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		<title>How conservative links helped ACORN &#8216;pimp and hooker&#8217; undercover videos became big news</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Pritchard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — Much of America discovered James O&#8217;Keefe III and Hannah Giles through their hidden-camera, make-believe pimp and prostitute videos of ACORN employees giving advice about establishing a brothel with underage hookers.

But as far back as 2006 — well before the videos became a national sensation and conservative rallying cry — the fresh-faced O&#8217;Keefe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice Dept. inspector general tells lawmaker he&#8217;s reviewing ACORN&#8217;s role with agency</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — An internal watchdog at the Justice Department said Monday he was reviewing the agency&#8217;s involvement with the activist group ACORN.

ACORN has come under fire for a hidden camera video involving a couple posing as a prostitute and her pimp. On the video, two ACORN workers apparently advise the couple to lie about her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama: Actions in ACORN video &#8216;inappropriate,&#8217; favors investigation into scandal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says there should be an investigation into the hidden-camera video involving employees at the activist group ACORN and a couple posing as a prostitute and her pimp.

The two ACORN workers are seen apparently advising the couple to lie about her profession and launder her earnings to get housing aid.
The video [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama: ACORN video &#8216;inappropriate,&#8221; favors investigation into community group&#8217;s activities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says there should be an investigation into the hidden-camera video involving employees at the activist group ACORN and a couple posing as a prostitute and her pimp. The two ACORN workers are seen apparently advising the couple to lie about her profession and launder her earnings to get housing aid.

The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACORN grew from local charity to national conglomerate with radio stations, schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Theimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Activist group ACORN started in 1970 to help poor people in Arkansas and by decade&#8217;s end went national, expanding into a multimillion-dollar conglomerate with a mission so far-flung that schools now bear its name, two radio stations are affiliates and a man its political arm endorsed is the president. Oh yeah — and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fox News Channel ads taunting rival networks draws return fire; CNN&#8217;s Sanchez: &#8216;you lie&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Elber</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — Fox News Channel&#8217;s competitors fired back Friday at the network over ads in three major newspapers claiming Fox alone covered last weekend&#8217;s protest in Washington, D.C.

&#8220;How Did ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN Miss This Story?&#8221; was the headline on the full-page ads that ran Friday. The headline is superimposed over photos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House votes to deny all federal funds for ACORN in GOP-led strike on embattled group</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Abrams</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The House voted Thursday to deny all federal funds for ACORN in a GOP-led strike against the scandal-tainted community organizing group that comes just three days after the Senate took similar action. &#8220;ACORN has violated serious federal laws, and today the House voted to ensure that taxpayer dollars would no longer be used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Roll Call: How they voted on ACORN defunding</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 345-75 roll call Thursday by which the House amended the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 to deny all federal funds to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, commonly known as ACORN.

A &#8220;yes&#8221; vote was a vote to pass the amendment.
Voting yes were 172 Democrats and 173 Republicans.
Voting no were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House votes to cut off all federal funds to ACORN</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The House voted Thursday to deny all federal funds for ACORN in a GOP-led strike against the scandal-tainted community organizing group that comes just three days after the Senate took similar action.

&#8220;ACORN has violated serious federal laws, and today the House voted to ensure that taxpayer dollars would no longer be used to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACORN plans internal investigation, will suspend additions to service programs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Theimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The community organizing group ACORN said Wednesday it is ordering an independent investigation after its employees were caught on camera appearing to advise a couple posing as a prostitute and pimp to lie about the woman&#8217;s profession to get housing help.

The group, which came under fire from conservatives for alleged voter fraud in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nebraska GOP Sen. Johanns calls for Justice probe of ACORN</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Thomas</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A Republican lawmaker on Tuesday urged the Justice Department to investigate ACORN, a community organization under fire for several voter-registration fraud cases.

Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., wrote Attorney General Eric Holder requesting the investigation. He cited reports that ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, may &#8220;have been engaged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACORN blasts video of 2 of its workers telling woman posing as prostitute to lie about her job</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Two employees of the advocacy group ACORN are shown on a hidden-camera video released Monday, apparently advising a couple posing as a prostitute and her pimp to lie about her profession and launder her earnings.

The video was the latest in a series that has already led to the firing of four ACORN [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In wake of hidden camera scandal, Senate votes to deny funds to ACORN</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Monday to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN, a community organization under fire in several voter-registration fraud cases.

The 83-7 vote would deny housing and community grant funding to ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
The action came as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citing negative publicity, Census Bureau severs partnership with ACORN in 2010 head count</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/citing-negative-publicity-census-bureau-severs-partnership-with-acorn-in-2010-head-count-166345/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hope Yen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Census Bureau on Friday severed its ties with ACORN, a community organization that has been hit with Republican accusations of voter-registration fraud.

&#8220;We do not come to this decision lightly,&#8221; Census director Robert Groves wrote in a letter to ACORN, which was obtained by The Associated Press.
In splitting with ACORN, Groves sought to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACORN fires 2 workers seen in hidden-camera footage advising woman posing as prostitute</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BALTIMORE — The group ACORN has fired two employees who were seen on hidden-camera video giving tax advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman who pretended to be a prostitute.

Fox News Channel broadcast excerpts from the video Thursday. On the video, a man and woman visiting ACORN&#8217;s Baltimore office asked about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report finds only 9 pct of homeowners getting help; 10 mortgage companies haven&#8217;t helped any</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Zibel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The government&#8217;s $50 billion program to ease the mortgage crisis is helping only a tiny fraction of struggling homeowners, and a list released Tuesday showed which lenders are laggards.

As of July, only 9 percent of eligible borrowers had seen their mortgage payments reduced with modified loans. And the first monthly progress report showed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can shame boost Obama administration&#8217;s effort to stem foreclosure crisis?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Zibel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Obama administration wants to shame the mortgage industry into doing a better job of helping borrowers avoid losing their homes to foreclosure.

By publishing the names of companies that are lagging behind in the government&#8217;s plan to ease the housing crisis, officials are counting on public outrage to get the industry on track. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Officials ramp up pressure on mortgage companies after sluggish start to foreclosure program</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/officials-ramp-up-pressure-on-mortgage-companies-after-sluggish-start-to-foreclosure-program-123232/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Wagner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, scrambling to get its main housing initiative on track, extracted a pledge from 25 mortgage company executives to improve their efforts to assist borrowers in danger of foreclosure.

In an all-day series of meetings Tuesday at the Treasury Department, government officials reached a verbal agreement with the executives for a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ants more rational than humans in taking decisions in groups</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - When it comes to  decision-making  in groups, ants turn out to be more rational than humans,  according to a study conducted by researchers from Arizona State University and Princeton University.

However, the study&#8221;s architects-Stephen Pratt and Susan Edwards-say that the findings do not mean that humans are &#8220;stupider&#8221; than ants, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACORN, ACLU file federal lawsuit to strike down Pa. law regulating voter-registration workers</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/acorn-aclu-file-federal-lawsuit-to-strike-down-pa-law-regulating-voter-registration-workers-117476/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/acorn-aclu-file-federal-lawsuit-to-strike-down-pa-law-regulating-voter-registration-workers-117476/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Mandak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PITTSBURGH — The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and the American Civil Liberties Union have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to strike down a state law used to prosecute voter-registration workers who allegedly employed a quota system in the Pittsburgh area.

Wednesday&#8217;s lawsuit names Attorney General Tom Corbett and county District Attorney Stephen Zappala [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate confirms Obama&#8217;s nominee to lead the high-stakes 2010 census over GOP objections</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hope Yen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama&#8217;s nominee to be census director was approved Monday by the Senate, ending weeks of opposition from a pair of Republicans over his role in next year&#8217;s high-stakes count.

The voice vote confirming Robert Groves, a veteran survey researcher at the University of Michigan, came after supporters urged action so that Groves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYC Hispanic rights group&#8217;s links to Sotomayor fodder for GOP criticism before hearings</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/nyc-hispanic-rights-groups-links-to-sotomayor-fodder-for-gop-criticism-before-hearings-106605/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deepti Hajela</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Cesar Perales has fought his share of critics over the years, in legal battles for minorities denied jobs, bilingual classes in schools and more Latino police officers.

But none of those efforts compares with the tempest his Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund has stirred because of the dozen years that Supreme [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advocacy groups sue in hopes of forcing states to increase low-income voter registration</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nedra Pickler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — States across the country are violating part of the federal &#8220;motor voter&#8221; law requiring voter registration help for low-income residents, according to a coalition of advocacy groups trying to force change through the courts.

The groups filed lawsuits in Indiana and New Mexico on Thursday on the heels of a successful settlement in Missouri. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP sources: Puerto Rican advocacy group sends documents to Senate panel evaluating Sotomayor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A Puerto Rican legal advocacy group late Tuesday sent a trove of documents from Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor&#8217;s past to the Senate panel considering her nomination.

Latino Justice PRLDEF sent the Judiciary Committee more than 350 pages of documents from the 12 years Sotomayor spent on its board, opening what could be an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small family-owned amusement parks offer affordable fun</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MIDDLEBURY, Conn. — If you can&#8217;t afford to take the kids to one of the big theme parks this summer, find out if there are any smaller, family-owned parks nearby. You may be pleasantly surprised to find the ticket prices are lower than at the big parks, and lines may be shorter too.

Some of these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 former ACORN workers will face trial over voter fraud allegations in western Pennsylvania</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/4-former-acorn-workers-will-face-trial-over-voter-fraud-allegations-in-western-pennsylvania-73211/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Mandak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PITTSBURGH — Four former ACORN workers in western Pennsylvania will face trial on charges that they forged, illegally solicited or illegally filled out voter registration cards before the November election.

That&#8217;s after a court hearing in Pittsburgh on Friday.
Twenty-year-old Pittsburgh resident Eric Jones waved his preliminary hearing. Three others were held for trial: 23-year-old West Mifflin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP News in Brief</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama says he&#8217;ll accept Nobel Peace Prize as &#8216;call to action&#8217; toward peace and prosperity

WASHINGTON (AP) — A beaming President Barack Obama said Friday he was both honored and humbled to win the Nobel Peace Prize and would accept it as a &#8220;call to action&#8221; to work with other nations to solve the world&#8217;s most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP News in Brief</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 06:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran test fires missiles amid global flap over its nuclear ambitions

TEHRAN (AP) — Iran&#8217;s powerful Revolutionary Guard said it successfully test-fired short-range missiles Sunday in drills meant to show Tehran is prepared to crush any military threat from another country.
The display of force comes days after the U.S. and its allies warned Iran over a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 ACORN workers charged with voter registration irregularities in Pa.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 05:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Mandak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PITTSBURGH — Seven Pittsburgh-area ACORN workers were charged with falsifying voter registration forms, with six accused of doing so to meet the group&#8217;s alleged quota system before last year&#8217;s general election.

District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. said he&#8217;s hoping the workers charged Thursday will help authorities determine whether Allegheny County ACORN officials will be charged with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 ACORN workers accused of voter-registration irregularities in western Pa.</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/7-acorn-workers-accused-of-voter-registration-irregularities-in-western-pa-55443/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 01:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Mandak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PITTSBURGH — Authorities in western Pennsylvania have accused seven people who worked for the community group ACORN of falsifying voter-registration forms.

The seven have been charged with either forging, illegally soliciting or illegally filling out voter-registration cards in the lead-up to the 2008 election.
Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. announced the charges at a news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rachel Alexandra pointed to Acorn Stakes after record win in Kentucky Oaks</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/rachel-alexandra-pointed-to-acorn-stakes-after-record-win-in-kentucky-oaks-49330/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 01:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Graves</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Rachel Alexandra is heading to the Belmont.

Just not the Belmont Stakes.
The 3-year-old filly, who crushed the field in Friday&#8217;s Kentucky Oaks by a record 20¼ lengths, will likely make her next start in the $300,000 Acorn at Belmont on June 6, the same day as the final jewel of the Triple Crown.
&#8220;This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Julia Roberts&#8217; crazy co-star creates havoc while filming</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/julia-roberts-crazy-co-star-creates-havoc-while-filming-19528/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Hollywood actress Julia  Roberts  was left dazed when one of her co-stars in her forthcoming flick went ballistic and created havoc on the sets.

Julia doesn&#8217;t want to name the actor who went &#8220;bananas&#8221;  because, according  to  her, he could not stand people talking  while  the scenes [...]]]></description>
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