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Fissile materials remain poorly protected

A new industrial plant producing a key nuclear weapons ingredient, enriched uranium, opened in China last year, near the Sichuan city of Hanzhong. Other such plants opened last year in France and Japan.

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Casino mogul’s $5 million check to pro-Gingrich group a harbinger of GOP help...

Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich asks his staff, "what's next" during a N.H. campaign stop. Peter H. Stone http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/peter-h-stone

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A battlefield internet?

An Army strategist, John Arquilla, who in the early ’90s worked at the California think tank RAND, was one of the first to imagine a “cyberwar” force that would feature widely-spread, small groups of...

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After the quake, praise becomes resentment in Haiti

Graffiti on the streets of Haiti’s capital city Port-au-Prince echoes negative views many Haitians now have of relief organizations praised as heroes immediately after the Jan. 12, 2010 quake....

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Haitian firms few and far between on reconstruction rosters

After two years of frustratingly slow reconstruction of their earthquake-battered country, Haitians and Haitian-Americans contend they’ve been shunted aside as American firms soak up most of the work...

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ANALYSIS: President Santorum would be insurers' best buddy

Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks at a campaign town hall in Northfield, N.H. Wendell Potter http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/wendell-potter

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Georgia's "bootstrapping" detention of kids for indiscretions

Criminal-justice experts in Georgia say that locking up kids for indiscretions like repeat truancy, running away, even underage smoking, could end up costing that state millions in federal aid if these...

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FACT CHECK: Gingrich’s ‘baloney’-filled attacks on Romney

Newt Gingrich is out with two new attacks on Mitt Romney: an ad airing in South Carolina that tries to brand Romney as a “pro-abortion” governor, and a nearly three-minute Web video that gauges Romney...

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FACT CHECK: Gingrich makes a French connection

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States slow to act against New England polluters

Jill Callela has complained about air pollution from Old Town Fuel & Fiber, a paper mill across the Penobscot River from her home in Maine.  Maggie Mulvihill...

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Fatal Texas shooting highlights struggle to regulate replica guns

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck shows that a real Beretta handgun looks very similar to a BB gun manufactured to look like the real thing. Here, both guns sit on a Los Angeles Police Department...

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Rules against coordination between super PACs, candidates, tough to enforce

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and adviser Eric Fehrnstrom, left, as they stepped off his campaign charter plane in South Carolina. Rachael Marcus...

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FACT CHECK: Facts Strained in ‘King of Bain’

Mitt Romney, GOP presidential candidate FactCheck.Org http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/factcheckorg

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‘Outsider’ candidate Santorum collected millions in corporate PAC money

Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks during a town hall meeting in South Carolina. Josh Israel http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/josh-israel Aaron Mehta...

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ANALYSIS: Mitt's Romney's dream world

Mitt Romney greets voters Wendell Potter http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/wendell-potter

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FACT CHECK: Mitt the Ripper?

Screen shot of 'Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow' attack ad against Mitt Romney FactCheck.Org http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/factcheckorg

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Wyoming billionaire pledges a half-million-dollar matching contribution to...

Foster Friess speaking at the Tea Party Patriots American Policy Summit in Phoenix, Arizona. Peter H. Stone http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/peter-h-stone

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Una epidemia de expulciones

Teresa Arredondo stands with her son in front of his elementary school in Bakersfield, Calif. Susan Ferriss http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/susan-ferriss

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FACT CHECK: Few errors in Myrtle Beach GOP debate

Republican presidential candidates, from left to right: Texas Gov. Rick Perry; former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum; former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich; and...

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Romney's small tax bill could be a big problem

Mitt Romney, who made millions buying and selling companies for a private equity firm, pays an effective tax rate that is lower than a family earning less than $70,000.“It's probably closer to the 15...

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