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Reporter Who Brought Down the 'Runaway General' Dead at 33

Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Supreme Court Warning

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How American University Got Involved in Israel’s Public Interest
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Dead Man Walking, 20 Years On
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Immigration: Time to Choose Sides
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Ear to the ground

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FBI Confirms Drone Use Over U.S. Soil

What Snowden Told Us This Week

Google Fights for Transparency in FISA Court

A/V Booth

Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Supreme Court Warning

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The Campaign to Ignore Sarah Palin

Arts & Culture

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The Joy of Singing Out of the Spotlight
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Let Nicholas Kristof Damage Your Mind

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Unemployment Breaks the 10% Barrier

In news that President Barack Obama described as “sobering,” the U.S. unemployment rate in October broke into the double-digit range, with 10.2 percent of Americans without jobs, the highest rate since April 1983.

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Hey, Bush: Is That an O’Doul’s?

OK, so perhaps we were a bit slow on the uptake here, but it appears that ostensibly clean-and-sober President Bush enjoyed a beer with a few colleagues whilst in Europe for the G-8 summit last week, as this BBC clip shows. Whatever it is, it’s a heady brew—watch as Bush pours a bit too quickly and it froths onto the table.