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Report Evaluates Federal Green Energy Loans

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

All Things Considered - Feb. 11 (News Report) - The government could lose nearly $3 billion on the loans — far less than the $10 billion Congress set aside for the high-risk program, according to an independent review. The White House ordered the report after criticism of a loan to Solyndra Inc., a solar company that went bankrupt.

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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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Ron Paul and Ronald Reagan (Fact Checker biography)

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Josh Hicks - Dec. 28 (Fact Check) - “America must decide who to trust: Al Gore’s Texas cheerleader, or the one who stood with Reagan.” — An ad from the Ron Paul Presidential Campaign Committee We pulled this comment from an ad that accuses Rick Perry of trying to “undo the Reagan Revolution” when he backed Al Gore for president in 1988. Photos show Ron Paul looking chummy with the Gipper as a deep-voiced narrator describes the Texas congressman as a bold Reagan supporter. The gist: Paul has impeccable Reaganite credentials; Perry does not. We examined Paul’s relationship with Reagan during the late 1980s to find out whether he was really so supportive of the Republican icon. Our colleagues at FactCheck.org covered this topic before, but we figure it’s worth another look as we continue our series on biographical claims of the 2012 Republican candidates. THE FACTS Paul has little room to criticize politicians for changing their party affiliations. He campaigned for president as a Libertarian in 1988, after running for office seven times as a Republican and serving as a GOP member of the U.S. House for more than six years at that point.

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Apple Gets 1 Million IPhone 4S Pre-Orders in One Day, Topping Prior Model

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Bloomberg - By Lisa Rapaport, Xu Wang - Oct. 10 (News Report) - Apple Inc. (AAPL) received more than one million pre-orders for the iPhone 4S in a single day, 67 percent more than for the previous version of the device. Demand for the phone, introduced a day before Apple co- founder Steve Jobs passed away, is a trib

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Study upends term-limit theory

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By George Skelton - Jul. 21 (News Report) - A report by the Center for Governmental Studies finds that rather than encourage 'citizen legislators,' term-limited officials are always campaigning for their next job.

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Assembly passes bill to require contributions of gays in textbooks

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Patrick McGreevy - Jul. 06 (News Report) - Textbooks and history classes in California schools would be required to include the contributions of gays, lesbians and transgender Americans under a proposal given final legislative approval in the Assembly on Tuesday and sent to Gov. Jerry Brown.

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Calif. video game ban struck down by Supreme Court

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

San Francisco Chronicle - By Bob Egelko - Jun. 28 (News) - California's attempt to ban sales of violent video games to minors violates the constitutional guarantee of free expression, which allows young people access to creative works such as books, films and onscreen simulations about even the most extreme brutality, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday.

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Homeless shelter: Homeless shelter blames cuts on government

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Alexandra Zavis - Jun. 26 (News Report) - Union Rescue Mission, faced with a $1.3-million shortfall, says the government doesn't cover all the programs' costs or is slow to pay.

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Sacramento politicians' pay withheld after failing to pass new budget

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By David Usborne - Jun. 22 (News Report) - If politicians in Sacramento were not convinced before that the financial crisis facing California is grave, they surely did by yesterday after waking up to discover that their pay had been frozen as a penalty for failing to p

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Defense of Marriage Act called unconstitutional by bankruptcy judge

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Carol J. Williams - Jun. 15 (News Report) - Ruling is first to address the issue since the Obama administration announced it would no longer defend the law.

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Gay judge wasn't required to remove himself from same-sex marriage case, U.S. judge rules

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Maura Dolan - Jun. 15 (News Report) - A federal judge's refusal Tuesday to invalidate last year's ruling against Proposition 8 established for the first time that gay judges may decide gay rights cases without having to defend their impartiality.

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Debbie Reynolds is parting with her movie treasures

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Susan King - Jun. 14 (News Report) - The actress has amassed a collection of about 5,000 pieces of memorabilia. Finally admitting that her dream of a permanent museum won't be a reality, she is auctioning off the artifacts.

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Arnold Schwazenegger May Lose Prestigious Fitness Award - National News Headlines | Examiner.com

Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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Apocalypse not now: Rapture fails to happen

Sat, 21 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By David Batty - May. 21 (News) - Christian doomsday prophet Harold Camping looks likely to be less than rapturous after his prediction that the world would end on Saturday failed to materialise. The 89-year-old Californian preacher had prophesied that the Rapture would begin at 6pm in each of the world's time zones, with those "saved" by Jesus ascending to heaven and the non-believers being wiped out by an earthquake rolling from city to city across the planet. But as the deadline for the Apocalpyse passed in the Pacific islands, New Zealand and Australia, it became apparent that Camping's prediction of the end of the world was to end not with a bang but with a whimper. Only on Twitter did the supposed armageddon sweep the world, with users expressing their mock disappointment at the lack of dead people rising from their graves. New Zealander Daniel Boerman tweeted : "I'm from New Zealand, it is 6:06PM, the world has NOT ...

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California's unemployment rate dips to 11.9% as state adds 8,900 jobs

Fri, 20 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Alana Semuels - May. 20 (News) - California’s unemployment rate ticked down to 11.9% in April after the state added 8,900 jobs, a relatively small number in a state still suffering from the Great Recession.

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Appeals court blasts VA mental health care system

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Paul Elias - May. 10 (Special Report) - Noting that an average of 18 veterans a day commit suicide, a federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered the Department of Veterans Affairs to dramatically overhaul its mental health care system. In the strongly worded ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it takes the department an average of four years to fully provide the mental health benefits owed veterans. The court also said it often takes weeks for a suicidal vet to get a first appointment. The "unchecked incompetence" in handling the flood of post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health claims is unconstitutional, the court said.

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Battle Brews Over FBI’s Warrantless GPS Tracking

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Kim Zetter - May. 09 (News) - The FBI's use of GPS vehicle tracking devices is becoming a contentious privacy issue in the courts, with the Obama administration seeking Supreme Court approval for its use of the devices without a warrant, and a federal civil rights lawsuit targeting the Justice Department for tracking the movements of an Arab-American student. In the midst of this legal controversy, Threat Level decided to take a look at the inside of one of the devices, with the help of the teardown artists at iFixit.

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Gay marriage foes ask court to stop judge from showing Proposition 8 trial video

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Maura Dolan - Apr. 20 (News Report) - Former U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker, who has retired, said he has used the video from the Proposition 8 trial in talks to a class he teaches at UC Berkeley’s law school, to a legal group and in a lecture at the University of Arizona, which was broadcast on CSPAN.

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Tsunami waves hit Ore. coast after sweeping Hawaii

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Jaymes Song, Mark Niesse - Mar. 11 (News) - Tsunami waves swamped Hawaii beaches and brushed the U.S. western coast Friday but didn't immediately cause major damage after devastating Japan and sparking evacuations throughout the Pacific.

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Recent decisions amount to a dressing down for 9th Circuit

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Robert Barnes - Jan. 31 (News Report) - Sometimes the Supreme Court simply decides cases and sometimes it seems to have something bigger in mind. In the past two weeks, it has been in scold mode, and its target has been the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

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Stefanos Polyzoides plans to make cities more livable

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Sharon Bernstein - Jan. 23 (News Report) - The architect and his wife, Elizabeth Moule, are among the founders of the New Urbanism movement, a reaction against urban sprawl as well as the so-called urban renewal movement of the 1960s.

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Federal court authorities plan to move trial of Tucson shooting suspect

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Jerry Markon - Jan. 17 (News) - Federal authorities are planning to move the trial of the alleged gunman in the Jan. 8 mass shooting in Tucson to San Diego because of extensive pretrial publicity in Arizona, federal law enforcement sources said Sunday night.

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LAPD shooting: Department defends slaying of unarmed naked man in Playa Vista

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Hector Becerra, Tony Barboza - Jan. 16 (News Report) - The statement about the shooting of Reginald Doucet Jr., who was unarmed and naked when he encountered police Friday morning, came as a prominent civil rights activist questioned why officers couldn't have used non-lethal means to subdue him and called on LAPD Chief Charlie Beck to review the department's training and tactics in dealing with unarmed suspects.

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Police: 2nd disabled victim talking in L.A. sexual assault probe

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - Jan. 15 (News) - The second of ten or more severely disabled victims whose sexual assaults were captured on videotape has come forward -- a development the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is touting as progress in their burgeoning probe of what they say were years-long assaults of defenseless women.

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Worries Follow Route of High-Speed California Line

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jesse McKinley - Jan. 03 (News) - But despite the potential bounty of jobs, high-speed rail has not been fully embraced. After the rail authority approved the initial route in early December, Representative Dennis Cardoza, a Central Valley Democrat, disparagingly referred to it as “the train to nowhere.”

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