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Take Him Seriously
Washington - It's time to take Donald Trump seriously as a presidential candidate. Three, two, one ... OK, time's up. Unbelievably, the waxen-haired real estate …
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Many Hit by Spill Now Feel Caught in Claim Process
Bayou La Batre, Alabama - By October, Tim Nguyen found that his work in a Mississippi shipyard was no longer paying the bills. His hours had been cut back, …
UN Torture Investigator Condemns Mistreatment of Manning
The eight months of solitary confinement of Bradley Manning at Quantico has drawn national and international criticism in the last week. Support is growing for him around the world …
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Members of Congress, Activists Use Tax Day to Call for End to Afghanistan War
To mark Tax Day, a bipartisan group of legislators and activists launched a campaign to show average Americans how much of their money was used this year to continue …
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Inflation in China Poses Big Threat to Global Trade
Shanghai - As the United States and Europe struggle to get their economies rolling again, China is having the opposite problem: figuring out how to keep its revved-up growth …
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A Year Later, BP’s Oil Is Still Damaging the Gulf Coast
Oil streaks a giant log on the beach near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, on August 2, 2010, one example of the devastating after-math of the BP drilling disaster. (Photo: Jeff …
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How Many Chernobyls Before We Get It?
A stenciled figure by the elevators in a sixteen story residential building facing the central square of Pripyat, a ghost town near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern …
The Bullying Advocates: Report Exposes the Religious Right’s Effort to Stop Anti-Bullying Programs in Schools
As states and school districts work to stem a tide of anti-gay bullying in American schools, a powerful group is out to stop them. The Religious Right has been …
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News in Brief: Ohio Anti-Worker Law Faces Repeal, and More
Ohio Anti-Worker Law Faces Repeal Democracy Now! reports that organizers in Ohio recently won a bid to begin a repeal effort targeting the state's new anti-labor law. …
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Gulf Residents Leery of What’s Next After BP Oil Spill
The BP oil spill is one year old this week. The whole disaster killed or injured 28 rig workers, thousands of birds and hundreds of marine animals, and spewed …