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Native American politician speaks out against the power corporations.

LaDuke warned us a year ago that Oil would be drowning our forests. She means the Canadian Alberta tar sands project, the single largest industrial project in the world: a massive deposit of tar-like bitumen in northern Alberta. TransCanada Corp plans a 1,600-mile pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, and say "not to worry. If there's ever a leak, the flow of oil will be quickly shut off."


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Political roles reverse over a payroll tax that applies to 46 percent of Americans

WASHINGTON (AP) -- News flash: Congressional Republicans want to raise your taxes.


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If probation order is upheld, she'll have to report to Orlando authorities by Friday

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Casey Anthony has returned to Florida. Speaking Sunday on Fox News' "Geraldo at Large," Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, said she's in Florida and will report to a probation office if an appeal fails.


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Sheer size of 30-foot sculpture sets it apart from other Mall monuments

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Visitors got their first up-close look Monday at the memorial to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., including a towering granite sculpture inspired by the civil rights leader's "I Have a Dream" speech.

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Disaffected Dems unlikely to support GOP, but may be less likely to knock on doors

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Liberals argue that he caved on the debt ceiling. Unions are upset over his handling of unemployment and labor issues. Hispanics brought the immigration debate directly to his campaign doorstep.


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Black and Latino families claim intimidation by authorities

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is the focus of a federal probe over allegations that deputies discriminated against subsidized housing residents in two high desert cities, officials said.


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With the economy slowing again, the odds of a new recession seem to be increasing

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's the loud and clear consensus of Republicans in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail: Runaway government spending is the problem, not taxes. But the math isn't so simple.


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The so-called West Memphis Three were permitted to plead guilty to murder in exchange for time served, ending a long long-running legal battle

JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) -- Three men convicted in the nightmarish slayings of three Cub Scouts went free Friday, nearly two decades after they were sent to prison in a case so gruesome it raised suspicions the children had been sacrificed in a Satanic ritual.


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Cooper's lawyer, Edward Sanders, filed a motion for reconsideration on Wednesday, saying the clock should not have started ticking on the statute of limitations until Cooper read the book

Hinds County Circuit Judge Tommie Green ruled Tuesday that a one-year statute of limitations elapsed between the time Stockett gave Ablene Cooper a copy of the book in January 2009 and the time of the lawsuit's filing in February of this year.


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19-year-old accused of killing Black man now faces possibility of death sentence

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Mississippi authorities have upgraded a murder charge to capital murder for a white teenager accused of intentionally running over a black man with a truck.


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