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May 8, 2012 – Editor's note: This piece was written by Mike Proto. New Jersey is on the cusp of taking its biggest leap towards planting the roots of Obamacare in the Garden State. Last March, the state Legislature passed a bill that would establish the law’s bureaucratic health care exchanges...

May 7, 2012 – As Japan began its workweek Monday morning, the trains ran exactly on time, the elevators in thousands of Tokyo high-rises efficiently moved between floors, and the lights turned on across cities with nary a glitch. What makes this Monday so remarkable is that for the first time in four...

May 7, 2012 – The Obama administration is aware of a video of an American hostage urging the president to meet al Qaeda demands so he is not killed, a senior State Department official said Monday, but added that the United States "does not negotiate" for hostages. Warren Weinstein, 70, makes the emotional...

May 7, 2012 – Syrians went to polls across the country Monday as more than 7,000 candidates vied for 250 seats in parliament amid mounting international pressure on President Bashar al-Assad to step aside. The opposition urged Syrians to boycott the elections, saying a vote for any of the candidates amounted to a...

May 4, 2012 – Osama bin Laden was a surprising proponent of the Arab spring, according to documents found after his capture and released on Thursday. In his last private letter written just a week before his death, he said the revolutions represented a “formidable event” and a turning point in the Arab...

May 4, 2012 – Osama bin Laden pondered the merits of US television news channels as he considered how to extract the best propaganda benefit from the tenth anniversary of 9/11 last year, and concluded that CBS was "close to being unbiased". But an American-born media adviser for al-Qaeda warned Bin Laden to...

May 4, 2012 – The Obama administration will soon issue sweeping new environmental safety rules for hydraulic fracturing on federal land, setting a new standard that natural gas wells on all lands eventually could follow. The rules, which are likely to be unveiled by the Interior Department within days, are designed to address...

May 4, 2012 – The U.S. economy added a sickly 115,000 jobs in April, but as discouraged workers continued to leave the labor force, the benchmark unemployment rate nudged down from 8.2 percent to 8.1 percent. The more important number, the size of the potential labor force that is not employed, remained at...

May 4, 2012 – The Canadian company that wants to build the disputed Keystone XL pipeline in the U.S. submitted a new application for the project Friday after changing the route to avoid environmentally sensitive land in Nebraska. TransCanada said it applied again to the State Department for permission to build the pipeline...

May 4, 2012 – A Chinese dissident has been given a fellowship at a university in the United States and will be allowed to leave China with his wife and two children, providing a possible solution to a diplomatic crisis for President Obama. The Chinese government is expected to arrange travel procedures for...

May 4, 2012 – The nation's economy added 115,00 jobs in April while the unemployment rate dropped one-tenth of a point to 8.1 percent. The figures are lower than a month ago and were also below what many analysts had expected. They will add to the sense that the labor...

May 4, 2012 – Spirit Airlines will raise its fee for carry-on bags to up to $100, becoming the first U.S. airline to charge so much for a service that most other airlines offer for free. Spirit said on its website that the new fees apply to carry-on bags registered at the gate...

May 4, 2012 – Syrian government snipers and other forces stalked opponents in homes and neighborhoods Friday in a campaign of gunfire, shelling and arrests amid mass protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad, an opposition group said. At least 33 people died in the violence, including seven in Idlib, seven in...

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May 3, 2012 – Are public schools becoming more and more like prisons? That’s what the documentary “The War on Kids” says. Based on interviews with educators, medical professionals, students and sociologists, the documentary, which received a limited film festival run in 2009 and is being released this week on the Documentary...

May 3, 2012 – White House press secretary Jay Carney on Thursday defended the administration’s handling of Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, whose future in China remains uncertain. Carney refused to answer questions about whether the White House would support asylum for Chen, repeatedly referring those questions to the State Department. He...

May 3, 2012 – Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has circulated a draft copy of a resolution that would hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. The 44-page measure was sent to members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday in an attempt to shore up support for...

May 3, 2012 – Edward Peden and Dianna Ricke-Peden built their dream home in an unusual location -- an old underground missile bunker in rural Kansas. Nearly 20 years later, they have turned that first step into a thriving real estate business. Their bunker business, 20th Century Castles, helps sell decommissioned missile...

May 3, 2012 – There are far more jobless people in the United States than you might think. While it's true that the unemployment rate is falling, that doesn't include the millions of nonworking adults who aren't even looking for a job anymore. And hiring isn't strong enough to keep up with population...

May 3, 2012 – A trove of documents the U.S. Navy SEALs took from the Pakistan compound where they killed Osama bin Laden in 2011 was published Thursday morning on the website of the Combating Terrorism Center. The papers paint a picture of a terror mastermind who had grown increasingly worried he could...

May 2, 2012 – Target will soon stop selling the Amazon Kindle line of e-readers and tablets, the retailer confirmed Wednesday. Target representative Molly Snyder said the company, which began carrying the Kindle in its physical stores nearly two years ago, is "phasing out Kindles and Amazon- and Kindle-branded products in the spring...

May 2, 2012 – Companies hired far fewer workers than anticipated in April, suggesting the labor market weakened for a second straight month. Employment increased by 119,000 after a downwardly revised 201,000 gain a month later, according to the monthly report from payroll giant Automatic Data Processing. Economists had expected companies to add...

May 2, 2012 – An engineering student stepped forward with his lawyer Tuesday to say he was left alone in a federal holding cell for five days with no food or water, apparently forgotten by the federal drug agents who detained him. Daniel Chong, 24, a UC San Diego senior, said he was swept up...

May 2, 2012 – Michelle Obama seems to have tried out a new campaign slogan at today's fundraiser in Las Vegas. "I’m not going to kid you," the first lady said at the fundraiser, according to the pool report. "This journey is going to be long. And it’s going to be hard....