Mortgage help: 170,000 get permanent aid

More than 170,000 troubled homeowners are breathing a lasting sigh of relief now that they’ve received permanent modifications under the Obama administration’s foreclosure prevention program.

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Acapulco Beheadings & "Most Inappropriate Photo with Story"

Saw this on Fark. Photo: Does that dude have boobs? Story: Drug-related violence left 25 people dead Saturday (local time) in Mexico’s southern Guerrero state, including four people who were decapitated. Two bodies of decapitated men were found overnight on Scenic Avenue in downtown Acapulco and the two decapitations were found west…

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Mexico gunmen kill American consulate staff

Gunmen in the drug war-plagued Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez killed two Americans and a Mexican linked to the local U.S. consulate, an attack U.S. President Barack Obama said “outraged” him.

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Amazon picks Colorado to stage tax fight

In Colorado, the situation is different. The state’s new law doesn’t link paying the tax to the presence of affiliates; instead, it requires out-of-state retailers to help enforce collection of the 2.9 percent state tax that online consumers in Colorado are technically supposed to pay already, though few know about it or do it.

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Monsanto Critics Get Unusual Platform

Crop biotechnology giant Monsanto goes under a microscope Friday at Justice Department hearings on concentration in U.S. agriculture.

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Will the NAACP take on "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell"?

The NAACP needs to bring in a younger cadre of activists whose post-civil-rights-era upbringing has left them both more comfortable with and more committed to the idea of gay rights than their elders. No one is suggesting any of this will be easy. Sadly, the struggle for equality and justice hardly ever is.

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Obama aide: Israeli Settlement Action "An Insult"

“This was an affront, it was an insult but most importantly it undermined this very fragile effort to bring peace to that region,” said David Axelrod, one of President Barack Obama’s closest advisers.

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The Ins & Outs of the Upcoming Energy and Climate Bill

Most of the news media is calling any inclusion of a price on carbonemissions impossible but it’s clear that the authors of the bill,along with President Obama are forging ahead with their proposals onemissions. Senator Graham noted on Tuesday that Obama deserves creditfor including nuclear power and clean coal technology in his proposal.

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Rochester Hills apologizes for referring to Muslim as ‘dogs’

An Albanian priest from Detroit is apologizing for comments made in 2007 where he referred to some Muslims as “dogs.”Friar Anton Kcira delivered a sermon in Albanian at the St. Paul Albanian Parish in Auburn Hills. (The Albanian-language video is above.) Video of the sermon quickly spread around YouTube.

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How to Take a Stand With Your Money

Unhappy with the culture on Wall Street? Angered by the behavior of the banking giants? Then move your money to a community bank or credit union.

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