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Thursday, January 19, 2012
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 Man arrested in West Side sex assaults, robberies | VIDEO The family of Darrion Grossley, 22, said he may have robbed some East Garfield Park stores, but did not rape anyone. Man wanted for questioning in South Bend murder | VIDEO The search is on for a man who police want to question in the murder of a South Bend woman. Aldermen apparently reach ward remap agreement | VIDEO The committee charged with having to remap all of Chicago's 50 wards met Thursday morning ahead of a special City Council meeting. 3rd suspected Elgin bank robber caught Police say a third suspect in a northwest suburban bank robbery is now under arrest after causing a scare for many people in the Elgin area. Preckwinkle wants probe into juvenile center death Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said she wants an independent investigation into the death of a teenage inmate at the county's juvenile detention center. Report: Springsteen to perform at Wrigley Field The Boss may be coming to the Friendly Confines. MORE STORIESStrange News Consumer Healthbeat MOST POPULAR | Advertisement  TODAY'S WEATHER OUTLOOK
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      Thursday, January 19, 2012  Arianna Huffington: I'm delighted to announce the launch of Global Motherhood, a new section within HuffPost Impact dedicated to the health and well being of mothers and babies around the world, and sponsored by Johnson & Johnson. Global Motherhood will go beyond matters of physical health to address the full spectrum of issues affecting mothers and their babies, with a special focus on the dangers faced by pregnant women in underdeveloped countries and the guilt and fear that accompany childbirth for many women. It will also be a place to share our personal stories. With infant mortality on the rise in the U.S., and 1,000 women and girls dying everyday worldwide, we need all the innovation and creativity that we can muster. Only by tapping into our collective wisdom will we arrive at the solutions we and our children deserve. BLOG POSTS
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Report: Romney Millions In Cayman Accounts
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The Big Story, By Joe Conason Mitt Romney's reluctance to release his tax returns suddenly makes perfect sense: According to a report filed by the ABC News investigative team late Wednesday, the Romneys have invested millions of dollars in offshore tax havens -- specifically, in several accounts domiciled in the "notorious" Cayman Islands. Headlined "Romney Parks Millions In Cayman Islands," an article on the network website notes that "he has used a variety of techniques to help minimize the taxes on his estimated $250 million fortune." Earlier this week, he admitted paying as little as 15 percent of his multi-million-dollar annual income in federal taxes. But the ABC report said that "in addition to paying the lower tax rate on his investment income, Romney has as much as $8 million invested in at least 12 funds listed on a Cayman Islands registry." A Romney campaign spokesman told ABC that the Cayman accounts had no effect on the tax liability of the candidate and his wife Ann. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Featured Column: E.J. Dionne Members of the Tea Party insisted they were turning the GOP into a populist, anti-establishment bastion. Social conservatives have long argued that values and morals matter more than money. Yet in the end, the corporate and economically conservative wing of the Republican Party always seems to win. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Keystone XL Raising the stakes in a bitter election-year fight with Republicans, President Barack Obama on Wednesday rejected a Canadian company's plan to build a continent-spanning, 1,700-mile pipeline to carry oil across six U.S. states to Texas refineries. Though the project promises thousands of temporary jobs for the recovering U.S. economy, Obama said a February deadline set by Congress would not allow for a proper review of potential harm from the $7 billion Keystone XL project. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Super PACs This week, dubbed "Super PAC week" by the house comedian warming up the crowd before the taping of Tuesday night's "Colbert Report," has featured the satirist stretching campaign finance laws so far that, if the government actually enforced them, viewers might fear he'd end up in jail. By collaborating with a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, Colbert has succinctly showcased the flimsy scrim of "independence" between candidates and the third-party groups that would buy their elections. As his friend Jon Stewart made a Super PAC ad insisting that a vote for Herman Cain in South Carolina was actually a vote for Colbert, he simply stood by -- grinning. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Featured Column: Leonard Pitts Jr. War is a different universe. What seems acceptable there is appalling here. It is not too much to say that war is a form of madness. This is not to suggest those Marines in Afghanistan ought not be criticized -- no, this is only to suggest that our judgment be tempered by a recognition that these people have been in a place where the rules are different, that not every wound you carry out of such places is visible, and that in their way, the invisible wounds may be the costliest ones. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Strange But True When Karen Garver met Rick Santorum, the man who would become her husband and father of her seven children, she was living with Tom Allen, an OB/GYN who co-founded Pittsburgh's first abortion clinic. Allen is 41 years older than Santorum, and in fact he was literally the first man she ever met when, as her mother's obstetrician, he delivered her in 1960. "Karen had no problems with what I did for a living," Allen said. "We never really discussed it." READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
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The Big Story Under heavy debate pressure from his rivals, Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney defended his record as a venture capitalist, insisted he bears no responsibility for attack ads aired by his allies and grudgingly said Monday night he might release his income tax returns this spring. "I have nothing in them that suggests there's any problem and I'm happy to do so," he said. "I sort of feel like we're showing a lot of exposure at this point," he added in a reference to the campaign to come against President Barack Obama. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Featured Column: Cynthia Tucker It's tempting to simply forget Ron Paul's unfortunate history on racial issues, especially since he seems to be trying to forget it himself. He won't be the Republican nominee, and his years in Congress have done little to popularize his out-of-the mainstream views. The nation won't be returning to the gold standard any time soon. So why bother to re-examine his resistance to a national holiday commemorating Martin Luther King Jr.? READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Featured Column: Carl Hiaasen The news of the day is burning with big questions: Who'll be the next head coach of the Miami Dolphins? Why is Rosie O'Donnell killing hammerhead sharks? Is Khloe Kardashian really a Kardashian? And each of those stories is being devoured and debated by many thousands of readers, far more than are looking at the sober bylined reports from Haiti, which last week marked the two-year anniversary of its catastrophic earthquake. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Politics Supporters of a push to oust Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker from office are prepared to declare victory in their effort to force the Republican into a recall election. But a problem looms for Democrats: They still don't know who would run against him. They plan to submit more than 500,000 petition signatures Tuesday, as Walker blankets the state's airwaves with ads defending his agenda, including the law enacted last year that ended nearly all collective bargaining rights for most public workers and spurred the recall effort in the first place. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Environment New York's emerging plan to regulate natural gas drilling in the gas-rich Marcellus Shale needs to go further to safeguard drinking water, environmentally sensitive areas and gas industry workers, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has informed state officials. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Around The World Hackers disrupted the websites of Israel's stock exchange and national air carrier El Al on Monday as part of a two-way cyberwar that continues to escalate. The attacks began earlier this month when hackers identifying themselves as group-xp, a known Saudi hacking group, claimed on an Israeli sports website to have gained access to 400,000 Israeli credit card accounts. The group called it a "gift to the world for the New Year" designed to "hurt the Zionist pocket." READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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