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Anger Rises Over US Tax Dollars for Settlements
Ramallah - Anger has arisen in Palestinian areas over reports that millions of tax-exempt dollars from the U.S. are being funneled towards Israel's illegal settlement building in the Palestinian …

Why Are We Still Funding Abstinence-Only Programming?
It seems you can't keep a bad idea down. Even though the Obama administration has pledged that science will finally trump ideology when it comes to global AIDS prevention, …

Will House Democrats Oppose a Jobless War Supplemental?
The war supplemental for Afghanistan is expected to come back from the Senate to the House this week - without any kind of timetable for military withdrawal from Afghanistan, …

Liberals Press Obama for More Action on Key Issues
Las Vegas, Nev. - President Barack Obama Saturday tried to calm liberals frustrated by what they consider slow progress on their favorite causes, urging Democratic bloggers and activists to …

Journalist Daniel Schorr Dead at 93
Daniel Schorr, a journalist whose fierce independence landed him on President Nixon's enemies list and whose award-winning 62-year career spanned newspapers, radio and television, died Friday. Mr. Schorr, who …

Study: Increases in Infant Mortality and Cancer in Fallujah Greater Than Hiroshima
A new study in the International Journal of Environmental Studies and Public Health conducted by British researchers has found a startling increase in the number of infant mortality and …

President Obama Addresses Netroots Nation 2010 With Maddow Comment (Video)

Bogus ‘Obama Mom’ Grants Lure Students
After being laid off from her job as a high school teacher in Dayton, Ohio, Nicole Massey decided to go back to college. For months, she scoured the Web …

Researchers Confirm Subsea Gulf Oil Plumes Are From BP Well
St. Petersburg, Fla. - Through a chemical fingerprinting process, University of South Florida researchers have definitively linked clouds of underwater oil in the northern Gulf of Mexico to BP's …

A Prisoner’s Wife
I used to tell my husband, Ameer Makhoul, "One day, they'll come for you." As chairman of the Public Committee for the Protection of Political Freedoms, he'd begun to …