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Despite attack ads, Elizabeth Warren gains steam (with video)

December 14, 2011 By Dan Margolis

Elizabeth Warren's campaign to defeat tea-party darling Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., has surged to frontrunner status.

$Poisoned water, endangered turtles: the shell-shocking effects of fracking$

Poisoned water, endangered turtles: the shell-shocking effects of fracking

December 13, 2011 By Blake Skylar

On Dec. 8, for the first time, federal environmental experts linked underground water pollution with fracking,

Marriage equality activists win victory for all families

December 13, 2011 By Joshua Leclair

At the Dec. 12 meeting of the Orlando City Commission, leaders voted unanimously to pass a Domestic Partner Registry.

Labor rallies to extend unemployment lifeline

December 13, 2011 By Rick Nagin

The AFL-CIO and allied groups have held actions in 50 cities urging extension of unemployment benefits set to begin expiring in January.

West coast Occupy movement targets corporate giants at ports

December 13, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

Occupy Oakland demonstrators shut down the Port of Oakland Dec. 12 as part of a West Coast-wide protest against giant corporations at ports from San Diego to Anchorage, Alaska.