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Scott Powers: How my wait in a closet almost brought down the White Housealmost brought down White House

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Scott Powers - Mar. 29 (News) - I was kidnapped. That was news to me. My paper and I conspired to cover this up, to protect Vice President Joe Biden and his staff from charges they had imprisoned me at a fundraiser last week. That was news to me too.

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Vicious Assault Shakes Texas Town

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By James C. McKinley Jr. - Mar. 09 (News Report) - The police investigation began shortly after Thanksgiving, when an elementary school student alerted a teacher to a lurid cellphone video that included one of her classmates.

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Cafferty File: Tell Jack how you really feel Blog Archive - What does it mean if social welfare benefits make up 1/3 of wages, salaries in U.S.? « - CNN.com Blogs

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Jack Cafferty - Mar. 09 (News Analysis) - Americans have become alarmingly dependent on handouts from Uncle Sam, according to a new report. Government social welfare programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and unemployment insurance made up 35% of all public and private wages and salaries last year. That's more than one-third of all the money Americans earned. These findings are contained in a study of government data done by TrimTabs Investment Research. In 2000, 21% of all wages and salaries in the United States came from social welfare programs. In 1960, it was just 10%. One of the economists at TrimTabs says we're in for some difficult times ahead unless this country can get back to at least the 26% ratio it had before the recession started. And she says there are only two ways to do that: Either increase private sector wages and salaries by 35% or cut social welfare benefits by nearly a quarter. Neither of those things is likely to happen. Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the so-called entitlement programs, make up more than 60% of federal spending each year. As the baby boomers get older, retire and need more medical care, the costs for those programs will only go up. While the squabbling over budget cuts continues on Capitol Hill, you can be sure no one is touching these programs. The $60 billion measure passed by the House last month didn't touch one dime of those three programs. As the evidence continues to mount that our country is hurtling toward an economic disaster, our government refuses to respond in any meaningful way.

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Concern That Terror Teams Have Selected Targets, Ready to Strike

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Richard Esposito, Rhonda Schwartz, Kirit Radia - Oct. 02 (News Report) - Strong concerns that terrorist teams in Europe have selected their targets, completed their surveillance, eluded capture and are now ready to strike at airports and tourist attractions have prompted the State Department to ready a highly unusual travel advisory for Europe, multiple law enforcement and intelligence sources tell ABC News.

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'Credible But Not Specific' Threat of New Terrorist Attack

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Richard Esposito, Rhonda Schwartz, Matthew Cole, Anna Schecter - Sep. 28 (News Report) - US and European officials said Tuesday they have detected a plot to carry out a major, coordinated series of commando-style terror attacks in Britain, France, Germany and possibly the United States. A senior US official said that while there is a "credible" threat, no specific time or place is known.

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Americans' wealth fell in spring as stocks tanked

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Jeannine Aversa - Sep. 17 (News Report) - The decline in net worth underscores how dependent families' wealth is on stock investments. About a fifth of total household financial assets are in stock-market holdings. The value of households' stock portfolios dropped to $6.8 trillion last quarter -- a 12 percent decline from the first three months of this year.

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Fox Parent Org Gives $1 million to Republican Gov. Assoc

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Ben Smith - Aug. 18 (News Report) - News Corp., which owns Fox News and the New York Post, gave $1 million to Haley Barbour's Republican Governors Association this year, according to the RGA's most recent filing.

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Sherrod offered new job, but says she is not so sure

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Jul. 22 (News) - A former Agriculture Department employee who was forced to resign from her job based on incomplete and misleading reports of a speech she gave has been offered a new job by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, but said Thursday she is "not so sure."

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Community debates $3b Cape Wind deal

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By John Dyer - Jun. 17 (News) - Opponents and advocates debated the first contract to buy power from Cape Wind at a public hearing in Bridgewater last night. It was the first opportunity for energy executives, concerned citizens, and environmental advocates to voice their support or opposition to a $3 billion agreement seen as vital to the success of the controversial wind farm proposed for Nantucket Sound.

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Oil Spill May Spur Action on Energy, Probably Not on Climate

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By John M. Broder - Jun. 12 (News Report) - Images of gushing oil and dying pelicans in the Gulf of Mexico have stirred anger and agony in Washington. But are they enough to prod the Senate to act on long-delayed clean energy and climate change legislation? Energy, maybe. Climate, probably not.

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Pat Tillman film a haunting blindside

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Bill Dwyre - Apr. 24 (News Analysis) - Journalists gave the story of soldier Pat Tillman’s death six years ago the hero’s treatment. What it deserved was real journalism. I have never quite gotten the Pat Tillman story out of my system. Only now am I understanding why.

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World Bank Head: Time to Retire Term 'Third World'