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The Obama administration's nominee for the next U.S. ambassador to Iraq has run into new opposition thanks to the publication of some racy e-mails suggesting an affair with a Wall Street Journal reporter while both worked in Baghdad.

The Obama administration's nominee for the next U.S. ambassador to Iraq has run into new opposition thanks to the publication of some racy e-mails suggesting an affair with a Wall Street Journal reporter while both worked in Baghdad.

RT | 'Pentagon sanitizes movies to make Americans warlike'

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- For years, companies have been chipping away at workers' pensions. Now, two California cities may help pave the way for governments to follow suit....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- For years, companies have been chipping away at workers' pensions. Now, two California cities may help pave the way for governments to follow suit....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- For years, companies have been chipping away at workers' pensions. Now, two California cities may help pave the way for governments to follow suit....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- For years, companies have been chipping away at workers' pensions. Now, two California cities may help pave the way for governments to follow suit....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- For years, companies have been chipping away at workers' pensions. Now, two California cities may help pave the way for governments to follow suit....

England's hopes of a series whitewash are frustrated as West Indies reach 280-8 on day three of the rain-hit third Test.

Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel takes pole position at Montreal, ahead of McLaren's Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso.

Maria Sharapova says winning the French Open is a bigger achievement than claiming her first Grand Slam at Wimbledon as a 17-year-old in 2004.

Denmark produced the first major surprise of Euro 2012 as Morten Olsen's side secured a 1-0 win over World Cup finalists Netherlands in Kharkiv.

MADRID (AP) -- Spain will ask for a bank bailout from the eurozone, becoming the fourth and largest country to seek help since the single currency bloc's debt crisis erupted....

SAN DIEGO (AP) — For years, companies have been chipping away at workers' pensions. Now, two California cities may help pave the way for governments to follow suit.

Voters in San Diego and San Jose, the nation's eighth- and 10th-largest cities, overwhelmingly approved ballot measures last week to roll back ...

The battle continues:

A coalition led by farmers and ranchers is using a last-minute strategy to stop USDA’s new Animal Disease Traceability (ADT) program. The groups involved are using economic grounds - especially the added costs that animal identification will impose on rural America.

In a 9-page letter to the Executive Office of Management and Budget, a unit of the White House, the sixteen organizations in the coalition say animal traceability could cost the U.S. cattle industry more than $1 billion a year.
-FoodSafetyNews

Once again government wants to put the blame and financial burden on the small farmers with no compensations or benefit while not solving any actual problem. NAIS/ADT is really about export markets and profits for big producers. If they want a system of tracking then they should create their own private voluntary system, not one funded by tax payers. We small farmers don’t need NAIS/ADT. We know where are animals are and can trace them from breeding to the customer’s plate without any government “help.”

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CNet | UN considering a new Internet tax targeting the largest Web content providers.

Forbes | The Joggobot, a companion robot for runners.

Politico | More than 150 techies for Obama are quietly peeling back the layers of your life.

The 2012 tournament's surprise package, Italian Errani, never came up with an answer to Maria Sharapova's strategy of power and unerring ball placement.

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- You know a friendship has gone sour when you start making mean jokes about your friend in front of his most bitter nemesis....