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Amid already-high tensions over Iran's advancing nuclear program, the US has imposed harsh new economic sanctions on the regime in Tehran and begun to move se","authors":"Adam Weinstein, Hamed Aleaziz","source":{"rating":"3.8","name":"Mother Jones","framebuster":false,"id":"mother_jones","ownership":"ind","type":"magazine","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.4","num_reviews":"1","title":"Kim Jong Un Leads Funeral Procession For His Father","url":"http://www.npr.org/2011/12/28/144360238/kim-jong-un-leads-funeral-procession-for-his-father?ft=1&f=1001","date":"2011/12/28","id":8486427,"story_type":"News","quote":"Wailing and clutching at their hearts, tens of thousands of North Koreans lined the snowy streets of Pyongyang on Wednesday as the hearse carrying late leader Kim Jong Il's body wound its way through the capital for a final farewell.","authors":"","source":{"rating":"3.4","name":"Associated Press","framebuster":true,"id":"associated_press","ownership":"ind","type":"wire","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.9","num_reviews":"5","title":"EPA issues strong limits on mercury emissions from smokestacks","url":"http://www.latimes.com/news/local/environment/la-me-gs-epa-mercury-20111221,0,2161637.story","date":"2011/12/21","id":8476714,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"The Obama administration on Wednesday announced a tough new rule to limit emissions of mercury, arsenic and other toxic substances from sources such as power plants, a landmark measure that could prevent up to 11,000 premature deaths annually, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.","authors":"Neela Banerjee","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"Los Angeles Times","framebuster":false,"id":"los_angeles_times","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.1","num_reviews":"8","title":"Gingrich On Climate Change","url":"http://factcheck.org/2011/12/gingrich-on-climate-change/","date":"2011/12/07","id":8450922,"story_type":"Fact Check","quote":"Newt Gingrich went too far when he claimed that \u201cI\u2019ve never favored cap-and-trade.\u201d It\u2019s true he\u2019s never favored the approach taken by Democrats, but he said in 2007 that he would \u201cstrongly support\u201d cap-and-trade if combined with \u201ca tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions\u201d.","authors":"Brooks Jackson","source":{"rating":"3.9","name":"FactCheck","framebuster":false,"id":"factcheck","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.0","num_reviews":"5","title":"Fact-checking the Chamber of Commerce","url":"http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2011/dec/06/fact-checking-chamber-commerce/","date":"2011/12/07","id":8451937,"story_type":"Fact Check","quote":"The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has begun its \"voter education\" drive, running ads that attack Democrats and boost Republicans.\r\n\r\nThe blitz is beginning in Iowa, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington, including this ad against U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio.\r\n\r\nPolitiFact Ohio checked the ad's claim that Brown \"voted to block American energy production and increase energy taxes\" and rated it Mostly False.","authors":"Bill Adair","source":{"rating":"3.8","name":"PolitiFact","framebuster":false,"id":"politifact","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.0","num_reviews":"1","title":"Planet Likely to Become Increasingly Hostile to Agriculture","url":"http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=planet-likely-to-become-increasingly-hostile","date":"2011/12/07","id":8453252,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"YTo get a glimpse of the future, look to East Africa today.\n\nThe Horn of Africa is in the midst of its worst drought in 60 years: Crop failures have left up to 10 million at risk of famine; social order has broken down in Somalia, with thousands of refugees streaming into Kenya; British Aid alone is feeding 2.4 million people across the region.\n\nThat's a taste of what's to come, say scientists mapping the impact of a warming planet on agriculture and civilization.","authors":"Douglas Fischer","source":{"rating":"3.7","name":"Scientific American","framebuster":false,"id":"scientific_american","ownership":"ind","type":"magazine","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.1","num_reviews":"1","title":"Flipping Through DNC Playbook on Romney","url":"http://factcheck.org/2011/11/flipping-through-dnc-playbook-on-romney/","date":"2011/12/01","id":8441765,"story_type":"Fact Check","quote":"The Democratic National Committee casts Mitt Romney as an untrustworthy flip-flopper in a lengthy Web video, but pads a long list of examples with some falsehoods and distortions. It's true that Romney has changed or modified his position on some major issues -- including abortion, a federal assault weapons ban and Reaganomics, as the DNC says. But the video strains the truth ... More >>","authors":"Eugene Kiely, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, Brooks Jackson, D\u2019Angelo Gore, Scott Blackburn, Lalita Clozel","source":{"rating":"3.9","name":"FactCheck","framebuster":false,"id":"factcheck","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.9","num_reviews":"1","title":"GOP\u2019s Phantom Job Losses","url":"http://factcheck.org/2011/11/gops-phantom-job-losses/","date":"2011/11/22","id":8427389,"story_type":"News","quote":"Ooops! Republicans \u2014 eager to show that President Obama\u2019s oil and gas drilling policies \u201ccost jobs\u201d \u2014 have been using a number they now admit was more than three times too high. Even after they corrected their error (after we pointed it out), they started using a figure that is \u2026 More >>","authors":"Eugene Kiely","source":{"rating":"3.9","name":"FactCheck","framebuster":false,"id":"factcheck","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.5","num_reviews":"8","title":"Is the end of the world really nigh?","url":"http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/nov/20/doomsday-alok-jha-science-extinct","date":"2011/11/20","id":8422382,"story_type":"Special Report","quote":"All too real are the human-caused threats born of climate change, excess pollution, depletion of natural resources and the madness of nuclear weapons. We tinker with our genes and atoms at our own peril. Nanotechnology, synthetic biology and genetic modification offer much potential in giving us better food to eat, safer drugs and a cleaner world, but they could also go wrong if misapplied or if we charge on without due care.","authors":"Alok Jha","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"The Guardian","framebuster":false,"id":"the_guardian","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}}]