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Rove was asked to fire U.S. attorney (Margaret Talev and Marisa Taylor)
Presidential advisor Karl Rove and at least one other member of the White House political team were urged by the New Mexico Republican party chairman to fire the states U.S. attorney because of ...
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Crisis Looms in Market for Mortgages (Gretchen Morgenson)
The demise of U.S. housing investment mania has been broadly viewed as troubling, as it involves the nation’s $6.5 trillion mortgage securities market, which is larger even than the United States ...
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AUDIO: Bull&%#@ Market (Brooke Gladstone)
When the Dow Jones average plummeted this week, the story led newscasts and newspapers everywhere. But is the stock market really that newsworthy? Dean Baker, longtime watchdog of economics ...
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The Pentagon’s Power to Arrest, Torture, and Execute Americans (Jacob G. Hornberger)
The president and the Pentagon now wield the omnipotent power to arrest, torture, and execute any American they label an “enemy combatant.” It is impossible to overstate the significance of this ...
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Sudan close to scuttling U.N. troop deal on Darfur (Evelyn Leopold)
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has refused to accept an interim U.N. plan to bolster African troops in Darfur, despite an earlier agreement in principle.
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New Climate Report: More Bad News (Seth Borenstein)
The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people wont have enough water, top scientists will say next month ...
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Justice Dept.: FBI Misused Patriot Act (Lara Jakes Jordan)
The FBI improperly and, in some cases illegally, used the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about people in the United States, a Justice Department audit concluded Friday.
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Ghawar Is Dead! (Matthew S. Miller)
The Wide-Spread Use of Advanced Extraction Techniques are Killing the Mother of All Oil Fields
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U.S. Air Force Puts Six Military Research Satellites into Orbit (Tariq Malik)
An Atlas 5 rocket launched spaceward late Thursday, hauling a clutch of six military research satellites into orbit for the U.S. Air Force.
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Climate change pushes "African" diseases north: expert (Jeremy Clarke)
Global warming is pushing northwards diseases more commonly found in developing countries, posing a risk to the financial and physical health of rich nations, the head of a livestock herders charity ...
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Climate Change Impact More Extensive than Thought (Volker Mrasek)
Global climate change is happening faster than previously believed and its impact is worse than expected, information from an as-yet unpublished draft of the long-awaited second part of a United ...
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