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On May 1, 2011, Osama bin Laden was killed in his virtually unprotected compound by a raiding mission of 79 Navy Seals.
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Report: Intelligence Unit Told Before 9/11 to Stop Tracking Bin Laden
Smoke billows from the World Trade Center in New York, on September 11, 2001. (Photo: Ruth Fremson / The New York Times) A great deal of controversy …
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The Media Is a Curable Disease
Rupert Murdoch, who got his start in business marketing rats and manure, has chosen to deny Italy access to a television network that has presented critical coverage of both …
When Institutions Rape Nations
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the leader of the International Monetary Fund, is escorted from a New York Police Department station in Harlem after being formally arrested, in New York, on May …
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A Little Less Corporate Political Corruption
President Barack Obama is considering an executive order to mitigate the damage being done to our democracy by the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling. (Photo: Philip Scott Andrews …
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Tornado Ravages Missouri City, Killing at Least 89
Joplin, Missouri - A massive tornado blasted its way across southwestern Missouri on Sunday, flattening several blocks of homes and businesses in Joplin and leaving residents frantically scrambling through …
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Daniels Is Out, in Another Jolt to GOP Field
The announcement Sunday by Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana that he would not run for the Republican presidential nomination ended one major chapter of uncertainty in the race but …
Spain’s “Indignados” Summon Spirit of 1968
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Anti-Rape Legal Experts Mobilize for Change in Haiti
Images of Port-au-Prince, Haiti under massive death, destruction and rubble are starting to fade from the media, but conditions of squalor and psychological aftershocks remain as Haiti deals with …
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The IMF after DSK
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the leader of the International Monetary Fund, appears in court for an arraignment over allegations that he had sexually assaulted a maid in New York, May 16, …