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Obama: "Send a message to folks in Washington"
Los Angeles Times
By Kim Geiger President Obama continued to portray Republicans as blocking
efforts to improve the US economy as he wrapped up a three-day tour of the
rural Midwest. Seeking to cast himself as the rational figure in a
contentious debt ceiling drama that ...
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Republican candidate Perry keeps up pressure on Fed
Reuters
By Ros Krasny BEDFORD, NH, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Republican presidential
candidate Rick Perry on Wednesday called for more transparency from the
Federal Reserve to show that the US central bank was not engaging in
unspecified "improper" actions. ...
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Police: School bomb plot aimed for mass casualties
The Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tampa police have arrested an expelled student after
thwarting what they called a "catastrophic" plot by the teen to set off a
bomb at his former high school and cause mass casualties on the first day
of classes next week, ...
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Anna Hazare's fight for change has inspired millions of Indians
The Guardian
Anna Hazare, right, burns a copy of draft legislation for setting up an
anti-corruption watchdog which is said to only cover 0.5% of government
officials – he recently went on hunger strike for the second time.
Photograph: Rajanish Kakade/AP At the ...
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Turkey Vows Stern Retaliation for Deadly Kurdish Ambush
New York Times
By SEBNEM ARSU and RICK GLADSTONE ISTANBUL — Kurdish militants in
southeast Turkey ambushed a military convoy on Wednesday with a quadruple
bombing attack that left seven soldiers and one guard dead, wounded at
least 14 and infuriated Turkish leaders, ...
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No Smoking Gun In Hariri Assassination
NPR
by AP A long-awaited international indictment unsealed Wednesday offers no
direct evidence linking four Hezbollah suspects to the 2005 assassination
of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, despite years of painstaking
investigations. ...
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Judge Rules for Bloomberg LP in Class-Action Bias Lawsuit
New York Times
By DAVID W. CHEN In a major victory for Bloomberg LP, the financial and
media services giant founded by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a federal judge
has dismissed claims that the company engaged in a pattern of
discrimination against pregnant women who ...
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Yahoo Sports reporter Charles Robinson details how he attacked Miami story
Chicago Tribune
By Rachel George, Orlando Sentinel The tip that launched a Yahoo! Sports
investigation into former University of Miami booster Nevin Shapiro was
enough of a story on its own. The booster, now in federal prison for
running a $930 million Ponzi scheme, ...
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Only one-fourth of seniors ready for college, ACT says
Los Angeles Times
ACT, the nonprofit that offers college-entrance tests similar to the SATs,
has put out its annual report, "The Condition of College and Career
Readiness," which says that such readiness is continuing to improve among
US high school graduates. ...
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Poll respondents chart racial progress since MLK
USA Today
By Susan Page and Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — On this,
blacks and whites overwhelmingly agree: Martin Luther King Jr. changed
America, and for the better. Richard P. Loving and his wife, Mildred, were
convicted under Virginia law that ...
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