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Wisconsin Union-Busting Drive Feeds Off Towns That Are Shrinking
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 13:16.The loss of power and people in rural and small town Wisconsin is helping fuel a showdown over government union rights and benefits. read more »
Feds charge Jared Lee Loughner with Saturday's mass shooting
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 01/09/2011 - 17:53.PHOENIX (KGUN9-TV) - Federal prosecutors have finally filed charges against the man arrested for Saturday's mass shooting in Tucson. A press release issued Sunday afternoon said that the U.S. read more »
Awarding Liu Xiaobo Nobel peace prize may harm China-Norway relations, says FM spokesman
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 10/09/2010 - 00:41.Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to China's Liu Xiaobo desecrated the prize and could harm China-Norway ties, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu on Friday. read more »
Massive fish kill reported in Louisiana
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 09/16/2010 - 12:05.Recent Photo
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Student caught in middle: Dream of college awakes to the reality graduates face when here illegally
Submitted by bmidwinter on Wed, 09/15/2010 - 13:26.To advocates on both sides of the immigration debate, Miriam Torres is emblematic of the problems facing this country. read more »
Vendors Who Alerted Police Called Heroes
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 05/02/2010 - 19:54.Even in Times Square, where little seems unusual, the Nissan Pathfinder parked just off Broadway on the south side of 45th Street — engine running, hazard lights flashing, driver nowhere to be found read more »
How Scott Brown's Social-Media Juggernaut Won Massachusetts
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 21:53.Scott Brown of Massachusetts was sworn into the U.S. read more »
Haiti Tent City Residents Cope With Shortages
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 01:49.Residents of makeshift tent cities throughout Port-au-Prince say that conditions have improved since the earthquake three weeks ago, but shortages of food and relief supplies still make life difficult read more »
Same-sex marriage set for big day in federal court
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 01/10/2010 - 22:01.LOS ANGELES -- After a run of setbacks at the state level, gay rights advocates will take the campaign for same-sex marriage into a federal courtroom on Monday, starting down a treacherous avenue that read more »
Crackdown on Iranian Journalists Continues
Submitted by Ms. AuCoin on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 10:05.Read article below:
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/crackdown-on-iranian-journal...
Questions to Consider: read more »
NewsHour Extra Video: School System Series
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 08:33.Wilson Taps "You Lie" Fundraising for Fellow Republicans
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 18:37.South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson has raised more than $1 million for his own campaign treasury since his "You lie" shout during President Obama's address to Congress two weeks ago. read more »
White House distances itself from race controversy
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 09/17/2009 - 20:25.The US president does not want to be diverted by the race controversy, writes LARA MARLOWE in Washington read more »
Army used profiles to reject reporters (Afghanistan)
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 08/30/2009 - 11:59.WASHINGTON — The secret profiles commissioned by the Pentagon to rate the work of journalists reporting from Afghanistan were used by military officials to deny disfavored reporters access to Americ read more »
Alert level raised on North Korea
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 05/28/2009 - 00:33.South Korean and US troops have gone on higher alert after North Korea announced it is scrapping the armistice in force on the peninsula. read more »
NewsHour Extra Video: Possible U.S.-Taliban Talks Stir Controversy
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 09:57.Sea levels rising faster than predicted
Submitted by Newsbyte on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 10:34.Sea level rises could bust official estimates – that's the first big message to come from the climate change congress that kicked off in Copenhagen, Denmark, today. read more »
Obama speaks of 'reaching out' to Taliban
Submitted by dontlook on Sun, 03/08/2009 - 09:45.The US president admits that the 'anti-terror' operations in Afghanistan will not lead to victory, urging dialogue with insurgents as a cure. read more »
NewsHour Extra Video: California Pioneers Renewable Energy
Submitted by Newsbyte on Tue, 02/24/2009 - 19:41.Anthropologist's war death reverberates
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 02/13/2009 - 20:40.In a hostile corner of southern Afghanistan, an American platoon fanned out around a market, forming a protective circle around a petite woman with a notebook. read more »
Mashaal calls IDF operation in Gaza 'another holocaust'
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 01/10/2009 - 19:11.The IDF operation in Gaza has killed the last chance for settlement and negotiations with Israel, Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal told Al-Jazeera on Saturday. read more »
Europe sends two missions to promote a cease-fire
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 23:07.LONDON: Europe, seeking to fill a diplomatic vacuum in the Middle East left by the departing Bush administration, is sending two missions to try to broker a cease-fire in Gaza and offering more humani read more »
GM, Chrysler Bankruptcies Would Hit Confidence, Deepen Slump
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 22:36.Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- A bankruptcy filing by General Motors Corp. or Chrysler LLC would worsen the longest recession since the early 1980s if it led to a shutdown at the companies. read more »
NewsHour Extra Video: Economic Woes: the Autoworkers' Perspective"
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 22:51.Why Are Gun Sales Booming?
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 11/30/2008 - 22:14.A rush of icy air swooshes through Gunslinger’s show room every couple of minutes as customers file in and out.
“It’s insane,” owner Todd Sutherland said on a recent Monday. read more »
