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Rethinking Sexism: How Trans Women Challenge Feminism


The world's largest annual women-only event excludes trans women, sparking a debate among feminists about sexism and privilege.   read more

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Bottled Water's Shocking Impacts and the Growing Opposition


Here are two stories that show the huge impacts of bottled water and the pressure the industry is receiving lately from consumers and officials.   read more

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Both of My Grandfathers Were Illegal Immigrants (and Lou Dobbs' Would Be Today)


My grandfathers, like many other illegal immigrants, helped usher in the world's greatest period of working class prosperity.   read more

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House Republicans take to floor of empty chamber for continued drill-here push


Update: White House won't aid GOP displayWhile most of their colleagues in the House of Representatives had already gone home for a five-week break Monday, a group of House Republicans returned to the floor of the adjourned chamber to demand that Con   read more

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Multiple US officials: Sorority obsession seen in anthrax case


The top suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks was obsessed with a sorority that sat less than 100 yards away from a New Jersey mailbox where the toxin-laced letters were sent, authorities said Monday. Multiple U.S. officials told The Associated Press t   read more

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Honoring Helen Thomas


Helen Thomas, the grande dame of the White House press corps, turns 88 today. That's cause for celebration. But sadly, the woman who got her first reporting job four years before the current president was born — and who has been performing enhanced i   read more

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Deleted photo sparks fears DEA hiring mercenaries


When a California medical marijuana dispensary, Organica Collective, was raided last Thursday by agents of the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency and local police, the Los Angeles Times ran a dramatic story on the incident, accompanied by a set of phot   read more

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Tumor-stricken Novak retires from column gig


Conservative political columnist Robert Novak, who was diagnosed last month with a "dire" brain tumor, has retired from his position with the Chicago Sun Times, the paper reports."The details are being worked out with the doctors this week, but the   read more

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Obama makes bid in 7 longtime Republican states


Alaska is young. Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia have growing populations and many black voters. Montana has seen recent Democratic inroads, and North Dakota has sent only Democrats to Congress since 1986. Indiana borders Barack Obama's home sta   read more

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Obama shifts on tapping reserve as he hits 'big oil' McCain


In a reversal, Barack Obama is proposing tapping the nation's strategic oil reserves to help drive down gasoline prices, his campaign said Monday.Obama supports releasing light oil from the emergency oil stockpile now and replacing it later with heav   read more

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