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NPR exec blasts tea party in hidden-camera video
By News on Mar 8, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A National Public Radio executive was captured on hidden camera calling the tea party movement racist and xenophobic and said NPR would be better off without federal funding, in an embarrassment likely to fuel the latest round of conservative attacks on public broadcasting....
Freshman Democrat upbraids Obama on spending
By News on Mar 8, 2011
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A freshman Democratic senator accused President Barack Obama on Tuesday of failing to provide leadership on a worsening national deficit as top Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill spent more time pointing fingers than seeking common ground on a must-do measure to fund the government for the next six months....Senate passes bill to overhaul patent system
By News on Mar 8, 2011
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's outmoded patent system, which has forced innovators and inventors to wait years and outlast challenges and lawsuits before getting recognition for their products, would be overhauled under a measure passed Tuesday by the Senate....Gadhafi forces hammer rebels on eastern front
By News on Mar 8, 2011
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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- After dramatic successes over the past weeks, Libya's rebel movement appears to have hit a wall of overwhelming power from loyalists of Moammar Gadhafi. Pro-regime forces halted its drive on Tripoli with a heavy barrage of rockets in the east and threatened Tuesday to recapture the closest rebel-held city to the capital in the west....Christians and Muslims clash in Egyptian capital
By News on Mar 8, 2011
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CAIRO (AP) -- Clashes between Christians and Muslims escalated on Tuesday with thousands of people burning tires, smashing parked cars and cutting off a main road despite military moves to control a day of violent protests in Egypt's capital....