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A couple of weeks back, Libertarian billionaires the Koch brothers got the feature treatment in The New Yorker , which investigated the family's $100 million in donations to right-wing causes such as killing health-care reform and spiking President Barack Obama's stimulus plan. Just last week, the family oil company, Flint Hills Resources, pumped a cool $1 million into the campaign for Proposition 23 —which would suspend California's efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions (also known as Assembly Bill 32  

Spate of anti-Muslim attacks arouse fears in America as Islamaphobia spins out of control. A spate of anti-Muslim attacks is arousing fears that a vitriolic debate over Islam in America is spinning out of control as the United States marks the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. While statistics confirming a trend toward violence are elusive, analysts, religious leaders, and Muslim community activists say anti-Muslim sentiment has reached a pitch not seen since Al-Qaeda hijackers killed nea  

The nation's health care tab will go up - not down - as a result of President Barack Obama's sweeping overhaul. That's the conclusion of a government forecast released Thursday, which also finds the increase will be modest. The average annual growth in health care spending will be just two-tenths of 1 percentage point higher through 2019 with Obama's remake, said the analysis.  

Now there is anger over a Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Qur'an. Caught up in it all is President Barack Obama, who would rather be talking about something — anything — else. Two months before the fall elections, when Obama is trying to convince Americans that Democrats are squarely focused on the economy, the last thing he needed was another heated disturbance flap about Muslims, churning up lingering doubts among some Americans about Obama's religious sympathies and his resolve against  

The so-called "birther bill" won initial approval from the House of Representatives on Monday, advancing legislation that would require presidential candidates to produce a birth certificate before they can make the ballot in Arizona. The legislation originated from a fringe group that believes President Barack Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States and therefore ineligible to be president. Rep. Judy Burges amended Senate Bill 1024 to include a requirement that Arizona's Secretary of  

Politically weakened but refusing to bend, President Barack Obama insisted Wednesday that George W. Bush-era tax cuts be cut off for the wealthiest Americans, joining battle with Republicans, and some fellow Democrats, just two months before bruising midterm elections. Singling out House GOP leader John Boehner in his home state, Obama delivered a searing attack on Republicans for advocating "the same philosophy that led to this mess in the first place: Cut more taxes for millionaires and cut more rules  

The Tea Party Express is asking supporters to raise $250,000 for its preferred candidate in Delaware's contentious Senate primary. Wierzbicki called Castle a liberal and a "RINO," or a Republican in Name Only. National Republicans are backing Castle and have worked to discredit O'Donnell, citing her personal financial troubles and inaccuracies on her resume. Tea party-style activists have only grown more emboldened with the mounting criticism.  

A sharply divided federal appeals court on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit challenging a controversial post-Sept. 11 CIA program that flew terrorism suspects to secret prisons. The complaint was filed by five terrorism suspects who were arrested shortly after 9/11 and say they were flown by a Boeing Co. subsidiary to prisons around the world where they were tortured. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals cited national security risks when it dismissed the men's case in a 6-5 ruling Wednesday.  

President Barack Obama today underlined his determination to end tax incentives for companies that create jobs overseas, saying he will provide a generous tax credit to companies that create more jobs in the US. Amid indication that outsourcing could become a hot issue in the November elections, Obama said the tax breaks should go to companies that create jobs in the US and not overseas. "One of the keys to job creation is to encourage companies to invest more in the United States. But for years, our