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News in Brief: New Texas Bill Will Force Women to Take Sonogram Before Abortion, and More …
New Texas Bill Will Force Women to Take Sonogram Before Abortion Women seeking an abortion in Texas will be forced to first get a sonogram, mandates a …
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California Homeowners Left to Fight Foreclosure on Their Own
Three years into the mortgage meltdown, California homeowners still have little relief from the foreclosure crisis. Last week, state legislative committees failed to clear three separate bills designed to …
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Europe Holds Tight to IMF Monopoly
United Nations - Since the election of Camille Gutt of Belgium as the first managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) back in 1946, the Europeans have continued …
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Few Surprises in Obama’s Mideast Speech
In a much-anticipated speech on the Middle East and North Africa on Thursday, US President Barack Obama broadly outlined an ambitious set of US-guided initiatives intended to reinforce economic …
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Fracking Turns Quiet Tourist Destination Into Industrial Town
SolveClimate News reporter Elizabeth McGowan traveled to Northeastern Pennsylvania in late March to find out how the gas drilling boom is affecting the landscape and the people who call …
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Who’s Killing the Journalists of Honduras?
The small town of San Marco, near Honduras’ western border with El Salvador and Guatemala, has no distinguishing factors that set it apart from the other tiny villages and …
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Deal Reached on Extension of Patriot Act
Washington - Congressional leaders on Thursday reached a deal to extend by four years several statutes that expanded the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s counterterrorism and surveillance powers after the …
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City Worker Bargaining Rights Under Siege in Silicon Valley
(Photo: David Bacon) San Jose, California - Members of the city workers union in San Jose, the capital of California's Silicon Valley, marched May 17 to City …
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Obama Endorses 1967 Borders for Israel
President Barack Obama speaks about the role of the US in the Middle East from the State Department in Washington on May 19, 2011. Obama spoke broadly about the …
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News in Brief: Investigators Blame Massey’s Culture of “Wrongdoing” for Mine Disaster, and More
Investigators Blame Massey's Culture of “Wrongdoing” for Mine Disaster The first investigative report on the Upper Big Branch coal mine disaster in West Virginia last spring blames …