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• “Darwin Day” pushed in House
• Immigration reform fight begins in earnest
• Boy Scouts might drop anti-gay clause
• Fear, then hope for an immigrant family
• Report challenges anti-immigrant "enforcement first" calls
• Ten of the worst things said in 2012
• GOP senators stop treaty on disabled rights
• Largest ever gathering of undocumented youth held
• “Red Dawn” a disappointing remake
• “Latino voters have a check to cash” for immigration reform
• In Massachusetts, Warren race a ground operation
• NAACP continues campaign to restore ex-felons’ voting rights
• Census highlights Manufacturing Day
• Census: America becoming more urbanized
• Citizens United pays to air anti-Obama film
• Florida’s economy lags behind nation; low wages contribute
• Shadowy Republican Super PAC to spend millions on GOTV
• Coalition will educate youth on new immigration rules
• Hiroshima, Nagasaki anniversaries marked around the world
• Romney lags among Jewish voters, offends Palestinians too
• Florida voters support immigration reform
• Washington State “likes” Facebook voter registration
• Florida voters back Stand Your Ground, disagree over application
• During outbreak, Florida shuts only TB facility
• Obama builds commanding lead among Latinos
• Florida asks: Democracy or voter purges?
• Activists applaud Obama, renew push for DREAM Act
• Obama ends threat of deportation for one million
• DREAM Act has majority support, but not Rubio “plan”
• Outrage over Olympic corporate sponsors erupting around the world
• Coalition steps up fight against Alabama anti-immigrant law
• Massachusetts: job creation up, unemployment down
• Thousands wrongly convicted
• Report from space: Earth in trouble
• New report: Obesity fight requires national effort
• Do wind farms really cause global warming?
• Study shows tea party not what it pretends to be
• Controversial new president inherits changing World Bank
• Global warming does not benefit plants: new study
• Stand Your Ground: Self-protection or vigilante justice?
• Supreme Court authorizes “serious invasions of privacy”
• "The Hunger Games" better than expected
• New revelation critical in Trayvon Martin case
• Atheists also fight for religious freedom
• Foxhole atheists score victories, fight on
• Feds to investigate killing of Trayvon Martin
• N.Y. archbishop fights child abuse legislation
• "Largest secular rally in world history" planned for D.C.
• Obama directive removes harshest provisions of the NDAA
• Santorum's pro-ignorance populism could doom America
• Fracking cited as cause of Youngstown, Ohio, earthquake
• North Korean leader Kim Jong Il dead
• Despite attack ads, Elizabeth Warren gains steam (with video)
• Barney Frank retires, leaving a strong progressive legacy
• Big changes in the Catholic liturgy
• Environmentalists claim victory in Tar Sands fight
• More elderly are poor; net worth for young people worsens
• Study: Public employee pensions a bargain
• College costs, public and private, continue to rise
• Shocking report shows tax break created no jobs
• U.S. Senate apologizes for Chinese Exclusion Act
• California inmates resume hunger strike
• Progressive Democrat vies to take back Kennedy seat
• Report: Transgendered blacks highly victimized
• Close race for Weiner's Congress seat
• Veto of “voter ID” law upheld in New Hampshire
• Hundreds arrested in pro-environment civil disobedience
• Tea party tries to stop hurricane cleanup
• Small movement on Korea nuclear issue
• The kids aren't all right, new report shows
• “Historic victory”: Insurance companies must cover birth control
• Texas education board votes in favor of reason
• Harry Potter and the tide of history
• Casey Anthony release offers some lessons
• Casey Anthony verdict upholds justice system
• In conservative New England state, voter ID vetoed
• As Americans take desperate measures, physicians affirm support for mandate
• FBI rules changes provoke Senate inquiry
• World’s domestic workers win historic victory
• Obama scores high approval rating, but not in all areas
• Democrats score first big victory since 2010 defeats
• Followers of rapture evangelist lost millions
• New Florida election rules would disenfranchise many
• Trapped in history: “Cave of Forgotten Dreams”
• Anti-immigrant bill could hurt Florida tourism
• Florida labor fights “paycheck protection”
• Class of 2011 faces worst jobs crisis ever recorded
• Recall fight makes history in Wisconsin
• Scientists to look at Big Bang
• Millions forced to work while sick
• Americans tire of "free market," says poll
• “Fired up” Obama begins 2012 campaign
• Poll: Americans side with public workers and their unions
• Foxhole atheists fight for right to rock
• Carter calls for Cuban 5 release, end to blockade
• Carter in Cuba to meet with Raúl Castro
• Republicans reject climate change
• Nation's largest public college to offer free tuition
• Scientists suggest reason for religion's decline
• Belarus and European Union enact mutual bans
• UN okays "all necessary measures" against Gaddafi
• "Communism" gains ground among Americans
• Miami labor sees recall as "democracy for sale"
• Miami protests anti-immigrant bills
• Islam hearings assailed as "un-American"
• Floridians to governor: You’ve got a fight on your hands
• Bishops support collective bargaining
• New poll: Americans disagree with Republicans on Social Security, Medicare
• Unemployment compensation could add billions more to Fla. economy
• Women take lead in fight for jobs
• Ten Commandments and public square don't mix
• Fort Mose: early marker in African American freedom movement
• Atheism grows among youth, high school students
• Florida tea party governor rejects Obama's rail funds
• Cop found not guilty in slaying of African American youth
• Too many teachers reject or ignore evolution
• Nuclear treaty makes fresh START for peace
• Cuomo budget axe chops health care, education
• Demonstrations, nationwide strike rock Egypt, world labor voices solidarity
• New York show of solidarity with Egypt
• Massachusetts aims to curb modern-day slavery
• Rabbis denounce ‘hundreds’ of Fox News Holocaust remarks
• Push to regulate firearms gains steam
• Rotten Apple: iPod sweatshops hidden in China
• UN human rights body should be defended
• Workers celebrate victory over Starbucks
• MTV premiers "Skins"
• Fearing witch hunt, Muslims denounce planned hearings
• This is a heat wave, at least in the long term
• Cuomo-friendly business group launches ad campaign
• Wal-Mart job-killing "Trojan horse," says new report
• NY governor bans fracking - for now
• Are immigrants good for America?
• “Four Lions”: comedy about would-be terrorists
• Nelson Mandela's conversations - a review
• Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows, darkest and best of series yet
• Labor journalists gather in Washington
• U.S. official: We need independent labor media
• LGBT students bullied - by their schools
• Residents protest “Brighton Beach” stereotypes
• CEO, with no education background, to run NYC schools
• Fans count down to Olbermann’s return
• Working Families Party wins big in New York
• Key Obama ally re-elected in Massachusetts
• New York election map still blue
• Charges of coverup, racism in police shooting
• Stewart and Colbert draw mammoth crowd with many messages
• New York poised to reject tea party Paladino
• Why Glenn Beck is wrong on evolution
• In New York governor race, there's the serious and the fringe