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Al Jazeera America launches Tuesday with an in-depth, hard-news approach; obstacles include limited distribution, lingering bitterness.

The combination of Al Jazeera and America doesn’t exactly sound like a match made in Heaven, or Jannah for that matter.

via L.A. Times – Entertainment News http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-st-al-jazeera-america-20130815,0,6232896.story?track=rss

Today at the court-martial of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the former intelligence analyst who provided Wikileaks with hundreds of thousands of classified government documents, Former Master Sergeant Paul David Adkins testified.

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David Masciotra in The Atlantic: One of America’s worst crimes, according to cultural historian and social critic Morris Berman, is the cultivation of a “culture of hustling.” Hustling—the surrender of everything to market forces and the sacrifice of life to…

via 3quarksdaily http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2013/08/how-americas-culture-of-hustling-is-dark-and-empty.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — About half the people who now buy their own health insurance — and potentially would face higher premiums next year under President Barack Obama’s health care law — would qualify for federal tax credits to offset rate shock, according to a new private study.

via Yahoo! News – Latest News & Headlines http://news.yahoo.com/study-half-now-buy-own-health-plan-aid-041128541.html

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A vote to end prohibition and allow alcohol on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation got most of the votes, but the election outcome was too close to call late Tuesday because of a high number of challenged ballots.

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Hillary and Bill Clinton are renting a $200,000-a-month house in the Hamptons after shunning their regular rental home following a financial dispute.
The power…

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A who’s who of black entrepreneurs, a Ukrainian billionaire, an NBA star and a wealthy New Orleans family helped back the $30 million drama.

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via Hollywood Reporter http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/why-lee-daniels-butler-has-605011

Anthony Weiner says he’s hurt his wife’s career — but she’ll still have a role if Hillary Clinton runs for President in 2016. Asked at an event hosted by the online publication BuzzFeed if he knew what his wife, Huma Abedin, would do in a potential Clinton campaign, Weiner said he did but added: “I’m not telling you.”

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Why he sought out Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald and what he thinks about journalism, paranoia and trust.

via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/snowden-maass-transcript.html

Obamas Attend Cocktail Party at NPR Host’s Home…

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