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Can Barack Obama undo Bush's tangled legal legacy?

By Marisa Taylor and Michael Doyle | McClatchy Newspapers

When Barack Obama becomes president in January, he'll confront the controversial legal legacy of the Bush administration. From expansive executive privilege to hard-line tactics in the war on terrorism, Obama must decide what he'll undo and what he'll embrace. The stakes couldn't be higher. » read more

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Florence Nirere, 18, stands in the Kibati camp for internally displaced people outside of Goma, Congo. Aid groups say that more than 5 million people have died due to conflict and the humanitarian crisis in eastern Congo over the past decade.

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Civilians suffer in Congo's unending conflict

By Shashank Bengali | McClatchy Newspapers

In a camp for eastern Congo's a growing legion of displaced people live in a sprawling collection of canvas-covered shacks where hunger and disease are the worst killers. The International Rescue Committee, a New York-based relief agency, says that although 45,000 are people dying every month — a mortality rate that's 60 percent higher than Africa's average — Congo remains a "forgotten crisis." » read more

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Sarah Palin unbound: 'Those guys are jerks,' she says

Palin defended herself. "If there are allegations based on questions or comments I made in debate prep about NAFTA, about the continent versus the country when we talk about Africa there, then . . . that's cruel, it's mean spirited, it's immature, it's unprofessional and those guys are jerks." » read more