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PepsiCo agrees to remove ingredient  from Gatorade

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(Come on people, let's start doing some real reporting...)
UNBELIEVABLE!  Obama signs bill permitting American citizens to be held indefinitely without benefit of due process

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(Not long ago, this would have been unthinkable)
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(What you may not have learned in high school - or college.)
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California building a bullet train to nowhere?
What the Affordable Care Act does
Some student loans become more expensive despite deal reached in congress

"The Newsroom" offers lessons for contemporary journalism

Saudis to fund Syrian rebels

Leading scientists call for nations to face problem of expanding population

(Anybody out there remember Paul Ehrlich in the 60's?)
World Health Organization says diesel engines cause cancer

Study may link Statin drugs to fatigue - also questions mortality benefits

More than 2000 former players file brain injury lawsuit against the NFL

Public workers face "political bull's-eye"

What is the Bilderberg Conference and why does the American media go out of its way to ignore its impact?

40 years since photographer Nick Ut got the shot that helped end a war

photo: courtesy nick ut
Ron Olsen with Kim Phuc, the little girl from Nick Ut's Pulitzer Prize winning photo that helped end the Vietnam War.  Nick brought Kim over to say hello during our coverage of the Simpson Civil Trial in Santa Monica. 
Boomer alert!  Hollywood puts Jack Kerouac back on the road

Millions of American seniors face hunger

Our political system has been "warped and paralyzed by a small wealthy minority"

Top 5 special interest groups lobbying to keep marijuana illegal

Lobbying to keep the prisons full in America

Big media lobbies  against transparency in political spending

Pakistani men get away with ACID ATTACKS on women by paying off police

(Some of the same good folks who provided cover for Osama bin Laden)
Obama, establishing permanent
U.S. military presence in Australia.
No, really......in Australia.

(it's pushback against our good friends and
business partners, the Communist Chinese)

Baldwin, isn't the only Alec out there...

War continues with contractors staying behind
"....the U.S. can no longer conduct large or sustained military operations or respond to major disasters without heavy support from contractors..."

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