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Discovery Of Mad Cow In Calif. Was Stroke Of Luck

A South Korean employee sets out packs of domestic beef on the shelves at a store on the shelves at a store in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 25, 2012. Two major South Korean retailers suspended sales of U.S. beef Wednesday following the discovery of mad cow disease in a U.S. dairy cow. Reaction elsewhere […]

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press
A South Korean employee sets out packs of domestic beef on the shelves at a store on the shelves at a store in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 25, 2012. Two major South Korean retailers suspended sales of U.S. beef Wednesday following the discovery of mad cow disease in a U.S. dairy cow. Reaction elsewhere in Asia was muted with Japan saying there's no reason to restrict imports. The letters on a card at left top read " Starting from the 25th, we will temporarily stop the sales of the US beef. Thank you for your understanding". (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

HANFORD, Calif. (AP) — A non-descript building in the heart of California's dairy country has become the focus of intense scrutiny now that mad cow disease has been discovered in a dead dairy cow. The finding, announced Tuesday, is the first new case of the disease in the U.S. since 2006 — and the fact that the discovery was made at all was a

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Senate Dems Ready Bill Freezing Student Loan Costs

This photo combo shows President Barack Obama in Chapel Hill, N.C. on April 24, 2012, and Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on April 18, 2012 in Charlotte, N.C. Obama and his likely GOP opponent, Romney, agree on an issue of importance to college students: Keeping the interest rate low on a popular […]

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This photo combo shows President Barack Obama in Chapel Hill, N.C. on April 24, 2012. Obama and his likely GOP opponent, Romney, agree on an issue of importance to college students: Keeping the interest rate low on a popular federally subsidized student loan issued to low-and middle-income students. (AP Photo)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are ready with an election-year bill preventing interest rates from rising for millions of college students with federal loans. Republicans are already balking at the way Democrats would cover its $5.9 billion price tag: boosting payroll taxes on the owners of some privately held firms. Democrats unveiled their

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France’s Socialist Front-runner Has Some US Politicians On Edge

French Socialist Party former first secretary and candidate for the party's primary elections for the 2012 presidential election Francois Hollande gestures as he delivers a speech during his first campaign rally in Clichy, east of Paris, Wednesday, April 27, 2011. Hollande recently won the majority of votes in the first round of elections in France. […]

Lisa Barron
بواسطة Lisa Barron
French Socialist Party former first secretary and candidate for the party's primary elections for the 2012 presidential election Francois Hollande gestures as he delivers a speech during his first campaign rally in Clichy, east of Paris, Wednesday, April 27, 2011. Hollande recently won the majority of votes in the first round of elections in France. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

(NEW YORK) MintPress — President Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday became the first president in modern day France to lose the first round of his re-election campaign. The victor was the Socialist Party candidate, Francois Hollande, who won nearly 29 percent of the vote compared to the 27.1  percent that went to Sarkozy, head of the  Union for a Popular

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Media Corporations Lobby Against Online Political Advertising Transparency

(MintPress) – America’s largest media companies are vehemently opposing a proposition by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that would require media outlets to detail political advertisements run by the company in an online database. Outlets would be required to disclose the purchaser of an ad, when the ad ran and how much the ad was […]

Joey LeMay
بواسطة Joey LeMay
This is a frame grab from a Rick Perry presidential campaign advertisement. Under a proposed FCC rule, media outlets would be required to detail political advertisements run by the company in an online database. (AP Photo/Perry Presidential Campaign)

(MintPress) – America’s largest media companies are vehemently opposing a proposition by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that would require media outlets to detail political advertisements run by the company in an online database. Outlets would be required to disclose the purchaser of an ad, when the ad ran and how much the ad was

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Vermont GMO Labeling Bill Inching Ahead, Slowed By Threat Of Monsanto

Protesters march to the Statehouse in Montpelier, Vt., Thursday, Feb. 26, 2004, to call for a time out on genetically engineered crops. They went inside to listen to Monsanto lobbyists as they testify before the House Agriculture Committee. Vermont lawmakers are in the process of passing a bill that requires labeling on GMOs. (AP Photo/Toby […]

Janessa Schilmoeller
بواسطة Janessa Schilmoeller
Protesters march to the Statehouse in Montpelier, Vt., Thursday, Feb. 26, 2004, to call for a time out on genetically engineered crops. They went inside to listen to Monsanto lobbyists as they testify before the House Agriculture Committee. Vermont lawmakers are in the process of passing a bill that requires labeling on GMOs. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

(MintPress)-The Vermont state legislature is inching closer to passing a bill requiring labels on all products containing genetically-modified organisms (GMOs); but advocates are concerned that powerful agribusiness firms, like Monsanto, will succeed in stalling the bill and blocking consumers’ rights to know what is in their food. “Today, 80

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Mexican Presence In U.S. Drops As Supreme Court Hears Arizona Immigration Case

A protester sitting on Seventh Street is led away by police during an immigration reform protest outside a federal building in San Francisco, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Hours after a federal judge temporarily halted key sections of Arizona's controversial new law, community members rallied to call upon Congress to fix the immigration system. (AP Photo/Eric […]

Trisha Marczak
بواسطة Trisha Marczak
A protester sitting on Seventh Street is led away by police during an immigration reform protest outside a federal building in San Francisco, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

(MintPress)—Days after a study revealed the number of Mexican immigrants was at a 10-year-low, the U.S. Supreme Court prepared to hear arguments on the constitutionality of Arizona’s immigration reform legislation — a case that will set a precedent in a time of growing nationwide frustration in the battle over federal and state power in immigration

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