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AT&T Gambles and Again Loses
Last Tuesday, the FCC called for an “administrative hearing” on the AT&T/T-Mobile merger that signaled the agency’s opposition to the deal. The next day AT&T responded that …
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New Alabama Law Encourages Neighbors to Spy on and Report Suspected Undocumented Immigrants Next Door
Law enforcement officials across Alabama were unsure how they would enforce — let alone pay for — HB 56, the state’s draconian immigration law, when it went into effect. …
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States Seek Drug Tests for Welfare Recipients
Atlanta - At least 36 states across the U.S. are proposing laws that would require applicants for and recipients of a variety of public aid programs to undergo drug …
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Obama Refrains From a Formal “I’m Sorry” to Pakistan
Washington - The White House has decided that President Obama will not offer formal condolences — at least for now — to Pakistan for the deaths of two dozen …
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Early Results in Egypt Show a Mandate for Islamists
Cairo - Islamists claimed a decisive victory on Wednesday as early election results put them on track to win a dominant majority in Egypt’s first Parliament since the ouster …
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Mobilizing Men to End Violence Against Women
United Nations - Since it launched in 1997, the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women has distributed more than 78 million dollars to 339 projects around …
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Speculators Drive Cotton Price Volatility, Hurting Farmers and Consumers
Washington - Texas cotton grower Brad Heffington speaks Wall Street's language of hedges, correlation charts and the like as easily as he discusses weevils and pesticides. Yet today his …
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ALEC in Arizona, Democracy in Peril
(Photo: Nick Surgey of Common Cause) What do you get for the corporation that has everything? More of the same—money, power, and influence. That’s the mission and …
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In Stammering Interview, Romney Refuses to Say Whether He Will Deport Undocumented Immigrants
At the last GOP presidential debate, Newt Gingrich asserted his support for an immigration plan that would accord an undocumented immigrant “red card” status — that is, give them …
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Clinton Champions Gender Agenda at Busan
Busan, South Korea - Women toil in the fields for most of their lives producing food and strengthening the largely agricultural economy of African countries, but when their fathers, …