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North Korea test seen as setback to new U.S. approach
The renewed crisis comes just as all three key regional players — China, Japan and South Korea — go through transitions to leaders who in varying ways have hinted they are seeking new ways to handle the regional pariah.
Pope Benedict XVI leaves the Catholic Church in a state of crisis
The Catholic Church is grappling with crises from child abuse scandals involving priests to confronting radical Islam as well as struggling to find its place in a secular world.
Roger Ailes: Obama ‘is busy’ getting ‘blacks to hate whites’
Fox News CEO Roger Ailes believes he can help Republicans win over Latinos.
Nugent invited to State of the Union
The conservative rocker who said that he would be “dead or in jail” if President Barack Obama was re-elected has been invited to attend Tuesday’s annual State of the Union address.
Documents reveal tobacco companies funded their own ‘tea party’ first
“The main point that we make is that tobacco companies worked with both the smokers’ rights groups that they created in the ’80s and ’90s,” researchers told Raw Story.
Sarah Silverman’s sister among those arrested at Jerusalem’s Western Wall
Israeli police on Monday took 10 women for questioning after they wrapped themselves in men’s prayer shawls and prayed at one of Judaism’s holiest sites.
Obama is pushing gun control at home, but he’s a killer abroad
By Gary Younge, The Guardian
North Dakota GOP proposes a fee to get welfare
By Amanda Marcotte
The web is dead.
Long live the web!
By John Naughton, The Observer
