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Saul Landau
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Two men involved in the NATO summit protests in Chicago are being held on separate terrorism charges. One is accused of making a false threat about blowing up a highway overpass. The other is charged with discussing the making of a pipe bomb.
Posted on May 21, 2012
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Freedom of the press is threatened every day in Mexico as journalists are tortured and killed; Obama’s support of gay marriage distracts the public from the impunities in Afghanistan; press freedom is also under attack in the U.S. as journalists are arrested for protesting. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on May 20, 2012
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Three NATO summit protesters in their 20s were arrested Wednesday night on charges of conspiracy to commit terrorism with incendiary devices after Chicago police raided an apartment. The group’s attorney says weapons were planted at the scene of the arrests.
Posted on May 20, 2012
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Did you know? May 19 is “National Hepatitis Testing Day” and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that all baby boomers, the group believed to account for 75 percent of hepatitis C infections in the United States, get checked.
Posted on May 19, 2012
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If you’re going to commit a jailable offense, do it in Norway, where officials at the high-security Halden prison believe that providing inmates with a “light and positive” environment will make them better people when they re-enter society.
Posted on May 19, 2012
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Vermont became the first state to ban the controversial gas-drilling technique that pumps huge volumes of toxic fluid deep into the ground and that has been shown to contaminate drinking water supplies.
Posted on May 18, 2012
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Quebec is looking to end three months of student protests against rising tuition fees by introducing emergency legislation that would temporarily close some universities and fine the pants off of picketers blocking students and faculty from entering classrooms.
Posted on May 18, 2012
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Hewlett-Packard, one of the world’s biggest computer and software corporations, is expected to cut as many as 30,000 jobs—8 percent of its workforce—as consumer demand for oversized PCs fades in favor of sleek, compact tablets, like Apple’s iPad.
Posted on May 18, 2012
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Marlana Shipley
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Jurors in the corruption trial of former U.S. senator and presidential candidate John Edwards are expected to begin deliberations on Friday.
Posted on May 17, 2012
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When did Mitt Romney start loving Bill Clinton? Since the presumed Republican presidential nominee evidently realized that praising the former Democratic president could earn him the votes of political moderates.
Posted on May 17, 2012
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If you thought parking couldn’t get any worse in the Los Angeles area, think again. Thanks to newly installed “smart” parking meters, which wipe away any unused time, motorists in Santa Monica will no longer be able to squeeze into spots paid for by the previous inhabitant.
Posted on May 17, 2012
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Autopsy results released Thursday revealed that Trayvon Martin had marijuana in his system at the time he was fatally shot by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Fla., in February.
Posted on May 17, 2012
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Investors raced to get a piece of the Facebook pie Thursday, as one of the most eagerly anticipated initial public offerings finally became available to a select few.
Posted on May 17, 2012
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The billionaire investor paid $142 million and offered hundreds of millions more in loans and credit to buy Media General, the owner of 63 local U.S. newspapers covering the American South.
Posted on May 17, 2012
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TED, the sleek pioneering giant of the online video salon, boasts the tagline: “Ideas worth spreading.” But the group declined to post a talk by Seattle-based venture capitalist and Amazon.com investor Nick Hanauer, who said the middle class, not wealthy financiers like himself, were the nation’s real “job creators.”
Posted on May 17, 2012
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