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Grace Gannon

The Democrats Call Dibs on the Middle Class - 0 views

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Democrats tax Congress politics US

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    A proposed $1.2 trillion tax-cut package could shape the economic debate in Congress and on the campaign trail. -- When Democrats returned to Washington following the November congressional elections, the defeated party turned, in predictable fashion, on itself. Blame for the losses flew from the Senate to the White House, from the White House onto bumbling and overly cautious candidates, and back around again.
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A School for Children-and Their Parents - 0 views

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education poverty Washington DC US

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    This article focuses on the concept of fighting poverty by providing adults with schooling, while simultaneously educating their young children: Shortly before the year-end holiday break at Briya Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., Paige Reuber started her workday by helping a student finalize her health insurance application, which had been rejected on the first try. Then, later that afternoon, Reuber headed to the class in which she teaches some 20 adults English-language basics.
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Desegregated, But Unequal - 0 views

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Boston US desegregation race education

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    This documentary highlights the legacy of Boston busing: students from predominately black and white areas of the city to be reassigned to new schools. The moves overwhelmingly affected the poor; violent protests and threats led to a crisis that "still scars the city," according to WBUR.
Grace Gannon

Billboards and the Bill of Rights - 0 views

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freedom of speech politics Supreme Court US

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    The Supreme Court is slowly changing the meaning of words in free-speech law-and not for the better. Powerful forces are targeting all regulation of advertising. A world in which regulation of "marketing" is presumptively unconstitutional might look different, and worse, than the one we live in now.
Grace Gannon

Fitness Trackers Only Help Rich People Get Thinner - 0 views

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health business society fitness trackers

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    Fitness trackers are becoming more and more popular in American society as a way to inspire healthy habits in people. However, a recent study proves that they only work if they're worn consistently, in the right way, and by people who actually need to become more healthy. And despite the gadgets' proliferation in recent years, each one of those factors is kind of a long shot.
Grace Gannon

Free Community College, but Where's the Money? - 0 views

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students education US Obama politics government

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    President Obama wants to provide free tuition at community colleges, a proposal that could benefit as many as 9 million students, according to a White House outline of the plan released Thursday. But there's one big caveat in the proposal: There isn't plan to fund it, other than to ask Congress for the money.
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France to Deploy Thousands of Troops to Protect Jewish Schools and 'Sensitive Sites' - 0 views

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France Terrorism Religion

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    PARIS - Confronting a nation in shock from last week's terrorist attacks, the French authorities on Monday began to unveil a broad array of measures to send thousands of soldiers and police officers to guard Jewish schools and other sites, reinforce electronic surveillance and reach into schools and prisons that have a reputation as crucibles of jihadist recruitment.
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Jewish schools tense after Paris attacks - 0 views

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Paris Religion Terrorism

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    After attacks left 17 people dead, the French government is deploying thousands of security personnel to key sites. The BBC's Lucy Williamson went to visit a Jewish school in Paris with armed soldiers at the gate. The men in camouflage eye us warily as we approach the Lucien De Hirsch school in northern Paris, their rifles held tight across their rigid frames.
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Croatia elects first woman president - 0 views

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Croatia Equality

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    Opposition challenger Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic has become the first female president of Croatia, winning by the narrowest of margins. She secured 50.5% of the vote with 99% of ballots counted, while incumbent Ivo Josipovic was close behind on 49.5%. Mr Josipovic has conceded defeat and congratulated his opponent.
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UK accused of hypocrisy over plans to limit enforcement of EU climate goals - 0 views

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UK Climate Environment

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    British lobbying to reduce monitoring of EU countries' action on climate change has sparked outrage among MEPs and environmentalists. EU states agreed last October to cut their carbon emissions 40% by 2030, but a UK plan co-authored with the Czech Republic proposes that countries' emissions cuts should only be overseen with a 'light touch' regime with a diminished role for Brussels.
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Russians mark less than merry Orthodox Christmas amid rouble fears - 0 views

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Russia Religious Economy

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    Russians celebrated Orthodox Christmas with fears about the weak rouble still at the forefront of many people's minds. On Wednesday morning, the rouble was trading at more than 63 to the dollar, compared with a rate of 33 on Orthodox Christmas last year.
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German newspaper that reprinted Muhammad cartoons firebombed - 0 views

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Germany Freedom of speech Religious

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    A German newspaper that reprinted the Muhammad cartoons from the French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo has been the target of an arson attack. Several stones and an incendiary device were thrown through the window of the archive of the regional tabloid daily, the Hamburger Morgenpost, early on Sunday morning.
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Ukraine's Ousted President Yanukovich Is Now On Interpol's Most Wanted List - 0 views

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Ukraine Yanukovich Finance

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    Posted: KIEV, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Interpol has put ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich on the international wanted list on Ukrainian charges of embezzlement and financial wrong-doing, according to a notice on the international police organization's website on Monday.
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Is Facebook a Threat to Putin? - 0 views

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Russia Putin Technology Freedom of speech

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    Posted: PARIS -- On Dec. 20, Russia's government requested that Facebook block a page used to rally opponents of President Vladimir Putin. Facebook initially agreed, but allowed a new page to be opened the next day.
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Striking Photos From The Massive Unity March In Paris - 0 views

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Charlie Hebdo Massacre French Revolution Unity Paris

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    The streets of Paris overflowed on Sunday, as more than a million people converged on the capital to take part in a march for national unity. Among the masses gathered around the Place de la Republique square were over a dozen world leaders, as well ...
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There Are More French Muslims Working for French Security Than for Al Qaeda - 0 views

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France Religion Security Terrorism

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    Muslims are criticized for being a community, but then asked to react against terrorism as a community. This is called the double bind: be what I ask you not to be. In France, there is not a Muslim community, but a Muslim population. To admit this si...
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Russian and Ukrainian Officials Meet in Germany - 0 views

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Russia Ukraine Conflict Resolution

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    BERLIN - The foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine met here on Monday with their German and French counterparts in the latest attempt to ease the crisis in eastern Ukraine, where some 4,700 people have been killed since the conflict erupted last spring.
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Thousands expected at German anti-Islam rallies - CNN.com - 0 views

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Germany Religion Protesters

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    It will be the 12th march in Dresden called by the protest group Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West, or PEGIDA, since October. Dresden police say the number of people attending these rallies has increased from an estimated 350 protesters on October 20 to 18,000 on January 5.
Grace Gannon

Diary of a shambles: Bank of England's struggle with financial crisis - 1 views

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England financial crisis business

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    Bank's court failed to challenge officials' thinking over how to handle system during crisis: Lord King called it "fun" being governor of the Bank of England during the financial crisis. There's no such sense of enjoyment, or even job satisfaction, in the minutes of the time. As Badger (Bradford & Bingley), Fox (HBOS) and Phoenix (Royal Bank of Scotland) crashed through the undergrowth, officials struggled to keep up.
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