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Baghdad (Reuters) -An Iraqi Journalist who threw his shoes at former U.S. President George W. Bush was arrested by security forces in Baghdad Thursday for encouraging people to rally for better services. A relative of Muntazer al-Zaidi said the …

Democratic senators delaying a vote on an anti-union bill in the US state of Wisconsin have avoided police sent to find them. Republicans sent state patrol officers to the homes of Democrats who have fled the state to deny the Senate a quorum for …

Air Pollution triggers more Heart Attacks than Cocaine use, a recent study finds. While Cocaine users certainly shouldn't be celebrating, people living in cities with high Pollution levels should be concerned. Tim Nawrot of Hasselt University le…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama Administration's key Housing Market rescue programs have landed on the chopping block as the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committees scheduled a vote next week to terminate them. The…

INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Indiana House Democrats stayed away from their desks for a second day on Wednesday in an attempt to block a proposed law curbing union power, prompting Gov. Mitch Daniels to say they were showing "complete contempt" for th…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - State lawmaker Sharon Cissna was little known outside Alaska when she left on a trip to Seattle, but when she returned home on Thursday, she had become a symbol of resistance to airport Patdown searches. The 68 year-…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the House of Representatives want to make deep Spending Cuts of $4 billion as part of a stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown, a senior aide said on Wednesday. The two parties need to agree on a …

"Two weeks and roughly $4 billion (in Spending Cuts) would be reasonable to expect," a House Republican aide told Reuters. The Senate would then have to consider the Legislation. Democrats who control that chamber have been saying that there need…