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    Fannie Mae posts record $17.2 billion profit in 2012

    The Christian Science Monitor
    April 03, 2013

    Fannie Mae earned $17.2 billion in 2012, the biggest annual profit in the US mortgage giant's history, helped by a record fourth quarter. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP/File) The mortgage giant Fannie Mae said it racked up its highest profit ever during…


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    Julia Conley, Common Dreams
    July 07, 2022

    The head of Common Cause Georgia on Wednesday welcomed the news that a Fulton County special grand jury investigating 2020 election interference subpoenaed seven key allies of former President Donald Trump.

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    Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams
    July 07, 2022

    The muted response from the White House following the July 4 mass shooting at a parade in Highland Park, Illinois has intensified frustration felt by progressives over the Biden administration's approach to the crises facing the United States, coming less than two weeks after the Supreme Court gutted abortion rights for millions of Americans.

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    The Conversation
    July 07, 2022

    Nasa has recently announced US$600,000 (£495,000) in funding for a study into the feasibility of sending swarms of miniature swimming robots (known as independent micro-swimmers) to explore oceans beneath the icy shells of our Solar System’s many “ocean worlds”. But don’t imagine metal humanoids swimming frog-like underwater. They will probably be simple, triangular wedges.

    Pluto is one example of a likely ocean world. But the worlds with oceans nearest to the surface, making them the most accessible, are Europa, a moon of Jupiter, and Enceladus, a moon of Saturn.

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