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One of Romney's Final Campaign Rallies Is at a Stimulus-Funded Ohio Company

This isn't the first time Romney's handpicked an event host that's benefited from federal cash.

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| Wed Oct. 31, 2012 1:53 PM PDT
Charles Spies

Mitt Romney Would Be Toast Without This Man

Charlie Spies helps run the king of all super-PACs—and he's used it to keep Romney's campaign alive.

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| Wed Oct. 31, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Watch: Gary Taubes Reveals the Sugar Industry's Secrets

Documents show how industry's leading trade group recruited scientists predisposed to give sugar a pass.

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| Wed Oct. 31, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Document Dive: What's Inside the Sugar Industry's Filing Cabinets?

Internal papers reveal a strategy to safeguard sugar from "opportunists," "pseudoscientists," and "enemies."

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| Wed Oct. 31, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

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How a Former Dentist Drilled the Sugar Industry

"Below the blue letterhead of the Sugar Association, the word 'CONFIDENTIAL' leapt off the page."

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| Wed Oct. 31, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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Big Sugar's Sweet Little Lies

How the industry kept scientists from asking: Does sugar kill?

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| Wed Oct. 31, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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A Timeline of Sugar Spin

How the sweets industry won America's heart—and gut.

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| Wed Oct. 31, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Romney Super-PAC Blasts Obama With $20 Million in Attack Ads

By Election Day, Restore Our Future will have spent nearly $40 million boosting Romney and bashing Obama.

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| Tue Oct. 30, 2012 8:04 AM PDT

Solnit on Climate Change: Our Words Are Our Weapons

Why have we done almost nothing over the past 25 years about what was a terrifying threat and is now a present catastrophe? Corporate greed.

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| Mon Oct. 29, 2012 12:20 PM PDT

Meet the Frackers

A who's who of top executives cashing in on the new gas and oil boom.

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| Mon Oct. 29, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
Harold Hamm

Who Fracked Mitt Romney?

Meet his top energy adviser: billionaire oil tycoon Harold Hamm.

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| Mon Oct. 29, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

CEO of International Corporation Sends Romney Fundraising Pitch to His Employees

Incomm boss Brooks Smith is the latest executive to nudge his employees toward the Romney-Ryan ticket.

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| Thu Oct. 25, 2012 11:40 AM PDT

Did BP Oil Kill This Whale?

Greenpeace turns up photos of dead sperm whale from the BP spill.

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| Wed Oct. 24, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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Do Bayer's Pesticides Make Worker Bees Lazy?

The latest study linking neonicotinoids to bee problems comes from the prestigious UK journal Nature.

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| Wed Oct. 24, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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So Much for That "War on Coal"

Republicans have made hay of a temporary mine closure in Virginia, but it plans to reopen the week of the election.

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| Tue Oct. 23, 2012 9:05 AM PDT
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Hollywood And Labor Unions Pony Up for Obama Super-PAC's Record Month

GOP mega-donors helped the pro-Romney super-PAC bank $14.8 million in September.

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| Mon Oct. 22, 2012 8:37 AM PDT
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Charts: Meet Romney's Pork-Friendly Military Entourage

The candidate's security supporters look nothing like the modern military…so what's the deal?

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| Fri Oct. 19, 2012 8:53 AM PDT

Democrats Broke Pledge by Taking Corporate Convention Cash

The DNC vowed to hold the first convention in history that wasn't fueled by cash from corporations, lobbyists, and PACs. So much for that idea.

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| Thu Oct. 18, 2012 10:41 AM PDT

Ryan and Romney's Small-Businesses "Malarkey," Explained

The GOP ticket continues to tax-scare mom-and-pops, like my dad's, by lumping them in with megacorps and hedge-funders.

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| Fri Oct. 12, 2012 3:02 PM PDT
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Could Prop. 37 Kill Monsanto's GM Seeds?

Big Ag is spending millions to keep labels off genetically modified foods in California—and with good reason.

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| Wed Oct. 10, 2012 3:00 AM PDT