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Obama laid out his plan for the coming months in his State of the Union address this past Tuesday. Courtesy of The New York Times
Obama laid out his plan for the coming months in his State of the Union address this past Tuesday.

Old promises or new beginnings?

Although the State of the Union address did not pack the usual Obama punch, he outlined his plans to turn the country's ecomony around.

A victory for the internet

Since the inception of the bill in September, SOPA has received backlash from sites such as Reddit, Wikipedia and even the media conglomerate, Google.

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While a country weeps, the world looks ahead

The world stood still last Monday evening, stunned by the recent news from North Korea. Kim Jong-il was dead.

Virginia Tech isn't a wreck

It was only logical for the students and staff at Virginia Tech to fear the worst on Thursday during their four-hour long lockdown.

More debt, more problems

During tough economic times, you’d expect the nation’s politicians to come up with a solution to help get the country back on its feet, right? Well this is Congress we’re talking about here so that’s probably not going to happen.

Occupy Violence: the new movement

A lot of airtime has been allotted to discuss the OWS movement's goals (or lack thereof, at first) and the controversy over police mistreatment of the protestors. However, not much has been reported on about the poor behavior of some Occupy movement protestors.

The forgotten child

Last Friday, Wang Yue, a two-year-old Chinese girl was killed after two cars hit her. According to officials at Guangzhou Military Hospital, Yue died as 18 bystanders observed the tragedy but did nothing.
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