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The international Quartet on Middle East peace has called on Israel to halt Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories and open border crossings as a first step to advance peace. The Quartet is the EU, Russia, the U.S. (YES) and the UN. The appeal was made on Friday.
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In a widely expected move [2] that is sure to draw the ire of the oil and gas industry, Democratic members of Congress today introduced twin bills to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act and give the Environmental Protection Agency authority over the controversial drilling process [3] called hydraulic fracturing [4].
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“The income of Americans soared in May because of the government’s economic stimulus,” reports the Wall Street Journal. NO, NOT REALLY.
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Evidence is emerging that medical personnel monitored the medical effects of the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah, the al-Qaida operative who was, according to government reports, subjected to the near-drowning at least 83 times in August 2002.
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The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close Guantanamo, has drafted an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate suspected terrorists indefinitely, according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White House deliberations.
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Senate Environmental and Public Works subcommittee heard testimony that mountains and streams will never be the same after mountain top removal coal strip mining. This should be a crime and how interesting that it’s not, given that President Obama said this practice should end, while he was campaigning for president.
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