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President Obama announced today that legal scholar Elizabeth Warren will lead the efforts to found the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) created by the new financial reform law.

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Friday, September 17, 2010


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Shareholders of United and Continental airlines voted Friday to approve a combination of their companies that would create the world's biggest airline and could have far-reaching effects on where they fly and how much they charge passengers.

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Some parents are staging a sit-in to keep a dilapidated community center at a Pilsen elementary school from being demolished.

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Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is speaking about potentially damaging details that emerged in ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich's recent corruption trial.

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A man posing as a driver and even picking up passengers allegedly took a Chicago Transit Authority bus for four hours.

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Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is scheduled to begin his weeklong trade mission to China and South Korea Friday.

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Oil is expected to begin flowing again in a pipeline that sprung a leak in southwest suburban Romeoville last week.


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Les Leopold: Poverty Rises as Wall Street Billionaires Whine

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Les Leopold: You'd think the Wall Street moguls would be thankful. Not just thankful -- down on their knees kissing the ground taxpayers walk on and hollering hallelujah at the top of their lungs! These guys profited from puffing up the housing bubble, then got bailed out when the going got tough. Without taxpayer largess, these hedge fund honchos would be flat broke. Instead, they're back to hauling in obscene profits. Yet standing before us are these troubled souls, haunted by visions of persecution. Why? Click here to read more.


Elizabeth Warren: Fighting to Protect Consumers

I enthusiastically agreed to serve as an Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the CFPB. The president and I are committed to the same vision -- leveling the playing field again.

Eric Boehlert: Why Won't Forbes Defend Its Obama Story?

Forbes magazine and the editors on the masthead have apparently taken a vow of silence when it comes to talking about the magazine's error-filled, and widely condemned, Obama cover story. Why the silence?

Andy Borowitz: Delaware Masturbators March Against O'Donnell

Carrying signs reading, "O'Donnell: Hands Off Our Masturbation," the angry masturbators clogged downtown Wilmington, stopping traffic for blocks.

Rev. Jesse Jackson: An Open Letter to Our Nation's Leaders

We in the US possess the greatest resources and wealth ever known to humankind. So to have over 44 million people -- 14% of our population -- and 20% of our children living in poverty strains the soul of America.

John Robbins: Are So-Called 'Eco-Terrorists' Falsely Prosecuted?

More than a few public officials have been labeling as "terrorists" people whose beliefs threaten the status quo. If MLK Jr. or Gandhi were alive today, would they be prosecuted as terrorists?

 
 

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