RAW STORY is proud to announce that its investigative news series "The Permanent Republican Majority," conducted and penned by Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane, has been nominated for an online investigative journalism award by the Online News Ass
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WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has ordered roughly 1,250 Marines serving as trainers for the Afghan security forces to stay on the warfront almost a month longer to continue a mission that military leaders say is a top priority, according to a senior mili
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Monday said it was closing a controversial intelligence office that had raised concerns about domestic spying by the military after the September 11 attacks.The Defense Department said it had "disestablished" th
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GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden's driver performed vital services that enabled "the world's most dangerous terrorist" to launch attacks, a prosecutor told jurors before they began deliberations on Monday in the first
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Claims that Republican presidential nominee John McCain was not playing on white voters' fears of black men seducing white women in his "celeb" advertisement are hard to swallow coming from a party that has exploited racial tensions for decades, say
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