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• Judge Throws Out Drug Benefit Challenge
• "Best" Green Energy Schemes Named
• Coca-Cola Banned from Michigan Campus
• US No Longer Promoting Landmine Abolition
• New York Transit Deal Shows Union's Success on Many Fronts
• FDA Puts Restrictions on Guidant
• DoJ Suing for White Voter Rights
• State Recycles Oyster Shells to Boost Births
• My Amtrak Peak-Oil Tour (Jan Lundberg)
• Marine Jeep Contract Under Fire The Marine Corps pays $100,000 apiece for a revamped military jeep; a commercial version of the jeep costs just $7,500.
• All Abramoff Money Went to Republicans
• Homeland Security Is Faulted in Audit
• Thousands Protest War by Withholding Phone Tax
• Ex-Enron Accountant Pleads Guilty to Fraud
• Slowly, Cancer Genes Tender Their Secrets
• Defense Lawyers Will Challenge Bush's Illegal Wiretaps
• The Costly Enron Cleanup
• When the Cutting Is Corrupted (E. J. Dionne Jr.)
• Telling It Like It Isn't (Robert Fisk)
• California Sounds Alarm on Voting Machines
• Turbine Company Harnesses Wind Power
• Drug Companies Lack Vaccine Incentive
• NBC Takes Control of MSNBC
• Senators Pull Funds for Needy
• Wal_Mart: Two Million Guilty Verdicts on One Day
• It's Getting Crowded on the Environmental Bandwagon
• US Lawsuit Could Dent Global War-Contractor Boom
• Congress on LIHEAP and ANWR
• Google "Blamed" for Higher Pay in High-Tech Jobs
• Under Pressure, Food Producers Shift to Healthier Products
• Senate Blocks Extension of P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act
• New Tests Fuel Doubts about Voting Machines
• US Trade Deficit Threatens Growth
• Great Lakes Cleanup Could Cost Billions A plan to clean up the Great Lakes could cost some $20 billion, to fix sewer systems, remove invasive species, and clean up toxic hot spots. The Great Lakes supply 95 percent of the fresh water in the United States and contain approximately 20 percent of the world's fresh water.
• US Ranks Sixth among Countries Jailing Journalists (Bush Vows: "We can do better.")
• Republicans Drop Mining Provision from Budget Bill
• Judge Clears Way for US-Mexico Border Fence
• More Blacks Live with Pollution
• Hospital Bills - but with Interest
• Alternet: The 14 Worst Corporate Evildoers
• House and Senate Still Far Apart on Medicaid Changes
• Miners Seek to Organize without NLRB
• FBI Agents Lament: "Radical Militant Librarians"
• Class Warfare with Taxes
• Labor to Press for Workers' Right to Join Unions
• Air Marshalls Shoot Alpizar
• Tax Cut Showdown (New York Times)
• Developers Sentenced in Wetlands Case
• Waning Era of the Middle-Class Factory Job
• Washington Upset as Poor Get Cheap Venezuelan Oil
• Campaign to Stop Execution of Peacemaker
• Americans Take Local Road to Kyoto
• Scientists: Stop Serving Junk-Food Ads to Kids
• Voting Machines Under Scrutiny
• Counter-Recruitment Day Sweeps US Colleges
• Horror Film Takes Aim at Iraq War; GOP
• House Bill Would Let Mining Interests Buy Federal Land House bill would allow mining claim holders to purchase the federal property. Some fear it would open national parks to development.
• 9/11 Panel Gives Government an "F" on Homeland Security
• Election Fraud Is the Target of FBI Sting
• Deadly Hospital Germ Is Spreading in US
• US Executions Top 1,000 since 1977
• Report Questions Medicare Drug Benefit Oversight
• California Funding Stem Cell Research Program Delayed by Trial
• Columbia Fish Passage Center Eliminated
• US Farmers Use Pesticide Despite Treaty United States permits use of methyl bromide for tomatoes, strawberries, peppers, Christmas trees, and other crops, despite an international treaty banning all but the most critical uses by 2005. The chemical depletes the earth's protective ozone layer and can harm the human neurological system.
• State Department renews military ties with Indonesia
• Silent Streams
• Unions Continue to Fight Bush DoD Labor Rule Changes
• Insurers' Tactics in Marketing Drug Plan Draw Complaints
• Janitors' Drive in Texas Gives Hope to Unions
• Demonstrations Dominate Day outside Bush Ranch
• Pentagon Expanding Its Domestic Surveillance Activity
• Al Jazeera Wants US Bomb Memo Answers
• Army Tries to Track Sexual Assaults
• US Nears 1,000th Execution since 1977
• The Million-Year Health Standard (The New York Times)
• Farmers Fear Worker Shortage Could Grow into a Labor 'Crisis'
• Peak Oil Resolution in US House of Representatives
• New Drug Benefit Questioned
• Wal-Mart Hires More Lobbyists to Help Topple Benefits Bill
• Ford's Chief Makes Case for Federal Help
• US Backs Squeezing Oil from a Stone
• Affordable Housing Goes "Green"
• Planned Closings Stun GM Employees
• Thousands in Massachusetts to Get Cheaper Oil
• House Passes Budget with Public Lands Giveaway
• US Corporate Excess Under Fire as Unions Go On the Attack
• Ex-Salvadoran Colonel Is Ordered to Pay for Crimes against Humanity
• 16,000 Protest School of the Americas
• House Votes to Cut $700 Million in Food Stamps
• Congress Helps Self to $3,100 Pay Raise
• Budget Cuts Put Disabled at Risk
• Hidden Risks of Teflon-Like Chemical Raised by Documents
• To Fight Rising Costs, Hospitals Seek Allies in the Operating Room
• House Considers Bill to Protect Women in Domestic Violence Shelters
• The Congress from Nowhere (New York Times)
• Republicans Pass 11th Hour Spending Cuts That Hurt Poor
• 41% of Military Jobs Unfilled
• Republicans Sneak Liability Immunity for Drug Companies into Spending Bill
• New Medicare Benefit Helps Only Drug Companies (Dr. Marc Siegel)
• Senate Passes Bill to Shore Up Pensions
• The Nerds Are Pissed
• Global terror network uncovered
• Montana Resumes Controversial Buffalo Hunt
• This week in history: Joe Hill murdered
• The Diabetes Explosion (Derrick Z. Jackson)
• Voters Showed Less Appetite for Tax Cuts
• Logging Halted in Sequoia Preserve
• A Long Tradition of Activism
• Groups Propose Alternative to EPA Rules on Mercury
• Confused by Coverage Choices
• Pombo's Poison Pills (Kelpie Wilson)
• Ohio 2005: Shenanigans Again?
• Senate Call for "CIA Jail" Report
• Conservationists Establish Bison Preserve
• House Could Alter 19th Century Mining Law
• GM's Workers Ratify Healthcare Deal
• New Pressure on "Big Oil"
• Health Net Gives a Boy Access to Specialist Care after Lawsuit
• US Trade Deficit Jumps to Record $66.1 Billion
• US States Say Power Bills Won't Soar on CO₂ Plan
• Audubon Society Chapters Sue over Spotted Owl Protection
• States Take Health Care Problem in Own Hands
• Rosa Parks: 'A life of being rebellious'
• Labor Victory on Both Coasts
• Stan Williams Faces Execution
• CIA Asks Criminal Inquiry over Secret-Prison Article
• You Don't Need Oil to Make Fuel (Governor Brian Schweitzer)
• Budget for US Intelligence: $44 Billion
• Anti-War Sermon Brings IRS Warning
• Voter's Guide to California Ballot Propositions
• Arkansas Seeks to Sue Oklahoma over Rivers Tainted by Poultry Waste
• FBI Secretly Scrutinizing Americans
• Source of Forged Niger-Iraq Documents Identified
• Senate Approves $10 Billion in Medicare, Medicaid Cuts
• Senate Passes Plan to Cut $35 Billion from Deficit
• Secrets and Shame (Bob Herbert)
• After Wildfires, to Log or Not to Log?
• Companies Use Bankruptcy Laws to Force Bigger Givebacks, Break Unions
• What Is Organic? Powerful Players Want a Say
• New Public Broadcasting Chief Completes Right-Wing Coup
• Pombo Time (The New York Times)
• The Peak Oil Crisis: Waiting for Winter
• Rich Senators Defeat Minimum-Wage Hike (Helen Thomas)
• Rosa Parks Given An Unprecedented Honour First woman to lie in honour in the United States Capitol Rotunda
• EPA Studies Ways to Cut Warming Pollution The Administration's plan would cost utilities $3 billion to $6 billion a year to cut nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and mercury by 70 percent, the EPA said, but would generate up to $143 billion in health benefits by 2020.
• Large Corporate Purchasers Driving Green Power Growth
• First Ever National Index on How Workers Are Treated in Each State
• Change 1872 Mining Law? Move Causes a Stir
• A Living Wage: No Longer on the Auto Industry's Agenda (Jane Slaughter)
• Exxon Mobil Posts New Record for Profit
• Congress Weighs Overriding Organic Ruling
• Wal-Mart Memo Suggests Ways to Cut Employee Benefit Costs
• GOP Budget Potentially Devastating to Poor
• 2,000th Death Sparks Nationwide Protests (Sari Gelzer)
• America's Most Aggressive Debunker of Legitimate Scientific Research
• Rosa Parks, Founding Symbol of Civil Rights Movement, Dies Rosa Parks, a black seamstress whose refusal to relinquish her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, almost 50 years ago helped touch off the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, died at home in Detroit. She was 92.
• ACLU Reports 21 Homicides in US Custody
• Powering Down America: Local Government's Role in the Transition to a Post-Petroleum World
• GM-UAW Deal's Impact Could Be Far-Reaching
• Pentagon Purchases: Millions in Markups
• Colleges Protest Call to Upgrade Online Systems
• GAO Report Finds Flaws in Electronic Voting
• Northwest Workers Say Strike Vote Is Off
• US Gives Florida a Sweeping Right to Curb Medicaid
• California Ruling Expands Workers' Comp
• A Web of Truth
• Most Endangered US Forests Ranking Pinpoints Logging Pressure Oregon has more national forests at risk of destructive logging than any other state, according to a listing of the most endangered US national forests. "Our national forests face myriad threats from Bush administration policies and Forest Service management," said Jake Kreilick of the National Forest Protection Alliance (NFPA).
• States Protest Contributions to Drug Plan
• US Labor Is in Retreat as Global Forces Squeeze Pay and Benefits
• Indictment Broadens in Shelters at KPMGt
• Student Anti-Recruitment Ad Triggers Debate
• Windfall? No, but Savings Ahead
• Heeding the Law of the Land
• Man Will 'Wipe Out' Rare Creatures of the Deep
• Political Screening for All Park Service Managers
• General Motors and Union Reach Agreement on Health Care Costs
• Thousands Gather in DC for 'Millions More Movement'
• CIA's New "National Clandestine Service"
• How to Lose an Election (Jonathan Schell)
• Al-Jazeera Finds Its English Voice
• GOP Oil Refinery Bill Squeaks By
• American Companies Repatriate Massive Sums Earned Abroad
• Army Moves to Recruit More High School Dropouts
• All for One, None for All (Linda Baker)
• Army in Worst Recruiting Slump in Decades
• Schwarzenegger Vetoes Gay Marriage Bill
• DeLay Indicted in Texas Campaign Finance Probe
• Documents: Frist Knew Contents of Blind Trust
• Waxman and Pelosi Introduce Bill for Anti-Cronyism and Public Safety Act
• FEMA Plans to Reimburse Faith Groups for Aid
• Iraq War Veterans' Presence in DC Unreported
• Katrina Redux? Beaumont Paper Finds Federal Storm Failure in Texas
• Many Contracts for Storm Work Raise Questions More than 80 percent of the $1.5 billion in contracts signed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency alone were awarded without bidding or with limited competition.
• Hurricane Lashes Texas and Louisiana Coastlines Hurricane Rita, a spinning mothership of gunmetal gray with an eye 20 miles wide, met the Gulf Coast with wind gusts of almost 150 miles an hour and 15- to 20-foot waves, causing the worst damage in southwestern Louisiana and east Texas but also sparking fires in Galveston, leaving half a million Houstonians without power, and overcoming the fragile levees of New Orleans.
• Two Million Flee Hurricane Rita
• Tyco Exec: Abramoff Claimed Ties to Rove and DeLay
• Feds investigating Frist's HCA stock sale
• Ginsburg: 'Any Woman Will Not Do' for Job
• Hurricane expert predicts years of more storms
• National Archives Indian Records Discarded
• Texans Flee from Rita
• Pentagon Nixes 9/11 Hearing Testimony The Department of Defense forbade a military intelligence officer to testify about the work of a secret military unit that identified four 9/11 hijackers more than a year before the Sept. 11 terrorists attacks, according to the man's attorney.
• Former FEMA Chief Brown Bought Votes in Florida
• FEC Sues Pro-Republican Political Group
• Ex-Tyco Executives Sentenced to 8 1/3 to 25 Years in Prison
• How the GOP Stole America's 2004 Election and Is Rigging 2008 (Fitrakis and Wasserman)
• Simon Wiesenthal, 'Conscience' of Holocaust, Dies Simon Wiesenthal, who survived a dozen concentration camps, then spent his life bringing Nazi war criminals to justice and searing the Holocaust into the conscience of the world, died at 96.
• Baker-Carter Commission Recommends National Voter ID Card
• Whoops! There Goes Another Pension Plan Robert S. Miller unlocks hidden value in floundering Rust Belt companies by jettisoning their pension plans.
• Bush approves base closing plan Closes 22 major military bases and reconfigures 33 others, leaving their fate to Congress.
• Veterans Lead Counter Recruitment Efforts (JoAnn Wypijewski)
• Tiny Homes Becoming Bigger Business
• The War for Latinos
• US House Republicans Sticking to Tax Cut Plans
• New York Times and Washington Post Secretly Swap Front Page Scoops
• Portland Awards $850k in Financial Assistance to Move Chronically Homeless Into Housing The money is part of the 10-year Plan to End Homelssness, which was released in December by the City and Multnomah County.
• Panel: Pharmaceutical Industry Should Shoulder Medicaid Cuts
• Pentagon Drafts Permeative Nuke Policy
• Nuclear Storage on Indian Graves
• Republicans Still Plan to Cut Welfare Spending (Katrina or no Katrina, dang it!)
• Top Violence Against Women Act Passes Senate Judiciary Committee with Amendment
• Top 10 Censored Stories of the Past Year
• SEIU on #5 Billion Oregonians Spend on Hospitals (PDF)
• 24% of Multnomah County's Children Live in Poverty (Oregonian)
• Report Details Government Intervention in Stock Market The new report is titled "Move Over, Adam Smith: The Visible Hand of Uncle Sam," and has been published by Sprott Asset Management of Toronto.
• Katrina's Impact on Conservative Objectives The post of Chief Justice could not be allowedto remain vacant for three reasons.
• GOP Agenda Shifts as Political Trials Grow
• Bush Nominates Roberts as Chief Justice
• Three More Assert Pentagon Knew of 9/11 Ringleader
• Pentagon Changing Rules for Tribunals
• P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act Challenged in Connecticut
• More Americans Lack Cover for Ill-Health The number of Americans without health insurance climbed to 45.8 million.
• Economy Creating Fewer Jobs for Women, Younger Workers
• Anti-War Band Green Day Sweeps MTV Awards
• Floods Ravage New Orleans
• Crude Oil Rises to Record after Hurricane Damages Platforms
• US Poverty Rate Rises, Increasing Ranks of Poor Whites
• Poverty Rate Rises to 12.7 Percent The nation's poverty rate rose to 12.7 percent of the population last year, the fourth consecutive annual increase.
• In Largest Tax Fraud Case Ever, KPMG Cost Taxpayers $250 Billion
• Louisiana National Guard's 8 Long Days
• California Patrol Won't Seize Marijuana Used as Medicine
• U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act Support Shrinks with Increased Info
• Hurricane Could Turn City into Toxic Cesspool Hurricane Katrina didn't deliver a direct hit on New Orleans, but there were fears of a vast cesspool tainted with toxic chemicals, human waste, and even coffins released by floodwaters from the legendary cemeteries.
• Small Companies Ask, "How about a Raise Instead of a Medical Plan?"
• For Women and Children (Boston Globe)
• Hill Republicans Set to Cut Entitlement Spending
• Halliburton Whistle-Blower "Removed" by Army
• The Lobbying-Industrial Complex (New York Times)
• Army Recruiters' Sly Tactics: Who's Next? The US Army Recruiting Command has a motto: "First to contact, first to contract."
• Protesters at Bush Ranch Plan Road Trip to Washington
• "Peace Mom" Returns to Texas War Protest
• Pentagon to Close Walter Reed Military Hospital
• American Legion Declares War on Protestors - Media Next?
• 9 Northeastern States in Pact to Cut Power Plant Emissions
• Appeals court opens Means to tribal prosecution
• Connecticut Challenges No Child Left Behind Law Connecticut files suit against the federal government over the No Child Left Behind Act, claiming the Bush administration has not provided enough money to pay for new testing and programs.
• Robertson Urges the Assassination of Venezuela's President
• Forcing a Look at Hospitals' Mission
• Healthcare Is Migrating South of the Border In Mexico, healthcare costs are about 40% to 50% lower than in California.
• First Sergeant Jefferies: You Mowed Down His Cross
• Jury: Merck Negligent In lawsuit involving Vioxx, jury awarded more than $250 million in total damages.
• Unions Broaden Fight against Wal-Mart
• AOL Poll on Cindy Sheehan
• Drastic Tax Break Gives Billions to US Firms
• Ohio Governor Taft Found Guilty of Criminal Charges
• Race-Based Quality Gaps Persist for Older Americans
• The Wait in a Catholic Hospital after Rape
• Economy Shows Signs of Strain from Oil Prices
• Officer Says Military Blocked Sharing of Files on Terrorists
• US Agriculture Department Finds 1,000 Violations of Mad Cow Rules
• Pastors for Peace seek seized aid
• Uranium mining - dollars for death
• Imagining sustainable cities
• Rulings Trim Legal Leeway Given Medicaid Recipients
• Scientists Aim for Lab-Grown Meat Researchers are dishing up the perfect conundrum for vegetarians - meat grown in a laboratory dish, not on the hoof.
• Military Recruiting: The Struggle to Fill the Ranks
• Big Pharma's Free Ride
• Major Push to Reform Ohio Voting
• GOP Paying Legal Bills of Alleged Vote Tamperer
• Road Bill Reflects the Power of Pork
• "Real ID" Act Is a Real Mess (Anita Ramasastry)
• Lower Costs Seen for Premium in Medicare Drug Benefit Plan
• Teachers Union Sues Governor Schwarzenegger
• Kansas Education Board Advances a Draft Critical of Evolution
• An Anti-War Film That Refuses to Be Banned "Winter Soldier" has been handled for decades as if it could explode at any moment.
• Over 50,000 Pages of Roberts' Papers Held Back
• What's behind the split in the AFL-CIO?
• Jane Fonda joins anti-war movement
• US Court Rejects Effort to Block Rules on Mercury Pollution
• Melanoma Is Epidemic. Or Is It?
• Native American Press Freedom: A Developing Story
• Military Spies Identified Hijackers a Year Before 9/11 Small, highly classified military intelligence unit identified Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers as likely members of Al Qaeda cell.
• Wal-Mart Says It's Too Big for Women's Lawsuit Lawsuit could force Wal-Mart to pay billions of dollars to all women paid less than their male counterparts.
• Detainee Files Lawsuit against Rumsfeld
• Families Learn of Recruiters' Lists - And How to Opt Out
• Peter Jennings Dies of Lung Cancer
• Fight over Alaska Oil Drilling Continues
• CIA Commander: We Let bin Laden Slip Away
• Judge Roberts's Paper Trail (New York Times)
• Justice Stevens Criticizes Death Penalty Stevens issued a stinging criticism of capital punishment, citing "serious flaws."
• Californians Increasingly Priced Out of Healthcare Californians are paying more for less healthcare, and nearly a third of the money goes to administrative costs, according to a new report, "Priced Out."
• Schwarzenegger and National Guard Withhold E-mails in Spying Probe
• Breast Cancer Drug Outshines Tamoxifen ...but is eight times as expensive.
• US May Resume Production of Landmines
• Fixing an Old Injustice (New York Times)
• Environmental Damage on Earth Seen from Shuttle
• Drilling for Broke: Experts Debate 'Peak Oil'
• Military Targets Peace Corps to Fill Recruiting Gap
• Hiroshima after Sixty Years: The Debate Continues
• US Suppressed Footage of Hiroshima for Decades
• Chevron's Scandalous Donations
• Jesuits Study "Authentic" Development
• Hiroshima Cover-Up Exposed
• Study Links Malnourishment, Schizophrenia
• Unexploded Ordnance: A Bomb for Oglala Sioux Plans (Pine Ridge was bombed from 1942 to 1963)
• Hysterectomy Patients Should Keep Their Ovaries
• Study Shows Circumcision May Reduce AIDS Risk
• CIA Sued for 'Firing Spy Who Questioned WMD Claims'
• Diebold E-Voting Machines Rejected
• Roberts Had Larger 2000 Recount Role
• Military Recruiters Teaching High School Classes
• Hispanics New Target of Hate Groups
• Energy Bill Weakens Nuclear Non-Proliferation
• Congress Passes National Energy Plan
• New 'Theft' Charges in Ohio's 2004 Election
• Murdoch's Son and Expected Successor Quits News Corp.
• CIA Blocks Book on Tora Bora, Author Says
• EPA Holds Back Report on Car Fuel Efficiency
• More US Children Being Sickened by Pesticides in Schools
• John Seager: Straight Talk about Population
• US Stands Apart from Other Nations on Maternity Leave
• Energy Compromise Has Billions in Tax Breaks for Energy Companies, Cuts Conservation Support
• $1.5 Billion Giveaway Secretly Slipped into Energy Bill, Waxman Says -provision benefiting oil and gas companies, Halliburton, and Sugar Land, Texas, mysteriously inserted in the text.
• Judge: Posada Must Stay in Jail
• GOP Senators Move to Shield Gun Industry
• What's so Scary about China's Oil Company Takeover?
• East Timor Protest Hits Howard
• Massachusetts Veto Seeks to Curb Morning-After Pill
• Racists Shamed into Retreat
• Keep Nuclear Waste off Native Lands
• San Diego Readying for Second Mayoral Vote
• Teamsters, SEIU Bolt AFL-CIO Federation
• The Wrong Rx (The Saint Petersburg Times)
• Congressional Report: TSA Broke Privacy Laws
• Hundreds Protest NM Border Patrol Group
• Left Follows the Right on Campus Outreach Path
• CDC: Dozens of Chemicals Found in Most Americans' Bodies
• Cost-Competitive Solar Called 'Imminent'
• Senators Struggle to Act on Global Warming
• The End of Insouciance
• House Votes to Make P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act Powers Permanent
• Pentagon Proposes Rise in Age Limit for Recruits
• The Case for a Democratic Marker
• Women Rewrite Gender Balance of Bestseller Lists
• New Emission Rule for Bay Area Refineries Regulators adopt rule to reduce emissions
• Pentagon Warns of Beijing Power Bid
• What are Posada's secrets?
• US a Battlefield, Solicitor General Tells Judges Government attorney claims "War on Terror" gives Bush authority to detain enemy combatants indefinitely.
• Republicans Bid to Deport All Illegal Aliens
• Kodak to Lay Off 10,000 Workers
• Hewlett-Packard to Slash 14,500 Jobs
• Scientists Raise Alarm about Ocean Health -ocean temperatures rising, plankton populations dwindling
• Abortion: Just the Data
• Georgia Women's Clinic Bomber Sentenced to Life
• Casualty of War: The US Economy The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have already cost taxpayers $314 billion, and the Congressional Budget Office projects additional expenses of perhaps $450 billion over the next 10 years...the most expensive military effort in the last 60 years.
• FBI Monitored Web Sites for 2004 Protests FBI agents monitored Web Sites calling for protests against the 2004 political conventions in New York and Boston. The ACLU claim the Bush administration has blurred the distinction between terrorism and political protest.
• FBI Builds Huge File on Anti-War, Rights Groups
• How Costco Became the Anti-WalMart
• Another 32 Billion for Homeland Security
• Social Security Bill Would Hike US Debt
• DC Court Snubs States on Global Warming
• US House Keeps MTBE Protection for Exxon-Mobil in Energy Bill
• US Appeals Court Says Guantanamo Trial Can Proceed
• Mired in Scandal, GOP Congressman Will Not Run
• House GOP Retreats 'A Little' on P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act
• Rightwingers Hit Gonzales with Federal Ethics Law
• Unborn US Babies Soaked in Chemicals
• Schwarzenegger Pockets $8 Million then Vetoes Supplement Bill
• Activists Plan Boycott of Exxon Mobil
• Socialists, Left-Wing Greens Increase Cooperation
• Spy scandal in California
• WorldCom Ex-CEO Ebbers Sentenced to 25 Years for $11 Billion Fraud
• US Judge Raps Congress over Deportation Act
• Kennedy Rips Santorum for 2002 Column
• Permanent P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act Proposed
• Dangerous Energy Bill Provision Goes Unreported (Kelpie Wilson)
• Evangelicals Dominate Military Chaplain Corps
• Recruiting for Reserves Falls Short for Ninth Month
• Experts Fear 'Endless' Terror War
• Anti-Poverty/Environmental Groups Criticize G8
• Universal Health Care: New Efforts
• Black Churches Burned in Tennessee
• Report: 180 Types of US Human Rights Violations Since 9-11
• Another 5 Billion Dollar Contract for Halliburton
• National Guard "Spies on US Citizens"
• "No Child Left Behind" Continues to Face Legal Challenges
• CAFTA Reflects Democrats' Shift from Trade Bills
• The Price for a Supreme Court Judge? $100m
• The Mythical Threat of China's Exports
• Filmmaker Held in "Netherworld" of US Detention
• Pentagon Steps Up Domestic Spying
• Government Secrecy Reaches Historic High
• Conservative Groups Rally against Gonzales as Justice
• Over 100,000 March For End to Poverty
• Stage Set for Battle over Supreme Courts' Future
• GOP Senate Keeps Bunker Buster Nuke Alive
• Foes in Congress Unite in Defense of Property
• O'Connor to Retire from Supreme Court
• Wal-Mart Dismantling Public Education
• FDA Advisory Links Antidepressants and Suicide
• US Blocked Release of CAFTA Reports
• Washington denies climate change
• FBI Whistle-Blower to Run for Congress
• Halliburton Hearing Unearths New Abuse
• Low Power FM Taking Back Airwaves in Vermont
• The USA: World's Biggest Prison
• Senate Passes Energy Bill
• Justice Department Abuses Material Witness Law
• US Acknowledges Torture
• Bush Plans Plutonium Production for Secret Missions
• Coastal Nightmares Brewing
• US Court Backs Bush's Changes on Clean Air Act
• Stocks Slide as Oil Prices Hit $60 a Barrel
• Pentagon Creating Student Database
• Justices Back Seizure of Property for Development 5-4
• FBI Targets Animal Rights Activists
• Lessons from the United Airlines Pension Plan Negotiations
• Ubiquitous Technology, Bad Practices Drive Up Data Theft
• Oregon Cuts Health Care Premiums for Poorest
• Congress Apologises for Lynchings
• Oil Hits Record, Demand Attracts Funds
• WalMart Opens New Store in Hell!
• Schools and Military Recruiters Face Off
• Tyco's Ex-Chief and Top Aide Are Convicted of Grand Larceny
• Groups Unite Against Military Recruiters
• Halliburton to Build $30 Million Gitmo Prison
• Demand for Natural Gas Brings Big Import Plans, and Objections
• Growing Income Gap May Destabilize US Economy, Says Greenspan
• 'White Racists Still Pose Major Terrorist Threat'
• Trial Begins in '64 Civil Rights Killings
• Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Padilla Case
• Six Justices Hit Race Bias in Juries, Three Do Not
• High Court Overturns Texas Death Penalty Conviction
• More in Congress Want Iraq Exit Strategy
• Army Recruiting Numbers Down for Fourth Month in a Row
• Report Details FBI's Failure on 2 Hijackers
• "Mississippi Burning" Case Goes Back to Court
• Judge, Lawmakers Charge 'Meddling' in Tobacco Case
• Military Spending Tops One Trillion Dollars
• DoJ Saves Big Tobacco from $130 Billion Penalty
• Climate: No Doubt about the Need for Action
• Katherine Harris to Run for Senate in 2006
• DoJ: Stealing Personal Medical Data OK
• Senate Gives FBI More P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act Power
• United's Crash Reveals Pension Storm Ahead
• Medical Marijuana Patients Defy Supreme Court Ruling
• Senate to Issue Anti-Lynching Apology
• Energy Bill Gives Handouts to Enron Execs
• Los Alamos Lab Whistleblower Beaten
• Corporate media hides Iraq war
• The Children's Crusade: Pentagon Works the Schools
• Supreme Court Rules against Medical Marijuana
• Richest Are Leaving Even the Rich Far Behind
• NGOs: The 'World's New Superpower' Seeks 'Better World'
• Activists Face Trial under Terror Law
• Iraq, Afghan Vets Turning up Homeless
• Virginia Abortion Ban Struck Down
• Weak Job Growth Raises Slowdown Fears
• Schwarzenegger Refuses to Return the Money
• Judge Orders Army Release Abu Ghraib Pictures
• Web Browsers and Internet Security
• Despite Vow, Drug Makers Still Withhold Clinical Information
• Supreme Court Overturns Arthur Andersen Conviction
• Federal ID Act May Be Flawed
• Depleted Uranium Bill Introduced into Congress
• US Is Set to Test Missile Defenses aboard Airlines
• Health Leaders Seek Consensus over Uninsured
• Santorum Faulted for Donation Consideration
• Burning Crosses Signal Return of KKK
• Senators Contemplate Formal Apology to Native Americans
• Vermont's Bernie Sanders Runs for Senate
• New P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act to Expand FBI's Power, Democrats Wary
• US Citizens Tortured, Held Illegally
• Ohio's Election Theft Scandal Re-Fired
• Low Income Students Likely College Dropouts
• Amazon destruction at record levels
• Congress passes ID card
• Enron-Butchery Dictatorship
• Immigration officials arrest CIA terrorist
• Schwarzenegger Declares War on California
• Secret Plot to Track US "Terror Mail"
• Inaction in New York Prison Abuse Stirs Anger
• New P.A.T.R.I.O.T Act Dramatically Expands Secret Searches
• Siskiyou Grandmothers Sustain Campaign for Trees (Kelpie Wilson)
• ACLU Sues to Stop Funds for Christian Sex-Ed
• Star Wars Wins at Cannes: "Wake Up, America"
• Kansas vs. Evolution and Science
• Pine Ridge and Whiteclay
• $441 Billion Approved for Defense
• CIA-Trained Terrorist Comes Home to Roost
• Real Wages Fall at Fastest Rate in 14 Years
• Largest Corporate Pension Default in US History
• Cheney Wins Secrecy Battle in Courts
• Pentagon Spending to Equal Rest of World
• Failed Abu Ghraib Plea Reveals Breakups, Betrayals
• Billions Wasted on Ineffective Anti-Terrorism Hardware
• Man Who Led Nixon Impeachment Dies
• International Court Hears Anti-War Claims
• UN Nuclear Chief Pushes for International Control
• Creationism Scores Big Comeback
• Blasts at British Consulate in New York
• Cancer Epidemic - Symptom of an Unsustainable Society
• Democrats Sue over Indiana Voter ID Law
• UK, US Defy Nuclear Moratorium
• US May Allow Nuke Strikes over WMD
• Pentagon Seeks Funds for New Nukes
• Uninsured Adults Forgo Needed Treatment for Chronic Health Conditions
• Protests Urge Stop Nukes, Bring Troops Home
• Erosion of the Nonproliferation Treaty (Jimmy Carter)
• Drilling and Spilling in ANWR
• Judge Blocks Release of 9/11 Report
• Economy Hits Energy Prices, and the Brakes
• National Research Council: Bunker-Buster Bomb Plan Won't Work
• Pressured by FOIA Demands, Pentagon Releases Coffin Photos
• Pepper Spray: Harmless But Deadly
• Hunter Gray: 2005 Elder Recognition
• Terrorist Attacks Tripled, State Department Hides Data
• Social Security Battle Unites Dems, Splits GOP
• Alabama Bill Targets Gay Authors
• Fiddling While Crucial Programs Starve (Robert Scheer)
• Europe Invites the United States to Observe the Law
• The Nuclear Option and Judicial Activists (Molly Ivins)
• Guard Members Denied Ground Zero Retirement Credit
• US Rights Groups Demand Special Prosecutor for Torture
• Nader In Solidarity with Extreme Right of GOP
• Senate GOP Moving on Social Security Privatization
• Portland to Pull Out of Terrorism Task Force
• Documentary Makes Case against Enron
• Chairman of Voting Reform Panel Resigns
• Companies that contributed to Tom DeLay's Legal Defense Trust
• Double Trouble for Halliburton
• Santorum Backs Low Wages for Restaurant Workers
• Is Darth Vader Next? (Max J. Castro)
• End of Oil Is Closer Than You Think
• Battle over Global Overheating
• Human Shields Targeted
• Inflation Surge Is Biggest in Five Months
• School Bans Gay T-Shirt
• Caterpillars Under Pressure
• New Pope Intervened in US Election in Bush's Favor
• Republicans Already Rule Most Federal Courts
• The War On Judges
• Senators Acting Alone Can Block Nominees
• Wall Street Suffers Worst Day in Two Years
• GOP Energy Bill Guts Key Part of Clean Air Act
• Special Interests Giddy over Bankruptcy Victory
• Carter: Rich States "Don't Give a Damn" about Poor
• New York Times: Long Live the Estate Tax
• House Passes Permanent Estate Tax Repeal
• Pentagon's War Spending "Hard to Track"
• New York Times: Congress's Deepening Shadow World
• Report: Inmates Suffer Pain During Lethal Injection
• Cultural Dissent: Inside the US Military Machine
• Indiana Senate Passes Strict ID Law to Limit Vote
• Sit-in Demands Better Wages
• Report: California "Energy Crisis" II
• Students Fight Military Machine
• David Kaczynski: New York Rejects Death Penalty
• Harvard Divests from Sudan Investor
• Pentagon Budget Sacrifices Human Needs
• Pentagon's Green Light for Murder
• US Trade Deficit Widened to Record $61 Billion in February
• In Spite of Growth, American Industry Continues to Decline
• Halliburton's No-Bid Bilking Twice Previous Estimate
• US Workers Hit by Perfect Storm of Economic Forces
• IRS Rigs the System in Favor of Super-Rich
• US Nuclear Warhead Plan Under Fire
• Most Homeland Security Funding Goes Unspent
• For-Profit Schools Vie for Federal Funds
• Testing Pesticides on Babies, EPA Forced to Stop
• Scientists Fudged Nuke Waste Data, Won't Testify
• Homeland Insecurity: Nuclear Plants Open to Attack
• FBI Wants Greater Search Powers
• Military Recruiters Targeting Minority Teens
• Illegal Immigrants Bolster Social Security with Billions
• Gonzales Pushes to Renew Patriot Act, Critics Balk
• Antiwar Protesters Keep CIA at Bay
• Your Social Security Number on Sale for $35
• Oil Prices Race to All-Time Peak
• Carlyle Drains Billions from Disappointed Stock Market Investors
• Profits Rise as Jobs Fall
• Army Defies Supreme Court, Illegally Holds US Citizen
• Government Wiretaps, Secret Searches Up 75 Percent
• Yucca Mountain Data Falsified
• Kelpie Wilson: Going Geo-Green
• Draft May Be Needed in a Year, Military Analysts Warn
• Poll: Most in US Oppose Nuclear Weapons
• WMD Found and Destroyed - in Arkansas
• Case Allegedly Shows US Practice of Secret Arrests
• Ray McGovern: Needed -- An Honest Intelligence Estimate on Iran
• Big Pharma Puts Up Millions to Fight Discount Drug Ballots
• Congress Balks at Cost of Rumsfeld's "Future Combat Systems"
• Grandma Millie, Detectives: Unlikely Team Unmasks Enron
• Despite Evidence, Military Tribunal Found Detainee Guilty
• Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz: "Ooops, Did We Say That about Iran?"
• Republicans Pay Back Corporate Donors
• Lawmakers Seek Plan B for Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste
• Jimmy Carter to Chair Election Reform Commission
• Left-Right Coalition Rises to Fight Patriot Act
• Cost-Cutting Medicare Law Is a Money Loser for States
• Medicare May Raise US Seniors' Premiums 12% in 2006
• Army Eases Age Limit for Guard, Reserve
• Unocal Settles Human Rights Lawsuit
• Pentagon Reaffirms Globocop Role
• Ohio's Blackwell Ridicules Election Fraud "Conspiracy"
• Alaska Wildlife Refuge Open for Drilling
• The Bankruptcy Bill: A Tutorial in Greed (Robert Scheer)
• Gas Price at Second Highest Level Ever
• No Longer the Lone Superpower (Chalmers Johnson)
• Pentagon Auditors: Halliburton Overcharged $100 Million
• Congress Declares War on the Poor
• Government Report Warns of Security Holes in U.S. Aviation
• Energy Regulatory Commission: "Enron Committed Fraud"
• Georgia Democrats Walk Out to Protest Weakening of Voting Rights
• Schwarzenegger (We Call Him Arnold) Forged News Reports
• U.S. Trade Deficit Hits $58.3 Billion as Chinese Imports Surge
• Nation's Infrastructure Crumbling
• Senate GOP Twice Votes Down Minimum Wage
• America by the Numbers
• Investigation on Benny Hinn
• Income Falls, Core Inflation Picks Up
• Within C.I.A., Growing Worry of Prosecution for Conduct
• Private Health Care in Jails Can Be a Death Sentence
• No Child Left Behind: The Pluses and Minuses
• A Day in the Life of the Homeless in America
• Social Security Debate Gets Harsher
• GOP Lawmakers Hesitant over Bush Social Security Plan
• Supreme Court Refuses to Reconsider Roe Patient Privacy Decision
• Bipartisan Study Assails No Child Left Behind Act
• America's Digital Divide
• Alan Keyes' "family values"
• Privatizing Social Security: Whose Idea Was It?
• David Swanson:| Thirty-One States and D.C. Take Action on Minimum Wage
• Revealed: "Brooklyn's Abu Ghraib"
• New York Times: Tackling Election Reform
• Ritter: U.S. to Invade Iran in June
• The New Colossus
• Homeland Security Leaves Major Ports Poorly Defended
• Why Are Iraqi People Less Important?
• Social Security: Bush Plan Is Riskiest for Poor
• GOP and Corporations Crush Americans
• Senator Clinton Pushes for Voting Holiday
• States Fall Behind on Voting-System Improvements
• Iraq, Afghan War Costs May Exceed $300 Billion
• Conservatives Wage Anti-Gay Cartoon Wars
• The Bombing of Dresden - 60th Anniversary, Still Wrong
• Indian Country Today
• Halliburton's Lost Radioactive Material Found in Boston
• Arnold Shilling for Donors! (Surprised?)
• Vets Face Homelessness and Mental Problems
• Electricity Prices Likely to Soar
• U.S. Redesigning Atomic Weapons
• Oregon Considers Mental Health Parity
• Rumsfeld, Facing War Crimes Arrest, May Avoid Germany
• American Friends Service Committee Wages Peace [VIDEO]
• Audit: $9 Billion Unaccounted For in Iraq
• Guantanamo Bay Tribunals Ruled Illegal
• CIA Rebuffs Congress Over Nazi Files
• Global Overheating Twice As Bad As Previously Thought
• Idiot Republican James Dobson Attacks Spongebob Squarepants
• Vioxx Linked to 140,000 Heart Attacks and Over 50,000 Deaths
• Deficit Will Hit Record $427 Billion
• Republican Values: Republicans "Love" Children
• U.S. 45th in Environmental Sustainability
• U.S. Seeks to Scuttle Conference Text Linking Climate Change to Disasters
• U.S. No. 1
• DuPont Accused of Concealing Teflon Ingredient's Health Risk
• White House Is Discussing Cuts in Social Security Benefits
• How to FOX-Proof Your Cable Box
• Preacher Charged with "Mississippi Burning" Murders
• Pentagon to Focus on Iraq, Other Hot Spots
• Corrupt Gov. Schwarzenegger
• Workers Socked Again
• Conyers Report: What Went Wrong in Ohio
• Why U.S. Gave Away $1 Billion
• U.S. Plans Lifetime Detentions with No Trial
• Ohio Recount Steeped in Fraud
• Conservatives Raise Millions to Privatize Social Security