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Lawmakers scramble on government shutdown and debt ceiling deal
October 16, 2013The solution, in any case, is only temporary with another showdown or shutdown possible again early next year.
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Experts put Iraq death toll at nearly 500,000
October 16, 2013The first major study into the human cost of the Iraq war in eight years has found that nearly half a million people died because of the U.S.-led invasion.
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Fast food giants cost America $7 billion in McTaxes
October 16, 2013Two recently published reports shed damning light on the high cost of low wages in the fast food industry.
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Dallas joins national day of protest over shutdown
October 16, 2013About 50 activists, many of them retirees, gathered outside the office of Senator Ted Cruz in Dallas on October 15.
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Coming typhoon an ill wind for nuke-nervous Japan
October 15, 2013The typhoon will bring hurricane-force winds, rain, and flooding to a city that is already enduring the now-global Fukushima disaster.
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