Fallout from Newt Gingrich’s statements often trap him in lengthy digressions from his main messages.

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Funding cuts for school lunches, home energy assistance, child support enforcement, HIV care, Race to the Top grants and other government programs will come quicker than advertised following the failure this week of the congressional “supercommittee.” In the malleable world of federal budgeting, members of Congress cast the breakdown as likely having little to no effect on federal spending over the coming year. The deadline for cuts, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle noted, is in 2013, and the two sides could agree before then to a new mix of cuts. Read full article > >

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States expect budgetary fallout from ‘supercommittee’ failure

Lauren Weedman wants to talk to you about rape and prison, and she wants you to laugh about it. Weedman, who has written six autobiographical plays, opens Thursday at the Studio Theatre in her one-woman comedy “Bust.” It recounts her experiences volunteering at a women’s prison while dealing with the fallout of a confessional article she wrote for Glamour magazine in 2005, “I Lied About Being Raped.” Read full article > >

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While the Greek debt crisis occupies world leaders at the G20 summit of the biggest economic powers, should we fear the potential fallout here?

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Q&A: How Greek crisis affects UK

While the Greek debt crisis occupies world leaders at the G20 summit of the biggest economic powers, should we fear the potential fallout here?

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Q&A: How Greek crisis affects UK

TEL AVIV — Captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit returned home Tuesday looking pale and rail thin to a country bracing itself for fallout from a prisoner swap that has emboldened the militant Palestinian faction Hamas. A subdued Israeli homecoming ceremony for Shalit stood in stark contrast to the mood in the Gaza Strip, where buses carrying the first of 1,027 Palestinian prisoners to be freed as part of the exchange were escorted by heavily armed Hamas fighters. Read full article > >

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Prisoner swap with Israel emboldens Hamas

by Robert Barnes The Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission rearranged the political landscape. And fallout from the decision continues to reverberate in courts across the nation. The court’s January 2010 decision freeing corporations and unions to spend whatever they like for and against candidates wiped out laws in 24 states banning such spending. Only Montana still wages a lonely court battle to maintain the ban. Read full article > >

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Citizens United decision reverberates in courts across country

It will be five weeks ago this coming Friday that Japan was hit by a devastating 9.0-magnitude earthquake that triggered a tsunami of epic proportions. Villages were destroyed, lives lost and the walls of a nuclear power plant breached. Workers put their lives at risk — and continue to — to contain potential fallout from Fukushima Dai-ichi in the north of Japan. Today, thousands of bodies are still missing. Given the continued interest in the area and the stream of stories documenting loss both material and emotional, how should we react to a newly-released mod that makes visiting the destruction — at least virtually — possible? Created by a 25-year-old fan of the popular game, a mod for Fallout 3 allows PC gamers to visit the ruins of Fukushima Dai-ichi. “The reaction online in Japan is varied: from impressed to disgusted and everywhere in between,” according to Brian Ashcraft at Kotaku , which has more screenshots. “Some even thought these images were from upcoming downloadable content, unaware that they were created with a mod.” Fallout 3, released in October 2008, takes place in the year 2777, 200 years after a nuclear apocalypse is said to have destroyed the game’s internal world, a place where international conflicts resulted in a Sino-American war. While most of the game is set in Washington, D.C., outside of Vault 101, a shelter where 1,000 humans live, protected from nuclear fallout, it was built to open-ended and modified by its user base. Video game mods are nothing new (in high school, I built a complicated map in Age of Empires that closely resembled Tolkien’s Middle Earth), but rarely are they put together so quickly and with such chill-inducing accuracy. Is the Fallout 3 mod a way for users to pay homage to lives lost in the disaster and learn more about the ongoing situation? Or is it exploitation?

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A new earthquake has struck Japan, even as it continues to deal with the fallout of the last big one. Officials say a 7.4-magnitude tremor rocked Japan’s northeastern coast-the same region hit by the March 11 disaster. NHK reports that tsunami warnings…

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The massive and unfolding tragedy in Japan encapsulates in extreme form the intersection of the three crises that this blog deals with. The unprecedented earthquake and tsunami were obviously unpredictable natural disasters, but they also reflect the growing ecological fragility that is at the heart of the fears about the looming environmental crisis. read more

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An investigation provides the first indication that U.S. officials could have taken steps to mitigate the fallout from fraudulent loans and cronyism.

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U.S. advisers saw early signs of trouble at Afghan Bank

Japan’s massive quake has a dangerous nuclear fallout: Two power plants struggled to cool their core radioactive material Saturday, a Japanese government official said, while a small leak of atomic material has been reported at one of those facilities….

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Japanese Nuke Plant Reports Leak

Téa Obreht’s debut novel, “The Tiger’s Wife,” gives an indelible picture of a Balkan country reeling from the fallout of civil war, while exploring the essence of storytelling.

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Books of The Times: Family Fables Mix With a Riven Land’s Loss

The first minister is to host a summit later to discuss the fallout from last week’s “shameful” Old Firm game.

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Top commanders have warned President Obama of political fallout for military intervention in Libya.

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Military Analysis: U.S. Weighs Options, on Air and Sea