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UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS | The latest U.S. unemployment reading dropped to 9.7 percent, but that doesn't include many who have given up looking for work. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect magazine and former treasury…

The American missionaries detained in Haiti last week for trying to take 33 children to neighboring Dominican Republic have been charged with abduction and criminal association, according to prosecutors. After announcing the charges, Haitian Deputy Prosecutor Jean Ferge Joseph…

NEW SENATOR- Scott Brown was sworn-in as a member of the United States Senate representing Massachusetts, and at a stroke changing the political dynamic in Washington. As the Democrats lose their all-important 60th vote in the U.S. Senate, Judy…