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• Supreme Court Upholds Photo ID Law for Voters in Indiana
• GOP Objects to Bill Allowing Recounts
• South of the Border
• Cash Before Chemo: Hospitals Get Tough
• Oil Strikes New Record Near $120 on Supply Fears
• Pentagon Temporarily Halts Feeding Pundits
• Pushing the Single-Payer Solution
• "VA Lying About Number of Veteran Suicides"
• Warming Shifts Gardeners' Maps
• Watered Down: The Collapse in Pacific Salmon
• Many States Appear to Be in Recession
• Cutoffs and Pleas for Aid Rise With Heat Costs
• The New York Times | Dragging Big Business to Disclosure
• Shops Ration Sales of Rice as US Buyers Panic
• William K. Black | The Keating Five Legacy
• Border Agents Can Search Laptops Without Cause
• The Erosion of Employer-Provided Health Care
• Organized Crime Penetrates Energy Sector
• US Prison Population Dwarfs That of Other Nations
• VA Hid Suicide Risk, Internal Emails Show
• Life Expectancy Falls in Poorer US Counties
• Employers Stuck for Tradespeople, Technicians
• More Convicted Felons Allowed to Enlist in Army, Marines
• Doctors Pressured to Downplay Workplace Injuries
• Governors Unite to Cut Emissions
• Oil Running Out as Prime Energy Source
• Piling On: Borrowers Buried by Fees
• Military Medical Malpractice: Seeking Recourse
• Green Product Seals Are Gray Area
• Ambushing Private Equity
• Bill Would Boost US Power to Prosecute War Fraud
• Federal Judge Denies Plan to Export More Delta Water
• Colorado River to Drop to 500-Year Low as World Warms
• Challenges Remain for Lethal Injection
• Scientists Testify on Missile-Plan Shortcomings
• Chemical in Plastic May Harm Human Growth
• Pentagon Seeks Authority to Train and Equip Foreign Militaries
• War Protesters Use Tax Day to Send Message
• Rash of Retail Chain Closings Sweeps Country
• Foreclosures Jump 57 Percent in Last 12 Months
• CEOs' Pay Packages Played Role in Mortgage Crisis
• Big Tax Breaks for Businesses in Housing Bill
• Collectors Cost IRS More Than They Raise
• Copayments for Expensive Drugs Soar
• New Atom-Smasher Could Fill Gaps in Scientific Knowledge
• Big Oil to Big Wind: Texas Veteran Sets Up $10 Billion Clean Energy Project
• Fewer Large Corporations Audited by IRS
• US Lenders Freeze Home Equity Credit Lines
• New Voters Flood Upcoming Primaries
• Housing Chief Inattentive to Crisis
• Labor Notes Attacked by SEIU People
• Polygamist Sect Gets Millions from U.S. Government
• A Health Message Listeners Can Relate To In the serialized radio drama 'BodyLove,' characters wrestle with diabetes and high blood pressure along with traditional soap-opera problems. They get through to audiences in a way doctors can't.
• Gas Prices Set Record
• Washington Lobbying Sets Record in 2007
• Downturn Reviving Rift Over 1996 Welfare Change
• Government Sued After Approving Four Pesticides
• Los Angeles Mayor Chides ICE for Workplace Immigration Raids
• Northwest Dam Deal Raises Questions
• Judge OKs EPA Fine for Massey Water Suit
• Effectiveness of Medical Privacy Law Is Questioned
• Dissent in the Ranks
• Thomas D. Williams | Veteran Battles Pentagon's Vaccine
• GAO: Millions Wasted on Government Cards
• In Justice Shift, Corporate Deals Replace Trials
• Medicine Mix-Ups Harm Hospitalized Kids
• Big Trucking Deal
• Surprising Political Endorsements by US Troops
• Foreclosures Come to McMansion Country
• Oregon center for public policy has another approach to the fairness game--increasing the state earned income credit for people who earn minimum/low wages.
• Navy Sonar Blamed for Death of Beaked Whales
• Huge Job Losses Set Off Recession Alarms
• Drug Makers Near an Old Goal: A Legal Shield
• Microsoft Threatens Yahoo with Hostile Takeover Bid
• Art Levine | The Republican War on Voting
• No Do-Over Primary for Michigan Democrats
• California Utility Signs $3 Billion Solar Power Deal
• Buddy, Can You Spare a Billion?
• "Emergency" Bill Tries to Make Electronic Voting More Accurate, but Will It?
• Massachusetts Leads Bid to Limit Greenhouse Emissions
• US Subprime Crisis to Claim 200,000 Bank Jobs
• Housing Accord Puts Builders First
• Wayne Barrett | The Untold Story of How the GOP Rigged Florida and Michigan
• Washington State Passes Nation's Toughest Toy Law
• Distressed Homeowners Are Frustrated by Aid Group
• Majority of Doctors Support Universal Health Care
• Put the Housing Back in HUD
• GAO Blasts Weapons Budget
• Inside the Black Budget
• USA 2008: The Great Depression
• Opposition to Treasury's Regulatory Blueprint Gains Steam
• March
• What Happened to the Fairness Doctrine?
• Texas Prosecutes "Little Old Ladies" for Voter Fraud
• States Hit Hard by Economic Downturn
• Paulson's Regulation Plan Won't Fix Current Economic Crisis
• Top US Housing Official Resigns
• As Jobs Vanish, Food Stamp Use Is at Record Pace
• Mobile Phones "More Dangerous Than Smoking"
• Comcast to Stop Slowing Peer-to-Peer Traffic
• Study Links Parkinson's to Long-Term Pesticide Exposure
• Wikinews interviews Brian Moore, Socialist Party USA presidential candidate
• Treasury Department Plan Would Give Fed Wide New Power
• Theft From Charities Costing Billions
• Gap in Life Expectancy Widens for the Nation
• Indian Men in US "Slave" Protest
• Major Grower Ends Crop, Lacking Workers
• SPUSA Presidential Candidate Moore and the Church
• Federal Judge: Michigan's Presidential Primary Law Unconstitutional
• Economy Nearly Stalled in Fourth Quarter
• Equity Loans as Next Round in Credit Crisis
• The New York Times | How Not to Prevent Foreclosures
• Protesters Enter Bear Stearns Headquarters
• What About Main Street?
• Blue Collar, Bare Cupboards
• "Mortgage Rescue" Scams Hit Close to Home
• Cities Grapple With Surge in Abandoned Homes
• Passport Backlog Put Data More in Hands of Contractors
• Supreme Court Allows Retiree Benefit Cuts
• New Limits to Growth Revive Malthusian Fears
• Rising Health Costs Cut Into Wages
• For Less-Educated Workers, Good Jobs Will Be Harder to Find
• Parkinson's: The Breakthrough
• Anger Over Culling of Yellowstone's Bison
• Qualified Borrowers Face Credit Squeeze
• Sara Jane Olson Re-Arrested ...and the Symbionese Liberation Army remains an overexposed media circus...
• Arthur Allen | Consumers' Right to Sue Weakening
• Washington Starts Year With Lowest Unemployment Rate in Nation
• Shining a Light on Fluorescent Bulbs
• Feds Approve LNG Terminal in Long Island Sound
• Water Shortages Affect Food, Transit, Security
• Lethal Injustice: No New Trial for Death Row Prisoner
• States' Data Obscure How Few Finish High School
• Jobless Claims Jump by 22,000
• Supreme Court Poised for Landmark Second Amendment Ruling
• Kansas Targets Employers Who Don't Pay Immigrant Workers
• GOP Gags Witnesses on Credit Card Woes
• Ohio's Voting Machines Are Now an Official Crime Scene
• Veterans Administration Won't Help Soldiers Register to Vote
• In a Warmer Yellowstone Park, a Shifting Environmental Balance
• District of Columbia Nears Vote on Employer-Paid Sick Leave
• Fed Cuts Rates by Three-Quarters Percentage Point
• Why Hospitals Want Your Credit Report
• Court to Hear Voting Rights, Lab Report Cases
• Subprime Mortgage Watchdogs Kept on Leash
• Letting the Market Drive Transportation
• Chinook Salmon Vanish Without a Trace
• Ian Bowles | Want to Buy Some Pollution?
• CEOs See Green Energy Policies Preserving US Jobs
• Forty Years on, Survivors Gather to Remember My Lai
• One-Third of US Women Soldiers Report Harassment
• Businesses Face Cut in Immigrant Work Force
• Lawsuit Seeks to Block Uranium Mining at Grand Canyon
• Darrin Mortenson | Native Americans on "Longest Walk 2"
• Test of Wills Steps Up at American Axle
• UN: US Racial Discrimination Must Be Remedied
• Shipyard Workers Organize to Stop 21st Century Slavery
• Entire Salmon Season Could Be Halted
• Government Reports Warn of Sea-Rise Threat to US Coasts
• HUD Emails Refer to Retaliation
• Eliot Spitzer | Predatory Lenders' Partner in Crime
• Pollution Is Called a Byproduct of a "Clean" Fuel
• Serge Truffaut | Financial UFO
• Nomi Prins | Subprime Lending's Smartest Guys in the Room
• Pharmaceuticals Found in US Drinking Water
• Part-Time Professors Organizing Unions
• Los Angeles Times | Our Three-Decade Recession
• New York Times | Prison Nation
• FBI Opens Criminal Inquiry of Countrywide
• Sharp Drop in Jobs Adds to Grim Picture of US Economy
• Defense Official Says Recruitment Declining
• Hope in the Time of NAFTA
• The New York Times | Protecting All Waters
• Fisheries Agency Blames Ocean Conditions for Salmon Decline
• Foreclosures Set Records as Housing Troubles Worsen
• Jim Hightower: Ordinary Americans Can Make Change Happen
• Socialist Presidential Candidate Files Lawsuit Against State of Ohio Today to Be On Presidential Ballot in November
• Oregonians Exercising Democracy Through 'Voter Owned Elections'
• "Frankenfoods" Giant Monsanto Plays Bully Over Consumer Labeling
• Can States Cut Carbon? EPA Says No.
• Northwest Logging Plans Slashed
• FBI Investigates Missing GOP Money
• New Study Finds Disabled Housing Needs Twice as High as HUD Estimates
• Drug Prices Climbing, AARP Says
• NAFTA Has Had Its Trade-Offs for the US
• Loans Program for Rural Coal Plants Shelved
• America Behind Bars
• New Jersey Senate Approves Six-Week Paid Work Leave
• FCC Official Wants Probe of "60 Minutes" Blackout
• Corn Is King - and Therefore a Growing Problem
• 13,000 Abuse Claims in Juvenile Centers
• Mining Executive An Activist Himself
• Buffett: US Essentially in Recession
• Markets Fall on Drumbeat of Grim Reports
• Court Holds Navy to Rules Safeguarding Marine Mammals
• US Prison Population Largest Ever
• Get Out Your Pencils: Paper Ballots Make a Return
• A Leader at the Point of Union Growth and Criticism
• Will US Become World's Nuclear-Waste Dump?
• Outspoken Scientist Dismissed From Panel on Chemical Safety
• Study Finds Disparity in Civics Classes
• USDA Rejects "Downer" Cow Ban
• Private Medicare Plans' Cost Questioned
• Food and the Specter of Malthus
• One in 100 Americans in Prison
• House Votes to End Big Oil's Tax Breaks
• The Drug Industry's Long and Ignoble History of Secrecy
• Auto Workers on Strike Against American Axle
• Labor Panel Says Immigration Raids Violate Workers' Rights
• Study: Contaminant Levels High in US National Parks
• Pentagon General Counsel Resigns
• Ford Is Pushing Buyouts to Workers
• New Data Show Rising Inflation and Slumping Home Values
• Exxon Oil Spill Goes Before High Court
• Farms May Be Exempted From Emission Rules
• Lenders Fighting Mortgage Rewrite
• For Hispanics in South Texas, the Choice Is Tough
• Exxon Oil Spill Case May Get Closure
• Health Net Ordered to Pay $9 Million After Canceling Cancer Patient's Policy
• Drug Trade Group Spent $22 Million Lobbying
• Federal Reserve Faces New Limits on Ability to Halt Economic Slide
• Soaring Energy Prices Bad News for the Economy
• Part I: Mortgage Crisis Triggers Walk-Aways
• Shell Scales Back Proposed Arctic Drilling Plans
• Army Blocks Public's Access to Documents in Web-Based Library
• Leaked Documents Spring Up Across Web After Court Order Elana Schor reports for The Guardian UK, "The US court order shutting down the website Wikileaks today appeared to backfire on the Swiss bank that sought the legal action, as bloggers and other fans of the site gave new life to leaked documents the bank was working to suppress."
• Supreme Court Rules Employees Can Sue Over 401(k) Misconduct
• NYT Exposes McCain Affair With Lobbyist
• Carbon Emissions Cap-and-Trade Plan Faces Fight
• Higher Education Gap May Slow Economic Mobility
• Defense Contractor Sentenced to 12 Years for Bribery
• Insurance a Prime Weapon Against Cancer
• New York Times | A Rip-Off by Health Insurers?
• Low Unemployment Rate Hides Rise in Longterm Jobless
• Mexican Border Wall Bypasses the Rich and Connected
• Top Scientists Want Research Free From Politics
• Agency Orders Largest Recall of Ground Beef
• Government Accountability Chief Resigns
• Best US Factory Jobs In Rising Jeopardy
• Lawmakers Move to Grant Banks Immunity Against Patent Lawsuit
• Attacks on the Homeless Rise, With Youths Mostly to Blame
• On Capitol Hill, Mexican Miners Tell of Police Violence
• US Misses Second Deadline to Protect Polar Bears
• Lake Mead May Go Dry in a Few Years
• Government Suppresses Major Public Health Report
• Nick Gier | Quick Settlement of Mexican Wal-Mart Worker Strike Is Suspicious
• Hollywood Writers Head Back to Work
• Budget Deficit Running at Faster Pace
• Mortgage Crisis Spreads Past Subprime Loans
• Suicide by Guard, Reserve Troops Studied
• Nonprofit Journalism on the Rise
• More Employees Join Labor Unions
• Court Rejects Emission "Trades"
• Parents Concerned Over Potentially Toxic Baby Bottles
• Waxman Subpoenas EPA on California Waiver
• Amy Goodman | Felony Disenfranchisement Aids Republicans
• CDC Withholds Report on Health Impacts of Chemical Pollution
• Congress Approves Stimulus Package
• US Labor Leaders to Visit Colombia as Bush Presses for Vote
• Polar Bears' Plight Raised in Drill Bids for Oil, Gas
• GAO: Florida Undervote Not Due to Machines
• Panel Rejects Toll Road Through San Onofre State Beach
• NRCC Probe Scares GOP
• Top Army Official Says Military Force "Worn Thin"
• HUD Chief Accused of Retaliation
• Overhaul Set for Guest-Worker Plan
• Downturn Shows Up on Main Street
• Top Officer Calls US Forces "Stressed"
• A Medical Mystery Unfolds in Minnesota
• Tornadoes Rip Through South, Killing 44
• States Prepare for Tests of Voting System Changes
• Change to Paper Ballots May Delay California Results Until Wednesday
• Federal Deficits Soaring Higher, Menacing the Future
• The New York Times | Listening to the Jobs Report
• Service Industries Unexpectedly Shrank
• Economists Say Recession Is Here
• Democrats Push "Green" Energy Tax Breaks
• Navy Must Comply With No-Sonar Rule
• Who's Your Mortgage Broker Working For?
• Banks to Weigh CO2 Emissions in Power Lending
• Corporate Presidential Campaign Giving Surges
• Pentagon Seeks Record Level in 2009 Budget
• Defense Department's Weapons Programs Faulted
• Thomas D. Williams | US Herbicides Exact High Toll
• Denial of PTSD in the Marine Corps
• Justice Loses Fourth Case Against Tax Deniers
• Microsoft's Yahoo Bid Aims at Web
• Microsoft offers $44.6B US in cash and stock for Yahoo
• Wars Dwarf Warming in US Budget
• A Green Energy Industry Takes Root in California
• Low Bids for Airwaves Threatens Emergency Responders Network
• Report Says 88 Percent of National Guard Units Unprepared
• Payrolls Drop for First Time Since 2003
• Berkeley Finds a New Way to Make War Politics Local
• January
• Lilly Considers $1 Billion Fine to Settle Case
• Staying a Step Ahead of Aging
• Jobless Claims Surge, Spending Softens
• Polar Bears Take Center Stage at Senate Hearing
• Renewable Energy Tax Credits Added to Stimulus Bill
• Judge Hits Government on Indian Money Delay
• Soldier Suicides Reach Record Level, Study Shows
• Chrysler Offering Buyouts to More Hourly Employees
• Salmon Arriving in Record Low Numbers
• Bill Moyers Journal | Government Waste
• FBI in Subprime Crackdown
• Looking Anew at Campaign Cash and Elected Judges
• Crayons Down! Head Start Testing
• For FDA, a Major Backlog Overseas
• Panel Kills Schwarzenegger's Health Plan
• As Dollar Falls, Migrants Feel Pinch
• UnitedHealth Group Faces Fines of $1.33 Billion
• Senate Panel Unveils Plan of Its Own on Economy
• A Paper Jam Roils California Vote
• Some California Locations to Use Paper Ballots During Primary
• California Governor's Plan for Health Care in Trouble
• 2008 Poverty Guidelines
• Mine Operators Often Go Unpunished for Citations
• Resegregation of US Schools Deepening
• At Florida Polls, Touch Screens and Crossed Fingers
• Immigration Law Threatens State's Economy
• Poor Still Suffering From Last Recession
• Union Rates Increase in 2007
• Navy Resumes Use of Sonar off California
• Immigration Officials Detaining, Deporting American Citizens
• Supreme Court: Taking Care of Business
• EPA Chief Is Under the Microscope
• Simona Perry | EPA Director Called Before Senate
• Chemical Food Additives - Are They Slowly Killing Our Children?
• Nationwide "Teach-In" Planned to Address Climate Change
• Drought Could Force Nuke-Plant Shutdowns
• EPA Staff Finds Emissions Threat
• US Given Poor Marks on the Environment
• Senate Passes Defense Authorization Bill
• Suit Against Bankers Tied to Enron Debacle Is Tossed
• Highly Skilled and out of Work
• Fed Cuts Rate 0.75 Percent, but Dow Drops
• Cell Phone Radiation Wrecks Your Sleep
• Judge May Let Rather's Lawsuit Proceed
• Moore in Hospital Ch. 10 News
• Charity Draws Fire for Paying Generals
• GOP Figure Contracted to Deliver E-Voting Machines in Maryland
• USDA Recommends That Food From Clones Stay Off the Market
• Environmentalists in Legal War on Coal-Fueled Plants
• Coal Industry Plugs Into the Campaign
• Jailed Drug Dealer Gets a Chance With the Supreme Court
• Powerless in Prison: Sexual Abuse Against Incarcerated Women Nicole Summer, RH Reality Check
• Nature Conservancy Proposes Plan to Save Troubled Pacific Lumber
• Scientists Take Complaints About Interference to Hill
• Antidepressant Studies Unpublished
• Citi to Announce Big Cuts and New Investors
• New Inflation Data Explain Middle-Class Squeeze
• Confessions of a Republican Operative
• Dennis Kucinich: Breaking the Sound Barrier
• FDA Says Food From Cloned Animals Is Safe
• Construction Worker Deaths Spike
• How the Pentagon Planted a False Story
• Supreme Court Rules Against Investors
• Debate: Without Kucinich, Democrats Agree on Iraq
• Cynthia Tucker | Voter ID Scam Is the Real Fraud
• Adam Cohen | A Supreme Court Reversal: Abandoning the Rights of Voters
• Judge Grants Kucinich Entry to Nevada Debate
• Las Vegas As a Workers' Paradise
• Ongoing Problems at Walter Reed [VIDEO]
• "Serious Questions" Open the Way for a Ban on GMO Corn
• Tropical Disease May Become Threat to US
• Christopher Kutruff | NBC Blocks Kucinich From Debate
• California AG Asks Congress for Subpoena in EPA Ruling
• Real ID Standards Set Stage for Showdown With States
• More Questions About Diebold Voting Machines Did Hillary Really Win New Hampshire?
• Kucinich Seeks New Hampshire Vote Recount
• Homeland Security Finalizes National ID Card Rules
• Starbucks Spied On Staff Looking to Establish Union
• Protesters Demand Guantanamo Close: 80 Arrested
• Blackwater USA Steps Up Lobbying Efforts
• Republican Candidates and Our Money
• Digital Tools Help Users Save Energy
• Appeals Court Lets San Francisco Enforce Health Care Law
• Court Seems to Back Indiana Voter ID Law
• Credit Card Debt Soars as House Prices Plunge
• Baltimore Is Suing Bank Over Foreclosure Crisis
• Chamber of Commerce Vows to Punish Anti-Business Candidates
• Justices Divided Over Lethal Injections
• Private Security Contractors Look to Africa for Recruits
• Federal Budget Deficit Inches Up in First Quarter
• Financial Crisis Hits Safety-Net Hospital
• Voter ID Laws Are Set to Face Strictest Test
• State Secrecy Clouds Supreme Court Case
• AIDS Patients Face Downside of Living Longer
• Navy Must Cut Sonar Use off California
• One Generation Got Old, One Generation Got Soul
• Can You Count On These Machines?
• Airline to Test Anti-Missile System
• Supreme Court Weighs Cruelty of Lethal Injection
• Voter ID Challenges Could Have Big 2008 Impact
• General Motors in Hot Pursuit of "Landfill-Free" Facilities
• US Curtailing Bids to Expand Medicaid Rolls
• Vanity Trade Sent Oil Price to Record High
• Job Growth Numbers Send Stocks Lower
• Ohio to Offer Paper Ballots in March
• The Verdict Is In: Our Voting System Is a Loser
• The New York Times | No Insurance, Poor Health
• Oil Hits $100 a Barrel for the First Time
• States Hesitate to Lead Change on Executions
• A Divide as Wolves Rebound in a Changing West
• Do Polar Bears Need US Protection?
• EPA Sued for Denying States' Right to Curb Emissions
• Doubts Raised on Technology Sales to China
• Critical Flaws Seen in Electronic Voting Machines
• Kelpie Wilson | O Little Town in Oregon
• NASA Releases Heavily-Redacted Airline Study
• January