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North America – Mexico massacre investigator is missing

Mexico massacre investigator is missing
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 27 (UPI) — A government prosecutor investigating the massacre of 72 people in northern Mexico is missing, authorities said Friday. Mexico – MEXICO CITY – United States – El Salvador – Central America

This Is Not a Recovery
This isn t a recovery, in any sense that matters. And policy makers should be doing everything they can to change that fact.

How Fox Betrayed Petraeus
The rage over the ground zero mosque is not motivated by a serious desire to protect America, but by a desire for an election-season payoff.

Mexico may get anti-laundering limit on cash sales
Mexico’s president proposed tough new anti-money laundering rules Thursday to bar cash purchases of any real estate in pesos and cash purchases of cars, planes and other goods for amounts exceeding 100,000 pesos ($7,700).

The Trends of August
Maybe the citizenry should demand a Voter Bill of Rights. Article Five: more cat stories in political campaigns.

Mexico’s Migrants Outraged by Massacre
MEXICO CITY — Immigrant organizations, mothers of the disappeared and coordinators of shelters for deportees blame the Mexican government for the massacre of 72 Central and South Americans in Tamaulipas.Xicotencalt Carrasco, director of the Belen Posada del Migrante shelter in…

Taking bin Laden s Side
Opposition to the proposed Islamic center near ground zero is one topic on which Sarah Palin and Osama bin Laden apparently agree.

Steal This Movie, Too
Public education needs rescuing. The superheroes are already showing the way.

The Parent Model
Raise the economy the way you raise a child instill good values and create a secure climate.

Bob Herbert: Glenn Beck in Washington
Glenn Beck is a small man with a mean message wandering into the precincts of giants.

US mortgage rates reach record low
US mortgage rates have fallen on the back of persistent signs of weakness in the housing market, where existing home sales fell 27% in July

A Case of Mental Courage
The novelist Fanny Burney stared pain in the face, teaching a lesson in character we would do well to recover.

US GDP revised sharply lower
Fears of a faltering US economy were realised when growth for the second quarter was revised down to an annual rate of 1.6 per cent from an initial estimate of 2.4 per cent