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• National Debt Gives Republicans an Opening With Young Voters

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  • 05-21-2010 02:34 PM
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• Officials Step Up Criticism of BP

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  Federal and local officials stepped up their criticism of BP as the oil company's own data suggested that far more than 5,000 barrels a day of crude is leaking into the Gulf of Mexico.
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  • 05-21-2010 01:49 PM
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• AP INVESTIGATION: Texas man faked way into Army

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  A Texas man with no military experience managed to trick the Army into letting him enter a reserve unit as a noncommissioned officer earlier this year, putting an untrained soldier in a leadership position in a time of war, an Associated Press investigation has found.
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  • 05-21-2010 11:29 AM
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• NAS: Urgent Action Needed On Climate Change

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  At the behest of Congress, the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering just completed a series of comprehensive reports on Climate Change. The science is compelling. The warnings are ominous. The need for action is urgent. The Los Angeles Times explains: In a sharp change from its cautious approach in the past, the National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for taxes on carbon emissions, a cap-and-trade program for such emissions
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  • 05-21-2010 09:29 AM
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• Oil Industry Weighs New Safety Measures

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  An oil-industry task force plans to recommend major changes to offshore safety procedures in the wake of the disastrous blowout of a BP well, according to a draft report. The recommendations include several safeguards that weren't in place aboard the Deepwater Horizon.
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  • 05-21-2010 08:14 AM
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