2010/01/04 Headlines: 14 Nations to Face Stricter Airport Screening; Federal Judge Tosses Charges Against Blackwater Operatives; Two Blackwater Operatives &amp; Jordanian Spy Among Dead at CIA Base; US Closes Embassy in Yemen Citing Threat; Afghan Parliament Rejects Most of Karzai's Cabinet Picks; Afghan Students Protest Killing of Civilians by US Forces; 101 Died in Pakistani Bombing at Volleyball Match; Report: The 00s Was a Lost Decade for American Workers; Food Stamps Now Only Source of Income for 6 Million Americans; 25-Year Sentence for Ex-Peruvian President Fujimori Upheld; Somali Man Charged with Attacking Danish Cartoonist; Indiana University Professor Don Belton Murdered; US Lifts 22-Year Ban on Visitors with HIV or <span class="caps">AIDS; Effigy of Obama Found Hanging in Georgia Town; Gaza Freedom Marchers Call for Divestment Against Israel

2010/01/05 Headlines: Jordanian Double Agent Blamed for CIA Base Bombing; General Criticizes State of US Intelligence in Afghanistan; Clinton: Situation in Yemen Threatens Global Stability; Senate and House Democrats to Forgo Committee Process to Reconcile Health Bill; Number of Bankruptcies Increases by 32 Percent; Maliki Threatens to Sue Blackwater over Killings; Germany Knew Nothing of Alleged CIA/Blackwater Murder Plot; Israel to Build New Israeli-Only Highway in West Bank; Israeli Military Officers Cancel Trip to Britain Fearing Arrest; Pentagon Resisting Obama's Plan to Reduce Nuclear Arsenal; New York Lawmakers Rally to Oppose Natural Gas Drilling; Greenpeace Activists Sentenced for Mt. Rushmore Action; Chilean Copper Miners Go On Strike; Annise Parker Becomes First Lesbian to Head Major City; President Obama Appoints Transgender Woman as Commerce Adviser

2010/01/06 Headlines: 1M Somalis Face Starvation as WFP Suspends Food Aid; Obama: US Intel Could Have Prevented Failed Jetliner Attack; US Won't Release Cleared Yemeni Prisoners from Gitmo; Dozens Wounded as Egypt Blocks Gaza Aid Convoy; McCain Calls for Appeal of Blackwater Ruling; Bolivia to Hold Indigenous Climate Conference; Dem. Sens Dorgan, Dodd Won't Seek Re-Election; Dems Begin Closed-Door Healthcare Talks; Court Upholds Sweeping Authority to Jail Terror Suspects; 10 Arrested at Protest for Jailed Immigrant Rights Leader Jean Montrevil

2010/01/07 Headlines: 13 Killed in US Drone Attacks in Pakistan; Al-Qaeda Group: CIA Base Bombing Was Revenge for Drone Strikes; Outgoing UN Envoy Warns of Increased Militarization in Afghanistan; Yemen: Jetliner Suspect Met Militant Cleric; Pentagon: 20% of Freed Gitmo Prisoners Engage in Militant Activity; Honduran Prosecutor Seeks Charges Against Military Leaders; Cuba Investigating Jailed US Contractor; Anti-Whaling Vessel Damaged in Collision with Whaling Ship; Aid Convoy Reaches Gaza; Connecticut AG to Run for Dodd's Seat; Fox News Correspondent: Woods Should Convert to Christianity; Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Survivor of Both Atomic Bombings, Dies at 93

2010/01/08 Headlines: 2 Blackwater Operatives Charged with Murder of Afghans; Blackwater, Iraqi Victims Reach Financial Settlement; Report Faults US Intel for Security Lapses in Failed Jetliner Attack; Yemen Warns Against US Military Attack; Canadian Muslim Alleges Mistreatment at US Border; Koch: "Hundreds of Millions" of Muslims Are Terrorists; Brother: CIA Bomber "Changed" by Israeli Assault on Gaza; Afghan War Killing At Least 3 Children Per Day; Pentagon Probes Beatings, Torture of Afghan Teens at Bagram; Admin Challenges Habeas Corpus for Bagram Prisoners; UN Rapporteur: Sri Lankan Execution Tapes Authentic; Israeli Bombings Kill 3 Palestinians in Gaza; Geithner-Led New York Fed Tried to Hide AIG Payments; Scientists Call for Ban on Mountaintop Removal; EPA Unveils Tougher Smog Standards; Study: 1 in 10 Youths Report Sexual Abuse in Juvenile Facilities

2010/01/11 Headlines: 85,000 Jobs Lost in December; Unemployment Rate at 10%; Wall Street Employees Grumble over Bonuses; Embedded British Journalist Killed in Afghanistan; Blackwater Vies for $1 Billion Afghan Police Contract; Video Aired of CIA Base Suicide Bomber; Four Killed in US Drone Strike in Pakistan; Report: US Overwhelmed by Air Force Drone Intelligence; Mitchell Issues Loan Guarantee Threat to Israel; US to Double Amount of Military Stockpiles in Israel; GOP Calls for Reid to Resign over Race Comments; ICE Officials Accused of Covering Up Immigrant Deaths in Detention; UBS Whistleblower Begins Jail Sentence; Federal Court to Hear Apartheid Reparations Case; Activists Start Fast on Anniversary of Opening of Guantanamo

2010/01/12 Headlines: Iranian Nuclear Physicist Assassinated in Tehran; Yemeni Cleric Warns Against “Foreign Occupation”; White House Considers New Tax on Large Banks; Federal Reserve Refuses to Release Details about Bailed-Out Banks; Federal Reserve Made $45 Billion in 2009; Federal Trial on Same-Sex Marriage Ban Begins in California; Pope Calls Gay Marriage an "Attack on Creation"; Six Foreign Troops Die in Afghanistan; Suicide Rate for Veterans Jumps 26 Percent; European Doctor: Big Pharma Exaggerated Threat of Swine Flu; Nigerian Leader Breaks Silence; Trial of Killer of Abortion Provider George Tiller Set to Begin; NJ Lawmakers OK Medical Marijuana Bill; Fox News Hires Sarah Palin; Single-Payer Activists Call Democrats to Allow C-SPAN to Air Healthcare Negotiations; Hunger Strikers Call for Closure of Guantanamo

2010/01/13 Headlines: Thousands Feared Dead in Massive Haiti Earthquake; Witnesses: NATO Troops Kill Afghan Protesters; 2 US Troops, 4 Afghan Soldiers Killed in Attacks; 16 Killed in US Drone Attack in Afghanistan; Report: Obama to Request $33B for Wars; Obama, Dems to Meet on Healthcare Bill; Insurance Firms Funded Anti-Healthcare Reform Ad Blitz; Obama Received Over $20M from Health Industry in '08; FDIC Calls for Penalizing Risky Compensation; Regulators Accuse BoA of Hiding Merrill Losses; 1 in 8 Americans Receiving Food Stamps; Study Links Monsanto GM Corn to Organ Failure; Activists Protest Carbon Trading Summit; Google to End China Censorship; Japan Delays Decision on Moving US Base; Israel Arrests Anti-Wall Activists; Miep Gies Dies at 100

2010/01/15 Headlines: Red Cross: Up to 50,000 Feared Dead in Haiti; WFP: Food Supplies Looted in Port-au-Prince; Bush to Co-Chair Haiti Relief; Cut Aid, Backed Coup Against Aristide; Aristide Seeks Return to Haiti; 16 Killed in US Drone Attack in Pakistan; 16 Killed in Afghan Bombing; Obama Proposes Bailout Tax on Wall Street; Wall Street to Pay Out Record $145B in Compensation; Record 2.8M Foreclosure Notices in 2009; Obama, Unions Agree on Taxing Insurance Plans; Study: African American Jobless Rate to Reach 25-Year High; Regulators Propose Limits on Energy Commodity Speculation

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2010/01/19 Headlines: 200,000 Feared Dead in Haiti; 1.5 Million Homeless; US Military Diverts Aid Planes from Haitian Airport; 18-Month-Old Girl Rescued from Collapsed Building; Gaza Residents Donate to Haiti Relief Effort; Private Security Companies Eye Work in Haiti; Obama Grants Haitian Immigrants Temporary Protected Status; US Military Covered Up Murder of Three Prisoners at Guantánamo; FBI Illegally Collected More Than 2,000 Call Records; Republican May Win Senate Seat in Masschusetts; Taliban Fighters Launch Attack on Kabul; Shell and Exxon Sign Iraq Oil Deals; Right-Wing Billionaire Wins Chilean Presidential Race; Wall Street Firms to Challenge Obama's New Tax Plan; Sen. Dodd Considers Scrapping Proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency

2010/01/20 Headlines: Powerful Aftershock Hits Haiti; Group: 20,000 Dying Daily from Lack of Surgery; Aid Begins Reaching Quake Epicenter; GOP Candidate Wins Upset Race for Mass. Senate Seat; Supreme Court Tosses Re-Sentencing for Mumia Abu-Jamal; Pakistani Suspect Alleges Torture on First Day of Trial; 8 Killed in Virginia Shooting; Israel Deports US Journalist; Israel Ends Work Permits for Foreign NGOs; Survey: Afghans Paid $2.5B in Bribes in 12-Month Period; US Firm Probed for Stamping Bible Verses on Rifle Sights

2010/01/21 Headlines: 10,000 Bodies Buried Daily in Quake Aftermath; Medical Group Faults US Militarization of Haitian Relief; IMF Drops Conditions on $100M Haiti Loan; US Expects 200,000 TPS Applicants; Obama to Propose Limits on Bank Size, Trades; Obama Targets Delinquent Gov't Contractors; Arms Industry Execs Indicted in Bribery Case; Justice Dept. Report Details Illegal FBI Monitoring; UN, Relief Groups Call on Israel to End Gaza Blockade; Netanyahu: Israeli Military Will Surround Future Palestinian State; US Lifts Bush-era Ban on Foreign Scholars; D.R., Honduran President-Elect Agree on Zelaya Exit; Texas Judge Cleared for Rejecting Last-Minute Death Row Appeal; Cindy McCain Opposes Gay Marriage Ban

2010/01/22 Headlines: Haiti to Relocate 400,000 from Port-au-Prince; Supreme Court: No Limit on Corporate Spending on Elections; Obama Proposes Limits on Bank Size, Trades; Afghans Protest Deadly NATO Raid; Gates Confirms Blackwater, DynCorp in Pakistan; 50 Gitmo Prisoners to Remain Behind Bars Without Trial; 42 Arrested on Eve of Gitmo Closure Deadline; NASA: Previous Decade Was Warmest on Record; Bipartisan Senate Bill Seeks to Block EPA from Regulating Gases; Tree-Sitting Activists Shut Down West Virginia Coal Mine; Edwards Admits to Fathering Child in Extramarital Affair; Air America to Cease Operations, File for Bankruptcy

2010/01/25 Headlines: 150,000 Bodies Buried in Haiti; Death Toll Could Top 300,000; Oxfam Calls for International Community to Cancel Haiti's $890 Million Debt; Hope for Haiti Telethon Raises $57 Million; Obama Assails Supreme Court Campaign Finance Ruling; Emails Show Fed Tried to Keep Details of AIG Bailout Secret; Obama to Reach Out to Middle Class Families in State of the Union; Wal-Mart Lays Off 11,000 Workers; Number of Children in Poverty in US Increases by 2.5 Million Since 2000; US to Appeal Blackwater Ruling; DynCorp Scrutinized over Iraq Police Contract; Report: Aung San Suu Kyi May Be Released in Nov.; Japanese Voters Back Anti-US Base Mayoral Candidate; Evo Morales Sworn In for Second Term; Netanyahu: Israel Will Retain Parts of West Bank Forever; West Virginia Mine Tree-Sit Enters Fifth Day; 450,000 Gallons of Oil Spill in Texas Waterway; Haitian Activist Jean Montrevil Released from ICE Detention

2010/01/26 Headlines: UN: 2 Million Haitians Need Immediate Food Aid; Canada Hosts Meeting to Discuss Rebuilding Haiti; Obama to Call for Freeze on Non-Defense Spending; Democrats Consider Bills to Limit Foreign Corporate Campaign Donations; White House Debate Legality of Assassinating US Citizen in Yemen; Bombings in Iraq Kill 60; “Chemical Ali” Executed In Iraq; Greek Farmers Stage Protests; Israeli Cabinet Minister: Goldstone Report on Gaza Is Anti-Semitic; Halliburton Asks Supreme Court to Block Rape Trial; Rallies Held in Albany over Natural Gas Drilling

2010/01/27 Headlines: Zelaya to Leave Honduras as Coup Leaders Cleared; Tear Gas Fired at Haitians Seeking Food Aid; Earthquake Survivor Rescued After 2 Weeks Beneath Rubble; Report: US Planning, Arming Yemen Military Operations; Obama Continues Bush-Era Assassination Policy; Incumbent Said to Win Sri Lankan Election; World Social Forum Convenes in Brazil; Ex-Adviser: UK Ignored Warnings of Iraq War Illegality; Obama to Deliver SOTU as Healthcare Bill Delayed; 1 in 5 US Households Went Hungry in 2009; Activist Behind ACORN Controversy Arrested for Wiretapping Office of Dem. Senator; 13 Peace Activists Arrested at White House Protest

2010/01/28 Headlines: Obama Stresses Job Recovery in State of Union Address; Zelaya Leaves Honduras as New President Takes Office; Report: US Military Spending in Haiti More Than Triples Assistance to Haitian Gov't; Haiti Postpones Parliamentary Vote, Suspends Orphan Flights; Survivor Found Beneath Rubble After 15 Days; Report: Pentagon Sending More Special Ops to Yemen; Aid Groups: Militarization of Aid Endangering Afghan Civilians; Geithner Faces Congressional Outrage for AIG Bailout; Dems Seek to Undo Supreme Court Ruling on Corporate Electioneering

2010/01/29 Headlines: US Submits Pledge to Reduce Emissions 4%; Divided Senate Confirms Bernanke for 2nd Term; Senate Raises Deficit Ceiling to $14.3T; Obama to Unveil Jobs Plan; Haitians Storm Food Sites as Hospitals Report Medicine Shortages; US Cool to Karzai Overture to Taliban Leaders; Iran Executes 2 Arrested in Election Protests; Senate OKs New Iran Sanctions; California Senate Passes Single-Payer Bill; Oregon Voters Back Progressive Tax Hike; Md. Firm Runs for Congress in Satire of Supreme Court Ruling; Author J.D. Salinger Dies at 91

2010/02/01 Headlines: US to Expand Missile Defense System in Persian Gulf; Obama Seeks $44B Increase for Pentagon; $5B for Nuclear Arsenal; White House Proposes Tripling Loan Guarantees for Nuke Plants; Bush Administration Attorneys Clears Torture Memo Authors; Roeder Convicted in First-Degree Murder of Dr. George Tiller; Watchdog: US Bailout May Result in Deeper Crisis in Future; US Resumes Medical Evacuation Flights from Haiti; Haitians Block Road and Seize Trucks to Protest Lack of Aid; 10 US Baptist Missionaries Arrested for Trying to Smuggle Out Haitian Children; Hamas Accuses Israel of Assassinating Top Hamas Official in Dubai; Israel: No Indictments in Tristan Anderson Shooting Case; Israeli Officers Disciplined for Using White Phosphorus in Gaza; Tony Blair Defends Invasion of Iraq; Iraqi Bombing Kills 41 Shiite Pilgrims; Report: Leader of Pakistan Taliban Killed in Drone Strike; US to Restart Aid to Honduras; CAIR Calls for Probe into <span class="caps">FBI Shooting of Muslim Cleric in Michigan; Education Secretary: Katrina Was “Best Thing” to Happen to Schools in New Orleans

2010/02/02 Headlines: War Spending Increases in Record $3.8T Budget Request; US Resumes Haiti Medical Evacuations After Cost Dispute; Jailed US Citizens Allege Torture in Pakistan; Report: US Drone Attacks Killed 123 Civilians in January; Human Rights Group Rejects Israeli "Whitewash" of Gaza Attack; Report: Israeli Bomb Found in Ruins of Gaza Flour Plant; Report: CIA Operatives Allowed to Work for Private Firms; US Proposes $6B Arms Deal with Taiwan; Autopsy: FBI Agents Shot Detroit Imam 21 Times; Coal Giant Wins Court Injunction Against Nonviolent Protesters; Tennessee Firm Exposed Black Workers to More Radiation than Whites; Arar Asks Supreme Court to Overturn Suit Dismissal

2010/02/03 Headlines: Military Leaders Back Repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell; 1M Earthquake Survivors Lack Food Aid; Missionaries Appear Before Haitian Judge; 3 US Soldiers Among Dead in Pakistan Bombing; 17 Killed in US Drone Strike in Pakistan; 20 Killed in Attack on Shiite Pilgrims; Ex-UK Minister: Cabinet Misled on Iraq Invasion; Report: US, Russia Reach Nuke Deal; Iran: "No Problem" with Enrichment Deal, Prisoner Swap Possible; Iran to Execute 9 Arrested in Post-Election Unrest; ICC Ordered to Review Genocide Omission in Bashir Case; Italian Peace Activists Protest US Military Base; AIG to Pay $100M in Bonuses; Justice Dept. Probes Imam Killing; Oscar Nominees Include Docs on China Earthquake, Burma and Pentagon Papers

2010/02/04 Headlines: Haiti Confirms Toll of Over 200,000; Clinton to Coordinate Haiti Relief for UN; Soldier Killings Highlight US Military Role in Pakistan; NATO, Afghan Forces Prepare War's Largest Joint Offensive; Iraqi Appeals Court Overturns Candidate Bans; Powell Backs Repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell; Toyota Admits New Flaws Amidst Mass Recall; House Bill Would Repeal Health Industry Antitrust Exemptions; EPA Guidelines Could Boost Ethanol Production

2010/02/05 Headlines: 27 Killed, 75 Wounded in Iraq Bombing; Intelligence Chief Confirms US Can Assassinate Americans Abroad; US Missionaries Charged with Kidnapping Haitian Children; Zelaya Criticizes Foes from Exile in Dominican Republic; Hundreds Protest Siddiqui Conviction in Pakistan Rally; Romania to Host US Missiles; Toyota Considers Prius Recall as Regulators Probe Brakes; Bank of America, Ex-Execs Indicted on Civil Fraud Charges; Google-NSA Partnership Draws Ire of Privacy Groups; Study: Charter Schools Increasing Racial Segregation in Classrooms; Right-Wing Activists Attend Inaugural Tea Party Convention; Vancouver Activists Prepare Anti-Olympic Protests

2010/02/08 Headlines: G7 Nations Pledge to Forgive Haiti's Debt; One Million Remain Homeless in Haiti; 20,000 Jobs Eliminated in January; Unemployment Rate Decreases; Goldman Sachs CEO Receives $9 Million Bonus; Regulators Probe Goldman Sachs Role in Collapse of AIG; Laura Chinchilla Elected President of Costa Rica; Two International Solidarity Movement Activists Arrested in West Bank; Israel Blocks Palestinian Geographer from Traveling Abroad; Iran Pledges to Build 10 New Uranium Enrichment Facilities in Next Year; Iran Arrests Seven Linked to US-Funded Radio Farda; At Least Five Workers Die at Power Plant Explosion in Conn.; Mitch Landrieu Wins New Orleans Mayoral Election; Canada Blocks Olympic Critic from Entering Country

2010/02/09 Headlines: US Pushes for New Sanctions Against Iran; Toyota Expands Recall to Include 2010 Prius; Rainy Season Approaches in Haiti; Anthem Blue Cross to Raise Rates by 39 Percent; Eli Lilly CEO Earned $16 Million in 2009; Report: Democratic Governors Assoc. Takes in Record Amount of Corporate Donations; First Lady Launches Campaign Against Childhood Obesity; Soda Industry Successful in Campaign Against Soda Tax; Russian-Backed Politician Wins Ukrainian Election; Report: Head of Pakistan Taliban Killed in Drone Strike; Chinese Court Sentences Earthquake Activist to Jail; Israeli Court Orders Release of International Activists; 12 Arrested at UC Irvine at Speech by Israeli Ambassador; Canadian Air Force Commander Charged with Murder; Army Sergeant Accused of Waterboarding Four-Year-Old Daughter; Rep. John Murtha, Iraq War Critic, Dies at 77

2010/02/10 Headlines: US Prepares New Sanctions on Iran; Haitian Death Toll Revised to 230,000; Haitian Women Protest Lack of Aid; US Firms Lobby Haiti for Reconstruction Deals; US Frees Jailed Iraqi Journalist; NATO Warns Afghan Civilians Ahead of Assault; India Blocks Sale of Monsanto GM Crop; Dems Help Defeat Nomination of Union Attorney to Labor Board; Prisoners Launch Hunger Strike at Texas Immigration Jail; Another US Activist Denied Entry to Canada Ahead of Olympics

2010/02/11 Headlines: Iran Curbs Opposition Protests, Blocks Communications; Declaring Uranium Enrichment, Ahmadinejad Says Iran a "Nuclear State"; US, UK Lose Bid to Censor Docs in British Torture Case; Iraqi Official Calls for Expulsion of Ex-Blackwater Forces; Ex-Employees Accuse Blackwater of Defrauding US, Billing for Prostitutes; Freed Iraqi Journalist Speaks Out Upon Release from US Military Prison; Obama Hosts Civil Rights Leaders on African American Unemployment; Study: Lowest-Income Americans Face 30% Unemployment; Student Files Suit over Detention for English-Arabic Study Materials; Appeals Court to Hear Arguments in Cell-Phone Tracking Case; Insurance Company Sued for Denying Treatment to 5-Year-Old Cancer Patient; Ex-Rep. Charlie Wilson Dies at 76

2010/02/12 Headlines: Top Insurers Post Record Profits While Dropping 2.7M Policyholders; Improved Corporate Profits Not Leading to Job Growth; Survey: Quarter of Job Losses Will Be Permanent; Reid Touts Dems' "Jobs Agenda"; Labor Dept. Reverses Bush-Era Farmworker Regulations; Legislation Seeks to Curb Supreme Court Ruling on Corporate Electioneering; Ending Family Era, Rep. Kennedy Announces Retirement; US Sets May 1st Target for Sheltering Haitians, Long After Rainy Season Begins; Judge Calls for Release of Detained Missionaries; US Dismisses Iranian Claims on Uranium Enrichment; Iranian Forces Arrest Opposition Leaders, Disrupt Protests; European Lawmakers Reject Financial Data-Sharing with US; Report: 700 Military Bases in Afghanistan; US Army to Discharge Single Mother Who Refused Deployment; Poll: 75% Support Openly Gay Men and Lesbians in Military; Openly Gay Servicemember Resumes Military Drills; Iraq War Vet Faces Court-Martial for Song Criticizing Forced Redeployment

2010/02/15 Headlines: 12 Die as US Bombs Wrong House as Part of New Afghan Offensive; Targeted Killings Increase Under President Obama; Haitians Hold Day of Mourning One Month After Earthquake; Record $3.47 Billion Spent on Federal Lobbying in 2009; Report: Goldman Sachs Helped Greece Hide Mounting Debts; Clinton: Iran Moving Toward a “Military Dictatorship”; Israel to Reroute Part of West Bank Wall Following Years of Protest; Palestinians Dress as Avatar Na'vi to Protest Israeli Wall; British Journalist Jailed in Gaza; Burmese Pro-Democracy Leader Released from Detention; Report: Oceans to Become More Acidic than Any Time in 65 Million Years; Anthem Blue Cross Puts Off Plan to Raise Rates; Forestry Company to Pay $2.75 Million to Immigrant Guestworkers; Floridians Protest Offshore Oil Drilling Proposal

2010/02/16 Headlines: Report: Taliban's Top Military Commander Captured; Civilian Casualties Mount During US Offensive in Afghanistan; 11 Face Arrest for Assassination of Hamas Commander in Dubai; Four Haitian Children Die in School Collapse; Haitian President: It Will Take Three Years to Remove Rubble; Regulators: Toyota Flaws Linked to Deaths of 34; Anti-Coup Activists in Honduras Still Facing Human Rights Abuses; US to Give Loan Guarantees to Build New Nuclear Reactors; 26 Arrested at Anti-Nuke Protest in Britain; Hundreds Protest in Geneva Calling for Human Rights in Iran; Egyptian Dissident Ayman Nour Considers 2011 Presidential Run; New York to Give $72 Million to Help Build Charter Schools; Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) Will Not Seek Reelection; Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) Faces Right-Wing Challenger; Polk Award Given to Unnamed People Who Filmed Death of Iranian Student

2010/02/17 Headlines: Afghan Civilian Toll Rises in NATO Assault on Marjah; US Drone Attack Kills 3 in Pakistan; Obama to Boost Nuclear Loan Guarantees; Study: Haiti Damage Could Top $13.2B; Clinton: Iran World's "Largest Supporter of Terrorism"; Ahmadinejad: Iran Open to Fuel Swap; White House Won't Rule Out Military Action in Iran; US to Appoint Ambassador to Syria; Judge Dismisses Lawsuit over Gitmo Deaths; Group: Record Killings of Journalists in 2009; No Civil Rights Charges in Police Killing of Sean Bell; La. Jury Acquits White Officers in Killing of 73-Year-Old African American

2010/02/18 Headlines: Obama: Stimulus Saved 2 Million Jobs, Averted Depression; As US Seizes Marjah, UN Rejects "Militarization" of Aid; UN: US Restrictions Curbing Aid Efforts in Somalia; UN Relief Coordinator "Disappointed" in Haiti Response; 8 Missionaries Freed in Haiti, Return to US; UK, Ireland Summon Israeli Ambassadors over Dubai Killing; 10 Killed in Iraq Bombing; Interior Minister: Iraq to Seize Weapons from Foreign Contractors; UN: Cluster Bomb Treaty Could Be Ratified; Top UN Climate Change Negotiator Resigns; Poll: Wide Majority Opposes Supreme Court Ruling on Corporate Electioneering; Portland Officer Cleared in Fatal Shooting of Unarmed African American; Va. Governor Rescinds Workplace Protections for Gay Men and Lesbians; Johns Hopkins Students Disrupt Yoo Speech; ACLU Asks UN Rapporteur to Intervene for Montana Prisoner

2010/02/19 Headlines: Admin to Seek Senate Ratification of Test Ban Treaty; Report: Largest Corporations Responsible for $2.2T in Environmental Damage; Obama to Back Health Bill through Budget Reconciliation; Study: Highest Medicaid Enrollment in Decades; Admin Criticizes Insurer Profits, Rising Premiums; UN Launches Record $1.4B Appeal for Haiti; Second Major Rainfall Since Quake Hits Haiti; 6 NATO Troops Killed in Afghanistan Offensive; IAEA: Iran Could Be Developing Nukes; US Changes Name of Iraq War; Niger President Overthrown in Military Coup; Texas IRS Building Attacked in Suicide Flight; Obama Names Bipartisan Panel on Deficit; US Reaches $1.25B Settlement with Black Farmers; Family of Slain Journalist Brad Will Praises Release of Oaxaca Activist; Kerik Sentenced to 4-Year Term

2010/02/22 Headlines: 33 Afghan Civilian Killed in NATO Air Strike; Dutch Troops to Leave Afghanistan After Gov't Collapses; German Activists Protest Against Afghan War; Sunni Party to Boycott Iraqi Election; Justice Dept. Clears Torture Memo Authors; Report: Netanyahu OKed Assassination of Hamas Commander; Toyota Cited $100 Million Savings by Delaying Safety Regulations; Toyota Expands Lobbying Presence in Washington; House Panel to Probe Natural Gas Drilling; Penn. School Admits to Remotely Activating Webcams on Student Computers; Study: Gay Soldiers Accepted in Foreign Armies; Ron Paul Wins CPAC Poll; Activists Interrupt Israeli Ballet Performance in Vermont; Roslyn Brock to Chair NAACP Board; Ex-Sec. of State Alexander Haig, 85, Dies; Anniversary of Malcolm X's Assassination Marked

2010/02/23 Headlines: McChrystal Apologizes for Afghan Civilian Casualties; US Death Toll Reaches 1,000; US Commander: Withdrawal from Iraq May Be Delayed; Sudan to Sign Darfur Peace Deal; Democrats $15B Jobs Bill Advances in Senate with GOP Help; Report: Wall Street Bonuses Increased 17 Percent in 2009; Obama Outlines Healthcare Priorities Ahead of Bipartisan Meeting; Afghan Immigrant Pleads Guilty in NYC Subway Bombing Plot; EPA Delays New Greenhouse Gas Emissions Regulations; Energy Department OKs Loan Guarantee for Solar Power Plant in California; Friends of Earth Challenges Proposed New Nuke Plant in South Carolina; Toyota Faces Criminal Probe; Turkey Arrests Former Generals in Alleged Coup Plot; Poland Confirms Secret CIA Flight Landings; Lawmakers Calls for Phasing Out of Military Contractors; Police Officers Acquitted in Sodomy Case

2010/02/24 Headlines: Admin: "Not Enough Political Support" for Public Option; Toyota Exec Unsure if Recall Will Address Acceleration Issues; Wall St. Securities Bonuses Up 17%; Loans Hit 60-Year Low; 700 Banks at Risk; Dems Losing Wall St. Donations Amid Regulatory Push; Latin American, Caribbean Nations Form New Regional Grouping; Cuban Dissident Dies After Hunger Strike; Blackwater Diverted Weapons Intended for Afghan Army; Palestinians Protest Israeli Decision on West Bank Shrines; FBI, US Attorney Probing Penn. School District's Computer Spying; Correction: US Death Toll in Afghanistan Approaching 1,000

2010/02/25 Headlines: US Installs New Governor in Marjah; House Votes to Strip Insurers of Anti-Trust Exemption; In Healthcare Reform, 8 Lobbyists for Every Member of Congress; Admin Backs Off Consumer Agency, Trading Curbs; Obama Defends Economic Agenda; Senate OKs $15B Jobs Bill; Senate Extends PATRIOT Act Spy Provisions; Blackwater Changed Name to Receive Raytheon Contract; Activist Claims Death Threat from Blackwater Employee; Toyota Head Apologizes for Safety Recall; Udall, Dodd Propose Constitutional Amendment to Reverse Ruling on Corporate Electioneering; Ex-Police Lt. Admits to Cover-Up in Post-Katrina Killings; Vermont State Senate Votes to Close Nuclear Plant; India, Pakistan Hold Peace Talks; Cuba "Regrets" Death of Jailed Dissident; Maryland to Recognize Out-of-State Same-Sex Marriages

2010/02/26 Headlines: Healthcare Summit Fails to Reach Agreement; 17 Killed in Afghan Attacks; Israel to Build 600 New Homes in East Jerusalem Settlements; Shrine Uproar Fuels New Protests in Hebron; Iraq Reinstates 20,000 Army Officers; Major Storm Headed to Haiti; Thousands of Hondurans March in Anti-Coup Protest; Zelaya Rejects Corruption Charges; Coup Leader Retires; VA to Review Disability Claims of Gulf War Vets; Citibank Cancels Account of Gay Networking Site; Admin to Seek Improved Wages, Benefits at Federal Contractors; US Firms Probed for Role in Greek Financial Crisis; Protests at UC Schools Ahead of Statewide Day of Action

2010/03/01 Headlines: Over 700 Killed in 8.8-Magnitude Earthquake in Chile; US Begins Planning for Assault on Kandahar; Obama Signs Extension of PATRIOT Act; Documents Reveal Pentagon Spied on Planned Parenthood; Dodd Abandons Efforts to Create Consumer Financial Protection Agency; Hundreds of Thousands Lose Unemployment Benefits Due to GOP Filibuster; David Paterson Withdraws from New York Governor's Race; Report: Two Suspects in Dubai Killing Entered United States; UN Approves Goldstone Report Resolution on Gaza War Crimes; Mohamed ElBaradei Considers Presidential Run in Egypt; Flooding in Haiti Kills 11; Independent Board to Review Findings of International Climate Panel; Judge Orders Anti-Coal Protesters to Stay Away from Massey Mines; Van Jones to Head Think Tank's "Green Opportunity Initiative"

2010/03/02 Headlines: Chile Appeals for International Help; Chilean Earthquake Slightly Shifted Earth's Axis; Obama to Urge Senate Pass Healthcare Bill by Legislation; Sen. Bunning Continues Filibuster of Unemployment Benefits Bill; Obama Voices Approval for Firing of Rhode Island Teachers; Media Banned from Covering Taliban Attacks in Afghanistan; Violence in Iraq Increases Ahead of Election; Ex-Bosnian Serb Leader Karadzic Defends Himself at UN Tribunal; Report: 230 Civilians Killed in Darfur; Greeks Protest Outside Labor Ministry; Arkansas Sen. Lincoln to Face Challenge from Fellow Democrat; Harold Ford to Not Challenge Sen. Gillibrand; Jerry Brown to Run for Governor in California; ACORN Cleared in New York Probe; Suspicious Substance Found at IRS Office in Utah; Study: Common Weedkiller Turns Male Frogs into Females

2010/03/03 Headlines: 30 Killed in Iraq Suicide Bombings; Witness: State Dept. Officials Sought Exoneration of Blackwater Guards; US Awards KBR $2.8B Contract in Iraq; Israel Delays East Jerusalem Home Demolitions; UN Humanitarian Chief: Gaza an "Open-Air Prison"; Senate Extends Jobless Benefit After Bunning Drops Filibuster; Nissan to Recall 540,000 Vehicles; Study: Insurance Premium Hikes Far Exceed Costs, Inflation; Report: Right-Wing Extremist Groups Grew 244% in 2009; LA to Warn 5,200 Teachers of Layoffs; Admin to Adopt Second Measure of US Poverty Rate; Supreme Court Refuses to Block DC Gay Marriage Law

2010/03/04 Headlines: Obama Backs Reconciliation Vote on Healthcare Reform; 9 Killed in Iraq Bombings; Biden Vows Ongoing US Combat Operations After Pullout; Report: High Number of Birth Defects Seen in Fallujah; Iran Arrests Opposition Activists; US Circulates New Draft of Iran Sanctions; Clinton: US "Deeply Concerned" about Venezuela; Arab League Backs Resumption of Mideast Peace Talks; HRW: Attacks Increasing Against Honduran Coup Opponents; Report: US Mulls Ending Training Ban on Atrocity-Linked Indonesian Unit; Rangel Takes Leave as Ways and Means Chair; General: Wars Hamper Training of US Troops

2010/03/05 Headlines: Students, Teachers Take Part in Nationwide Protests Against Education Cuts; Gunman Dies After Wounding Two Police Officers at Pentagon; White House Hosts Insurance Execs, Dems on Healthcare; House OKs $15B Jobs Bill; House Panel Votes to Recognize Armenian Genocide; Levin Questions Blackwater Bid for $1 Billion Deal in Afghanistan; Study: 1 in 3 US Drone Victims in Pakistan is a Civilian; Aftershock Hits Chile as Gov't Lowers Death Toll; Clinton: US to Restore Honduras Aid; Dems Urge Admin to Probe Honduran Abuses; Mexico City Enacts Gay Marriage Law; Suit: Energy Giants' Emissions Worsened Katrina Impact; Utah Rep. Revises Sweeping Anti-Abortion Bill; Va. GOP Lawmaker: Disabilities Are God's Punishment for Abortions; AIG Units Settle Allegations of Discriminatory Lending; Report: Admin to Scrap Civilian Trial for Alleged 9/11 Mastermind

2010/03/08 Headlines: Vote Counting Begins in Iraq; 38 Killed on Election Day; British War Resister Sentenced to Nine Months in Jail; US-Backed Somali Troops Prepare Major Offensive; Hundreds Killed in Nigerian City of Jos; Biden Heads to Israel as Palestinians Agree to Indirect Talks; Protests Set to Mark US Visit by Israeli Military Official; Report: US Gives $107B in Contracts to Firms Busting Iran Sanctions; Voters in Iceland Reject Payment of $5.3 Billion Foreign Debt; Unemployment Rate Remains at 9.7%; 36,000 Jobs Lost in February; Rep. Massa to Resign; Rep. Delahunt Not to Seek Reelection; Pentagon Shooter Railed About Property Rights and the Monetary System; Texas Judge: Death Penalty Unconstitutional; Seven Muslims Detained in Nevada for Praying Outside; Video Shows Police Beating Student Protesters in California; Historic Night at Academy Awards

2010/03/09 Headlines: Obama Campaigns for Healthcare Reform; Former Rep. Massa Claims He Was Forced Out over Healthcare Bill; Protests Planned Outside Health Insurance Company Meeting; Gates: “More Dark Days” Ahead in Afghanistan; Claim: Pentagon Peddled Misinformation about Attack on Marjah; Nigerians Bury Dead After Massacre; Greek PM Calls for Crackdown on Financial Speculators; Biden: US Ties to Israel Are “Unshakable”; Burmese Refugees in Bangladesh Face Starvation; UN Official Warns Against Full Body Airport Scanners; Midwestern Towns Sue Manufacturer of Atrazine Weedkiller; Interior Dept. Puts Off Listing Sage Grouse as Endangered Species; Obama Criticized for Adding Just Two Species to Endangered List; Conservationist Edgar Wayburn, 103, Dies

2010/03/10 Headlines: Israel Announces Major Settlement Expansion Amid Biden Visit; NY Activists Protest Israeli Military Chief; Préval in US Ahead of Aid Request; EU: Climate Proposals Could Increase Emissions; India Advances Historic Measure on Women Lawmakers; Ex-UK Intel Chief: US Misled Allies on Treatment of Prisoners; Thousands Protest Insurers in DC; Utah Gov. Signs Anti-Abortion Measure; Study: Number of US Millionaires Increased 16% in 2009; Bank of America to End Overdraft Fees on Debit Purchases; 1st Gay Marriages Performed in DC; Veteran Activist Doris "Granny D" Haddock Dies at 100

2010/03/11 Headlines: PA Rejects Talks with Israel in Settlement Row; Report: Israel Plans 50,000 New Units in West Bank; Civil Trial Begins over Israeli Army Killing of Rachel Corrie; Gates Pledges Weapons Aid to Saudi Arabia; Préval: US Lawmakers Rejecting Direct Aid to Haitian Gov't; Burma Bars Political Opponents from Elections; Labor Dept: Unemployment Increases in 30 States; Senate OKs $138B Jobs Measure; Proposed Consumer Agency Won't Regulate Major Lenders; White House Faces Opposition to Overhauling Student Loans; Dems to Bar Federal Earmarks for Corporations; Judge Instructs Fed Agencies to Resume ACORN Funding; Kansas City Announces Major School Closures, Layoffs; UN Rapporteur: Obama Admin Should Probe Torture; State Dept. Awards 10 with International Women of Courage Award

2010/03/12 Headlines: Ground Zero Workers, NYC Reach Settlement on Toxic Exposure; 39 Killed in Pakistan Bombings; Israel Imposes West Bank Closure Hours After Biden Departure; British Journalist Freed in Gaza; UN: Millions Face Starvation in Yemen; Scores Killed in Somalia Clashes; Greeks Hold National Strike Against Austerity Program; Aftershock Hits Chile as New President Sworn In; Ex-Wife Criticizes Nelson Mandela for Deal Ending Apartheid; Reid Informs GOP of Healthcare Reconciliation Plans; House Dems Shun Anti-Abortion Provisions; Dodd to Unveil Regulatory Overhaul Without GOP; Obama Unveils Trade, Export Plan; Senate Panel OKs Weakened Drug Sentencing Proposal; Second NOLA Officer Pleads Guilty in Bridge Shooting Cover-up; Mississippi School Cancels Prom over Lesbian Student

2010/03/15 Headlines: White House Predicts Passage of Healthcare Bill; Ambassador: US-Israeli Relations Face Worst Crisis in 35 Years; Report: Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants; 35 Die in Kandahar Bombings; 3 with Ties to US Consulate Killed in Mexico; FCC to Unveil High-Speed Internet Plan; Unemployment Rate for Young Veterans Reaches 21.1 Percent; Wife of Justice Clarence Thomas Creates Tea Party-Linked Lobbying Group; Texas Conservatives Approve Changes to School Curriculum; Fed Panel: NY Discriminated Against Arab Principal; Study Finds Link Between Childhood Obesity and School Lunch; Air Force Sergeant Discharged After Being Outed by Local Police

2010/03/16 Headlines: US Raid Kills Two Pregnant Women and Teenage Girl in Afghanistan; Federal Auditors Block New Blackwater Contract; House Might Pass Healthcare Bill Without Direct Vote; Dodd Unveils Financial Reform Legislation; Mitchell Delays Trips to Israel over Settlement Dispute; Israel to Close Off Palestinian Village on Days of Wall Protests; UN Munitions Team Finds 84 Unexploded White Phosphorus Shells in Gaza; UN: More Money Needed for Haiti Humanitarian Aid Fund; Thai Protesters Plan to Splatter Blood on Thai Gov't HQ; Ex-Sri Lankan Military Chief Faces Court-Martial; Six More Iranian Protesters to be Executed; German and Irish Churches Face Sexual Abuse Scandals; Study: Black and Latinos Face Longer Prison Sentences; Officials Urge Participation in 2010 Census; Hundreds of Students Protest Cuts in Atlanta; 23,000 California Teachers Receive Layoff Notices

2010/03/17 Headlines: 10 Palestinians Seriously Wounded in Israeli Crackdown on Jerusalem Protests; Rejecting US Criticism, Israel Announces New Settlement Construction; Palestinians Name Ramallah Street After Slain US Activist Rachel Corrie; 9 Killed in US Drone Attacks in Pakistan; ACLU Sues US for Disclosures on Drone Attacks; Report: US Sending "Bunker Buster" Bombs to Diego Garcia; Ex-PM Holds Slight Lead in Iraqi Elections; Ban: Haiti in "Race Against Time" Before Rainy Season; Afghanistan Confirms Amnesty Law for War Crimes; NZ Peace Activists Acquitted for Antiwar Protest; 5 Dems Announce Opposition to Healthcare Bill; Penn. Nearly Doubles Cost of Low-Income Insurance Program; Top Economic Officials Foresee "Elevated" Unemployment Rate; Admin Threatens Veto of Intel Funding over Oversight Provisions; US Military: Sexual Assaults Up 11% in 2009; University of Florida Students Protest Police Shooting of African Graduate Student; Irish Activist, Rendition Critic Has US Visa Revoked

2010/03/18 Headlines: Healthcare Bill Gets Boost as 2 Dems Pledge Support; Senate OKs $18B Jobs Bill; Obama Downplays Israeli Settlement Dispute; Lula Backs Palestinian Struggle in West Bank Visit; Thai Guestworker Killed in Gaza Rocket Attack; 5 Jailed US Citizens Charged in Pakistan; Penn. Regulators Probe Suspected Drilling Contamination; Senate Backs Reduction of Drug Sentencing Disparity; Report: Insurance Company Had Policy Targeting HIV-Positive Policyholders; US Reviewing Restrictions on Gay Blood Donors; Detroit to Close 44 Schools; Witnesses: Madoff Assaulted by Fellow Prisoner; Muslim Scholar to Make First US Appearance Since Lifting of Ban

2010/03/19 Headlines: House Dems Unveil Healthcare Bill as Obama Delays Trip; Immigration Reform Rally to Be Held in DC; Report: Israeli PM Refuses to Cancel Settlement Expansion, Offers Delay; 2 Palestinians Wounded in Israeli Attack on Gaza; US Criticizes Russia on Iran Nuclear Plant, Holds START Talks; US Begins New Offensive in Afghanistan; Report: Blair Tied to Iraq-Linked Oil Firm; Fmr. Guatemalan PM Alleges Retaliation for Iraq War Opposition in Extradition Order; Activists Protest Mountaintop Removal Outside EPA; EPA to Probe How Fracking Impacts Water Supplies; Oil Leases Suspended in Montana Pending Environmental Review; 2 Arrested at White House Protesting "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"; Arizona Cancels Children's Insurance Program

2010/03/22 Headlines: House OKs Landmark Healthcare Reform Bill; House Backs Student Aid Overhaul; Racial, Homophobic Epithets Shouted at Right-Wing Protest; Up to 500,000 March for Immigration Reform in DC; Peace Activists Mark 7th Anniversary of Iraq Invasion; Israeli Military Kills 4 Palestinian Teens; Israeli PM Vows Ongoing Settlement Expansion; Netanyahu, Obama to Meet at White House; UN Secretary-General Calls for End to Gaza Blockade, "Illegal" Settlement Building; US Drone Attack Kills 8 in Pakistan; Obama Says US to Pursue Iran Sanctions; Salvadorans Begin Marking 30th Anniversary of Romero Murder; Senate Banking Committee Takes Up Financial Reform; Palestinian Journalist Prevented from Entering US; New York Homelessness Soars 34%

2010/03/23 Headlines: Obama to Sign Healthcare Bill; GOP Prepares Repeal Bid; Senate Banking Committee Backs Dodd Bill; Report: US Mulls Bagram as Next Gitmo; Judge Orders Release of Gitmo Prisoner; Netanyahu Rejects US Call for Settlement Freeze; Code Pink Disrupts Netanyahu Speech, Pulls Off AIPAC Hoax; Karzai Meets with Afghan Militant Group; US Halts Poppy Eradication in Afghan Areas; Iraqi Election Commission Rejects Recount Call; Haitians Protest Bush, Clinton in Port-au-Prince; Bolivia Proposes Declaring Potable Water a Universal Right; Google Closes Search Engine in China; ACORN to Cease Existence as National Organization; NYT Admits Errors in Reporting on <span class="caps">ACORN Controversy; Report: Fmr. Blackwater Execs Face Weapons Charges; KBR, Halliburton Withdraw Challenge to Rape Suit; Malcolm X Assassin Granted Parole

2010/03/24 Headlines: Obama Signs Healthcare Bill into Law as Senate Takes Up Revisions; Israel Approves New Settlements as Obama, Netanyahu Hold White House Meeting; Pelosi: Dems, GOP United in Backing Israeli Gov't; UK Expels Israeli Diplomat for Passport Forgery in Hamas Killing; Students Rally for Aid Overhaul, DREAM Act; Graham Proposal Would Continue Indefinite Jailing of Terror Suspects; Court Strikes Down Restrictions on Media Ownership; Compensation Czar Cuts Pay 15% at Bailed-Out Firms; US, Mexico Announce New Cooperation in Drug Fight; Panel: Coca-Cola Owes $47M for Environmental Damage in Indian Village; Pentagon to Review Military Information Operations in Wake of Contractor Scandal; LA Police Officers Fatally Shoot Unarmed Autistic Man; Judge: Miss. School Board Violated Rights of Lesbian Teen in Prom Denial; Jeremy Scahill Wins Izzy Award for Special Achievement in Independent Media; Salvadoran President to Issue Formal State Apology on 30th Anniversary of Romero Murder

2010/03/25 Headlines: GOP Forces New House Vote on Healthcare Bill; Dems Face Threats over Healthcare Bill; Media Barred from Signing of Anti-Abortion Order; US, Russia Reach Arms Pact; US, Israel at Impasse in Settlement Dispute; Report: US Eases Iran Sanctions to Win Russia, China Backing; Afghan Militant Group Submits Peace Offer; US Hosts Pakistani Officials, Pledges Increased Cooperation; El Salvador Offers Apology on 30th Anniversary of Romero Murder; Argentina Marks 34th Anniversary of Military Coup; Island in Bay of Bengal Disappears Under Rising Sea; Pentagon to Announce Curbs on Gay Military Ban; Report: Pope Ignored Molestation of 200 Boys by US Priest; Indonesian Media Reports Nairn Faces Arrest

2010/03/26 Headlines: Congress Approves Final Healthcare Provisions; Sen. Sanders Praises Expansion of Primary Healthcare; Report: 1,700 Corporations Lobbied on Healthcare; Suspicious White Powder Sent to Office of Rep. Weiner; Conservative Think Tank Fires Former Bush Speech Writer; Student Loan Package Passed in Congress; GOP Blocks Jobless Benefits Bill; Obama to Announce New Program to Help Homeowners; Pope Faces Increasing Criticism in Sexual Abuse Scandals; Indonesian Human Rights Groups Call on Army to Stop Denying Assassination Report; US-Israel Agree to $250M Arms Deal; Rights Group Criticizes Arrest of Venezuelan Critics; Last Decade Was Warmest on Record; Regulators Reject Entergy's Effort to Spin Off Nuclear Power Plants; Student President Vetoes UC Berkeley Divestment Resolution

2010/03/29 Headlines: Suicide Bombings Kill 37 in Moscow Subway; Obama Makes Surprise Visit to Afghanistan; US Admits Innocent Afghans Killed at Checkpoints; FBI Raids Right-Wing Christian Militia; Iraqi PM Maliki Moves to Overturn Election Loss; US and Russia Seal Nuke Reduction Treaty; Unemployment Rate Increases in 27 States; Obama Makes 15 Recess Appointments; ICE Set Quotas to Deport More Undocumented Immigrants; Two Israelis, Four Palestinians Killed in Gaza; Judge Blocks NYC from Closing 19 Public Schools; 6,000 South Africans March in Walk Memorializing Gandhi

2010/03/30 Headlines: Death Toll in Moscow Subway Bombing Rises to 39; Michigan-based Christian Military Accused of Plotting War Against Federal Gov't; Skinhead Pleads Guilty to Obama Assassination Plot; Penn. Man Arrested for Threat to Kill Rep. Eric Cantor; Ten Young Mexican Students Killed at Drug Cartel Checkpoint; Israel to Allow First Shipment of Clothes to Gaza in Nearly Three Years; Burmese Opposition Party to Boycott Elections; Lawsuit Filed over Secretive Prison Units; Tennessee and Delaware Awarded $600M in Race to the Top Program; EPA to Delay Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Fires Reported at Three Nuclear Power Plants; GOP Spent Nearly $2,000 in Party Funds at Bondage-Themed Nightclub; Details Emerge about 2002 Death in CIA Secret Prison; Postal Service Wants to End Saturday Mail Delivery

2010/03/31 Headlines: Obama Proposes Lifting Offshore Drilling Moratorium; Final Installment of Healthcare Bill Signed; Heath Insurance Companies Drop Plan to Exploit Loophole in Bill; 12 Die in Pair of Blasts in Southern Russia; Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Teenager During “Land Day” Protest; Obama Calls for New Sanctions Against Iran; Report: Iranian Nuclear Scientist Defects to US; Haiti to Unveil Reconstruction Plan at UN Donors Conference; CodePink Protester Attempts to Make Citizen's Arrest of Karl Rove; Father of Dead US Marine Ordered to Pay Anti-Gay Protesters; Report: Global Warming Skeptics Bankrolled by Koch Industries; UK Panel Clears "Climategate" Scientists; Northeastern States Declared Disaster Areas After Heavy Rains; Indonesian TV Station Cancels Nairn Interview Due to Military Pressure

2010/04/01 Headlines: Judge: NSA Wiretapping Program Illegal; Obama Authorizes New Gas Drilling Off US Coasts; Donors Pledge $9.9B for Haiti Reconstruction; Haitian Earthquake Refugees Detained in US Immigration Jails; Clinton: Security Council Ready to Discuss Iran Sanctions; US Reportedly Tests Nuke-Capable Missiles; Chechen Rebel Admits to Moscow Subway Bombing; Report: Vatican Received 1963 Warning on Pedophile Priests; Majority of Jailed Male Youths Abused in Afghanistan; Study: Homeowner Program Favoring White Borrowers; New Orleans Police Officer Indicted in Shooting Cover-Up; Obama Appoints Pesticide Executive to Top Trade Post

2010/04/02 Headlines: EPA Places New Limits on Mountaintop Removal; US Limits Greenhouse Emissions in Cars; Murderer of Abortion Provider Dr. George Tiller Sentenced to Life Term; Israel Threatens New Assault on Gaza Strip; Karzai Accuses Ex-UN Official of Steering Electoral Fraud; Amazonian Land Activist Killed in Brazil; Report: Africa Lost $1.8T to Illegal Outflows; US Alters Airport Screening Rules; Justice Dept. Sues KBR for Security Billing; Army Secretary: No Easing of Don't Ask, Don't Tell; US Bankruptcies at 4-Year High; California Probe Clears ACORN of Unlawful Activity; Haitian Earthquake Survivors Freed from Immigration Jails

2010/04/05 Headlines: Three Die in Attack on US Consulate in Pakistan; Suicide Bombers Target Foreign Embassies in Iraq; US Forces Admit Killing Two Pregnant Afghan Women &amp; Teenager; Karzai Lashes Out at Western Nations; 200,000 Unemployed Workers Lose Jobless Benefits; 162,000 Jobs Created in March; Jobless Rate Remains at 9.7 Percent; Justice Stevens to Decide Soon on Retirement; DHS Report Criticizes 287(g) Immigration Program; South African White Supremacist Murdered; Pro-ElBaradei Book Publisher Arrested in Egypt; Indian Point Nuclear Plant Denied Key Permit; Obama Adopts Bush-Era Mining Rule; Anti-Whaling Activists Block Japanese Ship; State Governors Receive Threatening Letters; 115 Chinese Coal Miners Rescued After a Week

2010/04/06 Headlines: 25 Die in WV Coal Mine Explosion; Obama to Issue New Nuclear Posture Review; Leaked Video Shows US Killing Reuters Staff in Iraq; 28 Die in Baghdad Bombings; NATO Air Strike Kills Four Civilians in Afghanistan; US-Backed Pakistani Troops Accused of Carrying Out Assassinations; Some Schools Reopen in Haiti; US to Fine Toyota $16.4 Million; WellPoint CEO Receives 51 Percent Salary Increase; Texas Man Arrested for Threatening Abortion Clinic; Record Temperatures Reported in Northeast; UC Berkeley Student Protesters Face Seven-Month Suspension

2010/04/07 Headlines: Admin Refuses to Call for Probe of US Killing of Iraqis; Pentagon Claims It Can't Locate Tape of Iraq Attack; Appeals Court Blocks FCC Regulation of Net Neutrality; Revised US Nuke Policy Offers Few Changes; 4 Miners Remain Missing; Gases Limit Rescue Effort; 76 Indian Police Killed in Maoist Attack; Scores Arrested at Egyptian Pro-Democracy Rally; 5 Killed in Kyrgyz Anti-Gov't Protests; Admin: Karzai Remarks May Force Cancellation of US Visit; Ex-UN Diplomat Suggests Karzai Has Drug Problem; Report: US-Born Cleric Placed on CIA Assassination List; Wilma Mankiller of Cherokee Nation Dies at 64

2010/04/08 Headlines: US, Russia Sign Nuclear Reduction Pact; Opposition Claims Control of Kyrgyzstan Following Deadly Clashes; US Suspends Flights at Kyrgyz Military Base; Rescuers Enter West Va. Coal Mine; SEC Proposes Banks Share Losses on Asset-Backed Securities; Greenspan Defends Record at Financial Crisis Hearing; 2 Arrested for Healthcare-Linked Threats to Dem. Lawmakers; Researchers Forecast Above-Average Hurricane Season; North Korea Gives 8-Year Sentence to US National; Israeli Journalist Under House Arrest for Exposing Illegal Assassinations; Qatari Diplomat Held After In-Flight Smoking Incident

2010/04/09 Headlines: Rescue Effort Continues at W. Va. Mine; More Safety Violations Revealed; Kyrgyz President, Opposition Claim Control of Gov't; US Troops Killed in Afghan Helicopter Crash; Israeli PM Withdraws from US Nuke Summit; Iranian Minister Hints at Espionage Trial for Jailed US Hikers; Spanish Judge Faces Trial for Franco Probe; Fmr. Citigroup Execs Appear Before Financial Crisis Panel; EPA Faults California Waste Plant for Chemical Disposal; Protesters Demand Firing of SF Officer in 2009 Shooting; ACORN Staffer Reported Prostitution Claims to Police; Virginia Gov. Apologizes for Excluding Slavery from Confederate History Month Proclamation

2010/04/12 Headlines: Afghan Civilians Slain in US Attack on Passenger Bus; Clinton Touts US Nuclear Dominance Ahead of DC Summit; Justice Stevens Announces Retirement from Supreme Court; Obama Pick Withdraws Nomination for Legal Office; Gates Defends US Attack on Iraqi Civilians in Leaked Video; W. Va. Toll Hits 29 as 4 Missing Miners Found Dead; Poland Mourns Death of President, Top Officials in Russia Plane Crash; Thai Protesters Killed in Police Attack; Palestinians Face Mass Deportations, Jailings under New Israeli Order; Kazakhstan Grants US Overflight Rights for Afghan War; US Cancels Climate Aid to Bolivia, Ecuador over Copenhagen Opposition

2010/04/13 Headlines: Afghans Protest Deadly US Attack on Passenger Bus; Obama Pushes Iran Sanctions at Nuke Summit; Interim Kyrgyz Gov't Assures US on Military Base; Up to 71 Killed in Pakistan Military Strike; Indigenous Amazonians Protest Brazilian Dam Project; Japanese Journalist Killed in Thai Clashes; Stern to Step Down from SEIU; Senate Moves Toward Restoring Jobless Benefits; W. Va. Blast Probe to Focus on Nearby Mines; Investors Call for Ouster of Massey CEO; ProPublica Becomes First Online Pulitzer Winner

2010/04/14 Headlines: Summit Sets 4-Year Timetable for Safeguarding Nuke Materials; US Continues Push for Iran Sanctions; Obama: US Can't Impose Mideast Peace; Israel: Hezbollah Receiving Scud Missiles from Syria; Over 400 Killed in China Quake; Michelle Obama, Jill Biden Visit Haiti; Obama to Attend Funeral for Polish President; Brazilian Rancher Found Guilty in Murder of US Nun; 8 Red Cross Workers Kidnapped in DRC; Arson Suspected in Fire at Greenpeace Indonesian Camp; Gates Criticizes WikiLeaks for Releasing Video of US Attack; Arizona Bill Forces Officers to Determine Immigration Status; Nebraska Gov. Signs Anti-Abortion Measures; Video Captures Md. Police Beating of Unarmed Student; Dem. Wins Vacant House Seat in Florida

2010/04/15 Headlines: Admin Promotes Overhaul of Financial Regulation; US Foreclosures Break Monthly Record; Watchdog: Gov't Program Failing to Rescue Struggling Homeowners; JPMorgan Chase Posts $3.3B Quarterly Profit; As Contractors Outnumber Soldiers in Afghanistan, Deaths Grow; Lawmakers Introduce Measure for Afghan Withdrawal; McCain: "Pull the Trigger" on Iran Sanctions; Israel Rejects Call to Sign NPT; West Bank Mosque Vandalized; Brazilian Court Delays Bidding on Belo Monte Dam; Gates Visits Latin American Military Allies; Colombians File Class-Action Suit Against Chiquita; W. Va. Gov Orders Mine Inspections; Holder: No Decision Yet on 9/11 Trial in New York; Stern Confirms Departure from SEIU; Study: Uninsured Delay Treatment for Heart Symptoms; Lack of Insurance May Have Factored in Death of Musician Alex Chilton

2010/04/16 Headlines: Afghan Prisoners Detail Torture, Abuse at Bagram Prison; Obama Signs Jobless Benefits Bill After Dems Overcome GOP Filibuster; US Extends Healthcare Rights to Partners of Gay Patients; Ex-NSA Official Indicted for Leaking Spy Program Details; Obama Orders Mine Inspections, Faults Owners of W. Va. Mine; Obama Outlines US Space Program; Report: Insurers Shifting Costs to Avoid Healthcare Laws; CIA Officials Expressed Concern over Interrogation Tapes; Tea Party Activists Cap Tour with Anti-Tax Rally; China Earthquake Toll Nears 800; UN Probe: Pakistani Gov't Could Have Prevented Bhutto Killing; Volcanic Eruption in Iceland Disrupts Global Travel; Gates Backs US-Colombia Trade Pact; Gaza Inquiry Head Skips Grandson's Bar Mitzvah to Avoid Protests from Right-Wing Jewish Groups

2010/04/19 Headlines: Goldman Sachs Accused of Civil Fraud in Sale of Mortgage Securities; NATO Killings of Afghan Civilians Increasing; Italian Aid Workers Freed Following Arrests; Scores Killed in Pakistan Attacks; Gates Acknowledges Iran Memo; Iran: US Should Destroy Nuclear Arsenal, Withdraw Mideast Troops; Ecuador to Increase State Control of Oil Production; Ash Grounds European Flights for 5th Day; Toyota Agrees to $16.4M Fine for Hiding Pedal Defects; Widow of Miner Files Wrongful Death Suit Against Massey; Group Challenges Revised Surveillance Law; Court Limits NSA Data Collection; 5 Ex-Blackwater Execs Charged in Weapons Case

2010/04/20 Headlines: China Earthquake Toll Passes 2,000; Air Travel Resumes in Europe Amidst New Ash Warning; US, Iraq Claim Killings of 2 Militant Leaders; Iran Bars 2 Opposition Parties; Brazilian Court Delays Dam Bidding for 2nd Time; New Zealand Signs UN Declaration of Indigenous Rights; Egyptian Official: Gov't Forces Can Fire on Protesters; US Summons Syrian Diplomat over Weapons Allegations; ALBA Summit Coincides with Venezuelan Bicentennial; Citigroup Posts $4.4B Quarterly Profit; Goldman Hires Ex-Obama White House Counsel; Hundreds Mark 15th Anniversary of Oklahoma City Bombing; Pro-Gun Rallies Held in DC, Virginia; Woman Killed, 2 Others Wounded in Tenn. Murder-Suicide Shooting; Report: Obama Taps White-Collar Attorney for Deputy Attorney General Post; Admin Subpoenaed in Ft. Hood Probe; Arizona Senate OKs Anti-Immigrant Measure; 56,000 Images Captured on Monitored Student Laptops at Pa. Schools

2010/04/21 Headlines: NATO Attack Kills 4 Afghan Civilians; Fmr. Argentine Junta Leader Sentenced to 25 Years; Iraq Accused of Torturing Sunnis at Secret Prison; Israeli FM Warns Against Peace Effort; Humanitarian Ships to Attempt New Breach of Gaza Blockade; Peoples' Climate Summit Opens in Bolivia; Brazil Auctions Off Dam Project, Indigenous Groups Vow Resistance; Goldman Profits Increase; UK Regulators Open Probe; 6 Arrested in DC Protesting Don't Ask, Don't Tell; Supreme Court Overturns Law on Depicting Animal Cruelty; Evangelist Who Called Islam "Evil" Slated for Pentagon Event; Dorothy Height Dies at 98; Benjamin Hooks Dies at 85

2010/04/22 Headlines: 11 Missing in Oil Rig Explosion off La. Coast; Senate Panel Advances Derivatives Regulation; Obama: Abortion Rights a Factor in Court Pick, But Not a "Litmus Test"; European Flights Resume Following Ash Closures; Pentagon: Iran Attack Not "Off the Table"; Trial Begins in Beating of Iraqi Prisoner; US to Withdraw Troops from Haiti; Israel Again Rejects Call for East Jerusalem Settlement Freeze; DC Council Abandons Incentives for Military Firm; Appeals Court Suspends Ruling Blocking ACORN Funding; Students Arrested Protesting Arizona Immigration Bill

2010/04/23 Headlines: Environmental Disaster Feared as La. Rig Sinks; 11 Missing Feared Dead; Inspection Found "Reckless Disregard" for Worker Safety at Massey Mine; Report: Massey Bars Miners from Attending Victims' Funerals; Obama Urges Wall St. to Back Financial Reform; Greece Requests $56B EU/IMF Rescue; Vatican Sued for Alleged Cover-Up of Sexual Abuse; US Envoy Meets Israeli, Palestinian Leaders; Appeals Court Overturns Marine Conviction in 2006 Iraq Murder; US Proposes Sustainable Farming Fund; Pentagon Withdraws Invitation to Evangelist over Islam Remarks

2010/04/26 Headlines: Rescue Effort Ends, Oil Leaking into Gulf; Arizona Governor Signs Immigrant Crackdown Bill; Graham Drops Support for Climate Bill; Thousands Hold Earth Day Rally in DC; Obama Honors Victims of W. Va. Mine Blast; Armed Man Arrested at NC Airport Shortly After Obama Departs; 72 Killed in Iraq Bombings; 3 Afghan Civilians Reportedly Killed in US Raid; NATO Leaders Hold Afghan War Talks; Clashes Follow Israeli Settler March in Palestinian Neighborhood; Israeli Troops Shoot Protesters in Gaza; 90,000 Japanese Protest US Base on Okinawa; Rallies Held Worldwide for Spanish Human Rights Judge; Dems to Hold Cloture Vote on Financial Reform Bill; Goldman Sachs Execs Bragged of Profiting from Housing Crash; 12 Killed in Southern Tornadoes; Jailed US Hikers in Poor Health in Iran

2010/04/27 Headlines: GOP Blocks Advance of Financial Reform Bill; Goldman Faces New Allegations Ahead of Senate Testimony; US Extradites Noriega to France; Abbas Signs Order Barring Palestinians from Working in Israeli Settlements; Calderón Denounces Arizona Immigration Law; Study Claims Chernobyl Disaster Killed Nearly 1 Million; Oil Spill Grows in Gulf of Mexico; Terror Trial Begins for Jailed US Citizen Held in Lengthy Solitary Confinement; Appeals Court Upholds Wal-Mart Discrimination Suit

2010/04/28 Headlines: Goldman Execs Grilled at Senate Hearing; Senate Republicans Block Financial Reform Bill for Consecutive Day; US Coast Guard Mulls "Controlled Burn" of Gulf Oil Slick; BP Opposed Drilling Safety Rules; Obama: "Everything on Table" for Deficit Reduction; Hashmi Pleads Guilty on Eve on Terror Trial; Gitmo Hearing Weighs Alleged Torture-Induced Confession; Group Urges US to Probe Journalist Killings in Iraq; Justice Dept. Reviewing Arizona Immigration Law; Site of Mine Tragedy Had Highest Variety of Safety Violations in 2009; Oklahoma Senate Overrides Veto of Anti-Abortion Measures; Appeals Judge Orders University of Wyoming to Allow Ayers Speech; Malcom X Assassin Released on Parole

2010/04/29 Headlines: Gulf Coast Oil Spill Could Be 5 Times Initial Estimate; GOP Ends Filibuster of Financial Reform Bill; Justice Dept. Mulls Suit to Block Arizona Immigration Law; Obama: Immigration Reform Bill Could Be Delayed; US Approves First Offshore Wind Farm; Israeli Troops Kill Unarmed Palestinian Protester in Gaza; Paramilitaries Kill 2 Human Rights Activists in Oaxaca; Reporter Subpoenaed to Reveal Sources for CIA Book; GOP Rep. Backs Deporting Children of Undocumented Immigrants; UC Berkeley Student Senate Fails to Override Veto of Israel Divestment Measure

2010/04/30 Headlines: BP Oil Spill Hits Louisiana Coastline; Thousands Gather for March on Wall St.; Goldman Sachs Faces Criminal Probe; Protests, Lawsuits Challenge Arizona Immigration Law; Pentagon: Afghan Violence Up Nearly 90%; NATO Forces Kill Relative of Afghan Lawmaker; UN Closes Kandahar Mission; Gitmo Prisoner Skips Evidentiary Hearing; House Approves Puerto Rico Referendum; 4 Prisoners in Holy Land Case Moved to Secretive, Restrictive CMUs

2010/05/03 Headlines: May Day Rallies Held to Protest Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Law; Major League Baseball Union Urges Arizona to Repeal Law; Fishing Banned in Gulf Due to Massive Oil Spill; Halliburton's Role in Oil Rig Explosion Probed; Obama Vows to Help Gulf Region; EU and IMF Agree to $146 Billion Bailout of Greece; Pakistani Man Convicted for Role in 2008 Mumbai Attacks; New York Investigate Failed Times Square Car Bombing; Civilian Casualties Soar in Afghanistan; Student Strike Shuts Down University of Puerto Rico; Anesthesiologists Face Censure for Participating in Executions; United and Continental to Merge; Bolivia Nationalizes Four Power Companies; Maoists in Nepal Launch General Strike; Second Brazilian Rancher Convicted in Murder of American Nun; Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Conference Opens in New York; Bill Moyers Signs Off From PBS Show

2010/05/04 Headlines: Arrest Made in Attempted NYC Car Bombing; BP Attempts to Stop Gulf Oil Leak; 1990 Law Could Cap BP's Payout of Economic Damages at $75M; Obama Administration Urged to Reverse Offshore Drilling Stance; Obama on April 2: “Oil Rigs Today Generally Don’t Cause Spills”; Report: FCC Plans to Keep Broadband Deregulated; US and Others Walk Out of Ahmadinejad Speech; Pentagon: 5,113 Nuclear Warheads in US Arsenal; US to Send 850 Military Trainers to Afghanistan; Labor Protests in Egypt Call for Minimum Wage Increase; Judge Releases Nine Members of Christian Militia; Baseball Star Threatens Boycott over Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Law; Supreme Court: Family Can't Sue over Detainee's Death; New York Governor Unveils Plan to Help Immigrants Facing Deportation; 28 Die in Storms in Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky; Reporters Without Borders Lists "Predators of Press Freedom"

2010/05/05 Headlines: BP: Spill Could Be Ten Times Current Estimate; US: Suspect Admits to Failed Times Square Bombing; NY Officials Push for Expanded Surveillance; Greeks Protest Austerity Measures with National Strike; Ahmadinejad: Sanctions Would Hurt US More Than Iran; Israeli Settlers Accused of Burning West Bank Mosque; EPA Delays Move on Classifying Coal Ash as Hazardous Waste; Phoenix Suns to Protest Arizona Anti-Immigrant Law; Arizona Measure Could Ban Ethnic Studies Program; Plant Overlooked Contaminated Materials in Children's Medicines; Democracy Now! Files Lawsuit over RNC Arrests

2010/05/06 Headlines: BP to Attempt Spill Containment with Giant Dome; US Exempted BP from Environmental Review; Pakistani FM: Attempted Bombing "Retaliation" for CIA Drone Strikes; Sens. Lieberman, Brown to Propose Stripping Terror Suspects of US Citizenship; CIA Received Expanded Authority for Drone Strikes; 3 Killed in Greek Protests; Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua Dies; FCC to Unveil New Broadband Regulations; House Appropriations Chair Obey Announces Retirement; Anti-Gay Scholar Hired Gay Male Escort for Overseas Trip; 6 Protesters Arrested at Cargill HQ

2010/05/07 Headlines: BP Oil Slick Reaches La. Shores; US Imposes 3-Week Freeze on New Offshore Drilling Permits; Labor, Civil Rights Groups Urge Arizona Boycott; Senate Defeats Amendment to Break Up Banks; Sen. Sanders Withdraws Fed Oversight Measure; Study: Americans "Bombarded" with Cancer Causes; Fmr. Interrogator: Khadr Was Told of Gang Rape After Capture; Pentagon Bans 4 Reporters from Gitmo Trials; Fmr. Guatemalan Soldier Involved in 1982 Massacre Arrested in Florida; Greek Lawmakers Approve New Austerity Measures; Burmese Opposition Party Dissolves; 2 Palestinian Civil Rights Activists Jailed; Biden Urges EU to Provide Passenger, Financial Data; Filmmaker Ordered to Hand Ecuador Footage to Chevron; Ohio Police Raid Home of Foreclosure Activist

2010/05/10 Headlines: Obama to Pick Kagan for Supreme Court; Holder Backs Limiting Miranda Rights for Terror Suspects; US: Pakistani Taliban Directed Times Square Bombing; Civilian Deaths Spike at US Checkpoints in Afghanistan; BP Attempt to Stop Oil Spill Fails; Obama Administration Approves 27 New Offshore Drilling Permits; Holder Expresses Concern over Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Law; EU &amp; IMF OK $1 Trillion Rescue Package; Record 40 Million Americans Receive Food Stamps; Evo Morales Discusses Climate Change with Ban Ki-Moon; Senators Urge Obama to Sign Land Mine Ban Treaty; IAEA to Discuss Israel's Secret Nuclear Weapons Arsenal; Mary Kay Henry Named New SEIU President; Pioneering Black Singer and Actor Lena Horne, 92, Dies; Human Rights Attorney Rhonda Copelon, 65, Dies

2010/05/11 Headlines: Obama: Elena Kagan Is One of Nation's “Foremost Legal Minds”; Leahy: Glad to See Nominee “From Outside the Judicial Monastery”; Friend: Kagan's Judicial Views Remain “Something of a Mystery”; Report: Kagan Backed Ban on Late-Term Abortions; Kagan's Record on Diversity at Harvard Scrutinized; Patches of Oil Wash Ashore in Louisiana; BP Resumes Using Chemical Dispersants in Gulf; Tests Show High High Levels of Airborne Chemicals in Area; 119 Die as Bombs Hit 10 Iraqi Cities; Red Cross: US Is Running Secret Prison at Bagram; Karzai in Washington for High-Level Talks; 14 Die in US Drone Strike in Pakistan; 47 Russian Coal Miners Die in Explosion; Palestinians: Expansion of Israeli Settlements Jeopardize Peace Talks; Iran Issues Visas to Mothers of Detained US Hikers; Egypt to Extend State of Emergency; Bolivian Workers Begin Strike; Hip-Hop Group Cypress Hill Cancels Arizona Concert; Sen. Menendez Calls for Boycott of 2011 All-Star Game in Arizona

2010/05/12 Headlines: Senate Votes to Audit Federal Reserve; Goldman Sachs and Other Banks Report “Perfect” First Quarters; Agency Overseeing Offshore Drilling to Be Split Up; Cameron to Lead Coalition British Government; Link Between Times Sq. Bomber and Pakistani Taliban Questioned; Clinton Meets with Karzai in Washington; Hersh: US Carrying Out “Battlefield Executions” in Afghanistan; 103 Die in Libyan Plane Crash; Environmental Groups Criticize Kerry-Lieberman Climate Bill; EU Climate Commissioner Proposes 30% Emissions Cuts; Arizona Bans Ethnic Studies in Public Schools; UN Human Rights Experts Criticize Arizona Law; Massachusetts Town Bans Sale of All Bottled Water; 40 Years Ago: KKK Bombs Transmitter of Pacifica's <span class="caps">KPFT in Houston

2010/05/13 Headlines: Federal Criminal Probe of Wall Street Banks Expands; New York Probes Eight Banks over Duping Ratings Agencies; Sen. Dorgan Criticizes Efforts to Reform Wall Street; Report: Owner of Oil Rig Seeks to Limit Liability to $27M; BP Releases 30-Second Video of Oil Spill; Obama Addresses Rise of Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan; Withdrawal of US Combat Troops from Iraq Delayed; Spanish Prosecutor Seeks Arrest of 13 CIA Agents in Rendition Case; Obama Admin Urges Court to Reject Maher Arar Lawsuit; Ex-Bush Admin Attorney Advises Arizona Offices on Detecting Immigrants; 15 Arrested in Tucson Protesting Arizona Law Banning Ethnic Studies; Anti-Gay Activist Resigns Post After Holiday with Male Escort; Laura Bush Voices Support for Gay Marriage and Abortion Rights; Maryland Law Places Restrictions on Military Recruiters; Record 575,000 Stopped &amp; Frisked in NYC in 2009

2010/05/14 Headlines: Scientist: 70,000 Barrels of Oil May Be Leaking Every Day in Gulf; Sen. Murkowski Blocks Effort to Increase Liability Cap for Oil Firms; Senators Propose Permanent Ban on Offshore Drilling in Pacific; Interior Dept. Sued over Offshore Drilling Permitting Process; Three Pakistani Men Detained in Times Square Bombing Probe; Report: Defense Intelligence Agency Running Secret Prison at Bagram; War in Afghanistan War Now More Costly than Iraq; NATO Accused of Killing Civilians in Nighttime Raid; Thai Troops Open Fire on Anti-Government Protesters; Protests in Ecuador Force Delay in Vote on Controversial Water Bill; EPA Unveils Rules to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions; 8 Arrested in NYC Protesting Obama's <span class="caps">AIDS Policies; Hip-Hop Artist Pitbull Cancels Phoenix Concert

2010/05/17 Headlines: Iran-Turkey Nuclear Fuel Deal Reached; 35 Die in Thailand in Bangkok Clashes; BP Works to Contain Oil Spill; Large Oil Plumes Found in Gulf of Mexico; Obama Calls Testimony of Oil Execs "A Ridiculous Spectacle"; Israel Blocks Noam Chomsky from Entering West Bank; Military Running Private Spy Network in Afghanistan and Pakistan; Detroit Police Kill 7-Year-Old Girl in Her Own Home; Euro Hits Four-Year Low; 20 Killed in Attack on Somali Parliament; Spanish Judge Garzón Suspended over Franco Probe; Report Blames Sri Lankan Military on Mass Slaughter; Episcopal Church Ordains Lesbian Bishop; Massey Energy Facing Criminal Probe; First Arab American Wins Miss USA 2010 Pageant

2010/05/18 Headlines: Tar Balls in Florida Keys, Oil Plumes Raise Fears of Wider Spill; MMS Official Steps Down; 5 US Troops Among 18 Killed in Afghan Bombing; Supreme Court Issues Rulings on Teen Sentencing, Jailing Sex Offenders; US Downplays Iran Deal, Vows Continued Sanctions Effort; Study: Pentagon Falsely Claimed Missile System Success; Attorney: Video Contradicts Police Claim in Home Raid Killing of 7-Year-Old; Staffers at Rhode Island Public School to Keep Jobs; Civil Rights Groups File Suit over Arizona Immigration Law; 3 Undocumented Immigrants Risk Deportation in Protest for DREAM Act; Barred by Israel, Chomsky to Deliver West Bank Lecture by Video Feed; Following Boycott Calls, Elvis Costello Cancels Israel Concerts; Mothers of Jailed US Hikers Head to Iran; Report: Blumenthal Falsely Claimed to Have Served in Vietnam

2010/05/19 Headlines: Specter Loses Penn. Democratic Primary; Oil from BP Disaster Reaching Louisiana Marshes; Footage Undermines BP Claims on Containing Oil; GOP Blocks Proposal to Raise Oil Spill Liability; Violence Erupts After Thai Military Raid on Red Shirts; US Submits Draft Proposal on Iran Sanctions; Taliban Fighters Attack NATO Base; US Toll Passes 1,000; 3 Arizona Protesters Face Deportation; Dodd Proposes Weaker Derivatives Provision; Protesters Rally at NY Offices of JPMorgan Chase; GOP Rep. Souder Resigns over Extramarital Affair; Anti-Mountaintop Removal Activists Held on $100,000 Bail

2010/05/20 Headlines: BP Oil Spill Enters Loop Current as Leak Estimate Rises; Dissident Dems Help Stall Financial Reform Bill; Dodd Abandons Effort to Weaken Derivatives Measure; Anti-Reform Derivatives Lobbyists Outnumber Pro-Reformers 11 to 1; Foreclosures, Missed Payments at Record Levels; Top Scientific Body Endorses Carbon Tax; Mothers of Jailed US Hikers Arrive in Iran; WikiLeaks Founder Has Passport Revoked in Australia; Activist for Displaced Slain in Colombia; Penn Urges Haiti Aid; Haitian Protesters Call for Préval's Resignation; Obama Hosts Calderón, Criticizes Arizona Law; Second-Grader Cites Mother's Plight in Questioning First Lady on Deportation; GOP Senate Nominee Paul Opposes Enforcing Civil Rights Act at Private Businesses

2010/05/21 Headlines: Senate Passes Financial Reform Bill; BP Admits Oil Spill Is Larger Than Prior Estimates; Blair Resigns as National Intelligence Director; Jobless Benefit Claims Increase; Jailed US Hikers Reunite with Mothers in First Public Appearance Since Arrests; Calderón Urges US to Reinstate Assault Weapons Ban; US Probes Killings of Afghan Civilians; Maldives Hosts Afghan Peace Talks; Palestinians Continue Boycott of Israeli Settlement Goods; South Korea Accuses North Korea of Torpedoing Warship; Dalai Lama Encouraged by Tsunami, Haiti Earthquake Response; Cuban Musician Silvio Rodriguez Granted US Visa

2010/05/24 Headlines: Tensions Escalate on Korean Peninsula; No Federal Charges for AIG Executives; FDIC: 1/10 of US Banks in Trouble; Court Rules Against Prisoners at Bagram; BP Rejects EPA Demand to Use Less-Toxic Dispersants; Bipartisan Commission to Probe BP Oil Spill; Despite Moratorium, New Offshore Drilling Permits OKed; Rand Paul: Obama's Criticism of BP Is "Un-American"; Sen. McConnell Urges GOP to Back Rand Paul; Report: Haitian Police Shot Dead at Least 12 Prisoners After Earthquake; Aiyana Jones Buried in Detroit; Cop Killers in Arkansas Tied to Patriot Movement; Texas Approves New Right-Wing School Curriculum; Mothers of Detained American Hikers Return to US; Report: Israel Offered Nukes to Apartheid South Africa; Israeli Nuclear Whistleblower Vanunu Sent Back to Jail

2010/05/25 Headlines: Expanded US Military Operations Include Intel for Potential Iran Attack; Fears Grow of Continued Oil Spill Through August; MMS Regulators Allowed Oil Officials to Fill Out Inspection Forms; Democratic Senators Urge Probe into Transocean Dividends; 7 Greenpeace Activists Arrested in Anti-Drilling Protest; More US Troops Now in Afghanistan than in Iraq; Measure Proposes Ending Emergency War Funding; Admin Backs Compromise on Ending "Don't Ask, Don’t Tell"; Supreme Court OKs Chicago Firefighters Suit over Discriminatory Tests; Ex-Sri Lankan Forces: Top Commanders Ordered Killings of Tamil Prisoners; US Continues Funding Segregated West Bank Roads; Free Gaza Movement "Freedom Flotilla" Heads to Gaza; Nearly 40 Arrested in New York Immigration Protest; Iraq War Vet Commits Suicide at Ohio Military Hospital; Activists Mark 20th Anniversary of Earth First Car Bombing

2010/05/26 Headlines: BP Admits "Fundamental Mistake" Before Oil Rig Explosion; Obama Expands Militarization of US-Mexico Border; North Korea Cuts Ties with South Korea Following Sinking Allegation; Jailed US Activist Lori Berenson Paroled in Peru; Around 30 Killed in Jamaica Clashes; 15 Wounded in Israeli Attack on Gaza Strip; Admin Backs Vatican Immunity in Sexual Abuse Suit; Fmr. FBI Linguist Sentenced for Leaking Classified Documents; Correction

2010/05/27 Headlines: BP Begins "Top Kill" Attempt to Plug Oil Leak; Expert: Continued Leak Would Mark "Disaster Unseen by Humanity"; Admin Suspends Arctic Drilling, New Oil Leases; Dems Reduce Jobless Benefits Package; Admin, Dems Prep Education Aid as 100,000 Teachers Face Layoffs; Police Chiefs: Arizona Anti-Immigrant Law Increases Crime; 5 Protesters Arrested at Chevron Annual Meeting; Aid Flotilla Approaching Gaza; Israel Vows to Block Ships; Berenson Release Expected Today; Peruvian Indigenous Leader Arrested Following Return from Asylum

2010/05/28 Headlines: BP Oil Spill Surpasses Exxon Valdez as Worst in US History; "Top Kill" Effort Renews After Lengthy Delay; New Oil Plume Discovered in Gulf; Obama Extends Drilling Moratorium, Defends Response; Reports: MMS Head Forced to Resign; Energy Secretary Chu Tied to BP; House Approves Repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"; Senate Approves War Funding, Rejects Timetable for Afghan Withdrawal; Israel Readies Prison for Passengers Aboard Free Gaza Aid Flotilla; Israel Charges 2 Leading Palestinian Activists with Espionage; Senior UN Official to Call for End to CIA Drone Strikes; Admin Asserts "Right to Act Unilaterally" in 1st National Security Strategy; Navajo Activists Protest Uranium Mining Plans; Berenson Freed on Parole in Peru

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2010/06/01 Headlines: At Least 10 Activists Killed in Israeli Attack on Gaza-Bound Aid Ship; UN Security Council Calls for Probe of Attack; NPT Signatories Call on Israel to Open Nuclear Sites; BP Oil Spill Likely to Continue Until August; Oil Spill Could Reach Alabama, Mississippi; BP CEO: No Underwater Oil Plumes; Workers Sickened by Food Poisoning; Hundreds Protest BP in New Orleans; Report: US Draws Up Plans for Pakistan Strikes; US Claims to Have Killed Top al-Qaeda Leader in Pakistan; US Faults Officers for Drone Attack Killings of 23 Afghan Civilians; US: Majority of Gitmo Prisoners Low-Level Fighters; Ex-Defense Minister Leads After 1st Round of Colombia Vote; Tens of Thousands Protest Arizona Anti-Immigrant Law; Musicians Launch "Sound Strike" Boycott of Arizona; US Spending on Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan Tops $1 Trillion

2010/06/02 Headlines: Flotilla Survivors Deported from Israel; Aid Ship Continues Gaza Trek as New Flotilla Planned; US Maintains Refusal to Condemn Flotilla Assault; Ban: Lifting Gaza Blockade Would Have Prevented Flotilla Deaths; Thousands Worldwide Protest Flotilla Assault; US Student Loses Eye After Israel Fires on West Bank Protest; Justice Dept. Opens Civil, Criminal Probes of BP Oil Spill; Oil Sheen Approaching Florida Coast; Japanese PM Resigns After Backtracking on US Base; US Lawyer Hospitalized After Jailing in Rwanda; Mexican Immigrant Dies in US Custody; Youths Stage Hunger Strike to Urge Support for DREAM Act; Study: African Americans Face Widespread Jury Exclusion in US South; Supreme Court Limits Miranda Rights; New York Lawmakers Advance Labor Standards for Domestic Workers; Painter, Sculptor Louise Bourgeois Dies at 98

2010/06/03 Headlines: All Slain Flotilla Victims Suffered Bullet Wounds; 19-Year-Old US Citizen Among Dead; Netanyahu: Flotilla Passengers "Violent Supporters of Terrorism"; Biden Defends Israeli Assault, Gaza Blockade; UN Human Rights Council Votes for Probe of Flotilla Attack, US Opposed; BP's Latest Effort to Slow Leak Fails; Oil Reaches Alabama, Mississippi; New Drilling Well Approved in Gulf of Mexico; Citing Oil Spill, Obama Calls for Energy Bill Passage; UN Calls for Halt to CIA Drone Attacks; US Altered Military Rules to Protect Drone Operators; Violence Erupts at Afghan Peace Meeting; Obama Expands Benefits for Same-Sex Partners of Federal Workers; Guard at Private Immigration Prison Fired for Sexual Assault

2010/06/04 Headlines: MV Rachel Corrie Continues Aid Mission to Gaza; Thousands Mourn Turkish Victims of Flotilla Attack; Passenger: Israeli Troops Fired at Unarmed Passengers, Ignored SOS Calls; Israeli Military Retracts Claim Passengers "Al Qaeda Mercenaries"; Swedish Dockers Boycott Israeli Goods, Ships in Flotilla Protest; BP Caps Well, Awaits Results; Scientists: Spill Could Extend Up Atlantic Ocean; Gov't Could Be Underestimating Spill Size; Widow: Rig Victim Worried of Safety Conditions Before Explosion; BP Lobbyists Have Government Ties; Alabama Prisoners Hired for Spill Cleanup; Report: US Special Forces Deployed in 75 Countries; UN Rapporteur: Drones Attacks Undermine "International Accountability"; Bush: US Waterboarded Alleged 9/11 Mastermind; Study: Over 1,400 Financial Lobbyists Formerly Worked in Gov't; Report: G8 Preparing to Drop Africa Aid Pledge; UN Calls for Probe into Death of DRC Human Rights Activist

2010/06/07 Headlines: Israel Seizes Another Gaza-Bound Aid Boat; Report: Israel Had Assassination List; Israeli Navy Kills Four Off Coast of Gaza; Coast Guard Commander: "This Spill Is Holding Everybody Hostage"; Oil Tar Bars Spotted on Pensacola Beach in Florida; Report: Many Gulf Coast Judges Tied to Oil and Gas Industry; US Intel Analyst Arrested for Leaking Wikileaks Video; US Elite Special Forces Deployed Across World; Amnesty: US Missiles Used in Yemen Air Strike; Obama Nominates James Clapper to Intel Post; CIA Personnel Engaged in Human Experimentation; DR Congo Police Chief Suspended in Probe of Activist Death; Eight Convicted for Bhopal Disaster; Tristan Anderson Returns Home to California; US Calls for Probe into Israeli Shooting of American Student; Helen Thomas Under Fire for Comments about Israel; The Pixies Cancel Concert in Israel; Silvio Rodriguez Peforms in US for First Time Since 1980

2010/06/08 Headlines: Scientist: Rate of Gulf Spill Expanding; Internal BP Probes: Neglect Could Lead to Accidents; Financial Commission Subpoenas Goldman Sachs; 10 Troops, Including 7 Americans, Killed in Afghanistan; Israel Rejects International Probe; Clinton: Honduras Should Be Readmitted to OAS; Attorney Peter Erlinder Denied Bail in Rwanda; Natural Gas Explosions in Texas and West Virginia; Fired Massey Coal Miner Files Whistleblower Complaint; "Lightening" of Faces on Arizona Mural Stirs Controversy; Iranian TV Airs Video Purportedly of Missing Scientist

2010/06/09 Headlines: Sen. Lincoln Beats Halter in Arkansas Primary; Whitman, Fiorina Win in California GOP Races; Unemployed Veteran Wins SC Democratic Senate Nomination; Tea Party Favorites Win in Nevada and South Carolina; US Border Patrol Agent Shoots Dead Mexican Teen on Mexican Soil; UN Security Council to Vote on Iran Sanctions; Seven Die As NATO Convoy Attacked in Pakistan; Taliban Shoots Down NATO Helicopter in Afghanistan; US Military Rebrands Efforts in Kandahar; Israel to Allow Soda, Candy and Juice into Gaza; Subsea Oil Plumes Stretched 142 Miles in Gulf of Mexico; Immigration Agents Target Oil Spill Cleanup Workers; Sylvia Earle: "The Ocean Is The Key To Our Survival"; Two Die in Natural Gas Pipeline Blast in Texas; Immigrant Youths Continue Hunger Strike at Schumer's Office; Court Grants Filmmaker Stay in Case Against Chevron; Protesters Interrupt Pelosi Speech; Blackwater Put Up for Sale

2010/06/10 Headlines: UN Security Council Approves New Sanctions Against Iran; Turkey and Brazil Vote Against Iranian Sanctions; Iran Threatens to Reduce Ties to IAEA; 86 People Reported Sick in Louisiana and Alabama from Oil Spill; Activist Pours Fake Oil on Herself During Senate Hearing; 2000 Gov't Report Warned About Deepwater Oil Spills; BP Claims There Are No Underwater Oil Plumes; Obama Urges Israel to Loosen Blockade of Gaza; Israeli Document: Gaza Blockade a Form of "Economic Warfare"; Suicide Bomber Kills 40 in Kandahar; Obama's Intel Nominee Tied to False Iraq WMD Claim; GOP Senators Try to Strip <span class="caps">EPA of Power to Regulate Emissions; Senate Democrats Scale Back Tax Increase on Wall Street; Syed Hashmi Sentenced to 15 Years in Jail; 12,000 Nurses in Minnesota Go On Strike; Judges: NYPD Can Keep Secret 2004 <span class="caps">RNC Spy Records; LA to Pay $500,000 to Journalists Beaten at May 2007 Protest

2010/06/11 Headlines: Government Doubles Oil Spill Size Estimate; Obama Meets with Families of Deceased Rig Workers; BP Hires Firm Specializing in Reducing Cost of Claim Payments; Spill Forces Nation's Oldest Oyster-Shucking Firm to Close; Senate Rejects Effort to Strip EPA of Power to Regulate Emissions; Report: Wealthy Nations Could Increase Emissions Under Climate Deal; Israel &amp; US Agree on Israeli Probe into Flotilla Attack; Video Shows Israeli Commandos Executing Flotilla Passenger; Israel Urged to Join Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; McChrystal: Violence and Casualties Will Rise in Afghanistan; Judge Orders Detention of Guantánamo Prisoner "Unlawful"; Pentagon Searches for Wikileaks Founder; Rep. Clyburn Calls for Probe of Bizarre SC Election Primaries; $712 Million Settlement Reached for Sick Ground Zero Workers; Immigrant Students Stage Die-In at Sen. Schumer's Office

2010/06/14 Headlines: Red Cross: Israel Blockade of Gaza Is Illegal; Israel Forms Inquiry into Flotilla Attack; Turkey: We Have No Trust in Israeli Probe; Iran Reportedly Sends Aid Ship to Gaza; Mossad Agent Arrested in Poland; Report: US Discovers $1 Trillion in Afghan Mineral Deposits; Obama Heads to Gulf for 4th Time Since BP Spill; Chevron Oil Pipeline Ruptures in Utah; Arizona Considers Denying Citizenship to Children of Immigrants; Five New Orleans Officers Indicted in Post-Katrina Killing; ICC Adds Aggression to List of Court's Prosecutable Offenses; 27 Anti-Torture Activists on Trial in Washington

2010/06/15 Headlines: BP Took Risky Cost-Cutting Shortcuts Ahead of Rig Explosion; Last Inspector of BP Rig Was Still in Training; Deepwater Horizon Rig Was Registered in Marshall Islands; Obama to Address Nation in Prime-Time Address; New York Lawmakers Call for Probe of Flotilla Activists; Trial of Newburgh Four Delayed; Court Blocks Deportation over Minor Drug Offenses; Court Orders Death Row Case Back to Lower Court; Activists Demand Arrest of Exec Tied to Bhopal Disaster; US Taxpayers May Be Funding Child Soldiers in Somalia; 15 Federal Police Officers Killed in Mexico; UC Irvine Bans Muslim Student Union; Documents: FBI Monitored Sen. Kennedy in 1961; World Cup Security Guards Stage Strike

2010/06/16 Headlines: Oil Spill Rate Estimate Grows to 2.5M Gallons a Day; Obama: BP Will Compensate Gulf Coast Residents; Obama Appoints New MMS Director; Oil Execs, Lawmakers Clash at House Hearing; Exxon CEO: Oil Companies "Not Well Equipped" to Handle Disasters; Israel to Alter Gaza Blockade; UN to Distribute Seized Flotilla Aid; UN Rapporteur Criticizes Israeli Flotilla Probe; Kyrzgyz Toll Could Rise; 75,000 Flee to Uzbekistan; Egyptian Activist Killed in Alleged Police Beating; Pentagon Upholds Gitmo Ban on 4 Journalists; US Citizen Arrested in Pakistan on Alleged Bin Laden Hunt; Report: Blackwater Owner Considering Move to UAE; GAO Report Clears <span class="caps">ACORN of Mishandling Funding; Ethics Office Probes 8 Lawmakers; 24 Activists Acquitted for Gitmo Protest; Mass. Teachers Face Punishment for Silent Antiwar Protest; Seattle Police Officer Punches Woman in Face Following Jaywalk; 14 Arrested in Denver Protest for Immigration Reform

2010/06/17 Headlines: BP Agrees to $20B Fund for Oil Spill Compensation Claims; BP Chair Apologizes for "Small People" Remark; BP Privately Estimated Higher Spill Rate Than It Publicly Disclosed; Israel Alters Gaza Siege; Maintains Naval Blockade and Ban on Building Materials; Top Military Leaders Urge Patience on Afghanistan; 4 Soldiers Charged in Afghan Civilian Deaths; US Unveils New Iran Sanctions; Univ. of Puerto Rico Students Declare Victory in 2-Month Strike; US Citizen Barred from Returning Following Yemen Visit; Dems Help Defeat Jobless Benefits Extension; Former Mortgage Exec Indicted for Alleged Fraud Scheme; Prop 8 Trial Concludes in California

2010/06/18 Headlines: BP CEO Grilled During House Testimony; Protester Removed After Calling Hayward "Criminal"; GOP Rep. Calls $20B Compensation Fund "Shakedown"; Clinton: Obama Admin to Sue Arizona over Anti-Immigrant Law; Unemployment Measure Stalls in Senate as Jobless Claims Rise; Group: Senate Climate Bill Holds Billions in Tax Breaks for Nuclear Industry; Ex-Chicago Police Commander Denies Overseeing Torture of African Americans at Trial; Palestinians, Human Rights Groups Call for Full Repeal of Gaza Blockade; Flotilla Survivors Speak Out at New York Event; German Jewish Group to Send Two Aid Ships to Gaza; Red Cross: Kyrgyz Violence Is "Immense Crisis"; Rwandan Court Frees Jailed American Lawyer Peter Erlinder; Panel Calls for US-Funded $300M Cleanup of Agent Orange in Vietnam; Number of Homeless US Families Grows to 170,000; Utah Prisoner Executed by Firing Squad; Supreme Court: Employers Can Read Employees' Text Messages; Supreme Court Invalidates over 500 NLRB Decisions; Allied Media Conference Opens Ahead of US Social Forum in Detroit

2010/06/21 Headlines: Documents: BP Privately Estimates Spill of 100,000 Barrels a Day; BP Used "Risky" Well Design at Explosion Site; Admin Grants New Waivers for Gulf Drilling; BP CEO Criticized for Yachting off English Coast; 10 Afghan Civilians Killed in NATO Attack; Afghan Violence Up 40%; US Awards Blackwater $120M Contract in Afghanistan; 26 Killed in Iraq Car Bombings; Thousands Protest Electricity Shortages in Basra; US Ignores Calls for End to Gaza Seige; Protesters Block Israeli Ship from Unloading at Oakland Port; Ex-Defense Minister Wins Colombia Vote; Report: Admin Intervenes to Oppose Curbing CEO Pay; Study: Blacks, Latinos Hardest Hit by Foreclosures; Pentagon Revives Spy Database; Pro Basketball Player, Activist Manute Bol Dies at 47

2010/06/22 Headlines: Obama Recalls Afghan War Commander After Published Comments; 9 NATO Troops Killed in Afghanistan; Afghan Drug Use Increases; Congressional Probe Confirms US Indirectly Funding Afghan Insurgents with Protection Payoffs; Wikileaks Retains Legal Defense for Detained Servicemember; Oil Companies Challenge Deepwater Drilling Ban; Supreme Court Upholds Material Support Law; Admin to Expand Childcare Rights for LGBT Workers; Times Square Bomb Suspect Pleads Guilty, Threatens Future Attacks; GOP Co-Chair of Obama Deficit Commission Calls Social Security Recipients "Lesser People"; Aid Groups Warn 10M West Africans Face Starvation; India to Renew Extradition Request for Ex-Union Carbide CEO; University of Puerto Rico Students Vote to End Strike; ICE Probes Arrest of Immigrant Following Wife's Letter to Obama; Nebraska Town Approves Anti-Immigrant Crackdown

2010/06/23 Headlines: Judge with Energy Ties Strikes Down Deepwater Drilling Ban; McChrystal Prepares Resignation Letter Ahead of Obama Meeting; British Envoy to Afghanistan Resigns; Evidentiary Hearing Begins in Troy Anthony Davis Case; Erlinder Returns to US After Rwanda Jailing; Both Sides Claim Victory in Supreme Court Ruling on Monsanto Crop; Greenpeace Activists Disrupt BP Speech; UN Probes Alleged Abuses in Sri Lanka Fighting; Jamaica Arrests Alleged Drug Lord; Israel Advances East Jerusalem Demolitions, Orders Expulsion of 4 Palestinian Politicians; Road Shipments Begin Entering Gaza; Portuguese Novelist Jose Saramago Dies at 87

2010/06/24 Headlines: Obama Taps Petraeus as Afghan Commander After Firing McChrystal; June is Deadliest Month for NATO Occupation in Afghan War; Oil Spill Worsens After Containment Cap Damaged; "Despondent" Gulf Boat Captain Commits Suicide; Report: Iranian Officers Seized US Hikers in Iraq; 5 US Citizens Sentenced to 10 Years in Pakistan; CIA Awards Blackwater Another Contract in Afghanistan; Israel Launches Spy Satellite; Poll: Most Palestinians Support Peace Deal with Israel; Israel Accused of Unlawfully Treating Jailed Nuclear Whistleblower; Swedish Dockworkers Launch Week-Long Boycott of Israeli Ships; UN Calls for Upholding MDG Pledges; Study Ranks US Last on Healthcare; Witnesses Recant Testimony at Hearing for Georgia Death Row Prisoner Troy Anthony Davis; Admin Unveils Homelessness Goals; Judge Rules UC Police Illegally Searched Journalist's Camera; White House Budget Director Orszag to Resign; Oregon Police Investigated Gore for Unwanted Sexual Contact in 2006

2010/06/25 Headlines: Obama Backs Down from July 2011 Drawdown in Afghanistan; Congress Negotiators Approve Financial Regulation Overhaul; Senate Republicans Block Unemployment Benefits Bill; NRA, Sierra Club Exempted from Campaign Finance Bill; US to Deploy Predator Drones Along Texas-Mexico Border; Obama Faces Another Setback on Drilling Moratorium; Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Enron CEO; Julia Gillard Becomes Australia's First Female PM; Whale Hunting Talks Break Down; Jamaican Gang Leader Extradited to US; Detroit to Close 77 City Parks

2010/06/28 Headlines: Over 600 Arrested at G20 Protests in Toronto; G20 Leaders Agree to Cut Government Deficits in Half by 2013; Elena Kagan Confirmation Hearings Set to Begin; Report: Karzai Meets with Leading Insurgent Leader; CIA Director Panetta Defends Drone Attacks in Pakistan; US to Keep Control of South Korean Military; Turkey Closes Airspace to Israeli Military Flights; Blackwater Won't Face Charges for Deals in Sudan; Guinea Holds First Free Election; Funeral Held for Congolese Human Rights Activist; Manufacturer of Oil Dispersant Beefs Up Lobbying Force; 600 Anti-Offshore Drilling Rallies Held; Sen. Robert Byrd, 1917-2010

2010/06/29 Headlines: Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan Vows to Be Impartial; Republicans Criticize Kagan's Ties to Thurgood Marshall; Sen. Leahy: Kagan Is Well Within the Legal Mainstream; Court Strikes Down Chicago Handgun Ban; Court: Christian Group Can't Bar Gay Members; 1,000 Protest in Toronto Against Police Crackdown During G20; FBI Arrests 11 Alleged Russian Spies; US Launches Major Offensive Near Afghan-Pakistan Border; 10 Killed in US Drone Strike in Pakistan; Report Raises Doubts About Readiness of Afghan Forces; Rep. Lowey Threatens to Cut $4 Billion in Foreign Aid to Afghanistan; Tropical Storm Alex May Impact Cleanup of BP Spill; Bill Clinton Suggests Blowing Up BP Oil Well; Mexican Gubernatorial Candidate Assassinated; Ousted Honduran President Accuses US of Being Behind the 2009 Coup; Obama Admin Outlines Plan to Expand Wireless Spectrum

2010/06/30 Headlines: Kagan Faces Opening Day of Questioning at Confirmation Hearings; Petraeus Vows to Review Restrictions on US Attacks in Afghanistan; Taliban Fighters Attack NATO Base; Claim: US Ambassador Threatens Afghan Attorney General with Dismissal; Kerry, Lieberman Offer to Further Weaken Climate Bill; Dems Remove $17.9B Bank Tax from Financial Overhaul; BP, Coast Guard Sued for Burning Endangered Sea Turtles; Putin Criticizes US Arrests of Alleged Russian Spies; Israeli FM: No Palestinian State by 2012; Supreme Court Orders New Hearing in Siegelman Case; Survey: Majority of Americans Hit by Recession; Olympia Peace Activist Wins $400,000 in Damages for Gov't Surveillance; CNN Host Larry King to End Talk Show

2010/07/01 Headlines: Kagan Concludes Testimony at Confirmation Hearings; House Approves Financial Regulation Overhaul; GOP Continues Senate Filibuster of Unemployment Benefits; Senate Panel Votes to Remove Spill Liability Cap; BP Accused of Using Dispersant to Mask Spill Size; BP Fined $5.2M for False Reporting on Colorado Leases; Senate Approves Petraeus Nomination for Afghan Command; House Panel Votes to Undo Cuba Trade, Travel Restrictions; Puerto Rican Police Quash Protest at State Capitol; Palestinian Children in Israeli-Run West Bank Areas Suffer Worse Conditions than Gazans; Israeli Peace Group Calls for New Flotilla Probe; Study: Media Stopped Calling Waterboarding "Torture" Following Its Disclosure as Routine US Practice; ACLU Sues US over No-Fly List

2010/07/02 Headlines: House Approves Over $30B for Escalating Afghan War; Taliban Attack US Contractor in Afghanistan; 42 Killed in Suicide Attack on Sufi Shrine in Pakistan; Tropical Storm Alex Delays Gulf Coast Cleanup; Spill Could Be Worse in Gulf History; House Expands Damages for Victims' Families; Kagan Confirmation Hearings Conclude with Supporters, Critics; Obama Calls for Compromise in Immigration Reform; Obama Signs New Iran Sanctions into Law; Canadians Rally Against G20 Crackdown; 4 Massey Supervisors Charged for Deadly 2006 Coal Mine Fire; New Details Emerge on "Backdoor Bailout" Through AIG; Jury Deliberations Expected in Oscar Grant Killing Trial; New York Lawmakers Approve Labor Standards for Domestic Workers; Penn State Panel Clears "Climategate" Scientist

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2010/07/06 Headlines: Oil from BP Spill Reaches Texas; 2007 Memo: Danger of Offshore Oil Drilling Spill a "Low-Probability" Event; BP Still Has Nearly $1 Billion Pentagon Fuel Contract; Israel Partially Eases Gaza Blockade Ahead of White House Meeting; B'Tselem: Jewish Settlements Control 42 Percent of West Bank Land; Tax-Exempt Funds Aid Settlements in West Bank; Justice Dept to Sue Arizona over Immigration Law; GOP Chair Steele: Afghanistan Is "War of Obama's Choosing"; Costa Rica Approves Plan to Give Access to US War Ships; Syrian Human Rights Attorney Sentenced to Three Years in Jail; US Awards $1.85B in Loan Guarantees for Solar Projects; Greenpeace Accuses Paper Firm of Destroying Indonesian Rain Forests; Maoist Leader Killed in India; Puerto Rico Probes Police Crackdown on Student; Puerto Rican Analyst Juan Manuel García-Passalacqua, 73, Dies; Thousands Attend Funeral of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

2010/07/07 Headlines: US Army Analyst Charged in WikiLeaks Case; US Military Restricts Media Access Following McChrystal Controversy; NATO Forces Mistakenly Kill 5 Afghan Soldiers; 3 US Troops Die in Roadside Bombing; Admin Seeks Reinstatement of Deepwater Drilling Ban; Environmental Groups Announce Settlement to Prevent Burning of Sea Turtles; Justice Dept. Sues Arizona over Anti-Immigrant Law; Obama Praises Israeli "Restraint" at Netanyahu Meeting; UK Opens Inquiry of Role in US Torture of Foreign Prisoners, Vows to Compensate Victims; Study: Climate Pledges Will Lead to 4°C Increase by 2100; Heat Wave Breaks Records on US East Coast; Environmentalist Avoids Jail Term for Senate Protest

2010/07/08 Headlines: Appeals Court to Weigh Attempt to Restore Drilling Ban; BP Claims New Target Date for Sealing Well; Report: 27,000 Abandoned Wells Pose Threat to Gulf Coast; 60 Killed in Iraq Bombings Targeting Shiite Pilgrims; US, Russia Negotiate Swap of Alleged Spies; Cuba to Free Over 50 Jailed Dissidents; Indian Forces Impose Curfew in Kashmir in Wake of Protest Deaths; Spanish Court Orders New Probe of US Killing of Spanish Journalist; Ex-Guatemalan Soldier Pleads Guilty to Concealing Role in 1982 Dos Erres Massacre; British Probe Clears "Climategate" Scientists; Obama Vows to Push Trade Pacts; Report: Raytheon Hired for NSA Surveillance of Infrastructure Hacking

2010/07/09 Headlines: Appeals Court Maintains Reversal of Deepwater Drilling Ban; Mass. Judge Rules Same-Sex Marriage Ban Unconstitutional; Protests Erupt in Oakland After Verdict in Grant Trial; CENTCOM Nominee Led Fallujah Assault, Dropped Charges in Haditha Massacre; Over 50 Killed in Pakistan Bombing; US, Russia Swap Alleged Spies; European Lawmakers OK US Monitoring of Financial Transactions; Netanyahu: Israel "Has Done Enough" for Resumption of Talks; Libyan Charity Claims Aid Ship Heading to Gaza; 16 Arrested at G20 Remain Jailed; Police Conduct Probed; Wages for High School, College Graduates Fell in Last Decade; Wealthier Americans Have Higher Mortgage Default Rate; US Denies Visa to Colombian Journalist; CNN Fires Middle East Editor for Twitter Post; Protesters Call for Cancellation of MLB All-Star Game in Arizona; Nixon and Kissinger Admitted to CIA Assassination Attempt in Chile; Nixon Ordered Plans for Nuking North Korea

2010/07/12 Headlines: BP Attempts to Put New Cap on Oil Well; Report: BP Pays Out Half of Claims Filed by Gulf Residents; Former BP Contractor: BP's "Bottom Line Is Just About Money"; Over 60 Die in Twin Bomb Blasts in Uganda; Karzai Seeks to Remove Taliban Officials from UN Blacklist; Holder: US May File Another Suit Against Arizona over Anti-Immigrant Law; APA Supports Efforts to Strip License of Psychologist Tied to Torture Program; Toyota Cuts Funding to School After Professor Exposed Vehicle Flaws; Libyan Humanitarian Aid Ship Heads to Gaza; Two Striking Banana Workers Killed in Panama; Greenpeace Marks 25th Anniversary of Rainbow Warrior Ship Bombing

2010/07/13 Headlines: Abducted Iranian Nuclear Scientist Surfaces in US; US Issues New Deepwater Oil Drilling Moratorium; BP Attaches New Containment Cap Over Oil Well; Coast Guard Lifts Media Restrictions in Gulf; Bill Clinton: Not Enough Done Yet for Haiti; Israeli Military Probe Says Attack on Gaza Flotilla Was Justified; Arab-Israeli Faces Five Months in Jail for Sailing on Gaza Flotilla; ICC Issues New Arrest Warrant for Sudan's Al-Bashir; Somali Militant Group Claims Responsibility for Uganda Blasts; Omar Khadr Rejects Plea Deal; Senate Closer to Passing Financial Reform Bill; Indictment Against Animal Rights Activists Thrown Out; Fidel Castro Gives Rare Televised Interview; Bohemian Poet and Singer Tuli Kupferberg, 86, Dies; Comic Book Author Harvey Pekar, 70, Dies

2010/07/14 Headlines: Oil Gusher Continues as Containment Test Delayed; Cleanup Workers Photographed Without Protective Gear; Senate to Vote on Financial Reform; Libyan Aid Ship Heads to Egypt After Being Blocked from Gaza Strip; Israel Resumes Demolitions of Palestinian Homes; Palestinian Woman Killed in Israeli Attack; Israeli Parliament Bars Travel for Arab Lawmaker; Afghan Soldier Kills 3 UK Troops; Iranian Scientist Claims US Kidnapping, Returns to Iran; Appeals Court Strikes Down FCC Indecency Rules; Six NOLA Officers Indicted for Danziger Bridge Shootings, Cover-up

2010/07/15 Headlines: BP Halts Containment Test for Consecutive Day; Oil Smears Hundreds of Birds in Gulf Nesting Area; BP to Deduct Spill Costs from Tax Payments; 8 US Troops Killed in Afghanistan; Iranian Scientist Returns Home as Report Claims CIA Payment of $5M; Gaza-Bound Libyan Aid Ship Docks in Egypt; Rwanda Opposition Leader Found Dead; US Details Nuclear Arsenal Plans; Survey: Despite Earnings Boost, Most Firms Won't Increase Hiring; Foreclosures Expected to Top 1 Million This Year; Fmr. Insurance Exec Tapped to Implement Healthcare Law; Philip Morris Using Child Labor in Kazak Tobacco Fields; Ex-Police Officer Avoids Jail in Bicycle Assault Case; Supporters Rally on Eve of Lynne Stewart Resentencing

2010/07/16 Headlines: BP Stops Oil Spill for First Time Since April; Senate Approves Financial Reform Bill; Goldman Settles Fraud Case over Mortgage Investments; 21 Killed in Iran Suicide Bombing; Poll: 62% Say War Going "Badly"; Record US Soldier Suicides in June; US Has Delivered None of Pledged Aid Money to Haiti; France Threatens Legal Action over Haiti Reparations Hoax; Argentina Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage; Suspect Charged in Algiers Point Shooting; BP Cleanup Worker Describes Lax Safety Conditions; Activists Shut Down West Virginia Coal Mine; Iroquois Lacrosse Team Denied Entry to Britain; Ex-Bush Official: CIA Used Unauthorized Torture Techniques; Lynne Stewart Resentenced to 10-Year Term

2010/07/19 Headlines: Oil Seep Discovered Near Ruptured Well; Gulf Coast Workers to Have Cleanup Pay Deducted from Claims; At Least 45 Killed in Iraq Suicide Bombing; Report: Karzai to Unveil 2014 Withdrawal Deadline; Amidst Clinton Visit, Pakistani Military Accused of Extrajudicial Killings; Netanyahu in 2001: US "Won't Get in the Way" of Israeli Expansionism; Rich Nations Urged to Meet Pledges at Opening of Global AIDS Conference; Study: Half the World's Poor Live in South Asia; Fmr. West Virginia Aide Appointed to Fill Byrd's Senate Seat; Obama Chides Republicans on Unemployment Deadlock; AIG Agrees to $725M Settlement in Fraud Suit; Couple Sentenced on Cuba Spying Conviction; NY Limits "Stop and Frisk" Database; Southwest Workers Union Member Critically Injured in Shooting Attack; Warning Issued to Top Texan Appeals Court Judge; Mandela Honored on 92nd Birthday; US Citizen Remains on No-Fly List After Returning Home; Appeals Court Upholds Sentence for Gitmo Whistleblower

2010/07/20 Headlines: Karzai: Afghan Forces Will Take Control of Security By 2014; Rocket Fire Forces Diversion of Ban Ki-Moon's Plane; NATO Chief: US &amp; <span class="caps">NATO Underestimated Scale of Afghanistan Mission; Senate Democrats Hope to Break GOP Filibuster over Jobless Benefits; White House Confirms Seepage and Leaks Near BP Well; Obama and British PM Cameron to Meet at White House; Marathon Oil Opens New Deepwater Well in Gulf; US National Guard to Arrive on Mexican Border on Aug. 1; US-Made Grenades Used in Mexican Drug War; Afro-Colombian Activist Assassinated; Homeless Pastor Dies in Denver Police Custody After Being Tasered; Maryland Man Could Face 16 Years in Jail for Videotaping Traffic Stop; Olympia Food Co-Op to Boycott Israeli Goods; Israeli Soldier in Tom Hurndall Killing Released Early; Climatologist Stephen Schneider, 65, Dies

2010/07/21 Headlines: Probe Reveals BP Knew of Problems Ahead Deepwater Horizon Rig Explosion; British PM Rejects Calls for Inquiry into BP's Role in Release of Lockerbie Bomber; Democrats Break GOP Filibuster on Unemployment Aid Bill; Senate Committee Backs Kagan Supreme Court Nomination; USDA Reconsiders Firing of Black Official over <span class="caps">NAACP Speech; US Announces New Sanctions Against North Korea; Report: US Forces Step Up Presence in Pakistan; Afghan Soldier Kills Two US Military Trainers; Obama Praises International Conference on Afghanistan; Ex-Head of MI5: Iraq War Increased Threat of Terrorism in Britain; Pentagon to Rescind Rules on Journalists at Gitmo; Two Utah State Workers Lose Jobs for Creating List of Undocumented Immigrants; Oakland Approves Plan for Large Marijuana Production Plants; Palestinian Guilty of Rape after Consensual Sex with Israeli Jew

2010/07/22 Headlines: Ousted USDA Official Offered New Job in Agency; No Charges to be Filed in US Attorneys Scandal; UK Deputy PM Describes Iraq Invasion as "Illegal"; Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Missing After Forced Repatriation; Obama Signs Financial Reform Bill; Record Foreclosures Expected in 2010 Despite Federal Efforts; Ben Bernanke: US Faces "Unusually Uncertain" Prospects; London Officer Involved in Death of Man at G20 Escapes Charges; Flooding Kills More Than 700 in China; Israeli Court Ruling in "Rape by Deception" Case Stirs Controversy; Head of CIA Drone Program in Pakistan Promoted; House Passes Tribal Law and Order Act; Anti-Mountaintop Removal Candidate Enters Race for Byrd's Senate Seat; Rage Against the Machine Urges Boycott of Arizona

2010/07/23 Headlines: Tropical Storm Bonnie Forces BP to Suspend Relief Well Drilling; Two BP Managers Named as Potential Targets of Fed Probe; BP's Hiring of Prison Labor Cleanup Scrutinized; US Lifts Ban on Training Indonesian Special Forces Unit; Peruvian and Ugandan Contractors Killed in Attack on Green Zone; Rep. Rangel to Face Ethics Violations Trial; Obama Apologizes to Shirley Sherrod; Report: Bailed-Out Banks Paid Out $1.6B in Excessive Bonuses; Venezuela Cuts Ties to Colombia; IMF Cancels Haiti's Debt But Gives Haiti a New Loan; Trafigura Fined for Exporting Toxic Waste to Ivory Coast

2010/07/26 Headlines: WikiLeaks Releases 92,000 Secret Docs About Afghan War; Report: 45 Afghan Civilians Die in NATO Air Strike; US Launches Hunt for Captured Troops in Afghanistan; Cancer &amp; Infant Mortality Rates Soar in Fallujah; Suicide Bomb Targets Baghdad Bureau of Al Arabiya; Former CIA Boss: Iran Attack “Inexorable”; Lt. Dan Choi Discharged from Military over Don't Ask, Don't Tell; Report: Hayward to Step Down as BP CEO; Khmer Rouge Commander Sentenced for Crimes Against Humanity; Two Workers in Penn. Die in Natural Gas Explosion; Report: People with Mental Disabilities Face Risk of Erroneous Deportation; Activists Gather for United National Peace Conference in Albany; Legendary Broadcaster Daniel Schorr, 93, Dies

2010/07/27 Headlines: Karzai Orders Probe into Deadly NATO Air Strike; Missing US Soldier Found Dead in Afghanistan; As BP Reports $17B Loss, Hayward to Step Down as CEO; BP Fails to Set Up $20B Compensation Fund; Greenpeace Activists Shut Down BP Stations in London; Iran Says It Is Open to Nuclear Talks "Without Any Conditions"; Environmental Ministers Criticize US Stance on Climate Change; WFP: 8 Million Need Food Aid in Niger Due to Severe Drought; SEIU and <span class="caps">UNITE <span class="caps">HERE Reach Settlement Ending Dispute; Tennessee GOP Candidate Questions Whether Islam Is a Religion; Probe Urged into Murdered Honduran Journalists; Nike Agrees to Compensate Laid-Off Contract Workers in Honduras; 20th Anniversary of Americans with Disabilities Act Marked; Puerto Rican Independentista Freed After 30 Years

2010/07/28 Headlines: House Votes to Fund Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; Audit: Pentagon Can't Account for 95% of $9B of Iraq Reconstruction Funds; BP Seeks $10 Billion Tax Break to Cover Spill Expenses; 800,000 Gallons of Oil Spill in Michigan; Major Protests Planned in Arizona over Anti-Immigrant Bill; Nebraska City Suspends Anti-Immigrant Housing Bill; NYC to Pay $7M Settlement in Sean Bell Shooting Case; British PM: Gaza Is a "Prison Camp"; US Backs More AU Troops in Somalia; Hans Blix: US Refused to Accept Findings of UN Inspectors in Iraq; Colombia Journalist to Be Allowed Entry into US; Four Mexican Journalists Kidnapped; Republicans Block Campaign Finance Law; Massachusetts Legislature OKs Plan to Bypass Electoral College; Groups: FBI Surveillance Program Invites Racial Profiling

2010/07/29 Headlines: Federal Judge Blocks Part of Arizona Immigration Law; US Seeks Access to More Internet Data Without Court Order; House Reduction of Drug Sentencing Disparity; EPA Blasted over Handling of Michigan Oil Spill; Coast Guard's Role in Fighting BP Oil Rig Fire Scrutinized; Texas Launches Probe of Toxic Release of BP Refinery in Texas City; Local Afghan Media Outlets Paid to Run US Propaganda; Pakistan Declares Day of Mourning After Plane Crash; 2000-2009 Marked Warmest Decade on Record; Israel Refuses to Pay Medical Bills for Emily Henochowicz; Israel Demolishes Bedouin Village in Negev Desert; Peace Activist Art Gish, 70, Dies

2010/07/30 Headlines: Dozens of Immigrant Rights Activists Arrested in Arizona Protests; July Becomes Deadliest Month for US in Afghanistan; Obama Signs War Funding Bill; US Moves to Increase Arms Exports; Bradley Manning Moved to Marine Brig in Virginia; Justice Dept Explores Espionage Charges Against WikiLeaks; Army Issues Report on Soldier Suicides; Rep. Rangel Charged with 13 Ethics Violations; GOP Blocks Small Business Loan Fund; House Rejects Bill to Help Sick Ground Zero Workers; Citigroup to Pay $75M to Settle Subprime Mortgage Claims; Wyclef Jean Considers Presidential Run in Haiti; Two NOLA Police Officers Charged over 2005 Beating; Cluster Bomb Treaty to Go into Effect; US Refuses to Sign; US Hikers Held for a Year in Iranian Prison

2010/08/02 Headlines: Massive Flooding Kills Over 1,200 in Pakistan; Mullen: US Military Has Plans to Attack Iran If Needed; Report: July Was Deadliest Month in Iraq Since May 2008; WikiLeaks Volunteer Detained, Questioned over Afghan War Logs; Global Treaty Banning Cluster Bombs Goes into Force; Hamas Commander Killed in Israeli Air Strike; Greenspan Opposes Keeping Bush’s Tax Cuts on Wealthy; UAE to Ban Blackberry Services Due to Encryption System; Life Insurance Firms Probed for Defrauding Families of Dead Soldiers; Rep. Maxine Waters to Face Ethics Trial; First Gay Marriages Celebrated in Argentina; Journalist Killed in West Papua; ADL Opposes Plan for Mosque Near Ground Zero; Mothers of Imprisoned Hikers Protest Outside Iranian Mission in NYC; FBI File on Howard Zinn Dates to 1949; Puerto Rican Nationalist Lolita Lebron, 90, Dies

2010/08/03 Headlines: 1,400 Killed, 3 Million People Affected by Floods in Pakistan; Scientists: Nearly 5 Million Barrels of Oil Spilled in Gulf; BP Faces Insider Trading Probe; Israeli Shelling Kills Three Lebanese Soldiers, One Journalist; Six Afghan Children Die in Suicide Bombing; Obama: US on Target to Withdraw Combat Troops from Iraq; UN Panel to Probe Israeli Attack on Flotilla; Republicans Call for Repealing 14th Amendment; Virginia AG OKs Immigration Checks on Anyone Stopped by Police; Countrywide to Pay $600 Million Settlement; IPCC Chief Pachauri: Climate Talks in Cancún Are Very Important; 22 Die in Kashmir as Protests Intensify; Ahmadinejad Calls for Debate with Obama; Jury Convicts Two in JFK Airport Plot; Husband of Rep. Jane Harman Buys Newsweek

2010/08/04 Headlines: BP Claims Progress in Sealing Well; Worker Kills 8, Self at Conn. Warehouse; Senate Opens Debate on Kagan Nomination; Groups File Suit over Assassinations List; Toll from Pakistan Flooding Tops 1,500; 17 Killed in Iraq Attacks; New York Clears Ground Zero Mosque Plan; US Envoy to Attend Hiroshima Memorial for 1st Time; Senate Delays Vote on Ratifying Russia Nuke Treaty; Pentagon Denies Embed Request to Reporter Behind McChrystal Story; Judge to Rule on California Gay Marriage Ban; Activist Marilyn Buck Dies at 62

2010/08/05 Headlines: Federal Judge Strikes Down California Gay Marriage Ban; Scientists Challenge Admin Claims on Oil Spill Cleanup; Transocean Found Safety Flaws at Gulf Rigs; Senate Advances State Aid Measure; Verizon, Google in Reported Deal for Tiered Internet Use; Treasury Authorizes Groups to Represent US-Born Cleric; Right-Wing Group Sues to Block Ground Zero Mosque; White House Refuses to Take Stance; Kenyan Voters Approve Constitutional Referendum; Palestinian Solidarity Activists Plan New Gaza Flotilla; Indonesia Could Follow Saudi Arabia, UAE Ban on BlackBerry Phones; Study: Increased Deportations Under Obama Admin

2010/08/06 Headlines: Pakistan Flooding Devastates New Areas; Afghan Civilians Killed in NATO Attack; Pentagon Demands WikiLeaks Return Afghan War Docs; Activists to Hold Rally for Accused Military Whistleblower; Sealing of Well Raises Questions Around BP's Plans for Remaining Oil; Senate Confirms Kagan Nomination to Supreme Court; Clapper Confirmed as National Intelligence Director; Senate Fails to Approve Settlement for Black Farmers; Mexican Supreme Court Upholds Gay Marriage Law; Wyclef Jean Announces Haitian Presidential Bid; Activists Launch "US Boat to Gaza" Campaign; Bush Admin Returned Gitmo Prisoners to Secret Jails to Avoid Scrutiny; Kucinich Measure Would Bar Targeted Killings of US Citizens; Justice Dept. Accuses 14 of Supporting Somali Militant Group; Jobless Claims, Unemployment Rise; Missouri Voters Reject Insurance Mandates

2010/08/09 Headlines: 10 Medical Aid Workers Killed in Afghanistan; 1,325 Afghan Civilians Killed So Far This Year; 131,000 Jobs Lost in July; Unemployment Rate Remains at 9.5%; Romer Resigns as Obama's Chief Economist; Kagan Sworn In as Supreme Court Justice; Devastating Heat Wave Continues in Russia; Ice Island Breaks Off from Greenland; Juan Manuel Santos Sworn In as Colombia's President; Fidel Castro Addresses Cuban National Assembly; Mexican Journalists Call for Government Protection of the Press; Netanyahu Defends Assault on Gaza Aid Flotilla; Ex-US Cabinet Official Detained at Israeli Airport; Fareed Zakaria Returns ADL Award over Its Opposition to Ground Zero Mosque; Rep. Boehner Wants Congress to Consider Repealing 14th Amendment; Peace Groups Rally to Support Accused Army Whistleblower Bradley Manning

2010/08/10 Headlines: UN: 13 Million People Affected by Floods in Pakistan; Google and Verizon Propose Two-Tiered Internet System; Gates Outlines Pentagon Budget Cuts; UN: Civilian Casualties Jump 31% in Afghanistan in 2010; Medical Charity Identifies Aid Workers Killed in Afghanistan; Gen. Petraeus Aims to Build Support for Afghan War; Trial of Omar Khadr to Begin at Guantánamo; Vicente Fox Calls for Legalization of Drugs; Number of Oiled Wildlife Increasing in Gulf of Mexico; Hezbollah Blames Israel for 2005 Assassination of Al-Hariri; Israel Threatens to Pull Out of UN Flotilla Inquiry; Mia Farrow Testifies at Charles Taylor War Crimes Trial; Rep. Maxine Waters Faces Three Ethics Violations

2010/08/11 Headlines: Pakistan Evacuations Continue as Groups Urge Global Aid; Toll in China Flooding Doubles to 700; Primaries Held in 4 States; Obama Signs State Aid Bill After Dems Cut $12B in Food Stamp Funding; Storm Forces Delay of BP Relief Well Effort; Lawsuits to Be Heard in New Orleans Court; UN Envoy: Khadr Trial Could Undermine Child Soldier Protections; Rights Groups Ask WikiLeaks to Censor Afghan Docs; Graphic Provides Geospacial Rendering of Afghan Attacks; Venezuela, Colombia Restore Ties; Mexican Supreme Court: Mexico City Same-Sex Marriages Must Be Recognized Nationwide; Greenpeace: Russian Wildfires Could Spread Chernobyl Fumes; Israel Bulldozes Palestinian Cemetery; Rangel Rejects Ethics Charges in House Floor Speech; Waters' Attorneys Accuse Ethics Panel of Double Standard; Gibbs: Critics of Bush-Like Obama Policies Should Be "Drug Tested"; New York City Allows Anti-Mosque Ads on Public Buses; Fmr. GOP Senator Ted Stevens Dies in Plane Crash

2010/08/12 Headlines: UN Warns of More Pakistan Deaths Unless Aid Reaches Flooded Areas; US Denied Helicopters for Pakistan Relief Effort Due to Afghan War; US Accused of Killing 3 Afghan Civilians; Military Officials to Push for Delayed Afghan Withdrawal; Top Iraqi General: US Troops Should Remain Until 2020; Report: US Pressuring Allies to Target WikiLeaks Founder; BP Ties Compensation Fund to Gulf Coast Drilling Revenues; Texas Sues to Overturn Deepwater Drilling Freeze; Top 5 Insurance Companies Paid Execs Nearly $200M in 2009; Florida AG Unveils Anti-Immigrant Measure; Clinton Urges Senate Ratification of START Treaty; Gitmo Prisoner Sentenced to 14 Years; Argentina's Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo Nominated for Nobel Prize; Lebanon Vows to Reject US Military Aid If it Limits Self-Defense; Wells Fargo Ordered to Repay Customers for Overdraft Fees; Dozens Injured in Massive Turnout for Subsidized Housing in Georgia

2010/08/13 Headlines: Prop 8 Backers Given 6 Days to Block Resumption of Gay Marriages; Poll: Most Americans Back Same-Sex Marriage; Jobless Claims Reach Six-Month High; Foreclosures Rise 9%; Report: Wall St. Bonuses to Increase for Consecutive Year; BP Fined $50.6M for Safety Hazards at Texas Refinery; Alabama AG Sues BP and Other Firms over Spill; Congress Approves $600M Border Militarization Bill; Poll: Majority of Border Residents Feel Safe; Israel Rejects Palestinian Offer for Peace Talks; Pentagon Warns WikiLeaks on New Document Release; Congress Members Seek to Reduce US Compensation for Iraqi Victims of US Attacks; Iraqi Commander: US Troops Needed Until 2020; Pakistani Province Faces New Round of Flooding; Pakistani Journalists Protest Media Crackdown; Burmese Junta Announces Election Date; Canadian Navy Seizes Tamil Migrant Ship; Haitians Hold Sit-in to Protest Forced Evictions; Lesbian of Color Files Civil Rights Suit Against NYPD

2010/08/16 Headlines: UN Chief: Pakistan Is Worst Disaster I've Ever Witnessed; Gen: Petraeus Hints Scheduled Afghan Withdrawal Could Be Postponed; Karzai Reportedly Orders All Private Security Firms to Disband; Shadow War: US Secretly Carries Out Strikes in Yemen; Obama Backs the Rights of Muslims to Build Mosque Near Ground Zero; US Threatens to Cut Off Arms Deal to Turkey over Criticism of Israel; US to Fund Israeli Purchase of 20 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters; White House Expresses Concern over Election in Rwanda; 23 Killed in Mexico; Grenade Hits Monterrey TV Station; Peruvian Prosecutor Seeks to Put Lori Berenson Back in Jail; France Urged to Repay $40 Billion "Independence Debt" to Haiti; Curfew Continues in Kashmir After Police Kill Four Protesters; Backers of Open Internet Protest Outside Google HQ; Turkey Deports US Journalist; Laborers’ International Union Rejoins AFL-<span class="caps">CIO; Singer, Civil Rights Activist Abbey Lincoln, 80, Dies

2010/08/17 Headlines: Same-Sex Marriages Put on Hold in California; Sen. Reid Opposes Mosque in Lower Manhattan; At Least 50 Die in Suicide Bombing in Baghdad; Number of Troops Killed Under Obama in Afghanistan to Surpass Bush; Robert Gates to Retire in 2011; US Continues Drone Strikes in Pakistan Despite Floods; Lori Berenson Appears in Peruvian Court; US to Ease Travel Rules to Cuba; Videotapes from Secret CIA Prison Uncovered; New Deepwater Oil Drilling Regulations Outlined; Researchers: 79% of Oil from BP Spill Still Has Not Been Recovered; Justice Department Drops Probe of Former GOP Leader Tom DeLay; Israeli Soldier Posts Photos with Palestinian Prisoners; Mexican President Open to Debate on Drug Legalization; US Pressured over Ban on Mexican Cargo Trucks; Judge Orders Release of Californian Jailed Under Three Strikes; Activist Arrested After Throwing Pie at Sen. Carl Levin

2010/08/18 Headlines: UN: 40% of Pakistan Aid Appeal Received; Haiti Reconstruction Commission Approves $1.6B for Rebuilding Projects; France Rejects Call to Repay Haiti "Independence Debt"; Colombian Court: US Military Base Deal Unconstitutional; Blackwater Owner Prince Moves to Abu Dhabi; Scientists: Oil Contaminating Vital Gulf Habitat; 68 Killed in Iraq Bombings; Blagojevich Convicted on One Count in Corruption Trial; Murray, Rossi Win Washington St. Primaries; News Corp. Donates $1M to Republican Governors Association; Dr. Laura to End Radio Show After N-Word Tirade

2010/08/19 Headlines: US Withdraws Last Combat Brigade from Iraq, But 56,000 Troops Remain; Hundreds Protest Deadly US Raid in Afghanistan; US: Afghan Ban on Armed Contractors Could Threaten Aid; US Boosts Pakistan Aid to $150M; Lori Berenson Reimprisoned in Peru; US Still Holding Gitmo Prisoner Cleared for Release in 2004; ACLU Files Suit over Torture, Jailing of US Citizen in <span class="caps">UAE; Howard Dean Opposes Islamic Community Center Near Ground Zero; US Accused of Pressuring India to Drop Bhopal Claims; US Deported Record 393,000 in 2009; Justice Dept. Threatens to Sue Arizona Sheriff for Rebuffing Investigators; Bailed-Out GM Files Papers for Public Offering

2010/08/20 Headlines: UNICEF: Aid Appeal Inadequate to Address Pakistan's Growing Crisis; Global Donations for Pakistan Lag Compared to Recent Disasters; Scientists Confirm Gulf Oil Plume, Dispute White House Claims; BP Delays Well Sealing Until September; Transocean Accuses BP of Obstructing Probe into Rig Explosion; Report: BP Settlements May Indemnify Gulf Firms; Jobless Claims Hit 9-Month High; Reports: Israelis, Palestinians Agree to Hold Talks; UN: Israel Denies Palestinians Access to 17% of Gaza; Women Activists to Attempt Gaza Sailing; Report: US Claims Israel Won't Attack Iran for at Least 1 Year; Calderón: US Gun Laws Fueling Mexican Drug War; Report: Wyclef Jean Denied Bid for Haitian Presidency; Protesters Call on Trader Joe's to Adopt Humane Conditions for Tomato Pickers; Report: Donations Surge to Sway Judicial Elections; Homeless Man Jailed for Stealing Food Freed After 13 Years

2010/08/23 Headlines: UN: Lack of International Support for Pakistan Is "Quite Extraordinary"; US Drone Strike Killed Six in Pakistan; Israeli and Palestinian Authority Agree to Direct Talks; Sweden Drops Rape Charges Against WikiLeaks Founder; Rallies Held For and Against NYC Islamic Cultural Center; Soldiers Punished for Refusing to Attend Christian Concert; Gen. Odierno: US Troops May Stay in Iraq After 2011; US Soldier Killed in Southern Iraq; Haitian Authorities Release List of Qualified Presidential Candidates; UN Report Exonerates Shell for Oil Pollution in Niger Delta; 33 Chilean Miners Still Alive; GOP Candidate Proposes Housing Welfare Recipients in Jails; California Jail to Test Ray Gun on Prisoners; Recall of Eggs Expanded by 170 Million Eggs; Blackwater Agrees to Pay $42 Million in Fines; CodePink Founder Arrested at Home of Blackwater's Erik Prince

2010/08/24 Headlines: Senators McCain, Murkowski Face Primary Challenges; Judge Blocks Federal Funding for Embryonic Stem Cell Research; One Million Pakistanis Face Starvation in Balochistan; Relief Agencies Blocked from Using Pakistani Air Base Tied to US; US Drone Strike in Pakistan Kills 4 Women, 3 Children; NATO Troops Accused of Killing Eight Afghan Civilians; Imam Feisal Defends Islam as a Peaceful Religion; Thousands of Dead Fish Found in Mississippi River; Almost 200 Women Gang-Raped in the Congo; Suicide Bomber and Gunmen Attack Somali Hotel; 100,000 Left Homeless by Floods in Niger; Eight Tourists Killed in the Philippines; Report: 8.4 Million Californians Lack Health Insurance; US Submits First Ever Human Rights Report to the UN; Charges Dropped for 100 G20 Protesters; Protesters Block Buses Carrying Soldiers at Fort Hood

2010/08/25 Headlines: 33 Killed, Dozens Wounded in Iraq Violence; Witnesses: 8 Afghan Civilians Killed in US Attack; Top US Marine: Withdrawal Deadline Boosting Taliban Morale; WikiLeaks Announces Release of CIA Paper; Study: Microbes Eating Up Oil in Gulf of Mexico; McCain Holds Off Challenger; Murkowski Trails in Alaska GOP Race; Rep. Meek Defeats Billionaire Challenger in Fla. Dem Senate; MSHA Fines Safety Violations at 4 Mines; Admin to Appeal Blocking of Stem Cell Funding; Report: NOLA Officers Ordered to Shoot Looters After Katrina; Carter Lands in North Korea to Free US Prisoner; Israeli FM: Settlement Construction to Resume Next Month; Texas School Rejects Admission for Daughter of Lesbian Couple

2010/08/26 Headlines: Over 50 Killed in Iraq Violence; Report: Corruption-Linked Afghan Official on CIA Payroll; New York Taxi Driver Stabbed in Anti-Muslim Attack; Religious, Civic Groups Form NY Coalition to Back Islamic Center; Islamic Center Vandalized in California; Kentucky Board Rejects Mosque; Top Obama Environmental Advisers Sidelined During Drilling Talks; 72 Killed in Mexico Drug Killings; Pakistani Towns Evacuated; 800,000 Cut Off from Aid; Scores Killed in Somali Clashes; Zelaya: US Subverting Honduran Democracy; Honduran Journalist Found Dead with Gunshot Wounds; Sweden Continues Probe of WikiLeaks Founder; WikiLeaks Releases CIA Report; Ex-RNC Chair Reveals He's Gay; Study: More Than Half of Poor Infants Raised by Mothers Suffering from Depression; Deficit Commission Co-Chair Urged to Resign over Social Security Comments

2010/08/27 Headlines: UN: Over 1 Million Pakistanis Displaced in 2 Days; Report: Many Afghan Officials on CIA Payroll; Security Council Voices Concern on Congo Rapes; In Cuba, Richardson Claims Progress on Jailed US Contractor; North Korea Frees US Citizen After Carter Visit; South African Union Threatens to Wide Labor Strike; Israeli Military Court Convicts Nonviolent Palestinian Activist; Victim of Anti-Muslim Stabbing Speaks Out; Admin Sides with Utilities in Emissions Case; 2 Arrested Protesting Mountaintop Removal in West Virginia; Gates Foundation Criticized for Increasing Monsanto Investment

2010/08/30 Headlines: Fire Set at Site of Future Mosque in Tennessee; Mexican Mayor Killed in Border State; FDA to Begin Inspections of Factory Egg Farms; UN Report Accuses Rwandan Troops of Committing Genocide in the Congo; Flooding Continue in Pakistan, a Month After Disaster Began; Influential Israel Rabbi: Palestinians Should Perish with a Plague; Glenn Beck Hosts Rally on Anniversary of MLK's March on Washington; Youth Unemployment Reaches Record Level; Heavily Armed Army Veteran Shot Dead in Utah

2010/08/31 Headlines: Obama to Declare End to Combat Operations in Iraq; UN: Iraq Still Faces Humanitarian Crisis; Gibbs: US Is Increasing Fight Against al-Qaeda in Africa and Southeast Asia; Obama Administration Sued over Plan to Assassinate US Citizens; 19 US Troops Killed Since Saturday in Afghanistan; Anti-Mosque Rhetoric in US Reportedly Boosts Taliban Recruitment; Candlelight Vigil in Tennessee Condemns Arson at Mosque Site; Predator Drones to Begin Patrolling Texas-Mexico Border; Suspected Drug Lord Captured in Mexico; Obama Urges Senate GOP to Pass $30 Billion Jobs Bill; One in Six Americans Now Enrolled in Anti-Poverty Programs; Mice, Maggots, Manure Found at Factory Egg Farms Linked to Salmonella Outbreak; Four African Union Troops Killed in Somalia

2010/09/01 Headlines: Obama Declares End to US Combat Operations in Iraq; 4 Israeli Settlers Killed on Eve of Mideast Talks; Study: CEOs Who Fired Most Workers Earned Highest Pay; Bank Profits Soar, But Lending Drops; Murkowski Concedes Alaska GOP Senate Primary; 5 Arrested After Shots Fired at New York Mosque; Seattle Man Charged with Hate Crime after Attack on Turban-Wearing Clerk; Poll: 71% of New Yorkers Oppose Islamic Center in Lower Manhattan; Deal Reached to Provide Dialysis Treatment to Undocumented Immigrants in Atlanta; Gov't Sues Arizona Colleges for Anti-Immigrant Discrimination; Migrant Deaths Nearing Record in Arizona; Study: Hiring of Immigrant Workers Triggers Economic Benefits; NY Enacts Domestic Workers Rights' Law; Texas Appeals Court Upholds Gay Marriage, Divorce Ban; Greenpeace Shuts Down Offshore Drilling Rig in Greenland

2010/09/02 Headlines: Palestinians: Obama Vows to "Stop the Settlements"; Biden Marks Nominal End to US Combat Operations in Iraq; Over 60 Killed in Pakistan Air Strikes; Justice Dept. Charges Mehsud with CIA Bombing in Afghanistan; UN Increases Estimate of DRC Rape Victims; Evacuations Ordered in NC Ahead of Hurricane Earl; Armed Suspect Killed After Taking Hostages at Discovery Channel; Judge Rejects Dismissal of Suit to Overturn Drilling Ban; BP Ad Spending Tops $93M Since Spill; Recession Spurs Sharp Decline in Undocumented Immigration; Wyoming Town Near Drilling Told Drinking Water Unsafe, Potentially Explosive; WikiLeaks Founder Speaks Out Against Swedish Probe; Lawyer: Mental Health of Alleged Leaker Was Questioned

2010/09/03 Headlines: Another Oil Rig Explodes in Gulf of Mexico; BP: Denial of Drilling Permit Threatens Gulf Coast Claims; Calls Grow for Offshore Drilling Ban; US Accused of Killing 10 Afghan Civilians; Main Afghan Bank Faces Collapse; Slain US Army Chaplain Is First to Die in Combat Since Vietnam War; Israeli, Palestinian Leaders Agree to Further Talks; Settlers: "We Are Building" All Over West Bank; Companies Passing on More Healthcare Costs to Employees; 4 Accused of Coercing 400 Thai Workers into Forced Labor; LA Garment Factory to Pay Workers Unpaid Overtime, Allow Monitor; Environmentalist Sentenced to 4 Months for Accepting Facebook Friend Request

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2010/09/07 Headlines: Obama Unveils $50B Infrastructure Proposal; Pakistani Towns Face New Flooding; Scores Killed in Pakistan Suicide Bombings; 7 Killed in Mozambique Food Protests; UN to Hold Summit on Rising Prices; Afghans Protest Church's Plan to Burn Quran; NATO Seeks 2,000 More Troops for Afghanistan; 12 Killed in US-Militant Gunfight in Baghdad; Bahrain Intensifies Crackdown on Opposition, Human Rights Groups; Israeli Foreign Minister: Peace Deal Impossible, Settlements to Resume; Castro Gives First Speech Since 2006; Blair Cancels London Book Signing over Antiwar Protests; Muslim Workers Accuse JBS Swift of Mistreatment, Discrimination; Regulators Exempted Mariner Wells from Environmental Review; Jefferson Thomas of Little Rock 9 Dies at 67

2010/09/08 Headlines: Obama Rejects Extension of Top-Bracket Tax Cuts; Iraqi Soldier Kills 2 US Troops; Admitting Fault, UN Reports Over 500 DRC Rapes Since July; UN Delays Release of Rwanda-DRC Report; Report: Torture-Linked Ex-CIA Officer Rehired as Private Contractor; Protesters, Police Clash over LA Shooting; Groups File Suit over Laptop Searches; Black Farmers Call for Cloture Vote on Discrimination Settlement; Arizona GOP Recruits Homeless to Run for Green Party; Whistleblower Ordered to Pay Wall St. Giant $10.7M; Soros Donates $100M to HRW; Pastors for Peace Founder Lucius Walker Dies at 80

2010/09/09 Headlines: Obama Calls for Ending Bush-Era Tax Cuts for Wealthiest Americans; BP Largely Faults Rig Partners for Oil Spill; 10 Killed in US Attack in Pakistan; US Soldiers Accused of Killing Afghans for Sport, Collecting Body Parts; Report: Karzai Seeks to Limit Foreign Role in Corruption Probe; Slain Mexican Mayor Is 3rd Killed in Less Than Month; Arrests Made in Massacre of 72 Migrants; Clinton Suggests Plan Colombia-Style Initiative for Mexico, Central America; Study: 75% of Guns in Mexico Crimes Bought in US; Castro: Ahmadinejad's Comments on Israel, Nazi Holocaust Are Anti-Semitic; Colombian Suspect Arrested in 2001 Killings of Coal Union Leaders; Pastor Vows to Proceed with Quran Burning; Flight Attendant Fired for Revealing Food Stamp Eligibility; BP Consulted for Environmental Curriculum of California Schools; Study: 5 Million Uninsured Children Missed Out on Healthcare Programs Despite Eligibility; 30th Anniversary of Plowshares 8 Action

2010/09/10 Headlines: Judge: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Is Unconstitutional; US Troops Accused of Killing Afghans for Fun, Collecting Fingers as Trophies; Florida Pastor Rethinks Suspension of "Burn a Koran Day"; Iran to Release One of Detained American Hikers; Court Rules Against Anti-Immigrant Law in Penn. City; Pentagon Considers Buying and Destroying Copies of Afghan War Memoir; US Carries Out Four More Drone Strikes in Pakistan; 14 Die in Attack on Somali Airport; 230 Dead over Past 2 Weeks; Rape Survivors in the Congo Recall Horror; Obama to Pick Austan Goolsbee to Economic Advisory Post; Univision Tops National TV Ratings for Key Demographic; Peace Rallies and Interfaith Vigils Planned for Sept. 11 Anniversary

2010/09/13 Headlines: Amnesty: 30,000 Prisoners Held in Iraq Without Trial; Feds Probe Deadly Natural Gas Explosion in California; Memorials and Protests Mark Anniversary of Sept. 11 Attacks; Imam Rauf: Moving Islamic Center Will Strengthen Radicals; Afghans Protest Planned Quran Burning; Poverty Rate Sharply Rises in US; Chamber of Commerce Accused of Money Laundering; John Boehner Scrutinized for Close Ties to Corporate Lobbyists; Gingrich: Obama Has a "Kenyan, Anti-Colonial" Worldview; N. Carolina Man Arrested for Plotting to Blow Up Abortion Clinic; Obama Says No to Placing Carter-Era Solar Panels on White House; Iran to Release Sarah Shourd on $500,000 Bail; Israeli Shelling Kills Three Palestinians in Gaza; African American Scholar Ron Walters, 72, Dies; Puerto Rican Independence Leader Juan Mari Brás, 82, Dies; Folk Magazine Publisher Irwin Silber, 84, Dies

2010/09/14 Headlines: 10 Killed in US Attack in Pakistan; Indian Police Kill 18 in Kashmir Unrest; US Agrees to Record $60B Weapons Deal with Saudi Arabia; Senate Republicans Oppose Obama Plan to End Tax Cut for Wealthiest; Primaries Held in 7 States, DC; Imam: "All Options" Open on Islamic Cultural Center; Israeli-Palestinian Talks Resume in Egypt; Israeli Military Accused of Sexually Abusing Palestinian Youth; US Asks Arab States to Withdraw Israel Measure at IAEA; US Won't Pay Bail for Sarah Shourd; Cuba to Lay Off 500,000 State Workers; Gov't Scientists, Inspectors: Corporate Interests Threatening Food Safety; Prominent Civil Rights-Era Photographer Was FBI Informant

2010/09/15 Headlines: Sarah Shourd Freed from Iranian Prison; Tea Party-Backed O'Donnell Wins Senate GOP Nod in Delaware; Rangel Wins Renomination; 12 Killed Amidst Record Month for US Drone Strikes in Pakistan; Verdict Delayed in Trial for Anti-Drone Protest; US Forces Battle Iraqi Militants; UN: Despite Decline, Chronic Hunger Levels "Unacceptable"; Ban Defends MDG Goals as UN General Assembly Begins; Jury Selection Begins in Blackwater Trial

2010/09/16 Headlines: 7 Civilians Killed in US-Iraqi Raid; Israel, PA Remain at Odds over West Bank Settlements; Report: GOP Plan to Extend Tax Cuts for Wealthiest Would Add $4.1 Trillion to Federal Debt; Obama to Appoint Warren to Advisory Post; Foreclosures Hit Record Levels in August; Penn. Paid Firm to Monitor Activist Groups; Suit Alleges Water Contamination from Drilling in Marcellus Shale; US Orders Closure of Idle Gulf Wells; Massive Fish Kill Discovered in La. Parish; Hayward Defends BP Safety Measures; Mothers of Remaining Jailed US Hikers Speak Out; Corn Refiners Seek Rebranding of Corn Syrup

2010/09/17 Headlines: Record Number of Americans Below Poverty Line, Uninsured; Supporters Launch International Days of Action for Bradley Manning; Clinton: Israeli Settlement Freeze "Would Be Helpful"; Israel Carries Out Attacks in Occupied Territories; Palestinians, Lebanese Mark Anniversary of Sabra and Shatila Massacre; Militants Abduct Election Workers Ahead of Afghan Vote; Exiled Pakistani Leader Slain in London; Musharraf to Launch Political Comeback; UN Raises Alarm over Somalia Clashes; Senate Foreign Relations Committee Approves START; Study: Microbes Consumed Natural Gas, Not Oil, After Spill; Group Sues for Gov't Records on Spill Size; Appeals Court Overturns Conviction of Environmental Activist

2010/09/20 Headlines: BP Permanently Seals Ruptured Gulf Well; At Least 56 Killed in Iraq Violence; 17 Killed as Afghanistan Holds Elections; NATO Bombing Kills 7 in Afghan Village; Report: US Won't Change Afghan War Policy; Freed Hiker Returns to US, Urges Freeing of 2 Prisoners; Iran Retracts Claim of US Troop Arrests; Poll: Majority Oppose Attack on Iran, Favor Neutrality on Mideast Conflict; Pope Benedict Faces Protests in Britain; Virginia Scheduled to Execute 1st Woman Prisoner in Century; FDA Panel to Advise on Engineered Salmon; FDA Barring Food Makers from Advertising Products as <span class="caps">GMO-Free

2010/09/21 Headlines: Crash Makes 2010 Deadliest Year for NATO in Afghanistan; Probe: FBI Improperly Spied on Activist Groups; NBER: Longest Recession Since <span class="caps">WWII; Obama: Majority Thinks White House "Too Soft" on Wall St.; Leaders Gather for Poverty Talks at UN; Mexican Newspaper Urges End to Attacks on Journalists; Spill Fund Won't Subtract Workers' Wages from Claims; Reporter: CNN Refused to Air Footage of US War Crime in Iraq; Muslim Leaders Denounce Islamophobia; Senate to Take up DADT Repeal, <span class="caps">DREAM Act

2010/09/22 Headlines: Senate GOP Blocks Vote on Repealing Military Gay Ban; Summers to Resign as Top Economic Adviser; Book: Top US Officials Doubt Afghan War Strategy; NATO Arrests 2 Al Jazeera Journalists in Afghanistan; US Drone Strikes Kill 28 in Pakistan; Pakistani FM: Flooding Poses Crisis of "Biblical Proportions"; 10 Killed in Iran Bombing; Ahmadinejad: Capitalism Coming to End; Palestinian Killed, 5 Wounded in Jerusalem Clashes; Toronto G20 Protest Leader Arrested for Panel Appearance; ACLU Sues Pittsburgh Police over 2009 G20 Arrests; Carter Retracts "Superior" Comment on Post-White House Record; Scientists: Record Heat Endangers World's Coral Reefs

2010/09/23 Headlines: Military: All 9 NATO Crash Victims Were US Troops; US to Maintain Prison, Rendition Flights in Afghanistan; AIDS Activists Heckle Obama at Fundraiser; Vowing Foreign Aid Reform, Obama Pushes Foreign Investment; FAO Chief: Corporate Influence Undermining Development; UN Probe Recommends Prosecution of Israel for Attack on Gaza Flotilla; Clashes Erupt After Settler Guard Kills Palestinian in East Jerusalem; Factory Egg Owners Appear before House Panel; Ex-NOLA Officer Sentenced for Cover-Up of Danziger Shootings; Study: Majority of US Tax Breaks, Incentives Benefit the Wealthy; US: Militant Plots Harder to Detect; Florida Court Overturns Gay Adoption Ban

2010/09/24 Headlines: CIA Drone Strikes in Pakistan Have Killed Americans; Contractor Deaths Exceed Military Ones in Iraq and Afghanistan; Ahmadinejad: US Behind 9/11 Attacks; At UN Summit, Brazil Criticizes US Invasion of Iraq; Democrats Put Off Vote on Repealing Bush Tax Cuts; Virginia Executes First Woman in Nearly 100 Years; Muslim Workers Face Increasing Employment Discrimination; Pakistani Scientist Sentenced to 86 Years in US Prison; US Grants Asylum to Mexican Journalist; Colombian Rebel Commander Killed; FCC Votes to Open up TV White Spaces for Wireless; Tea Party Backer David Koch Becomes Wealthiest New Yorker; WPFW Programmer Ambrose Lane, 75, Dies; Thousands to Gather for Appalachia Rising in DC

2010/09/27 Headlines: Obama Invokes "State Secrets" to Defend Assassination Program; Soldier Faces Military Tribunal for War Crimes in Afghanistan; Abused Iraqi Prisoners Held at Abu Ghraib Never Received Compensation; Obama Criticizes GOP Economic Plan; Karl Rove Builds Shadow Republican Party; West Bank Settlement Freeze Ends; IAEA Rejects Resolution Urging Israel to Join Nuke Treaty; Jewish Activists Set Sail for Gaza; Five Haitians Die as Storm Sweeps through Camp; Activists Shut Down Australian Coal Port; Harvard Students Protest Martin Peretz; Stephen Colbert Testifies on Capitol Hill

2010/09/28 Headlines: CIA Drastically Increases Drone Campaign in Pakistan; US Attack Helicopters Strike Inside Pakistan; Video: US Soldier Confesses to Role in Killing Afghan Civilian; Israeli Commandos Block Gaza-Bound Aid Ship; Income Gap Between Richest and Poorest Widens to New Record; White House Seeks Greater Power to Wiretap Online Communications; Hundreds Protest FBI Raids in Chicago and Minneapolis; FBI Agents Accused of Cheating on Exam; Oil Spill Commission Holds Hearing; Hugo Chávez's Party Retains Control of Venezuelan Parliament; Opposition Colombia Senator Removed from Office; Retired Military Officers Urge Lifting of Cuba Travel Ban; Mistrial Declared in Blackwater Murder Case; Report: WikiLeaks Staffers Quit in Dispute; Over 100 Arrested at Anti-Mining Protest; Arizona Protester Tackled by Sen. McCain's Security Team

2010/09/29 Headlines: Court Exempts Corporations from Alien Tort Law; Judge Restores Stem Cell Funding Pending Appeal; US Soldier Held for Killing 2 Troops in Iraq; Passengers of Jewish Aid Boat to Gaza Allege Israeli Mistreatment; Aid Convoy Arrives in Turkey en Route to Gaza; Pakistan Threatens to End Protection of NATO Supply Routes; Thousands Protest Siddiqui Sentencing in Pakistan; Sen. Coburn Stalls Over $900M in Haiti Aid; Ousted Colombian Senator Vows to Continue Mediation Efforts; Study: 22% of Plant Species Face Extinction; Protests Continue Against FBI Raids, Subpoenas of Antiwar Activists

2010/09/30 Headlines: Pakistan Blocks Afghan War Supply Route after NATO Strike; UN Human Rights Council Backs Gaza Probe; Federal Judge Rejects Gitmo Deaths Suit; Gitmo Prisoner Appeals Standards on Court Challenges; Thousands Protest Austerity Measures in Europe; House Backs Tariffs on China; Lawmakers Authorize $7.4B for 9/11 Responders; Dems Abandon Net Neutrality Bill; US Imposes Sanctions on 8 Iranian Officials; JPMorgan Chase Suspends Foreclosures; Anti-Gay Bullying Leads to 4 Suicides Nationwide; 2010 Right Livelihood Award Winners Announced

2010/10/01 Headlines: Ecuador in State of Emergency after Attack on Correa; NATO Tankers Set Ablaze in Pakistan; Video Shows Apparent Executions by Pakistani Forces; Report: 4 Afghan Children Killed in NATO Attack; Emanuel to Leave White House for Mayoral Run in Chicago; Obama Decries "Enthusiasm Gap" Ahead of Midterm Elections; Obama Meets with Freed US Hiker; Report: Israel Rejects US Incentives to Extend Settlement Freeze; US Wins Pledges from Energy Companies to Cut Iran Ties; 4 Iraq, Afghan War Vets Commit Suicide at Fort Hood; Whitman Accused of Hypocrisy on Hiring Undocumented Workers; Progressive Groups to Hold "One Nation Working Together" Rally in DC

2010/10/04 Headlines: Bank of America Suspends Foreclosures in 23 States; "One Nation Working Together" Rally Held in Washington; Hundreds of Thousands Protest in Paris over Austerity Cuts; Al-Sadr Throws Support Behind Iraqi PM Al-Maliki; Brazil's Presidential Race Headed for Runoff; US Infected Hundreds of Guatemalans with Syphilis in 1940s; 20 Oil Tankers Bound for Afghanistan Set on Fire; US Military Loans Drones to CIA for Attacks in Pakistan; Blackwater Wins Portion of $10B State Department Contract; PSYOPS Soldiers Embed in <span class="caps">CBS Affiliate TV Stations; Ecuadorian Police Colonels Face Probe after Uprising; Jewish Settlers Set Palestinian Mosque Ablaze; Israeli Soldiers Convicted of Using Gaza Child as Human Shield; UN Issues Report on War Crimes in the Congo; GOP Candidate Paladino Questioned over $3M Tax Breaks; Murdoch Donates $1M to Chamber of Commerce; CNN Fires Anchor Rick Sanchez

2010/10/05 Headlines: US Drone Kills 8 German Citizens in Pakistan; Aid Workers Warn of Malaria Outbreak in Pakistan; Supreme Court Opens New Term; Refuses to Hear NSA Suit; Ex-Justice Stevens Regrets Ruling Upholding Death Penalty; Special Interest Group Campaign Spending Soars; GOP Senate Candidate Christine O'Donnell: "I Am Not a Witch"; Rahm Emanuel's Eligibility Questioned for Chicago Mayoral Race; Tenn. Fire Department Allows Home to Burn Down over Unpaid $75 Fee; Report: Debtor Prisons on the Rise; Video: Israeli Soldier Belly Dancing Beside Bound Palestinian Woman; Israel Deports Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire; Oxfam: Int'l Community Is Undercutting Haitian Agriculture; Developer of In Vitro Fertilization Wins Nobel; Solar Panels to Be Installed on White House

2010/10/06 Headlines: Report: Afghanistan and Taliban Enter Peace Talks; Afghanistan Begins Disbanding Private Military Firms; NATO Tankers Set Ablaze in Pakistan; Shahzad Sentenced to Life in Prison for Failed Times Square Bombing; First Civilian Trial for Gitmo Prisoner Opens in NY; Fundraising Falls Short on UN Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Toxic Sludge Floods Hungarian Towns; Congo Rebel Leader Arrested for Mass Rapes; Pelosi Calls for Federal Probe of Foreclosure Fraud; Antiwar Activists to Defy Grand Jury Subpoenas; Sen. DeMint: Bar Single Women, Gays and Lesbians from Teaching

2010/10/07 Headlines: NATO Convoy Torched in Pakistan as US Apologizes for Fatal Attack; Panel: Admin Censored Disclosure of Spill Size; Citing Coerced Testimony, Judge Bars Witness at Gitmo Trial; Ohio AG Sues Ally Financial for Foreclosure Fraud; Wells Fargo Reaches $770M Settlement for Deceptive Loans; JPMorgan Chase Agent Breaks into Home of Borrower; US Deportations Hit Record 392,000; FBI Arrests 133 in Puerto Rico Corruption Probe; Clinton Vows Delivery of Stalled US Aid to Haiti; Cuba Commemorates 1976 Airliner Bombing; Nobel in Chemistry Awarded to US, Japanese Scientists; Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Anti-Gay Funeral Protests; Poll: Two-Thirds Back Minimum Wage Hike; Students to Hold National Day of Action to Defend Public Education; Peruvian Novelist Llosa Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

2010/10/08 Headlines: Obama Won't Sign Foreclosure Bill; Obama Warns on Private Spending Ahead of Elections; Judge Upholds Federal Healthcare Law; Admin Exempts Companies from Healthcare Provision; Court-Martial Recommended for Alleged "Kill Team" Soldier; Antiwar Vets Protest Deployment of Traumatized Soldiers; Jailed Chinese Activist Liu Xiaobo Wins Nobel Peace Prize; Peruvian Author Mario Vargas Llosa Receives Nobel for Literature; Report: 70% of Haitian Camps Mismanaged, Dangerous; US Professor Accuses Belgian Police of Abuse; Dobbs Defends Hiring Practices Following Exposé; Inspectors: New Massey Safety Violations Could Have Caused Explosion; On 79th Birthday, Tutu Retires from Public Life

2010/10/11 Headlines: White House Opposes National Moratorium on Foreclosures; 96,000 Jobs Lost in September; China Places Wife of Nobel Peace Prize Winner under House Arrest; Nobel Prize For Economics Awarded; NY GOP Candidate: Stop Brainwashing Children about Homosexuality; Photos Show GOP Candidate in Ohio Dressed as a Nazi; Jim Jones Retires as National Security Adviser; Israeli Cabinet Approves Loyalty Oath for New Citizens; Former Guantánamo Prisoner Sues US Citing "Kafkaesque Nightmare"; SOA Graduate Implicated in Attempted Coup in Ecuador; Gunman Cites Glenn Beck as Inspiration for Plot Against ACLU &amp; Tides; 10/10/10 Climate Work Party Events Held in 188 Nations; Lennon Ono Peace Award Winners Given Out on Lennon's 70th Birthday

2010/10/12 Headlines: Attorneys General to Announce Foreclosure Probe; Report: Wall Street Pay to Hit Record $144B; Obama Touts $50B Infrastructure Plan; Taliban Claims Helicopter Attack in Afghanistan; US Soldiers May Have Have Killed British Hostage; PA Rejects Israeli Demand on Partial Settlement Freeze; "Alarming" Hunger Found in 25 Countries; Hungary Arrests CEO of Alumina Plant; Nobel Laureate in Economics Denied Fed Confirmation; NY GOP Candidate Defends Anti-Gay Remarks; Pa. School District Settles with Monitored Students

2010/10/13 Headlines: Chilean Miners Rescued After Over 2 Months Underground; Judge Orders Halt to Military Ban on Gays on Lesbians; Admin Appeals Ruling Against Gay Marriage Ban; US Lifts Deepwater Drilling Ban; Sen. Landrieu Vows to Continue Blocking OMB Nominee; Attorneys General to Unveil Foreclosure Probe; Lawyer: Lenders Hired Workers with No Experience to Approve Foreclosures; Study: Denial of Health Insurance for Medical History Jumps 49%; Opening Statements Given in Gitmo Trial; Defendant in Ft. Hood Shooting Seeks Trial Delay; Supreme Court Denies Case of Denver Residents Removed from Bush Speech; Google Invests in Offshore Wind Project; Portugal Elected to Security Council over Canada; Thousands Join Anti-Austerity Protest in Paris

2010/10/14 Headlines: Chile Celebrates Rescue of 33 Miners; Attorneys General Launch Probe as Foreclosures Break Records; Report: US Allows Movement of Taliban Leaders for Afghan Talks; 6 US Soldiers, 4 Italian Troops Killed in Afghanistan; Report: Civilian Injuries Soar in NATO Assault in Kandahar; Ahmadinejad Greeted with Mass Rally in Lebanon; Alleged Crime Syndicate Charged with Medicare Fraud; US to Allow Insurers to Charge Higher Rates for Sick Children

2010/10/15 Headlines: Admin Seeks to Block "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Repeal; Pentagon Vows Compliance; Judge OKs Challenge to Healthcare Law; US Confirms Backing of Afghan-Taliban Talks; ICC Petitioned to Probe Israeli Attack on Gaza Flotilla; Ahmadinejad: Israel Will "Disappear"; UN: DRC Troops Committing Rape; US Agents Spying through Social Networking Sites; Torture-Linked Psychologist Awarded Military Contract; 2 Convicted of Hate Crime in Beating Death of Mexican Immigrant; WikiLeaks: US Committing Financial Warfare

2010/10/18 Headlines: GOP Gains Fundraising Advantage Ahead of Midterm Election; President Obama and First Lady Michelle Campaign in Ohio; Alaskan Journalist Detained &amp; Handcuffed by Private Guards for GOP Candidate; Ex-Countrywide CEO to Pay $67 Million Settlement; 1,500 French Gas Stations Run Out of Fuel as Labor Protests Intensify; Hundreds of Hilton Hotel Workers Go on Strike; Scores of Stimulus Opponents Sought Money out of Public View; Al-Maliki Visits Iran to Meet Ahmadinejad; Soldier to Face Court-Martial over "Kill Team" Charges; Tides Foundation CEO Urges Advertisers to Boycott Fox News; EPA Official: Reject Permit for Mountaintop Removal Mine in WV; US Accuses China of Illegally Subsidizing Clean Energy Projects; China Demonized in Dozens of US Campaign Ads; Burma Bars Foreign Observers and Reporters from Election; Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award Honors Activists

2010/10/19 Headlines: Bank of America, GMAC Lift Foreclosure Moratorium; Employees at "Foreclosure Mill" Were Bribed to Alter Documents; GOP Candidate in Alaska Defends Handcuffing of Reporter; GOP-Linked Group Urges Latinos Not to Vote in Nov. Election; Sharron Angle to Latino Students: "You Look a Little Asian"; Jury Rejects Entrapment Defense and Convicts Newburgh 4; Militants Attack Chechen Parliament; At Least Six Dead; Supreme Court to Decide Ashcroft Detention Case; US Mistakenly Deports Mentally Ill US Citizen to Mexico; AZ Senator: Strip Citizenship of US-Born Kids of Undocumented Parents; Obama Admin Seeks Changes to Telecom Surveillance Laws; Facebook Admits Major Breach of Privacy; French Unions Stage Nationwide General Strike; Video Shows Indonesian Soldiers Torturing West Papuans; US to Announce $2 Billion in Military Aid for Pakistan; Canadian Military Commander Pleads Guilty to Murder, Rape Charges; NYC to Pay Critical Mass Bike Riders Nearly $1 Million in Settlement

2010/10/20 Headlines: Pentagon Stops Enforcing Gay, Lesbian Military Ban; Federal Investigators Probe Banks for Foreclosure Fraud; Chicago-Area Sheriff Suspends Foreclosures; CIA Officer Ignored Warnings Before Afghan Base Attack; US Allowing Key Taliban Factions to Attend Peace Talks; US Soldier Detained for Death of Prisoner; UN Convoy Attacked in Iraq; Iran to Prosecute 2 Jailed Americans; Britain Unveils Massive Spending Cuts; O'Donnell Questions Separation of Church and State in Constitution; Report: Drug Companies Fund Over 17,000 Doctors; US, Native American Farmers Settle Discrimination Case

2010/10/21 Headlines: Appeals Court Reinstates Military Ban on Gays, Lesbians; Report: Banks, Attorneys General Meet in Foreclosure Probe; New York Court Orders New Foreclosure Vetting; Wells Fargo: Foreclosure Practices "Sound and Accurate"; US Confirms $60B Saudi Weapons Deal; Obama Launches 4-Day Swing Ahead of Midterms; US Soldier Charged with Killing 2 Troops; No Charges for Ex-Blackwater Operative in Iraq Killing; Afghanistan Invalidates 1.3 Million Votes; Israeli Settlers Build Over 600 New Homes; Environmental Suit Accuses BP of Endangering Wildlife; NPR Fires Analyst over Comments on Muslims; Ex-Fox News Employee Claims Firing After Racial Complaint

2010/10/22 Headlines: Nearly 140 Dead in Feared Haitian Cholera Outbreak; Official: US Claims of Afghan Peace Talks a "Psychological Operation"; US to Unveil $2B in Pakistani Military Aid; Training Denied to Units Linked to Killings; "Viva Palestina" Aid Convoy Enters Gaza; Bulldozer Driver Testifies at Corrie Wrongful Death Trial; Koch Brothers Convened Right-Wing Meeting in June; 45 Donors Account for Half of Chamber's Funding; Swift Boat Donor Spending $13M on Midterm Elections; Obama Campaigns for Sen. Murray in Washington; Alleged "Kill Team" Ringleader Refuses to Testify; Pentagon Hosted Awlaki After 9/11; Freed Iranian American Returns to US; Rep. Grijalva Closes Office over Suspicious Package

2010/10/25 Headlines: WikiLeaks Docs: US Allowed Iraqi Gov't to Torture &amp; Murder; Cholera Outbreak Kills 235 in Haiti; Large Amounts of Oil Spotted in Gulf of Mexico; Obama Admin Sued over Lifting of Deepwater Drilling Ban; Catholic Bishops Call on Israel to End the Occupation; General: Israel Fired 308 Live Bullets during Siege of Gaza Aid Boat; Texan GOP Candidate: Violent Revolution Might Be Needed in US; Canadian Police Re-Arrest G20 Protest Organizer Alex Hundert; UN Warns Burmese Election Process is Deeply Flawed; Mexican Doctors Protest against Drug Violence in Ciudad Juárez; NH Paper Refuses to Publish Same-Sex Marriage Notices; Obama Responds to Surge in Gay Suicides

2010/10/26 Headlines: Congressional Candidates on Pace to Spend Record $2 Billion on Campaigns; Three GOP Candidates Spend Total of $242 Million of Own Money; US Drops Out of Top 20 List of Least Corrupt Nations; Top 74 Earners in US Earn More than 19 Million Lowest-Paid Workers; Canadian Citizen Detained at Age 15 Pleads Guilty to War Crimes; Tariq Aziz Sentenced to Death in Iraq; US Moves to Expand Secret CIA Effort in Pakistan; Karzai Confirms Iran and US Gives Him Bags of Money; UK Military Accused of Breaching Geneva Conventions; Tea Party: Vote Against Rep. Ellison Because He is Muslim; Oil &amp; Algae? Debate Arises in Louisiana over Photos; BP Accuses Media and Competitors of Fear-Mongering; FBI Documents Raise Questions over Paul Wellstone's Death

2010/10/27 Headlines: UN Calls for US Torture Probe Following WikiLeaks Revelations; Death Toll in Cholera Outbreak Hits 284; UN: Over 1,500 Dead from Cholera in Nigeria; 150 Dead in Indonesian Tsunami; Right-Wing March Sparks Clashes Between Palestinians, Israeli Police; Israeli Documents Outline Gaza Blockade Restrictions; UN Votes 187-2 for End to US Embargo of Cuba; GOP Candidate Killed 2 Unarmed Iraqis; Paul Campaign Volunteer Assaults Protester; Arizona Law Requiring Citizenship Proof Overturned

2010/10/28 Headlines: Report: Election Spending to Hit Record $4B; Obama Defends Record, Urges Patience; Obama Fields Questions from Progressive Bloggers; Angle Criticized for Anti-Immigrant TV Ad; Wells Fargo to Modify 55,000 Foreclosure Documents; Afghanistan Delays Ban on Private Military Firms; Obama Issues Waiver to Send Military Aid to Countries Using Child Soldiers; Virginia Resident Charged with Plotting to Bomb DC Metro Stations; Computer Malfunction Knocked US Nukes Offline; Arkansas School Official Facebook Post Urges Gay Youths to Commit Suicide; Chicago Parents End Elementary School Sit-In; Arizona Executes Prisoner after Supreme Court Lifts Stay; Fmr. Argentine President Kirchner Dies of Heart Attack

2010/10/29 Headlines: Panel: BP, Halliburton Ignored Cement Flaws; US Intelligence Spending Tops $80.1B; Audit: US Can't Account for $17.7B in Afghan Spending; Inquiry: Pentagon Official Misled on Spy Program; Tsunami Death Toll Tops 400 in Indonesia; Argentines, Foreign Leaders Mourn Kirchner at Wake; Mexican Youths Protest Drug Killings; North Korea, South Korea Exchange Fire on Border; Report: Prison Industry Helped Draft Arizona Anti-Immigrant Law; Poll: Latinos See Widespread Discrimination; US Life Expectancy Falls to 49th; Clinton Pressures Meek to Drop Senate Bid

2010/11/01 Headlines: US Considers Sending Hunter-Killer Teams to Yemen; Dilma Rousseff Becomes First Female Brazilian President; Right-Wing Indian Protesters Storm Home of Arundhati Roy; Obama Campaigns in Ohio; Reid and Angle Battle in Close Nevada Race; Rand Paul Volunteer Charged with Assault; McDonald's Owner Warns Workers: No Raises If Dems Win; TV Stations Benefit from Record Campaign Spending; 52 Die in Iraq as Security Forces Raid Church to Free Hostages; UN Agrees to Moratorium on Geoengineering Experiments; Ex-Marines Arrested for Threatening to Blow Up VA Hospital; Study: Alcohol Is More Dangerous than Crack and Heroin

2010/11/02 Headlines: Voters Head to Polls in Midterm Elections; Appeals Court Extends "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Indefinitely; Gitmo Prisoner Could Return to Canada Next Year; Yemen Tries US Cleric in Absentia; Iran Delays Hikers' Trial; Iranian American in US Prison Alleges Torture; Haiti Prepares for Approaching Storm; Ugandan Newspaper Ordered to Stop Targeting Gays and Lesbians; October Deadliest Month in Ciudad Juárez; BP Posts $1.79B Quarterly Profit; Firm that Certified Rig Hired to Inspect Blowout Preventer; Former House Majority Leader DeLay Goes on Trial in Texas

2010/11/03 Headlines: GOP Takes House, But Dems Keep Senate; Sen. Feingold Loses Re-Election Bid in Wisconsin; Tea Party Scores Senate Victories in Kentucky, Florida; Boehner to Obama: "Change Course"; GOP Gains in 10 Gubernatorial Races; California Voters Reject Legalized Marijuana, Maintain Clear Air Rules; 76 Killed in Iraq Bombings; Report: BP Pipelines in Alaska Damaged, Risk Explosion; Study: Deadly Chemicals Spread Widely After Spill; Bush Considered Dropping Cheney for Re-Election Bid

2010/11/04 Headlines: Haiti's Cholera Outbreak Spreads Ahead of Major Storm; Boehner, GOP Vow Healthcare Law Repeal; Obama Suggests Concession on Tax Cuts, Energy Bill; Sen. Bennet Defeats Republican Challenger in Colorado; Iowa Voters Oust Judges Who Legalized Gay Marriage; Fed to Spend $600B on Gov't Bonds; 12 Killed in US Drone Attacks in Pakistan; US Unveils $500M Embassy Expansion in Afghanistan; Israel Suspends Talks over UK Law Allowing Arrests of Foreign Officials; Regulators Sue Massey for Alleged Violations at Kentucky Mine; CIA Lawyer: Rendition is Legal; San Francisco Council Votes to Ban "Happy Meal"

2010/11/05 Headlines: Tropical Storm Brings Heavy Rains to Haiti; UN Troops May Have Carried Cholera Strain to Haiti; Sen. Murray Re-Elected in Washington; Obama to Host Congressional Leaders, Leaves for Asia Trip; Wall Street Moguls Funded Pro-GOP Rove Group; Quinn Projected to Win Illinois Gov. Race; JPMorgan Chase Resumes Foreclosures; U.S. War Contractor Settles Over-billing Case; WikiLeaks Renews Call for U.S. Probe, Founder May Seek Political Asylum; Sahrawis Stage Protest Camp against Moroccan Occupation; Bush Admits Authorizing Waterboarding of Alleged 9/11 Mastermind; Nation's First Transgender Judge Elected in California

2010/11/08 Headlines: U.S. Deploys Armed Drones to Yemen; U.S. Drone Strikes Kill 14 in Pakistan; Pro-Democracy Groups Boycott Burmese Election; Lori Berenson to be Released on Parole in Peru; Nation's Unemployment Remains at 9.6%; Pelosi to Run for Minority Leader; GOP Threatens to Cut Off Money for Obama Healthcare Plan; Gates: Congress Should Repeal DADT Before January; Olbermann to Return to MSNBC After Suspension; MSNBC's Owner GE Made Over $2 Million in Political Donations in 2010; Scientists: Deep Sea Coral Damaged by BP Oil Spill; Vermont Nuke Plant Shut Down over Radioactive Water Leak; Thousands Protest Nuke Waste Train Shipment in Germany; Hurricane Could Worsen Cholera Epidemic in Haiti; UN: 650 Rapes Reported on Angola-DRC Border; Moroccan Forces Raid Protest Camp in Western Sahara; 152 Arrested in Oakland After Sentencing in Oscar Grant Killing; Ashes of Spanish Civil War Vet Brought to Spain

2010/11/09 Headlines: U.S. Defends Right to Assassinate U.S. Citizens; Move to Repeal DADT Stalling in Senate; Connecticut Couple Sues to Overturn Defense of Marriage Act; Commission: Cost Cutting Had No Role in BP Spill; Netanyahu Speech Disrupted in New Orleans; Israel Plans for More Settlements; Netanyahu and Gates Weigh in on Iran; U.S. Offers to Drop Sudan from List of Terrorist Nations; Lori Berenson Released on Parole; Anti-Nuke Protests Continue in Germany; Federal Court Holds Hearing on Mumia Abu-Jamal Sentencing; Hedge Fund Manager Escapes Felony Charges Thanks to His Job; Bush: Waterboarding Was Legal "Because the Lawyers Said It Was"; Bush: Kanye West's Remark Was "Disgusting Moment, Pure and Simple"

2010/11/10 Headlines: Obama Addresses U.S.-Muslim Ties in Indonesia Speech; Gates: U.S. Could Remain in Iraq Beyond 2011; Cholera Outbreak Spreads to Haitian Capital; Justice Dept.: No Charges in CIA Destruction of Interrogation Tapes; Panel Cites Oil Spill Firms for "Culture of Complacency"; EPA Subpoenas Halliburton over Drilling Chemicals; 59 Million in U.S. Lacked Health Insurance in 2010; Lesbian Activist Challenges Federal Gay Marriage Ban; Peace Activists Target Bush Memoir in Bookstores; Obama: Israeli Settlement Expansion "Never Helpful"; Berenson Speaks Out After Release on Parole; Workers Decry Pacifica Cancellation of KPFA Morning Show; San Francisco Bans High-Calorie "Happy Meal"

2010/11/11 Headlines: Deficit Panel Backs Raising Retirement Age, Cuts to Social Security, Medicare; Axelrod: Admin to Accept Extension of Bush Tax Cut for Wealthy; U.S. to Extend Afghan Pullout Deadline to 2014; NATO Attack May Have Killed 3 Afghan Civilians; Haitian Cholera Outbreak Reaches Earthquake Camp; Iraqi Factions Break Political Deadlock; Thousands Protest G20 in South Korea; Pentagon: Little Impact in Repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"; Mail Bomb Was Timed to Explode Over U.S.; Study: Anti-Immigrant Law Causes 100,000 Hispanics to Leave Arizona; Oakland Elects Nation's First Asian American Woman Mayor; Amnesty: Prosecute Bush for Torture

2010/11/12 Headlines: Obama Defends $600B Fed Spending as G20 Ends; Death Toll in Haitian Cholera Outbreak Reaches 800; Burmese Pro-Democracy Leader Suu Kyi Nears End of Prison Term; Clinton Avoids Mention of Settlement Building at U.S.-Israel Talks; Wall St. Banks Exploiting Reform Loophole to Avoid Volcker Rule; DNA Testing Casts Doubt on Guilt of Executed Texas Prisoner; Media Watchdogs Criticize Dobbs Hiring at Fox Business Network

2010/11/15 Headlines: Cholera Death Toll Surpasses 900 in Haiti; Karzai Calls for Reduced U.S. Military Operations in Afghanistan; Aung San Suu Kyi Freed in Burma; U.S. Offers Israel Military Upgrade, Peace Veto for Limited Settlement Freeze; White House Drops Plans to Close Gitmo; Supreme Court Won't Intervene on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"; Cindy McCain Criticizes DADT; Dems Reach House Leadership Deal; Admin Pledges $4B in Nuke Spending for START; Arizona Voters Approve Medical Marijuana; Report: U.S. Provided "Safe Haven" to Nazis After WWII; Study: Media Under-Reported Climate Science During UN Copenhagen Summit

2010/11/16 Headlines: Report: Pakistani Women and Children Killed in U.S. Drone Attack; Clinton Defends U.S. Military Operations in Afghanistan; U.S. Considers Military Bases, Expanded CIA Role in Yemen; 2 Killed in Protest at UN Base in Haiti; Britain to Compensate Gitmo Prisoners; Amnesty Urges E.U. to Probe Rendition, Torture; Palestinians Criticize U.S. Incentives for Settlement Freeze; Number of Households Seeking Food Aid Nearly Doubles; 12 Arrested Protesting "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Policy; Congress Reconvenes for Lame Duck Session; Rangel Walks Out of House Ethics Hearing; Fmr. Alabama State Trooper Sentenced to 6 Months for 1965 Slaying

2010/11/17 Headlines: Report: Lenders, States Discuss Foreclosure Compensation Fund; Canada to End Afghan Combat Mission; Protests Continue in Haiti over Cholera Outbreak; New U.N. Torture Expert Urges U.S. Torture Probe; U.N. Security Council Rejects Probe of Western Sahara Crackdown; GOP Sen. Seeks Delay to <span class="caps">START Vote; Panel Convicts Rangel on Ethics Charges; Experts Fault BP, Gov't Agency for Oil Spill; Dozens Protest U.S. Fundraiser for West Bank Settlement; Private Mississippi Youth Jail Sued for "Barbaric" Conditions; Pittsburgh City Council Approves Ban on Natural Gas Drilling

2010/11/18 Headlines: Gitmo Prisoner Acquitted of All But One Charge in Embassy Bombings; Insurers Gave Chamber Over $86M to Defeat Healthcare Reform; Study: Lawmakers' Personal Wealth Increased 16% in 2008; FBI Meets with Google, Facebook in Wiretap Push; Senate to Vote on Repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"; Murkowski Claims Victory in Alaska Senate Race; Antiwar Protesters Converge at NATO Summit in Portugal; Swedish Prosecutor Seeks Arrest of WikiLeaks Founder; FDIC Probes Former Bank Execs; 13 Arrested at Protest against University of California Tuition Hike; Dems Elect Pelosi Minority Leader; GOP Blocks Paycheck Fairness Act in Senate; Palin Hints at 2012 Presidential Bid; Patti Smith Wins National Book Award

2010/11/19 Headlines: U.S. Introduces Tanks into Afghan War; Protesters to Hold Antiwar March at NATO Summit; Cholera Protests Reach Haitian Capital; Obama Pushes Ratification of Russia Nuke Treaty; Obama: Taxpayers Could Recoup Cost of GM Bailout; House Ethics Committee Backs Censure of Rangel; Senate Advances Food Safety Bill; Study: More Testing Needed on GM Salmon; Biotech Lobbying, Campaign Donations Top $500M Since 2000; Univ. of California Regents Approve Consecutive Tuition Hike; Swedish Court Orders Arrest of WikiLeaks Founder

2010/11/22 Headlines: U.N.: World's Response to Haiti Cholera Epidemic "Completely Inadequate"; NATO Official: Children in Kabul Safer than in <span class="caps">NYC or London; U.S. Forces Likely to Stay in Afghanistan After NATO's 2014 Deadline; Poll: 92% of Young Afghan Men Don't Know about 9/11 Attacks; U.S. Seeks to Expand Drone Strikes in Pakistan; Ireland Requests Massive E.U./IMF Bailout; Warren Buffett: Trickle-Down Economics Don't Work; Settlements Approved for Native Americans and African American Farmers; TSA Chief Defends Use of Full-Body Scanners &amp; Physical Pat-Downs; North Korea Reveals New Uranium Enrichment Plant; Wild Tigers Could Be Extinct in 12 Years; 22 Arrested at Protest Outside School of the Americas; Mayor of London to Bush: Stay Away from U.K. or Face Possible Arrest

2010/11/23 Headlines: North and South Korea Engage in Border Artillery Clash; Report: Taliban Leader in Secret Talks Was an Impostor; IMF Urges Ireland to Cut Jobless Benefits and Minimum Wage; FBI Raids Hedge Fund Offices in Insider Trading Probe; Manufacturers of Full Body Scanners Increase Lobbying Effort; Energy Dept: Nuclear Weapons Drivers Drank on the Job; 2006 GOP Report on Global Warming Was Partly Plagiarized; Israel Passes Law to Ban Ceding of Land Without Vote; Israeli "Human Shield" Soldiers Get Suspended Sentence; Evo Morales Accuses U.S. of Backing Four Recent Coups in Latin America; Woman Who Questioned Obama about Economy is Laid Off; Food Banks Struggle to Feed Growing Number of Hungry Americans; John Yoo Compares Torture to Driving Above Speed Limit; Aung San Suu Kyi Reunited with Son; Dalai Lama to Resign as Head of Tibetan Government in Exile

2010/11/24 Headlines: Corporate America Reports Record Profits; Major Investment Firms Subpoenaed in Insider Trading Case; Study: Anti-AIDS Drug Reduces Risk of <span class="caps">HIV Transmission; UN: AIDS Epidemic Is Slowing; Pope: Condoms Can Be Used to Stop AIDS; Tensions Escalate on Korean Peninsula; General Strike Staged in Portugal; Labor Protests Planned in Ireland Over Cuts; Expert Warns Cholera Could Spread to 400,000 Haitians; Haitians Vote on Sunday; 29 Miners Die in New Zealand; Report: Massey Has Worst Safety Record in Coal Industry; Int'l Day for the Elimination of Violence Marked

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2010/11/29 Headlines: WikiLeaks Releases Trove of Secret U.S. Diplomatic Cables; Vote Rigging Allegations Mar Haiti Election; Iranian Nuclear Scientist Assassinated; U.S. Aircraft Carrier Takes Part in South Korean Military Exercise; Afghan Gunman Kills Six NATO Troops; U.N. Cancún Climate Change Conference Opens; BP Sued in Ecuadorian Court for Violating Rights of Nature; Somali-Born Teen Arrested on Bomb Charges in Portland; Jury Convicts Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay; Gov't Shuts Down 70 Websites, BitTorrent Search Engines; 100,000 Protest in Ireland over EU/IMF Bailout; Egypt Ruling Party Accused of Rigging Election Results

2010/11/30 Headlines: U.S. Launches Criminal Probe of WikiLeaks; Obama Proposes Salary Freeze for 2 Million Federal Workers; Millions of Unemployed Workers Set to Lose Jobless Benefits; Big Polluters Exempted from Environmental Oversight; Oxfam: Climate-Related Disasters Killed 21,000 in 2010; Climate Change Talks Open in Cancún; Greenpeace Files Lawsuit over Corporate Spying; E.U. Launches Antitrust Probe of Google; Election Monitors OK Haiti Election; U.S. Rejects Six-Party Talks with North Korea; Aid Groups Call for Israel to Lift Blockade of Gaza; Pakistani Man Threatens to Sue CIA over Drone Strikes; Somali-Born Man Pleads Not Guilty to Bomb Plot; Pentagon Study: Most Soldiers OK with Lifting DADT Ban

2010/12/01 Headlines: Cables: U.S. Tried to Thwart Spanish Probes; U.K. Assured Bush Admin over Iraq Inquiry; Interpol Issues Arrest Warrant for WikiLeaks Founder; Huckabee Calls for Execution of Alleged Leaker; Senate Approves Food Safety Bill; Pentagon: No Harm to Military in Repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"; House Approves Settlements for Black and Native American Farmers; Obama Hosts GOP Leaders as Jobless Benefits Begin to Expire; Deficit Panel Delays Vote on Recommendations; Climate Delegates Differ on Kyoto Extension, Compliance Monitoring; Thousands Attend Climate Protest in Mexico City; Pakistani Sends Legal Notice to CIA over Drone Attacks; British Students Protest Education Cuts, Fee Hikes; Probe: SEC Was Lenient on Bank of America

2010/12/02 Headlines: Report: British Police Await Arrest Warrant for Assange; Amazon Drops WikiLeaks Website; Admin Cancels Atlantic, Gulf Drilling But OKs it in Alaska; Report: SEC, Banks in Talks to Settle Securities Probes; Fed Discloses Recipients of Bailout Loans; FCC Chair Backs Two-Tiered Internet Fees; Senate GOPers Threaten Filibusters to Maintain Tax Cuts for Wealthy; Deficit Panel Releases Proposals to Cut Spending Ahead of Vote; U.S. Soldier Sentenced for Shooting Afghans; Egyptian Opposition Group to Boycott Runoff Vote; UN: 33 Million Had HIV in 2009; Japan Opposes Extension of Kyoto Protocol; GOP to Disband House Panel on Global Warming; Former New Orleans Police Officer Sentenced to 8 Years for Danziger Shootings; Illinois Lawmakers Approve Recognition of Civil Unions

2010/12/03 Headlines: CIA Engineered Spying on U.N. Diplomats; Cables: Britain Allowed U.S. Cluster Bombs; Amnesty Intl: Cables Confirm U.S. Attack Killed Yemeni Civilians; Sri Lankan Leaders Eyed for Role in Tamil Killings; State Dept. Bars Staffers from WikiLeaks, Warns Students; Attorney: Assange Accused for Not Wearing Condom During Consensual Intercourse; House Approves Tax Measure Despite Filibuster Vow; Law Enforcement Agencies Conduct "Real-Time" Spying Without Court Orders; McCain Opposes Repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"; House Censures Rep. Rangel for Ethics Violations; 2010 Projected to Be Among Warmest Years on Record; Protests Held at Cancún Climate Summit; Haitians Protest Controversial Elections; Nigeria to Charge Cheney in Bribery Case

2010/12/06 Headlines: WikiLeaks' Online Presence Hindered Following U.S. Pressure; Leaked Cables Include Extensive Infrastructure List; Cables: Despite Doubts, E.U. in Afghanistan "Out of Deference to U.S."; Attorney: Assange Offered to Meet with Prosecutors; McConnell: Assange a "High-Tech Terrorist"; Al Jazeera Denies Cable Claims of Diplomatic Use; GOP Nears Win on Preserving Tax Cut for Wealthiest; Unemployment Rate Hits 9.8%; Deficit Panel Fails to Back Recommendations; Military Leaders Oppose Immediate Repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"; Iran Nuclear Talks Begin in Geneva

2010/12/07 Headlines: WikiLeaks Founder Assange Detained in Britain; Holder: U.S. Continues WikiLeaks Probe; Cables: U.S. Has Contingency Plan for Russian Attack in Eastern Europe; Pakistani PM Cites U.S. Sway on Military; Iraqis View Saudi Arabia as Chief Threat; Despite Public Stance and Polls, U.S. Opposes Taliban Reconciliation; Obama-GOP Deal Preserves Cuts to Income, Estate Taxes for Wealthiest; Sen. Sanders Suggests Filibuster of Tax Deal; 50 Killed in Pakistan Attack; Afghanistan Drops Private Military Ban; U.S. Holds Talks on North Korea; Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay Recognize Palestinian State in Occupied Territories; California Appeals Court Takes Up Same-Sex Marriage Ban; Supreme Court to Hear Walmart Challenge to Discrimination Case; National Review Editor: Parents of Children in School Lunch Programs "Criminally Negligent"

2010/12/08 Headlines: Denied Bail, Assange to Remain Jailed in London; Wealthy to Benefit Most from Obama-GOP Tax Deal; Court Dismisses Suit Challenging U.S. Assassinations; U.S. Drops Incentives Deal for Partial Israeli Settlement Freeze; Haiti to Hold Runoff Vote in Presidential Election; Study: Nepalese Troops Likely Caused Cholera Outbreak in Haiti; Iran Nuclear Talks to Resume Next Month; Irish Gov't Seeks Approval for Austerity Measures; Charges Filed Against Cheney in Nigeria; Students Stage Hunger Strike for DREAM Act Passage; Elizabeth Edwards Dies After Cancer Fight

2010/12/09 Headlines: Cables: Shell Boasted of Infiltrating Nigerian Gov't; U.S. Diplomat: China Has "No Morals"; U.S. Asked Uganda for Notice on War Crimes; WikiLeaks Said to Possess Gitmo Files; Pro-WikiLeaks Computer Hackers Launch Cyber-Attacks; Fox Analyst Calls for Assange's Killing; House Votes to Block Gitmo Trials; Senate to Take up DREAM Act Following House Passage; 2 Killed in Haiti Election Protests; Baltimore Resident Arrested for Attempt at Military Recruitment Center; Obama Authorizes Settlements for Native Americans, Black Farmers

2010/12/10 Headlines: U.N. Human Rights Chief Concerned over WikiLeaks Targeting; Cables: Pfizer Targeted Nigerian Attorney General in Drug Case; Alleged Nuclear, Missile Sites Reported in Burma; Military Bars Removable Media Devices to Stem Leaks; Lula Backs WikiLeaks Release; House Dems Reject Obama-GOP Tax Deal; Senate GOP Blocks "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Repeal, <span class="caps">DREAM Act, 9/11 Settlement; Liu Xiaobo Awarded Nobel Prize; Thousands Protest Student Fee Hikes in Britain; Free Speech Radio News Faces Closure

2010/12/13 Headlines: Attorney: U.S. Grand Jury Meeting in Virginia to Indict Julian Assange; Julian Assange's Mother Speaks Out; WikiLeaks: U.S. Discussed Ways to Oust Zimbabwe's Mugabe; WikiLeaks: U.S. Overlooks Corruption in Uzbekistan; WikiLeaks: Colombia's Uribe Discussed Invading Venezuela in 2008; OpenLeaks Launches Rival to WikiLeaks; U.N. Climate Talk Ends with Modest Agreement; Thousands of Prisoners in Georgia Stage Strike; Ex-Cabinet Members Join Citigroup; Suicide Bomber Kills 6 U.S. Troops, 2 Afghan Soldiers; Jailed Afghan Drug Lord Exposed as CIA Informant; New Orleans Cops Convicted in Death of Henry Glover; Attorney General Defends Use of FBI Informants; Supreme Court Asked to Hear Rendition Case; German Court Rejects Lawsuit by Rendition Victim

2010/12/14 Headlines: Assange Seeks Bail in London Court; Federal Court Strikes Down Healthcare Mandates; Senate Advances Obama-GOP Tax Deal; Wall Street Sees Record 2-Year Profits; Incoming GOP House Finance Panel Chair: Gov't Should "Serve the Banks"; Discharged Soldiers File Suit Against "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"; U.S. Resumes Deportations to Haiti; New York Enacts Partial Ban on Fracking; Backers Hold Rally for Local Community Radio Act; Peace Activists Convicted for Anti-Nuke Plowshares Action; Kuwait Closes Al Jazeera Office over Crackdown Coverage; Australia Rejects View of Iran as "Rogue State"; Steele Seeks Re-Election to Head RNC; Veteran Diplomat Richard Holbrooke Dies at 69

2010/12/15 Headlines: Assange Remains Jailed Pending Bail Appeal; Supporters Rally for Assange in Australia; U.S. Air Force Blocks Sites that Published WikiLeaks Cables; Incoming GOP Lawmaker: Censor News Agencies for WikiLeaks; Suicide Attack Kills 38 in Iran; 27 Asylum Seekers Die in Australia Boat Crash; Ivory Coast Opposition Calls for Mass Protests in Election Dispute; Report: Halliburton to Pay $250M in Nigeria Bribery Case; Obama to Host Corporate CEOs at White House; Marine General: DADT Repeal Would Endanger U.S. Troops; Appeals Court Rules Emails Protected by 4th Amendment; Police Occupy Puerto Rico Campus

2010/12/16 Headlines: British Court Upholds Bail for Assange; U.S. Seeks Evidence of Assange-Manning Ties; Intel Assessment Differs from Pentagon on Afghan War; Red Cross: Afghan Conditions at Worst Point in 30 Years; U.S. Sues BP, 8 Other Firms for Gulf Coast Oil Spill; House to Vote on Tax Cut Deal After Senate Approval; House Votes to Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"; Senate Advances Russia Nuke Reduction Treaty; Italy Ups Sentences of CIA Agents in 2003 Kidnapping; Arab States: No Mideast Talks Without U.S. Proposal; Security Council Ends Iraq Sanctions; Human Rights Court Orders Brazil to Overturn Amnesty Law; NRA Opposition Stalls Federal Anti-Gun Trafficking Plan; Fox News Ordered Reporters to Question Climate Change Data; Military Vets to Hold Antiwar Protest at White House

2010/12/17 Headlines: WikiLeaks Founder Assange Freed from London Jail; House Judiciary Chair Voices Concern on WikiLeaks Attacks; U.S. to Sign U.N. Declaration on Indigenous Rights; Congress Sends Tax Package to Obama; Estate Tax Kept at Lower Rate; GOP Blocks Passage of Spending Bill; New U.S. Guidelines Reject Afghan Demand to End Night Raids; War Review Claims U.S. Progress in Afghanistan; Dozens Arrested at Veteran-Led Antiwar Protest; Red Cross Warns of Deteriorating Conditions in Afghanistan; Lockdown Ends in Georgia Prison Strike; Appeals Court Rejects Admin on Cell Phone Tracking; Report: Prince to Sell Blackwater, Keep Financial Stake

2010/12/20 Headlines: S. Korea Conducts Live-Fire Military Drill; Senate Strikes Down "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Policy; Senate GOP Blocks <span class="caps">DREAM Act; Local Community Radio Act Passes in Senate; Senate to Vote on 9/11 Health Bill and START Treaty; VP Biden: Assange is a "High-Tech Terrorist"; Assange: Chief Concern is Threat of Extradition to U.S.; WikiLeaks: Pfizer Opposed New Zealand Trade Deal; 50 Killed in Post-Election Violence in Ivory Coast; Anti-Crime Crusader Killed in Mexico; 27 Die in Oil Pipeline Explosion in Mexico; Human Rights Watch Criticizes Israel's Policy in Occupied West Bank; Study: Supreme Court Increasingly Siding with Big Business; Arizona and Nevada Sue Bank of America for Fraud; NAACP Protests in South Carolina over Events Celebrating Secession; CUNY Students Sue over Tuition Hikes

2010/12/21 Headlines: U.S. Seeks to Expand Military Raids Inside Pakistan; 700 Foreign Troops Killed in 2010 in Afghanistan; N. Korea to Allow IAEA Nuclear Inspectors into Country; WikiLeaks: Fatah Asked Israel to Attack Hamas; WikiLeaks: Israel Suspected of Assassinating Syrian Official in 2008; WikiLeaks: U.S. Sought to Retaliate against France over GM Crops; Washington Post Details Expansion of Domestic Intelligence Apparatus; Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour Praises White Citizens' Councils; Probable Carcinogen Found in Tap Water; Israel Attacks Human Rights Watch Report; Iranian Filmmaker Sentenced to Six Years in Jail; Harvard and Yale to Welcome ROTC Back to Campus; 21 Students Arrested at University of Puerto Rico

2010/12/22 Headlines: Obama to Sign Order for Indefinite Detention; Holder: U.S. Seeks to "Neutralize" U.S.-born Cleric; WikiLeaks: U.K. &amp; U.S. Embrace Bangladeshi Death Squad; WikiLeaks: U.S. Criticized New Zealand Arrest of Israeli Spies; WikiLeaks: Mauritius Contests Legality of Marine Reserve Near Diego Garcia; Senate Appears Set to Approve Nuke Treaty; FBI Issues New Subpoenas of Antiwar &amp; Pro-Palestinian Activists; Judge Rules Bush Conducted "Unlawful Surveillance"; U.N.: Ivory Coast Could Slide Back into Civil War; Halliburton Settles Bribery Dispute in Nigeria; South Korea to Conduct Massive Military Exercise; 600 Members of Opposition Arrested in Belarus; Israeli Jets Bombard Gaza; Asian Aid Convoy Heads to Gaza; Right-Wing Radio Host Jailed for Threatening Judges; Request Filed to Arrest Army Officers Linked to Murder of Victor Jara

2010/12/23 Headlines: Senate Passes Nuke Treaty &amp; 9/11 Health Bill; Obama Signs "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Repeal; Sen. Reid Returns Ring to Dan Choi After Repeal of DADT; Congress Bans Transfer of Gitmo Prisoners to U.S. for Trial; U.N. Probes Detention of Bradley Manning; Julian Assange: Bradley Manning is a "Political Prisoner"; WTF: <span class="caps">CIA Forms the WikiLeaks Task Force; WikiLeaks Cables Released about West Papua; U.N.: 173 Have Died in Ivory Coast; U.N. Increases Size of Force in Somalia by 50%; U.S. Criticizes China's Subsidy of Wind Power Industry; Ex-Argentine Dictator Sentenced to Life in Prison; Alaska Supreme Court Rules Against Joe Miller

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2010/12/27 Headlines: Extreme Winter Storm Hits U.S. East Coast; 45 Killed in Bombing at WFP Site in Pakistan; Afghan Civilian Casualties Up 20%; Investigators: Involvement of Companies Undermining Oil Spill Probe; Report: All of Rig's Defense Systems Failed During Explosion; Cables: Panamanian President Asked DEA to Help Spy on Opponents; WikiLeaks Founder Assange to Write Autobiography; Dozens Protest Restrictions, Wall in West Bank; Thousands Greet Return of Flotilla Ship in Turkey; Bolivia Recognizes Independent Palestinian State; FCC Chair Issues Draft Approval for Comcast-<span class="caps">NBC Universal Merger; Kissinger in 1973: Gassing of Soviet Jewry "Not a U.S. Concern"; Senate Confirms Prison Industry-Tied Marshals Nominee; ACLU Added to Tennessee Anti-Terrorism List for Urging Religious Inclusion

2010/12/28 Headlines: U.N.: Security Worsening in Afghanistan; Afghan Gov't Condemns Deadly U.S. Raid; 19 Killed in Iraq Bombing; Maliki: No Extension for U.S. Withdrawal Deadline; African Presidents Issue Ultimatum to Ivory Coast President; Palestinians Mark 2nd Anniversary of Gaza Assault; Israeli Peace Activist Sentenced to 3-Month Term; Huckabee Tied to Firm Accused of Defrauding Struggling Homeowners; Report: 98 Bailed-Out Banks Risk Failure

2010/12/29 Headlines: U.S. Drone Strikes Kill at Least 33 in Pakistan; Ivory Coast President Rejects Demands from African Leaders; Palestinians to Ask U.N. to Recognize State; 10th Honduran Journalist Killed this Year; 106 Journalists Killed Worldwide in 2010; French Journalists Still Being Held Hostage in Afghanistan; U.S. Companies Created More Jobs Overseas in 2010; "Unprecedented Rise" in Long-Term Unemployment Forces Accounting Change; 157 Banks Failed in 2010, Most Since 1992; U.S. Refuses to Help Polish Probe of Secret CIA Prisons; WikiLeaks: U.S. Rejected Request to Help Probe of Assassination in Dubai; Eight Squatters Die in New Orleans Fire; GOP Lawmaker Threatens to Derail <span class="caps">EPA Plan to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Bloomberg Faces Criticism over Unplowed Streets in New York City; Italian Anarchist Group Claims Credit for Letter Bomb

2010/12/30 Headlines: Aid Organizations: Situation in Afghanistan Worsening; Ambassador: Ivory Coast on the "Brink of Genocide"; Lobbyist Lanny Davis Resigns from Ivory Coast Job; Ex-Israeli President Convicted of Rape; Obama Appoints Ambassador to Syria; U.S Revokes Visa of Venezuelan Ambassador; Mexico Vows to Protect Safety of Migrants; Scott Sisters to be Freed After 16 Years in Jail for $11 Robbery; Veterans Face Higher Unemployment Rate; One Tip Enough to Put Name on Terror Watch List; American Aid Worker Released in Haiti; Rousseff to be Sworn in as Brazilian President; Conservative Groups to Boycott CPAC over Gay Group; Christine O'Donnell Faces Campaign Finance Probe; Sen. Murkowski to be Certified as Winner of Senate Race

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