The suit relates to mortgage-backed securities issued by Bear Stearns & Co., which was acquired by J.P. Morgan in 2008 when the firm collapsed amidst the financial crisis.
The complaint argues that
Bear Stearns defrauded “thousands of investors.”
The charges, which came partly as a result of a federal mortgage task force formed in…
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Spanish Congress Awaits Citizen Protests
Riot police have ringed the Spanish parliament in Madrid ahead of a planned…
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By Associated Press,
NEW YORK — Twitter on Friday agreed to hand over about three months’ worth of tweets to a judge overseeing the criminal trial of an Occupy Wall Street protester, a case that has become a closely watched fight over how much access law enforcement agencies should have to material posted on social networks.…
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NeoCon US Military Brass in Open Revolt? First Dempsey, now Hayden says NO to Israel-AIPAC War vs. Iran?
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Elizabeth Renter
Sept 3, 2012
You own your home and the lot that it sits on. So, if you want to plant tomatoes instead of bushes, you should be entitled to that, right? While this may seem like a common sense line of reasoning, many cities and towns across our nation think otherwise. They don’t…
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Edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
March 2000…
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MESSAGE FROM STEWART RHODES, FOUNDER OF OATH KEEPERS:
Oath Keepers is coming to the aid of this young Marine veteran and our rallying cry will be “CHARGE HIM, OR RELEASE HIM.” We cannot allow “mental illness” designations to be used as a weapon against political dissidents in America. See the below article by Brandon Smith for the disturbing…
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Brazil: Drug dealers say no to crack in Rio
Associated PressBy JULIANA BARBASSA | Associated Press – 6 hrs ago
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Business was brisk in the Mandela shantytown on a recent night. In the glow of a weak light bulb, customers pawed through packets of powdered cocaine and marijuana priced at $5, $10, $25. Teenage boys with semiautomatic weapons took in money and made change while flirting with girls in belly-baring tops lounging nearby.
Next to them, a…
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Fracking Fallout in Ohio: 'Throwing Up Until the Blood Vessels in My Eyes Burst'
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August 15, 2012
A US federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against the FBI over the agency’s controversial practice of spying on…
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The Palisades nuclear plant. (Jeanette McDonald / Consumers Energy)
Covert Township, Mich.— The Palisades nuclear plant in southwestern Michigan has been removed from service to repair what officials said is a "very small, very minor" cooling water leak.
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LOCK HAVEN, CLINTON COUNTY - The first major deployment of U.S. service members from central Pennsylvania this year is about to get underway. Service members are finishing up their training in central Pennsylvania before heading off to Kuwait in October. About 1,500 soldiers will be sent. The 55th Heavy Brigade Combat Team includes service members…
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Following a seven-hour search across rural Alabama, police arrested a man early Friday that they consider a suspect in a Thursday evening rampage that left three people dead at a nightclub in the third mass shooting in America within a month.
Police arrested 22-year-old Ryan Clark Peterson of Enterprise, AL in a wooded area around 100 miles outside of…
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Greece unemployment blow
Posted on » Friday, August 10, 2012
ATHENS: Greece's jobless rate climbed to a new record in May, underlining how austerity prescribed to slash deficits and keep bailout funds flowing is hitting the economy on which recovery depends.
Latest data yesterday showed the jobless rate climbed to 23.1 per…
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Two buses, with 96 passengers on board, were stopped this morning after officials received a bomb threat.
The two Trailway buses were heading to Denver from Salt Lake City when the Larimer County Sheriff's Office was notified about 5:15 a.m. of a bomb threat, according to the sheriff's office.
The buses, which had a scheduled stop in…
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