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Israel agrees to ease Gaza land blockade

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2010 9:18 AM | Add Comment

At spill hearing, BP CEO says he's 'deeply sorry'

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2010 9:14 AM | Add Comment

TIME article -- "First, China. Next: the Great Firewall of... Australia? In Western democracy first, Australia may restrict Web access"

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2010 5:18 PM | Add Comment

Bloody Sunday report blames British soldiers fully; Cameron offers apology

Posted by kluciole at 6/15/2010 3:00 PM | Add Comment

Obama faces rare defeat on health help for jobless

Posted by kluciole at 6/12/2010 1:49 PM | Add Comment

Hispanics abandon Arizona, fleeing economy, immigration law

Posted by kluciole at 6/11/2010 9:06 AM | Add Comment

Chinese farmer uses homemade cannon to fight eviction; "China has witnessed a surge of violent confrontations triggered by land seizures as officials and businesses seek to cash in by evicting residents"

Posted by kluciole at 6/9/2010 9:39 AM | Add Comment

Prescott, Arizona elementary school to 'whiten' image of child in mural

Posted by kluciole at 6/4/2010 5:29 PM | Add Comment

Autopsy shows Gaza activists were hit 30 times at close range

Posted by kluciole at 6/4/2010 5:26 PM | Add Comment

Head of large Congo human rights group found dead. Floribert Chebeya Bahizire was head of Voix des Sans Voix, or Voice of the Voiceless

Posted by kluciole at 6/3/2010 4:00 PM | Add Comment

Egypt opens Gaza border -- for those already cleared (pre-cleared patients with medical emergencies and students with visas to study abroad)

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 8:51 PM | Add Comment

California moves to ban plastic bags at grocery stores, and charge for paper bags

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 8:47 PM | Add Comment

The Code of Hammurabi (1795-1750 BCE)

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 9:10 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Blair: Gaza blockade counterproductive but hard to ease

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 8:56 AM | Add Comment

Upper Delaware River most endangered in U.S. -- source of drinking water for 17 million people one of 10 rivers on list, threatened due to natural gas drilling, mining and poor flood management

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 8:48 AM | Add Comment

Activists send new boat to challenge Gaza blockade as Egypt lifts its side of blockade for aid

Posted by kluciole at 6/1/2010 5:24 AM | Add Comment

Peruvian child, seven-year-old Daisy Cuevas, becomes symbol of US undocumented

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:43 PM | Add Comment

Links to the Guardian's news coverage of Israel and the Gaza flotilla; the 600 passengers of the flotilla included a Nobel Peace Laureate

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:34 PM | Add Comment

Q&A: Aid and Israel's Gaza blockade

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:27 PM | Add Comment

Bloody Israeli raid on flotilla sparks crisis

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:16 PM | Add Comment

Al-Jazeera anchorwomen 'quit in clothing spat'

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2010 8:17 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Charges considered in deaths of 83 wild horses

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2010 8:14 PM | Add Comment

After fix fail, a dispiriting summer of oil, anger. Hurricane season starts Tuesday

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2010 8:11 PM | Add Comment

Catch "Special Relationship" on HBO if you can; just watched it and enjoyed it. Much food for thought.

Posted by kluciole at 5/29/2010 10:20 PM | Add Comment

Hawaii first in nation to ban possession, sale, trade or distribution of shark fins (plus article "A sad shark's tale: Shocking images show scale of fin trade")

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2010 5:54 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Democrat James Carville Slams Obama's Response to BP Oil Spill and 'Political Stupidity'

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2010 8:29 PM | Add Comment

Idaho Tea Party win embarrasses GOP establishment

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2010 8:08 PM | Add Comment

The Batavian Rebellion and Quintus Petillius Cerialis (between 69-70 CE. Cerialis was made Governor of Britannia from 71 to 74 CE)

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2010 11:27 PM | Add Comment

Photo: (Nazret, Ethiopia) Women wait to cast their vote at a polling station

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2010 5:03 PM | Add Comment

Vietnam, US still in conflict over Agent Orange

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2010 4:58 PM | Add Comment

Blackfeet Elouise Cobell sees end to 14-year government fight: "Cobell's class-action lawsuit represents as many as 500,000 Indians who own property that the government holds in trust for them"

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2010 1:36 PM | Add Comment

How Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul's civil-rights views escaped media scrutiny

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2010 4:54 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Muslim anger prompts Pakistan to block Facebook amid anger over page encouraging users to post images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2010 4:00 PM | Add Comment

Abortion foes capitalize on health law they fought, using it to limit coverage by private insurers

Posted by kluciole at 5/17/2010 6:28 AM | Add Comment

Thousands of nonprofits may lose tax-exempt status because they haven't filed a new form with the IRS

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2010 1:39 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

High-risk patients may be stuck paying high rates

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:41 PM | Add Comment

Afghan violence victims want voice in peace talks

Posted by kluciole at 5/9/2010 7:06 PM | Add Comment

Montana, Idaho consider increased wolf hunt quotas

Posted by kluciole at 5/8/2010 12:27 PM | Add Comment

Obama says health care law already helps millions

Posted by kluciole at 5/8/2010 12:23 PM | Add Comment

Austria's 'Reich Mother' presidential candidate Barbara Rosenkranz caught singing SS anthem

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2010 3:54 PM | Add Comment

Obama seeks court nominee who backs women's rights

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2010 4:41 PM | Add Comment

Muslim group warns 'South Park' creators could face violent retribution for depicting the prophet Muhammad in a bear suit

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2010 4:32 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Earth Day turns 40

Posted by kluciole at 4/20/2010 11:32 PM | Add Comment

TIME article -- School Bullying Prevention: Teach Empathy at Young Age

Posted by kluciole at 4/20/2010 11:10 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Mexico rejects church criticism of sex education

Posted by kluciole at 4/20/2010 12:12 AM | Add Comment

Iranian cleric: "women who wear immodest clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes"

Posted by kluciole at 4/20/2010 12:07 AM | Add Comment

Has Scott Brown turned out to be a blessing in disguise for congressional Democrats?

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2010 4:39 AM | Add Comment

Oklahoma tea parties and lawmakers envision militia: "to help defend against what they believe are improper federal infringements on state sovereignty"

Posted by kluciole at 4/12/2010 6:52 PM | Add Comment

Polish President Lech Kaczynski, along with other military and civilian leaders, killed as presidential plane crashes in Russia

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2010 2:26 AM | Add Comment

13-year-old Yemeni bride dies of internal bleeding, "injuries to her genitals four days after a family-arranged marriage"

Posted by kluciole at 4/9/2010 2:26 AM | Add Comment

President Obama questions Sarah Palin's nuclear acumen

Posted by kluciole at 4/9/2010 2:10 AM | Add Comment

RIP Wilma Mankiller: Remembering First Female Chief Of Cherokee Nation

Posted by kluciole at 4/7/2010 2:43 PM | Add Comment

Italian prostitutes get own road sign to warn motorists

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2010 1:43 AM | Add Comment

California bill would expand pesticide safety program

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2010 1:32 AM | Add Comment

Thousands of vets missing out on better benefits

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2010 1:27 AM | Add Comment

UK 'Climategate' inquiry largely clears scientists

Posted by kluciole at 3/30/2010 11:22 PM | Add Comment

Would partners of gay troops get benefits, too?

Posted by kluciole at 3/26/2010 3:40 AM | Add Comment

Rep. Randy Neugebauer "apologizes for 'baby killer' remark during health care debate, but turns moment into a campaign fundraiser"

Posted by kluciole at 3/24/2010 12:58 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Congress approves historic health care legislation

Posted by kluciole at 3/21/2010 6:56 PM | Add Comment

Stop this insanity -- Tea party protesters shout racial and gay slurs at Rep. John Lewis and Rep. Barney Frank

Posted by kluciole at 3/20/2010 7:27 PM | Add Comment

Culture clash: European art provokes Muslims

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2010 6:20 PM | Add Comment

In paying for sex changes, Cuba breaks from past

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2010 7:13 PM | Add Comment

Female WWII aviators honored with gold medal

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2010 7:07 PM | Add Comment

Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care: "And I think now, isn't that ironic?"

Posted by kluciole at 3/9/2010 3:17 PM | Add Comment

Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2010 10:00 AM | Add Comment

Gendercide in Asia: Massive rise in abortion of female fetuses

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2010 12:59 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2010 6:22 PM | Add Comment

Senate rejects $250 checks for elderly, which "would have made up for social security benefits not increasing this year"

Posted by kluciole at 3/4/2010 6:57 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Britain at risk of worse deficit crisis than Greece, sparking serious fears over the economic stability of the country

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2010 4:07 PM | Add Comment

Important: Report on Marines' water at Camp Lejeune omitted cancer causing chemical benzene. The environmental contamination is extreme!

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2010 2:50 PM | Add Comment

Disillusioned Sen. Bayh advocates electoral “shock” to broken system, encourages voters to remove Congressional incumbents in mass

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2010 2:35 PM | Add Comment

US debt will keep growing even with recovery

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2010 1:30 PM | Add Comment

US refuses to cancel Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2010 12:50 AM | Add Comment

Palin's Palmprompter: How Sarah sneakily consulted her notes during her $100,000 appearance at Tea Party rally to answer pre-screened questions

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2010 2:07 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Rep. John Murtha, Iraq war critic, dies at 77

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2010 2:01 PM | Add Comment

Saudi Arabia's human rights lawyers called in to try to force divorce of girl, 12, married to 80-year-old man

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2010 1:46 PM | Add Comment

Costa Rica: Ruling party candidate Laura Chinchilla leads vote, could be elected first female president

Posted by kluciole at 2/7/2010 7:48 PM | Add Comment

'America is ready for another revolution,' Sarah Palin tells Tea Party activists, and says it is absurd for her not to ponder presidential bid

Posted by kluciole at 2/7/2010 8:00 AM | Add Comment

Middle Class No More, Families Struggle to Fight off Homelessness

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2010 3:56 PM | Add Comment

13 countries agree plan to save wild tigers

Posted by kluciole at 1/30/2010 9:38 PM | Add Comment

'People's History' author Howard Zinn dies at 87. RIP, it was wonderful to meet you

Posted by kluciole at 1/27/2010 6:41 PM | Add Comment

Rush, Robertson take heat for comments about earthquake in Haiti

Posted by kluciole at 1/14/2010 10:21 PM | Add Comment

New book review: "The Cracked Ceiling" examines women in politics

Posted by kluciole at 1/6/2010 2:35 AM | Add Comment

Japan's prime minister "wants equal ties with US"

Posted by kluciole at 1/4/2010 1:34 AM | Add Comment

Muslim-Hindu punk rock bands part of new movement

Posted by kluciole at 1/2/2010 11:25 AM | Add Comment

TIME article -- Bicentennial Anxiety: Why Mexicans Are Wary of 2010

Posted by kluciole at 1/1/2010 6:04 AM | Add Comment

Ultra-Orthodox Jews make rare visit to Gaza in show of support for Palestinians

Posted by kluciole at 1/1/2010 5:51 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Incredible photos from Iran as reform protesters clash with police, who are accused of firing on the demonstrators

Posted by kluciole at 12/29/2009 10:18 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Skin whitening cream finds new popularity among Palestinian women

Posted by kluciole at 12/28/2009 9:14 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Esther Chavez, a women's rights activist who denounced Juarez border killings and founded Casa Amiga, has died

Posted by kluciole at 12/26/2009 7:05 PM | Add Comment

Pakistani brothers to have ears and nose chopped off for doing the same to woman who rejected one

Posted by kluciole at 12/23/2009 12:12 AM | Add Comment

Slaying of drug war hero's family shocks Mexico

Posted by kluciole at 12/23/2009 12:07 AM | Add Comment

Against nudity ban, gallery in Ashland, Oregon takes it all off

Posted by kluciole at 12/20/2009 4:55 AM | Add Comment

Fear of violence grows in mountaintop strip mining fight

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 3:28 PM | Add Comment

Photos: Afghan children, refugees in Pakistan, play in their neighborhood of Rawalpindi

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 4:06 AM | Add Comment

Pakistani ruling party grapples with amnesty's end

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 3:56 AM | Add Comment

Surreal photo: the White House enveloped in fog

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2009 7:54 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Harassment across Arab world drives women inside

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2009 7:48 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Diplomatic furore from Israel as British court issues arrest warrant for former foreign minister Tzipi Livni over Gaza War

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2009 7:14 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Poor being turned away from free cancer screenings

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2009 5:58 PM | Add Comment
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