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Stop celebrating our falling deficits

It’s time to stop celebrating last week’s Congressional Budget Office report. Our deficits aren’t dropping because we’re doing something right. They’re dropping because we’re doing everything wrong. My initial piece on the CBO report led with the surprising news that … Continue reading

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How to Stop the FBI From Reading Your Email

Despite the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unlawful searches, federal agencies do not necessarily need a warrant to read emails older than six months.

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The GOP may kill immigration reform over gay rights. The Supreme Court could stop them.

Though some members of the Republican party have been moving rapidly to support LGBT rights and in particular equal marriage, the shift has been far from universal. And as my colleague David Nakamura reported the other day, that could pose … Continue reading

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Small bombs fail to stop first Iraq vote since US exit

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Small-scale bomb attacks failed to prevent Iraqis voting on Saturday in the first nationwide elections since the last U.S. troops left more than a year ago.

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Leeds child heart ops ‘had to stop’

The medical director of the NHS defends the suspension of child heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary while a safety review is carried out.

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John Kerry asks Iraq to stop arms to Syria

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Secretary of State John Kerry made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Sunday and said he told Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of his concern about Iranian flights over Iraq carrying arms to Syria.

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UPDATE 4-Bulgaria PM pledges power price cut to stop protests

* Bulgaria moves to revoke CEZ’s power distribution licence

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Mother loses UK legal fight to stop son’s cancer radiotherapy

LONDON (Reuters) – A mother in Britain, who was so desperate to stop her cancer-stricken son having to undergo conventional medical treatment that she went into hiding with him, lost a court battle on Friday to prevent him receiving radiotherapy.

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Why the unemployment rate might soon stop falling

Over the past year, the U.S. unemployment rate has fallen rapidly, from 8.7 percent last November to 7.7 percent today. But a new paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco suggests that this decline could soon stall out. … Continue reading

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Want to slow the collapse of Arctic sea ice? Stop flying over the North Pole.

As the world keeps warming up, sea ice in the Arctic has been disintegrating rapidly. It’s reached the point where scientists are now debating whether it will take four years or 40 before we start seeing ice-free summers up north. … Continue reading

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