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George Michael and Hugh Grant

Celebs dance on the News of the World’s grave

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Hugh Grant, George Michael and others share their own stories about the tabloid -- and enjoy its comeuppance
President Barack Obama makes a statement to reporters about debt ceiling negotiations, Tuesday, July 5, 2011, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (Charles Dharapak)

Standing up to hostage-takers

Joan Walsh
The president has already compromised too much over a debt ceiling that was raised seven times under President Bush
Members of the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and their supporters attended a vigil at the State Capitol steps in St. Paul, Minn on Thursday night June 30, 2011. Minnesota stumbled into its second government shutdown in six years on Thursday, with a partisan divide over taxes and spending to close a $5 billion deficit becoming only more bitter as a midnight deadline came and went without agreement. (AP Photo/Carlos Gonzalez - Star Tribune) MANDATORY CREDIT (AP)

The roots of Minnesota’s staring contest

Steve Kornacki
A Democratic governor bets that voters are ready to turn on the Republicans they empowered last fall
Gov. Mark Dayton addressed the media and some Republicans that were present as he said that the two sides were still not closeat the state capitol an hour left until a government shutdown. Minnesota state government shut down at 12:01 a.m. CDT Friday July 1, 2011 for the second time in six years after political leaders couldn't agree on how to solve a $5 billion budget deficit. (AP Photo Kyndell Harkness - STAR TRIBUNE) MANDATORY CREDIT (AP)

Vulnerable feel the pinch of Minnesota shutdown

Amy Forliti, Martiga Lohn
Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and GOP leaders have no plans for new talks before Tuesday
Members of the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and their supporters attended a vigil at the State Capitol steps in St. Paul, Minn on Thursday night June 30, 2011. Minnesota stumbled into its second government shutdown in six years on Thursday, with a partisan divide over taxes and spending to close a $5 billion deficit becoming only more bitter as a midnight deadline came and went without agreement. (AP Photo/Carlos Gonzalez - Star Tribune) MANDATORY CREDIT (AP)

Minnesota government shuts down over budget

Patrick Condon, Martiga Lohn
Now the question on everyone's mind is "who's to blame?"
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 21, 2011, after the policy lunches. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (AP)

Senate to work next week on debt limit impasse

Jim Kuhnhenn
Lawmakers to miss July 4. recess for the sake of deficit talks
President Barack Obama gestures during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

Obama’s naive class warfare

Andrew Leonard
The president expresses completely unjustified confidence that Republicans will display "leadership" on taxes
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Flooding seeps into Nebraska nuclear plant

Nelson Lampe
Rising water has breached a turbine building at Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station, near Omaha
This March 16, 2011 photo shows steam rising from cooling towers at Exelon Corp.'s nuclear plant in Byron, Ill. Illinois has six nuclear plants, with a total of 11 reactors, more than any other state in the U.S. in 2010. Exelon, which has acknowledged violating Illinois state groundwater standards, agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle state and county complaints over the tritium leaks in Illinois' Braidwood, Dresden and Byron sites. The NRC also sanctioned Exelon. (AP Photo/Robert Ray) (AP)

Tritium leaks found at many nuke sites

Jeff Donn
AP investigation finds that radioactive material has leaked from 75 percent of U.S. commercial nuclear power plants
Evacuees in protective clothing wait for a substitute bus to come beside their disabled bus, after they returned for a a brief visit to their houses in the exclusion area, in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, Saturday, June 4, 2011. The tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is located in the town. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

Water cleanup stalled at crippled Japan nuclear plant

Mari Yamaguchi
Authorities halt efforts after detecting a sharp spike in radiation
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Newt Gingrich attends the 51st Washington Conference with Laffer Associates in Washington May 13, 2011. Former House Speaker Gingrich declared his 2012 candidacy on Wednesday. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS HEADSHOT) (© Jason Reed / Reuters)

The richly earned humiliation of Newt Gingrich

Steve Kornacki
No one has ever endured such a terrible first month as a presidential candidate -- nor deserved to more
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Citigroup says hackers accessed credit card data

Kelvin Chan
Bank: Names, account numbers and contact information for tens of thousands of customers viewed

“Intern Nation”: Are we exploiting a generation of workers?

Jacob Sugarman
An unpaid apprenticeship is a staple of recession America. Is this an outrage -- or a smart way of doing business?
In this photo taken on Saturday, May 21, 2011, smoke plumes from the Grimsvotn volcano, which lies under the Vatnajokull glacier, about 120 miles, (200 kilometers) east of the capital, Rejkjavik, which began erupting Saturday for the first time since 2004. Iceland closed its main international airport and canceled domestic flights Sunday as a powerful volcanic eruption sent a plume of ash, smoke and steam 12 miles (20 kilometers) into the air. (AP Photo/Jon Gustafsson) ICELAND OUT (AP)

Ash from Icelandic volcano may disrupt flights

Meera Selva
Plume could affect UK travel as early as tonight; a similar cloud closed European airspace for five days last year
Workers stand atop the Morganza Spillway in Morganza, La., Thursday, May 12, 2011, as water seeps through, bottom, during an aerial tour of areas that may be affected by flooding if the spillway is opened. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) (AP)

Louisiana readies to open spillway, flood Cajun country

Mary Foster, Holbrook Mohr
State will open Morganza Spillway for only second time ever in face of historic floods

What we can learn from the story of TableTalk

Scott Rosenberg
The pioneering online community that I helped Salon create is shutting its doors, but its influence is everywhere
Speaker of the House, John Boehner

John Boehner’s bogus debt ceiling bluff

Andrew Leonard
A hostage the GOP can't kill: Congress will not allow the U.S. government to default
Police officers' protective suits, boots and helmets are placed on the ground while they rest after their recovery operation shift in the area destroyed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Saturday, May 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa) (AP)

Japan won’t abandon nuclear power despite crisis

Mari Yamaguchi
Government has no plans to shut down more functioning nuclear reactors
A volunteer girl from Tokyo works to clean the debris of a house in Higashimatsushima, northern Japan Saturday, April 30, 2011. She is a member of a Tokyo's volunteer group which helps earthquake and tsunami devastated areas on weekend. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

Workers re-enter Japan nuclear reactor building

Tomoko A. Hosaka
First incursion since devastating earthquake a month-and-a-half ago
Grover Norquist

The GOP’s permanent debt-ceiling revolution

Andrew Leonard
Grover Norquist's new master plan: Extort concessions from Democrats for debt-ceiling hostages every two months

How swipe fee politics have crippled Washington

Andrew Leonard
In the midst of a lobbying war between banks and retailers, there's no time left for governing the country
In this April 12, 2011 photo released by the Japan Defense Agency via Kyodo News, a Japanese soldier is tested for radiation exposure at J-Village, a soccer training complex now serving as an operation base for those battling Japan's worst nuclear disaster, northeastern Japan. The sports complex is about about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. (AP Photo/Japan Defense Agency via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

Japan mulls a stricter evacuation zone near plant

Elaine Kurtenbach, Mari Yamaguchi
Japanese government may legally ban people from a 12-mile radius around crippled power plant
Tokyo Electric Power Co., (TEPCO) Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata speaks during a news conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo, Sunday, April 17, 2011. TEPCO, the operator of the crippled nuclear power plant leaking radiation in northern Japan, announced a plan Sunday that would bring the crisis under control within six to nine months and allow some evacuated residents to return to their homes. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama) (AP)

Japan nuclear firm reveals plan to end crisis

Yuri Kageyama, Shino Yuasa
TEPCO, operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power station, aims to stabilize plant within nine months

Harry Potter and the network of neutrality

Michael Winship
All of us have to stay on our toes if we're to continue to have the Internet as a potent force for change
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