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Times Online: Gordon Brown stepped up the pressure on Iran to free the British Embassy employees seized in Tehran by declaring their arrests “unacceptable, unjustified and without foundation” and hinting at concerted international action. One option being considered by the European Union’s member states is for all 27 to withdraw their ambassadors from Tehran temporarily [...]

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Fox News: A top Republican senator has ordered an investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency’s alleged suppression of a report that questioned the science behind global warming. The 98-page report, co-authored by EPA analyst Alan Carlin, pushed back on the prospect of regulating gases like carbon dioxide as a way to reduce global warming. Carlin’s [...]

BASEL (Reuters) – Financial products should be treated like medicines and sold to consumers only when they are certified safe to prevent a repeat of last year’s financial meltdown, the world’s central bankers said on Monday. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), which acts as a forum for central banks, said government efforts to revive [...]

POLITICO: Mitt Romney says publicly he’s not considering another presidential campaign, most recently on Sunday during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” But many of his loyalists expect one and remain at the ready for 2012. When dozens of former Romney aides and advisers convened on the terrace of Charlie Spies’ fashionable Penn Quarter [...]

A protege of Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro gets ousted from office for trying to lift Presidential Term Limit restrictions, and Obama does everything but congratulate the people who stood up for freedom and true Democracy. Why? Is it because Zelaya is an ally of some of the biggest Socialists/Communists in the known world, just [...]

FOX News: NEW YORK — Convicted Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison Monday for a fraud so extensive that the judge said he needed to send a message to potential imitators and to victims who demanded harsh punishment. Scattered applause and whoops broke out in the crowded Manhattan courtroom [...]

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TEHRAN (AP) – EDITOR’S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media. ___ Iran’s election oversight body on Monday declared the [...]

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The Washington Post: The Supreme Court today narrowly ruled in favor of white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., who said they were denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision by Judge Sonia Sotomayor and others that had come to play a large role in the consideration of her nomination for the high court. [...]