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- Hagel Recalls Most Defense Department Workers
- [Senator Harry] Reid: It’s "Cruel" to Keep Shutdown Going
- Obama Quietly Okays Military Aid to Countries That Use Child Soldiers
- Use of Force in Capitol Hill Shooting Debated
- Can Obama Disrupt the Shutdown Narrative?
- Dumbest Extortion Attempt Ever: Republican Scheme’s Perverse Logic
- Radioactive Water Streaming Out of Pennsylvania Fracking Waste Site
- Tea Party Wrecking Ball: Shutdown will stall home loans for thousands
- Mitch McConnell’s vanishing act due to Tea Party
- Congress Needs a Rest from The Dystopia It Has Created: Will Take Sunday Off
- Clinton: Shutdown shows "scorched earth" politics
- Andrew Sullivan: Racism Is At the Heart of the Government Shutdown
- Democrats Plan to Discharge GOP Bill to End Shutdown
- Lockheed Gets Set to Furlough 3,000 Workers on Shutdown
- Why Wendy Davis May Be Texas's Next Governor, Despite Conventional Wisdom -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Joe Conason | Drunk and Disorderly: How Republican Extremists Are Shredding Every Principle the GOP Claims to Uphold -- Joe Conason on BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Secret NSA documents show campaign against Tor encrypted network
- Charles Pierce: The Triumph of the RatF*cukers
- Oct. 5 “Day of Dignity”– Under threat of deportations, immigrants can’t wait
- Yes, the White House Is Winning
- American exceptionalism, according to Oliver Stone
- "Hillary Clinton says she'll probably start giving serious thought to another presidential run next year."
- Vietnamese general behind victories over French and US dies aged 102
- Tea Party Member Are Anarchists
- "A Corporate Trojan Horse": Obama Pushes Secretive TPP Trade Pact, Would Rewrite Swath of US Laws
- How A Rand Paul Republican From Alabama Learned To Love Obamacare
- VIDEO: The Anti-Boehner Ad You'll See During Football Games on Sunday
- Harry Reid: John Boehner 'A Coward'
- Charles P. Pierce | The Triumph of the Ratf**kers
- VIDEO: Jon Stewart: Blaming GOP for Shutdown Like "Blaming Floods on Water"
- Tom Corbett, Pennsylvania GOP Governor, Compares Gay Marriage To Incest
- Congressional Liberals Mobilize to Keep Social Security Out of Shutdown Talks
- The White Man’s Last Tantrum?
- Judd Legum on the GOP's Shutdown: Can I Burn Down Your House?
- Let Go of the Car, Mr. Speaker: Republicans in Congress are like a dog that chases cars and finally catches one.
- People eager for insurance, at times in tears, wanted to get coverage that they didn’t have before. They were calling up saying, 'Can I get my coverage today so I can see my doctor this afternoon?' he says. That is in one sense moving but also frustrating because, sure, you can sign up—but the coverage can’t be effective until Jan. 1.'
- How a Telecom Helped the Government Spy on Me
- Arctic Sea Ice and Al Gore's "Prediction 2013"
- Source: Schizophrenia Meds Found at Home of Woman in Capitol Shooting
- Eight Reasons Democrats Should Refuse a Shutdown "Grand Bargain"
- GOP Congressman: Massive Traffic To Obamacare Exchanges Was Members Of Congress And The Media. Derp.
- Report: Closed-Door GOP Meeting With Cruz Turned Into "Lynch Mob"
- This Vulture-Fund Billionaire Is the GOP's Go-To Guy on Wall Street
- Biden Calls Park Ranger Who Was Berated By GOP Congressman: 'I'm Proud Of You'
- Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC): "I need my paycheck. That's the bottom line."
- "Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietnamese general who masterminded victories against France and the US, has died aged 102."
- Obama: Social Security Checks Will Stop When Debt Ceiling is Reached
- Wendy Davis Is Running for Governor of Texas. Here's the Guy She Has to Beat.
- Constitution May Give Obama Options to Raise Debt Ceiling
- Happy Halloween From Ted Cruz
- FEMA Scrambles to Recall Workers Sent Home by GOP Shutdown to Protect Against Oncoming Hurricane
- US Indicts 13 Suspected Members of Hacker Group Anonymous
- Details Emerge on Woman at Center of Capitol Shooting Yesterday
- Rio Slum Pacification Police Accused of Torture, Murder
- Tom Hayden | Becoming Two Countries in 2014
- The Shutdown in 10 Infuriating Sentences
- The GOP's Shutdown Tab: One Billion Dollars and Counting
- GOP Hissy-Fit Hurts Federal Workers And Their Families
- OstroyReport: The Republican Version of Suicide Bombing
- Covered: Yes, People are Enrolling in Obamacare
- Of Women Under 50, Only 11 Percent Think GOP Is Moving in Their Direction -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Ted Cruz: The Despoiler. The Impaler. The President? -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Video Shows Police Chase In Front Of US Capitol
- William Rivers Pitt | Half the Republicans You Know Are Insane
- Shots Fired at Capitol in Washington DC, Considered an Isolated Incident. Female Shooter Killed.
- Furloughed EPA Workers Opt For Public Service
- Obamacare: The GOP's Waterloo
- Water 6,700 Times More Radioactive than Legal Limit Spills from Fukushima
- CA Governor Brown signs bill to give driving permits to those in U.S. illegally
- GOP Donors Revolt Against Republican-Led Government Shutdown
- Is Milk Still Milk?
- Arizona Man Accidentally Shoots and Kills Girlfriend While Hugging Her
- Businesses Often Opposed to Government Beg for Its Return
- "GOP Rep. bawls out Park Ranger, forces her to apologize for shutdown."
- America’s Government by Extortion
- Better Birth Control for Men: 8 Promising Possibilities
- Treasury Says Mere Prospect of Default Endangers Economy
- Obama Seizes on GOP Remarks to Blame Tea Party for Shutdown
- "German Olympic Uniforms Are Maybe Gay Political Statement." Maybe???
- VIDEO: Thomas Roberts EPIC Takedown of RNC's Reince Priebus On Shutdown
- Can Obama Disrupt the Shutdown Narrative?
- Fossil Fuel Army Versus the Planet: Battle Lines Are Drawn on Climate Change
- Radioactive Water Streaming Out of Pennsylvania Fracking Waste Site
- Meet Butch Matthews, A Republican Who Came To Love Obamacare After Realizing It'll Save Him $13,000
- Thirty Dreamers Cross US-Mexico Border as Immigration Battle Escalates
- Seattle Journalist Continues Exposing Cops who Threatened and Harassed him for Taking Pictures
- Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: Appeals Court Gives BP a Win in Settlement Dispute
- VIDEO: McConnell, Rand Paul Caught Talking Shutdown Strategy on Hot Mike
- House GOP Out of Ideas to End Impasse
- Charles P. Pierce | The Lonely War of Marlin Stutzman
- Near Fukushima, a Human Crisis Quietly Unfolds
- Ex-NSA Chief Jokes About Putting Edward Snowden on Kill List
- California Poised to Broaden Access to Abortions
- "Let the record show that five Republicans representing House districts in the Philadelphia region were among the first to crack during the great federal government shutdown drama of 2013."
- Park Service Rejects RNC’s Offer to Help Re-Open WWII Memorial
- GOP Governors Want End to Shutdown
- Report: Ted Cruz Blasted by Angry GOP Colleagues in Closed-Door Meeting
- Scores Die in Shipwreck Off Sicily
- Judge Orders Monitor in Ariz. Sheriff Profile Case
- NSA Chief Admits Testing US Cellphone Tracking
- Rand Paul: There’s No Reason to Raise the Debt Ceiling
- New Leak at Japan Nuke Plant Due to Tank Overflow
- Poll Confirms Americans Blame GOP For Shutdown
- DC-Area Restaurants Charging Congress Members More for Their Meals
- As FBI Pursued Snowden, an E-Mail Service Stood Firm
- Why the Shutdown Will Be So Hard to End, in One Perfect Quote
- CIA’s Mission in Syria: Train Moderate Rebels, but Not So Many That They Win
- Brazil’s Challenge to US Dominance
- Teabagger Shutdown is not a "Political Strategy," but Violation of Constitution, Duties & Oath
- NYTimes Again Ignores Israel’s Nukes
- Obama Sets Conditions For Talks: Pass Funding And Raise Debt Ceiling as Wednesday White House Dinner With Tea Party Terrorists Ends Without Ransom Being Paid
- GOP Tin Foil Hat Caucus Reps Get Paychecks for Putting Millions Out of Work -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Jim Hightower: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Is a Corporate Coup in Disguise -- Jim Hightower on BuzzFlash at Truthout
- The GOP Takes Its Clothes Off in Public: It's Not a Pretty Sight, Even for Some Republicans -- Steven Jonas MD, MPH for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- House GOP plans to keep funding parts of government
- It’s not just D.C. Here’s where the shutdown is hitting across the country (MAP)
- Dispatches From Nine Red States: Despite Tea Party Speeches, Web Glitches and Lousy Local Media, Many Residents Want Obamacare; the contrast between the politicians and public is stark.
- There Is No Such Thing as the Tea Party. There Is Only a Collection of Billionaires
- Virginia GOP Candidate for Governor Seen to Be Hurt by Fed Shutdown Because of All the Fed Workers Living in Northern Virginia
- Obama Summons Congressional Leaders to White House
- Dangerous levels of radiation from fracking found in PA water - Researchers found 200 times the normal amount of radium downstream of a treatment plant
- #Obamacare is in demand in CA: "It's like Obamacare just released a new iPhone."
- Profits and politics, plus a huge and sudden growth in secrecy-obsessed institutions, played key roles in misguided clearance decisions
- With 2.3 Million People Incarcerated in the US, Prisons Are Big Business: Meet the corporations who are profiting off our prison system.
- NSA had test project to collect data on Americans’ cellphone locations, director says
- Reid offers to talk tax reform if GOP ends federal shutdown
- How a Purse Snatching Led to the Legal Justification for NSA Domestic Spying
- People Love Obamacare ... As Long As You Don’t Say ‘Obama’ (VIDEO)
- Monsanto Buys a Silicon Valley Startup That Uses Government-Gathered Information to Sell Insurance to Farmers
- Proposed bill would pay workers for shutdown time
- Twenty Questions You Have About Obamacare but Are Too Afraid to Ask
- After Four Decades in Solitary, Dying Angola 3 Prisoner Herman Wallace Freed, Conviction Overturned (VIDEO)
- The GOP's Obamacare Suicide
- Congressional Radical Right-Wingers Relive Confederacy Fantasies: Federal shutdown has been a dream of GOP secessionists for decades.
- NSA Critics Not Welcome: Anti-Surveillance Activist Barred Entry from US
- "The Lawbreaking Is Ongoing": Louisiana Levee Board Sues BP, Exxon, Shell, Chevron for Coast Damage (VIDEO)
- With public money, private company paid to put security cameras around Brooklyn
- New radioactive leak reported at crippled Fukushima nuclear plant
- Why the Right’s Lemmings Don Suicide Vests
- From NSA Spying to Domestic Drones: A Round-Up of the Police State Programs NOT Affected by Government Shutdown
- How the government shutdown is tearing the GOP apart
- Which lawmakers will refuse their pay during the shutdown?
- Hidden Hand: How Heritage Action Drove DC to Shut Down
- Big Coal buries Obama’s renewable-friendly energy regulator
- Edward Snowden | The Work of a Generation
- Republicans wanted the shutdown all along, and Democrats have already lost the negotiations
- Robert Scheer | The Government Leakers Who Truly Endanger America Will Never Face Prosecution
- The Big Push: Putting Tar Sands Through Old Oil Pipelines
- Jon Stewart has had it with the GOP (VIDEO)
- Frackers Guzzle Water as Texas Goes Thirsty
- Why suicide rate among veterans may be more than 22 a day
- House rejects GOP's piecemeal spending bills (Video)
- Conservatives Celebrate Shutdown of Government They Hate
- Big Win for Immigrant Activists Who Staged Border-Crossing Protest in Laredo
- Four Companies Screwing Their Workers Out of Health Insurance as Health Care Exchanges Open
- Paul Krugman | The Economics and Politics of Chaos
- Supreme Court to Consider Gun Bans for Domestic Violence Convictions
- Japan fast-food chain to grow food 60 miles from wrecked nuclear plant
- Charles Pierce | The Reign of Morons Is Here
- Democracy Is Both the Target of and Solution to Right Wing 'Blackmail' - Just Ask California
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership: We Won't Be Fooled by Rigged Corporate Trade Agreements
- Yet Another Study Proves the War in Drugs Is Failing
- Multimillionaire Republican in government shutdown interview: ‘This is my idea of fun’
- The Washington Post closes sale to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
- Ruth Marcus: Military benefits hurdles add to victims’ abuse
- Federal Employees Suddenly Put Out of Work with No Prospect of Return
- Shutdown can’t stop lobbyists from their appointed rounds
- CNN Poll: Majority of Americans say raise debt ceiling
- Vladimir Putin nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
- Treasury Sets New Deadline for Debt Limit
- Andy Borowitz: "Millions of Tea Party loyalists fled the United States in the early morning hours today, seeking what one of them called 'the American dream of liberty from health care.'" (SATIRE)
- With Traditional GOP Allies Defecting, Big Business Takes Sides With Obama
- Obamacare Has Glitchy First Day
- Ezra Klein | Why Boehner doesn’t just ditch the hard right
- The Coming Domestic Drone Wars
- Maureen Dowd | John Boehner's Inner Monologue
- How Republicans snatched defeat from the jaws of victory
- The Cult of the Selfish: When did America lose sight of the common good?
- The charter school mistake: 'Reforming' schools by giving tax money to corporations is a distraction from the system's real problems - poverty and racial segregation.
- We Shall Overwhelm: A new book explores when and why America’s rich protest.
- US government audit reveals document over-classification, training deficiencies
- Why the Government Shutdown Is Another Example That Shows That the Right Wing Has a Problem With Democracy
- If Sabotage of the US Economy is Terrorism, Send the House GOP to Guantanamo -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- How the Religious Right Spreads Phony Stories of Religious Persecution of Christians in the Military -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Warm Enough for You? -- Eugene Robinson on BuzzFlash at Truthout
- William Rivers Pitt | The Fundraising Message That Ate America
- Head Start Preschoolers Told To Stay Home Due To Gov't Shutdown
- Republicans Lash Out At Media Coverage Of Shutdown
- House To Pass Bills To Reopen National Parks, VA, District of Columbia Government
- House Republicans Are Standing Firm, But Dissent Grows
- Yes, Despite the Tin Foil Hat GOP Tea Party Caucus, the Affordable Care Act Goes Into Full Swing Today
- Watch Rachel Maddow Reporting on the Shutdown and How the Radical Republicans Have Been Planning to Shut Down the Government for Years
- Obama: Obamacare Is not "What's Weighing on the Economy"
- 48 Ways a Government Shutdown Will Screw You Over
- House Leaders Seize on Cruz's Idea to End Shutdown
- The Shutdown Party
- "The president placed blame on what he called a right-wing faction of the GOP for targeting Obamacare in return for approving a short-term budget."
- Charles P. Pierce | The Reign of Morons Is Here
- Rand Paul: "We haven’t had a big debate about Obamacare." He's Right, Except for the 46 House Votes to Defund It, a Supreme Court Decision and a Presidential Election.
- Report: Veterans Storm Closed WWII Memorial
- Nearly 1,000 Iraqis Killed in September
- Report: Boehner Secretly Fought To Preserve Heath Care Subsidies For Congressional Staff
- Republicans Win Standoff, Shoot Hostages Anyway
- Democrats Mull Divulging Emails With Boehner Staff as Shutdown Fight Gets Personal
