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Sunday, December 15, 2013

Newtown Victim’s Sister: ‘It Only Takes 90 Seconds’ To Do A Background Check

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One year ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a 27-year-old teacher, Victoria Leigh Soto, threw herself between her first graders and A...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

1 in 5 Africans forced to pay bribes for police, health care, education

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Almost one in five Africans were forced to pay a bribe in the past year just to get basic public services, a major survey said Thursday. ...

10 things you should know about slavery

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As it expands into wider release, 12 Years a Slave seems to have accomplished an improbable feat. It’s sparking conversations on African-A...

Homeowner Who Shot Girl Seeking Help At His Door Charged With Murder

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A Detroit-area homeowner who shot in the face a 19-year-old girl at his door will be charged with murder, Wayne County prosecutors announc...

Here’s How Occupy Wall Street Freed Americans From Millions In Debt

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Occupy Wall Street activists have canceled nearly $15 million in consumer debt in the first year of a program called Rolling Jubilee tha...

The People Who Care For Our Children Are Paid Terribly

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While it’s become little secret that in-home nannies are paid poorly, those who work in childcare centers are also paid poverty wages.

In Somalia, The Other Natural Disaster That Nobody Is Talking About

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A deadly cyclone slammed the Puntland region of Somalia last weekend to little international notice, wreaking havoc on an already impove...

Hurricane Katrina, The Obamacare Rollout, And Allowing Privilege To Shape Our Politics

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On Friday, the media got swept up in an unhelpful comparison between the rocky Obamacare rollout and the botched clean-up efforts in the...

REPORT: Apple CEO Saves Thanksgiving For The Company’s Workers

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On the heels of rumors that some Apple retail locations would open on Thanksgiving Day, joining a growing number of stores that are deny...
Sunday, November 3, 2013

California’s Online Sales Tax Is Bringing In Millions Of Dollars

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California’s controversial online sales tax has reaped more than $260 million dollars in just one year of collection, according to newly ...

What You Need To Know About The Severely Conservative Judge Who Just Ruled Against Birth Control

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Nine years ago, the California Supreme Court upheld a state law similar to the Affordable Care Act’s rules requiring most employers to i...

How The NRA Made It Easier To Bring Guns Into Airports

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On Friday, a gunman “ pulled a Smith & Wesson .223-caliber assault rifle from his duffel bag” and opened fire on an airport. Officia...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

Nearly 300 Oil Spills Went Unreported In North Dakota In Less Than Two Years

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Nearly 300 oil spills and 750 “oil field incidents” have occurred in North Dakota since January 2012 and none were reported to the public,...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

More Men Go Grocery Shopping And Do The Cooking

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Of 900 men surveyed by Midan Marketing, nearly half say they do at least half of their household’s grocery shopping . Of that group, more ...

Over 10 Percent Of America’s Largest Companies Pay Zero Percent Tax Rates

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Among companies listed on the S&P 500, almost one in nine paid an effective tax rate of zero percent — or even lower — over the past ...

GOP Official Resigns After Saying Purpose Of Voter ID Is To Suppress Votes Of Democrats, ‘Lazy Blacks’

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Until Thursday, Don Yelton was a precinct chair in the Buncombe County, North Carolina Republican Party. That ended after a Daily Show in...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

Saudi Arabia Surprises World In Turning Down U.N. Security Council Seat

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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia made the unprecedented decision to boycott the seat it had less than twenty-four hours ago won on the United ...

How Much Will Lawmakers Cut Food Stamps In The Coming Showdown?

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Amid the shutdown clamor, House Republicans finally agreed last Friday to move the farm bill into the final stage of the legislative proce...

Native-Born Americans More Likely To Commit Crimes Than Immigrants, Study Finds

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A Pew Research Center report released last week found that second generation immigrants have “striking similarities” to their native-bor...

Amsterdam’s ‘Black Peter’ Tradition Is Racist, Activists Say (Newsone Cover)

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AMSTERDAM – The “Black Peter” tradition in the Netherlands is under fire from opponents who believe the figure is a racist caricature and...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

The Ugly Stereotyping Of Adrian Peterson

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At first it seemed that the death of Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson’s two-year-old son would come and pass through the spo...

KKK Battles With Town Over Renaming School Named For Klan Founder

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Nathan B. Forrest High School in Jacksonville, Florida, home to the fighting Confederate Rebels, is named after a former Ku Klux Klan Gran...

Billionaire Koch Brothers Spending Millions To Deny Health Coverage To Low-Income Americans

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Conservative advocates funded by the billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch have launched a massive campaign pressurin...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Here Is What Republicans Got For Shutting Down The Government

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After shutting down the government for two weeks, Republicans appear to have secured just one concession from a Senate-crafted deal to ra...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

Melissa Harris-Perry Somehow Finds Guests Who Aren't All White Guys

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Yet again, a report on the Sunday talk shows finds that they're dominated by white male guests (for instance, fully 75 percent of the...

The October 13th, 2013 Talking Heads

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FOX (Fixed) NEWS SUNDAY I am still not used to the new opening sequence to this show, and it's bright colors. Luckily we got a wav...

Historically Small: Small Increases To Social Security This Year

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WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP) -- For the second straight year, millions of Social Security recipients, disabled veterans and federal reti...

Government Shutdown Talks Move To Spending Levels As Mitch McConnell Holds The Line

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans are holding the line against Democratic demands for a framework to alleviate the across-the-board spendin...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

Dr. Carson's 'Thoming' again: Carson says Obama is ‘worst thing since ‘slavery’

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Conservative firebrand and recent Fox News hire Dr. Ben Carson became the latest right winger to compare Obamacare to slavery at the Vo...

Blackfeet Elder Refuses to Be Son-in-Law Rick Reilly’s ‘Uncle Tom’ (The Nation)

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Washington Redskins helmets with the iconic red-and-gold colors and logo are displayed on the field during football training camp in 2009....

McDonald’s Worker Threatened With Arrest After Asking Company President For A Living Wage

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Nancy Salgado, a McDonald’s employee for 10 years, confronted company president Jeff Stratton last week and described her struggle to tak...

Keeping The Government Shut Down For Six More Weeks Would Cost Billions, Devastate Critical Programs

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House Republicans announced on Thursday that they will offer legislation to temporarily increase the debt ceiling in exchange for a commi...

Conservative Pundit Claims No Homeowners Have Been Wrongfully Foreclosed

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Despite hundreds of thousands of wrongful foreclosures uncovered by investigators, Wall Street Journal editorial board member Mary Kissel ...

Workplaces Go Without Safety Inspections During The Shutdown

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When the government shut down on October 1, 90 percent of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) inspectors were furlo...

The Eight Craziest Things Ted Cruz Said Yesterday

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The Republican Party is in free-fall, thanks in large part to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Just over a week after Cruz successfully pushed House...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

Abortion, Big Money In Elections, And Eleven Other Huge Cases The Supreme Court Will Hear Next Term

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It’s become a cliché at the beginning and end of each Supreme Court term to comment on how important the term is or will be, and how the j...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

How Racism Caused The Shutdown

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This isn’t an article about how Republicans shut down the government because they hate that the President is black. This is an article abo...
Monday, October 7, 2013

7 Big Companies Working To Help Americans Sign Up For "Obamacare's"

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Now that Obamacare’s new insurance marketplaces are open to the public, some uninsured Americans are eager to sign up . However, many othe...

Right-Wing Truckers Plan To Jam DC’s Major Commuter Highway, Arrest Members Of Congress

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Between furloughs , car chases , and a self-immolation , the residents of Washington, DC, aren’t having a great October. But by Friday of...
Sunday, October 6, 2013

Rand Paul: Piecemeal Approach ‘Much Better Way To Run Government’

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On Meet the Press Sunday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told guest host Savannah Guthrie that the piecemeal bills to re-open the government that ...
Saturday, October 5, 2013

Federal Prison Sat By While Mentally Ill Inmate Ate His Own Feces

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As several news reports have recently highlighted, prisons are increasingly serving as de facto asylums for the mentally ill. The country...

U.S. Approves Military Aid For Countries With Child Soldiers

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The White House on Monday afternoon announced that it had issued blanket waivers to three countries, allowing them to receive military aid...

This Albuquerque Journal Obituary For ‘Breaking Bad’s Walter White Is Kind Of Amazing

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More than you might expect for a show that portrayed it as a metropolis largely devoid of anything but meth cooks, neo-Nazis, Drug Enforce...

Congresswoman Says She Should Get Paid During Shutdown: ‘I Need My Paycheck’ (UPDATED)

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Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) told a Raleigh T V station Wednesday that she would continue to accept and keep her government paycheck during...

Federal Judge Smacks House Republican For Demanding Exemption From Republican Shutdown

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Countless lawsuits where the United States is a party are now in limbo, thanks to the fact that the Justice Department lacks the resource...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

Obama Tears Into Republicans Over Shutdown: If Americans Just Stopped Working, They’d Be Fired

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President Obama tore into House Republicans for demanding policy concessions for agreeing to fund the government and raise the nation’s de...
Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Where Are The Anti-Shutdown Protests?

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It’s no secret that the radical right has seized control of major parts of the U.S. government while the radical left remains furious, bu...

Don’t Like The Shutdown? Blame The Constitution

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A little more than two years ago, Canada faced a budget fight much like the one facing the United States today. Conservative Prime Ministe...

How The Supreme Court Ravaged The Employment Discrimination Landscape

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In 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the largest ever class action lawsuit, despite widespread evidence that Wal-Mart treated women l...

Overtaxed Food Pantries Brace For Shortages Created By The Government Shutdown

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Emergency food pantries say they will have to do more with less, thanks to the government shutdown. Food banks across the country are brac...

Five Facts That Show The GOP’s Newfound Desire To Compromise Is Bogus

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Since shutting down the government Tuesday, House Republican leaders have portrayed themselves as willing negotiators who lack a partner...

During The Shutdown, EPA Is Prevented From Cleaning Up Almost Two-Thirds Of Toxic Waste Sites

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As the government shutdown bleeds into its second day, more than 94 percent of the 16,205 public servants at the Environmental Protection...
Sunday, September 29, 2013

Police In China Rescue 92 Kidnapped Children In Huge Human Trafficking Ring Bust

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BEIJING, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Chinese police have rescued 92 children and two women kidnapped by a gang for sale and arrested 301 suspects,...

Breaking Up With ‘Breaking Bad’ Is Hard for Albuquerque

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ONE afternoon last winter, a man with a shaved head walked into Twisters, a burrito joint in Albuquerque . He was wearing a yellow helmet ...

Nigeria College Shooting: Dozens Of Students Shot Dead In Their Sleep

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POTISKUM, Nigeria -- Suspected Islamic extremists attacked an agricultural college in the dead of night, gunning down dozens of students a...

House Republicans Really Believe Democrats Will Cave On Obamacare To Avoid A Government Shutdown

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WASHINGTON -- House Republicans may appear to observers to be pushing the government toward a shutdown, but that's not even remotely h...

What The Republican ‘Compromise’ Of Delaying Obamacare For A Year Would Do To The Economy

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Congress must pass a funding bill by Monday to keep the government operating after September 30. Despite the rapidly approaching deadline ...

Here Is What Will Happen If Congress Doesn’t Get Its Act Together By Monday

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If Congress fails to pass a continuing resolution by Monday, the federal government will come to a standstill, shuttering “non-essential”...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

That ‘Sell By’ Date Doesn’t Tell You When Your Food Will Go Bad

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Trying to decide whether that quarter-gallon of milk left in the back of the fridge is any good? You’ll probably want to check the date. U...

Thumb-Sized Hornets Are Getting More Aggressive — And Fatal — As China Warms

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Over the last few weeks, giant, deadly hornets have killed more than two dozen people in China, the result of bizarre weather patterns the...

Little Miss Hispanic Delaware Stripped Of Crown For Not Being Latina Enough

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Jakiyah McKoy (pictured), a 7-year-old who was crowned Little Miss Hispanic Delaware last month, has been stripped of her title, amid outb...

War crimes court upholds 50 years for Liberia’s Charles Taylor

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LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) — An international war crimes court upheld the conviction and 50-year sentence of former Liberian President...

How Bank Of America Neglects Minority Neighborhoods (And Why They Might Get Away With It)

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Bank of America (BOA) is falling short of its obligations around foreclosed properties in predominantly black and hispanic neighborhoods,...

Saudi Women Call For New Day Of Defiance Against Driving Ban

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A group of Saudi women are planning to drive en-masse on October 26th to protest the kingdom’s infamous ban on women driving. The unique l...

What The Deadly Attack On A Kenya Mall Was Really About

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The bloody Shabaab attack on Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall on September 21 was an act of desperation by a jihadi group beset by interna...

Here’s Why No One Ever Likes American Foreign Policy

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Rule #1 of foreign policy punditry: never be happy. Observers of world politics much prefer to complain about what’s going wrong than cel...

Nearly Four In Ten American Workers Are Living Paycheck To Paycheck Each Week

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More than four years since the economy shifted from recession to recovery, 36 percent of U.S. workers always or usually live paycheck to ...

Florida Court Grants New Trial To Woman Serving 20 Years For Firing Warning Shot

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A Florida court has granted a new trial to a woman sentenced to 20 years in prison for firing a warning shot during an altercation with h...

Flesh-Rotting Drug Makes Its Way To The U.S. For The First Time, Health Officials Are ‘Frightened’

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Officials at the Banner Poison Control Center in Phoenix, Arizona have announced that they have responded to two cases of people using “k...

Race, Intelligence and IQ

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The information presented above suggests that African born blacks residing in western countries as a group possess IQs that are between 5 ...
Sunday, September 22, 2013

Are African Countries About To Destroy The ICC?

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On Friday, the African Union (AU) called an unusual meeting, set to take place on October 13th, to discuss a mass withdrawal from the Inte...

Why The Deadly Attack On The Mall In Kenya Was A Sign Of Desperation

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The bloody Shabaab attack on Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall on September 21 was an act of desperation by a jihadi group beset by interna...

Congressman Exaggerates Fraud To Justify Food Stamp Cuts

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Ahead of a vote for cuts that would deprive 4 to 6 million Americans of food assistance , Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) tried to justify the m...

European Union Officials Ease Austerity Requirements

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At a meeting this week in Brussels, European finance officials approved a change to budget policies that would lighten the burden of auste...

Low-Income Preschoolers, Cancer Patients Take Hit In GOP Budget Extension

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On Friday morning, House Republicans, joined by two Democrats, passed a short-term extension of government funding known as a continuing ...

Pope Francis Condemns Economic Inequality: ‘We Want A Just System That Helps Everyone’

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Meeting with a group of unemployed workers, Pope Francis abandoned his prepared text on Sunday to make some of his strongest remarks again...

Colorado House Republicans Unanimously Support Flood Relief, Unanimously Opposed Sandy Aid

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As historic floods of “biblical” proportions continue to ravage Colorado, President Obama signed an emergency declaration on Sunday — a ...

House Republicans Vote To Drop Millions From Food Stamps

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House Republicans approved nearly $40 billion in cuts to the food stamps program Thursday evening in a tight 217-210 vote . Fifteen Republ...

The Complete Guide To The GOP’s Three-Year Campaign To Shut Down The Government

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As the nation races toward another budgetary crisis next month, Republican leaders are using the prospect of a government shutdown and th...
Saturday, September 21, 2013

What You Need To Know About The Funding Extension That Just Passed The House

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The House of Representatives has passed a continuing resolution that would keep the government funded through Dec. 15 and withhold fundin...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Social Safety Net Programs Kept Tens Of Millions Out Of Poverty

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The official poverty rate was essentially unchanged at 15.1 percent in 2012, and alternative measures show that safety net programs like ...

White Models Hired For 80 Percent Of New York Fashion Week’s Looks

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New York Fashion Week, which ended on September 12, featured 4,637 “looks,” or outfits displayed on the runway, and white models were hi...

Alleged Navy Yard Shooter’s Troubled Past Forced Him Out Of The Navy, But Didn’t Stop Him From Buying Guns

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Details are still emerging about Aaron Alexis, the 34-year-old ex-Navy officer who allegedly killed 12 people on Monday at Washington’s N...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

Mayweather dominates for easy decision win

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Canelo Alvarez proved nothing more than easy money for Floyd Mayweather Jr. Mayweather turned one of the richest fight...

California's Condoms In Porn Bill Dies In Senate

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Within weeks after several porn performers tested positive for HIV, a bill to require adult film actors throughout California to use condo...

How The Birmingham Church Bombing Revealed America's Ugly Truths

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On Sunday, Sept. 15, 1963, in Birmingham, Ala., at 10:22 a.m., a bomb exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church. The blast, erupting fr...

The Sunday, September 15, 2013 Talking Heads

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THIS WEEK WITH GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS We start today with THIS WEEK because George Stephanopoulos has actually shown up for work today! M...

3-Year-Old Shot Dead In Yellowstone After Congress Permits Guns In Parks

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For the first time since 1978, someone has died of a gunshot wound in Yellowstone National Park. And for the first time since 1938, the vi...

The U.S.’s Top Secret $52.6 Billion Spy Budget — By The Numbers

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The Washington Post on Thursday for the first time revealed the breakdown of the classified $52.6 billion budget that the United States u...

Greece’s Horrific Unemployment Rate Finds A Way To Get Even Worse

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Greece’s unemployment rate ticked up to 27.9 percent in June , setting another record high in the middle of the country’s sixth year of e...

As Many Students Default As Enroll In Programs Meant To Help Them Avoid That Fate

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From mid-2012 to mid-2013, as many student debtholders defaulted on what they owe as enrolled in three programs that tie educational debt ...

Americans’ Ability To Afford Basic Necessities Is Near Record Low

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Americans are as unlikely to have access to basic necessities such as food, housing, and healthcare as they were in October 2011, when ...

Barney Frank Leaves Wall Street Defenders Speechless: Why Are Bankers ‘Paying Themselves So Much Money?’

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As his fellow panelists sought to sidestep criticisms of the financial industry on the five-year anniversary of the bank failure that ki...

Police Fatally Shoot Unarmed Former Football Player Who May Have Been Seeking Help After A Car Crash

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Officer Randall Kerrick, 27, of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) in North Carolina is facing charges of voluntary mansla...
Monday, September 9, 2013

Study Suggests Southern Slavery Turns White People Into Republicans 150 Years Later

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White Southerners are one of the great outliers in American politics. President Obama polled significantly worse with white voters in the...
Sunday, September 8, 2013

Fewer Young Americans Are Using Drugs — But An Increasing Number Of Older Americans Are

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The rate of illicit drug use among young Americans aged 12 to 17 dropped by nearly 20 percent in the past decade, from 11.6 percent to 9....

Elderly Black Americans Receive Worse Nursing Home Care Than White Americans

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The nursing homes that predominantly serve black residents tend to experience financial struggles and ultimately provide a lower quality o...

Researchers Are Inching Closer To A Successful HIV Vaccine

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An early trial for a vaccine against HIV signals a lot of promise, according to the Canadian researchers working on the project. A team of...

Economy Added 169,000 Jobs In August; Unemployment Down To 7.3 Percent

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The economy added 169,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate down to 7.3 percent, according to the latest data from the Bureau of L...

Watchdog Finds Zero Major Overpayments In Food Stamps, $17 Million In Farm Programs

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Crop insurance and rural farm development programs issued over $17 million in high-dollar improper payments during the 2012 fiscal year, ...

North Carolina’s National Image Tanks After Less Than A Year Of Republican Governance

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The wave of voter suppression laws , attacks on abortion and other hard right legislation being pushed through the North Carolina legisl...

Obama Nominates Voting Rights Supporter To Powerful Court — Here’s How The GOP Freakout Will Play Out

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A partisan effort to keep the nation’s second most powerful court in Republican hands will flare up against next Wednesday, when the thir...

Iowa Debates Permitting Blind People To Carry Guns In Public

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As lawmakers across the country debate gun safety laws, law enforcement officials in Iowa are split on whether the state should continue i...
Thursday, September 5, 2013

Florida Man Cites ‘Bush Doctrine’ As Justification For Pre-Emptive Killing At Barbecue

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William T. Woodward is facing murder charges for the alleged shooting of three people on Labor Day, two of whom have now died. In his defe...

Top House Republican Rewrites History, Claims Reagan Stood Up To Chemical Weapons Use

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A top Republican lawmaker on Thursday invoked Ronald Reagan to say that Obama was weak for not acting more directly in response to Syria’...
Monday, September 2, 2013

The One Video (And Three Charts) That Explains Why Unions Matter

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The sad reality this Labor Day is that many American workers aren’t enjoying the basic tenets of the American dream: a livable wage and be...

Dunkin’ Donuts Apologizes For Blackface Ad In Thailand

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Dunkin’ Donuts has apologized and pulled advertising for its campaign in Thailand that shows a model with blackface makeup and the captio...

11 Other Things American Workers Deserve (Besides A Day Off)

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Labor Day is meant to celebrate the accomplishments of the American worker, who spends most days on an oil rig or in an office, on the as...

Miley Cyrus white America’s biggest nightmare

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The words “oral sex”, “ratchet”, “disgusting”, “raunchy” and “humiliating” were used on morning news shows this week to describe Miley Cy...

Labor Day Sales: Where To Find The Best Store Deals And Discounts (Online Stores Are The Best)

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Alas, Labor Day has arrived. Say goodbye to those white pants and say hello to big discounts from your favorite ret...
Sunday, September 1, 2013

How long Do You Spend On Porn? (HuffPost Info Graphic)

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We now know Alaskans love a good view (no, not of Russia). California is all about staying young. Connecticut embraces motherhood....

Jailed For Medical Marijuana: Five Stories Of Why DOJ’s Pot Policy Matters

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The Department of Justice announced a new policy Thursday in its approach to prosecuting marijuana offenses. While it remained committed...

Banks Make Record Profits In Second Quarter

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Banks marked another record profit period in the second quarter, clearing $42.2 billion after expenses in the three months from April to ...

Poverty Has Same Effect On The Brain As Constantly Pulling All Nighters

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The mental strain of living in poverty and thinking constantly about tight finances can drop a person’s IQ by as much as 13 percent, or ab...

Consumer Spending Slumps And Wages Fall Because Of Sequestration

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American consumers have been gradually spending more money in the recovery, but that trend took a hit in July thanks to the automatic bud...

Half Of America’s Scientists Have Laid People Off Thanks To Budget Cuts

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Sequestration, on top of other budget cuts over the years, has meant that nearly half of respondents to a new survey of 3,700 scientists ...

Fast Food Workers Launch Largest Ever Strike For Higher Wages

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Nine months after fast food workers in New York City walked off the job on “Black Friday,” their efforts to change the industry’s pay stan...

Media Cheerleads For Another War: Blasts Obama For Not Rushing Into Syria

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The hosts of the nation’s leading political talk shows pressed Secretary of State John Kerry on the administration’s decision to seek Cong...
Friday, August 30, 2013

White Supremacist Felon Caught With 18 Guns, 45,000 Bullets And A List Of Black & Jewish Leaders

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Federal agents were tracking Ohio resident Richard Schmidt’s imports of counterfeit sports jerseys when they stumbled upon his arsenal of ...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Suspect Who Killed A WWII Vet Say: We were buying crack from victim

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One of the teens charged with beating to death a World War II veteran allegedly claimed he was buying crack cocaine from the 88-year-old ...

No, Martin Luther King Jr. Was Not A Republican — But Here’s What He Had To Say About Them

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“Most people don’t talk about the fact that Martin Luther King was a Republican.” That’s a quote from Ada Fisher, a Republican National...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

What Josephine Baker Teaches Us About Women’s Enduring Legacy Within The Civil Rights Movement

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Today is the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs, Justice and Freedom. Most are not aware, but on that hot summer day in...

Conservatives Have Morphed The Word ‘Freedom’ Into Something Martin Luther King Would Never Recognize

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Fifty years ago today, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. approached the podium at the original March on Washington, he carried with him a ...

Bill Clinton Explains The Real Way To Honor King’s Dream

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President Bill Clinton connected Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I have a dream” speech to the struggles still facing the nation...

A Timeline Of The Syria Chemical Weapons Saga

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While the White House insists in public that no decisions have yet been made , it seems increasingly likely that the U.S. will join in wi...

5 Times Boehner Insisted He Would Never Use The Debt Ceiling For Political Leverage

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As the Treasury Department announced on Monday that the nation will hit the debt ceiling by mid-October, House Speaker John Boehner (R-O...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

The Story Of The World’s Biggest ‘Battery’ And The Future Of Renewable Energy

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The largest battery in the world has sat quietly in George Washington National Forest along the Virginia-West Virginia border for nearly ...

Faith Or Science: Measles Outbreak Linked To Texas Megachurch Whose Pastor Has Spread Myths About Vaccines

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The current measles outbreak in Texas — which has sickened at least 21 people in the northern part of the state — has been linked to a me...

California Prison Is A Breeding Ground For A Deadly Fungal Disease

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Prisoners in California are being moved into two prisons where they will be at higher risk of developing valley fever, a serious and pote...

Almost Half Of All School Districts Have Banned Junk Food From Vending Machines

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American schools have made significant progress in offering healthier food options and requiring more students to take part in physical ed...
Monday, August 26, 2013

North Carolina Charity Threatened With Arrest For Feeding Homeless People

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A group that for years has handed out food to the homeless in Raleigh every weekend was threatened with arrest if they continued their cha...

It’s Not The Fault Of The Long-Term Unemployed That They Can’t Find Jobs

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More than four million people have been unemployed for 27 weeks or longer, putting them in the category of the long-term unemployed, and t...

The Bank That Has Faced The Fewest Consequences For Financial Crisis

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While the financial industry as a whole has faced legal consequences so insignificant as to be meaningless over the economic crisis it cre...

Walmart CEO Claims ‘Vast Majority’ Of Workers Make More Than Minimum Wage

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In a recent interview, Walmart CEO Mike Duke told CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo, “ The vast majority of our associates are paid more than [the mi...

Louisiana’s Voucher Program Is Making Segregation Worse, Justice Department Finds

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Louisiana school districts with a long history of racial segregation are becoming more segregated because of the state’s voucher program,...

Killing Obamacare Is Killing The Republican Party

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Don’t look now, but the Republican Party may be vanishing before our very eyes. Well, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but it is the ca...

More Than 50 Abortion Clinics Have Shut Down Over The Past Three Years

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A barrage of state-level restrictions on abortion clinics — often, unnecessary regulations requiring them to widen their hallways, upgra...

Justice Ginsburg’s Terrifying Assessment Of Her Own Court

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In an interview with the New York Times’ Adam Liptak, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg offered a grim assessment of the Court where she so ofte...

Again With The Slavery Comparisons: Rand Paul, Food Stamps Are Just Like Slavery

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Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) equated government programs that prevent people from dying of starvation with slavery in a new profile of his med...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

Four New Wind Farms In The Upper Midwest Could Power 750,000 Homes

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Last week, Minneapolis-based utility Xcel Energy proposed its fourth wind farm in the Upper Midwest since mid-July. If approved, the 150-...

Thanks To Budget Cuts, The Forest Service Is Out Of Money To Fight Wildfires

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The U.S. Forest Service has nearly depleted its budget for fighting wildfires at the peak of wildfire season, a development which has forc...

Bobby Jindal Blames Racial Inequality On Minorities Being Too Proud Of Their Heritages

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One day after thousands rallied at the March on Washington 50th anniversary demonstration , Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) pitched the Republic...

'Meet The Press' Airs Historic Martin Luther King, Jr. Interview (August 26, 1963, Peep The Hostility Towards Both Men))

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"Meet the Press" marked the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington by airing its interview with Martin Luther King, Jr., w...

Colin Powell: Trayvon Martin Verdict 'Questionable'

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WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State Colin Powell called the jury verdict that cleared the killer of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin ...

Court Is ‘One of Most Activist,’ Ginsburg Says, Vowing to Stay

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WASHINGTON — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg , 80, vowed in an interview to stay on the Supreme Court as long as her health and intellect re...

Conservatives Finally Announce Alternative To Obamacare: Just Go To The Emergency Room

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Heritage president and former South Carolina senator Jim DeMint continued his campaign to convince Republicans to shut down the government...

How Syria Has The U.N.’s Hands Tied In Investigating Chemical Weapons Use

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Reports from Syria on Wednesday indicated that the Ghouta region may have seen the deadliest chemical weapons attack in decades just 15 m...

Minority Students At University of Texas Attacked By An Epidemic Of ‘Bleach Bombs’

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On Wednesday, University of Texas student Bryan Davis, who is African American, was struck by a bleach-filled balloon while he was walki...

John Lewis At March On Washington: ‘I’m Not Going To Stand By And Let The Supreme Court Take The Right To Vote Away’

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Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) — who was the youngest speaker during the March on Washington in 1963 — delivered a passionate address about the im...

Colin Powell On Republican Voting Restrictions: ‘It’s Going To Backfire’

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On Face the Nation this Sunday, Colin Powell, former Secretary of State under President George W. Bush, warned his fellow Republicans tha...