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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican attacked The New York Times on Wednesday for its coverage of the sexual abuse of children by priests, rejecting accusations that Pope Benedict had mishandled a series of abuse cases before he was elected. Signaling it had decided to take the gloves off in its reaction to coverage of sexual ...
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Fox News: President Obama's recess appointment of an outspoken supporter of gay rights to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is causing alarm among social conservatives, who worry that she'll strip religious rights from schools and businesses and "revolutionize" social norms in the workplace. The appointment of Georgetown University Law Center Professor Chai Feldblum to be one of ...
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BBC 4: Lovelock: 'We can't save the planet' Professor James Lovelock, the scientist who developed Gaia theory, has said it is too late to try and save the planet. The man who achieved global fame for his theory that the whole earth is a single organism now believes that we can only hope that the earth will take ...
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The Hill: Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) canceled a town hall on the new healthcare law Tuesday because of concerns about the security of the event. The congressman's office cited safety issues at the facility where the meeting was to take place and threats to his office, according to a report by News21. "We just thought it best to ...
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - It started with a party invitation to a 15-year-old girl from some young men she knew. She took her 7-year-old stepsister to an apartment down the street from their home near the New Jersey Statehouse, where the girls had been hanging around outside on a Sunday afternoon. For the younger girl, ...
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he CEOs of some of the country's biggest companies are being summoned to Washington to defend claims that the health care reform law would cost them millions -- a move Republicans say amounts to intimidation. Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, on Friday fired off letters to the heads ...
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LONDON (AP) -- A first investigation into e-mails leaked from one of the world's leading climate research centers has largely vindicated the scientists involved -- although it was based on just a single day of testimony. The House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee said Wednesday that they'd seen no evidence to support charges that the ...
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Politico: The top House Republican said the White House's decision to begin offshore drilling across huge expanses of ocean is a “positive step,†but he still blasted the Obama administration for keeping areas on the West Coast closed to such exploration. House Minority Leader John Boehner, an Ohio Republican, said that the administration “continues to defy the ...
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March 31 (Bloomberg) -- Companies in the U.S. unexpectedly cut payrolls in March, according to data from a private report based on payrolls. The 23,000 decline was the smallest in two years and followed a revised 24,000 drop the prior month, data from ADP Employer Services showed today. Over the previous six months, ADP’s initial ...
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You know, the dudes actually facing re-election, unlike JoJo The Lying Retard Boy... Politico: The president’s push to turn health care reform into a catalyst for the rest of his agenda is getting mixed early reactions on Capitol Hill, where Democratic leaders' desire to take advantage of healthy majorities before the November elections must contend with lawmakers’ ...
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The Hill: President Barack Obama on Tuesday called on the United Nations to impose sanctions on Iran by this spring. During a joint press conference at the White House with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Obama said he wants to see a sanctions regime in place, but conceded that he does not yet have international unanimity. 

 At the ...
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Fox News: The father of a Marine killed in Iraq whose funeral was picketed by anti-gay protesters told Fox News he will defy a court order and not pay the protesters' appeal costs. Albert Snyder, of York, Pa., told Fox News he does not intend to pay $16,510 to Fred Phelps, the leader of Kansas' Westboro Baptist ...
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Something pussy this way comes... WASHINGTON (AP) -- Top Republicans are increasingly worried that GOP candidates this fall might be burned by a fire that's roaring through the conservative base: demand for the repeal of President Barack Obama's new health care law. It's fine to criticize the health law and the way Democrats pushed it through Congress ...
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Can't put my finger on it, but something's wrong... this whole story is haunted by absence, adjectives, and accusations. Wall Street Journal: By ALEX P. KELLOGG, LAUREN ETTER, KEITH JOHNSON and TIMOTHY W. MARTIN The leader of a Michigan militia group charged this week with conspiring to kill law-enforcement officers was described Tuesday as a private, family-oriented man ...
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WXYZ: ADRIAN, Mich. (WXYZ) - Law enforcement officials may have found the last suspect in the "Hutaree" case. Sources tell Action News that the FBI is involved in a standoff in North Adams Village, about 30 miles from the site of Saturday's raid in Adrian. They are believed to be looking for Josh Stone, the son of ...
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Yahoo Music: NEW YORK, N.Y. -- After years of keeping quiet about his personal life, pop star Ricky Martin has announced that he is gay. "I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man," Ricky said in a message posted on his offical Web site. "I am very blessed to be who I am." Ricky ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Republican National Committee is seeking repayment of $1,946 spent by a party donor and vendor at a sex-themed Hollywood club that features topless dancers and bondage outfits. The disclosure was included in a monthly financial report showing that the RNC spent tens of thousands of dollars in February on private ...
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