At the height of the U.S. housing boom, when building materials were in short supply, American construction companies used millions of pounds of Chinese-made drywall because it was abundant and cheap.
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Pair accused of taking $2.6 million in payoff to put away young offenders
Warren Buffet may be the last of the giants of the business world that is still seen nearly unanimously as a statesman, a corporate citizen, and a man who will not claw over the less-fortunate for his own gain.
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Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel said his party's vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, lacks foreign policy experience and called it a "stretch" to say she's qualified to be president.
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The European Union's foreign policy chief says he believes Russia and China are "quite worried" about a new IAEA report that says Iran has blocked efforts to investigate its nuclear program.
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Matt Damon says the selection of Sarah Palin as the Republican nominee for vice president could end up "like a really bad Disney movie" if John McCain wins the November presidential election.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The number of women in many top jobs and positions of power has fallen, with progress on equality moving at a "snail's pace", a report said on Thursday.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a "task that is from God."
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The Securities and Exchange Commission moved Wednesday to allow some large American companies to begin using international accounting standards as early as next year, and to require all American companies to do so by 2016.
I am very happy to announce that after several months of planning and collaboration between Newsvine users and staff, msnbc.com, NBC News and convention organizers - Newsvine will be sending several of our best contributors to both the Democratic National Convention and the Repub …
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By day, the engineers work on NASA's new Ares moon rockets. By night, some go undercover to work on a competing design. These dissenting scientists and their backers insist they have created an alternative rocket that would be safer, cheaper and easier to build than the two Ares spacecraft that will replace the space shuttle.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton fulfilled a pledge to a young supporter by speaking at the teenager's high school graduation on Sunday.
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On paper, the Democrats' nomination of Barack Obama is a gift to the Christian right.
Sens. John McCain and Chuck Hagel have long been friends. Fellow Republicans and Vietnam War veterans, their Senate offices are just across the hall from each other.
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Dunkin' Donuts pulled a television spot featuring talk show host and Food Network personality Rachael Ray this weekend after a Fox news commentator associated it with terrorists.
Now this is hilarious. The "consensus" scientists are now saying that global warming caused by humans may stop for a decade while natural variation takes hold. Uh huh.
As the legend goes, when the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortez landed in what is now Mexico in 1519, he ordered the boats that brought him and his men there to be burned. Obama seems to have something similar planned for NASA.
The master teacher, who visits the U.S. this week, has begun an unprecedented interaction with Islam, writes Newsweek contributor George Weigel. Discuss: Is Pope Benedict XVI starting a religious revolution? Do you feel personally influenced by him?
A secretly buried jersey that was supposed to start a curse has instead become a goodwill gesture between longtime baseball rivals.
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Davis: I don't know what you have against God, but some of us don't have much against him. We look forward to him and his blessings. And it's really a tragedy -- it's tragic -- when a person who is engaged in anything related to God, they want to fight.
About a year ago, we learned in jaw-dropping detail about the questions asked of those seeking employment at Bush's Justice Department.
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Under Bush's plan, the Corp. for Public Broadcasting, a private nonprofit that distributes the funds to local stations, would lose $420 million of the $820 million in federal funds it was set to receive over the next two years.
How can we expect anyone to care about melting glaciers in the abstract when even in the face of their stupendous presence we remain careless?
''Palestinian refugees belong in their own state and do not have a "literal" right of return to Israel, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Monday.
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