Mother's fury after Facebook removes pictures of baby son who lived for just eight hours after being born with rare birth defect |

A furious mother is demanding answers from Facebook as to why they took down photographs she posted on the site of her son, who was born with a rare birth defect, and then later banned her from the site altogether.  Grayson James Walker, from Memphis, Tennessee, was born  …

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Mitt Romney praises Meg Whitma nAs She Prepares To Lay Off 30,000 Workers

Meg Whitman never said she liked to fire people, but on the same day that news of her plansto lay off 30,000 Hewlett-Packard employees leaked to the press, Mitt Romney felt inspired to lavish praise on her managerial skills and to wistfully lament that she lost h …

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Facing Common Struggles, Domestic Workers Mobilize Across Borders

The United States isn't unique when it comes to political and social crises related to immigration. Migrants in other parts of the world face similar, sometimes much harsher struggles. Even those who are "legal" are often extremely vulnerable to economic exploitation, ra …

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Republicans Will Find Themselves in Tough Spot if Supreme Court Strikes Down Obamacare

As The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur pointed out in the segment above, if the Supreme Court ends up ruling that the Affordable Care Act, otherwise commonly referred to as "Obamacare" is not Constitutional or against the individual mandate, Republicans may very well find themselve …

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BREAKING: Fracking Fluids Could Contaminate Freshwater Aquifers, Says Study

The chemical-laced water used in hydraulic fracturing can migrate through fractures and faults up to overlying aquifers in as little as tens of years.

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House OKs $642B Defense Bill that Obama Threatened To Veto

The House on Friday ignored a presidential veto threat and passed a $642 billion defense bill that abandons the deficit-cutting agreement that President Obama and congressional Republicans backed last summer. On a 299-120 vote, lawmakers backed the spending blueprint that adds …

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ALEC Anti-Union Push Includes Key Players From Michigan, Arizona Think Tanks | NationofChange

The American Legislative Exchange Council, which backs free-market legislation in the states, has been controversial in part because its membership includes major corporations as well as state legislators. Largely unnoticed has been the influence wielded by a third group of ALE …

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