By Nick Schwellenbach and Lagan Sebert

This piece is a collaboration between the Huffington Post Investigative Fund and the Center for Public Integrity.

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If you hate flying, steer clear of Prague.

Franz Kafka International Airport is the worst airport in the world, says The Onion News Network.

The airport’s atmosphere is impersonal, its layout is confusing, and the employees are unsympathetic, even hostile.

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HBO has set William Hurt to play Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Curtis Hanson to direct Too Big To Fail, a dissection of the 2008 financial crisis and the power brokers who decided the fate of the world’s economy as the system teetered on collapse.

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The leaders of the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union have agreed to coordinate spending millions of dollars in the midterm elections to support pro-union candidates, most of them Democrats.

The two labor organizations say they have a combined $88 million or more to deploy in this year’s election cycle. It’s not clear how much of that money they will pool together.

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…If youth is India’s advantage, the sheer size of its population poses looming pressures on resources and presents an enormous challenge for an already inefficient government to expand schooling and other services. In coming decades, India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most populous nation, and the critical uncertainty is just how populous it will be.

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Teresa Giudice and her husband Joe owe creditors nearly $11 million in various debts, and the ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ star blames her fame for why she’s still bankrupt.

“If she wasn’t on the show, this all would be much easier,” a friend of Teresa’s tells PopEater.

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Check out these brand new shots from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!

The film’s first part, in theaters on November 19, stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson. The second half will open nationwide in July of 2011!

Daniel also covers this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly – click here to see what he and his co-stars had to say about the beginning of the end of the hit J.K. Rowling franchise.

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It is a match made in publicists’ heaven: the grandson of JRR Tolkien and the great-great grandson of Charles Dickens have collaborated for the first time on a verse retelling of a classic fantasy story.

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Before Candace Bushnell, books like Gould’s that sought to capture the dilemmas and dichotomies of modern womanhood with a wry, humorous honesty, were almost unheard of.

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The following letter, by a former US intelligence officer, was sent in response to Thomas Powers’s review of Robert Jervis’s Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War in the May 27 issue.

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