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2013/05/22 15:21
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The documentary is the Debbie Downer of film forms. Over the years, documentaries have evolved into an information-distribution service; a sort of Associated Press for bad news. The networks and great...
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2013/05/22 08:00
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... hunger and malnutrition should persist in a land such as ours is embarrassing and intolerable.� So declared Richard Nixon in May 1969 in his now widely forgotten �Special Message to the Congress...
2013/05/21 03:34
2013/05/21 03:34
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The newly approved contract between Knoxville and Ameren will allow the city to continue receiving the same amount of energy from the power company — but passes on the expense to customers. In April,...
2013/05/19 15:09
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WASHINGTON — (AP) — The House Agriculture Committee on Wednesday approved a sweeping farm bill that would trim the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program. The panel rebuffed Democratic efforts to keep...
2013/05/18 01:45
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WASHINGTON -- Republican and Democrats sparred this week on where Jesus Christ would stand on food stamps, a federal program that supported 47 million Americans last year. On Wednesday, the House...
2013/05/17 07:08
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AXED Remploy workers are being held hostage in their jobs after being told their redundancies will be slashed if they take on other work. Several staff at a threatened textiles factory in Dundee –...
2013/05/16 05:42
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On Sept. 1, conservative columnist George Will published a seemingly out-of-nowhere, eye-popping op-ed for the Washington Post titled, “Time to Get out of Afghanistan.” The piece, which called for “a...
2013/05/15 22:51
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Lawmakers deliberating the massive farm bill on Wednesday turned to food stamps, which inject tens of millions of dollars into Memphis’ economy. Republicans proposed $2.5 billion in annual cuts...
2013/05/15 21:09
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After the original outcry, little has been heard of the expenses scandal, and it is widely assumed that the problem has gone away. It has not. Indeed, there are a number of troubling indications that...
2013/05/14 17:51
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Horton’s Kids to Take Over Nationals Park Thirteen members of Congress and more than 60 staffers will join CNN’s Jake Tapper and celebuchef Spike Mendelsohn to hit up the 5th annual Home Runs for...
2013/05/13 06:21
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Bill Britton shoots for a third consecutive title at the 25th New Jersey Senior Open Championship after winning the last two crowns by three or more strokes. Britton, 57, is among more than 100...
2013/05/09 18:53
2013/05/09 18:53
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Tom Colicchio: ‘Just Say No’ to Farm Bill “Top Chef” judge and anti-hunger advocate Tom Colicchio has some choice words for members of Congress when it comes to the farm bill: “Just say...
2013/05/09 10:19
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Celebrity chef Tom Colicchio joined with Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) to headline a screening of the documentary “A Place at the Table” at the Rayburn House Office Building and met with members of...
2013/05/08 05:38
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Documents from Hemingway's time in Cuba come to US Washington, May 8 : Thousands of documents and photographs that belonged to Ernest Hemingway and have been stored until now in the house where he...
2013/05/07 03:12
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Can you hear that? It's the deafening sound of silence from our elected officials. They don't want to be anywhere near a microphone or camera if the question of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's burial is the...
2013/05/03 09:09
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Marjorie Liggett, a College of the Holy Cross senior majoring in biology and anthropology, can be said to be among the most socially conscious young adults in the country. This is in no small measure...
2013/05/02 19:01
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House Speaker John Boehner, R-West Chester Why hasn’t House Speaker John Boehner become a lightning rod—a la ex-speakers Nancy Pelosi or Newt Gingrich—used by Democrats in House races as a way to...
2013/05/02 15:12
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When Mark Sanford debated a cardboard cutout of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in his South Carolina race last week, it was a replay of a tried-and-true Republican strategy: Demonize Pelosi and...
2013/05/02 14:13
2013/05/02 14:13
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FOX FOLLOW-UP – FOX 25's Sorboni Banerjee spoke with Barry Kluger, a father who lost his only daughter in a 2001 car accident. Barry and another bereaved father, Kelly Farley, who lost two children,...
2013/05/01 03:04
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A federal judge for the Northern District of California has ruled the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation at Fort Benning must release the names of students and instructors at the...