Newly released documents recovered from the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed show that al-Qaeda’s leaders were frustrated in their efforts to manage an emerging group of distant affiliates that showed little discipline or willingness to take direction. Read full article > >
Campaigners in Bangladesh are stepping up their efforts to put a stop to child marriages.
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VIDEO: Activists target child marriages
Rock the Vote and the League of Women voters are among the groups that are curtailing their efforts.
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Restrictions on Voter Registration in Florida Have Groups Opting Out
With their first two picks in the 2012 NFL draft spent after Friday’s blockbuster trade to the St. Louis Rams, the Washington Redskins — who previously figured to be active in the free agent market — are likely to step up their efforts to add the players crucial to improving this season. Read full article > >
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Free agency is crucial for Redskins in light of $36 million salary cap penalty, and with top two draft picks spent
Greece’s debt exchange offer to private investors ended on Thursday, with officials in Athens saying they were confident of the outcome and of further efforts in coming days to prop up the ailing country. Read full article > >
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Greece wraps up debt swap
For decades the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has eluded well-intentioned peacemakers. Diplomats have talked, shaken hands, snapped photos — and returned home from summits with strikingly little to show for their efforts. Meanwhile, the occupation of Palestinian territories grew more restrictive. Israel’s settlements developed into towns and small cities as Palestinians were penned into smaller and smaller spaces. While diplomats shuffled from Madrid to Oslo to Wye River, from Camp David to Taba to Annapolis and resort towns in between, the illegal settlements expanded. And the window for two states closed. Read full article > >
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One state for Palestinians and Israelis
Silicon Valley was alarmed. Across the country in Washington, federal lawmakers were proposing legislation that could have crippled the efforts of Web companies to collect consumer data that is crucial to selling advertisements online. Read full article > >
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Web privacy guidelines viewed as ‘win’ for Google
Rebuffed in his efforts to restart Maryland’s men’s basketball rivalry with Georgetown , Terrapins Athletic Director Kevin Anderson has decided against scheduling games against the Hoyas in all sports until the impasse is resolved. Read full article > >
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Maryland won’t schedule games with Georgetown in any sport until men’s basketball impasse is resolved
We have seen the world created by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, and it doesn’t work. Oh, yes, it works nicely for the wealthiest and most powerful people in the country, especially if they want to shroud their efforts to influence politics behind shell corporations. It just doesn’t happen to work if you think we are a democracy and not a plutocracy. Read full article > >
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The Citizens United catastrophe
We have seen the world created by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, and it doesn’t work. Oh, yes, it works nicely for the wealthiest and most powerful people in the country, especially if they want to shroud their efforts to influence politics behind shell corporations. It just doesn’t happen to work if you think we are a democracy and not a plutocracy. Read full article > >
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The Citizens United catastrophe
Hackers Anonymous release a recording of an intercepted conference call between the FBI and UK police discussing their efforts to fight hacking.
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Hackers breach FBI-UK police call
The new ad from Revolution PAC is pretty powerful. James Williams, a black man, talks about his efforts to get medical attention for his pregnant white wife at a Texas hospital in the 1970s. The crescendo comes when a young doctor named Ron Paul broke through the indifference of the staff to give them the help they needed. Their baby would be stillborn. And Paul paid their medical expenses. Then Williams extols the virtues of Paul — his honesty and willingness to take on the establishment. Read full article > >
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Ron Paul deserves to be ‘blot out’
Lady Gaga emails an unsuspecting fan to praise his efforts to “spread tolerance” through an anti-bullying campaign.
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Gaga emails school bully campaign
Admitting gridlock was at hand, lawmakers on the so-called supercommittee cast blame and pointed fingers at one another Sunday as the panel’s leaders prepared to formally acknowledge their failure early this week, bracing for the reaction from financial markets. Using the weekly Sunday political news shows as their outlet, Republicans and Democrats on Congress’s special deficit committee did not officially throw in the towel on their mandate of finding $1.2 trillion in savings before Thanksgiving. However, most of the lawmakers spoke of their efforts in the past tense and said it would take something akin to a miracle to reach a deal, which unofficially must be unveiled before midnight Monday to meet the panel’s parliamentary rules. Read full article > >
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Debt supercommittee members brace for failure
One day after Nancy Grace sacrificed a perfectly good news cycle full of hootin’ and hollerin’ about the Conrad Murray guilty verdict so she could practice for “Dancing With the Stars,” she was rewarded for her efforts by being officially eliminated from the competition, one week shy of the semi-finals. Read full article > >
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Nancy Grace voted off ‘Dancing With the Stars’
Restrictions on Voter Registration in Florida Have Groups Opting Out
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
