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Suicide Rates Rise Sharply in U.S.
By TARA PARKER-POPE Suicide rates among middle-aged Americans have risen sharply in the past decade, prompting concern that a generation of baby boomers who have faced
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Syrian rebels ‘used unknown chemicals’ against civilians in Idlib – state news agency
Syrian opposition fighters have allegedly used unknown chemicals against residents in the town of Saraqib in the northwestern province of Idlib to later put the
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Minimum Wage Would Be $21.72 If It Kept Pace With Increases In Productivity: Study
By Caroline Fairchild President Obama’s call to increase the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour was one of the more significant proposals he laid out in his State of
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Unemployed Man Self-Immolates in Sidi Bouzid
Amira Masrour A young man in his twenties who had trouble finding work self-immolated yesterday in front of the town hall in the governorate of
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Guantanamo Attorney Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
By Jason Leopold An attorney who represented prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay was found dead last week in what sources said was a suicide. Andy P.
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Celebrate International Workers’ Day 2013!
Today we celebrate May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, a holiday celebrated by working people worldwide. This day began in commemoration of the
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Gay teens starved, tortured, killed at camp to turn them into “men”
Game ranger course ‘general’ is on trial for murder, child abuse, neglect and allegedly forced teen to eat his own feces BY JOE MORGAN Three ‘gay
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Bradley Manning is off limits at SF Gay Pride parade, but corporate sleaze is embraced
A seemingly trivial controversy reveals quite a bit about pervasive political values by Glenn Greenwald News reports yesterday indicated that Bradley Manning, widely known to be gay, had been
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Hundreds of thousands of Bangladesh’s garment workers walk out in protest over factory deaths
By Agence France-Presse Hundreds of thousands of garment workers walked out of their factories in Bangladesh Thursday, police said, to protest the deaths of 200
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US Turns Away 1000′s of Cancer Patients, but has 123 Million for Terrorists in Syria
(LD) – The US has announced that it will provide militants in Syria, now openly admitted to being Al Qaeda terrorists, with $123 million in military
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