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GOP uses payroll tax cut extension to slash jobless benefits

December 14, 2011 By John Wojcik

Republicans in Congress voted 234 to 193 yesterday to slash more than in half the number of weeks people can collect unemployment benefits next year.

Despite attack ads, Elizabeth Warren gains steam (with video)

December 14, 2011 By Dan Margolis

Elizabeth Warren's campaign to defeat tea-party darling Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., has surged to frontrunner status.

$Poisoned water, endangered turtles: the shell-shocking effects of fracking$

Poisoned water, endangered turtles: the shell-shocking effects of fracking

December 13, 2011 By Blake Skylar

On Dec. 8, for the first time, federal environmental experts linked underground water pollution with fracking,

Marriage equality activists win victory for all families

December 13, 2011 By Joshua Leclair

At the Dec. 12 meeting of the Orlando City Commission, leaders voted unanimously to pass a Domestic Partner Registry.

West coast Occupy movement targets corporate giants at ports

December 13, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

Occupy Oakland demonstrators shut down the Port of Oakland Dec. 12 as part of a West Coast-wide protest against giant corporations at ports from San Diego to Anchorage, Alaska.