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Days after the 1996 Olympic Park bombing, media and federal investigators focused on their top suspect: Richard Jewell , the security guard who had first discovered the bomb which killed one and injured 111. It took more than a year for Jewell to clear his name; he would successfully sue several outets for their coverage but remained haunted by the memory of the reporters who went after him “like piranha on a bleeding cow” for years. In the 24 hours following yesterday’s tragic bombings at the Boston Marathon, several right-wing media figures have attempted to create their own Jewell. Echoing the same piranha-like voraciousness seen in that case, they have published the name, home address, and what they claim are Facebook pictures of a 20-year-old Saudi national that police have since identified as a witness — not a suspect — to the Boston bombings

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Louisville’s Kevin Ware after breaking his leg Sunday By now, the entire nation is familiar with the gruesome broken leg University of Louisville basketball player Kevin Ware suffered in the first half of the Cardinals’ win over Duke in the NCAA Tournament’s Midwest regional final. Ware is lucky: his surgery went well and, according to Louisville’s team doctor, he’ll be able to return to the court in the future (incidentally, the injury is almost identical to the one suffered by Louisville running back Michael Bush, who returned to play in the NFL, in 2006)

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In 1977, the Supreme Court upheld a decision holding that it is unconstitutional to treat college students any differently than other voters in terms of residency requirements to vote. Three and a half decades later, some Republican lawmakers are still trying to prevent college students from voting

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Last week’s radical federal appeals court ruling that called into question hundreds of presidential recess appointments made over the last 150 years is already taking a toll. While the decision finding unconstitutional President Obama’s appointment last January of three members to the National Labor Relations Board invalidated just one particular NLRB decision, a hospital chain declared this week that the ruling exempts them from all NLRB rulings over the last year, and is refusing to comply with rulings that require them to collect dues from union members, according to a Reuters exclusive : Prime Healthcare was not a party in the cases involving union dues and internal investigations

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Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) distanced himself from his party’s effort to rig the election by appropriating electoral votes based on gerrymandered Congressional districts, telling MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Friday that he opposes the effort. Republican party leaders in Virginia , Pennsylvania , Wisconsin , and Michigan have proposed legislation that would change how most electoral votes are allocated, awarding more electoral votes to the winner of individual Congressional districts , rather than the winner of the state as a whole.

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In recent weeks, media outlets have focused heavily on current budget negotiations regarding automatic tax hikes and spending cuts set to take effect on January 1, 2013 if an alternative agreement is not reached.

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New Approach to Mapping Plant Hardiness Zones Accounts for Effects of Climate Change City College of New York news release A map of warming across the nation showing how much USDA plant hardiness zones will warm, in degrees Farhenheit. (Credit: Nir Krakauer) Gardeners and landscapers may want to rethink their fall tree plantings

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Football is upon us again. The college football season kicked off over Labor Day weekend (it wasn’t a good start for this Kentucky Wildcats fan), and the NFL season will start in New York tonight, when the reigning world champion New York Giants take on the Dallas Cowboys. It has been seven months since we last saw football, but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been a bevy of gridiron news over the offseason.

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Mitt Romney’s sister assured “Women for Mitt” that if her brother is elected President, he won’t pursue the anti-abortion policies he espouses on the campaign trail.

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As the mainstream press frets that the much-touted “economic-recovery” appears to have lost steam, the economic crisis continues to escalate for ordinary people. With official unemployment holding steady at 9.5 percent (real unemployment is much higher), and with the state budget cuts producing yet more tuition increases, a growing phenomenon is sweeping the nation: homeless and hungry college students.

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