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Top Obama Fundraisers Get Cush Posts

Top Obama Fundraisers Get Cush Posts

Proving that money still buys political influence, USA Today has revealed that more than 40% of President Obama's top-level fundraisers have secured posts in his administration, from key executive branch jobs to diplomatic postings in countries such as France, Spain and the Bahamas. The newspaper discovered that twenty of the 47 fundraisers that Obama's campaign identified as collecting more than $500000 have been named to government positions.

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Student Expelled to Gaza by Force

Student Expelled to Gaza by Force

The London Independent reports that a Palestinian student has been handcuffed, blindfolded and forcibly expelled to the Gaza Strip by Israeli troops just two months before she was due to graduate from college.

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U.S. Official Resigns Over Afghan War

U.S. Official Resigns Over Afghan War

US Foreign Service officer Matthew Hoh has become the first US official known to resign in protest over the Afghan war. Hoh, a former Marine Corps captain with combat experience in Iraq, has come to believe the war fuels the insurgency there.

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Brother of Afghan Leader Said to Be Paid by C.I.A.

Brother of Afghan Leader Said to Be Paid by C.I.A.

The New York Times reported this past week that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the countrys booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the CIA, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former US officials.

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Pakistanis Reject U.S. 'War on Terror'

Pakistanis Reject U.S. 'War on Terror'

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was met with hostile opposition during her recent visit to Pakistan. Prominent women and tribesmen, students and journalists alike delivered the same message: Pakistanis aren't ready to endorse friendship with the United States despite an eight-year-old anti-terrorism alliance between the countries and a multi-billion-dollar new US aid package.

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Warming Melts Away Kilimanjaro's Snows

Warming Melts Away Kilimanjaro's Snows

The snows of Mount Kilimanjaro will be gone within two decades, according to scientists who say that the rapid melting of its glacier cap over the past century provides dramatic physical evidence of global climate change.

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Violence Against Women Increases 120% on TV

Violence Against Women Increases 120% on TV

The Parents Television Council says in a new report that incidents of violence against women on mainstream US television has increased by 120 percent in the past five years, with the depiction of teen girls as victims rising by some 400 percent.

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Outrage Over Gay Bar Raids

Outrage Over Gay Bar Raids

Two recent police raids of gay bars in Atlanta, Georgia and Fort Worth, Texas have sparked mass protests in the two cities and have raised questions regarding the state of equality for persons of all sexual orientations.

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D.H.S. Accused of Disregarding Americans' Privacy

D.H.S. Accused of Disregarding Americans' Privacy

Privacy advocates are asking lawmakers to investigate the Department of Homeland Security office in charge of protecting Americans' privacy, saying it has shown an extraordinary disregard for its duty.

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Obama Admin. Tries to Stop Wiretap Lawsuit

Obama Admin. Tries to Stop Wiretap Lawsuit

Attorney General Eric Holder says a lawsuit in San Francisco over warrantless wiretapping threatens to expose ongoing intelligence work and must be thrown out.

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