The Daou Report is on hiatus. I'll be blogging at UN Dispatch where I'll focus on human rights and related issues alongside a team of great writers. While I was on leave with Hillary Clinton's campaign, Steve Benen, Vanessa Valenti, Jessica Valenti and Mark Goldberg edited the Daou Report and I owe them...
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KRISTIN KAINING: Parents of video-gaming children, take heart: Your kid is not destined to become an anti-social hermit who lives at home until he’s 35. In fact, a new study shows that all that game...
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MICHAEL PERRY: The Australian government has issued its first license allowing scientists to create cloned human embryos to try and obtain embryonic stem cells. The in vitro-fertilization firm Sydney IVF...
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PALLAB GHOSH (BBC): The internet needs a way to help people separate rumour from real science, says the creator of the World Wide Web. Talking to BBC News Sir Tim Berners-Lee said he was increasingly worried...
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ANDREW HEAVANS: Sudanese forces on Sunday launched fresh attacks on a base held by Darfur rebels who signed a 2006 peace deal with the government, the faction's leader said. Minni Arcua Minnawi, leader...
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ALEX FELSINGER: After the Viacom-owned network finished filming their new treasure-hunt themed “Real World/Road Rules Challenge” on a remote, uninhabited island in the Republic of Panama, locals...
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KEITH JOHNSON: There’s a good reason the famous “White Towns” of Andalusia, in southern Spain, are all white-washed. The sun is hot in Andalusia, and white paint reflects the heat, keeping...
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BRIAN X. CHEN: Your iPhone is watching you. If you've got an iPhone, pretty much everything you have done on your handset has been temporarily stored as a screenshot that hackers or forensics experts could...
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CARRIE JOHNSON: The Justice Department will unveil changes to FBI ground rules today that would put much more power into the hands of line agents pursuing leads on national security, foreign intelligence...
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DANI COOPER: The world's intellectual property (IP) system is broken and the benefits of biotechnology are being blocked by patent laws, according to the authors of a seven-year study. The Canadian-led...
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The Daou Report is on hiatus. I'll be blogging at UN Dispatch where I'll focus on human rights and related issues alongside a team of great writers. While I was on leave with Hillary Clinton's campaign...
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One of the sad realities of the ever-accelerating news cycle is that we rarely have the opportunity to follow an event or issue before it's drowned out by something new. Here's a sobering NYT article about...
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Stories like this remind us that across the globe, courageous and principled individuals risk their lives to make a difference: The head of Afghanistan's anti-drug court was shot at on his way to work...
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Thirty-one white crosses made of tubular steel line up unevenly in the grass and weeds of what used ...
The pervasive smoke spewing from the junk heap at Balad Air Force Base in Iraq is causing many retur...
Caroline Kennedy, the 51-year-old daughter of President John F. Kennedy, has indicated her interest ...
The Illinois Legislature meets Monday to talk about possibly stripping Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich...
The brother of the journalist now famous for hurling his shoes at President Bush said his sibling's ...
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Some of the world's biggest banks have revealed that they are victims of a US investment fund which ...
Thousands of Iraqis take to the streets to demand the release of a local TV reporter who threw his s...
US President-elect Barack Obama announces his environment team, naming physics Nobel Prize winner St...
Cholera has killed nearly 1,000 people in Zimbabwe, the UN Security Council hears as it debates the ...
A group of racist skinheads who carried out 18 brutal murders in Russia's capital Moscow are sent to...
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush has be...
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police fired teargas at small groups of protesters who threw stones and fir...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The militants who attacked India's financial center last month, killing 179 pe...
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israel released 224 prisoners in a goodwill gesture to Palestinian P...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - African countries must exert more pressure on Zimbabwe to end a political...
