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Tuesday, 01 March 2011

Obama's Green Subsidies Attract 'Do-Gooder Bandits'

President Obama's green energy push is rapidly proving to be a crooked racket. It works like this:...

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Mexico, US face tough talks after US agent killing Breitbart

Mexican President Felipe Calderon, shown here in 2010 in a handout photo, t... This undated photo released on February 16 by US Immigration and Customs En... Sergio Antonio Mora, shown here on February 28, was said to be directly in ... Mexican President Felipe Calderon travels to Washington this...

Court: No personal privacy for business in FOIA Breitbart

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that corporations have no right of personal privacy to prevent the disclosure of documents under the federal Freedom of Information Act. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the 8-0 opinion Tuesday that reversed an appeals court ruling in favor of AT&T....

Budget cuts would harm US in Mideast, beyond: Clinton Breitbart

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday warned Republicans to reverse... Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday warned Republicans to reverse plans to cut the US foreign aid budget or undermine US efforts to stabilize a North Africa and Middle East in turmoil. Clinton also told...

Ohio bill curbing union rights draws protests Hartford Courant

By Mary Wisniewski COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters converged on Ohio's state capital on Tuesday as legislators considered a bill to curtail collective bargaining rights for public workers and eliminate their right to strike. Republican supporters of Senate Bill 5 say the limits to...

Unclear if Guantanamo prison closed by 2013: Holder Hartford Courant

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday he was not sure if the prison holding terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba would be closed by the end of President Barack Obama's first term. "I don't know," Holder told a House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee....

U.S. says will keep squeezing Gaddafi until he quits Hartford Courant

By David Morgan and Missy Ryan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will keep squeezing Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi until he quits, a top U.S. official said on Tuesday after Washington imposed sanctions and began moving warships in a show of force. The USS Barry, a destroyer, moved through the...

Geithner: Can't stall forever on Fannie, Freddie Hartford Courant

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Tuesday that lawmakers can't stall indefinitely on implementing housing finance reforms if they really want to back the government out of the market....

Winners and losers in the UK aid review The Guardian

Aid agencies react to the new focus of Britain's international aid spending Vietnam is no longer considered to be in need of aid. Photograph: Hoang Dinh Nam/AFP/Getty Images...

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