A calm political protest quickly turned chaotic as anxious police surrounded thousands of marchers heading toward Denver's Convention Center, using tear gas, batons and aggression.
At a John McCain rally in Woodbridge, Virginia, three people handed out "Obama for Change" bumper stickers with the Communist sickle and hammer and the Islamic crescent, saying Obama was a socialist with ties to radical Islam. Several moderate McCain supporters, Muslim and Christian alike, struck back.
http://newsproject.o rg The Pentagon spends hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons systems, but our troops still aren't getting what they need. It's a scandal that involves deceptive corporations and complacent government officials.
A new national study by the Pew Research Center shows that 12 percent of the country still believes Sen. Barack Obama is a Muslim. ANP looks into how this myth has been perpetuated in the media.
The U.S. financial system faces a grave crisis as investment giants teeter on the edge of collapse. They're led by people ? people who've made some rotten decisions in recent years and hauled in millions of dollars as their firms crumbled.
Washington's neocons are alive and well, advising both John McCain and President Bush. Now many are saying Bush should permit Israel to attack Iran's nuclear sites after Election Day. ANP chases down John Bolton, Bill Kristol.
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Teen pregnancy is on the rise in America for the first time since 1991. One in three teenage girls in the US becomes pregnant. Recent media hype and movies like Juno give teen pregnancy a certain kind of treatment. ANP went to one health center in the Northeast of Washington, DC to explore the real thing.
In the fervor surrounding the McCain - Palin presidential ticket, 'values voters' concoct 'Obama Waffles' in an effort to rally the conservative base to reject Barack Obama. The question is: is it in good taste?
Does Sarah Palin believe in the Anti-Christ? Does she believe true Christians will be whisked up to heaven sometime in the near future? Does she expect Jesus to come back to earth in our lifetimes and battle the armies of Satan?
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They hide about $100 billion a year from the IRS, but the Senate is cracking down on super-rich tax cheats -- people like Peter Lowy (son of Australia's second richest man) and toy importer Steven Greenfield.
Congressman Vern Buchanan is facing increasing trouble in his reelection campaign. Buchanan is being sued by a number of former employees and customers at the height of the campaign season. ANP traveled to Florida to investigate the story.
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Marine Corporal James Jenkins, a decorated veteran of the Iraq invasion and the Battle of Najaf, took his life after serving for 22 months. His mother shares his story with ANP - a tragedy repeated 15 times a day in the US.
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Rep. Dennis Kucinich continued his seemingly quixotic crusade to impeach President Bush last week. But with Speaker Pelosi suggesting the House Judiciary Committee may hear his argument, Kucinich might get his day very soon.
For years, Wal-Mart has been plagued by bad press. Now it has to fend off a Wall Street Journal report that it's been politically bullying its employees. ANP headed over to a Wal-Mart in Virginia to ask shoppers what they think.
Crime in the United States has slowed since the nineties, but a disturbing trend is taking place as waves of violence are increasing across many American cities. Homicide is now five times higher in the U.S. than the international average.
While lawmakers negotiate on Capitol Hill over the $700 billion-taxpayer bailout for banks and lenders on Wall Street, the foreclosure machine continues to crush homeowners caught in the mortgage crisis. Beyond the politics of Washington, one thing seems clear to many homeowners on the verge of foreclosure, there is no significant relief in sight from the government or Wall Street.
For the second time this year, Karl Rove is ignoring a subpeona from the House Judiciary Committee to testify under oath. ANP tracks down Rove to get his side of the story... and gets dissed.
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Congress considered final passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) this week. ANP follows the money trail to find out how telecom dollars influence Congressmen to say what they say and vote the way they do.
Recently, it was reported that the rate of carbon dioxide emission during the last seven years exceeded even the IPCC's worst-case scenario. Both Barack Obama and John McCain have offered their support to global warming legislation in the past.
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Despite its recent 5-4 rejection of the legal basis for the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, the Supreme Court may flip back to support the Bush administration's views on executive power. Steven Wax, a Federal Public Defender who represents seven Gitmo prisoners, is in the middle of this Constitutional maelstrom.
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Capitol Hill lost yet another Congressman to K Street, as one more elected official rolled down the hill to a lobbying firm. Through the story of the latest defector, the ANP examines this trend, known as the "revolving door."
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