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AP: In addition to success stories, "US wasted billions in rebuilding Iraq "

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2010 5:48 PM | Add Comment

Silk's dark side: Uzbek kids made to grow cocoons

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2010 5:14 PM | Add Comment

U.S. vows help in fight against Congo sexual violence

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2010 1:49 AM | Add Comment

Indiana ruling halts caregiver choices based on race

Posted by kluciole at 8/24/2010 9:38 AM | Add Comment

Michelangeo's "David" Gets Dragged into an Italian Proxy War

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2010 12:33 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Dr. Laura, Sarah Palin, and the fight over free speech

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2010 12:28 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Why Do 20% of Americans Think Obama Is Muslim?

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2010 12:22 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Author Jonathan Schneer traces lead-up to "The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict"

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2010 11:48 AM | Add Comment

Israeli art show's portrayal of FM as a pig sparks protests

Posted by kluciole at 8/9/2010 7:39 PM | Add Comment

Very thought-provoking article: "Cloning, cruelty and how science sold out to greed"

Posted by kluciole at 8/5/2010 8:55 PM | Add Comment

Judge orders protections reinstated for gray wolf

Posted by kluciole at 8/5/2010 8:50 PM | Add Comment

China bets future on inland cities

Posted by kluciole at 8/3/2010 5:46 AM | Add Comment

TIME article: "Argentina Belatedly Celebrates a Journalist Hero"

Posted by kluciole at 8/1/2010 5:18 AM | Add Comment

NY Times article -- "Inside the Fog of War: Reports From the Ground in Afghanistan"

Posted by kluciole at 7/26/2010 1:20 AM | Add Comment

Gadget makers forced to look at links to Congo war

Posted by kluciole at 7/25/2010 5:42 AM | Add Comment

Petition seeks to have wolves howl across US

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2010 8:23 PM | Add Comment

Lost Kafka writings resurface; court orders them to be removed from private possession

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2010 7:50 PM | Add Comment

Netanyahu says he will oppose conversion bill

Posted by kluciole at 7/18/2010 4:56 AM | Add Comment

The Coming Birth Control Battle: Health-care reform spurs conservative activists to fight against coverage

Posted by kluciole at 7/14/2010 11:11 AM | Add Comment

TIME article -- Animal Rights: New Laws Take Movement to the Mainstream

Posted by kluciole at 7/14/2010 11:02 AM | Add Comment

Russian curators anger church, but escape jail

Posted by kluciole at 7/13/2010 12:59 AM | Add Comment

Promises, Promises: US fails to punish Sudan

Posted by kluciole at 7/13/2010 12:51 AM | Add Comment

How Postal Rate Hikes Foretell America's Future

Posted by kluciole at 7/7/2010 3:46 PM | Add Comment

US government files lawsuit, says Arizona immigration law crosses 'constitutional line'

Posted by kluciole at 7/6/2010 5:39 PM | Add Comment

EPA: the Clean Air Interstate Rule would overturn Bush-era plan; "measure requires 31 states from Massachusetts to Texas to reduce smog and soot-producing emissions"

Posted by kluciole at 7/6/2010 5:31 PM | Add Comment

'Help us save our mother': Pleas from children of Iranian woman convicted of adultery, who faces death by stoning

Posted by kluciole at 7/1/2010 11:48 PM | Add Comment

Funniest reason given for why someone could not be a Russian spy

Posted by kluciole at 6/29/2010 2:56 PM | Add Comment

Thousands of French Nazi collaborators revealed as official reports are published online

Posted by kluciole at 6/29/2010 2:44 PM | Add Comment

Rival Hamas, UN summer camps compete over children

Posted by kluciole at 6/28/2010 3:02 PM | Add Comment

Behind Kagan hearing: A fight over 'activist judges'

Posted by kluciole at 6/28/2010 2:56 PM | Add Comment

Documents show vast cleanup of Plum Island, New York "since 2000 to remove vast amounts of waste and contaminants at site of top-secret Army germ warfare research"

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2010 3:56 PM | Add Comment

China's young college grads toil in 'ant tribes' as they "run up against the realities of China's rapid economic ascent"

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2010 3:51 PM | Add Comment

Opinion article: "Art Is Fundamental -- and Fundamental to Support" by Maria Shriver

Posted by kluciole at 6/26/2010 9:53 PM | Add Comment

Stalin statue removed in Georgian home town

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2010 6:54 PM | Add Comment

Source tells Washington Post that Rolling Stone violated interview ground rules in McChrystal profile; did the reporter "essentially take run-of-the-mill complaining and turn it into a direct challenge to presidential authority"?

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2010 6:50 PM | Add Comment

Congress considers cracking down on 'puppy mills'

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2010 5:19 PM | Add Comment

TIME article: Is Germany's Government Headed for a Breakdown?

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2010 5:15 PM | Add Comment

VA quietly giving benefits to Marines exposed to toxic water on Camp Lejeune

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2010 12:52 PM | Add Comment

HBO works to get film on Iranian dissident Neda Agha Soltan seen by as many people as possible within Iran as anniversary of her death approaches

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2010 1:27 AM | Add Comment

Ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan worsens; Uzbeks allege rapes, say troops let violence occur

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2010 4:49 PM | Add Comment

Library of Congress places Bob Hope's joke file (85,000 pages) on public view

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2010 9:24 AM | Add Comment

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
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