China has turned to the World Trade Organization to help block U.S. tariffs on 22 types of Chinese products, including solar panels, pipes for oil wells, coated paper and steel wheel hubs. The Chinese appeal to the WTO takes aim at the U.S. Commerce Department, which has recently imposed stiff duties on Chinese products. The department has cited Chinese subsidies, especially those funneled through state-owned enterprises, that it says give Chinese firms an edge over American competitors. Read full article > >

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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development cut its growth forecast for the 17-nation zone and said Europe risked creating a cycle of decline.

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Euro Watch: O.E.C.D. Sees Euro-Zone Crisis Hurting World Recovery

Global efforts to cut the number of deaths from measles have fallen short of World Health Organization (WHO) targets.

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The Rev. Al Sharpton is lord of all he surveys. “Check out this,” the flamboyant civil rights leader told me during breakfast at his organization’s annual meeting this week. He flipped through the program until he found a full-page ad with the logos of Fox News, the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal. “News Corporation Proudly Supports National Action Network ’s 2012 Convention,” it said. Read full article > >

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Via NOAA: “Irene has been retired from the official list of Atlantic Basin tropical storm names by the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) hurricane committee because of the fatalities and damage it caused in August 2011 and will be replaced by Irma.”

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Goodnight, Irene: Hurricane retired from list of storm names

Via NOAA: “Irene has been retired from the official list of Atlantic Basin tropical storm names by the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) hurricane committee because of the fatalities and damage it caused in August 2011 and will be replaced by Irma.”

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A top official of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation who was involved in the controversy over the group’s funding of Planned Parenthood resigned Tuesday. Karen Handel, vice president for public policy, acknowledged that she had supported Komen’s decision to pull funding for Planned Parenthood in a resignation letter obtained by The Atlanta Journal Constitution. However, she said the decision-making process began before she joined the organization last year, and the policy change was thoroughly vetted at every level within the organization and unanimously agreed to by the board at a November meeting. Read full article > >

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The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation announced Friday that it would revise a new policy that barred the organization from funding Planned Parenthood, a move that had thrust the cancer foundation into a national controversy. Read full article > >

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Forget the whole kerfuffle in which the Susan G. Komen Foundation stopped its donations to Planned Parenthood , an organization that provides 4 million breast exams annually . I’m sure it had good reasons for that. Good, non-political reasons, having to do with the way the organization was “evolving,” or something. This decision is not transparently political in any way. Read full article > >

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Romney has the organization, money and history to crush opponents in the Silver State.

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Mitt Looks Good In Nevada

The success of the British drama “Downton Abbey” prompted the organization to change its programming and marketing tactics, and aim at viewers more attuned to HBO and Showtime.

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PBS Shifts Tactics to Reach Wider Audience

Crude oil prices sagged Wednesday after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries decided to boost its official production quotas to 30 million barrels a day, about where the group’s actual output has been running. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, the price of the benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude oil fell to $94.90 a barrel, down more than 5 percent. Read full article > >

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European countries need to act now to tackle measles outbreaks, the World Health Organization warns.

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Twenty games into the 2011-12 NHL season, “accountability” is still the Washington Capitals ’ chief buzzword. The mantra that has been trumpeted by the organization’s ownership, management, coaches and players since mid-summer has been tested early, but Coach Bruce Boudreau has stood his ground as the Capitals close out the second month of the regular season. Read full article > >

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A blogger who pioneered the practice of collecting news about journalism and the media industry resigned from his job Thursday after his editor publicly questioned his own journalism standards — in particular, whether he was giving proper attribution to the news sources mentioned in his daily posts. Jim Romenesko, whose daily blog on the nonprofit site Poynter.org has been a must-read for thousands of journalists, quit the organization after his editor, Julie Moos, posted a column questioning his methods. Read full article > >

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