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Gary Clark Jr.: A Blues Wunderkind Grows Up, Breaks Out

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Gary Clark Jr.'s new album is called Blak and Blu.

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Originally published on Fri October 26, 2012 8:05 am

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Thu October 25, 2012

Ad Watch Rematch: 6 Swing States, 1 Half-Hour, 87 Political Ads

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Originally published on Fri October 26, 2012 10:12 am

In recent days, we've been reading about some unusual ways people are trying to get their political messages across in the feverish lead-up to Election Day: Political blimps. Conspiracy-laden DVDs.

2:36 pm

Thu October 25, 2012

It's 10 P.M. In Frankfurt. Do You Know Where Your Gold Is?

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By Lam Thuy Vo

At a hearing last year, Ron Paul asked Ben Bernanke if gold is money. Answer: No. So why do central banks hold it as a reserve? Answer: Tradition.

2:31 pm

Thu October 25, 2012

A Journalist Chronicles Lives After Guantanamo Bay

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Journalist Michelle Shephard has been covering stories from the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the Toronto Star.

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Shephard is the author of Guantanamo's Child and Decade of Fear: Reporting From Terrorism's Grey Zone. You can follow her on Twitter @shephardm.

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Originally published on Mon March 25, 2013 1:45 pm

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The presidential candidates may not be talking much about Guantanamo Bay, but the U.S. detention center there has been at the forefront of Michelle Shephard's mind for the last decade. The national security correspondent for the Toronto Star has traveled to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, more than two dozen times; she even got enough stamps on her Guantanamo Starbucks card for a free latte.

2:09 pm

Thu October 25, 2012

While Spain Struggles, The Basque Region Shines

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The Basque region has a long and rich industrial tradition. Here is a CAF factory in Beasain, Spain.

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The Basque region has a long and rich industrial tradition. CAF is growing by 10 percent a year.

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Train cars are built at the CAF factory in Beasain, Spain. One of the Basque region's most successful companies, CAF, makes trains for Amtrak, the Washington, D.C., metro system and light rails in Sacramento, Pittsburgh and Houston.

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Originally published on Thu October 25, 2012 5:51 pm

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For decades, most of the news out of Basque country was horrible. Since the late 1960s, this region in northern Spain has been infamous as home to the ETA separatist group, which killed more than 800 people while fighting for Basque independence from Madrid.

But two years ago, the separatist group declared a final cease-fire and the attacks have stopped. Now the country is becoming known for something else: its booming economy.

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