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            Candidate for head of National Intelligence pulls out after objections
          
          
        
 
      
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            Terrorist watch list hits 1 million
          
          
        
 
      
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            Ranks of homeless kids climb
          
          
        
 
      
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            US downturn dragging world into recession
          
          
        
 
      
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            Profiling still plagues Muslim communities
          
          
        
 
      
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            SunTrust plays rough with builders in Triangle
          
          
        
 
      
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            Obama lawyers argue to drop Yoo torture suit
          
          
        
 
      
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            Homeowners fight foreclosure injustice
          
          
        
 
      
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            CIA chief: No one to be punished for interrogations
          
          
        
 
      
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            Foreclosures now affecting almost 1 in every 8 American homeowners
          
          
        
 
      
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            Food stamp enrollment jumps to record 31.8 million
          
          
        
 
      
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            Fed refuses to release bank data
          
          
        
 
      
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            Abandoned weapons-grade plutonium traced back to second world war
          
          
        
 
      
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            Lawsuits challenge charity blacklisting
          
          
        
 
      
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            CIA destroyed nearly 100 interrogation videotapes
          
          
        
 
      
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            Cost of locking up Americans too high - Pew study
          
          
        
 
      
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            Rahm Emanuel tied to $8.5 million in earmarks
          
          
        
 
      
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            High-speed rail on faster track
          
          
        
 
      
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            US 'cell assault' video released
          
          
        
 
      
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            Obama seeks to keep power of indefinite detention
          
          
        
 
      
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            Firms defraud government but get new US contracts
          
          
        
 
      
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            California's newly poor push social services to brink
          
          
        
 
      
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            Fusion center encourages investigations of anti-war activists
          
          
        
 
      
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            Lawyer says Guantanamo abuse worse since Obama
          
          
        
 
      
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            Washington state firm upset by handling of immigration raid
          
          
        
 
      
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            Rove defies Congressional subpoena again; contempt unlikely
          
          
        
 
      
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            Ex-Atlanta cops get prison for drug raid killing
          
          
        
 
      
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            Obama under fire for cronyism with pick for British Ambassador
          
          
        
 
      
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            America unmasked: The images that reveal the Ku Klux Klan is alive and kicking in 2009
          
          
        
 
      
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            Obama admin. tries to kill Bush email case
          
          
        
 
      
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            Group urges civil disobedience in foreclosure evictions
          
          
        
 
      
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            Calls mount for Obama to appoint 'truth commission'
          
          
        
 
      
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            Federal agency aided Md. spying
          
          
        
 
      
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            FBI informant faces break-in charges
          
          
        
 
      
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            Despite Obama pledge, Justice defends Bush secrets
          
          
        
 
      
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            Over 100,000 deportees had children in US
          
          
        
 
      
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            Global economic crisis poses top threat to US, spy chief warns
          
          
        
 
      
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            Poll: Most want inquiry into anti-terror tactics
          
          
        
 
      
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            Anti-torture group seeks to sway commissioners
          
          
        
 
      
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            Too late for Austin inmate cleared by DNA