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Wisconsin Union-Busting Drive Feeds Off Towns That Are Shrinking

The loss of power and people in rural and small town Wisconsin is helping fuel a showdown over government union rights and benefits.  read more »

Feds charge Jared Lee Loughner with Saturday's mass shooting

PHOENIX (KGUN9-TV) - Federal prosecutors have finally filed charges against the man arrested for Saturday's mass shooting in Tucson. A press release issued Sunday afternoon said that the U.S.  read more »

Awarding Liu Xiaobo Nobel peace prize may harm China-Norway relations, says FM spokesman

Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to China's Liu Xiaobo desecrated the prize and could harm China-Norway ties, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu on Friday.  read more »

Student caught in middle: Dream of college awakes to the reality graduates face when here illegally

To advocates on both sides of the immigration debate, Miriam Torres is emblematic of the problems facing this country.  read more »

Vendors Who Alerted Police Called Heroes

Even in Times Square, where little seems unusual, the Nissan Pathfinder parked just off Broadway on the south side of 45th Street — engine running, hazard lights flashing, driver nowhere to be found  read more »

Haiti Tent City Residents Cope With Shortages

Residents of makeshift tent cities throughout Port-au-Prince say that conditions have improved since the earthquake three weeks ago, but shortages of food and relief supplies still make life difficult  read more »

Same-sex marriage set for big day in federal court

LOS ANGELES -- After a run of setbacks at the state level, gay rights advocates will take the campaign for same-sex marriage into a federal courtroom on Monday, starting down a treacherous avenue that  read more »

Wilson Taps "You Lie" Fundraising for Fellow Republicans

South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson has raised more than $1 million for his own campaign treasury since his "You lie" shout during President Obama's address to Congress two weeks ago.  read more »

White House distances itself from race controversy

The US president does not want to be diverted by the race controversy, writes LARA MARLOWE in Washington  read more »

Army used profiles to reject reporters (Afghanistan)

WASHINGTON — The secret profiles commissioned by the Pentagon to rate the work of journalists reporting from Afghanistan were used by military officials to deny disfavored reporters access to Americ  read more »

Alert level raised on North Korea

South Korean and US troops have gone on higher alert after North Korea announced it is scrapping the armistice in force on the peninsula.  read more »

Sea levels rising faster than predicted

Sea level rises could bust official estimates – that's the first big message to come from the climate change congress that kicked off in Copenhagen, Denmark, today.  read more »

Obama speaks of 'reaching out' to Taliban

The US president admits that the 'anti-terror' operations in Afghanistan will not lead to victory, urging dialogue with insurgents as a cure.  read more »

Anthropologist's war death reverberates

In a hostile corner of southern Afghanistan, an American platoon fanned out around a market, forming a protective circle around a petite woman with a notebook.  read more »

Mashaal calls IDF operation in Gaza 'another holocaust'

The IDF operation in Gaza has killed the last chance for settlement and negotiations with Israel, Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal told Al-Jazeera on Saturday.  read more »

Europe sends two missions to promote a cease-fire

LONDON: Europe, seeking to fill a diplomatic vacuum in the Middle East left by the departing Bush administration, is sending two missions to try to broker a cease-fire in Gaza and offering more humani  read more »

GM, Chrysler Bankruptcies Would Hit Confidence, Deepen Slump

Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- A bankruptcy filing by General Motors Corp. or Chrysler LLC would worsen the longest recession since the early 1980s if it led to a shutdown at the companies.  read more »

Why Are Gun Sales Booming?

A rush of icy air swooshes through Gunslinger’s show room every couple of minutes as customers file in and out.

“It’s insane,” owner Todd Sutherland said on a recent Monday.  read more »

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