd in chants against military council. Image by Sharif Abdel Kouddous. Egypt, 2011. …
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No New Penalty Trial Likely: US Supreme Court Confirms Third Circuit Ruling Lifting Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Death Penalty
Mumia Abu-Jamal: 30 years on death row, never a fair trial Here’s a prediction: Seth Williams, the district attorney of Philadelphia, will decide not to seek to …
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Response of the Police Is Expanding With Protests
Denver - Whatever the original impulse behind “Occupy Wall Street,” or the speculation of what the movement might become, this much is true: The groups of protesters, now camping …
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Domestic Violence Law Repealed in Topeka, Kansas, to Save Money
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US Arms Bahrain While Decrying Russian Weapons in Syria
United Nations - Peeved at Russia's Security Council veto derailing a Western- sponsored resolution against Syria last week, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice implicitly accused the Russians of protecting the …
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Countrywide Loan Underwriter Found Herself in “Dangerous Territory“
After she lost her job in the fall of 2007, Cassandra Daniels had a word with a trio of her managers. As she recalls it, she told them she …
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Netanyahu Announces Deal to Free Shalit
Israel and Hamas have reached a tentative agreement on a proposal brokered by Egypt to exchange Palestinian prisoners for an Israeli soldier held captive for more than five years, …
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Obama Campaign Says His Jobs Message Is Reaching Populace
Washington - President Barack Obama hasn’t managed to nudge Congress toward approving his proposed jobs bill or the tax increases to pay for it, but his campaign says he’s …