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From 2009 to 2014, Brookings estimates Feds will spend over $150 billion on green initiatives

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Over 770,000 homes weatherized. A doubling of energy from wind and solar. Cleaning 688 square miles of land formerly used for Cold War-era nuclear testing.


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Unemployment unexpectedly fell to 7.8 percent

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Friday's monthly jobs report changed the picture of the U.S. economy in more ways than one, showing the unemployment rate fell to the lowest level in more than three years and hiring was stronger than originally reported throughout the summer.


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Senate Bill 1172 prohibits attempts to change the sexual orientation of patients under age 18

(CNN) -- Two therapists who try to turn gay people straight, along with a student who says he was successfully converted to heterosexuality, are suing nearly two dozen California state officials, including Gov. Jerry Brown, saying a new state law infringes on their civil rights.


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Number of anti-Muslim groups tripled from 2010 to 2011, says Southern Poverty Law Center

(CNN) -- Authorities transported a man suspected of igniting a blaze in a suburban Toledo mosque back to Ohio, after he is believed to have traveled to Indiana following the attack -- the latest in a series of actions eliciting fear in Muslim communities.


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The idea is to help them identify themselves when police enforce 'show me your papers' law

PHOENIX, ARIZ.--A member of the Phoenix City Council is exploring the possibility that the local government could create a form of identification care to help undocumented immigrants identify themselves with police when they enforce the "show me your papers" portion of Arizona's SB 1070, the immigrant-crackdown law.


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Says there is a deliberate effort to disenfranchise minorities, seniors, the young and the poor

(CNN) -- Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, leveled an explosive charge in a fundraising email for a candidate seeking to oust a Republican congressman from Florida.


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Romney is stretching his figures to the breaking point -- which makes his claim false

(CNN) -- No issue has been hotter throughout the run-up to the election than jobs -- and both candidates took pains to tackle the issue during their first debate Wednesday at the University of Denver.


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Debate offers opportunity for Obama or Romney to gain some momentum and break the logjam

DENVER (CNN) -- President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney face off on Wednesday in the first of three presidential debates.


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'Maybe in your country, your vote didn't matter, but it does matter here, so you should vote'

(CNN) -- Forty years ago, Balbino and Rosario Guevara didn't vote. It had nothing to do with Nixon's landslide or the electoral implosion of the Democratic Party; they were living in El Salvador. And they were simply afraid.


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Ahmad Abousamra is accused of attempting 'to get military training for the purpose of killing'

(CNN) -- The FBI says it is deploying Facebook and Twitter to find "a wanted terrorist" who grew up near Boston and may now be living in Syria.

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