By Jackie Calmes Washington — President Barack Obama will call this week for a broad plan to raise revenues and cut deficits, as the battle

By Sarah Lacy Thiel’s solution to opening the minds of those who can’t easily go to Harvard? Poke a small but solid hole in this

By Justin McCurry Japan is to raise the nuclear alert level at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant to a maximum seven, putting the emergency on

The Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History – and How We Can Fight Back [Hardcover] Amazon.com Related reading: Student Loan Scheme

By Yoichi Shimatsu Confused and often conflicting reports out of Fukushima 1 nuclear plant cannot be solely the result of tsunami-caused breakdowns, bungling or miscommunication.

COMMENT: The Supreme Court’s decision in Connick v. Thompson virtually gives license to prosecutors to lie, fabricate or withhold evidence, since they apparently can’t be

By Theresa McCabe New York (TheStreet) — Participation in the U.S. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, reached an

By Gudjon Helgason REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Voters in Iceland rejected a government-backed deal to repay Britain and the Netherlands for their citizens’ $5 billion worth

Illustration by Jennifer Daniel By Jesse Drucker For the well-off, this could be the best tax day since the early 1930s: Top tax rates on

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By Jeff Zeleny Washington — President Obama opened the week by calling on Democrats to embrace his re-election campaign. He closed it by praising Republicans

By William J. Broad For the clearest picture of what is happening at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, talk to scientists thousands of miles

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One Lie Hides the Truth. One Hundred Lies Become the Truth. Your World Will Never Look the Same. THRIVE is an unconventional documentary that lifts

Entire country loses internet for five hours after woman, 75, slices through cable while scavenging for copper. By Tom Parfitt in Moscow An elderly Georgian

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Operations of a joint stock market linking Chile, Colombia and Peru are scheduled to begin May 30. The group, known as the Integrated Latin American

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By Flavia Krause-Jackson and Caroline Alexander Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi can tap gold reserves worth $7 billion, equivalent to a 10th of the size of

By Tyler Durden Earlier today GM announced disappointing sales numbers, with March car sales rising only 9.6% compared to expectations of 20%. Indeed, this number

By Jonathan Spicer The names and e-mails of customers of Citigroup Inc and other large U.S. companies, as well as College Board students, were exposed

By Scott Pelley As more and more Americans face mortgage foreclosure, banks’ crucial ownership documents for the properties are often unclear and are sometimes even

The Fat And The Furious: The top 1 percent may have the best houses, educations, and lifestyles, says the author, but “their fate is bound

By Christina Boyle Some workers at Japan’s stricken nuclear plant fear they may die within weeks or months after being exposed to potentially lethal doses

It’s a documentary which analyzes the Thursday 26th April 1986 that became a momentous date in modern history, when one of the reactors at the

The American Spectator celebrated April Fools Day by announcing that after the GOP threatened to cancel their funding, NPR replaced Bill Moyer’s show with Ann

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By Abigail Jackson Fountain House is one of the world’s leading mental health organizations, providing employment, educational and housing opportunities to people living with serious

By Bob Ivry and Craig Torres A Supreme Court order that forces unprecedented disclosures from the Federal Reserve ended a two- year legal battle that

By Hans David Tampubolon Three Citibank debt collectors [in Indonesia] allegedly killed Irzen Octa, 50, secretary general of the National Unity Party (PPB), on Tuesday

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By Sam Smith Not every change in national policy and events is announced with a new conference or presidential speech. A case in point is

A Wisconsin judge on Thursday did what thousands of pro-union protesters and boycotting Democratic lawmakers couldn’t, forcing Republican Gov. Scott Walker to halt plans to

[click on the image to read OSGATA-v-Monsanto-Complaint] By Kelsey Volkmann The Public Patent Foundation, on behalf of 60 family farmers, seed businesses and organic agricultural

The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it was declining an offer from American International Group (NYSE: aig) to buy the mortgage-related assets it holds in

By Joe Weisenthal By now you know that the surge in silver prices has left gold in the dust. One reason: it’s just cheaper to

By Dawn Kopecki JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said some municipalities will need to renegotiate debt and a

A Geiger counter in Itate village, some 40 kilometers northwest of the Fukushima Daiichi plant showing radiation levels of 7.66 micro Sievert per hour. People

By Neil M. Barofsky Two and a half years ago, Congress passed the legislation that bailed out the country’s banks. The government has declared its

Dirty Electricity tells the story of Dr. Samuel Milham, the scientist who first alerted the world about the frightening link between occupational exposure to electromagnetic

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By Alan Fram House Republicans plan to introduce eight bills on Tuesday that would each take a small step toward pushing taxpayer-backed mortgage giants Fannie

By Barbara Demick The first pitch of Japan’s baseball season has been pushed back so people don’t waste gasoline driving to games. When the season

By B. Blake Levitt and Chellis Glendinning Culture Change note: As if you weren’t getting enough radiation: now comes really bad news in the form

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By Mike Ludwig A coalition of farmers and environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on March 18 to challenge

YouTube By Eric W. Dolan An Indiana prosecutor and Republican activist has resigned after emails show he suggested Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker stage a fake

Naoto Kan says the situation at disaster-hit power plant is unpredictable as officials fear breach at one reactor. Japan’s prime minister has warned the situation

By Laurent Belsie The earthquake that struck Burma Thursday night hit one of its more remote regions, once known as the world’s premier producer of

By Yuji Okada, Naoko Fujimura and Kaipin Yee March 27 (Bloomberg) — Radiation in water at Japan’s stricken nuclear plant reached potentially lethal levels even

By Shannon D. Harrington and Betty Liu Pacific Investment Management Co., manager of the world’s biggest bond fund, invested in the finance arm of Toyota

By Kadhim Ajrash and Nayla Razzouk Iraq plans next week to sign power- plant contracts valued at $6.25 billion with Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) and other

Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) — Iceland’s President Olafur R. Grimsson talks about the country’s progress since receiving a $4.6 billion International Monetary Fund-led loan. He speaks

By Peter Garnham and Lindsay Whipp The billions of dollars in yen sold by the world’s most powerful central banks have sent a strong message

By Jack Farchy and Roula Khalaf The international community has hit Mommar Gadhafi with a raft of sanctions and asset freezes aimed at cutting off

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