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            Obama's team is lacking most of its top players
          
          
        
 
      
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            Pittsburgh seeks 4,000 extra police officers to help with the Group of 20 meeting
          
          
        
 
      
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            CIA used gun, drill in interrogation
          
          
        
 
      
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            Teachers' union criticizes Obama on schools stance
          
          
        
 
      
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            Peltier denied parole
          
          
        
 
      
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            Former Bush aide says politics colored US 'terror alert'
          
          
        
 
      
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            US: More deaths in detention
          
          
        
 
      
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            Numbers of poor projected to increase
          
          
        
 
      
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            Chicago shuts down to save money
          
          
        
 
      
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            Judge orders release of Yemeni from Guantánamo
          
          
        
 
      
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            Indian star questioned at airport, raising ire
          
          
        
 
      
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            Income inequality is at an all-time high: study
          
          
        
 
      
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            US: Children call for end to immigration raids
          
          
        
 
      
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            Philadelphia town hall meeting is civil
          
          
        
 
      
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            US banking crisis far from over, Congress warns
          
          
        
 
      
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            Documents: Rove involved in US attorney firings
          
          
        
 
      
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            Where did that bank bailout go? Watchdogs aren't sure
          
          
        
 
      
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            Obama's embrace of a Bush tactic riles Congress
          
          
        
 
      
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            Immigrant detainees staging hunger strikes to protest deplorable confinement
          
          
        
 
      
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            About half of US mortgages seen underwater by 2011
          
          
        
 
      
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            FEMA chief: US not ready to help children in disasters
          
          
        
 
      
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            Homeless 'tent city' in Harlem ends in arrests
          
          
        
 
      
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            Five more US banks are shut down, bringing 2009 tally to 69
          
          
        
 
      
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            Crackdown on smuggled guns hindered by US laws
          
          
        
 
      
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            Language lawsuit fails in appeals court
          
          
        
 
      
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            US recession worst since Great Depression, revised data show
          
          
        
 
      
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            Bill introduced to repeal failed Real ID Act
          
          
        
 
      
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            Army spying could violate federal law
          
          
        
 
      
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            Kucinich calls for debate on national priorities, speaks against military funding bill
          
          
        
 
      
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            Banks paid $32.6 billion in bonuses amid US bailout
          
          
        
 
      
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            Profiling persists despite revamped guidelines
          
          
        
 
      
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            UN group examines post-Katrina housing crisis in New Orleans
          
          
        
 
      
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            Sky's the limit for bank fees
          
          
        
 
      
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            Report finds detainees' rights routinely violated in US immigrant detention
          
          
        
 
      
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            Private school tax credits rife with abuse
          
          
        
 
      
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            Obama rejects call for immigration detention rules
          
          
        
 
      
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            US judge blasts DC's handling of protest cases
          
          
        
 
      
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            Report: FEMA mishandled toxins in trailers
          
          
        
 
      
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            Spitzer: Federal Reserve is 'a Ponzi scheme, an inside job'
          
          
        
 
      
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            Scores held in US corruption probe