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US Planning Troop Buildup in Gulf After Exit From Iraq
United States soldiers performed a closing ceremony on Oct. 20 for a base in Tikrit, now under the control of Iraqi forces. (Photo: Andrea Bruce / The New York …
Here’s Who Pays the $1 Trillion in Student Debt Obama Aims to Ease
Congress may be gridlocked, but that doesn’t mean President Obama’s hands are tied. On Wednesday the president announced that he’s moving to ease Americans’ student debt load with an …
House GOP’s “Job Creating” Spending Cuts Destroyed 370,000 Jobs (3)
House Republicans took the government to the brink of shutdown last spring by demanding across-the-board budget cuts to many vital programs. Instead of focusing on job creation, as Americans …
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ICE Agent During Search: “The Warrant Is Coming Out of My Balls“
(Photo: United States Federal Government / Wikimedia) The ACLU of Tennessee filed a lawsuit this week in federal court on behalf of fifteen residents of an apartment …
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Occupy San Francisco: No-Show Raid Invigorates Protesters
(Photo: Michael Prados / Flickr) San Francisco - Before word swept through Occupy SF of an impending police raid, the camp at the south end of Justin …
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Occupy Movement Confronts Racial Disparities Within America’s 99 Percent
New York/Oakland - Barely a month after the first group of protesters set up its encampment in Zuccotti Park in New York City, the phrase "We are the 99 …
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Moves to Adopt Fukushima Recommendations “Without Delay”
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted last week to implement recommendations from the Near-Term Task Force Review of Insights from the Fukushima Daiichi Accident, and to do so “without …
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13 Americans Among Those Killed in Kabul Suicide Attack
Kabul, Afghanistan — At least 13 American soldiers were among more than 20 people killed when a Taliban suicide car bomber attacked an armored NATO shuttle bus in Kabul …
Does America’s Fortune Ride on Two Numbers? – 9/11 and 99:1
San Francisco— Numerologists and The History Channel, known for its occult versions of world events, will have their heyday with two digits that, when arranged in certain sequence, foretold …
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Female Wal-Mart Employees File New Bias Case
(Photo: Spencer Tirey / The New York Times) Four months after the Supreme Court tossed out their national class action lawsuit, lawyers representing women who claimed that …