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  • Will Ellen DeGeneres make it on American Idol?

    Will Ellen DeGeneres make it on American Idol?

    September 11, 2009

    Before every American Idol fan and entertainment writer goes nuts buzzing online about how it's a bad idea that Ellen DeGeneres has joined the show's judging table, let's all just take a deep breath and give...

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  • Jenny couldn’t wait; vigil demands action on health care

    Jenny couldn’t wait; vigil demands action on health care

    September 10, 2009 By Teresa Albano

    CHICAGO -- "Twenty thousand people die each year because they lack health insurance.” That was a grim figure presented by medical student Anthony Chang to a MoveOn.org-hosted health care reform vigil here on Sept. 2.

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  • Obama to students: Dream big and make us proud

    Obama to students: Dream big and make us proud

    September 9, 2009

    In a much-anticipated speech, President Barack Obama delivered a back-to-school address to nearly 56 million students, K-12th grade, nationwide Sep. 8th, live from Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va. Most of the country's 15,000 school districts...

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  • Peekskill remembered

    Peekskill remembered

    September 5, 2009 By Daniel Frontino Elash

    The concert scheduled for Aug. 27, 1949, in Peekskill, N.Y., was supposed to be routine. Though it had been organized by People’s Artists, a brand new spin-off organization of the People’s Songs formation that had launched...

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  • EPA will declare CO2 a dangerous pollutant

    EPA will declare CO2 a dangerous pollutant

    September 5, 2009 By Susan Webb

    The Environmental Protection Agency is set to declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant, EPA head Lisa Jackson announced on Monday. That action would trigger federal regulation of industrial CO2 sources like coal-fired power plants, cars, refineries...

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