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House to Consider Bill to Defund National Public Radio
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Japanese Nuclear Power Plant Rocked by Second Explosion in Quake's Aftermath
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Published: 03/24/11

Caseworkers Charged in Death of Abused 4-Year-Old NYC Girl

By Mara Gay - AOL News

Two former New York City child welfare workers have been charged in the death of a 4-year-old girl who was beaten, drugged and starved in her own home. Prosecutors said that Marchella Brett-Pierce was bound to her mother's bed for months and repeatedly beaten and denied food and water. At her death Sept. 2, she weighed just 18 pounds. In an extraordinary move Wednesday, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes charged the girl's caseworker, Damon Adams, and his supervisor, Chereece Bell, with criminally negligent homicide in her death. Both have pleaded not guilty. Hynes said it is thought ...

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Published: 09/4/10

Mother Charged in Malnourished Girl's Death

By David Lohr - AOL News

(Sept. 3) -- New York City authorities have filed charges against the mother of a 4-year-old girl who weighed 15 pounds when she was found dead in her family's Brooklyn apartment. Detectives found lengths of twine attached to the headboard of a bed inside the home, and the rope was consistent with bruises on Marchella Pierce's ankles, suggesting the little girl might have been tied to the bed, The New York Times and local media reported. Police were called to Marchella's mother's apartment on Madison Street in the Bushwick neighborhood at about 7:15 a.m. Thursday to investigate a report of ...

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Published: 06/15/10

DIY Diagnosis: Can You Spot Your Own Skin Cancer?

By Katie Drummond - Politics Daily

It's the most common cancer in the United States, with over 2 million people diagnosed each year. But with new questions surfacing about the safety of sunscreen, the jury's still out on how -- or whether -- we can effectively prevent skin cancer. On Monday, Sen. Charles Schumer reinvigorated debate over the potential connection between sunscreens, long considered a reliable barrier between our flesh and the sun, and skin cancer. "When it comes to the health and safety of the public, there is no room for delay," he wrote in a letter to the Food and Drug Administration. "With the recent ...

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Published: 09/18/09

ACORN's Bureaucratic Ballet: The Coda

By Donna Trussell - Politics Daily

Perhaps some service organizations are meant to die natural -- or even self-inflicted -- deaths.The artist Marcel Duchamp put it this way: "After 40 or 50 years a picture dies, because its freshness disappears. . . . There's a huge difference between a Monet today, which is black as anything, and a Monet 60 or 80 years ago, when it was brilliant, when it was made. . . . Men are mortal; pictures too." I assume that when ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) got started some 40 years ago, it was with the best of intentions. However, recent news suggests the organization ...

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