Chicago Unveils Multifaceted Plan to Curb Emissions of Heat-Trapping Gases The blueprint would change the city s building codes to promote energy efficiency, and it calls for installing huge solar panels at municipal properties and building alternative fueling stations. Drug Label, Maimed Patient and Test for Court At issue is whether plaintiffs have the right…
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A contentious 9/11 anniversary unfolds The press has told us in the past couple days that we are experiencing the newly “politicized” anniversary of Sept. 11. What that really means is that this is the year that anti-Muslim sentiment — in the planned Quran burning in Florida, in the opposition to Park51, and as shown…
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CANADA FX DEBT-C$ ends almost a penny higher after rate hike CANADA FX DEBT-C$ ends almost a penny higher after rate hike Obama lets GOP, Boehner have it in Ohio speech WASHINGTON Trying to persuade voters that he has ideas to strengthen the weak economy and therefore that they should vote for Democrats in November…
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Rice told Bush ‘stay out of Washington’ Condoleezza Rice ordered George Bush not to return to Washington after the 9/11 attacks before hanging up the phone. Paul Conrad dies at 86; Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist helped bring The Times to national prominence His unyielding liberal stance, delivered as savage black-and-white harpoons, bedeviled Richard Nixon, Ronald…
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‘Wall Street sheriffs’ set sights on taxpayersThe role of NY attorney-general has been transformed since Eliot Spitzer turned it from a routine state law-enforcement job into a nationally important crusade against financial wrongdoing US jobless claims fall but fears remainNew claims for jobless benefits in the US fell last week but still remain above the…
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Fiat to return to US market US automaker Chrysler plans to sell 50,000 Fiat 500 minicars in the United States in 2011, a source told AFP, as the Italian brand returns to the US market. America and its core values compatible with Islam: US imam America and its core principles are compatible with Islam, the…
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National Briefing | Religion: Pittsburgh Bishop Is Ousted An Episcopal bishop, whose diocese is moving toward splitting from the national church, was ousted from ministry. Documents hint at BP planning failuresE-mails and other testimony referred to in an investigation into the Macondo accident show that the UK oil group’s planning had fallen behind operations on…
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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…
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Judge Denies Tom DeLay’s Request To Move Trial AUSTIN, Texas — A judge denied former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s request Wednesday to have his money laundering trial moved from Austin, which… Bush Tax Cuts: Now That s Rich Republicans and conservative Democrats are eager to give hundreds of billions of dollars to the…
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Byron Williams: Feigning Patriotism in Order to Spew Un-American Rhetoric I refer to those who oppose building the mosque at Ground Zero as holding an un-American position because the First Amendment stands in their way, yet they still seek the path of the emotional short cut. Lindsey Graham Supports Drawdown Of U.S. Troops In Afghanistan…
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