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D.C. Council Votes To Make Gay Marriage Legal : NPRD.C. Council Votes To Make Gay Marriage Legal A A December 15, 2009 The City Council voted Tuesday to legalize gay marriage, giving supporters a victory after a string of recent defeats elsewhere and sending the issue to Congress, which has final say over laws in the nation's capital. ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - Cancer From the Kitchen? - NYTimes.comCancer From the Kitchen? The battle over health care focuses on access to insurance, or tempests like the one that erupted over new mammogram guidelines. But what about broader public health challenges? What if breast cancer in the United States has less to do with insurance or mammograms ...
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Editorial - Photos and Freedom - NYTimes.comPhotos and Freedom In a sad but unsurprising denouement this week, the Supreme Court tossed out a federal appellate court ruling that would have required the government to release photographs of soldiers abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan during the Bush administration. The vacated ...
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Fed Needs To 'Start Giving A Red Hot Damn About The American Public,' Says Sen. WhitehouseTwo days before Ben Bernanke's confirmation hearing, most Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee are withholding judgment, waiting to hear directly from the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Given the depth of the ongoing economic crisis, the hearing promises to be a lively one, as senators ...
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Glenn Greenwald - Salon.comOnce conservatives became embarrassed by their cowardly warnings that we would all be killed if we held a 9/11 trial in New York, they switched to a new argument: trials in a real court would lead to the disclosure of classified information that would help the Terrorists. In advancing this ...
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An Accused Plotter With Feet in East and West - NYTimes.comAn Accused Plotter With Feet in East and West PHILADELPHIA — The trip from a strict Pakistani boarding school to a bohemian bar in Philadelphia has defined David Headley’s life, according to those who know the middle-age man at the center of a global terrorism investigation. Raised by his ...
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Glenn Greenwald - Salon.comThe administration guts its own argument for 9/11 trials
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OpEdNews - by Robert Parry: The Ugly Truth about JobsNovember 17, 2009 at 18:54:39 The Ugly Truth about Jobs By Robert Parry ( about the author ) Page 1 of 2 page(s) For OpEdNews: Robert Parry - Writer Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke has given Americans a glimpse of the ugly truth about their future job prospects. Simply put, ...
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Trying Sept. 11 Suspects In U.S. A Political Gamble : NPRTrying Sept. 11 Suspects In U.S. A Political Gamble A A November 18, 2009 Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday stoutly defended his decision to try the Sept. 11 conspirators in U.S. federal court as driven by evidence, not politics. During his appearance before the Senate Judiciary ...
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I'm doing 'God's work'. Meet Mr Goldman SachsNumber 85 Broad Street, a dull, rust-coloured office block in lower Manhattan, doesn’t look like a place to stop and stare, and that’s just the way the people who work there like it. The men and women who arrive in the watery dawn sunshine, dressed in Wall Street black, clutching black ...
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