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FDA gears up for 'perfect storm'

FDA gears up for perfect stormIn a report released Monday, "Pathway to Global Product Safety and Quality," the FDA said two-thirds of the fruits and vegetables consumed in the United States and 80 percent of the seafood eaten domestically are imported.

Half of the medical devices sold in the country and "80 percent of the active pharmaceutical ingredients in medications sold here are manufactured elsewhere," the report said.
"There has been a perfect storm -- more products, more manufacturers, more countries and more access. A dramatic change in strategy must be implemented," FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said.

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N.Y. Target store workers reject unionization

Target union rejected by workersWorkers at a Target store in New York voted against joining the country's largest retail union Friday night, but the union said it would press on and broaden its push to represent the company's workers nationwide.

The United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500 also said it would contest the results and ask the federal government to order a new election, alleging that Target illegally intimidated workers. Target denied the union's allegations.

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Citigroup releases more about credit card breach

Citigroup releases hacking infoCitigroup released more details about the May attack that compromised some personal information of about 1 percent of its credit card customers.

According to a statement from the company, 360,083 accounts were breached in total. Of those accounts, 142,426 were not current — they had been closed or new cards had been automatically issued. The company said it has reissued 217,657 new cards to affected customers.

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Report: Students don't know much about US history

Boston Tea PartyU.S. students don't know much about American history.

Just 13 percent of high school seniors who took the 2010 National Assessment of Educational Progress, called the Nation's Report Card, showed a solid grasp of the subject. Results released Tuesday showed the two other grades didn't perform much better, with just 22 percent of fourth-grade students and 18 percent of eighth-graders demonstrating proficiency.

The test quizzed students on topics including colonization, the American Revolution and the Civil War, and the contemporary United States. For example, one question asked fourth-graders to name an important result of the U.S. building canals in the 1800s. Only 44 percent knew that it was increased trade among states.

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Peace activists cry foul over FBI probe

Activists cry foul over FBI probeFBI agents took box after box of address books, family calendars, artwork and personal letters in their 10-hour raid in September of the century-old house shared by Stephanie Weiner and her husband.

The agents seemed keenly interested in Weiner’s home-based business, the Revolutionary Lemonade Stand, which sells silkscreened infant bodysuits and other clothes with socialist slogans, phrases like “Help Wanted: Revolutionaries.”

The search was part of a mysterious, ongoing nationwide terrorism investigation with an unusual target: prominent peace activists and politically active labor organizers.

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Court allows citizenship gender difference

US Supreme CourtThe U.S. Supreme Court Monday, in a rare 4-4 tie, upheld laws that make it harder for an illegitimate child of U.S. father to become a U.S. citizen.

U.S. laws impose a five-year residence requirement, after the age of 14, on U.S. citizen fathers -- but not on U.S. citizen mothers -- before they may transmit citizenship to a child born out of wedlock abroad to a non-citizen.

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Conn. to decriminalize pot possession

Connecticut to decriminalize pot possessionConnecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said he expects to sign a bill that would decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana.

The measure received final legislative approval Tuesday, passing the House of Representatives 90-57, the Hartford Courant reported. Under the law, which would take effect July 1, possession of half an ounce or less would call for a fine of $150 for a first offense and between $200 and $500 for subsequent offenses.

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