News

April 20, 2006

01:00
Kids, there's a monster under your bed!
Source: Salon.com
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00:00
Despite Bush's preoccupation with Iraq and Iran, the administration is more concerned with keeping China from becoming an economic and military superpower.
Source: AlterNet
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00:00
The people of Nepal have taken to the streets in an unprecedented call for democracy. So why has the U.S. turned a blind eye to the uprising?
Source: AlterNet
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00:00
A summary of commentary, rumors and tidbits coming out of the White House headrollings.
Source: AlterNet
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00:00
Rob Corddry, fake journalist on 'The Daily Show,' discusses improv, politics and starring in the hilarious new paintball mockumentary Blackballed.
Source: AlterNet
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00:00
Rob Corddry, fake journalist on 'The Daily Show,' discusses improv, politics and starring in the hilarious new paintball mockumentary Blackballed.
Source: AlterNet
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00:00
A newly declassified State Department memo provides the first hard evidence that the Bush administration manipulated and ignored intelligence in their thirst for war.
Source: AlterNet
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00:00
Lawmakers are attempting to suppress the rising popularity of misleading 'refund anticipation loans,' which target minorities and the working poor.
Source: AlterNet
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April 19, 2006

21:00
A distraught heckler shouted protests as the Chinese leader began his opening remarks with President Bush at his side, briefly interrupting him.
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21:00
White House adviser Karl Rove's role shrank for the first time, and spokesman Scott McClellan said he was stepping down.
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21:00
Two top lawmakers fear that John D. Negroponte, the director of national intelligence, is just another blanket of bureaucracy.
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21:00
Leaders of last week's demonstrations said that they were planning voter registration and citizenship drives across the country.
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21:00
The state eliminated one definition of insanity in 1993 and now requires defendants to demonstrate that they did not know their conduct was wrong.
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21:00
President Bush granted "recess appointments" to the two current trustees. Senate leaders of both parties had wanted new appointees with fresh perspectives.
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17:50
Congressional pensions tend to be far more generous than those offered in the private sector. Benefits start earlier and — unlike most private pension plans — come with annual cost-of-living increases.
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15:44
Jeremy Scahill reports that lawsuits by families of soldiers-for-hire killed in Falluja are putting a major war profiteer in the cross-hairs.

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15:19
Stephen Glain writes that as President Hu Jintao pursues business and diplomatic goals during his US visit, China's biggest problems are at home, where unbridled economic expansion has become a perilous source of discontent.

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15:09
President Bush said Wednesday the nation needs to keep on the cutting edge in research in the face of growing competition over jobs and natural resources from India and China.
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14:00
New government guidelines give even more funding to abstinence-only programs, despite solid evidence that they don't work.
Source: AlterNet
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12:00
The quandary in which Bush finds himself regarding Iran and nuclear weapons is only the latest in a series of national security blunders.
Source: AlterNet
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