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Battle over Guantanamo court attire in 9/11 case
WASHINGTON — The self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11 attacks wanted to wear military-style camouflage clothes to court but prison officials denied the request as inappropriate, documents show. A series of documents and photographs released by the Pentagon this week show that the lawyers for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four…
Robert Reich: Romney is the reverse Robin Hood
Berkeley professor and former labor secretary Robert Reich suggested Thursday that Mitt Romney’s economic plan favored the wealthy at the expense of the poor. “Romney has said repeatedly, he wants to cut taxes on the very wealthy,” he said on MSNBC’s The Last Word. “The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center here…
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Richard Dawkins has been the recipient of numerous honours and prizes, including the Kistler Prize,the Shakespeare Prize,a Galaxy National Book Award, and the Michael Faraday Prize. Of course he is also admired as an outspoken atheist. His bestseller, The God Delusion, has outsold all of his other books and it…
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A public relations officer linked to Walmart posed as a journalist at a press conference held by a labor group highlighting tough working conditions in the warehouses that supply big retailers. Stephanie Harnett, a publicist working for Mercury Communications, which has been retained by Walmart to assist in its effort…
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Less than nine months after the repeal of “don’t ask don’t tell”, the US military has announced that it will participate in this month’s celebration of gay pride. The Pentagon is to organise the first official event to recognise gay and lesbian troops. The move, first reported by Associated Press,…
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Obama signs World Trade Center beam
NEW YORK — President Barack Obama stopped at the site of the destroyed Twin Towers in New York on Thursday and inscribed the final beam in the rebuilt World Trade Center with the words: “We remember.” Obama and his wife Michelle Obama — who came to New York to attend…
United Kingdom proposes massive archive of citizens’ Internet activity
The U.K. Home Office has proposed a bill that would allow authorities to log the activity of nearly everything roughly 60 million people do on the Internet, according to the Associated Press. “Communications data saves lives,” Home Secretary Theresa May said. “It is a vital tool for the police to…
Scientists slam company for testing ‘ethnic purity’ of Hungarian far-right politician
The European Society of Human Genetics has denounced the company Nagy Gén for genetically testing a member of parliament from the Hungarian far-right Jobbik party to ensure he did not have a Roma or Jewish ethnic background. The company examined 18 positions in the MP’s genome for variants that it…
Fox News host walks off set following co-host’s sexist joke
Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson walked off the show’s set on Thursday morning after her co-host Brian Kilmeade made a sexist comment. The comment came after Fox & Friends‘ Steve Doocy finished an interview with the Navy Sea Chanters, which had been all-male until 1980. “Women are everywhere,” Kilmeade…
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