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In the interview, Fox fires back at the Republicans who have been targeting him","authors":"Ed Schultz","source":{"rating":"3.7","name":"AlterNet","framebuster":false,"id":"alternet","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.8","num_reviews":"1","title":"British tourists arrested in America on terror charges over Twitter jokes","url":"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093796/British-tourists-arrested-America-terror-charges-Twitter-jokes.html","date":"2012/01/30","id":8539598,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to 'destroy America' and 'dig up Marilyn Monroe'.\n\nLeigh Van Bryan wrote the message weeks before he was due to go to Los Angeles with friend Emily Banting and it was picked up by American special agents.\n\n'They asked why we wanted to destroy America and we tried to explain it meant to get trashed and party.\n \n'I almost burst out laughing when they asked me if I was going to be Leigh's lookout while he dug up Marilyn Monroe.\n \n'I couldn't believe it because it was a quote from the comedy Family Guy which is an American show.","authors":"Richard Hartley-Parkinson","source":{"rating":"3.1","name":"Daily Mail","framebuster":false,"id":"daily_mail","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.7","num_reviews":"1","title":"Reagan\u2019s Road to Climate Perdition","url":"http://consortiumnews.com/2012/01/29/reagans-road-to-climate-perdition/","date":"2012/01/30","id":8539462,"story_type":null,"quote":"Reagan\u2019s Road to Climate Perdition","authors":"Consortiumnews.com","source":{"rating":"3.8","name":"Consortium News","framebuster":false,"id":"consortium_news","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.0","num_reviews":"1","title":"Ford may post best year since 1998","url":"http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20120126/BUSINESS/301260043/-1/rsslink","date":"2012/01/26","id":8533651,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"Ford Motor Co., boosted by a one-time tax gain, may report its most profitable year since 1998, while weakness in Europe and Asia cut fourth-quarter earnings.","authors":"Bloomberg News","source":{"rating":"0.0","name":"Louisville Courier-Journal","framebuster":false,"id":null,"ownership":"","type":""}},{"rating":"4.2","num_reviews":"1","title":"Raj Patel: In Attacks on Obama, Food Stamps, Newt Gingrich is \u201cRacially Coding Poverty\u201d","url":"http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/23/raj_patel_in_attacks_on_obama","date":"2012/01/23","id":8529087,"story_type":"News Analysis","quote":"what is really needed is a conversation about poverty and why the need for food stamps is so high. \"It\u2019s true that disproportionately people of color are affected by food insecurity. But what Gingrich is doing, of course, is racially coding poverty by calling President Obama 'the food stamp president,'\" Patel said. \"He\u2019s invoking these ideas of racialized poverty. Of course, if you look at the people who are on the food stamp program, you see that the majority of them are white and poor.\" Patel is author of the popular book, \"Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.\"","authors":"Amy Goodman","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Democracy Now","framebuster":false,"id":"democracy_now","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.0","num_reviews":"1","title":"Reef Fish at Risk as Carbon Dioxide Levels Build","url":"http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/9555-reef-fish-at-risk-as-carbon-dioxide-levels-build","date":"2012/01/21","id":8526134,"story_type":"Special Report","quote":"Rising carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions threaten the survival of some fish species by sending their central nervous systems haywire.' Australian Associated Press","authors":"","source":{"rating":"0.0","name":"readersupportednews.org","framebuster":false,"id":"readersupportednews_org","ownership":"","type":""}},{"rating":"3.9","num_reviews":"1","title":"Problems plague cleanup at Hanford nuclear waste site","url":"http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/story/2012-01-25/hanford-nuclear-plutonium-cleanup/52622796/1","date":"2012/01/18","id":8519259,"story_type":"Special Report","quote":"Seven decades after scientists came here during World War II to create plutonium for the first atomic bomb, a new generation is struggling with an even more daunting task: cleaning up the radioactive mess.","authors":"Peter Eisler","source":{"rating":"3.4","name":"USA Today","framebuster":false,"id":"usa_today","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.1","num_reviews":"1","title":"Automakers in a race for buyers of mid-size family cars","url":"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-autos-detroit-show-20120111,0,1200445.story","date":"2012/01/11","id":8508706,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"Ford, GM, Honda and Nissan are all rolling out revamped models this year, with added features and better gas mileage.","authors":"Jerry Hirsch","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"Los Angeles Times","framebuster":false,"id":"los_angeles_times","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.5","num_reviews":"1","title":"Obama-GOP battle turns ruthless","url":"http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/09/opinion/frum-recess-appointments/index.html","date":"2012/01/09","id":8504980,"story_type":"Opinion","quote":"Watch the Republican primaries, and you can feel: the American political system is working. The GOP is discarding the unqualified and irresponsible candidates and rapidly converging on the person in the race who could actually do the job of president.\nBut the week's second biggest political story shows a very different reality: a political system careening toward crisis. This is the story of the battle over President Barack Obama's nomination of Richard Cordray to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.","authors":"David Frum","source":{"rating":"3.4","name":"CNN","framebuster":false,"id":"cnn","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}}]