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Magid on Tech: Google infuses $5 million into fight against child porn

Disclosure: I serve on the board of directors of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and also serve as co-director of ConnectSafely.org , a nonprofit Internet safety organization that receives financial support from Google, Facebook and other Internet companies.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Wed Jun 19, 2013

VDARE

Conservatism Inc. Using IRS Scandal To Mask Amnesty Drive

Some of the leading immigration patriots in the House of Representatives held a day-long press conference against Amnesty on Wednesday .

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Related Topix: Tax, Immigration Reform, US News, Tea Party, Rush Limbaugh

Times Observer

Fish Highway

A collaborative effort on the Allegheny National Forest has opened up several streams to brook trout for the first time in over 100 years.

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Related Topix: Tionesta, PA, McKean County, PA, Warren, PA

Seattle Times

World Food Prize goes to 3 biotech scientists

The World Food Prize Foundation on Wednesday took the bold step of awarding this year's prize to three pioneers of plant biotechnology whose work brought the world genetically modified crops.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Monsanto, Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought

ReporterHerald.com

Multiple sclerosis relay fundraiser crosses US

Part of the Brush High School cross country team joins Amy VanDyke on running along state Highway 34 during her leg of the MS Run the US fundraiser, which passed through Brush Friday, June 14, 2013.

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Related Topix: Brush, CO, Wray, CO, Fort Morgan, CO

WTVF Nashville

New Non Profit Group Works To Open Nashville Community Darkroom

A new Nashville nonprofit organization, Nashville Community Darkroom, is working to open a space where artists and students can gather to work and learn.

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Related Topix: Nashville, TN, Arts, Photography

Prince George Citizen

Especially grim year for encephalitis feared in northern India as poverty, politics take toll

A mosquito-borne disease that preys on the young and malnourished is sweeping across poverty-riven northern India again this monsoon season in what officials worry could be the deadliest outbreak in nearly a decade.

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Related Topix: World News, India, Asia,

Tue Jun 18, 2013

USA Today

Taxpayers pay millions for fed workersa student loans Taxpayers pay...

The perk was designed to make government jobs more appealing to those who might earn more in the private sector.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Harry Reid, US Senate, Democrat

The Wall Street Journal

Issa, Cummings Fight Publicly Over Interview Transcript

The uneasy relationship between the top Democrat and Republican on the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee took a turn for the worse on Tuesday after the Democrat published a transcript of an interview with an Internal Revenue Service manager who had suggested that he wasn't directed by the White House to target applications from ... (more)

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Darrell Issa, Elijah Cummings, Democrat, Tax

WAVE-TV Louisville

Nonprofit launches campaign to reach uninsured

A nonprofit group helping to spread the word about President Barack Obama's health care overhaul launched a campaign Tuesday that will target states with high numbers of uninsured Americans and tackle their skepticism with straightforward messages.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Barack Obama, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Florida, OH, Health Insurance, Health

NewsChannel 9 WSYR

Bruce Lee statue unveiled in Los Angeles

The seven-foot tribute, created by an artist in Guangzhou, China, was unveiled in Chinatown's historical Central Plaza on Saturday.

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Related Topix: China, World News, Entertainment

The Southtown Star

Former CC Hills police chief pleads guilty

Former Country Club Hills Police Chief Regina Evans pleaded guilty Monday to fraud and money laundering charges related to the misuse of a $1.25 million state grant to a non-profit organization she ran with her husband, Ronald Evans Jr. Evans, 50, appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Sue Myerscough in Springfield, where she entered guilty ... (more)

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Tax

Denver Post

Ridgway toddler killed in Mexico memorialized with a bike nonprofit

A sign leads the way to a community benefit for 2-year-old Axel Charrette at the Ouray County 4-H center in Ridgway.

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Related Topix: Ridgway, CO, Ouray County, CO, Kids, Family

Mon Jun 17, 2013

The Times

Various pieces adorn a wall on a small shed on the grounds at The Farm in Minden. File photo

A Minden cultural nonprofit that uses agriculture and the arts has new raised gardening beds and flowerbeds, thanks to $11,000 and a day of work from an anonymous company.

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Related Topix: Minden, LA, Home Gardening, Home

Brandon Sun

Trudeau promise to repay speaking fees from charities doesn't quell controversy

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau remained under fire Monday for taking hefty speaking fees from charitable groups after becoming an MP, despite promising to pay back any organization that was dissatisfied.

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Related Topix: Life, Charity , North America, Canada, World News,

Reuters

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signs Medicaid expansion

Arizona's Republican Governor Jan Brewer signed a law on Monday to expand Medicaid, embracing a key part of Democratic President Barack Obama's healthcare plan in a hard-won policy victory over conservatives in her own party.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, US Governors, Jan Brewer, Immigration Reform, US Politics, Barack Obama

Charleston City Paper

Charleston Waterkeeper in non-profit purgatory

This weekend, local activist Ken Bonerigo sent an e-mail to supporters of Charleston Waterkeeper, informing them that the organization's tax-exempt status had been revoked by the Internal Revenue Service on May 15, 2012.

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Related Topix: Tax, Charleston, SC

WBIR-TV

New labor chief says job searches should be easier

The state labor chief says cutting services at state jobless service centers shouldn't make it harder for out-of-work Tennesseans to find jobs.

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KRVN-AM Lexington

Workers See Shift in Benefits, Report Finds

Companies are making shifts in the benefits they offer employees, from providing more contraception coverage and more services for new mothers, to being more flexible with paid time off, according to a new report from the Society for Human Resource Management .

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Related Topix: Marketing

New Pittsburgh Courier Online

Pittsburgh's community-based non-profits are assets too! - Part III

Acknowledge the problem. We learn early in drug and alcohol recovery the first step- acknowledge there is a problem.

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Related Topix: African-American, Opinion

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