DONALD G. MCNEIL JR (NYT): Bill Gates and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced on Wednesday that they will spend $500 million to stop people around the world from smoking . The World Health Organization estimates that tobacco will kill up to a billion people in the 21st century, most of them in poor...
ABC (AU): Over 50 children have been kidnapped in Haiti this year and some have been raped and tortured...
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RADIO AUSTRALIA: Presenter: Tom Fayle Speaker: Dr Powers, a scholar in Tibetan religion and culture at...
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BBC: Amnesty International has urged Venezuela to do more to protect women from domestic violence. The...
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JAMES JOYNER: Despite the conventional wisdom that emerging demographic trends would lead to the emergence of a Democratic majority, it appears that there’s some good trends for the Republicans....
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STEVEN D: A 21 year old black man in Winnfield, Louisiana, named Baron "Scooter" Pikes, was tasered 9 times in 14 minutes by a white police officer in January after he was arrested and handcuffed...
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TOTW: Back in May I posted " The Flight Not Taken " about abuses by TSA personnel. It seems that the TSA doesn't care to address these issues, and is possibly making it worse. Fliers Complain...
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RJ ESKOW: This country is in a healthcare crisis today — but we’re not thinking enough about tomorrow either. Here are seven trends to watch, starting with the short-term and ending with what...
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VAUGHAN THOMAS: At 9.45am on Saturday, June 23 2007, I killed a man. A perfectly ordinary man, on a perfectly ordinary summer's day. CCTV pictures show him entering the station, unremarkable among all...
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CHARLIE COON (STARS AND STRIPES): Active-duty soldiers can expect to be asked how they’re doing, and not just physically, the next time they visit Army clinics in Vicenza, Italy, and Vilseck and...
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ROBERT SCOBLE: Oh, what a hoot. I’ve been taking a break from blogging just to relax and invest my time in other places. Like FriendFeed . Or downloading iPhone apps. Anyway, I’ve been thinking...
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CHRIS BOWERS: Maybe I am just too tired right now, but I am suddenly of the opinion that Democrats should just completely capitulate on the offshore oil drilling question. In fact, they should also capitulate...
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IVERSON: Joseph Dwyer appeared on front pages and magazine covers around the world. He was carrying a half-naked Iraqi boy. A kaffiyeh scarf was tied around the boy’s shrapnel. And there was Dwyer...
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With his recent visit, Barack Obama has focused attention on the Bush administration's bungling of the mission in Afghanistan and on the increasingly dire situation there. IRIN reports on another aspect...
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There's no shortage of examples of tasing ending in tragedy . We've been featuring the story of Baron “Scooter” Pikes , who died after being tased 9 times. Here's another troubling story out...
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Much of the relaunched Daou Report's focus is on human rights abuses and violence around the world (and on those who work to reduce it). Here's a barbaric example from Iran: Iran has sentenced eight women...
CNN
Forty-five percent of black women in America have never been married, compared with 23 percent of wh...
Sen. Barack Obama is on his way to Europe, the next leg in an international trip intended to bolster...
Hurricane Dolly was downgraded to a Category 1 hurricane today after it made landfall on South Padre...
A baby boy police believe was deliberately cut from his mother's womb was released from a Pittsburgh...
Jurors convicted the art teacher of forcing a boy to have sex with him repeatedly in a classroom sup...
BBC
Prosecutors at The Hague say they expect the extradition of war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic to b...
The US House of Representatives passes a massive housing rescue bill after President Bush says he wi...
The pilot of an Indonesian Garuda airliner that crashed last year, killing 21 people, goes on trial ...
DNA tests in Guatemala prove for the first time a child put up for adoption in the state system had ...
US presidential hopeful Barack Obama lands in Berlin, where thousands are expected to gather for a k...
Reuters
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan security forces and NATO-led forces were engaged in a joint operation on Th...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Urgent talks to salvage a global trade deal made "some progress" in the early hou...
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Radovan Karadzic will conduct his own defence at the Hague tribunal and is conv...
BEIJING (Reuters) - Ranks of Chinese paramilitary police swore to prevent terrorist attacks or "poli...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama made a surprise pre-dawn v...
