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