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Hasidic Jewish teenager admits setting neighbour on fire after disobeying a prayer order
A Hasidic Jewish teenager pleaded guilty to assault, for setting a neighbour on fire because he wasn't praying with the rest of the community. Shaul... Read more...
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Archbishop Recants Apology for Sex Abuse, Says "I don't Think We Did Anything Wrong"
In 2002, at the height of the outcry over the sexual abuse of minors by Roman Catholic priests, the Archbishop of New York, Edward M. Egan, issued a... Read more...
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Roger Boisjoly dies at 73; engineer tried to halt Challenger launch
The 1986 explosion that destroyed the space shuttle Challenger and killed seven astronauts shocked the nation, but for one rocket engineer the... Read more...
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Pope Benedict performed exorcism in St. Peter’s Square in 2009, new book claims
The church's self-proclaimed expert on exorcisms says Pope Benedict performed one in Rome's St. Peter's Square in 2009.In "The Last Exorcist — My... Read more...
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U.S. Constitution Loses Appeal With People Around the World
It has been suggested, with growing frequency, that the United States may be losing its influence over constitutionalism in other countries because... Read more...
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CIA digs in as Americans withdraw from Iraq, Afghanistan
The CIA is expected to maintain a large clandestine presence in Iraq and Afghanistan long after the departure of conventional U.S. troops as part of... Read more...
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Truth, lies and Afghanistan: How military leaders have let us down
I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and their Afghan partners. My duties with the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force... Read more...
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Afghan civilian deaths rise for 5th straight year to a record high
Afghan civilian casualties have reached a grim new milestone, with a record 3,021 noncombatants killed in wartime violence last year, the United... Read more...
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Israel's military leaders warn against Iran attack
Almost the entire senior hierarchy of Israel's military and security establishment is worried about a premature attack on Iran and apprehensive about... Read more...
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US confirms possible release of Taliban from Gitmo
U.S. intelligence officials acknowledged Tuesday that the United States may release several Afghan Taliban prisoners from the military prison at... Read more...
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Survey: 610,000 switched banks to protest debit card fees
About 610,000 U.S. bank customers switched to a smaller institution in the last three months of 2011 to protest plans by major banks to impose... Read more...
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Cashless Society: Bank of America Refuses Cash for Mortgage Payment
The customer attempting to pay his mortgage, firefighter Robert Somerton, recorded the ordeal in Lakeport branch which made the bank manager so upset... Read more...
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NY Atty. Gen. Eric Schneiderman sues banks over electronic mortgage system
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Friday sued three major U.S. banks, accusing them of fraud for using an electronic mortgage... Read more...
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Mega Manufacturer Caterpillar Locks Out Workers To Force Pay Cuts While Making Record Profits
Caterpillar reported a 36 per cent increase in after-tax profit for both the fourth quarter of 2011 and the full year 2011. Revenues for the year... Read more...
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S.E.C. Is Avoiding Tough Sanctions for Large Banks
Even as the Securities and Exchange Commission has stepped up its investigations of Wall Street in the last decade, the agency has repeatedly allowed... Read more...
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Sept. 11 responders' settlements slashed
Miscalculations have led to reductions in the settlement payouts many ailing responders to New York's Ground Zero have received, a lawyer said.The... Read more...
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Pentagon won’t slow 9/11 death penalty filings
A senior Pentagon official on Friday refused to delay a pre-arraignment phase in the prosecution of five Guantánamo captives accused of conspiring... Read more...
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CFR and Neocons Work Together to Hype al-Qaeda Iran Link
Jones’ assertion on a nefarious Iran-al-Qaeda nexus is the stuff of official conspiracy theories arising from the 9/11 Commission report and from... Read more...
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Israeli agents posed as CIA to recruit terrorists
American intelligence officials have come clean with details surrounding Israel’s attempt to infiltrate the network of the Iranian terrorist group... Read more...
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Court finds 9/11 toxins likely caused NYPD Officer Frank Macri's fatal cancer
The widow of a city cop killed by lung cancer after two months of toxic post-9/11 duty won a bitter four-year fight Tuesday to collect enhanced... Read more...
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Who’s Financing the ‘Super PACs’
The Times tracked donors to “super PACs” as they filed reports on Tuesday detailing their activities in the final three months of 2011. Unlike... Read more...
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Occupy DC to protest Conservative Political Action Conference
The Occupy Wall Street movement in Washington announced on Tuesday, just days before the three-day Conservative Political Action Conference is set to... Read more...
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Turns Out Komen Vice Pres. Karen Handel is Anti-Gay Everything
Komen for the Cure Vice President for Public Policy Karen Handel is anti gay everything.  She’s “wholeheartedly” against gay marriage, civil... Read more...
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Georgia Judge Backs Off Pro-Birther Decision, Holds Obama Is a Natural Born Citizen
Last month, an administrative law judge in Georgia issued a widely-mocked decision rejecting President Obama’s attorneys’ argument that the... Read more...
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Koch Brothers, Allies Pledge $100 Million At Private Meeting To Beat Obama
At a private three-day retreat in California last weekend, conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch and about 250 to 300 other individuals... Read more...
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33 in Congress earmarks $300m for projects near their own properties
Thirty-three members of Congress have directed more than $300 million in earmarks and other spending provisions to dozens of public projects that... Read more...
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Senate Passage of FAA Reauthorization Attacks Collective Bargaining Rights
The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) today issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate passed the Federal Aviation Administration... Read more...
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Congress Calls for Accelerated Use of Drones in U.S.
The pending authorization bill for the Federal Aviation Administration directs the Secretary of Transporation to develop within nine months “a... Read more...
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Republicans prohibit funding for high speed rail
House Republicans late Thursday night adopted an amendment that would prohibit California from receiving any high speed rail money in a huge... Read more...
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Barney Frank engaged to boyfriend Jim Ready
Engaged: Barney Frank, 71, and longtime partner Jim Ready, 42, the congressman’s office confirmed for us Thursday, following a report by New... Read more...
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A REAL American Freedom Hero Needs Your Help
Last week, Republicans ordered Capitol Hill police to arrest Josh Fox, director of Gasland. His crime? Filming an open hearing on fracking. They... Read more...
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Virginia adding ‘conscience clause’ to adoption laws
Virginia will likely become the second state in the nation — after North Dakota — to allow private adoption agencies to turn away parents based... Read more...
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Mormon Church 'owns unregulated gun sale website'
One of the most active and unregulated gun sale websites in America is owned by the Mormon Church, an investigation by New York's Mayor Michael... Read more...
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Komen vice president Karen Handel resigns
A top official of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation who was involved in the controversy over the group’s funding of Planned Parenthood... Read more...
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Prop. 8: Gay-marriage ban unconstitutional, court rules
A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down California's ban on same-sex marriage, clearing the way for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on gay... Read more...
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State Department: Guantánamo lawyers can’t question Yemeni leader
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is in the United States with full diplomatic immunity, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s legal advisor has... Read more...
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Amsterdam's chief rabbi zigzags on homophobic views, causing outrage among liberal Jews
A week after apologizing for signing a controversial document describing homosexuality as "an illness" that can be "healed," Amsterdam's chief rabbi... Read more...
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How a U.S. agency cleaned up Rwanda’s genocide-stained image
For a monthly fee of $50,000 plus expenses, the U.S. agency offered a tantalizing prospect to the Rwandan government: a burnished image, a... Read more...
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Palestinian village launches hunger strike to protest Israeli land encroachment
Much of the village's lands were stolen long ago for Gitit and other settlements, about two kilometers east of the village. The Civil Administration... Read more...
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Jerusalem's Armenians outraged as city approves Jews-only parking lot in Old City
Armenian residents of Jerusalem's Old City are protesting a municipal decision to designate a parking lot in the area solely for Jews, although part... Read more...
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Cross-Dressing, Weather Rope, & New Hats
Political lies have always come bundled in the Economy-pack:  half-truths, misquotes, bald lies, propaganda, slung mud, smear campaigns, slips of... Read more...
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Dickens and Eastwood
Do you feel lucky punk? Well, do you? Willard Romney isn’t feeling lucky after finishing dead last in Tuesday’s voting. He’s hopping along on... Read more...
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Bob Alexander: Up a Lazy River
I went to a treatment center for alcoholism 22 years ago. How’s that for creating a 100% guaranteed awkward pause?I know … I know … It’s one... Read more...
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"Dirtiest Politician" Hired For Nevada Caucus?
You may be hearing lately that the problem with Iowa caucuses (reported the wrong result, "lost" results) and Nevada (more votes than voters, took... Read more...
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Reality Check in Indiana: This is Us, at Both Games
Today, there's a huge game afoot in Indiana;  also, some football will be played.The Really Big Game in town, or course, is to crush your opponents,... Read more...
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Vermont Introduces Monumental GMO Labeling Legislation
Vermont has taken the initiative against Monsanto and other biotechnology corporations in launching new legislation that would require the labeling... Read more...
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Komen charity under microscope for funding, science
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure charity defines its mission as finding a cure for breast cancer. In recent years, however, it has cut by nearly half... Read more...
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Why Do We Want to Spray More Agent Orange on Our Crops? Are We at War with Ourselves (and Our Children)?
One of the two active ingredients that made up Agent Orange is 2,4-D. Despite what Agent Orange did to Vietnam and the Vietnamese people, not to... Read more...
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Thyroid medical scans use radioactive dye, now linked to permanent thyroid damage
Cardiac computed tomography (CT) and other medical scans sometimes involve injecting a radioactive iodide dye into the bloodstreams of patients in... Read more...
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Cancer Group Backs Down on Cutting Off Planned Parenthood
The nation’s pre-eminent breast cancer advocacy group, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation, apologized on Friday for its decision to cut... Read more...
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Coal group tries to block climate scientist's lecture at Penn State
Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann’s upcoming talk at the university has been the target of a coal and gas interest group that would like... Read more...
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And So It Begins
On Jan. 31 the Associated Press released a story that should make everyone in CNY wake up in the middle of the night screaming. So, let’s recap. ... Read more...
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BP Made $3 Million An Hour In 2011, While Spill Victims Continued To Suffer
BP’s 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill is still affecting the lives of many Americans, particularly the tens of thousands that have not settled lawsuits... Read more...
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Newly leaked report warns plutonium levels at Hanford may be much higher than claimed
Washington Governor Chris Gregoire says construction on a waste treatment plant at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation must continue. This despite... Read more...
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N.J. Fracking Opponents Take Second Shot at Ban
Democrats will try for a second time to prohibit fracking for natural gas in the most densely populated U.S. state, after Governor Chris Christie... Read more...
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Leaking & Damaged Nuclear Power Plants In The US Exposed
Across the United States numerous nuclear power plants are having problems which include damaged tubes and small releases of radiation. The Intel Hub... Read more...
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Canada plan to sell oil to China faces big hurdles
Prime Minister Stephen Harper may still be smarting from Canada's failed bid to ramp up oil exports to the United States, but his plan B could prove... Read more...
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San Onofre Nuclear Plant: 100s of troubled tubes, gas leak
As workers began inspecting a leaky tube in one of the San Onofre nuclear plant's reactors Thursday, federal regulators said more than 800 tubes in a... Read more...
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San Diego Nuclear Power Plant Shut Down After Leak Discovered
The San Onofre nuclear plant north of San Diego was closed by officials on Wednesday after a radiation leak was discovered by regulators. Officials... Read more...
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NRC says Exelon has 4 years to reassess earthquake vulnerability at Illinois nuclear plants
Nuclear plants throughout the central and eastern United States must be reassessed within four years to determine how well they might withstand... Read more...
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Mexican army finds 15 tons of pure methamphetamine
Soldiers discovered the huge cache in the town of Tlajomulco de Zuniga, a suburb of Mexico's second-largest city, Guadalajara. The find outside... Read more...
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Bird numbers drop around Fukushima
Bird populations near Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear plant have dropped more than expected from a related analysis of the Chernobyl disaster,... Read more...
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Colombia: 8 Israelis suspected of drug trafficking
Local media reports claim Israeli 'former military men' also suspected of money laundering, exploitation of minors. Suspects deny allegations: 'We're... Read more...
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Austerity, moi? Nicolas Sarkozy spends £10k a day on food and keeps 121 cars under his palace
Nicolas Sarkozy has been promising to cut back on his presidential spending, but he’s actually splashing out £10,000 a day on food and keeps 121... Read more...
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The seed emergency: The threat to food and democracy
The past twenty years have seen a very rapid erosion of seed diversity and seed sovereignty, and the concentration of the control over seeds by a... Read more...
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Foreign Press Rents Tel Aviv Rooftops to Cover Iran War
You remember the descriptions of the First Battle of Bull Run when all of Washington’s high society rode out in their fine carriages and horses to... Read more...
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U.S. authorities looking into Murdoch foreign payments
U.S. authorities are stepping up investigations, including an FBI criminal inquiry, into possible violations by employees of Rupert Murdoch's media... Read more...
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Why the "Liberal" Media Leaves Hawkish Foreign Policy Unchallenged
A recent article by foreign policy analyst Robert Naiman, examines The New York Times' current coverage of Iran's nuclear program. In it, he exposes... Read more...
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'Gasland' Journalists Arrested At Hearing By Order Of House Republicans
In a stunning break with First Amendment policy, House Republicans directed Capitol Hill police to detain a highly regarded documentary crew that was... Read more...
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Google to Censor Blogger Blogs on a ‘Per Country Basis’
Google has quietly announced changes to its Blogger free-blogging platform that will enable the blocking of content only in countries where... Read more...
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Picking Up the Pieces From Military Sexual Assault
Nearly 90 percent of soldiers wounded in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq - some 35,000 - survived battle injuries, thanks to breakthroughs in US... Read more...
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Neuroscience could mean soldiers controlling weapons with minds
Soldiers could have their minds plugged directly into weapons systems, undergo brain scans during recruitment and take courses of neural stimulation... Read more...
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Navy: 8 Calif.-based sailors discharged for hazing
Eight sailors have been discharged from the Navy after a hazing incident aboard a San Diego-based amphibious assault ship that was captured on video... Read more...
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Army probes crime lab workers after critical news reports
Stung by critical stories about their crime laboratory, officials at Army Criminal Investigation Command recently questioned lab employees for hours... Read more...
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Unit leader among Marines who urinated on corpses
One of the Marines shown urinating on three corpses in Afghanistan in a widely distributed Internet video was the unit's leader, two U.S. military... Read more...
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Roger Boisjoly, 73, Dies; Warned of Shuttle Danger, Paid a High Price
Six months before the space shuttle Challenger exploded over Florida on Jan. 28, 1986, Roger Boisjoly wrote a portentous memo. He warned that if the... Read more...
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'Super-Earth' planet spurs hope for billions more
Astronomers have detected a rocky "super-Earth" planet orbiting a nearby star in a region where life could possibly exist, a finding that led one of... Read more...
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Hubble Telescope captures Milky Way galaxy's twin
Imagine you could step out of our Milky Way a few million light-years and take a look back. This is the sort of view you might see. That is because... Read more...
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Scientists create the world's first atomic X-ray laser
Scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the world's first atomic X-ray laser. The researchers aimed SLAC's Linac Coherent... Read more...
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NASA discovers 26 new alien planets in 11 solar systems
NASA's prolific planet-hunting spacecraft has hit the jackpot again, discovering 11 new planetary systems with 26 confirmed alien planets among them.... Read more...
 
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