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City Council Grills Kelly on Police Surveillance of Muslims
City Council members took aim on Thursday at the New York Police Department’s surveillance of Muslims, pointedly questioning Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly about the breadth
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Surveys: Health insurance costs shifted to workers, even as premiums surge
Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance continued to escalate this year even as the share of workers getting less generous coverage reached a new high, according
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Black Women Report Rape by Rebel Forces in Libya Refugee Camps
Local officials, US ambassador shrug off reports The news doesn’t get better for thousands of black Africans trapped in Libya, besieged by racist rebel fighters.
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Myths About Socialism: is Socialism Utopian?
A Socialist Utopia? Among the many arguments against socialism you will commonly hear, one of the most common is the claim that socialism and Marxism
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Census finds that poverty dominates many school districts
(Reuters) – Nearly half of all children in America live in school districts with high levels of poverty, according to U.S. Census data released on
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The IDF Abuse of Palestinian Children
Israel’s system of military law for Palestinian children has become a major issue, as our Middle East correspondent John Lyons reported in The Weekend Australian
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Egypt protest against military rulers is biggest yet
Close to 100,000 Egyptians fill Cairo’s Tahrir Square to call for the military generals to cede power to a civilian government. The U.S. also urges
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Pediatricians Fact-Check Bachmann’s Bashing Of HPV Vaccine
Now the nation’s pediatricians have waded deep and early into the race for the presidency. In an unusual instance of political fact-checking of a candidate’s
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Disappeared: Thousands of Libyan Blacks Turn Up Missing in Rebel Offensives
Entire City Depopulated, Declared ‘Closed Military Area’ Before the Libyan Civil War, Tawarga was an agricultural city of some 10,000, mostly black people, with an
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