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American Airlines' attempt to ditch pension riles feds, labor unions

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Steven Mufson - Feb. 11 (News Report) - Now in bankruptcy proceedings, the airline wants to terminate its four pension plans for 130,000 workers and retirees and ask the government's Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp. to bail out its unfunded pension obligations to the tune of $9 billion.

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Where Americans Most Depend on Benefits

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - Feb. 11 (Special Report) - The share of Americans’ income that comes from government benefit programs, like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, more than doubled over the last four decades, rising from 8 percent in 1969 to 18 percent in 2009.

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Survey Paints Portraits of Black Women In America

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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Asia's highest mountains have lost no ice in past 10 years, study shows

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Damian Carrington - Feb. 08 (News Report) - The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows. The discovery has stunned scientists, who had believed that aro

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Capitol Assets: Some legislators send millions to groups connected to their relatives - Washington Post

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Scott Higham, Kimberly Kindy, David S. Fallis - Feb. 08 (Investigative Report) - .. the practice has continued unabated, the Post found.

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Prop. 8: Gay-marriage ban unconstitutional, court rules

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By LA Times Staff - Feb. 07 (Breaking News) - 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 marriage as early as next year.

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Congressional earmarks sometimes used to fund projects near lawmakers' properties

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By David S. Fallis, Scott Higham, Kimberly Kindy - Feb. 07 (Investigative Report) - .. lawmakers have acknowledged the public's growing concern that they appeared to be using their positions to enrich themselves.

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APNewsBreak: Komen official quits breast cancer charity over Planned Parenthood dispute

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Associated Press - Feb. 07 (News Report) - A high-ranking official resigned Tuesday from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity after a dispute over whether the group should give funding to Planned Parenthood, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press. Karen Handel, the charity’s vice president for public policy, told Komen officials that she supported the move to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood. She said the discussion started before she arrived at the organization and was approved at the highest levels of the charity.

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Karl Rove ‘offended’ by Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler ad

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Rachel Weiner - Feb. 07 (News Report) - A Chrysler ad aired during the Super Bowl Sunday night has inspired ire among some Republicans and admiration among some Democrats — with both sides seeing a political message that boosts President Obama.

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Army Colonel Challenges Pentagon’s Afghanistan Claims

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Scott Shane - Feb. 05 (Special Report) - After two deployments in Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis says the Pentagon is not telling the whole truth about how the war is going.

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What the Occupy movement must learn from Sundance

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Naomi Wolf - Feb. 01 (Special Report) - the violent crackdown against the Occupy movement in the United States represented the first salvos of a civil war initiated by political and allied economic elites against protesters in a nascent movement whose still-not-fully articulated agenda would represent a threat to their unmediated and untransparent hold on profits. And a civil war it has indeed turned out to be. The Los Angeles Police Department is engaging in training exercises with the US military. At a parallel march in support, in New York City, a new apparition – large groups of masked men – joined the protesters, which is, globally, a sign that provocateurs intent on violence have joined the scene; ...

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Will Ron Paul win more delegates this week than Gingrich, Santorum?

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Jan. 31 (News) - Ron Paul is likely to win more delegates to the 2012 GOP convention than either Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum this week. Wait. What? That's why he campaigned in Maine this weekend. ...

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Assange takes chat-show job with state-funded Russian TV

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Shaun Walker - Jan. 26 (News Report) - A TV channel funded by Kremlin will air a chat show hosted by the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, in an unlikely collaboration announced yesterday. Russia Today, which broadcasts from Moscow in English, said that the programme will be written and hoste

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CBO: Medicare cost-cutting programs haven’t worked

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Hill - By Sam Baker - Jan. 25 (News Report) - Programs designed to cut Medicare spending and improve the quality of healthcare have mostly failed, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The findings are a blow to existing Medicare projects as well as a key goal of the healthcare reform law.

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N.C. air transport company Aero has role in extraordinary rendition, report says | McClatchy

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - Jan. 23 (News) - With fresh ammunition from a University of North Carolina law school report, activists renewed their call Thursday for state officials to take legal action against Aero Contractors Ltd.

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Undercover police had children with activists

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Rob Evans, Paul Lewis - Jan. 22 (News Report) - Undercover police had children with activists — Disclosure likely to intensify controversy over long-running police operation to infiltrate and sabotage protest groups — Two undercover police officers secretly fathered children with political campaigners they had been sent to spy …

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Romney Parks Millions in Offshore Tax Haven - ABC News

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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Massive opposition file on Romney hits Internet, likely from 2008 McCain campaign

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Yahoo! News - Jan. 19 (News) - If you think you’ve already heard everything there is to know about Mitt Romney, think again. A 200-page document that appears to be Sen. John McCain’s entire 2008 election-year opposition research file on the former Massachusetts governor hit the Internet with a vengeance Tuesday evening. And it’s an eye-opener.

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Stop the Madness

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Policy - By Rebuttal - Jan. 19 (News Analysis) - This isn't the first time that hawks have raised the alarm about Iran's nuclear program, claiming that the sky is falling. Breathless, hypothetical timelines to an Iranian bomb have continued almost unabated since the time of the shah.

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Study: No alcohol intake safe during pregnancy

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

USA Today - By Maureen Salamon - Jan. 18 (News) - A new study pinpoints the latter half of the first trimester as a critical time in the development of fetal alcohol syndrome.

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Support for Internet Bill Wanes as Protests Spread

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jonathan Weisman - Jan. 18 (News Report) - Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, announced he would no longer back the anti-Internet piracy legislation he had co-sponsored. Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, quickly followed suit.

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Tuberculosis strain in India 'totally drug-resistant' - Los Angeles Times

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Eryn Brown - Jan. 16 (News) -

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Web Piracy Bills Invite a Protracted Battle

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jenna Wortham, Somini Sengupta - Jan. 16 (News Report) - The Obama administration’s statement of opposition to antipiracy legislation let the technology industry claim a victory, but few in Silicon Valley or Hollywood consider the battle over.

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Vitamin D doesn't ease lung disease symptoms: study - Chicago Tribune

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Chicago Tribune - By Genevra Pittman - Jan. 16 (News Report) - Taking large amounts of vitamin D was not linked to any symptom relief

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Ga. nurse donates kidney to patient she barely knew - USA TODAY

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

USA Today - By Jerry Carnes - Jan. 16 (News) - A patient gets a unique gift from a nurse: a kidney

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