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 | Taxpayers will pay for Gonzales' private attorney
The Justice Department has agreed to pay for a private lawyer to defend former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales against allegations that he encouraged officials to inject partisan politics into the department's hiring and firing practices.
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| Nation |
 | Weeks after bank bailout, no help for homeowners
Nearly five weeks after Congress gave the nod to a 700-billion-dollar bailout fund, and as the economy sinks deep into a recession, no definite plan is in sight for struggling U.S. homeowners.
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| World |
 | Barak approved settlement expansion despite Road Map
Defense Minister Ehud Barak has approved dozens of construction projects in the West Bank in recent months, contradicting Israel's commitments to the Road Map, Haaretz has learned. Barak also approved the marketing of hundreds of housing units in settlements.
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| Afghanistan War |
 | Pakistan and US have tacit deal on airstrikes
The United States and Pakistan reached tacit agreement in September on a don't-ask-don't-tell policy that allows unmanned Predator aircraft to attack suspected terrorist targets in rugged western Pakistan, according to senior officials in both countries. In recent months, the U.S. drones have fired missiles at Pakistani soil at an average rate of once every four or five days.
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| Iraq War |
 | Mask ban upsets Iraqis hired as US interpreters
The U.S. military has barred Iraqi interpreters working with American troops in Baghdad from wearing ski masks to disguise themselves, prompting some to resign and others to bare their faces even though they fear it could get them killed.
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| US Military Affairs |
 | Report: 'Gulf War Syndrome' is real
A report released Monday concluded that "Gulf War Syndrome" is a legitimate condition suffered by more than 175,000 U.S. war veterans who were exposed to chemical toxins in the 1991 Gulf War.
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| Labor |
 | Greece: Tobacco farmers block highways
Greek tobacco farmers are blocking two major highways to protest planned European Union reductions on crop subsidies.
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| Women |
 | Zimbabwe activists demand justice for politically-motivated rapes
"I was raped by four Zanu PF militias at night, just outside their base, during the elections. They took turns to rape me, accusing me of supporting the opposition, MDC [Movement for Democratic Change]", said Pauline Moyana* from Mutasa, a community in Zimbabwe's eastern Manicaland province.
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| LGBT |
 | Obama posts campaign pledges on LGBT rights
President-elect Barack Obama has laid out his commitment to LGBT civil rights in an eight-point plan posted on his transition Web site.
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| Environment |
 | Bush tearing apart protection for America's wilderness
George Bush is working at a breakneck pace to dismantle at least 10 major environmental safeguards protecting America's wildlife, national parks and rivers before he leaves office in January.
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| Media Watch |
 | Rather's lawsuit shows role of GOP in inquiry
When Dan Rather filed suit against CBS 14 months ago — claiming, among other things, that his former employer had commissioned a politically biased investigation into his work on a "60 Minutes" segment about President Bush's National Guard service — the network predicted the quick and favorable dismissal of the case, which it derided as "old news."
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| Health |
 50 Percent More Hungry Children in U.S..jpg) | USDA: Hungry children rose 50 percent in 2007 in US
New government figures show that almost 700,000 children went hungry in the US at some point in 2007.
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| Technology |
 | Supercomputers break petaflop barrier, transforming science
A new crop of supercomputers is breaking down the petaflop speed barrier, pushing high-performance computing into a new realm that could change science more profoundly than at any time since Galileo, leading researchers say.
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| Culture |
 | The CIA does Hollywood
Everyone who watches films knows about Hollywood's fascination with spies. From Hitchcock's postwar espionage thrillers, through cold war tales such as Torn Curtain, into the paranoid 1970s when the CIA came to be seen as an agency out of control in films such as Three Days of the Condor, and right to the present, with the Bourne trilogy and Ridley Scott's forthcoming Body of Lies, film-makers have always wanted to get in bed with spies. What's less widely known is how much the spies have wanted to get in bed with the film-makers. In fact, the story of the CIA's involvement in Hollywood is a tale of deception and subversion that would seem improbable if it were put on screen.
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| Analysis |
 | A Wal-Mart christmas for a Wal-Mart country
Merry Wal-Mart, America.
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| Commentary |
 | The Architects of Fear
These last eight years of the Bush Administration felt very familiar to me. I suspect the same is true for many survivors of the terrors and degradations of religiously sponsored child abuse. Nor are we ready to celebrate now that a promising new administration waits on the political horizon.
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Cost of the War in Iraq
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| Quote of the Week |
| "These people, who have good jobs and drive a hybrid car or cycle to work because they care about the environment, may go to party and do some lines of coke and they are thinking it is no problem. They are absolutely unaware of the ecological impact of their drug taking and we want to change that. Cocaine is seen as the champagne of drugs and people who would not take heroin or amphetamines take cocaine and say there are no victims, but there are. We want to show them destroyed rain forests, wasted land. Maybe if they don't care about their own brains they care about this." |
-- Colombia's vice president Francisco Santos on the environmental impact of the cocaine drug trade.
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